Description
It took twenty years to make this new launch by Sisley – the first ever masculine fragrance from the house named Eau d’Ikar. The d’Ordano family, which owns Sisley, did not hurry with its development.
The composition is based on the note of mastic, a Mediterranean tree that grows in Corsica where the family’s origins are. Mastika is in the top notes with bergamot, lemon, bitter orange and carrot seed, and it is placed in the heart combined with iris, jasmine, white tea, reed and other herbs and spices. The base also contains this note, in addition to the oriental – wood tones of ambergris, sandalwood and vetiver.
The bottle was designed by Polish sculptor Bronislaw Krzysztof. The fragrance is available as 50 and 100 ml Eau de Toilette.
Eau d’Ikar was launched in 2011. The nose behind this fragrance is Laurent Bruyere.
serkova – :
Horse Chestnut Tree in Blossom by Vincent van Gogh 1887
rinosmart – :
i like scents that are different and this one is beautiful. an interesting and hard to describe affair, and unisex (i am female and wear it, after getting a sample i bought a 100 ml bottle because it wears well on my skin).
powdery mastic and some unusual herbs are a great thing together, the fragrance us classy and unusual. on me, it is rather sweet, mode powdery than others describe, and i find it perfect for hot june days. as with some other sisley scents it makes me want to smell it again and again. it is sensual, nice and bold without being too loud.
cheamirhan – :
To the initial smell i get a blast of sharp bitter citrusy notes which i don’t like but then it gets softened to a bit floraly kinda iris-powdery feeling which feels expensive and while it settles to your skin later on has a complex, nicely done blend of light citrus-powder-floral somehow sweetened. It’s unique in interpretation and once you get over the initial smell, the rest surely gets better !
alkon05 – :
I have been quite intrigued when Sisley first announced Eau d’Ikar – probably this was due to the memories I had since first becoming interested in perfumes decades ago – in your 80’s European perfume store, their Eau de Campagne stood out as a particularly odd composition, between all the more promoted brands back then – and I do appreciate Eau d’Ikar, the bergamot and orange components are all somehow muted or passed through a heavy perceptual filter made from the mastic, carrot and iris. I was puzzled for a while where I came across such a rendering before – and well aware that this is considered pure heresy, this way of dealing with citrus mastic triggers waves of recalling what Françoise Caron did with olibanum and bergamot in Helmut Lang’s Cuiron – less the synthetic leather of course. The bottle and packaging design is really lovely, if Sisley only did not state that bluntly that it took them such a long time to make this fragrance – I can see it came out at the heights of slow food, and of course the company itself had a beautiful slow pace with their fragrances but alas, not really needed to put that in the press release … in any way, quite a particular fragrance – recommended !
avkristina – :
One of the most weird scent what I’ve smelled… Very very unique. Nice to see that contains many rare elements (mastic, carrot seed, reed), but it doesn’t working… This one is a bitter-sour, unpleasent scent. When I tested at home, many of my friends were here (3 boys, 3 girls), and all of them said this a terrible scent. The opening is a hard combintation of begamot, bitter orange and carrot seed. The carrot note is too strong, simply unpleasent to my nose. The mid is interesting too. The mastic note is powerful, good, but not working with the iris. Beside this note I can sniff maybe some spice and green notes. The base is milky-woody type, this part is far better than top, or the mid note. As I said this is an absolutely unique stuff, but hasn’t got a classic perfume smell and I don’t like it.
– Spring/summe/fall, day time scent.
– sillage is better then average, longevity around 6-7 hours
– try before buy
Scent (open, top-mid): 4/10 (x2)
Scent (drydown, base): 6.5/10 (x2)
Sillage: 6/10
Longevity: 6.5/10
Uniqueness: 10/10
Versatility: 6/10
Total: 6.188/10
кале – :
A disappointment for me after getting excited to try this ,it’s just too bitter and sharp for me ,very very green with sappy notes ,can see why people love this and especially for summer ,but for me it’s just too potent
cactagisp – :
This is one of those rare beauties that has not found general appreciation but for some reason I found alluring and have always had a bottle in my collection. One of the reasons why is because it is such a genre bender. Not entirely citrusy, not really a spicy oriental, not too floral, not all that much of an aquatic. The selection of notes is just eclectic. It opens with bergamot, lemon, bitter orange and carrot seed, and then moves to iris, jasmine, white tea, reed and other herbs and spices, and finally settles into wood tones of ambergris, sandalwood and vetiver. Utterly unique, constantly shape shifting, and never predictable, this is an edgy first time masculine offering from a reputed house for primarily female oriented perfume and cosmetics. Approach this one with an open mind and you will not be disappointed. A lovely composition.
Talachka – :
How this scent ever won any awards is beyond my imagination.
I remember trying it the first time some years ago in a perfume shop in Berlin and actually thought the bottle had gone bad from standing too long in the showroom.
Fast forward to 2017 and receiving a 10 ml decant from a fellow Fragrantican – lo and behold : It’s the same crap.
Very bitter, very earthy, dry, medicinal and soapy with a nutmeg vetiver background – picture leaking bottles of Prada Infusion d’Homme and Guerlain Vetiver being buried in a landfill close to the sea and dug up after a couple of years. It might be the mastik which is not to my liking. I’m not sure how it smells on it’s own but I get no similarity to cedar which I quite enjoy. Bitter citrus and grapefruit. Longevity and sillage are equally disappointing, overall this is just a ridiculously bad fragrance in my humble personal opinion. But then again, could also be the iris which I hate that ruins this for me.
Fortunately longevity is rather minimal, after two hours it’s a skinscent and two hours later it’s almost gone. Overall, this just doesn’t work for me.
master000 – :
I was testing Sisley Izia (dreadful) when I chanced upon Ikar. I don’t know that I’m buying it either, but I thought it interesting enough to merit a note. To my mind, it’s unisex, possibly even leaning on the female side. The use I see for it is as palate cleanser and clean fragrance for extreme heat.
The opening is both green and clean and reminds me briefly of Eau de Campagne. But the greenness disappears before I can even put my finger on it (wait, was that galbanum?), so I’d never call it a green fragrance. I’d call it an abstract fragrance that emphasizes the clean part and treats it in a pleasantly unusual way. It doesn’t go soapy-clean like aldehydes, laundry-clean like an excess of musk, or stridently disinfecting like whatever it is they put in so many ‘fresh’ scents these days. It renders cleanness as two different textures, one after the other, and if I had to assign a color to it, it would be milky white.
The first texture to emerge is dry, almost mineral, and gives one the feeling that one couldn’t be compromised by any amount of humidity and heat. Within the first hour, it’s replaced by the second one, and that one you’d better be prepared for because it’ll stick around till the end. This one is creamy and a tad greasy; in conjunction with the cleanness, I’m surprised it makes no one complain that Ikar smells like Nivea. Not that it does, really, but it does, on the whole, put one in the mind of an ‘unscented’ body lotion. The effect goes all the way to that bit of bitterness you’d get if you licked freshly moisturized skin. And while that might sound like not much, in today’s 35dC heat, it was unusually reassuring. Everyone I passed by on the street seemed to be trailing a cloud of garish olfactory noise—kshh, citrus, kshh, floral, kshh, skrreek—while I, wearing Ikar, felt immaculate and self-contained.
Worth a sniff for sure, but do test before you splurge.
Parap – :
My mom used to wear eu de suar and now rocks with suar de lune, so I cinda have expectation from Sisley. This one a bit disappointing as it smells like more soft round and light version of ceruti 1881 for men. The smell in the opening is fresh but to sour for my nose and powdery (maybe it is because the tester bottle from the counter looked old and allmoust empty..) After an hour it becomes great fresh limoncello bitter smell with tickeling grass and surprisingly less powdery then at the beginning. I can smell the quality but it still reminds me 80s early 90s male colognes. The dry down is beautiful but not exciting, very mature. I intent to sample it again in the summer.
P.S. Ok! After 3 hours it is very dry soapy and powdery, on the one hand nothing outstanding on the other hand keeps me wanting to smell it again and again – quality …
spolins – :
This is so classy and comforting, I really need a full bottle.
Like a more manly version of Infusion d’Iris.
megovovo – :
This one just doesn’t work for me. There’s something repulsive in it from the off that makes me want to cringe, and that’s mastik. I’ve always hated it and I could never drink Ouzo for that matter. Perhaps one of the nastiest smells and tastes for me… alongside raw onions, garlic, vinegar and pickled veggies.
гоша 726 – :
I would like to give a clue of what this fragance is about to all those people that (just like me) haven’t had the chance to experience the the scent of mastik: this is actually a resin very popular in Greece (you can even taste it on candies and ice cream) and even though I spent last New Year’s Eve there I didn’t take the chance to try it myself (shame on me!).
Eau D’Ikkar is a very clean scent, my girlfriend loves it exactly for this reason but to me is more like a green scent, just imagine squeezing a bunch of green juicy plants (maybe some from the cactus family) and smell the result of it, is a greenish slap that might be overwhelming for some people.
Definitely it is worth to try if you are looking for something green and clean, but with a very particular style.
Hope this helps.
davyd-3000 – :
This is excellent. Period.
If you can afford it, it is in the current top-3 of my masculine suggestions. Maybe even No.1 for the summer season. Excellent.
I am astonished by the vividness of the mastic note. I had no idea of the ingredients and it immediately struck me when smelling the strip. Nothing to do with star-anise, this is the exact smell of the actual *leaves* of the mastic tree, when you rub them in your fingers.
Then it turns airy, breezy, citrusy. Like a perfect cool summer afternoon.
DID I SAY THAT THIS IS EXCELLENT???Ahahahah
tosha152 – :
Eau d’Icar has a citrus, fresh and with a very original effect due to the mastic that provides a very bitter and somewhat earthy touch input to the fragrance, which makes it a different option to many other fresh openings usually we usually find with other fragrances (plus).
a contribution of influential green notes in the resulting aroma that brings us to the heart notes I feel pretty synthetic and produces significant imbalance that at times produces an effect halfway between the cheap and liquid soap household cleaning that spoils appears this phase of development and detracts from the effect of aroma of iris and jasmine (negative).
The woody and balsamic sweetened dried due to the contribution of amber, vetiver and sandalwood causing a shift in the fragrance that has left me somewhat indifferent by its simplicity and nondescript medium-low (negative) qualities.
The duration is moderate and the trail of weak to moderate: at the beginning it is good for a half hour after drop significantly and become pegadita to skin, like thousands of other fragrances on the market.
As experience was not bad for the nice initial contribution of mastic but little else.
Rating: 4
dimon1661 – :
Interesting and Unique…
This fragrance has a series of notes which I haven’t smelled in other fragrances before (or at least not in this quantity). I think what gives Eau d’Ikar it’s unique vibe is the note of mastic (a type of desert gum resin). It really smells of that substance which is in trees all around the Mediterranean and North Africa. There is a wonderful citrus and gum opening with some dry herbs. It then progresses with this mastic note into a slightly powdery, dry amber laced finish. Along the way we encounter carrot seeds, jasmine, tea and vetiver. It’s such an interesting ride.
The only drawback I find here is it’s projection and longevity. I love the uniqueness of this fragrance and the glass bottle design is a work of art. This is my first time trying a fragrance from this house and I must say I am impressed.
fenis – :
Not enough of any one thing, and the overall blend isn’t especially interesting to me. I can’t understand what the perfumer was trying to do here. “Understated elegance?” Perhaps that makes sense, but I’m not going to pay a lot of money for that kind of experience, though for all I know there are quite a few people who will.
MayonaWaype – :
very elegant perfumes , and here i can say elegance is always my 1st attempt to choose any perfume , nice combination even if my expectations were more from Sysley fragrance house .
The perfume is quite nice unique yes unique but not that special , added that main lux ingredients are not dominant .
Anyway i enjoy it but i dont repeat buying it .
Hence it is very remarkable that this perfumes needs a specific skin to fit on it , we can see that on the rating for longevity & sillage since it is divided between moderate & heavy almost nothing in the middle .
Hope to hear about new male perfume from Sysley which may shine this name like eau du soir .
mouzze – :
It’s citrus-green. Wait it’s…powdery. No! It’s woody but creamy-balsamic. Yes, it’s all at once.It’s fantastic and perfectly rounded. Works incredibly well with my skin in this humid spanish summer. The powdery-soapy-woody feeling keeps you dry and the green-citrus is fresh and invigorating. The heat makes the fragrance envelop you (and people close to you) from time to time, and that’s the kind of perfume wearer I am. So sillage fans will be dissappointed.
vzozulya – :
First thing I want to say is that the bottle is simply gorgeous, made of thick, heavy glass and with an obvious artistic craft.
The fragrance itself opens with a sharp blast of unripe lemon and bergamot, followed and, later, softened with a mastic note. The heart has all of that, but with a slight dose of earthiness from iris and/or carrot seeds, which complements the resinous, somewhat creamy mastic note very well. The drydown is made of woods, mostly vetiver, but with a trace of lentisque note as well.
When it’s about performance, I don’t have any kind of longevity problems with this one, as it stands here on my arm for seven hours and counting. It projects reasonably well, with more projection in the beginning with all that, almost screaming, sourness. It is very versatile season-wise, as it can be worn pretty much in all climates, IMO. However, I do think it’s a bit more for the mature people, as I don’t feel that a young guy can wear it as successfully as, say, a man in his 30s or 40s. Also, I don’t like the fact that it’s on the expensive side of the designer’s fragrances.
All in all, this is quite unique composition with a less-known main note, and a lot of sharpness and tanginess. Eau d’Ikar is a classy scent for gentlemen with specific taste, a scent with character.
8/10
igornavy – :
I agree with Perfumepsych, this scent can easily be worn by a woman.
In fact, I think that this scent is more feminine, lighter than “eau de campagne”.
I just bought it today and 2 workmates asked me what it was.
It´s light green scent with a subtle but very original spicy touch. It´s not these generic spicy male scents out there.
It´s very elegant, decent and refined. In my Skin, it lasts the whole day.
A very well constructed scent. It could be indeed a niche scent.
Top Sisley Quality!
destohentaivideo – :
I had to delete all my chaotic reviews and decided to write a solid one.
Mastic is present all the way through while this fragrance lasts on my skin. It’s definitely unique and stands out from the crowd. And IMO it’s the “main player” in this composition. In the beggining it’s blended with citruses and smells quite sharp. While it dries down, going into the heart, it gets smooth and creamy – and I feel it! I’d say that iris and tea are most detectable – along with lentisque of course. Later I get a little bit(but just a bit!) of Terre d’Hermes, but without pepper – vetyver and bitter-sour citruses mixed with woods. And that’s pretty much it.
Very complex scent indeed.
Longevity is superb – 10 hours on my skin while it projects good for about 5 hours and goes to a skin scent later on.
I love it and it could easily be my signature scent if something happened with Gucci PH II….
lawruha2007 – :
Imagine the opening of prada infusion d’homme with less quality ingredients, add to it a huge dose of mastic and you have eau d’ikar. It’s a little citrusy ,resiny , a little powdery.
It doesn’t satisfy the nose , try infusion d’homme instead.
geshka63 – :
different than others, classy, and unique
Am glad i discovered this brand today
castal – :
I suspect the success of this perfume depends on climate very much. In our northern latitudes it sounds nasty: you know, like in a cheap cafe. Really, I’m surprised by its sales in cold Russia. Maybe it opens “comme il faut” in Italy? Egypt? Argentina?
gad1814 – :
La marca sisley es reconocida por la calidad de sus productos eau de ikar no es la excepsión, me parece un perfume de clase, elegante su apertura es fresca, enseguida se mezcla un toque amaderado es muy agradable, pero en mi no tiene duración, es necesario reaplicar.Muy apropiada para primavera verano, recomendable, aunque su costo es alto.
vitalia – :
Weird and wonderful!
I like it but I don’t love it! But I love the fact the perfumer has given a go to a new concept (I mean who dares to put carrot seeds and a never heard of tree sap into a modern fragrance, plus Reed, the water grass, except Bond #9).
Therefore I commend it as an alternative to, say, BVLGARI Man that I would classify into the same realm of modern, underrated and understated “non-aquatic” men fragrances.
Longevity is poor (as is with BVLGARI Man) but the classy, crisp, sharp and sophistication is ACE.
9/10 for vision, concept and daring to be new and different.
6.5/10 for all-over result. Good but not great.
P.S.: Ideal gift for a vegan or gardener friend!! (Carrot seed note!)
wody67 – :
“It took twenty years to make this new launch by Sisley…”
It did? WHY? It begins with a mildly citrus note and proceeds to an odd, indifferent milky basenote. Hardly earth-shattering.
Not impressed.
Andrei Z – :
Pleasingly STRANGE! Upon first sniff, the first spray it’s loaded with citrus, but that is quickly fleeting. Just moment after the it’s began to dry on the skin, it’s weird starts to come into focus.
This smells “Fizzy” or “carbonated” — very vivid and very sharp. I quite like it! But, it is a smell I am not familiar with in the normal world. That is not to say it’s synthetic, in fact it smells quite natural, but, like I said, it’s pleasantly strange! I suppose this is largely due to the “Mastic/Lentisque” note… Which I have been admittedly unfamiliar with.
If I had to compare this to something, I’d compare it to a dry-erase marker!! It also slightly resembles some iterations of vetiver which I have encountered, such as that of Route Du Vetiver or Givenchy Vetyver, even molecule 03!
The scent has bite…it’s not floral, or spicy, or woody. Not fruity or leathery or incensy…it’s weird!
(and I LOVE weird!)
Rating: 8.5/10
Orefeania – :
im loving this toilette. i would’ve liked it in a parfum instead because it’s strength is rather weak. if it wasnt for this unique smell, i wouldnt have purchased it.
inammeree – :
I tried it it smells like someone who smokes just brushed his teeth.
D_Konst – :
Like others said – this one has the best vibrations from vintage and modern scents. This is really niche perfume in the mainstream market. It’s classy so if you want to wear this you have to be gentleman. Right – it isn’t macho, sport or metro style – it is pure classy perfume.
rotozej – :
Dear all,
This is a realy lovely perfume. But please note that the MASTIC or (MASTIHA) is a unique product of CHIOS island and NOT Corsicas. Chios Island is in the aegean sea of Greece.
This unique tree is possible to be germinated Only in the half southest part of the island. It doesnt delivers mastic even if it is planded in the rest of the same island. The why is am unanswered question even for the schientists.
Mastic is not only used in parfumery but is also widely applicable in medicine too.
Search on the net about mastic. It does worth it…
Regards
Nikolas
ccc1980 – :
after testing it again, the longevity is quite good. my wife smells this 4-5 hours after the application. The critics on the internet are so and so…for me and for some of the reviews, this is quite good fragrance, natural with an elegant touch. The start reminds older perfumes, citruses but there is something in that makes it different from other. This is the mastic and the first mastic perfume i tried. It is, i see it that it is unique and this matters for me. from all these creations the last years who are turning around 1 million etc, this is something that deserves attention and respect. The perfume was used by the family which is running Sisley and then, decided to put it in production for the public. Beyond that, it is considered for some reviewers unisex, but this is not something i would like to smell on a woman. there are many female perfumes that smell woman so there is no reason for a woman to wear male perfumes although some are saying that there is no gender in perfumery…but at least and personally me, i will never want to smell such a perfume on a woman. The whole thing is for a mature wealthy guy 30 and up and not for kids. give it a try and see the wonderful top notes, the elegant middle and the clean soapy base notes. lover of the original eau sauvage, give it a try….it is recommended for those that they do not want something to smell like many others. The compliments are high, both from women and men so what else we want on a perfume? the only problem was the longevity but after wearing it again and again and with 20C temperature, this is a jewel. It will be better maybe in summer but i consider it for all seasons and occasions, preferably formal though and office.
чайник 2010 – :
This is indeed a beautiful scent and although it starts a bit generic, then in some minutes the mastic appears and takes the whole thing in a different direction. i consider it natural, classy, smooth and high quality.
in about 10-20 minutes, the perfume is dominated by the smell of mastic and citruses.
I like it generally, either it reminds eau sauvage, which is a classic i like too, or is overpriced.
For me, it does not remind something else from the middle to the base notes and especially, i like the smell of mastic generally.
i dont know where some other see the relation with diot homme!!!!! come on now, we are talking for two completely different perfumes.
I see that there are some longevity/sillage problems but i’m not in a position now to give feedback. i beleive though that this is a summer scent and weak in the winter especially after the first 30 minutes….will see when i use it for a while…
for the time being, longevity zero…and indeed zero…i never had longevity issues with almost any perfume i used. Even Eau sauvage seems to last longer….its a pity!!! will see when i use it again because it must have some longevity.
autowredi – :
This is the worst male perfume I`ve ever smelt!It literary made me vomit!I was with my boyfriend and we both agreed that this is definitely THE most awful smell ever.If it took them twenty years to make something bad as this,then I think they shouldn`t make any more perfumes ever.
n7201283 – :
The beginning is a combination of bergamot / lemon with a touch of herbal (originated from a plant called mastic). The output is very sour citrus, arrives to give the feeling that catches the tongue, but so far no problem for me. What really bothered me was this herbal, here’s this kind of note not my style, Sinti the same kind of note I met boisee Kenzo and Gucci Sport in a bit too. It’s something that reminds me of a bush or something. Maybe I can get used to me one day with this note, but now I can not stand.
With over a 15 to 20 minutes herbal note eases a little, yet it stays the citrus, but something comes floral iris feel something in the background, but I imagine qo is a predominance of jasmine. I’ll look for that single note to make sure. It also rolls a touch powdery.
With little more than an hour to go disappearing citrus notes and sandalwood can feel the load of something else must be the sum of vetiver and amber (it is a woody scent with a median body weight). Perhaps this is more suitable for warm days.
Projection medium / low
Fixing: Dei six sprayed sample and even a 6-7 am could still feel it.
Anyway I rate 7/10, I recognize the quality of the perfume, but not my style. Just do not give a higher score because of longevity.
bakabofHabs – :
I quite like Eau D’Ikar. It opens with a blast of green citruses and bitter orange immediately joined by carrot seeds / iris (the real stars of the whole fragrance IMO). Mastic makes its appearance during the middle phase and together with vetiver and the overall iris vibe, lead the fragrance towards a well blended woody aromatic base with just a subtle hint of sweetness. Very nice maculine.
Rating: 7/10
maikl19 – :
A beautiful scent, could easily be worn by a woman. Great longevity but not good sillage. If you like quiet scents, it is a great one.
I was wearing it today and no one understood it was a male scent. It is very herbal and airy, the mastic note very prominent and the carrot seeds too.
After a while i get citruses, iris and the tea note.
Maximus-Shumilino – :
A wonderfull scent. Works very well on my skin. No probblem of longevity or sillage… Spray a little on your clothes if you want to irradiate. Citrus at the top? not harsh not dessert-like. There is nothing I can compare it to. It’s modern woody susained by green and creamy notes, balanced so not be a déjà vu “easy” masculine fougere or another powdery frag. And I really don’t get the comparision to Dior Homme.
PS; Sorry if my english is kinda rusty!
aniscin – :
Have run through two samples and I’m just not feeling it. The house of Sisley took there time launching a mans fragrance and I was expecting more.
While it appears to be well constructed (and not cheap), I’m not getting all the notes. It runs right thought the middle ones after the initial citrus blast with the vetiver really being overly predominant.
Packaging is classy (it is Sisley after all).
Sillage is on the weak side and longevity is lacking.
student9 – :
Back from testing, this fragrance has nothing to do with Dior Homme, doesn’t smell Dior Homme at all. Dior Homme drydown smell like burnt leather, while Eau d’Ikar drydown smell like aloewood. Eau d’Ikar is much better. Women can wear it too if she’s willing. I would choose Eau d’Ikar for my man.
vedmak11 – :
It’s hard to said who’s come first. This perfume had been the personal perfume of the men of the D’ornano family more than 10 years ago (much earlier than Dior Homme). It was only launch recently after hire a sculptor to design the glass mold for the bottle.
Iris perfume is wide loved by the Upper Class, so nothing wrong for this Eau D’Ikar smell similar with other expensive brand perfume.
Ульяна – :
Ok, while it’s pleasant enough, I’m now getting a touch tired of this whole “Orris for men” trend. After the massive success of Dior Homme and Infusion d’Iris’, it seems everyone still wants to grab a piece of that same pie. ~ Hey, here’s an idea, hows about baking your own different pie instead, rather than all this belated “wagon jumping”. ;o) It’s bound to garner more respect I’m sure ! (The lovely bottle certainly warrants something novel to match it !)
olga2988 – :
I bought it to my husband for Christmas. I adored it when i smelled it the first time. Very fresh and elegant. A modern vetiver. I like smell it on my man.
bobik65 – :
Spot on review by `Inselaffe`.
Lovely fresh x100 scent. Lasts for about an hour and a half (max). So this will be a very expensive fragrance with poor lasting power. But Wow.what a scent!!
Reminds me a bit of a Michael Jackson concert …in that it was:
A Top quality show with great visuals, but was always very expensive, did not last for longer than an hour and a half, then disappears forever. That is ,if there was ever going to be a show…..
jeka_more – :
Oh my goodness, who wears this stuff? At first it smells like freshly burnt human meat (!), then in turns into some heavily perfumed medicine that no child ever would swallow. Avoid.
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valerchikk – :
This scent is simply excellent in all respects.
It smells wonderful.
The olfactory notes are among my favorites.
The projection and longevity are magnificent.
The bottle is beautiful.
The brand is unique.
What more can you ask for a perfume.
The only problem is that it is too expensive … which will not be all bad if you look at the uniqueness that this fragrance will have.
I love this Eau d’Ikar.
Econeesoame – :
it’s a blend of cavalli man and dior homme…
Albanes – :
Good at the start, with green leaves, milky and soapy in the middle, very soft and a little bit “poudrè” for the iris (orris), but not very persistent; as for the rewiev of “minimalist” it remainds me the iris in Infusion d’Homme of Prada.
Smell before purchase, but a fragrance well done, after twenty years of study.
However a very good product, like all the Sisley creams.
lebedev1966 – :
I have to tell that this is a realy nice perfume, well done, balanced, not too sweet, not overpowered, not agressive. Well done, and I’d like to call it EAU COLOGNE De DIOR HOMME, because especially on the end it is very look a like Dior Homme for the iris.
Sergefff – :
d’Ikar smells good on your skin, definitely male. Feel spices, tea, maybe even the mastika.
Psywhessafela – :
A masterpiece. I put it in my skin yesterday. At the beginnig was very citrussy. Ok, expected. Then a few minutes later, I smelled and I was confused. I thought: “I didn´t put cream on my hands today. Where´s this smell coming from? It was the evolution of Eau d´Ikar!” Very soap, like a cream. Different, not as masculine as I was expecting(Eau de Rochas or Eau Savage) but good. Excellent.
sofihesa – :
Antonpan, you nailed it!
It makes me a very happy man to see that sometimes there’s someone out there working hard, with a vision and willing to keep up with the highest standards like Sisley. At first it’s similar to Eau de Campagne from the same brand, then turns into a milky-green accord with volume, depth. Dont know how lentisque smells, never had the chance but at this stage Eau d´Ikar reminds me of Prada Infusion d’Iris for men, both including lentisque as heart note so maybe this mentioned green & creamy note belongs to it. Vetiver appears later making the whole composition noble, educated.
It’s green, it’s like spring in a bottle. I covet it!
Whotlyhouby – :
Nice, masculine. For me it’s very similar to Kenzo pour Homme Boisee, though Kenzo is more sharp. That’s why I prefer Kenzo
Hiuhgjftdtr – :
For such a long time I haven’t tried a men’s scent that is so beautiful, rich and well composed. To me Eau d’Ikar is a great balance of modern and “old” perfumery. It starts strongly – citrusy herbally reminding colognes of 70’s or 80’s (imagine Eau Sauvage for example). But soon it turns into a weird creamy (or milky) fresh (but still warm!) scent. I really like this softness came from the tea accord. Moreover this base is enriched by a clear vetiver note. Finally the composition transforms again, now into something light and irisy (but not sweet!)
As you’ve understood Eau d’Ikar is an extremely complex and versatile fragrance constructed of high quality components. For 2011 it sounds like a masterpiece, though I’m sure some will find it too soapy.
enunu1 – :
sounds great. have to try.