Description
“Heliotrope stone or precious stone of Babylon, used in Magic for three centuries in ancientBabylon, it used to serve for priests to explain the oracles and to keep away the enemies; in Egypt to open the doors, break the bonds and tear down the stone walls, to facilitateaccess to intuitive realities in order to win over fears and doubts.
Known to Azteques, it was used to regulate the bloody flux. Still today, the Heliotrope,sometimes called bloody jasp, once converted into powder, is used as a treatment in certainregions of India.In the Middle Ages, it was supposed to make invisible, to release thunder and lightning, to change the color of the sun by rubbing it with flowers bearing the same name. Through it, the sun appears to be red like blood.
Number 8 is universally known to be the number of cosmic balance, a totalising number,symbol of completed entirety. The mathematical sign of infinity is a lying 8.
Red is the birth stone, of life and death; it s the starting force, the spark of humanhoodbetween the earth and the sky” — press release of the brand. Heliotrope was launched in 2012.
KaraNebesnay – :
Got this as a sample with purchase, and I like it. It’s warm and, on me, very spicy. I don’t get any sweetness from this – it’s all peppery spicy warmth. I also get a strong hit of incense from this, which I rather like. This is definitely more for the blokes though. That said, this is something I could easily see myself wearing again. This is gonna sound weird, but if I found myself needing to kick somebody’s arse (and there have been waaaay to many days like that lately :/) this is what I’d choose to wear when I did it. It just gives off a strong, no-nonsense, quietly powerful vibe. Weird? Undoubtedly. But that’s the vibe I get off this – it’s a kick-arse scent, and I will probably spring for a full bottle at some stage.
babich_y – :
از بوی پودری و بادوم مانند و خشک هلیوتروپ در این عطر سراغی نگیرید؛ مگر در سایه های سنگین و باابهت اون. تم مشروبی-سیتروسی هم که چیزی حس نکردم ازش؛ بوی شیرین و خوشمزه ای هم از این کار به مشامم نرسید. پس حتما عطرو اشتباه تست کردم، دوباره تست میکنم؛ اما باز هم همون نتیجه حاصل میشه. شاید بویاییم دچار اختلال شده؛ اما نتیجه ی تست بویایی هم این فرضیه رو رد میکنه و در نهایت باید عرض کنم که هرکسی برداشت خودش رو از یه عطر داره و در رابطه با چنین عطرهایی تنها به یک عامل اعتماد کنید: بویایی و ذائقه ی خودتون. شاهکارهای من ممکنه شما رو آزرده خاطر کنه و برعکس! بگذریم و بریم سراغ هلیوتروپ…
عطر شروعی گستاخانه و بی پروا داره و با فلفل تند و جسور در کنار بوی فکال و وقیح عنبر خودشو معرفی میکنه اما بعد از چند دقیقه همه چیز در هاله ای از کندر، مر و زعفران فرو میره که حالتی چرمی، پلاستیکی، خاکی، گس و دودی از اتحاد اونا حاصل میشه که المانهایی از هرکدوم رو شامل میشه اما در عین حال هیچکدوم از اونها بطور برجسته احساس نمیشن.
عطر بطور کلی در همین فضا سیر میکنه و بعد از ساعتها با ورود یه حاشیه ی خشک و گیاهی کم رنگ، هلیوتروپ با حالتی پودری و کمی خاکی به فضا وارد میشه و متأثر از این فضای دودی و خشک، شیرینی خودش رو پشت در جاگذاشته. داستان هلیوتروپ در همین فضا جریان پیدا میکنه و تا پایان بر محور صمغی، گیاهی، دودی و گس خودش که توهمی چرم مانند داره تأکید میکنه و هلیوتروپ فقط حاشیه ای پودری به فضای کلی می بخشه.
هلیوتروپ یه لمس رسمی، جدی، خشک و گرمه که جون میده واسه یه روز زمستانی. یه ست چرم و واکس خورده وبراقه که در مقابل آفتاب کم توان این اوقات از سال خودنمایی میکنه و اعتماد بنفس و غرور و درخشش خاصی باخودش داره. دوربانو تخصص خوبی در ارائه ی ترکیبهای صمغی-دودی، ادویه ای و گیاهی داره و اینبار وجه خشک و تلفیقی از وجوه دیگر این توانایی رو به نمایش گذاشته…
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3030117 – :
Just got this in a swap and I am floored! I have been looking for something that smells like sun heated cypresses, and that is what this one does on me. What Tom Fords Italian Cypress could have been like in my dreams, without all the offensive (on my skin) citrus. But even better!
I am really in love!
lutter-lex – :
I’m not so fond of this brand signature profile, that usually puts incense and spicy notes on its creations.Something on their final result in this casa and being salty, weird for me but in Heliotrope it seems to work. At first you don’t get the heliotrope, only a mineral incense and a peppery and dry green aroma.As it develops on skin you start to smell the sweet almondy heliotrope, slightly reminding you cherries, with a sweet oriental myrrh and benjoin tonality, that gives it a very slightly fruity and sweet incensed hot aroma to the heliotrope. Altough it has a pink color, it seems to me more masculine than feminine.
куци – :
verry good stuff not an monster in projection but good fair i think its another well made perfume good job mr durbano you have done it again! 8/10
rrs486speagoessenda – :
Don’t let the name “Heliotrope” deceive you, there is nothing sweet nor powdery in “Heliotrope” by Olivier Durbano.
This scent is purely masculine, full with incense, resins and slight spices, I did not get no sweetness or any sort of feminine vibes. Very manly.
The scent reminds me of pencil shavings and wood polish, you know – the clean incense kind, with slight hints of bitter resins.
Silage is fair and longevity around 8 hours, not bad. The scent itself though is surely not for me, I just can’t take a perfume that will make me smell like wood polish.
kirman – :
I’ve gone in and out of love with Heliotrope several times. It initially impressed me for its piquant and spicy qualities. It then let me down when I discovered a gourmandic facet I hadn’t noticed in the first place to then click with me again, after I took enough familiarity with the fragrance to discover its perfect balance.
This is basically a sweetish spicy incense with a cheerful character and subtle biscuit-like facets. Comparisons with some of the CDG’s Red Series make absolutely sense as this has an overall sparkling transparency and minimalist feel that will make *modernists* happy but, at the same time, it feels warm, deep and alive to perfectly fit the vivid red-color of the juice. I’m personally still not completely won over as I would have probably preferred it with an extra kick, but if you like restrained and micro-nouanced incense-driven fragrances, give it a chance as this stuff is undeniably delightful.
Rating: 7/10
Metro-52 – :
Wow is this spicy. Peppery and smoky. It’s labeled as unisex, but if I smelled this on a man I’d probably follow him for blocks.
Later: this gets a little sweeter, less smoky as it dries down. Still peppery. It’s a really sultry and sexy. It’d be very hot on a confident woman as well.
Two hours later: I think I’m in love with my arm.
uhc757intitytek – :
Wow! This is the most beautyful of Durbano’s gems since Rock Crystal and Black Tourmaline.
The opening is lovely, it’s a potion made of sweet, deeply red mandarine and just right amount of ginger adding juicy spiciness. All that blended with light, balmy mixture of olibanum and elemi and warm, slightly sweet saffron.
With time, when citrusy note is starting to disappear, saffron is geting stronger and stroner and of course incensy, balmy notes as well. This drydown made of various resins, incense and woods is what makes Durbano’s perfumes so appealing to me. It always brings images of cold morning in mountains to my head.