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flaryBacy – :
Profile Of A Young Woman by Giovanni Boldini
Kimanarkrig – :
It’s like a double faced sword! it has something SUPERB in it and something DISTURBING! … the good side is the amazing apricot peachy sweet note mingled with magnolia and floral, as the bad side is the cheap musk. The quality of the musk is quite cheap and gives the dirty artificial smell so it swings between good and bad.
After all i kind of like it and dislike it at the same time, maybe it needs more time.
Anera – :
The aroma certainly puzzles me because the final result is quite different than the list of released notes proposes. There is a certain air of mystery, and a kind of animalic cardinal aroma that primarily brings me the smell of leather and a metallic musk. It’s like the bestiality of Secretions Magnififiques were reduced to a 1% concentration in a way that instead of saturating and torturing the nose the metallic smell becomes intriguing when backed by a musk combined with leather nuances and a light plastic tone. The most fruity and floral parts of the idea are ghostly for me and get lost at first, reappearing when the musk becomes more delicate, sweet and close the skin. Although soft, it is quite interesting.
Liutykas – :
I’m totally smitten with the opening of Kanat — it almost smells like a sheet of metal crossed with nail polish remover. It’s so utterly strange, yet not unpleasant in the slightest. My guess is that it’s the cassis that’s responsible — a material which, if not handled right, imparts an obnoxious cat pee effect. It’s so well managed here, though. Within minutes, it begins to smell more recognizably botanical and earthy with a fuzzy peach that sits perfectly in the blend. While it’s hard to pinpoint what the florals are (jasmine?), they’re present and definitely floral. The opening is seriously one of the most attention-getting things I’ve smelled in some time.
The disappointing part of this scent, though, is that the amazing opening sequence is strung over a mediocre vanilla base that shows up all too soon. Although it’s not a bad base unto itself, it just doesn’t convey any of the brilliance of the opening, and it ends up smelling too much like ice cream. Personally, I think a watery, earthy base would have suited this more, but I suspect the vanilla makes this easier for people to handle and gives more support where support is needed. The result though, is that the scent has the strangest transitional phases that simply don’t make sense.
Whereas others in the line remind me considerably of Rania J, this one reminds me a great deal of the style you find in Soivohle — acrobatic transitions and really inventive combinations. In fact, as Kanat winds its way down to the base, it smells a bit like Soivohle’s Dog Star — which has a distinct vanilla ice cream feel to it as well. This is worth smelling for the opening alone, and even though I found the base to be a let down, it’s still a solid base to have. If nothing else, Kanat a testament to what this perfumer can do and the kind of ideas she’s putting out there.
EVECTUATUTUAT – :
Ha,Alfarom spot on again.I don’t feel crazy anymore because glue it’s what I smelled too,along with a very soft,worn suede impression.It smelled like the interior of an old handbag that maybe was recently repaired so it still bears a hint of the adhesives used.Musky vanillic drydown.I thought was intriguing and interesting and much preferred it to Ducalis for example,which is completely derivative in my view.
sokol120378 – :
Kanat is quite a nostalgic fragrance in my personal experience. I’m probably completely off here but upon application, I can’t help it from being immediately teleported to when I was a kid in school and, more precisely, the smell of Coccoina. A kid-safe and extremely popular italian glue which had a fantastic and quite unmistakeable almondy smell. Now, given the notes disclosed, the only thing that could make me remotely think of almonds is probably acacia but it might still be kind of a stretch. Anyway, Coccoina and those days spent cutting images from magazines for doing collages. The warmth of mid-may sun, long days of light and a sense trepidation for the incoming vacations.
Kanat is all of that for me. It’s an evocation of my childhood.
Beside Coccoina, I smell smooth florals, a hint of medicinal saffron and a soft white musky / vanillic base. Not a fragrance I’m crazy for but if you’re drawn to light florals with a twist, give this a chance.
As with most other fragrances in this line, Kanat never feels cheap or even rushed and it’s pretty original too without going necessarily for the weird route.
Rating: 6.5-7/10