Description
“Sun. White, yellow, bright. Gold jewellery on tanned skin. A lingering 1970s glamour. It’s sexy,it’s a party. It’s life in the bubble. It’s walking along the beach, naked skin, feeling relaxed, languorous, but it’s the big city,there’s noise, people and a sense of intensity and madness. It’s stopping atthe juice stall on Dizengoff. It’s Bauhaus. It’s heat, sweat, cigarette smoke, flowers on the balconies overhead.
This is a floral fruity fragrance and the first time this city has been translated into perfume. A fresh, fruity head, and notes of clementine, bergamot, and blackcurrant bud. A floral heart with jasmine sambac absolute, Comoros’ ylang ylang, rose oil and freesia. And a warm, musky base with sandalwood, musks, Deer’s Tongue absolute (liatrix) and benzoin” — press release of the brand. Tel Aviv was launched in 2017. The nose behind this fragrance is Karine Chevallier.
Nazar007 – :
Gallivant Tel Aviv is primarily a floral composition, but it’s green, unisex, and robust. It’s underscored by citruses, musk, and a soft benzoin/sandalwood pairing in the base. I regard it as unusually agreeable for a niche release, seemingly appropriate for anyone anytime, and while that might brand it less daring, I see it as a rare entry that’s signature scent worth for men and women alike.
The white floral aspects (ylang ylang, jasmine) shine the most, but blackcurrant and citruses provide for a fun, bright, sweet opening that eventually paves the way for the a very agreeable dry down of musk, benzoin, and sandalwood.
Like Brooklyn, Tel Aviv’s performance is very good for a freshie, though in fairness, one should almost expect that at its pricing of $95 for 30ml.
7 out of 10
allphotoshop – :
I was disappointed in this. It’s not bad smelling by any means, but only get jasmine, freesia and some initial fruitiness which disappears quickly. For me, zero vibes of city, madness. I definitely missed the invite to this party.
lzb770Diobtetty – :
fresh, fruity, aquatic floral; airy; very lovely; the freesia is the star
Pors – :
simply~amazing:)
cas85 – :
sweet jasmine and delicious citrus. a great combo, but unforch totes not for me. it’s too sweet and pretty for my tastes.
having said that, i wouldn’t mind smelling this on my wife…!
definitely worth a sniff…
erma4o4ek – :
A lingering 1970s glamour…
privital – :
A smell for a young confident woman indeed. It reminds me of flowers, sunscreen and honeydew melon all wrapped up in one. There is a bit of a synthetic Noni-fruit scent which I find a bit strong. It sits on everything after the dry down.
BrianaGreer – :
On applying this perfume to my skin my impressions are of a bright, fresh, clean floral scent. Initially there is a burst of quite sweet citrus and I also get the black currant leaf mixed with the citrus. Then for me the jasmine is the main note. I can detect some freesia and ylang ylang but no rose. The under notes are there but subtle. I am reminded of faint cigar smoke. Quite pleasant. The whole thing develops on my skin into a clean aromatic floral scent I could happily wear during the day. I think it is a feminine scent. Not ‘seductive’. More ‘confident young woman’.
budka12345 – :
The fragrance of Tel Aviv portrays, in its creative concept, the hectic life of the great city in Israel, with its beaches, nightlife and gay hubbub. Its name means, in Hebrew, “Hill of Spring” and in this sense, the fragrance could not be more literal, since it is a beautiful white floral, full of sunny and warm shades as spring.
It features notes of clementine, bergamot and blackcurrant buds on top of the composition. Then, the heart carries notes of freesia, essential oil of rose, ylang-ylang from Comoros (Africa) and Jasmine Sambac Absolute. In the base we have notes of sandalwood, musks, benzoin and liatrix absolute (also called deer tongue or prairie pine).
On the skin, Tel Aviv has an extremely strong output with acidic aroma. The citrus side merges with the fruity acidity of the blackcurrant and bathes the flowers, as if it were a juice washing petal by petal. And, as usual, in compositions that combine jasmine and ylang-ylang, everything else loses importance when these notes show their power. And what a jasmine! What a beautiful ylang-ylang!
From the bottom, to be honest, I did not feel the tobacco or vanilla content that some claim to exist in the liatrix. I felt a clear nuance, which I believe came from the musks and a slight creaminess, very typical of sandalwood.
However, I do not agree that Tel Aviv is a unisex fragrance. Perhaps shareable by some more modern men. But, still, it is a feminine fragrance, which brings me to classics such as Givenchy’s Amarige, for instance.
Of course, I know that the root of perfumery does not separate perfumes by gender and that this is linked to marketing questions. But since most of my followers are Brazilian and I know that Brazilian men do not usually surrender to the most floral fragrances, I would never indicate a blind purchase of this perfume, except for women.
It is a beautiful perfume, especially for someone like me, who quite like this type of fragrance, almost narcotic. If you like it too, it’s worth knowing.
dimarik1772 – :
I haven’t tried this on skin, but just from sniffing on a card this is a very interesting fragrance development wise. When I first sniffed the freshly sprayed card I found it to be very nearly aquatic, I would have sworn there was something in the melon family and maybe some salt in the top notes, very ‘fresh cool ocean breeze’. A few minutes later a second sniff was still a lot of sea breeze but with a hit of sunshine, something very warm and bright coming in. I set this to the side did a lot more sniffing of other things, and picked this back up when deciding which strips to take with me and… it was a whole different scent, I had to double check I hadn’t mis-labled it! It was warm and creamy in a sultry late summer afternoon way. Next time I see someone ask for a beach scent, this will be my first suggestion, total day at the beach, from cool morning breeze to midday sun to lazy late afternoon. I’m definitely going to need to try this on skin sometime!
Kaitlyn_fromAD – :
I am not familiar with the fragrance and have no idea if it indeed represents the zeitgeist of Tel Aviv (although the description of the city in the press release is very apt). But – your comment about ‘everything smelling like it has a hint of white’ is interesting because the older parts of Tel Aviv used to be known as the White City. So maybe that informed the fragrance’s composition in some way. Just a thought….
analebibournlon – :
Smells like i just entered a Flower Picking Farm with wooden bucket in hand. Does this fragrance represent the current zeitgeist of Tel Aviv culture? That’s not a rhetorical question. I’d really like to know. The Sanbac segues throughout the entire fragrance soiling the other notes to the point where everything smells like it has a hint of “white.” The peel from the ylang-ylang is “yellow” in its presence but that accord has nowhere near the strength of its heady white cohort. The only part of the freesia that i smell are the green facets. I’m not picking up the peppery stuff. There are allegedly 4 different fruits involved in the making of Tel Aviv. I purchased a sample in hopes of enjoying what i thought would be a fruit medley. Instead i’m left with traces of citruses that appear to be a little on the tart side. The sweet treats are sandwiched between white and yellow florals therefore, it’s hard to get an authentic autograph from the produce. The girlfest continues with a rose which im not able to determine if it’s green or lemony(probably the latter). As the fragrance come to a close, the lasting effect is similar to Nectarine Honey and Blossom.