Sandalwood, Ebony and Rose

Since its launch, LE LABO, a "pre-niche" brand from New York, has not only been recognized by the perfume industry, but has also stood out in the market of hundreds of perfumes launched every year. Until it was acquired by a big label, the big label based on respect for the two founders of LE LABO, did not intervene in LE LABO's creativity and management, and allowed it to maintain a "niche style" and lead the niche in the mass market.

When you wear perfume on your body, what are you looking for?

I think most people will probably answer: "Be different!"

Especially in the predicament of disliking "greasy", it is too difficult to find people and things that are not alienated. In daily life, almost all of us who are "greasy" use a set of official accents, attitudes, behaviors, and psychology to face various people and things. It is more and more difficult to become an independent person or a person with an interesting soul.

Want to get rid of greasy, so we start to look for things that make us look less "greasy" from substances, such as clothing, transportation tools, perfumes. Yes, perfume. Wear the scent on your body and make you feel different. There is only the golden boy who has been standing beside fashion for a long time and has never changed. He is not only the existence of Dugu, but also the existence of absolute secularity who lives in the hustle and bustle and is supported by the stars. Therefore, the more we are in the "high-quality greasy" world, the more eager we are to suppress or erase "greasy" with unique "things" that we consider to be different.

LE LABO may have such an effect, but it was only a short-lived "niche effect" when it was just launched on the market. Today, as a brand recognized by the public, any scent of LE LABO is mainstream. Apart from being dubbed "niche" by different people, any product of LE LABO is now a commercial Fragrance is no different.

I remember very clearly that I noticed its presence after using the LE LABO bath products provided by the star hotel, and these two fragrances - SANTAL 33 and ROSE 31. Let's talk about the ROSE 31 that has been used for a while.

Although ROSE 31 is classified as a daughter fragrance by some perfume UP owners, I prefer to put it in the neutral fragrance category with a rich rose flavor. Perfumer Daphne Bugey collaborated with LE LABO on ROSE 31. Compared to other rose-heavy fragrances I've used, ROSE 31 is soft and delicate rather than powdery. To say it's unisex, it's more like a combination of feminine and masculine charm, a lovely woody musk fragrance.

Why did I fall in love with ROSE 31?

What makes me fall in love with ROSE 31 is not its floral fragrance, but the new scent imagination created by the combination of sandalwood, ebony (agarwood), musk, labdanum, etc., which gives me a solemn and gorgeous with noble feelings.

Although the top note of ROSE 31 feels very feminine, once it reaches the middle note, you will gradually forget this impression and gradually be released by vetiver, cedar with elegant dry woody aroma or bitter but not strong medicinal taste , pulls you into a calm and serene situation, and the lingering rose scent is faintly radiating from the beginning to the end. This combined taste, gentle at times, unrestrained at times, reminds me of Mrs. Chatterley.

Another atmosphere of ROSE 31 that fascinates me is the elegant sweetness. After wearing ROSE 31, I actually can't tell whether the sweet fragrance of suitable thickness is rose or the sweet molecules released by frankincense. , This sweetness is as agile as Jia Baoyu, who is always playing the idea of twelve golden hairpins in the Grand View Garden.

ROSE 31 has a sweetness that belongs to the dark fragrance, which is quite restrained, and has the feeling of the pink flowers of mimosa. ROSE 31 is deeply infatuated with me because of such characteristics, so that every time it makes me incarnate as Xu Sijin's "Perfume", Ge Nuyi, who can't extricate himself in pursuit of his daughter's fragrance, constantly searches the air for ROSE 31 and is released by the nozzle The fragrance of the time, before the smell was on the verge of dissipating, I looked at the air with great loss, trying to find this pleasant fragrance around.

Another SANTAL 33 that I use that everyone compliments on, I don't really like.

SANTAL 33 has been praised by many people. I have heard some critics say that the fragrance of SANTAL 33 is very close to the taste of Mysore sandalwood. There are also exaggerated descriptions, saying that SANTAL 33 will bring people a different feeling of sandalwood. ! Because of the "Mysore sandalwood" and "a different feeling of sandalwood", I also asked SANTAL 33 to wear it, so as to verify whether it is worthy of the name, and has been carried to such a high altar of sandalwood elegance ?

I have a hard time extricating myself from all perfumes with sandalwood elements, and the elegant taste of sandalwood is very charming. So far, my personal favorite perfume with sandalwood elements is Paradise Homme by Alfred Sung. Of course, the other factor that makes me prefer it is the patchouli in Paradise, as long as any one or more of sandalwood, oud (agarwood) and patchouli are present in a fragrance, I'm obsessed with it!

Of course, I also love leather and amber, but the leather and amber of SANTAL 33 did not bring me pleasure, or to be more precise, the more the SANTAL 33 is to the end, the more it reminds me of the ones sold in convenience stores in Malaysia. Quick white laundry detergent smells like water mixed with laundry detergent when my mother was doing laundry when I was a kid. Also, SANTAL 33 has an underaged sandalwood sourness that I don't like.

This sour smell suddenly brought me back to the embarrassing memory of being trapped when I first came into contact with sandalwood two years ago. At that time, I bought sandalwood oil at an unequal price because I was greedy. It was a disaster to diffuse and apply that sandalwood oil! The sour taste is strong, and it is obvious that the insufficient alcoholization of Western Australian sandalwood was used to refine it into essential oils, so that the good sandalwood lost its proper charm. Because I have smelled the real Mysore sandalwood (white sandalwood, Chan sandalwood) essential oil, and also came into contact with Kupang sandalwood and Hawaiian sandalwood, I know very well that SANTAL 33 is still a long way from the sandalwood scent I am looking for.

Although SANTAL 33 is not my favorite, I am still very interested in the other scents that LE LABO has launched. LE LABO interests me because of its fashion. In addition to giving people a sense of fashion and youth, LE LABO, which is expensive as a niche brand in the public, can also be an odor choice that we try to get rid of "greasy". Especially in Malaysia, which is deeply influenced by oriental fragrances, wearing LE LABO is still very small and fresh. The only helpless thing is that LE LABO is also one of the capital alienation. Do you want to be fresh and refined? Unless the Michelle Bingcheng Supo Aidou is completely greasy, you can get rid of the annoying greasy alienation.