Vilhelm Parfumerie Expensive Polly Assessment (Jerome Epinette) + Distance is Nothing to the Coronary heart Draw

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The scent of the beloved could be many issues:  the nice and cozy, satin scent of the curve of a neck …  catches of a favorite fragrance that cling to their pillowcase … the flowers and herbs of the backyard shared at days’ finish or the driftwood redolence of the seashore home you rented final summer season. Or maybe it’s the embodiment of that factor they try this at all times makes you smile. This was the case for Jan Ahlgren, founder and inventive director of Vilhelm Parfumerie. Expensive Polly, created by Ahlgren and his spouse with Robertet perfumer Jerome Epinette in 2015, is a fragranced love letter, a scent that suspends time and distance.

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Expensive Polly evokes the morning tea ritual of Ahlgren’s spouse with its distinctively astringent black tea coronary heart and cheery bergamot high be aware. Because it opens, Epinette dunks an assertively inexperienced, crisp apple within the cup.

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Because the fruit mingles fortunately, a spoonful of honey comes via, and the mix is so evocative, I swear I may virtually scent bread toasting.  After some time, the tea steam twirls into a mild furl of smoke and Expensive Polly adjustments keys. The dawn aromas start to settle. Pungent Ceylon tea pens the subsequent paragraph, fumy and astringent. Combining with citrus, the tea is acquainted and comforting in addition to zesty. In counterpoise, earthy, woodsy smells start to coalesce; darkish, pensive cedar and loamy oakmoss fill within the background, their bosky aromas bringing a subdued depth to the composition.

 Jan Ahlgren at Arielle Shoshana in Fairfax , Va. courtesy of Arielle Weinberg

Time ticks by.  Vilhelm Parfumerie Expensive Polly remains to be distinguished on my pores and skin, crunchy apple and chirpy bergamot nonetheless current, however merging right into a dusky base of dry amber and cedar. Furry musk joins the tea get together and issues change into un peut intime. It now not appears like mid-morning however just like the hours when the sky exterior the kitchen window has put the celebs to mattress in anticipation of the daybreak. The dregs of tea stand chilly of their china cup, a smear of honey rests on the lip of the saucer. Extra masculine-leaning notes transfer ahead in the direction of Expensive Polly’s conclusion, and the intense notes go to mattress. It’s as if the beloved and lover change locations, and it’s she who writes the ending of this missive.

Christian Shloe©

Whereas the opening of Expensive Polly expresses the acquainted pleasure of being within the firm of the one you like greatest, its opaque, cedary-smoky dry-down hints at one thing extra enigmatic – maybe the unknowable nature of affection itself, that tether of the guts even continents can not sunder.

Notes: Bergamot, apple, Ceylon black tea, oakmoss, musk, black amber.

Disclaimer: Bottle of Vilhelm Parfumerie Expensive Polly generously supplied by Eden Sq. (previously Europerfumes). My opinions are my very own.

Lauryn Beer, Senior Editor

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Because of the generosity Europerfumes/Eden Sq., now we have a 100 ml tester bottle of Expensive Polly for one registered reader IN THE USA ONLY. To be eligible, please depart a remark saying what pursuits you based mostly on Lauryn’s evaluation. Have you ever tried Vilhelm Parfumerie earlier than? Draw closes 9/19/2020.

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