![]() ![]() The usual soapiness of the orange blossom is the only thing keeping the heart from really being all that dirty from the indole, but the fruit blends with it obnoxiously at first, creating the "body wash smell" which is where my initial negative reaction came from, leaning more torwards neutral than positive once it subsided and the flowers could do more of the talking. From this introduction comes the rich indolic floral center of powdery centrefolia rose/rose de mai (dutch hybrid rose), heavy jasmine, orange blossom, and freesia. 5 (1921) the night before she finalized her idea, as a peach-like note similar to the Guerlain is mimicked with blackcurrant, orange and bergamot over the puffy cloud of Chanel-like aldehydes in the beginning. The opening of Sì is very much fruity floral with chypre leanings, and I get the feeling Christine Nagel was dreaming about Guerlain Mitsouko (1919) and Chanel No. Sì is just freaking exhausting on the nose for this reason, but once you see it through, you might find it worth the wild ride through Wonka's factory to reach that lovely creamy skin scent which is what ultimately won me over after it was all over. The rest of Sì reads like a greatest hits of the last century in women's perfume style: rounded pillowy aldehydes, milky ketone-style musks (which are likely not musk ketone in the 21st century), rose/jasmine tandems for that "liberated women" indolic feeling, and chypre-like bergamot with sharp woods that give the best made-for-television impression of a chypre possible without the bite of real oakmoss. The synthetic ambergris component here isn't the usual ambroxan or ambrox super that is dumped into most fruity marine ginger ambroxobombs served up on the male side of most designer offerings, but a cut above called orcanox, which is used for a more-accurate imitation of ambergris where called for usually in "prestige" or entry-level niche offerings. On paper, Christine Nagel's work here feels like a lot of creative improvisation over a phone-in base. ![]() Never has a perfume from any gender marketing point done this to me, but here we have it. I wanted to give it a negative review, then I wanted to give it a neutral, then a positive, then a neutral again, then finally settled on a positive which is where it stayed. Sì (2013) is a fruity floriental/chypre hybrid that had me tossing and turning at first sniff. I would happily recommend that one as a more versatile and universal choice, whereas I see this as working more for a younger and more current audience out there. For me though, I prefer the Si Intense version, which I find is a more grown-up and improved version of this one. it is good in terms of projection and performance. Overall, it's not a bad fragrance by any means. I also think this might have cashmeran (and I think the ambroxan). I do get the cassis (which has a blackcurrant like vibe) and also the musky vanillic notes, with the freesia adding to the florals along with the rose (and possibly a faint hint of jasmine or hedione molecule). I sense some similarities in terms of the warm, powdery vibe but Si tends to depart in the more current, fruity direction. Generally speaking, the Si line by Giorgio Armani is probably (to my nose) close to a fruity floral version of the Coco Mademoiselle line by Chanel. It's a patchouli-fruity-floral musky scent. I find that this is the type of perfume that embodies the designer market right now. So, I can see the appeal of this one, in the sense that a lot of younger women would like it (and I actually do know someone in their 20's who wears this). ![]()
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