Zoologist - NIghtingale :A floral chypre for the monsoons | Perfume Review.

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Nightingale is perfume that comes across as simple and feels just as complicated. Hidden gems in regards to perfume are heard of but a hidden gem as a perfumer whom I can relate with is the creator of this fragrance, a Japanese perfumer - Tomoo Inaba. Nightingale is his first launch and such a beautiful scent it is. Every time I wore it I could picture the Geisha, from the movie ‘Memoirs of A Geisha’, face covered in white powder, red lips, wearing a Pink kimono, she’s beautiful , she’s captivating and she can turn heads with a single look. Inspired by the Japanese Spring, where the Nightingale welcomes the new blooms with its songs and also associated with a silk Kimono; everything that has been said about it rings true. What you read about this perfume is exactly what you will experience. As a fragrance enthusiast its a blessing that the story and the fragrance relate to each other, one of the very few times when we can believe that the story came before the perfume.

The first whiff gave me a very faded bergamot and saffron much like an opening act followed by the main performers. The key notes which no one would miss are Rose, Violet and Plum blossom. I've never smelt plum blossom so I can only experience what I've read about it. Its not an oil obtained by natural resources; it survives completely the perfumers imagination of it, here it is fruity, juicy and sweet. Plum blossoms in the Japanese culture are associated with good fortune and the trees themselves are thought to ward off evil. I don’t know of that but rest assured its not a perfume for everyone, its powerful, it will take control of your olfactory senses, you'd want to reach out to it all the time.
Violets here play a very important role, although they feel more like iris, the one which is powdery. I could also relate the violet note to some cosmetics. I am very bad with musk, I usually have to dig very deep to identify it, but here I did not need to because it smells as it does in most Rose and musk perfumes. The heart of the perfume is where this perfume which in my opinion is also the start of the perfume has the most important and prominent notes. Violets here are as strong as rose and plum blossom.

The dry down is my favorite part because this is where everything which was loud before eventually settles and also, it has patchouli in good doses clubbed with oak moss, sandalwood and the trails of the heart notes. Patchouli in Nightingale is neither medicinal nor earthy, itslight and since the overall perfume is powdery patchouli adapts to it and blends with it. While deciding to own it I was scared of the oud in the notes breakdown, thankfully i smell no oud here, it might be there but i don't have much experience with different ouds to identify it. Nightingale, after bat is my second favorite from the house, it's a feminine scent but I don't discriminate when it comes to perfumes. I've enjoyed every spritz of it with more joy then the previous one.

Notes: 

o Top: – Bergamot, Saffron and Lemon.
o Middle: - Plum Blossom, Rose and Violet.
o Base:-​ Agarwood, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Oak moss, White Musk , Labdanum and Ambergris. 

 

Perfume family: Floral, fruity and Chypre. 

          Performance :-

Lasting: 9/10
Projection: 7/10
Silage:  7/10

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