My warm nights are cardamom spiced. Rich and dry, wind bring in the scent of the future. Lighter days beckoning. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Earlier this year, a friendly, generous sales associate loaded me up with Loewe perfume samples. I was thrilled, but when I got home and smelled them on my own, I realized there was only one or two winners in the bunch, and most of the perfumes smelled like something I’d already smelled before. This, I’ve come to realize, is the usual. It’s almost impossible to love everything from one line, and in fact, it’s quite rare. All these perfumes also have a different perfumer, so each brings their own style to the perfume. Most of them smelled like basic designer perfumes instead of luxury designer perfumes. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Loewe 001 Man is different. Yes, it smells a bit like Dior Homme Intense, but that’s only because there’s cardamom and iris. The iris here isn’t purple, it’s just cleanly powdery. The cardamom is sweetened, and with the iris, the effect is like opening a box of doughnuts and having a bit of powdered sugar float up at you. The base isn’t vanillic, but has ambrette, warm and so skin-like so you can almost feel it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
