Artichoke Absolute

3 reviews for Artichoke Absolute

1. Rated 5 out of 5

   vivienne.ca (verified owner) – 28th August 2020

   Artichoke is a compelling absolute as once sniffed, one wants to go back and sniff again and again. For me, it encapsulates the exotic fruit and veg markets of abroad with a familiar nuance of cycling through the British countryside and smelling the melange of vegetables growing in the fields..
   There is no bitter note to the nose, as I may have expected. Instead, warmth and succulent notes prevail.
   In a blend, we have found it to be a beautiful base, an enriching addition and/or a welcome mystery to a citrus/floral.

2. Rated 4 out of 5

   Reimar (verified owner) – 9th February 2022

   My bottle shows batch code fr20, exp. 2023. Compared with other Artichoke absolutes in my collection, this material has a pronounced and unmistakeable Watercress scent: peppery-sulfurous and spicy. I got that material last year from a company in Egypt, and it smells identical to this. So I wonder, what happened? It’s marvelous, though: check out Azzaro’s “Bois precieux”, which has a similar note hidden in the blend.

3. Rated 5 out of 5

   Kai Leon Art Parfumeur (verified owner) – 25th August 2024

   While right from the beginning, unmistakingly, this Artichoke absolute posesses its very characteristic and highly original note –
   of that robust green flower, which I call ‘Verdant Umame’ note, there is a plenty of fascinating ‘something else’ is going on in it –
   a bouquet of summer meadow in the morning, when the heat warmed the grasses yet has not scorched them, and the floating fragrant haze of their scents makes you feel aimlessly convivial, relaxed and blithe –
   in a sunny herbal noble bitterness akin old-fashioned ‘digestivo’ liquors – with slight touches of various peppery weeds and roots (Angelica? Green Bell Pepper?), echos of wild pollen, gentle whiff of piquant honey and of those little wild flowers that nobody ever bothered to extract their humble leafy essence, and then undertones of rubbed Olive & Raspberry leaves, and bunches of straw and even imaginary leather mingles somewhere.
   With a charm of chilhood simplicity and spontaneity, Its evocative power caught me surprised – as I was transported to that sunlit meadow – peaceful, quiet, free, wild, with cicadas serenading in the heat in the tall tangle of drying grasses…
   It is indeed peculiarly inspiring – echoing others, I feel an immediate urge to add it to my current green accord, to include in the fougeres, to twist exotic flowers, and to try it with just about everything – to see how its offbeat charisma will invoke the Unexpected.
   I may even make a perfume around it and name it ‘Eau D’Abandon Facile Ensoleillé’ – easy sunny abandon 🙂