Search Suggestions

      1979 New Wave (2020) • LES BAINS GUERBOIS🔺, ScentAdvice

      LES BAINS GUERBOIS
      1979 New Wave

      2020

      PERFUMER
      Dominique Ropion


      1979 New Wave (2020) • LES BAINS GUERBOIS🔺, ScentAdvice


      spearmint
      peppermint
      aldehydes
      orris
      cedarwood
      musk
      sandalwood
      amberwood

      ‘Another night at Bains Douches, another young English band onstage. The charismatic lead singer close to a trance. A legendary performance. A small enthusiastic crowd, girls and boys riding waves of emotions, sounds, of fragrances melding together yet distinct. Peppermint, orris, cedarwood. New Romantics. Is this a dark or cheerful view of the world? Could be both.
      MAGNETIC & AVANT-GARDE
      The first notes resound. Unexpected and vibrant, peppermint infuses its aromatic freshness that feels like a wave. The earthy and metallic inflections of the deaf and earthy iris add depth to this avant-garde duo. The smooth and milky sandalwood announces the intermission and the promise of suspended time.’ – Les Bains Guerbois

      1979 New Wave (2020) • LES BAINS GUERBOIS🔺, ScentAdvice

      When I sampled on paper, I picked several to test on skin. I knew then that New Wave wouldn’t really be my jam, but I wanted to give it a try anyway, as it’s hard to come by good minty fragrances.

      What made me appreciate this is the iris. From the opening, you get a classy, almost ‘cold’ iris here, mixed with the mint. This is more of a chewing gum/toothpaste mint to me than a leafy, green one. It’s refreshing and I did like wearing this on a warm night, but I just don’t see myself actively wearing mint fragrances; it’s a scent I mostly kept reserved for other purposes than perfumes. As nice and well done as New Wave is, it hasn’t changed that.


      guest
      0 Comments
      Newest
      Oldest Most Voted
      Inline Feedbacks
      View all comments