Costume National - Soul Parfum Natural Spray 100 ml Black

Product Information

Scent Intense EDP: "Wow, this fragrance is amazing! One spray, and I feel surrounded by an incredible and magnetic aura!" - Elisa This fragrance is designed to captivate the senses with its unique and sophisticated composition. It has a fresh and light top note that opens with a blend of sparkling citrus fruits and juicy fruits. In the heart of the fragrance, you will find a blooming bouquet of sensual flowers, adding a feminine and romantic dimension. Finally, the scent is rounded off with a warm and seductive base of woody notes, soft vanilla, and musk. Regarding the smell: a complete masterpriece. I know, the word ''masterpiece'' gets thrown around like a hot potato but in the case of Soul, its indisputably fitting, in my opinion. With Soul Natural Spray, you can create your own signature scent that perfectly suits your personality and style. This Eau de Perfume is ideal for both everyday use and special occasions when you want to feel extra special. Master perfumers, with their great skill, create authentic works of artin each of the brand's collections, using high qualityingredients. The main goal of Costume National is to give new lifeto precious ingredientsfrom the perfumery art, such as amber, sandalwood, saffron, jasmine, ylang-ylang, and patchouli, transforming them into elegantand modernfragrances that maintain a timeless style. A brand with a refined taste, which is also reflected in the iconic designof its flasks, sculpted following a plaster modelcreated by the founder himself. There’s no doubt: these flacons represent a manifesto of styleand beauty, capable of satisfying both the eyeand the noseof the most demanding enthusiasts!

The lady took this weird looking, orange colored bottle off the shelve and asked if she could spray it on my skin. In full repulsion, I, again, answered: "Yea, sure". My plans to only test some Kilian on skins just for thrown out of the window.As the perfume settles, the base notes emerge. Here the enveloping sweetness of vanilla comes forward, mellowing out the spiciness and the smoky undertones. This is closely followed by the earthy, woody scent of patchouli, which adds depth and complexity to the fragrance. The final note is ambergris, which gives a musky, marine afterglow to the perfume.

This new addition to Costume National's fragrances range represents the unnecessary confirmation that the only good Costume National scents ever made where the early couple of ones composed by Bruyère – 21 and Scent Intense. It almost seems the guys at Costume National share this feeling as well, since Soul smells basically like an unneeded rewriting of Scent Intense crossed with influences from some of those contemporary Middle East cheap brands which are quite invading the market lately – brands like Arabian Oud, Lattafa, Swiss Arabian and countless of similar ones, with their nuclear, and often sweetish spicy-smoky oud and/or leather blends. Soul is for me exactly halfway all of that, and I wonder why they hired some renowned nose like Ropion for such an uninspired, clerical copy-and-paste job. Soul definitely keeps Scent Intense's peculiar bone structure of powerful, sort of dry and extremely synthetic amber-musk-fruity notes, and boringly crosses it with a smoky praline of vanilla and artificial, sort of medicinal-nutty oud with a dark shade of leathery patchouli and a greyish salty feel of ambergris. The result is basically “Scent Intense Oud & Patchouli” with a whiff of M7's trademark ambery-medicinal oud. The middle notes reveal a unique combination of geranium and leather. The geranium lends a green, floral aroma, contrasting with the deep, rich smell of leather. A trace of oud adds an exotic, smoky undertone to the scent profile, making it intriguing and full-bodied.Homme EDP: “A fresh, citrusy, woody scent that gets you going! My friends loves it, and even my wife can't resist sneaking a spray or two " - Fabrizio She took a good few minutes to come up with the question: ''May I offer you another brand?''. With huge feelings of repulsion, I answered: ''Of course u can!''. Let's admit: we all have been in those kind of situation where you nod in agreement, mainly out of politeness ;) Costume National worked with Dominique Ropion to create this oriental scent of a strong and unique character. The richness and rare quality of raw materials – some of them coming from the prestigious LMR Laboratory in Grasse – together with the ultimate technologies create a warm, sensual, elegant and charismatic perfume, which embodies the true soul of CoSTUME NATIONAL. Costume National is a niche perfumerybrand founded in 2001by Ennio Capasa, combining Japanese minimalismwith the Italian sartorial approach to create wonderful and original artistic perfumes.Costume National fragrances have an innovative soul, a modern identity, and a strong connection with Italy and the artistic traditionof high perfumery. These unique scents are created following a contemporaryand essentialstyle, which is reflected in the high qualityand purity of the raw materials used. Free d’Homme EDP: a metropolitan and nonconformist scent, thanks to a mix of citrus notes, Cypriol, Saffron and Incense!

Secret Woods EDP: "I prefer to wear it in the evening, for special occasions: it has an undeniable charm that has never failed to impress me!" - Humbert

Testimonials

Its a sexually seductive perfume, where ambergris combines with woody and ambery notes, to sweet, lustful and spicy effect. The vanilla creates a soft aromatic accord that soothes the fragrance but does not change its slightly oudy and ambergris nature. J EDP: a tribute to Japanese tradition with a modern twist. The fragrance combines fine ingredients with typical Japanese delicacy, creating an ethereal and luminous fragrance. Soul by Costume National is a unisex perfume that opens with a distinctive spiciness. The initial smell is predominantly cardamom, with a hint of tangy bergamot and a subtle touch of pink pepper. These spicy notes are prominent at first, but soon make way for the heart of the fragrance. The assisting lady asked me how I like my perfumes. I answered: ''big and sweet, just like my daily coffee''. We had a good laugh and afterwards she starting thinking which Kilian might fit my taste.