You probably won’t believe this, but I assure you it’s true. When I first sniffed Ingrid, before I knew anything about the movie character on which it’s based, it seemed to me like a perfume undergoing a personality crisis. Then I discovered that the eponymous protagonist of Brian Pera’s third entry in the Woman’s Picture series is a transsexual. Now, before I go any further, I want to make it clear that I am not proposing for one moment that the painful, confusing experience of an individual’s struggle with the very core of their identity can be reduced to the scented contents of a pretty bottle. But the parallel between the perfume and the film stayed with me, and I’d suggest it’s a useful key to understanding the way this new fragrance from Andy Tauer achieves its effects.
Simply put, Ingrid is a clash between masculine and feminine, a confrontation Tauer has chosen to express in olfactory terms by pitting leathers against florals. So on the one hand, the scent presents snarling, rubbery, well-burnished hide (accentuated with a hint of the furniture-polish note which seems to be doing the rounds at the moment). And on the other it reveals a frangipani facet (Tauer claims no other flower could have captured Ingrid’s personality more aptly) rounded off by gentle suggestions of citruses, honey and greenness.
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Lovely review, I adored this fragrance and will have to get a bottle one day.
I found a really dominant clove and rose note throughout too, and also got the furniture polish smell (which I love). The vanillic drydown reminded me a little of Miriam, I think the whole trio are all subtly tied together. I think the Tableau de Parfum line is Tauer's greatest work to date, so beautiful.
Smellythoughts, yes, I'd agree that there seems to be a vanillic link between the three scents.
By the way, I'm sure you know this already, but just in case… Ingrid also comes in a very affordable, purse-spray size. That's the one I bought for myself