Escentric Molecules H01, Aesop Gloam, Juliette Has A Gun Lust For Sun and other reviews – 2023

It was a tale of contrasting landscapes over on YouTube the other day when I reviewed new releases from Aesop and Goldfield & Banks, as well as a Harrods exclusive from Escentric Molecules. Here’s a link to the video: Escentric Molecules H01, Aesop Gloam, Juliette Has A Gun Lust For Sun, Goldfield & Banks Ingenious Ginger, Nishane Mana reviews.

Goldfield & Banks Ingenious Ginger (Hamid Merati-Kashani) 2:22
Juliette Has A Gun Lust For Sun 14:34
Aesop Gloam (Barnabe Fillion) 25:19
Nishane Mana (Christian Provenzano) 37:33
Escentric Molecules H01 (Geza Schoen) 45:08

I haven’t been won over by anything from Goldfield & Banks in the past, but Ingenious Ginger is worth more than a passing sniff, mainly for the way in which perfumer Hamid Merati-Kashani has managed to sustain the ginger note into the drydown while balancing it with a genuinely inviting vanillic base. The juxtapositions in Gloam are equally commendable: mimosa and spices working together to build a bridge between night and day. And in H01, Geza Schoen has taken his usual aesthetic (immaculate, futuristic woods) and filtered it through the bling-loving universe of Harrods to give us a leather remarkable for the way in which it maintains the animalic authenticity of its tannery note while remaining pristine and pussycat-soft at all times.

Persolaise

[Samples provided by the brands in 2023.]

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