Year: 2006
Notes: nutmeg, aniseed, cumin, honey, frankincense, woods, ambergris
Illustrating restraint and minimalism, Let Me Play The Lion is a dusty spicy-woody offering that's almost as soft as Jean-Claude Elléna's transparent creations, but in possession of slightly greater substance.
Starting with a refined spicy and coniferous edginess, the aniseed is more easily identifiable from the spices on display. As the aniseed recedes, there's a gradual shift to the mid notes of frankincense, cedar and honey. The cedar is quite prominent, the frankincense is both wispy and understated, while the honey momentarily exudes a urinary facet.
As the spices persistently endure well into the drydown, the weakening cedar is joined by both an ethereal and powdery sandalwood accord. With the composition's mild sweetness also largely expended, all that remains is a faint aromatic-musk skin scent of peppery woods and frankincense.
Overall, it's very well-composed with high-quality ingredients. However, like the rest of LesNez's fragrances, one particular thought constantly re-surfaces: it needs to be stronger. In all honesty, it should have been named Let Me Play The Cub instead, as it coyly whimpers rather than roars.
Starting with a refined spicy and coniferous edginess, the aniseed is more easily identifiable from the spices on display. As the aniseed recedes, there's a gradual shift to the mid notes of frankincense, cedar and honey. The cedar is quite prominent, the frankincense is both wispy and understated, while the honey momentarily exudes a urinary facet.
As the spices persistently endure well into the drydown, the weakening cedar is joined by both an ethereal and powdery sandalwood accord. With the composition's mild sweetness also largely expended, all that remains is a faint aromatic-musk skin scent of peppery woods and frankincense.
Overall, it's very well-composed with high-quality ingredients. However, like the rest of LesNez's fragrances, one particular thought constantly re-surfaces: it needs to be stronger. In all honesty, it should have been named Let Me Play The Cub instead, as it coyly whimpers rather than roars.
