Year: 2012
Notes: cardamom, cinnamon, saffron, galbanum, lavender, carnation, patchouli, toffee, vanilla, guaiac wood, oakmoss, ambergris, musk
Comment: Veni is part of the Édition Rare: Yellow Gold Trilogy
"After having been crowned for a triumphant military conquest, Julius Caesar stood before the Roman senate and declared his victorious phrase "Veni, Vidi, Vici"."
Kicking off the second Édition Rare trilogy, Veni dismally fails to impress.
Opening with some mild cardamom and cinnamon, the composition exudes spicy nuances, while soft caramel flourishes later provide the transition to a woody-musk drydown. Overall, it's both pleasant and inoffensive, but it's also subdued, insipid and generally uninspired. It also doesn't help that the base is too ambroxan heavy for one's personal tastes.
Providing minimal sillage, its staying power is woefully insubstantial.
Kicking off the second Édition Rare trilogy, Veni dismally fails to impress.
Opening with some mild cardamom and cinnamon, the composition exudes spicy nuances, while soft caramel flourishes later provide the transition to a woody-musk drydown. Overall, it's both pleasant and inoffensive, but it's also subdued, insipid and generally uninspired. It also doesn't help that the base is too ambroxan heavy for one's personal tastes.
Providing minimal sillage, its staying power is woefully insubstantial.
