Year: 2013
Notes: Bengali pepper, ginger, nutmeg, clove, leather, sandalwood, cashmere wood, ambergris
Comment: Poivre Bengale is part of Les Éphémères Collection
Largely comprising of spices, woods and leather, Poivre Bengale is terribly lacklustre.
It's just another musky, linear and derivative peppery woods concoction, without any substantial presence. The pepper starts out as the star accord, with most of the other notes being less discernible, before a leatheriness takes over. However, just like Rosa Gallica, an overdose of cashmere wood only cheapen things further.
Putting insipid juice into an extravagant bottle, as part of some ‘exotic' collection with an excessive price tag to match, may fool some people but not everyone.
It's just another musky, linear and derivative peppery woods concoction, without any substantial presence. The pepper starts out as the star accord, with most of the other notes being less discernible, before a leatheriness takes over. However, just like Rosa Gallica, an overdose of cashmere wood only cheapen things further.
Putting insipid juice into an extravagant bottle, as part of some ‘exotic' collection with an excessive price tag to match, may fool some people but not everyone.
