Year: 2014
Notes: eau de vie, nepita, pepper, tomato leaf, lentisque, cistus, oakmoss
Corsica Furiosa serves as a tribute to Marc-Antoine Corticchiato's homeland of Corsica – the nucleus of which comprises of three different types of lentisque (a resin also known as mastic): the essential oil ("peppery, fruity, aromatic, then earthy with mushroom overtones"), the absolute ("hay, blond tobacco, honey and straw accents, darkened with a tinge of liquorish") and a special type of extraction ("resin, spices and leather").
It starts out as dry, crisp, vegetal and slightly bitter, with a galbanum-like greenness from the tomato leaf. With an underlying pepperiness, one doesn't detect any booziness from the eau de vie (or 'water of life' – a clear and colourless fruit brandy) nor much mintiness from the nepita (a Corsican herb that strongly recalls oregano and peppermint). What one discerns, instead, are demure peppery and herbaceous flourishes, which merely serve to embellish the composition's lentisque core. However, beyond that, all that remains is a light oakmoss base, slightly sweetened with a touch of cistus.
Although the composition exhibits discreet grassy, mossy and hay-like facets, it isn't even remotely verdant or bracing. Moreover, the lentisque aspect isn't as rich or intense as originally anticipated – leading one to wonder how a supposedly heady cocktail of three different extractions of lentisque could pass by relatively unnoticed. While one is aware that lentisque isn't a loud accord, one was still expecting something both substantial and memorable. As a result, one can only deem this excursion as a missed opportunity.
Labelled as an Eau de Parfum, its performance on the skin is closer to that of an anaemic Eau de Toilette. And while Corsica Furiosa is slightly better than Sisley's Eau d'Ikar, it could have been much better. With that said, Sisley's Eau de Campagne still remains a reference point for any olfactory creation that claims to be green and rustic... which Corsica Furiosa sadly isn't.
It starts out as dry, crisp, vegetal and slightly bitter, with a galbanum-like greenness from the tomato leaf. With an underlying pepperiness, one doesn't detect any booziness from the eau de vie (or 'water of life' – a clear and colourless fruit brandy) nor much mintiness from the nepita (a Corsican herb that strongly recalls oregano and peppermint). What one discerns, instead, are demure peppery and herbaceous flourishes, which merely serve to embellish the composition's lentisque core. However, beyond that, all that remains is a light oakmoss base, slightly sweetened with a touch of cistus.
Although the composition exhibits discreet grassy, mossy and hay-like facets, it isn't even remotely verdant or bracing. Moreover, the lentisque aspect isn't as rich or intense as originally anticipated – leading one to wonder how a supposedly heady cocktail of three different extractions of lentisque could pass by relatively unnoticed. While one is aware that lentisque isn't a loud accord, one was still expecting something both substantial and memorable. As a result, one can only deem this excursion as a missed opportunity.
Labelled as an Eau de Parfum, its performance on the skin is closer to that of an anaemic Eau de Toilette. And while Corsica Furiosa is slightly better than Sisley's Eau d'Ikar, it could have been much better. With that said, Sisley's Eau de Campagne still remains a reference point for any olfactory creation that claims to be green and rustic... which Corsica Furiosa sadly isn't.
