Comments on: Aedes de Venustas Copal Azur ~ fragrance review

By: eutrapelia

eutrapelia — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 21:49:58 +0000

I hate incense, but I tried Copal Azur (I don’t know why) and I love it.
All perfumes from this house look nice for me, but this one is something strange and unexpected. It’s first incense aroma I want to buy and wear.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:02:22 +0000

In reply to cazaubon. It will go on my best of 2014 too :-)

By: TheNoseKnows

TheNoseKnows — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 06:21:26 +0000

Well, as it lays, Robin, we all know Kevin is Notoriously Difficult to please, so I do think that I’d follow your opinion on this scent more so… just from an offhand basis. And I am one of those people that LURVE Big bottles… I use fragrance so lavishly, that I do run through a fragrance I like quickly and need to restrain myself. I actually am in the camp that feels companies need to make BIGGER Bottles! 😀

By: cazaubon

cazaubon — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 03:35:47 +0000

I love Copal Azur and already want to buy a backup bottle! LOL. I am an incense fiend and fell in love with this on first sniff. It is not ozonic on me at all, just warm incense. My favorite release of 2014!

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 02:02:27 +0000

In reply to Erin. Well, I will hold you back anyway if you didn't like the other 2. I do think that makes it less of a sure bet. Wait and try it when you get back, at least, and see how many pennies you have left :-) I am jealous of your Une Rose but even more jealous of your trip in January.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 02:00:19 +0000

In reply to akimon. I noticed that SIP listed it as a note in a couple perfumes when I did a search while writing this. I have no idea, but wondered if it was like gardenia, which can in fact be extracted on a very small scale (Enfleurage sells it from time to time) but for all intents and purposes really cannot be used as an ingredient. But just wondering, I really don't know.

By: akimon

akimon — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 01:10:38 +0000

Why do they say “copal resin cannot be used as an ingredient in perfume”? Some houses, notably Strange Invisible Perfumes, list it in notes for several of their liquid scents, so it must be technically possible to distil, it just may be easier to do it in-house. They make it sound as if the form was an issue, but frankincense is a resin, too.

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:33:31 +0000

O.M.G. I was already pretty interested, and then you wrote “pleasant seawater-y undertone” and then “crisp stone / mineral effect”. Yikes. Hold me back! (No really, hold me back. This is not one of the those perfumista moments when I’m really asking for permission. I just pre-ordered a bottle of PHI Une Rose de Kandahar. I’m cut off. Also, I’m going to be of those tourists who descends on Tulum in January, so no more perfume until then, even travel set refills.)

I really was not fond of the Aedes Iris or Oeillet, sadly/happily. But I looooved Signature and own it, and had high hopes for this one. Sounds like I’ll have to get a sample anyway, since it’s Duchaufour again, and it’s your favourite from the brand.

By: poodle

poodle — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 23:34:07 +0000

In reply to kindcrow. The patchouli isn't prominent on me either.

By: MikasMinion

MikasMinion — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 23:26:39 +0000

In reply to kindcrow. The word you're looking for is weird, but I come by it honestly and have learned to embrace it.