Loewe Esencia Eau De Parfum 100ml

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This fragrance does not strike me as being as fresh and green as other reviewers seem to find it. I get more of an orange, peachy, pink colour from it. Summer follows with a deeper and less crisp green with the warmth of Geranium and very soft floral touches supporting the green pine elephant in the room. The florals warm up the green a bit. I was going for a meeting with my manager, and when I entered his office, my nose immediately went “is that...Aventus...?!!”. It was very pleasant, and definitely fills a room! Old Spice and Tabac are examples of porcelain bottles still being produced....as iconic as those scents. I know Procter&Gamble changed the porcelain bottle of Old Spice to plastic but Mäurer & Wirtz didn't for Tabac. I see it far below, both in quality and in distinction, or creativity, of releases such as "Loewe 7" or its "Anonymous" flanker. With much less elaboration and nuances than these, apart from that we are talking about a copy of other perfumes that have been in the market for some time.

Loewe have for a long time impressed me with solid quality and reasonable prices. They are really good on aromatic flavors, and this is their best. Don't get me wrong, this fragrance is a take on Aventus, but it is managing to project a similar scent with different notes that are easy to peak on if you bother. It is darker and not smoky, yet still reminds you of that aventus. The closest thing I can compare it to is the fizzy green opening 20 minutes of Bogart Signature that I always wished lasted longer. This fragrance does exactly that - cranks the juniper and galbanum up to 11 and keeps it pumpin' for the whole show. Really feels like it's all bright green top notes that turn into a fizzy, juniper soap. But that's the thing - it's a sour juniper and not the resinous sappy kind. Just a heads up.When we finished eating, i put my mask to hide some embarrasing, went to the table and asked... “buenas noches! some of you guys have a beautiful perfume and i would like to know if it’s cool water?” One looked to the other saying “i don’t wear perfume today” (crazy guy lol), and the other said it’s esencia de loewe.

Spring opens with a very fresh green blast with a minty touch created by the Artemesia and the grassy green of Galbanum. It is a nice crisp green. I was eying out this fragrance for a while now and now that I've got it I'm annoyed at myself for not having bought it so much earlier. What Loewe did here was to take the concept of Loewe pour homme, strengthen and improve the aromatics and change the base to more chypre (oakmoss and tremoss) and less fougere.

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Aventus has a lot more depth. Esencia EDP does an excellent job in capturing the aura and feel of Aventus, but it’s very linear, no where near Aventus’ sophistication. With that being said, I must warn those unfamiliar that the opening can be a bit off-putting. In both versions I own, something in the top notes comes off a bit sour. Kind of like when a fragrance is starting to turn. Almost like a wet mop or towel, but that does dissipate within a few minutes of wear and becomes a very nice clean aromatic green soapy scent. The first spray vaults us to great heights (think leafy green tree tops) with a smooth lavender and a beautiful pine note, some tarragon and petitgrain and the smallest bit of basil. The extra fresh and herbal opening gives way to a spicy mid that gets slightly soapy.(that nutmeg note is so good!) The florals float in with a nice rose and jasmine that get a minty fresh push from the geranium. The base runs sweet and slightly earthy with some tonka, vetiver and patchouli. As for the dry down, imagine an artisanal shaving soap that was kissed with the slightest bit of incense. This is standard Loewe: rich, bold and beautiful. Inspite of the four notes listed here, this still smells like Aventus (the OG or the cologne, don't really know or care)

I got a test vial of this, applied liberally to one wrist and I was prepared to chalk it up as a "no" based on the tar-smoke-green opening which I didn't like too much, there was a bitterness and acidity that I don't experience in other scents that use the sweeter side of smoky aroma (as with those that invoke incense). But as it started to dry down I was amazed at what I was experiencing - it went from "meh" to "WOW" within ten minutes. The herbal weight of the middle notes really started to register just as some of the sweeter notes begin to negate the opening acidity. by the time it fully dries down it becomes a rich, patchouli-heavy resinous evergreen slab of deep green delights. Technically Esencia is a chypre. Of chypres you have leathery (Polo), woody (Yatagan), fruity (Mitsouko), fresh (Pour Monsiur), citrus (Eau Sauvage) and so on. Then there is the fougeres, and there you have amongst others the aromatic genre (Loewe pour homme). The spicy ones are usually orientals (with bases of vanilla, amber, incense...).So when we finished our meeting, I had to ask what he was wearing, and he pulled this fragrance out of his bag! I always have decants of my favorite fragrances in my own bag, so immediately pulled out Aventus and made him try it out (he’s not a fragrance enthusiast, so he never actually smelled Aventus before!). He was very pleasantly surprised at how similar they were, but I was also able to really feel the difference between them. Imagine all the ingredients were kept in containers around this large cauldron brought out to prepare a rich and complex mixture of the many many notes indicated above. Then imagine a cat walked on that shelf and all the containers fell into the cauldron, breaking and mixing up. That's what this fragrance smells like - complete chaos. It isn't a composition, it's a concoction. It's like of Roja's parfum colognes went from their jazz roots and turned punk. It's everything, all at once, altogether. And it is all of that in the best way possible. I've smelt many perfumes - but very few quite as unique yet pleasing as this one - pleasing being the key word. It is not challenging to appreciate or difficult to wear. Even to this day. It is all things to all men - except during the very high summer heat :)... This sits on my shelf as a unique designer along with Narciso Rodriguez For Him - unique versatiles that show that you don't have to be safe like all the blue fragrances out there to be easy to wear... The result is Loewe-style spanish aromas (wide, juicy, medium strong but lots of flavors), with a refreshening top and a GREAT drydown. I never worned Aventus or aventus like fragrances in the sommer cause i found them to be somehow cloying, this one tough, actually does ok in sommer. Hot weather makes it a bit sweater and for whatever reason the darkness turns airy. It lingers for a long time on skin and projects more then 6 Hours for about an arm lenght. My final thoughts are that this thing literally spreads some beautiful elegant smart man waffles around u. I would be really really attracted by this

The final phase keeps the citrus and white flower top notes but switches out the iris and rose for the more resinous notes: amber, styrax, galbanaum and a touch of musk and vetiver. I do believe however, that ELPH is a very special kind of green fragrance and I'm very happy that it is still with us. I assume that some of the initial spray had gone stale in the sprayer tube and this was what I got.This is very masculine in a similar vein to Azzaro PH but it's more refined, less rugged. It's masculinity comes from the fresh green notes, herbs, berries and woods, rather than musky animalic notes, so you can actually wear a fair amount of it and take advantage of its 'powerhouse' nature without feeling that you're cloying the air around you with crotch notes or schmooze vapour. People here complaining about it not lasting, should really step away from fragrances for more then a month and go softer the next time they use fragrances. They are most probably those ones that smell from 1Km and nobody that far wants to smell them perfumes. An advise for those people would be, stop being that guy and start wearing less fragrance. Anyway, some people might get nose-blind to it, but that does not mean others won't smell it, and if you spray to much, well, choke on it.