Lm Parfums Sensual Decadent

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Lit up with a hint of rhubarb in the top notes, this amber score draws its sensuality from the warmth of the balms (benzoin, labdanum), bound by the frantic fullness of vanilla. The heliotrope enhances the heart notes, the oud wood displays a sulfurous animalism. As intoxicating as an endless night, dancing until dawn.
Base Notes: Oudh, Benzoin, Vanilla infusion
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Top notes are Ylang-Ylang and Rhubarb; middle notes are Heliotrope and Labdanum; base notes are Vanilla, Benzoin and Agarwood (Oud).
She wants to eat me up after trying this scent. now shes wearing it too.
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Sensual & Decadent via Fragrantica.
Sensual & Decadent , the latest release from LM Parfums , is a fragrance whose opening blew me away at first sniff and made me do a double-take so fast that my head practically swiveled off. I thought I had finally discovered my Holy Grail vanilla, a sumptuously buttery, creamy vanilla doused in buckets of cognac, rum, and then even more cognac still before being finished off with a lick of lush floralcy. After 5 minutes, I was tempted to lick my arm. After 15 minutes, I actually did so.
In hindsight, it was a foolish idea (that I don’t recommend) but I simply couldn’t help it at the time. Sensual & Decadent’s opening is like an alcoholic gourmand’s wet-dream version of “vanilla,” and I was so intoxicated by its hedonistic extravagance that I rather lost my mind. Technically, the perfume doesn’t fall within the vanilla genre at all and is either a floral oriental (a “floriental”) or a fruity-floral, but that is a distinction that only makes itself apparent later on when Sensual & Decadent transforms. In the first hour, though, I was certain that I’d found my “Holy Grail” vanilla. Unfortunately, Sensual & Decadent subsequently changes quite dramatically, turning into the sort of fragrance that is so much outside of my personal tastes that I came close to scrubbing it off and then, after 22 hours, I finally did so. I’m rather heartbroken about that because the opening… my God, that opening! I licked my arm, people, I actually licked my arm !
Sensual & Decadent in its packaging. Photo: my own.
Sensual & Decadent is an extrait de parfum that was created by Jerome Epinette as a sequel to LM Parfums’ fantastic Sensual Orchid . I didn’t know that originally when I received the package from Laurent Mazzone, and one reason why my head swiveled around so quickly at the first sniff is because Sensual & Decadent instantly felt like the “decadent” and more vanillic version of a fragrance I love.
LM Parfums Sensual Orchid. Source: Fragrantica
It was Sensual Orchid , in fact, that is responsible for my blogging relationship with LM Parfums. Back in late 2012, I’d never heard of the company which was sold exclusively in Europe at the time. I ended up with a decant of Sensual Orchid as part of an eBay purchase of other perfumes, but I loved it so much that it rapidly became one of my favorite florientals. I subsequently wrote to LM Parfums to inquire if I could buy samples of the rest of the line and, eventually, one thing led to another, from a meeting with Laurent Mazzone in Paris to my love of Hard Leather . But Sensual Orchid has always come first for me. I’m quite serious when I say that it might be in my Top 5 for modern floral orientals, so its initial similarity to Sensual & Decadent left me overjoyed.
Sensual & Decadent was first launched at the Pitti perfume trade show in October of last year. A Fragrantica article by Juliett Ptoyan explains how Laurent Mazzone sees the fragrance and its relationship to the original:
The common word in both fragrances’ names didn’t appear coincidentally: according to Laurent [Mazzone] , Sensual & Decadent is an accomplished version of Sensual Orchid. It’s a peculiar remix with the same original tune but with some new orchestration. […][¶] The new perfume can be reviewed both as an independent work and the sequel of the story about sensuality which was started by Jerome Epinette in 2012. Anyway, this is not a usual flanker but the concluding part of the story.
I agree. This is a “remix” with very different parts that, as a result, sounds like a very different song when the two fragrances are taken as a whole and from start to finish. It’s also a much more extravagant song in terms of both its opening richness and in the opulence of its package which involves boxes within boxes, gleaming black lacquer within black velvet, more velvet within the actual lacquered box, golden logos, and golden monograms.
Sensual & Decadent, the inside of its lacquer box, and its velvet casing. Photo: my own.
All of that plays into the themes of baroque decadence that Laurent Mazzone is trying to emphasize within the fragrance itself. LM Parfums describes it as follows:
It is made that nothing can surpass it, that’s why you can find the beauty of Baroque inside. This perfume is all about decadence. Golden glitters, baroque’s glamour and remixed modern sensuality that plays with your skin senses.
HEAD NOTES: Lisylang [a special Robertet product centered on ultra-rich ylang-ylang] , Rhubarb
HEART NOTES: Heliotrop, Labdanum
BASE NOTES: Oud, Vanilla infusion, Benzoin.
Sensual & Decadent opens on my skin with cognac, cognac, a bit of rum, and then more cognac, all poured by the bucketfuls over the creamiest vanilla imaginable. The cognac is slightly fruity, like apple Calvados mixed with a more orange-y brandy that’s been soaked in oak caskets. The liqueur smells a lot like a purer, brighter version of Kilian ‘s Apple Brandy , except this one feels as though it has a bit of expensive, top-notch sugar cane rum mixed in as well.
The alcohol runs like a torrential waterfall over an utterly sumptuous vanilla that smells like something created by a three Michelin-star chef: his richest crème anglaise sauce combined with his creamiest vanilla flan, his best French bean ice-cream, and his most indulgent vanilla cake batter. Madagascar, dark Bourbon, and French Bean vanilla varieties are layered with triple cream, egg yolks, butter, and benzoin resins. Then, the richest ylang-ylang is folded into the densely concentrated mix, bringing in the flower’s creamy, custardy, vaguely banana-ish undertones while simultaneously adding its heady, narcotic and intoxicating floralcy as well. The ylang is merely a small island amidst the thick ocean of vanilla and booze, but its immensely custardy richness works indirectly to kick the fragrance’s decadence up another notch. As Chef Emeril Lagasse would say, “ Bam! ”
Photo: NASA via the independent.co.uk
The boozy vanilla is the star of the show for the first 90 minutes. I’ve tried Sensual & Decadent several times, and I’d estimate at least 80% of the opening bouquet consists of that singular accord. Benzoin resin and labdanum amber are indirectly responsible for the alcohol aroma, but they circle around the queen and don’t appear in their own right. The rhubarb is nonexistent on my skin, while the oud is a microscopic splinter buried deep in the base. As for the ylang, it is a third-wheel in some ways; its floralcy is so subsumed within the vanilla’s butteriness and custardy richness that it sometimes feel more like an orchid vanilla flower from which the beans grow and whose aroma often laces the most expensive vanilla fragrances. For example, the famous Tihota . In short, the first 90-minutes are really a vanilla soliflore rather than the floral-oriental or fruity-floral that the fragrance eventually turns into. Granted, it’s a highly alcoholic and opulent vanilla that is smudged at the edges with wisps of floral lushness, but it’s a basic, straightforward, simple vanilla nonetheless.
Creme Brulée’s crust. Source: bustle.com
Still, it’s an ideal sort of vanilla for someone like me. First, there is butter, not sugar. Sensual & Decadent’s debut doesn’t drip with white sugar like so many fragrances in the genre, at least not initially. A lot of vanilla fragrances that I’ve tried smell like crème brulée and have a thick crust of sugar that’s been caramelized and, frequently, burnt to the point of bearing almost an acrid undertone. Profumum ‘s Vanitas is the loudest and biggest example of that. Other vanilla fragrances are drenched in white musk, resulting in a scent that is all too often fresh and excessively clean. Even Tihota bears a strong amount of musk. The vast majority of fragrances that I’ve tried in this genre actually merge the two trends, presenting an almost ridiculously sugared, caramelized vanilla infused with clean musk.
Sensual & Decadent chooses a different path in its opening hour, and that’s why I loved it. It’s buttery vanilla custard with amber (that simply happens to take the form of alcoholic cognac) but there is no white sugar or white musk on my skin. Absolutely none whatsoever. I was so thrilled, you had no idea. Unfortunately, the first signs of the blasted musk pop up after 45 minutes, although it is merely a muted, minor note on the sidelines at this point. Its appearance coincides with a more noticeable fruitiness as well. For now at least, it feels more like a part of the cognac than an actual, separate fruit. I should mention, though, that at no point in any of my tests did I smell my arm and think “rhubarb.” Initially, it’s merely a generalized fruitiness that eventually skews red in feel, like a berry, before turning much later on into a rosy, red-purple jamminess like fruity patchouli.
Van Cleef & Arpels Orchidee Vanille. Source: Fragrantica.
As I said at the start, Sensual & Decadent changes quite dramatically from its opening phase, and the end result is essentially a vanillic fruity-floral with sugary sweetness and clean musk. The first sign of what is to come is the pop of clean musk after 45 minutes, but things really start to shift midway during the 2nd hour when the musk, fruitiness, and floralcy grow stronger. Ylang-ylang has become one of my favorite floral notes, but that’s not really what shows up on my skin. It’s orchid instead. Not the liquidy, crystalline, pure orchid of Sensual & Decadent’s precursor, Sensual Orchid , but more of a sugared impression of a vanilla orchid instead. It’s basically something akin to the scent in Van Cleef & Arpel’s Orchidée Vanille , only in stronger, boozier, more ambered, and less diffuse form.
The vanilla changes around the same time as well. It’s airier, less buttery, no longer eggy, or quite as rich. To use foodie terms, it’s gone from being a dense flan or custard to becoming an aerated mousse that eventually, several hours later, turns into one of molecular gastronomy’s light foams. The cumulative effect of all these shifts by the end of the 2nd hour is that Sensual & Decadent’s bouquet has changed from being 80% to 90% boozy vanilla to one that has 50% vanilla and 50% everything else.
Hubble Space Telescope image of a nebula. Source: gde-fon.com
The numbers or proportions continue to change as time passes. By the middle of the 3rd hour, there is as much white musk on my skin as there is vanilla. In fact, a veritable avalanche of fruitiness, sugared caramel, and clean musk descends upon the vanilla, smothering it, and making it merely a side note. Sensual Orchid was never so sweet, fruity, or clean on my skin, and I never once saw it as a fruity-floral which is what Sensual & Decadent often appears to be deep down.
Sensual & Decadent’s long middle stage begins roughly at the same time, about 3.5 hours into its development. In a nutshell, the fragrance switches from being a vanillic fruity-floral with clean musk into a slightly woody , vanillic fruity-floral with clean musk. The new arrival doesn’t smell of oud on my skin, and it’s certainly nothing remotely like the Laotian agarwood in Hard Leather. Instead, it’s merely a generalized, beige, clean, abstract sort of woodiness, and it’s completely folded into the main bouquet.
Art: Ryan O’Neill & Rostudios Etsy Store (Website link embedded within.)
It’s become almost impossible to separate out the notes at this point because they’ve fused into one great shapeless mass, an overlapping haze of fruitiness, sugar, vanilla, boozy benzoin, abstract woods, and an amorphous, vaguely orchid- ish floralcy, all tied together by thick, heavy coils of sharp, clean musk. The latter is too, too sharp and laundry fresh for my personal tastes, but I struggle just as much with the new sugariness of the scent.
As regular readers know, I have a low tolerance level for excessive sweetness, and the amount in Sensual & Decadent exceeds it by a mile, to the point where I feel as though white sugar might as well be an actual ingredient in the fragrance. At times, the sugar smells as though it’s been turned into caramel but, at other times, it’s suffused into the fruit which is so loud, sticky, and thick that it feels like waves of molasses have dyed everything crimson. The vanilla is immersed within the jam as yet another layer of sweetness but it’s no longer a clear note in its own right and no longer boozy either. In fact, the cognac has essentially vanished, or perhaps it’s simply transformed into that sugared caramel. It’s hard to tell amidst the deluge.
The ylang-ylang is equally anonymous, nondescript, and muffled. Sensual & Decadent is unquestionably a fruity-floral at this point, but the specific flowers have been blurred to the point where I can’t single out what’s in the bouquet. All that’s left is the impression of creamy flowers fused together with equal parts sugar, caramel, vanilla, and red fruits, then placed over a woody base and under a heavy cloak of cleanness. It’s an intense scent, and a purely feminine one at that.
“Bokeh pink and white” by Erykucciola-sToCk on Deviant Art. (Direct website link embedded within.)
Sensual & Decadent remains a diffuse, blowsy, strong blend of the same notes for a number of hours, but their strength and nuances change. For example, the vanilla becomes sheerer and sheerer until the drydown stage at the start of the 8th hour when the vanilla is finally swallo
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