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- Top notes
- Cypress, Rosemary, Lemon
- Heart notes
- Hazelnut, Violet Leaf, Tonka Bean
- Base notes
- Cedarwood, Costus, Benzoin, Amber
- Longevity
- Long Lasting
- Sillage
- Moderate
- Brand
- Carven
The unusual material in Carven C'est Paris Elixir for Men Eau de Parfum is hazelnut, and it is what separates this from almost everything else on the men's shelf. The opening is green and herbal. Cypress gives a dry, resinous evergreen quality, rosemary adds a sharp herbal bite with camphor behind it, and lemon cuts across both without softening either, so the first few minutes are bracing rather than welcoming. Then hazelnut arrives and changes the direction completely: roasted, slightly oily, with the faint bitterness that sits in the skin of a nut. Violet leaf stops it turning edible, being sharply green and a little metallic, and tonka bean smooths the seam between the two, powdery here rather than sweet.
The base is where the elixir billing earns itself. Cedarwood is dry and pencil sharp, costus brings an animalic, almost unwashed warmth that most compositions never risk, benzoin is balsamic and faintly sweet, and amber draws the whole floor of the fragrance into one resinous glow. The trail is warm, a little strange and noticeably persistent. At eau de parfum strength it is built for colder months and for evenings, and it is aimed at men. It is not an office fragrance in any quantity, though a single spray behaves itself well enough. If you like green openings but find most of them thin by the second hour, this gives you somewhere to go.
Carven is a Paris couture house opened in 1945 by Carmen de Tommaso, who traded under the name Marie-Louise Carven and died in 2015 at the age of one hundred and five. Fragrance followed the year after the first collection and has been part of the house ever since, with the perfume line brought back in 2013.
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