Pointless Perfume Review: Maison Francis Kurkdjian Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait De Parfum

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Woah! Anosmic moment in the first spray, then lots of cool dry aperitif like alcohol followed by bitter almonds and what I think is saffron. There's something like blood orange too, tucked away in a lot of generic mid note stuff. I'm sensitive to almonds, but it's not any kind of full blown allergy thing; I could wear this, it's quite elegant and stays close to the skin. Thing is, when it dries down, on my skin the body of the perfume becomes a bit boiled sweet. Later, for some reason, up comes the ambergris and (hopefully synthetic) musk, which is rather nice. It's a Charlotte Rampling of a perfume; is she beautiful? Just interesting? Or does it depend on the day?

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