Perris Monte Carlo
Perris Monte Carlo
138 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Carrot's green-sweet earthiness explodes immediately—far more prominent than expected—creating an almost vegetable garden freshness that feels grounding and slightly unsettling. Within moments, creamy undertones begin softening this vegetal edge, suggesting buttered cereals and warm linen.
The fragrance settles into its most compelling phase as gurjum balsam's dark resinous warmth emerges beneath that creamy, powder-soft violet. Here it smells like expensive incense dissolved in warm milk, with just enough spicy complexity to prevent monotony. This is where it lingers most satisfyingly, a creamy-woody meditation that feels almost edible.
Sandalwood fails to materialise with any real conviction, leaving predominantly musk and nebulous woody notes that fade rapidly into a barely-there skin scent. By hour four, you're essentially smelling your own skin—the fragrance has become a memory rather than a presence.
Santal du Pacifique arrives as a peculiar study in contradiction—a fragrance that announces itself with an almost vegetable-like brightness before retreating into creamy, balsamic obscurity. That carrot top note is immediately striking, an earthy-sweet whisper that recalls the snap of raw root vegetables rather than gourmand sweetness. It's an unusual choice that prevents this from becoming another cloying sandalwood composition, lending an unexpected earthiness that grounds what could otherwise feel precious.
The heart reveals Mathieu Nardin's compositional intelligence: gurjum balsam lends a thick, almost medicinal sweetness—that characteristic incense-like resinousness—whilst creamy notes (likely a combination of iso-E-super and soft musks) blur the edges into something approximating milk-softened iris or creamy orchid. Violet emerges not as a soapy interpretation but as something faintly dusty, a powdery iris-adjacent whisper that plays counterpoint to the balsam's darker leather-tinged warmth. This is where the fragrance feels most complete: herbaceous, slightly spiced, undeniably creamy.
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