Vilhelm Parfumerie
Vilhelm Parfumerie
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A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The blueberry hits immediately, bright and slightly tart, with lemon zest cutting through to prevent any sticky sweetness. There's an almost effervescent quality to these first minutes, as if you've just bitten into fresh fruit rather than something preserved or cooked.
Vanilla emerges as the dominant player, thick and creamy like proper custard, enveloping the fruit in a soft, edible cloud. The sweetness intensifies here, but the green whisper of vetiver begins to creep in at the edges, adding an herbal, earthy complexity that keeps things from becoming one-dimensional.
The sandalwood and vetiver finally claim their territory, providing a dry, woody foundation that tempers the sweetness without erasing it. What remains is a skin-close veil of creamy vanilla with earthy undertones—comforting, but grounded enough to feel like more than just sugar on skin.
Poets of Berlin is an unapologetic dessert served on a park bench, equal parts hedonistic and oddly grounded. The opening blueberry note isn't the jammy, cooked-down fruit you'd find in a pastry—it's sharper, almost tart, with enough acidity from the lemon to keep it from collapsing into syrup. This citric brightness prevents the sweetness from becoming cloying, but make no mistake: this is a fragrance that wants to be smelled, and it wears its gourmand heart proudly.
What makes Poets of Berlin intriguing is how it plays creamy vanilla against the aromatic, earthy duo of vetiver and sandalwood. The vanilla here isn't the thin, sugary kind—it's custard-thick, with a richness that borders on dairy. Yet the base notes refuse to let this become another safe vanilla scent. The vetiver adds a green, slightly bitter edge, like grass stains on summer clothes, whilst the sandalwood provides a dry, woody backdrop that absorbs some of the sweetness without neutralising it entirely.
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