Ellipse

7 reseñas

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• Josesan

  March 2, 2024

  

  Dear Jerry Drake, my warmest congratulations on your 1000th review. Not only for that, but because your thousand texts are crafted, felt, meditated upon and made with love. There are few classic perfumers left who continue to write, and you are one of them. You are a vintage fragancer, like the perfumes you love, not by age, but by notes forbidden by the IFRA, by your olfactory family where the fougère shines, by your potency worthy of an alchemist, by your stellar trail, by your performance in a thousand reviews and comments, by your honesty and affection, and by not being reformulated or watered down. I would like to return to the 60s, 70s and 80s and come loaded with vintages from the vintage shop to gift you: Dior, Rabanne, Armani, Chanel, Saint Laurent, Aramis, Givenchy, Gucci and everything I saw in the Madrid perfumeries of that time. I hope you gift us review number 2000 and all the following ones. A hug, Josesan.

• Elena79

  March 8, 2024

  

  I subscribe to the previous words. Congratulations @JerryDrake, a thousand contributions to the fifth sense. Thank you for discovering with your words the beauty of past perfumes as a guiding thread to understand current perfumery. A virtual hug and have a happy day.

• Mithrandir

  March 9, 2024

  

  What strange that life is, how everything connects us… Who would have told my father on that afternoon in Bordeaux in 1982 that he would find a perfumery treasure in a skip? I was less than a year old and remember nothing, but my mother was overjoyed to receive a pile of miniatures. Today she keeps them with affection as a memento of her emigration to France. Jerry, what emotion to read your 1000th review! What a miracle that Ellipse was so well preserved. This perfume was already a legend, but now it is even more so after your text. For me, Ellipse is a reminder that what the world throws away and despises today can have immense value tomorrow. I am not speaking of money, but of values that speak of beauty, art, friendship and generosity; things that cannot be seen or weighed, but that enrich more than gold, because ‘what is essential is invisible to the eye’, as Saint-Exupéry would say. In your olfactory travels you have discovered much and share it generously. Thank you for these thousand reviews full of poetry and life. A big hug, comrade. PS: Taurien, dear friend… I think the next one to reach 1000 reviews will be you next year. I intuit which will be your 1000th; if I am right, I am sure you will have the strength necessary to achieve it.

• jerry drake

  March 12, 2024

  

  A special review for me, number 1000. An exciting journey discovering or tasting again perfumes lost in time or modern novelties. And above all, it is the perfect occasion to send a huge thank you to all the wonderful people this hobby has allowed me to meet and accompany on this fantastic journey. There are almost mythical perfumes that remain as true blackbirds in the collective imagination, unreachable and that make you think you will never try them. But Mithrandir appears as a genie from the lamp and gifts me a miniature from his parents’ youth collection, leaving me speechless. Thank you, friend. So, with undeniable emotion, I try to describe with words the sensations of having something unique in my hands. Ellipse by Jacques Fath, grace year 1972, is an authentic vintage cult that practically does not know the ‘I don’t like it’ in the scarce votes of the few users who have tried it (also because it is very expensive and almost impossible to find). The comments are at Grial level. On first impact, the top notes seem present, a good indicator of the general state despite having about 50 years. Trees, resin, earth: these are my first associations. Ellipse is dark and not necessarily friendly, but welcoming. I have heard several cypresses so far, but this is really something special, as if an artist were trying to paint olfactory pictures of dark conifer forests. An ethereal freshness of pine dominates in the top notes with an equally dark impression of bark, resin and needles that runs through the entire fragrance. It seems like a huge dark forest where, after some time, an incredibly bright ray of light appears. It is a very vintage and serious perfume. Serious because it seems made with tons of natural essential oils (laughing at the limitations of the IFRA) that take you directly to the fields and forests. Meanwhile, the opening is in 3D. Here everything arises with such realism that you look around to find where the plant you are smelling is: a performance that few perfumes today manage to transmit. The same happens with the flowers, only in a more subtle way. Then there are other herbs not easily identifiable apart from moss: perhaps tarragon, a bit bitter. Then woods, lots of musk and vetiver, with notes that seem plucked directly from the lawn. The flowers here seem different compared to other perfumes from the 70s and 80s; they complement the forest flora instead of creating images of meadows. Along with the green sour vetiver, wild herbs and oak moss, the pines remain incredibly green, dark and woody. The base is now noticeable but will never become an oriental, as suggested by the sandalwood, tonka and amber. Ellipse is a beautiful fragrance absolutely unisex that shows olfactory impressions of the forest in a more authentic way than almost any other, without sacrificing portability. On the contrary, I find it quite accessible without seeming to fit common conventions. It is a pity that it is almost impossible to get anymore. There is something melancholic and dreamy in this fragrance, everything very well sorted and mixed with a perfectly balanced measure, the perfect complement for a person who loves to go against the grain, fascinated by the power of the past and projected towards the future, towards where they travel quickly, but with a leather suitcase in hand, loaded with vintage sweaters and analogue photographs, of those that have the taste of true happiness. Not recommended at all for teenagers and delicate noses, a luxury for me to be able to smell such a piece.

• whisper_of_love

  March 13, 2024

  

  Dear @jerry drake, I come to tell you the same: congratulations on your n°1000 review (which is said so quickly…), for this one and for all your reviews which, as @Myosotis says well, teach us much about both perfumes and feelings. Congratulations, comrade! 🩷

• Myosotis

  March 15, 2024

  

  Congratulations, dear @Jerry Drake! Thank you for those thousand comments that have brought us closer to your passion for perfumery, your sensitivity and your great aesthetic sense. You are the most vintage millennial of this community.🎂🥳

• Taurien

  March 16, 2024

  

  Dear @JerryDrake, what can I say? On one hand, congratulations and thanks to our dear @Mithrandir for making this review and your dream of trying Ellipse possible. On the other, I only want to convey my admiration and make you a participant in the immense pleasure that is, was and will always be reading you. A huge hug, comrade.