Songes

5 reseñas

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• Maeva

  July 31, 2013

  

  For me, it is one of the best florals from Annick Goutal. The first day I tried it in a perfumerie, its longevity disappointed me: 2 hours on my skin. However, the second time it was much longer-lasting (6 hours). I don’t know why it behaved differently that time. Perhaps it wanted me to take it home 😉 and so I did. Anyway, I would have bought it regardless, because on the first day I was already fascinated by its romantic, nostalgic, and tender aroma, and I was willing to make that exception I make for very few perfumes when I know that once applied, they will not accompany me for long. It is warm and creamy, initially very innocent, sweet, and delicate, but it also has a sensual and mysterious touch that makes it very attractive. After the exuberant sweetness of its opening, a perfect, sweet, warm, solar, and intoxicating (almost to the point of resulting slightly alcoholic) blend of ylang-ylang, tiaré, and frangipani takes you into a tropical paradise (once again an idealisation of someone who has never been to the tropics…). Afterwards, the floral notes mix with faint earthy and aquatic chords that remind of wet earth after a summer storm, to end with a vanilla accord that curiously seems somewhat toasted and woody to me. I suppose it could be considered more recommended for cold weather. Perhaps the intense floral notes and predominant vanilla are too cloying for summer, although I love using it always, varying the amount according to the climate. It is tender but exuberant, passionate and animalistic but also innocent. As complex as it is fascinating.

• Casablanca77

  February 9, 2018

  

  Songes is a very simple fragrance but with an undeniable Annick G signature, giving it a vintage tone. It evokes those days by the pool or beach where, even in the shade, you feel the heat on your well-tanned body and you enter into the drowsiness of a siesta… In its opening, I can almost detect all the components it carries. A subdued, soft but insistent jasmine that mixes a delicious, authentic, and well-executed frangipani. I think it is the ylang more than the vanilla that gives it a sweet tone tending towards syrupy, which changes my concept of this house where flowers had always reigned in a more English, more garden-like way. Here it is more a tropical heat and light; using it in summer seems complicated because it is initially potent, but once it softens, I would use it gladly. An elegant fragrance, discreet but with an undeniable and quality signature. It presents itself in my summer floral contest, which for others would be impossible because it is not precisely light, but I love to think that for summer there can be a perfume that has its weight, that confers identity and character. A tropical for a smart and measured lady. Hard to find now, we shall see where it is heading when one day I decide to own it.

• Tani

  December 17, 2019

  

  Hello. I like beautiful things and I have always been too poor to buy them. With my first EDP, I was 37 years old, imagine that. I had always used cologne and decided one fine day that sillage, longevity, and a rich scent were better than the harsh alcohol blast of Mercadona imitations. A small bottle seemed more reasonable to me than a large EDT dispenser. So I bought my first Lolita Lempicka, trying to settle on what I thought would be more ME (violets, licorice, cherries, anise…). It wasn’t quite as ME, and I didn’t have to search for an identity, only lose that idea that certain products are inaccessible. Little by little, I lost the shame that pursues the poor when entering an elegant shop. Why shouldn’t I be able to try all the other perfumes just as the hordes of wealthy ladies visiting the shops, touching every bottle? And with sincerity, I explained to the various sales assistants who attended to me these Christmas holidays that I wanted to treat myself to something fantastic and that I would take a few days to decide. I walked around with my smelling strips while Kenzo and Elie Saab promoters advised me on something more youthful, but in the end, out of stubbornness, I said: ‘No, please give me the one that smells good to me’. ‘They all smell good’. ‘Come on now’. Songes is a delicious accident for me, and the understanding of the idea that a wonderful liquid doesn’t have to smell like ‘look how good I smell’, but different every time, from morning to afternoon, changing with you, as complex as memories or souls. Sometimes it’s like a freshly baked cake with which you have been experimenting with new flavours, and sometimes you discover the herbal tones of jasmine or tiaré flowers. According to the Goutal website, it has some spices in its formula (apart from the notes mentioned on Fragantica) and who knows how many other niceties. With Songes, I have discovered that perfumes truly don’t serve to obtain that egocentrism of saying ‘I smell like this, this is my perfume’; they only serve to make people feel good, sometimes even other people. And this wonder has even pleased my cat. It is warm, but not with that tropical air as I have read in reviews on other pages. I can tell you that I usually smell jasmine flowers in my city and that Songes is more addictive. Jasmine can become heavy, but not in this perfume. It has a slight darkness, but I don’t interpret it as sadness but as introspection; perhaps that is why it is called Dreams. It has a touch of wildness, like a living garden, fresh. It has its spiced counterpoint, like when you add a little nutmeg, cinnamon, and pepper to a sweet cream. One more thing, I was gifted a miniature of Rose Pompon and it is also brilliant, like real roses but with laughter and dances; I don’t know how to explain it better, it’s as if the rose you smell at home is a fiasco and the best of all is in your imagination, in what you imagine the rose must be. And one more thing, I have read many reviews in English on perfume enthusiast blogs and it seemed to me that I understood that some Annick Goutal scents, due to the naturalness of their ingredients, deteriorate sooner (especially Petit Chérie, what a pity), so keep them very well closed or enjoy them soon, that is what they are for.

• VainillaDulce

  January 3, 2020

  

  Songes is another perfume in my collection that truly lives up to its name: trapped dreams held captive within a beautiful Art Deco-style bottle. In every Annick Goutal fragrance, apart from the tangible quality, their masterful signature stands out: with each perfume, they gift you a bouquet of flowers, some with more acuity in their balsamic or herbal tones, but always with incredible smiling flowers. Songes encloses the power of every flower in a white bouquet; the flowers gift their aroma at maximum potency and yet do not become overwhelming, let alone vulgar. For me, they portray an elegance of the 1920s. Songes is as Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, and Lauren Bacall; that is exactly the image it conveys. On my skin, the jasmine and ylang-ylang stand out, fusing to create a perfect essence; you perceive both separately, but they also merge to create a unique creaminess. Somewhere along the way, the Tiaré flower passes by, and each petal rests upon the vanilla so natural, so wild, that you smell it from its pod. The perfect perfume to be remembered, to honour such natural femininity and sensuality, to accentuate presence, completely breaking and shattering the status quo that currently dominates the world of fragrances. It is perhaps that act of rebellion that captivates and fascinates me most. Usage: Spring/Autumn. Sillage: Moderate, approximately one metre. Longevity: 6 to 8 hours.

• Malen

  June 21, 2022

  

  If you try it and it seems too vintage to you, give it a second chance. Because if it happens to you like it did for me, it will end up falling in love with you. I wore it last night after a shower and it’s been on for 12 hours; I’m enjoying it so much I’ve started writing this. In the dry down, it’s cinnamon and bourbon vanilla with sweet waves of Ylang Ylang, Tiaré, and Samsara Jasmine. This is a proper perfume bomb; I wish all Annick Goutal scents lasted like this. It’s warm, sweet enough, floral, balsamic, and creamy, creating an atmosphere that accompanies you wherever you go. A delight. I feel very sorry about the slight spicy cinnamon note. I don’t find it tropical; I think it’s perfect for autumn/winter evenings and nights. It’s elegant, very sensual, mysterious, slightly nostalgic, and super feminine. Other reviews mention imagining Hollywood divas smelling like this, and they would look great on them. It’s a travel perfume, because it transports you; the name suits it perfectly. Perfumes are so personal and dreamlike that they are difficult to recommend and explain. But this is one of those good pieces of advice that I will cherish for the rest of my life. I want it with me always.