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A cross between burnt sugar and dry straw is a rather valiant effort at conveying immortelle's nuanced profile, but the more the immortelle oil warms up on the skin, the more it reveals human-like, supple nuances of honeyed notes, waxy, intimate... It pairs well in chypres and oriental fragrances, where it is placed next to labdanum, clove, citruses, chamomille, lavender and rose essences.
In Manos Gerakinis's Immortelle niche offering, the immortelle accord takes on a sweet and deep aspect, with spicy accents, a dark gourmand. The cinnamon is pronounced, making me passingly think of a Middle Eastern dessert carré. The result is resinous without becoming heavy, nor suffocating, nevertheless. Benzoin, a resin with caramelic aspects, pairs with the rustic roughness of immortelle that recalls the Corsican maquis and Greek insular landscape.
There are some ways in which Immortelle reminds me of Goutal's classic Sables (probably the reference point for immortelle scents, for daring to be the first one seriously highlighting it) and of Serge Lutens's Jeux de Peau with its whiff of toasted bread and its subtly caramelized notes. People who love L de Lolita Lempicka and Frederic Malle Musc Ravageur might also find in Immortelle a trusty ally for their moments of daytime sensuous abandon.
The Manos Gerakinis brand has an official website by that name, where all the shopping options are mentioned clearly with international presence in the Middle East and Russia.
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i'd really like to smell this! i was surprised by how much i enjoyed "sables", and the immortelle note in general. it does remind me greatly of fenugreek, and maple syrup too; i generally don't love gourmand fragrances, but i think immortelle plus benzoin sounds rather lovely. i can never smell immortelle without thinking of provence; it comes to me in a flood of other remembered scents of the area: lavender, a dry pine, sun-baked stone/dust, and a sound, too---the drone of cicadas waxing and waning continually. resting on crisp sheets in a shuttered dimness mid-afternoon... i think there was a dry-flower bouquet in the pottery jar on the dresser, which probably had immortelle as the main component. funny how it all comes back...
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