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As Kenzo was surely aware, the elephant isn't celebrated nearly as often as the big cats in the perfume world. It smells like Indian tea made outdoors by a street vondor: tea mixed withmilk and boiled with spice.
With this exotic elephant, I will certainly feel very warm in the coming Autumn-winter days, but I also find it extremely pleasant on warmer days. Bad idea to try this in the summer heat for the first time, its heaviness made me so nauseous and kinda scared me away until this Thanksgiving weekend, when I figured it's the perfect time to give it another try. The clove, licorice, and warm, mulled spices do evoke the feeling of a (very high end) holiday candle, but that’s part of why I love it. As for the notes and how it smells its something I can't really describe, probably the most unique vanilla scent I've smelt. I would wear this to college and the other students would say they knew when l was in long before they got up to the 2nd floor where our class was, as they could smell this fragrance from the ground floor reception all the way up the stairs and down the corridors to our class.I was looking for an Indian dry-spice scent, resplendent with chewy dried fruits and honey, a dose of chai spice, the ultimate cardamom, nutmeg, cinnamon, amber scent, essentially an autumn scent doing it LARGE.
Though to me, there’s a different story to tell, I still remember when I smelled this gem the very first time.There is an amber effect to the late stages of the drydown, which, together with the spices, is a nod to classics like Opium or Coco. Be that as it may, a judiciously applied L'Elephant is a thrill to wear, a delight for the senses as it were, and the more recent formulation I have is certainly no slouch, so I can't even imagine what this was like when it was first released to the market.