Don Corleone fragrance notes
- Vanilla, Tuberose, Tobacco
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I get very different openings from spray vs dabbing from the minion bottle. If you spray, this perfume hits like a version Patchouli 24, that was dreamed up in a Moroccan desert, instead of a French Lab.
If you dab, the first notes are extremely vivid impressions of real scrape-the-pod vanilla, with a fleeting glimpse of the armchairs, cognacs and unlit cigars of old gentleman's clubs.
Both applications of the scent evolve in the same direction: overdoses of elegant, sensual vanilla, with the finely spiced tobacco from a cigar that has almost stopped smoking in it's tray.
Into the deep dry down, the vanilla gets cozier and cozier until its a plush bed to curl up in.

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Disclaimer: I've never visited Palermo- which I've been told is a peculiarly beautiful city- and personally don't feel any romantic fascination towards anything related to mafia, so I can't say about the geographical or social aptness of this fragrance. I must say I'm quite put off by the name, which sounds a bit sterotypical and permeated by an exotically tinged appeal towards what I see only as an enormous social and political national plague.
About the fragrance. A rather simple accord- tobacco, tuberose and vanilla. The harmony and coherence of the blending is masterful, as usual, smoothingly conducting from the herbal, smoky tobacco opening to a softer, richer, sweeter core of flowers and multifaceted- the woody, the slightly liquorice-y, the boozy, the earthy- vanilla.
Getting to know the corpus of AbdesSalaam Attar fragrances, I've begun to recognize certain "red threads" he disseminates in his scents, some of which I love, some I don't. Palermo happens to have the herbal- smoky thread, as in Tabac or in Chillum, that my nose perceive as quite bothering, due to some edible association (basically, this particular herbal accord reminds me of amaro digestive spirit and the the smoky one makes me think of smoked ham, two things that I enjoy eating or drinking but wouldn't wear!).
I guess that a nose that doesn't make such an association could easily enjoy this fragrance.
Despite the masculine label, I don't find this fragrance particularly manly, at least not in a sterotypical way.

8/10

