Vent de Folie
Goutal (2014)

There opening blast is a fruit-floral mix, with the blood orange - not particularly sweet - pairing with the nice geranium note, of which the geranium is more convincing in richness and intensity. A slightly soft and vegetal undertone is present a bit later, probably due to the sweat pea.

The drydown turns into a fruitier direction, surprising me with a passable berry fruit dyad of raspberry and blackcurrant, with the raspberry being a good reflection of the fruit flavour, but the blackcurrant more on the perfunctory side on me.

The third stage now confronts me with another, even more radical turn: a wood base, at times nonspecific and at times touch of bark, cedar bark apparently, which has a slightly edgy character at times, merges with a cluster of white musks, but until the end the sweetness that is there is quite restrained and never really heavy.

I get moderate sillage, very good projection and a brilliant longevity of twelve hours on my skin.

This spring creation appears a bit lukewarm initially, but a sequence of interesting ingredients and variegated development prevents it from becoming predictable for most of the time. White musks at the end is these days, of course, as predictable as it gets. Overall 3/5.