Tardes Carner Barcelona for women

My first Carner sample is Tardes!A smooth,creamy,musky,almond-heliotrope perfume.Tardes starts bittersweet and ends up a bit sweet for my taste(I can't handle well sweet perfumes)It is pleasant,creamy,smooth like a warm blanket.It's the kind of perfume that you are wearing in a cold day,sitting in front of a fireplace and drinking a cup of warm white chocolate.Cuddly,simple and happy,that's Tardes.If you like perfumes like Lacoste Pour Femme,Guerlain L'Instant Magic,Penhaligon's Artemisia (which I found a great resemblance,it maybe be a bit lighter than Artemisia though)you will enjoy Tardes for sure.

Holy Shit where have you been all my life.
The only almondy airy smell I tried was Mondorlo Di Scilia by Acqua Di Parma. Pleasant smell that one was...and that's all...airy but too almondy and has this lingering thickness to it and is missing something.

Enter..Tardes.

This is what Mondorlo should have been
To me..this is a mix of Mondorlo Di Sicilia and Voleur De Roses from L'artisan.

Except much lighter
More creamier
and far more magical.

Projects forever. For such light smell this thing just keeps protruding. love at first sniff for me.

And to me, the star of the show...the faint heliotrope along with the rosewood form this enchanting spectacle of flowery powder...mystical fireworks in my opinion. love it!!

will always be a staple. I get mine from MiN in nyc, and I highly suggest men sample this stuff because it is extremely versatile, long lasting, perfect for any weather any occassion. Should Kilian ever decide to discontinue Sweet Redemption..I'd be okay, for Tardes would take the helm as my parfum signature!

9/10

I agree with wosic, the almond is more a roasted and bitter one here, in the hug of a big dose heliotrop and tonka. It's not so light-hearted as L'Instant Magique, more sharp and characteristic. To my nose it's closer to Roger&Gallet's Amande Persane Eau Fraiche, it could be its winter version. I feel some similarities with Trussardi Inside Woman, too, I think the heliotrop is the key. Somehow I find this one more on the unisex side (if Dior Homme is a masculin frag, this could be, too...). Sillage is great, so is the longevity. After the last time I wore this frag, my notebook had a Tardes-scented keyboard for about 2 weeks:). It was very pleasant.

Great silage, great duration. The aroma is all about almonds, tonka bean and heliotrope.
I can detect plum rather than rose.
The almond is not eatable but bitterly-sweet and aromatic.
The fragrance slightly reminds me of L'Instant Magic Guerlain but latest is not so strong and dense. Considering the "thickness" in both perfumes is like comparing velvet to veil.
Despite its monstrous silage Tardes is surprisingly smooth - more like almond-vanilla mousse rather than cashmere scarf. There is a certain depth and richness in the smoothness.

Silage - 9/10
Longevity - 9/10

Tardes is a very soft, creamy and somehow airy almond fragrance. It's sweet, but not cloying or choking. At the beginning I felt some rose (or maybe rosewood)in it, then the almond step forward, and took center place. It's a creamy, slightly vanillaish, silky smooth almond. Tardes is an enchanting fragrance.