Speakeasy Frapin for women and men

you can't go wrong with this one , this is the best
summer fragrance for 2013.

regards.

Stupid "guest" blunder..

It opens like a beautiful woman spilling an expensive beverage on your body. A deliciously bright and smooth mojito fragrance. This smells drinkable all the way to the dry down. In the prohibition era, people spoke quietly about the speakeasies in fear of alerting police. I can assure you that the authorities will not come knocking on your door looking for this nice fragrance.

It opens like a beautiful woman spilling an expensive beverage on your body. A deliciously bright and smooth mojito fragrance. This smells drinkable all the way to the dry down. In the prohibition era, people spoke quietly about the speakeasies in fear of alerting police. I can assure you that the authorities will not come knocking on your door looking for this nice fragrance.

I am a sucker for a good fragrance name. Speakeasy alludes to an art deco era replete with illegal jazz joints, bootlegged rum, bugle beaded flapper dresses and the Great Gatsby.

So you can imagine my surprise when I blind test the opening.

First whiff and I am immediately transported into my Aunt Shirley’s lounge room, circa late 70s, a homely retro kitsch mix of tobacco coloured shag pile, fibre optic lamps, cross stitch artwork and cabinets chock-full of opalescent glassware and cute ceramics. I am positive this memory has been evoked because of the smell of mothballs and a non-animalic musk I detect in the top notes. My Aunt wore musk and her cupboards smelt like naphthalene.

I also get lots of brown sugar, orange, candied lime and Galliano in the opening– cocktail ingredients, which probably explains why I suddenly remember the gaudy swizzler sticks and plastic cocktail monkeys that took pride of place above my Aunty’s 70’s shrine to all things alcoholic. It is a warm and fruity opening – I am suddenly craving a Harvey Wallbanger.

In the dry down I detect tonka bean, crystallised sugar, candied honey and musk. Not a growly musk that would purr like a Jay Gatsby Roll’s Royce either. I am disappointed that I get none of the leather promised or the blond tobacco that I am so fond of either.

Projection is not strong. Perhaps this is where the speakeasy name derives from. It is hush-hush on both tester and on my skin. Perhaps it wears better in winter, as in summer in the southern hemisphere, which is when I evaluate it, it is volatile and evaporates quickly.

For my money, my personal pick from the house of Frapin would be Espirit de Fleurs an airy, crystalline and mineral-ly woody citrus or 1270, which also has tonka undertones, but translates better with warm wood and vanilla.

Disclosure here. I'm a Corticchiato and Parfum d'Empire fangirl. I like his entire line and love much of it. So I may be a bit biased.

I'am reviewing from a sample, but if the sample is any indication it will be my next fb purchase. This is the summer sister of Frapin's 1697. A light blast of rum with that hint of mint. A mojoito indeed. Tobacco comes into play and swirls around the rum-mint. A little citrus refresher but not much. Some leather. Mr. C does love leather, tobacco and booze. No floral. Cool and refreshing really.

Speakeasy may be a bit of a misnomer. Speakeasy implies a dark, cigarette smoke filled back room. More gin and bourbon then rum. More Jasmin Et Cigarette- french than mojito-cigar smoke Cuban. Something of a forbidden illicit pleasure. Speakeasy is none of that. It is a wonderful concoction that I could see more at home in a classy 1950's Cuban bar than in a clandestine New York speakeasy. Marvelous and something I look forward to having more of.

Frapin's Speakeasy smells very classy. It really does bring to my mind images of old speaskeasies, smoky dens and secrecy.

On my skin the top notes consist of lovely wam tobacco smoke shot through with wisps of rum and musk. The heart is a fresh, clean leather, with an edge of sweetness from the tonka and just the tiniest hints of mint and lime. Sadly, this wonderful harmony of notes doesn't seem to last very long. Little more than an hour later, Speakeasy has settled down into a faintly sweet, powdery smell.

Speakeasy also has very little projection. My nose pretty much has to be right up to the scent in order to smell it. Even so, though, I would have to say this is a like.

There is a flash of alcohol upon initial application, it must be the rum, but I do not get any citrus, indeed no fruit at all. The deep dark smell of tobacco almost immediately takes over, entrancing, along with the richness of the leather - and something incensy - perhaps the tonka bean, styrax or the labdanam, something deep. I like it very much, it really does speak to me of basements with red banquettes, and affluent people in astrakhan collars, drinking hooch out of bone-china teacups. The two Frapin scents I have tried to date (this, and L'Humaniste) have both reinforced to me that Frapin may be destined to become one of the VERY classy Fragrance Houses.

Une bien belle entrée en matière un gin citron menthe (c'est ce que je sens à la place du mojitomême si on en est pas loin!) , c'est vif ,frais superbe et ça n'est que le début , l'apéritif en somme,petit à petit vous vous installé confortablement dans un magnifique chesterfield en cuir, cigare à la main et le plaisir de prendre le temps d'exister d'apprécier tranquillement les bonnes choses de la vie comme ce speakeasy!

merci Mr Marc-Antoine Cortichiatto d'avoir Persévéré pour cette collaboration en totale réussite et dan sla continuité de la marque Frapin! j'aime la maison Parfum d'empire, j'aime la maison Frapin et j'aime cette aventure! j'attends la prochaine !!!!!!

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A very beautiful introduction a lemon gin mint (it is what I feel(smell) on the place(square) of the mojitomême if we are not far from it!), it is lively, freshly magnificent and that is only the beginning, the apéritif as a matter of fact, little by little you you installed(settled) comfortably in magnificent leather Chesterfield, cigar in the hand and the pleasure to take time to exist to appreciate(estimate) quietly the good things of the life as this speakeasy!

Thank you Mr Marc-Antoine Cortichiatto to have Persevered for this collaboration in total success and dan sla continuity of the mark(brand) Frapin! I love the house Flavor(Perfume) of empire, I love the house Frapin and I like this adventure! I wait for the next one!!!!!!

I have just tried this perfume and I must confess I loved this scent, its a mix of rum, orange, tobacco and musk. It is not anything brand new in the market or different of some perfumes but even so it is Good. Did I love it? No, I liked and thats all......