Testing this blind, it's opening gave me a soft leather like essence with a top of fruit. Soon after I got more chocolate like notes, or something akin to chocolate cake in a leather box. All more dry and not sweet, so maybe more a leather bag, that lost most of its strong leathery smell, and somebody left chocolate cake in it? Anyways it's all very soft and appealing and not sweet, or overly stated. While it almost verges on opening strong it remains moderate, leaning intimate at the end of the day. Looking at the notes now, the oud with spices give that soft leather feel and it must be the coffee and raspberry I'm responding to on the chocolate cake sense. None of the notes are particularly dominant. I can easily pick out the rose, raspberry, oud, but their blend is more fantasy-inducing than representative. Other notes just add to the character. Smelling it again, it does have a soft chocolate raspberry cake sitting in a leather pouch feeling to it, but dry and distant and I'm kind of liking it. Fun and delicate in a sort of mature way. Whether it leans masculine or not is debatable. I think it's more unisex than particularly masculine.
HISTOIRES DE PARFUMS
Editions Rare Fidelis Absolu
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香水概況 / Fragrance Profile
腕間貼上的玫瑰金暖吻——咖啡香料開場，覆盆子玫瑰收成烏木巧克力餘韻
小荳蔻與番紅花一上皮膚就帶出暖辣香氣，咖啡與孜然幾乎同時貼上腕間；數分鐘內玫瑰與覆盆子裹成酸甜花果，最終沉降於廣藿香、琥珀與寮國沉香／烏木的溫熱甜蜜之中——玫瑰金東方，像一杯烘焙咖啡旁的覆盆子巧克力。
香氛背景與調香概念
Fidelis Absolu 出自法國niche品牌 Histoires de Parfums，屬 Éditions Rare／Three Golds 系列的粉紅金（Fidelis），由調香師 Julien Rasquinet 執掌，2015 年以 Absolu 淡香精（約 79% vol）60ml 問世。靈感取自金與銅的結合——維納斯的金屬：開場咖啡與香料暖辣，中段玫瑰覆盆子豐潤，底蘊廣藿香與寮國烏木親密——把粉紅金的愛慾，壓成可穿的夜色簽名。
精準之處，在於小荳蔻與番紅花切開咖啡暖意，孜然以肌膚般的熱度點綴；覆盆子把玫瑰托成酸甜花果而非糖漿；廣藿香常顯巧克力輪廓；琥珀給溫熱；寮國烏木則錨定骨幹，讓甜意與香料始終華麗、可親近。
社群與香迷評價
Fragrantica 均分約 4.14／5（逾一千票）——共識指向暖辣咖啡玫瑰烏木：開場香料咖啡清晰，其後覆盆子玫瑰展開，再沉入巧克力廣藿香與烏木。香迷常拿它跟同鼻 Frédéric Malle The Moon 比較——同屬 Rasquinet 譜系，而 Fidelis 更偏咖啡香料；亦有人聯想到 Amouage Interlude Man 的煙燻東方質感。秋冬夜晚、約會場合評價多；Absolu 投影與持香極穩，少噴為敬。
三調演譯與上皮變化
一上皮，小荳蔻與番紅花以暖辣貼上皮膚，咖啡與孜然幾乎同時到來——像剛磨開的咖啡豆旁撒著香料，腕間先有烘焙與熱度。
隨著體溫轉化，玫瑰升起，覆盆子托住中段；尖亮香料收斂，酸甜花果與暖意交替顯影——皮膚上逐漸顯出豐潤、略果醬的東方輪廓。
基調落定後，廣藿香與琥珀織入寮國烏木；甜意尚在但不黏。最終留下的，是溫熱、略巧克力木質的親密餘韻——像把那塊覆盆子巧克力，悄悄收進領口。
香調
前調：小荳蔻、咖啡、番紅花、孜然
中調：玫瑰、覆盆子
後調：廣藿香、琥珀、寮國沉香／烏木
Community reviews
Fidelis is an exercise in excess: to cover up the sheer amount of amberwoods, smokey materials and patchouli the perfumer decision was to compensate using the same logic with vanillas, ethyl maltol and other sweet materials including musks and a quite subdued raspberry accord. The result is a really interesting, creative and well balanced perfume, a twist in the amber/oriental category but personally more appreciated than loved tbh... Still I'd happily have one of those 15ml travel bottles to sniff it from time to time
Opens like gunpowder and smoke, almost startlingly harsh even with the tiniest spritz. Then it slowly settles into dark woods, tobacco, leather and whisky, with the briefest flash of raspberry or blueberry sweetness appearing and disappearing almost teasingly. Eventually it becomes unexpectedly soft and comforting - like falling asleep against someone in a wool sweater that has absorbed the evidence of an evening of whisky and cigarettes.
This fragrance is beautiful to me. It is a lovely unique oriental. It is very rich smelling, and also long lasting. I very love this perfume. I smell the oud and the coffee the most. And I do not really smell the raspberry note. This scent is reminds me of By Kilian Pure Oud. My mother said, that it's similar of the vintage Opium (I have not tried that, so I don't know). But Fidelis is definitely a really good perfume.
I'm only getting 2 notes here: raspberry and fresh cut wood. Both are authentic and very long lasting in an almost overpowering way. I realized after a couple of wearings that those 2 notes weren't working for me on their own and it needed something more, such as the oud note that I don't detect (but everybody else seems to). So I've been layering it with Cartier Oud & Oud and the result is glorious.
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