Blow Up / Le Cinéma Olfactif : No. 6 - Blow Up
Folie à Plusieurs (2015)

If you like Bandit from Robert Piguet you will like this.
In Bandit the skanky/sour sweat note is too 'skanky' for me personally, so I find Blow Up a superior blended fragrance and much more wearable. The skankiness is toned right down here and becomes a slightly sweeter accord within the perfume.

An excellent, high quality niche style offering from the brilliant nose of Mark Buxton !

You've just sloppily blown up a balloon and tied it up. You decide to slam your nose into the sweet but skanky spit, sweat, and powdery rubber/latex where your mouth and fingers had just been. Blow Up by La Folie a Plusieurs.

The opening is a bright and quite fresh combination of fruity aromas - berries, rhubarb a fresh-earthy undertone. The drydown turns a bit incense-herbal, but never into a really incense-dominated composition.

The base adds a soft impression of a light soft suede and a good lashing of cistus and labdanum, wich account for the slightly harsher character towards the end.

The sillage is moderate, the projection good and the longevity eight hours on my skin.

An overall quite bright spring creation that is well created and blended, albeit not very exciting. Still, it is convincing enough to make it - just - into the borderzone of the thumbs-up category - once it is enlarged sufficiently. 3/5.

Very well done smoky, leathery opening, somehow challenging with an animalic undertone lingering in the mid fase. An addictive opening for sure. The base is less interesting, revealing a rather sweet leather/musk accord, never medicinal or harsh but somehow common. It leans more towards the male side of the spectrum IMO. Still a nice offering and thumbs up for the great two hours from this fragrance. Sillage and projection are moderate.