Olfactive Studio is a French niche perfume brand launched in 2011 and founded by Celine Verleure. The concept of this brand is to create perfumes in cooperation with photographers and their works.

Both perfumes and photos give us a possibility to capture the moment and to go back in time to this moment. With this great idea, photographers and perfumers create unique and modern perfumes and their own exciting olfactory world.

Today I’ll review Flash Back in New York Olfactive Studio, a beautiful leathery fragrance for women and for men.

Perfume Review of Flash Back in New York Olfactive Studio

Launched in 2018, this fragrance is inspired by photographer Vivienne Gucwa and created by perfumer Jerome Epinette.

Flash Back in New York is a tribute to the city that never sleeps. And it doesn’t matter if it is a blizzard (as in the photo of Vivienne Gucwa) or a hurricane. It is a city of action and movement, but it also has its unique charm.

Flash Back in New York perfume is a great expression of the photographer’s vision.

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This perfume opens with a fleeting freshness, and then a strong scent of spices appears. Spicy notes make this fragrance a little dusty and foggy. The heart of this scent consists of a floral-leather accord.

Violet and jasmine make this fragrance softer, deeper and more sensual. Leather defines the main tone of this perfume.

The base of Flash Back in New York is rich in notes. Birch smoke makes this scent more expressive, while the notes of papyrus and vetiver give this perfume the deep woody scent.

Tonka bean provides this fragrance with its sweetness and balsamic sound, that makes Flash Back in New York cozy and enveloping.

In short, this fragrance is the leather in a sweet cloud of smoke. But it’s not so simple.

Fifth Avenue in New York

This scent is very dynamic, as the city that has inspired this fragrance

Flash Back in New Your is also the perfume of contrasts. It is rebellious and at the same time very refined. It is a mix of protest and elegance.

Flash Back in New York sounds like a modern fragrance with an allusion to classic. I can see this fragrance on a respectable man in an expensive suit or on an elegant woman in a fancy restaurant.

But in a second, I see this scent on young people in the leather jackets, listening to music with the headphones or at the concert.

Manhattan, New York

So exciting and diverse fragrance, that depicts the mood of New York, that is always in a hurry, and in which eternally something happens.

It may seem that Flash Back in New York also makes you run somewhere, even if it is a snowstorm outside. But if you only for a moment stop yourself, you will realize that sometimes it is better not to catch something.

And it is better to go to a cozy place, drink something warm and enjoy the blizzard outside the window.

And let New York wait for you.

Notes: Cumin, Clary Sage, White Linen, Saffron, Violet, Jasmine, Tuscan Leather, Birch Smoke, Papyrus, Vetiver, Tonka Bean.

If it were a place, it would be a cozy bar with the leather couches, low light and jazz music.

If it were a color, it would be soft brown.

If it were one word, it would be a contrast.

 

It was my perfume review of Flash Back in New York Olfactive Studio, and I hope you enjoyed it.

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