Seminalis Parfum vs Retrospect - 318 Eau de Parfum
Seminalis Parfum
| Parfum | Concentration | EDP |
| U | Gender | U |
| 2016 | Year | - |
| ££££ | Price Tier | £ |
Retrospect - 318 EDP
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Which Should You Buy?
Alessandro Gualtieri's most polarising Orto Parisi. A lactonic-creamy-musky-animalic study built around ambrette, pheromonal aldehydes and a milky-skin core. Some wearers read warm sensuality, others read the dirtier biology the marketing brief invokes.
Inspired by Merit's Retrospect, No. 318 leans hard into the aldehyde-and-orris vintage lipstick accord that made the original a hit, but flattens out fast on skin. The powdery violet-musk heart is there, the pear opening is louder and syrupier, and where Retrospect lingers for hours this fades to a soft skin scent within two to three.
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Season and Occasion Fit
Seasons
The creamy-musky-animalic core reads warm and slightly dense; cold weather suits the skin-contact intimacy best. Spring is acceptable; summer heat exposes the heavier musks and lactonic creaminess as too much.
Occasions
Reads as a deliberately intimate close-skin fragrance - date wear and evening private settings are the natural fits. Office wear is risky given the animalic register; casual works for evenings; formal works only when the wearer wants statement-niche rather than classical formality. Sport is wrong.
Seasons
Community season votes for Merit Retrospect, the fragrance this is built to match, favour spring, autumn and winter.
Occasions
Wearers put Merit Retrospect, the fragrance this is built to match, at its best for the office, casual wear and sport.
Similarity Breakdown
How alike these two fragrances smell, scored from their full scent profiles.
Both lean musky, powdery
Adds jasmine and moss, drops ambrette and carnation
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