Cristiane Gonçalves has recently joined Sniffapalooza Magazine in a new collaboration for new articles/new fragrances reviews and interviews exclusive to the Magazine. Cristiane is a fragrance writer and global fragrance consultant from Brazil, specialising in Oriental Perfumery, Luxury Fine and Niche Fragrances and Brazilian Perfume Brands. She is an award winning pioneer in Brazil in Fragrance Expertise Blogging as owner, editor and writer at Perfume da Rosa Negra which won the 9th Basenotes Awards Best Blog Finalist. She also writes for the main online fragrance publications such as Sniffapalooza Magazine, PerfumeCritic and Osmoz.
Cristiane has also a broad general culture and multilinguistic background and a solid experience and expertise in Management and Human Resources, acquired in top-levels companies such as Johnson & Johnson, IBM and Unilever. She is a true passionate woman for fragrances and an excellent learner in perfumery, having reached respect and recognition by great professionals in the global perfume industry. She is internationally involved in the development of scent culture and has the gift of connecting various dimensions as literature, visual arts, music and others artistic expressions with the magnificent perfumery world and her unique writing style. She may be contacted at cris.perfumedarosanegra@gmail.com .
AFIRE by Neil Morris
New Fragrance Review
by Cristiane Gonçalves
One of the greatest inspirations in wearing a unique and sensual perfume is its power of moving us to a wonderful state of olfactive excitement that excites ourselves and potentially others that may be fascinated by the powerful trail of a fragrant elixir and be surrendered by an unavoidable spell. The perfume kisses the body, the skin is inflamed by passion as be embraced by aromatic flames in a dreamlike pleasure of senses and, the most imminent desire is to feel the pleasure of the own scented skin through the olfaction. The enrapturing, exciting, blazing scent of desire.
There are few perfumes that have the gift of wearing us in the passionate fire of a seductive fragrance. The perfume that exhales and breathes sensuality, which makes us fall in love by ourselves, that make us burn in the passion flame of the perfumery, but find one of them is a powerful moment in which the passion is uncontrolled. I found one more fragrant passion, a dream that comes true through a perfect elixir of luscious berries, caramel, vanilla and frankincense and this pleasant discovery came from Boston, from the niche perfume house Neil Morris Fragrances, lead by its owner and perfumer Neil Morris. Definitely, I am on fire, wearing Afire.
For Neil Morris, “fragrances are like a dream, I look for an emotional response, a connection”. Having composed Afire, Neil Morris transformed dreams into reality, emotion into action and all of it can be delightfully felt while wearing Afire. The perfumer captures the essence of the passionate love, not only because of Afire scent but because he was able of joining the exotism in an attractive mix composed by oriental, gourmand and fruity notes. At a first view when reading Afire’s olfactive pyramid, the fragrance may seem something commercial, youthful and easily acceptable because berries and vanilla have been sexy appeal compounds for sweet adorable fragrances lately, besides they reach a guaranteed young consumer satisfaction, however this perfume has a level of excellence in its composition and there is no scent similar in the market, so Afire is unique, a very sensual olfactive signature mainly for ladies who love berries and gourmand notes. Neil Morris’ sensibility in scents, his understanding of the seduction power through the smell and his technical expertise make Afire be the passion fire in form of fragrance, captivating more and more hearts. Undoubtedly, a perfume that plays with the lovely and sexy extremes sides of a woman, the sides of attraction and enchantment, desire and temptation.
While wearing Afire, the emotional connection with the fragrance is immediate, the passionate kiss with the olfaction is deep and sweet; the pleasure in the limbic system is pure amusement.
Its heady citrus is very subtle, and then the flaming passion is unrestrained at first sniff. The irresistible attraction by the oriental fragrance made of insinuating berries and blended in a fine composition is so tempting that is like to be embraced by the desire. How berries and gourmand accords are mixed in an outstanding perfumery métier make me tell you that I am a self-confessed lover of Afire. But, preferences apart and being fair enough about this scent, Afire is absolutely the scented fire to warm up the perfuming act and move the imagination to delightful fantasies. The skin is enveloped by tasteful gourmand accords in a harmonious caramel with oriental vanilic base, the will of tasting the flavor on skin is like to be tempted by a lovely pleasurable kiss, be touched passionately by a real and intense love and live the joy of the extreme wonder. Finally, its development is remarkable and its quality of ingredients is outstanding. The powerful sillage, which lasts more than 12 hours, immortalizes the emotional relationship with the fragrance.
Afire thrills, fascinates, intoxicates with unforgettable emotions and sensations and, exalts the fine perfumery that transforms ludic fragrant and sexy dreams in reality perfumed by an exotic sensuality. The fragrance is not about one more tasteless elixir, Afire is about lead us to another world, the world of desire and, perfumery is the art that also deserves be honoured as the art of the desire.
