Frustration (Etat Libre d'Orange)

Mathilde Bijaoui, author of Like This and Spice Must Flow, perfumed this one. It was released in 2022 and to me it smells rather like a vanilla crème latte in its first ten minutes, although the beverage it's aiming for is kitchen-spiced rum. A nice opening, albeit somewhat "flavorist" in nature: a complex but airy gourmand. The heart of Frustration—and I have no idea why it's called

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