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Explorer Ultra Blue
Patchouli is the engine of Montblanc Explorer Ultra Blue Eau de Parfum, and it is the Indonesian material rather than a generic one, which matters because it is smoother and less camphorous than the raw leaf. Sicilian bergamot opens it, and good bergamot is worth paying for: green, bitter and faintly floral all at once, sharper and more perfumed than ordinary citrus peel. Pink pepper sits alongside it, dry and rosy and slightly fizzing, and the two together make the first ten minutes bright without making them sweet. Ambergris is the entire middle, which is unusual. It is a salty, mineral, slightly animal smell, warm in a way that is hard to describe and easy to recognise, and it works here as a bridge rather than as a feature, pulling the citrus down towards the base without a floral stage in between. Then the Indonesian patchouli arrives properly, earthy and dark and smoothed out, with leather beside it adding a dry, polished finish. The last hours are warm, slightly salty and quite close to the skin.
Five materials in all, arranged in a straight line rather than a tangle, and that clarity is what makes it wearable. It is a cooler weather fragrance, better in the evening than at noon, and it suits men who find the rest of the Explorer line a little too clean for their taste. Projection is good for the first hour and the stay is long.
Antoine Maisondieu, Jordi Fernandez and Olivier Pescheux composed it, and it dates from 2021. Montblanc has never manufactured perfume. The German house is a writing instrument maker first, a maker of watches and leather goods second, and a licensor of fragrance third.
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