No Limits
Alberto Morillas composed Philipp Plein No Limits Eau de Parfum, and that is the single most useful fact about it, because the material list looks like a dare on paper and in practice it is held together carefully. The opening is almost entirely spice. Black pepper and cardamom are dry and bright, clove is hot and faintly medicinal, cinnamon is barky rather than sugared, star anise brings a sweet liquorice edge, and ginger sharpens all of it. Bergamot is the only concession to citrus and it lasts about as long as it takes to put a jacket on.
The middle is the richest part. Dark chocolate is bitter and powdery rather than sweet, bourbon vanilla beneath it is rounder and boozier than the ordinary kind, and incense cuts through both with a cool, smoky, church air quality. Amber adds resinous warmth and keeps the join between the bitter and the sweet from showing. Then it goes dark. Leather is the dominant closing impression, dry and slightly tarry, with oud supplying that medicinal, barnyard adjacent depth which divides opinion more than any other material in perfumery. Patchouli and cedarwood sit underneath, earth and dry timber, grounding the lot. This is a cold weather scent and an evening scent, and it is not remotely subtle. One spray is a statement and three are an imposition, and at eau de parfum strength the spice and the leather will still be readable on skin the following morning.
Lugano is where the Plein group is directed from, and its founder, a German designer, opened the label in 2004 before extending it into shoes, watches and jewellery as well as clothes. Perfume came through a beauty licence agreed in January 2019, beginning with The $kull that December and continuing with No Limit$ and then, in October 2022, the first women's scent, Plein Fatale.
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