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06/15/2023
Ostara
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Ostara
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A Perfume to Live Your Life Wearing
Superstitious blurs the lines between familiar and new. Initially as I wore this, I thought it was almost a copy of vintage Arpege, but as it bloomed on my skin I began to understand why this was packaged and named the way it is.
As weird as it sounds the accord formed by the aldehydes and incense notes in this remind me of a road flare: unbearably bright/glaring at first, then an alert ominous glow and then finally subdued and smokey suggestive of past danger. At the dry down they smell like a cathedral full of snuffed out candles. The initial metallic blast is now a shadowy veil over the rest of the composition. The lush rose and jasmine no longer shimmer but are made darker, deeper by the warmth of the hazy-waxy-smokiness of the dying aldehydes pared with the incense and chypre base. In this context, the rich blackness of the bottle adorned with only the suggestion of God's gilded, all-seeing eye makes a lot more sense.
Superstitious is a darker sister of No22 and in the same way that many who love No22 are wholly devoted to it, I can imagine this being many people's one and only.
If I were forced to pick one scent to show and explain perfume to someone who had never encountered perfume before, this might be the one.
Superstitious is a perfume to live your life wearing.
*edited for spelling and grammar
As weird as it sounds the accord formed by the aldehydes and incense notes in this remind me of a road flare: unbearably bright/glaring at first, then an alert ominous glow and then finally subdued and smokey suggestive of past danger. At the dry down they smell like a cathedral full of snuffed out candles. The initial metallic blast is now a shadowy veil over the rest of the composition. The lush rose and jasmine no longer shimmer but are made darker, deeper by the warmth of the hazy-waxy-smokiness of the dying aldehydes pared with the incense and chypre base. In this context, the rich blackness of the bottle adorned with only the suggestion of God's gilded, all-seeing eye makes a lot more sense.
Superstitious is a darker sister of No22 and in the same way that many who love No22 are wholly devoted to it, I can imagine this being many people's one and only.
If I were forced to pick one scent to show and explain perfume to someone who had never encountered perfume before, this might be the one.
Superstitious is a perfume to live your life wearing.
*edited for spelling and grammar
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