Top Notes 
Heart Notes 
Base Notes 
09/22/2020
FvSpee
249 Reviews
Translated
Show original
FvSpee
Top Review
39
Colonial goods XI: Quite a lot, and perhaps a little confusing!
This cologne, which I would have classified as rather unknown, but which nevertheless has 180 owners here, is a bit exhausting. The unknown artist who created it has put five fragrances into this compact bottle, which overlap each other and where the scent impression depends on the nasal perspective, like a picture puzzle.
Fragrance No. 1: A classic Farina-Cologne. With bergamot, neroli, lemon and lavender, almost everything is in it. Nice and fresh and well done.
Fragrance No. 2: A white-synthetic, freshly laundered clean bear fragrance in the style of Byredos Blanche and LMs Chemise Blanche; this impression is the dominant one in the first minutes; responsible here are the thick, fat, bulging aldehydes together with rose geranium and lavender (yes, the lavender is double used, like in a picture puzzle)
Fragrance No. 3: A green powerhouse 70/80 (with chest hair); responsible here of course for the fragrance note that is as characteristic of this type of fragrance as patchouli is for hippies: Muscat sage, contained in all the great men's fragrances of this era (Antaeus, Paco Rabanne, Kouros, Cacharel Homme, Zino, Azzaro pour homme, YSL pour Homme, Aigner Super Fragrance for men) along with its predecessors (Aramis, 1964) and modern reinterpretations (Tomo, Honos). And besides the Muscat sage, of course, the same applies here: No moss, no go.
Fragrance No. 4: A dirty, masculine rose scent (rose geranium, frankincense, leather, vetiver, earthy patchouli).
Fragrance No. 5: A conciliatory, moderately sweet, but still very masculine base note flatterer (after a hard day's work for men, relax): musk, sweet patchouli, sandalwood.
This is a little exhausting for the wearer (and maybe for the world around him), but there is (just about, with a lot of noise and crunching in the woodwork) a harmonious overall picture, where the fragrance does not fly apart. In any case it gives the fragrance an unmistakable character.
I see the same polyvalence in the (strange) name "G-man". The following levels of meaning come to my mind:
No. 1: The men's scent of G for Gainsboro (as short word for Gainsborough, the Swiss brand, which today no longer exists independently but is allegedly docked to Juvena, is said to be named after the British landscape painter)
No. 2: A play on words with a G-spot, which I do not want to go into here, head cinema free.
No. 3: A fragrance for G- (entle) Men
No. 4: A smell as hard as a G-Man (gangster language for tough FBI agents = Government Men).
If you want to get involved in this roller coaster: Go ahead! I find it a very exciting and highly original scent. Whether the enthusiasm with which I (contrary to my habit) made an immediate purchase at a mail-order perfumery after testing it today was perhaps a bit premature, remains to be seen. But with about 25 Euro the loss would be bearable
Fragrance No. 1: A classic Farina-Cologne. With bergamot, neroli, lemon and lavender, almost everything is in it. Nice and fresh and well done.
Fragrance No. 2: A white-synthetic, freshly laundered clean bear fragrance in the style of Byredos Blanche and LMs Chemise Blanche; this impression is the dominant one in the first minutes; responsible here are the thick, fat, bulging aldehydes together with rose geranium and lavender (yes, the lavender is double used, like in a picture puzzle)
Fragrance No. 3: A green powerhouse 70/80 (with chest hair); responsible here of course for the fragrance note that is as characteristic of this type of fragrance as patchouli is for hippies: Muscat sage, contained in all the great men's fragrances of this era (Antaeus, Paco Rabanne, Kouros, Cacharel Homme, Zino, Azzaro pour homme, YSL pour Homme, Aigner Super Fragrance for men) along with its predecessors (Aramis, 1964) and modern reinterpretations (Tomo, Honos). And besides the Muscat sage, of course, the same applies here: No moss, no go.
Fragrance No. 4: A dirty, masculine rose scent (rose geranium, frankincense, leather, vetiver, earthy patchouli).
Fragrance No. 5: A conciliatory, moderately sweet, but still very masculine base note flatterer (after a hard day's work for men, relax): musk, sweet patchouli, sandalwood.
This is a little exhausting for the wearer (and maybe for the world around him), but there is (just about, with a lot of noise and crunching in the woodwork) a harmonious overall picture, where the fragrance does not fly apart. In any case it gives the fragrance an unmistakable character.
I see the same polyvalence in the (strange) name "G-man". The following levels of meaning come to my mind:
No. 1: The men's scent of G for Gainsboro (as short word for Gainsborough, the Swiss brand, which today no longer exists independently but is allegedly docked to Juvena, is said to be named after the British landscape painter)
No. 2: A play on words with a G-spot, which I do not want to go into here, head cinema free.
No. 3: A fragrance for G- (entle) Men
No. 4: A smell as hard as a G-Man (gangster language for tough FBI agents = Government Men).
If you want to get involved in this roller coaster: Go ahead! I find it a very exciting and highly original scent. Whether the enthusiasm with which I (contrary to my habit) made an immediate purchase at a mail-order perfumery after testing it today was perhaps a bit premature, remains to be seen. But with about 25 Euro the loss would be bearable
33 Comments
