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01/28/2024
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And we thought that was forever...
This was one of my first. I tested it, bought it and wore it for a wonderful summer. And I remember thinking: I'll probably always have this one, for sure! The summer passed, and although not even half empty - if at all - the bottle, reminiscent of a half-melted ice cube - "How cool is that?" I thought at the time - increasingly moved to the back of the shelf. Others came, others went. Some I was attached to, others were just a fling, and some - none from those early years of fragrance history - have stayed. To this day, and I love that.
We make our first friends at nursery or primary school age, perhaps just because we live in the same street or both like Lego, but these first friends rarely last, even though we may think: BFF! Later, the first deep friendships come along and at some point relationships - and sooner or later, bitter disappointment and betrayal. And yet we keep thinking: this is forever! And then we cry ourselves to sleep again or have - intentionally or negligently - made someone else cry. And yet we think again: But now! Forever!"
Now, loss is of course far less sad with a perfume than with a person, but in order to like a fragrance so much that I want to own it, I want to believe at the moment of its purchase: if not forever, then for quite a long time! That's pretty stupid, because I've seen it fail many times. But just as there have been people - and this is nothing to be proud of - for whom 'until tomorrow morning' was enough to simply take them home, this is of course also the case with perfume. We all have, it's not bad. But the ones you believe in are more fun.
L'Eau par Kenzo pour Homme is nothing special as a fragrance. But it was for one summer. For me. Beyond its fruity-sweet irrelevance, it has something vulnerable that I still find in it today. I can smell that, others may not. For many, it is probably one of many summer freshness fragrances - aquatic, a little shower gel, a little disco - that was the 90s! Basically, there's nothing not to like about it and, as I now know, they're rarely good 'forever'. And yet it was a beautiful, blessed and long summer with yuzu, mint and the others. And that's not nothing.
Conclusion: basically a terribly forgettable and irrelevant fragrance. And yet not at all.
We make our first friends at nursery or primary school age, perhaps just because we live in the same street or both like Lego, but these first friends rarely last, even though we may think: BFF! Later, the first deep friendships come along and at some point relationships - and sooner or later, bitter disappointment and betrayal. And yet we keep thinking: this is forever! And then we cry ourselves to sleep again or have - intentionally or negligently - made someone else cry. And yet we think again: But now! Forever!"
Now, loss is of course far less sad with a perfume than with a person, but in order to like a fragrance so much that I want to own it, I want to believe at the moment of its purchase: if not forever, then for quite a long time! That's pretty stupid, because I've seen it fail many times. But just as there have been people - and this is nothing to be proud of - for whom 'until tomorrow morning' was enough to simply take them home, this is of course also the case with perfume. We all have, it's not bad. But the ones you believe in are more fun.
L'Eau par Kenzo pour Homme is nothing special as a fragrance. But it was for one summer. For me. Beyond its fruity-sweet irrelevance, it has something vulnerable that I still find in it today. I can smell that, others may not. For many, it is probably one of many summer freshness fragrances - aquatic, a little shower gel, a little disco - that was the 90s! Basically, there's nothing not to like about it and, as I now know, they're rarely good 'forever'. And yet it was a beautiful, blessed and long summer with yuzu, mint and the others. And that's not nothing.
Conclusion: basically a terribly forgettable and irrelevant fragrance. And yet not at all.
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