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Iso fir tree, Iso super tree, how nicely Geza's 3rd trick?
Refreshes not only for a short time,
No, you'll be ready in hours.
Oh Isobaum, oh Limobaum,
Can you please me very much?
Such an evergreen can also be sung off-season. Because for my taste, this pine scent fits better into the warmer season. With its slightly sweetish coriander lime green, this really special 4711, at least in my nose, has no Christmassy spice homeliness whatsoever.
After his all around fine Muscat Lime and his all-season Cologne with sparkling tangerines over cardamom&artificial wood, this forest scent is the third etude by avant-garde perfumer Geza Schön for the traditional house 4711: My nose is more Czerny than Chopin. For the fragrance is pleasing, but shows little development. Interesting and solid, original and wearable. Nobody has to kneel down here
Without Moss nix los, is the complaint of countless forest friends who are allergic to the (anti-allergic) oak moss bans of IFRA. There is definitely no moss in here. What is going on instead?
The forest awakening begins with a sweetish green prelude, in which only a subtle bitter orange (and for me no perceptible pepper) resonates. However, the prelude already exudes quite a limo vibe: a well-chilled Fanta, pimped with a pinch of coriander, in the middle of the Black Forest. This looks sporty, not old-fashioned. So more a nice blueberry pancake at the Grünhütte, than Grandhotel Bühlerhöhe or Traube in Tonbach. The fragrance seems young and has NOTHING in common with the original 4711.
If you go deeper into the forest, the green scents usually turn mossy, earthy, shady; possibly slightly musty, vetiver-rooted. In any case: heavy. But none of this happens here. Everything remains very bright, light, like a sun-drenched plantation of young fir trees, whose minimal resinousness is permanently drowned out by sweet, flowery orange lemonade.
With some certainty, no very small amounts of Iso E Super should provide for this silvery light, iridescent lining of the orange fir. Especially during sports, on steaming skin, this fir scent reminds me of this all-purpose weapon of modern aroma chemistry, which provides scents with aura and radiation.
The (quite muscular) overall package seems to me to be quite original. This kind of cologne was probably not available at 4711 or elsewhere - as far as I can see. It is without doubt refreshing. And absolutely modern, because somehow it's recognizably synthetic; but not at all unpleasantly plastic. In this sense, 4711 Scandinavian Woods occupies a niche in the field of refreshing waters.
It also lasts much longer than a classic cologne, which definitely justifies the generic name Colonia Intense (6-8 hours). After all, these 'Awakening Scandinavian Forests' have considerably more ingredients in the list of ingredients than the other, usually narrower 4711's. I can still easily feel coriander, but I can hardly perceive rose, osmanthus and jasmine as such, but at best as a thin veil of floridity. The same is true of incense clouds that are at best subliminal, homeopathically involved.
Due to a certain one-dimensionality in the scent and the aforementioned artificiality, it will probably be used rather rarely in my case, despite its Tannen-Cologne setting. I wouldn't want to do without it in my collection, though.
To add the last verse of the popular Christmas carol:
O fir tree, o fir tree,
your dress is trying to teach me something!
The hope and constancy
gives comfort and strength at all times!
We want to attest to his endurance. His Sillage is strong for a cologne, moderate for a full perfume. Yes, a sprayer gives strength through freshness. Hope and comfort? He's too fresh and superficial to cuddle, I think. No great forest symphony resounds here in my ears, but a cheerfully late modern arrangement of 'Oh Tannenbaum, Iso Superbaum' with a sprig of coriander and a few flowers nicely rounded off
So Geza Schöns third strike for the traditional Cologneolognists might have what it takes to become a classic of synth pop. In any case, I am looking forward to further modernization experiments from 4711, in a spirit of expectation and adventure
No, you'll be ready in hours.
Oh Isobaum, oh Limobaum,
Can you please me very much?
Such an evergreen can also be sung off-season. Because for my taste, this pine scent fits better into the warmer season. With its slightly sweetish coriander lime green, this really special 4711, at least in my nose, has no Christmassy spice homeliness whatsoever.
After his all around fine Muscat Lime and his all-season Cologne with sparkling tangerines over cardamom&artificial wood, this forest scent is the third etude by avant-garde perfumer Geza Schön for the traditional house 4711: My nose is more Czerny than Chopin. For the fragrance is pleasing, but shows little development. Interesting and solid, original and wearable. Nobody has to kneel down here
Without Moss nix los, is the complaint of countless forest friends who are allergic to the (anti-allergic) oak moss bans of IFRA. There is definitely no moss in here. What is going on instead?
The forest awakening begins with a sweetish green prelude, in which only a subtle bitter orange (and for me no perceptible pepper) resonates. However, the prelude already exudes quite a limo vibe: a well-chilled Fanta, pimped with a pinch of coriander, in the middle of the Black Forest. This looks sporty, not old-fashioned. So more a nice blueberry pancake at the Grünhütte, than Grandhotel Bühlerhöhe or Traube in Tonbach. The fragrance seems young and has NOTHING in common with the original 4711.
If you go deeper into the forest, the green scents usually turn mossy, earthy, shady; possibly slightly musty, vetiver-rooted. In any case: heavy. But none of this happens here. Everything remains very bright, light, like a sun-drenched plantation of young fir trees, whose minimal resinousness is permanently drowned out by sweet, flowery orange lemonade.
With some certainty, no very small amounts of Iso E Super should provide for this silvery light, iridescent lining of the orange fir. Especially during sports, on steaming skin, this fir scent reminds me of this all-purpose weapon of modern aroma chemistry, which provides scents with aura and radiation.
The (quite muscular) overall package seems to me to be quite original. This kind of cologne was probably not available at 4711 or elsewhere - as far as I can see. It is without doubt refreshing. And absolutely modern, because somehow it's recognizably synthetic; but not at all unpleasantly plastic. In this sense, 4711 Scandinavian Woods occupies a niche in the field of refreshing waters.
It also lasts much longer than a classic cologne, which definitely justifies the generic name Colonia Intense (6-8 hours). After all, these 'Awakening Scandinavian Forests' have considerably more ingredients in the list of ingredients than the other, usually narrower 4711's. I can still easily feel coriander, but I can hardly perceive rose, osmanthus and jasmine as such, but at best as a thin veil of floridity. The same is true of incense clouds that are at best subliminal, homeopathically involved.
Due to a certain one-dimensionality in the scent and the aforementioned artificiality, it will probably be used rather rarely in my case, despite its Tannen-Cologne setting. I wouldn't want to do without it in my collection, though.
To add the last verse of the popular Christmas carol:
O fir tree, o fir tree,
your dress is trying to teach me something!
The hope and constancy
gives comfort and strength at all times!
We want to attest to his endurance. His Sillage is strong for a cologne, moderate for a full perfume. Yes, a sprayer gives strength through freshness. Hope and comfort? He's too fresh and superficial to cuddle, I think. No great forest symphony resounds here in my ears, but a cheerfully late modern arrangement of 'Oh Tannenbaum, Iso Superbaum' with a sprig of coriander and a few flowers nicely rounded off
So Geza Schöns third strike for the traditional Cologneolognists might have what it takes to become a classic of synth pop. In any case, I am looking forward to further modernization experiments from 4711, in a spirit of expectation and adventure
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