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07/04/2020
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Milhouse
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I guess when you sneeze, it's pepper...
For my first comment in this wonderful community I was looking for something that I could describe. Something that was not too complex for my still "untrained" nose
Nevertheless, it should be something "worthy". And so I ended up with "Black Pepper & Sandalwood" by Acca Kappa, after all winner of the "Art and Olfaction Award" in the "Independent Category" 2015 (one year after release).
Acca Kappa is a traditional Italian family business with German roots. The Krüll family has been running the business since 1869 and since then has brought all kinds of beautiful things to the market.
To the fragrance:
right at the beginning I can sign the chosen name (at least in parts) like this. Pepper. Directly a bit intrusive and stinging, but that subsides in the first minutes. It becomes a bit calmer, rather fresh, also a little bit sweetish. Enthusiastic about my achievement to have identified a note right at the beginning, I take a look at the pyramid. Top note: cloves. Damn it. While I'm still pondering whether I heard the clove or the pepper, the fragrance becomes more and more cuddly and friendly. I have now finally left the pungent start behind me and I try to concentrate on what else I can recognize.
During the first hour I wonder what the pleasant sweetness might be when it suddenly happens: I have to sneeze. (No kidding). Well, then it must have been pepper... or does the smell herald the transition from head to heart? Either way, the nose is now free again and I can continue sniffing.
Black Pepper & Sandalwood now becomes softer and creamier, which I would like to attribute to sandalwood as a further name giver. Flowery chords can also be heard very discreetly, the rose will probably be. Cinnamon and pepper together give a fine freshness without any citric influences, which makes me very happy.
So the fragrance remains until the end, with the freshness retreating more and more to leave the place to the warm and creamy notes at some point.
For me the fragrance has not a very complex development, but that definitely doesn't have to be a bad thing and it's not here! It goes from freshly pungent without much detours to creamy warm. Nevertheless, you should like pepper, after all, it is significantly involved in the freshness of the fragrance.
I was (or still am) very satisfied with the durability of the fragrance. I applied it at noon and now I can use it on the couch in the evening as well. Here I would give 8/10 points.
I would rate the fragrance itself with 7/10 points. It is not necessarily my cup of tea, but it seems to me to have been created and implemented in an orderly fashion I would also rate the Sillage with 7/10 points, which is actually a top value for my feeling. Not everybody within a radius of 10 meters has to know that I was there 20 minutes ago ;)
With the bottle, Acca Kappa didn't go out of its way to go out of its way and remained true to its simple, straightforward design. But I think the black lettering on the red background of the label is very consistent with the fragrance. 7/10.
Acca Kappa is a traditional Italian family business with German roots. The Krüll family has been running the business since 1869 and since then has brought all kinds of beautiful things to the market.
To the fragrance:
right at the beginning I can sign the chosen name (at least in parts) like this. Pepper. Directly a bit intrusive and stinging, but that subsides in the first minutes. It becomes a bit calmer, rather fresh, also a little bit sweetish. Enthusiastic about my achievement to have identified a note right at the beginning, I take a look at the pyramid. Top note: cloves. Damn it. While I'm still pondering whether I heard the clove or the pepper, the fragrance becomes more and more cuddly and friendly. I have now finally left the pungent start behind me and I try to concentrate on what else I can recognize.
During the first hour I wonder what the pleasant sweetness might be when it suddenly happens: I have to sneeze. (No kidding). Well, then it must have been pepper... or does the smell herald the transition from head to heart? Either way, the nose is now free again and I can continue sniffing.
Black Pepper & Sandalwood now becomes softer and creamier, which I would like to attribute to sandalwood as a further name giver. Flowery chords can also be heard very discreetly, the rose will probably be. Cinnamon and pepper together give a fine freshness without any citric influences, which makes me very happy.
So the fragrance remains until the end, with the freshness retreating more and more to leave the place to the warm and creamy notes at some point.
For me the fragrance has not a very complex development, but that definitely doesn't have to be a bad thing and it's not here! It goes from freshly pungent without much detours to creamy warm. Nevertheless, you should like pepper, after all, it is significantly involved in the freshness of the fragrance.
I was (or still am) very satisfied with the durability of the fragrance. I applied it at noon and now I can use it on the couch in the evening as well. Here I would give 8/10 points.
I would rate the fragrance itself with 7/10 points. It is not necessarily my cup of tea, but it seems to me to have been created and implemented in an orderly fashion I would also rate the Sillage with 7/10 points, which is actually a top value for my feeling. Not everybody within a radius of 10 meters has to know that I was there 20 minutes ago ;)
With the bottle, Acca Kappa didn't go out of its way to go out of its way and remained true to its simple, straightforward design. But I think the black lettering on the red background of the label is very consistent with the fragrance. 7/10.
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