Charisma

Charisma by Bärbel Drexel
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6.6 / 10 15 Ratings
Charisma is a perfume by Bärbel Drexel for women. The release year is unknown. The scent is floral-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral
Spicy
Woody
Resinous
Powdery

Fragrance Notes

Damask roseDamask rose StyraxStyrax FrankincenseFrankincense CistusCistus CinnamonCinnamon
Ratings
Scent
6.615 Ratings
Longevity
7.613 Ratings
Sillage
5.712 Ratings
Bottle
5.413 Ratings
Submitted by Lav, last update on 04.02.2020.

Reviews

1 in-depth fragrance description
6
Bottle
7
Sillage
7
Longevity
7.5
Scent
Serenissima

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Serenissima
Very helpful Review 7  
gives charm and self-confidence
Yesterday's test of "Sang Bleu" took me far into my fragrance past.
Because of the so typical bottle of "Le Galion" I ended up at "Eau de Sortilège", a very early experience of my teenage years. But more about that there.
I don't know why I'm reaching for the smooth, narrow glass bottle of "Charisma" in my current fragrance collection. Maybe it should be like this!
I sprayed and after more than ten years this fragrance is still unmistakable.
It's as if a dirty-gray curtain was pulled away between me and life.

At the beginning of the two thousand meter peaks I was a guest at teleshopping every now and then; at that time, however, there was also a very interesting program at the current HSE 24.
Christine Kaufmann with her own cosmetic and care series left me her facial cleansing ritual, which I still do today - two years after her death! - regularly and therefore of course still think of them frequently and gratefully.
Even if I had to switch off the TV from time to time: then we were both too bitchy to bear each other!
(As she once said: "Women with these long giraffe necks are just bitch! Original sound Chr. Kaufmann)

Also "Bärbel Drexel - Natur Natur Natur!" was one of my favourite programmes after start-up difficulties. I was very sceptical about natural cosmetics and dietary supplements at the time, but (especially through tele-shopping!) I was taught better.
Mrs. Drexel, at that time a woman in her early forties, who even drove the employees of her medium-sized company with baskets to the urban meadows of the Swabian Alb to harvest herbs and plants, woke up the "herb witch" hidden in me until then.
Much of what I know today and pass on generously, I owe to their broadcasts and later also to many conversations with the two alternative practitioners of their company.
Through the Berlin BD-Shop I got very close to the matter: the owner became a good acquaintance and so it came that I "guarded" the shop for her again and again.
She enjoyed some free time and the sales I made, but grumbled quietly when her regular customers asked about me because they wanted to ask something. (That was always a bit undiplomatic!)

In Baar an der Schwäbischen Alb not only food supplements were produced in the course of the years, there were also very well balanced and effective skin care series and of course perfumes.
The first three skin care series each got their own fragrance. At that time I took the series "Haut Vital" and loved the spiciness of the fragrance creation. (I still grieve for her.)

About 2003 "Charisma" was introduced.
"Charisma" lives up to its name. It's not so much a scent as a kind of quietly fragrant attitude to life.
The shoulder area relaxes and the head rises; self-confidence spreads.
I noticed it then with myself and also in the moment it works again: this mixture relaxes and gives courage.
How often would I like to say not so young women anymore, completely in the sense of a book title mentioned again and again by Christine Kaufmann: "Only do not become invisible! For even a woman beyond her mid-forties does not have to go through life with her shoulders hanging and her head retracted, dressed in mud and earth colours!
Ladies, let's get this show on the road!

Her complex knowledge about flowers, herbs, woods and their effects has been composed by Mrs. Drexel in this fragrance.
She wanted to give the women security and courage through this fragrance; it worked for me.
The rose, the flower of women, naturally plays a leading role.
(Which is why "Charisma" could always be combined very well with pure rose water. Both complemented each other perfectly; that was "pure well-being!")
The scent of the Damascene rose is not shy; it already claims its place, which it has conquered immediately after the first spray.
However, the always somewhat stubborn Zistrose with its very own spice fits very well to this flower queen. Their heavy sweetness is so spicily steamed and thus the first impression of a typical "rose perfume".
A skillful mixture of warm spicy cinnamon and the vanilla-like scented Styrax resin, also known as the mediator of a pleasant feeling of warmth, paves the way for the effect of incense.
This, probably very bright incense is used here in its protective function.
"Charisma" is not only meant as a scent, but as a kind of "corset". The combination of fragrances does not only affect the senses; it also raises self-confidence.
And not only the senses of the wearers are influenced; many a man, passing by, lifts his head slightly as if he were touched by a sound, a light curl.
A touch of "charisma" touched him...
(I was allowed to experience this more often back then.)

There is a lot of esoteric resonating in this description of the fragrance; that is already true!
Because "Charisma" was created only in second line as a perfume; first it should, like the other Bärbel Drexel fragrances also, convey well-being to the women by the power of nature.
So it was also a possibility for me, in combination with the already mentioned rose water, to wear a feminine-sensual scent in the office.
Because my boss didn't tolerate any scents in his anteroom, which might even prevent him from entering as a kind of barrier. He was consistent and I knew that from the beginning.
That had the advantage that also the commercial managing director had to do without its Edt: we could not smell it all in the wahrsten sense of the word!

As part of the restructuring of the company Bärbel Drexel, the fragrance lines were first discontinued.
Through my relationship to the local shop, I still stocked up with its stock: "Charisma" was almost thrown at me by Anne. She was glad to have it out of the assortment
Just today I'm glad to have "Charisma" around again.
The "head up" effect still seems to be there and maybe that's why my way was predetermined via "Sang Bleu" and "Eau de Sortilège".
I will use it more often again; my 50 ml bottle is still as good as full!

So I have every reason to thank Can777 for bottling "Sang Bleu" here and now.
Even if he - and I - could not know what journey he would take me on with it.
My dear friend: Once again you have done everything right!
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