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Bitter orange
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Mysore sandalwood
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Snowy mountains, bright sun
Montaigne. Caron could not have chosen a better name for this wonderful fragrance. Because I am immediately in the mountains when I perceive Montaigne. And that is in beautiful Austria on a skiing holiday.
My parents and I used to go skiing in Vorarlberg every year. At Christmas and at Easter. It started when I was six years old. But even as a teenager, sometimes already with partners or girlfriends, I still accompanied my parents to experience a few beautiful days in the snow. I remember with a smile our funny private ski instructor Elmar, from whom we learned a lot. For example, he showed us the right technical tricks for the mogul slope and so it didn't take long until I dared to ski down the black slope all by myself. After a successful day of skiing, I usually treated myself to a cup of cocoa and then we tackled the valley descent, if there was enough snow so that you could ski all the way down.
This wonderful idyll, whizzing down the slopes on a wonderfully sunny day, was immediately in my mind's eye this morning as I sniffed Montaigne. But why do I associate this beautiful jasmine note, accompanied by other fine, delicate creamy flowers, bedded on sandalwood, amber and vanilla, with my childhood and youth in the snow? Simple. Arriving at the ski resort, we always bought a sunblock for the face from the shop there. After all, you can't underestimate the UV rays up there in the mountains. The daughter of a well-known family did and she was forced to drink soup with a straw for a while due to severe burns. We wanted to avoid that at all costs. So plenty of sunblock on the face. And that sunblock smelled pretty much exactly like Caron's Montaigne. Every morning I got a strong layer on my face and had the scent of jasmine, amber, vanilla & Co. in my nose the whole day. Henceforth, my wonderful experiences in the snow were connected with it for me.
Since I haven't been alpine skiing for a while, I've hardly thought about it lately, despite the current winter weather. But today, Montaigne brought me back to the mountains in seconds. Yeah, I should probably get my skis out of the basement again. Absolutely!
You should like jasmine, because it sets the tone for Montaigne. The flowers are here, however, so fine and sweet that it could catapult you with this fragrance even without my very special head cinema in childhood. The scent is lush, but to my nose, not as elegant as it is often described here. Montaigne doesn't need a grand entrance, but is also a joy to wear while walking in the snow. A fragrance in which the sun shines.
Who is looking for a sunscreen fragrance like in the eighties, could find it here. Back then, the perfuming was still a little stronger and it smelled - God forbid - also not everything after coconut. Montaigne is sunshine to me. Sunshine and snow!
A thank you to Susan for sending me the sample and to Tabla for bottling it.
My parents and I used to go skiing in Vorarlberg every year. At Christmas and at Easter. It started when I was six years old. But even as a teenager, sometimes already with partners or girlfriends, I still accompanied my parents to experience a few beautiful days in the snow. I remember with a smile our funny private ski instructor Elmar, from whom we learned a lot. For example, he showed us the right technical tricks for the mogul slope and so it didn't take long until I dared to ski down the black slope all by myself. After a successful day of skiing, I usually treated myself to a cup of cocoa and then we tackled the valley descent, if there was enough snow so that you could ski all the way down.
This wonderful idyll, whizzing down the slopes on a wonderfully sunny day, was immediately in my mind's eye this morning as I sniffed Montaigne. But why do I associate this beautiful jasmine note, accompanied by other fine, delicate creamy flowers, bedded on sandalwood, amber and vanilla, with my childhood and youth in the snow? Simple. Arriving at the ski resort, we always bought a sunblock for the face from the shop there. After all, you can't underestimate the UV rays up there in the mountains. The daughter of a well-known family did and she was forced to drink soup with a straw for a while due to severe burns. We wanted to avoid that at all costs. So plenty of sunblock on the face. And that sunblock smelled pretty much exactly like Caron's Montaigne. Every morning I got a strong layer on my face and had the scent of jasmine, amber, vanilla & Co. in my nose the whole day. Henceforth, my wonderful experiences in the snow were connected with it for me.
Since I haven't been alpine skiing for a while, I've hardly thought about it lately, despite the current winter weather. But today, Montaigne brought me back to the mountains in seconds. Yeah, I should probably get my skis out of the basement again. Absolutely!
You should like jasmine, because it sets the tone for Montaigne. The flowers are here, however, so fine and sweet that it could catapult you with this fragrance even without my very special head cinema in childhood. The scent is lush, but to my nose, not as elegant as it is often described here. Montaigne doesn't need a grand entrance, but is also a joy to wear while walking in the snow. A fragrance in which the sun shines.
Who is looking for a sunscreen fragrance like in the eighties, could find it here. Back then, the perfuming was still a little stronger and it smelled - God forbid - also not everything after coconut. Montaigne is sunshine to me. Sunshine and snow!
A thank you to Susan for sending me the sample and to Tabla for bottling it.
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