12/30/2020
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Aunt Paula
When I was still very small and we visited my mother's brother and his family, the joy was usually great with me. My two older cousins there owned a Commodore C64 and I was also allowed to play on the computer with them, despite my young age. And there was Aunt Paula. Aunt Paula was the mother of my uncle's wife, so she was my great aunt. She lived in the same house. Because whenever we were there, I would make a detour to Aunt Paula's and get a bag of Swabian Wibele as a gift, which I was allowed to eat all by myself.
My mind was immediately on the Wibele and Aunt Paula when I sniffed Vanille Cannelle by Comptoir Sud Pacifique for the very first time. Yes, the differences in these fragrances - do they have vanilla in the name - are usually not too great. The vanilla is very dominant in this one as well, and a bit of cinnamon and brown sugar tend to stay in the background. But especially because of its sweetness, and because it was the first of this series I had the pleasure of knowing in 2003, I clearly had an image in my mind. Aunt Paule and my bag of Wibele. Because one spray smells exactly like when I stuck my nose into the beloved bag of sweet biscuits as a little kid. Mmmmh!
Wibele are really nothing special. They are made with egg whites, flour, sugar and vanilla sugar, piped and baked. The ones from Aunt Paula weren't even homemade but bought from the local baker there. But it was precisely because they were so simple and every child born in Swabia knew them that we loved them so much.
I did some research to find out if the Spritzgebäck, which looks like a colon, is really called "Weibchen" and - it would be fitting - the shape is supposed to represent a female breast. Apparently, however, this humorous interpretation came about because of a linguist's mistake. In reality, the baker who invented this dessert long ago simply went by the name Wibel. The ending "-le" is still common and very typical in Swabian for many family names. Here one is called, after all, also Hägele, Nägele, Häfele, Scheifele or similar.
The fragrance I had only briefly, because he was then me but very quickly too food safe. Was clear. In the meantime, he also seems to be discontinued. Sometimes I still like to think back to Aunt Paula and the Wibele.
All dear Parfumos and Parfumas I would like to wish at this point a happy new year.
My mind was immediately on the Wibele and Aunt Paula when I sniffed Vanille Cannelle by Comptoir Sud Pacifique for the very first time. Yes, the differences in these fragrances - do they have vanilla in the name - are usually not too great. The vanilla is very dominant in this one as well, and a bit of cinnamon and brown sugar tend to stay in the background. But especially because of its sweetness, and because it was the first of this series I had the pleasure of knowing in 2003, I clearly had an image in my mind. Aunt Paule and my bag of Wibele. Because one spray smells exactly like when I stuck my nose into the beloved bag of sweet biscuits as a little kid. Mmmmh!
Wibele are really nothing special. They are made with egg whites, flour, sugar and vanilla sugar, piped and baked. The ones from Aunt Paula weren't even homemade but bought from the local baker there. But it was precisely because they were so simple and every child born in Swabia knew them that we loved them so much.
I did some research to find out if the Spritzgebäck, which looks like a colon, is really called "Weibchen" and - it would be fitting - the shape is supposed to represent a female breast. Apparently, however, this humorous interpretation came about because of a linguist's mistake. In reality, the baker who invented this dessert long ago simply went by the name Wibel. The ending "-le" is still common and very typical in Swabian for many family names. Here one is called, after all, also Hägele, Nägele, Häfele, Scheifele or similar.
The fragrance I had only briefly, because he was then me but very quickly too food safe. Was clear. In the meantime, he also seems to be discontinued. Sometimes I still like to think back to Aunt Paula and the Wibele.
All dear Parfumos and Parfumas I would like to wish at this point a happy new year.
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