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Mahogany
Air accord
Heart Notes
Colophony
Maple wood
Cypress
Base Notes
Tree resin
Cedar
Moss
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Notes10/24/2021
Schallhoerer
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Arc of tension from woods and resins
The Bowmakers is a snapshot for wood affine scent friends. Here it resins and creaks at every second. The sawdust flies around our ears. Varnishes are applied and leave noses on the wood. And hasn't someone forgotten the soldering iron in the wood here?
The scent starts me a wonderfully authentic mixture of fresh sawdust and all kinds of glazes. I had before the first testing the concern that these varnishes or glazes could go in a pungent or even biting direction. For me, however, they radiate an immensely comforting and soothing aura in combination with the clearly perceptible cypress. Anyone who has ever been in a woodworking shop and witnessed the construction of a wooden instrument will immediately recognize this smell in the air. While I don't know anything about violin or bow making, I do know what it smells like to a luthier who builds guitars himself. And it's exactly this kind of snapshot that the Bowmakers is able to reflect in a truly three-dimensional way. The wood shavings that fall to the floor, the fine dust that trickles out of the saw and the varnish in all its viscous beauty. I know rosin from my own use in playing the guitar. If you "abuse" a violin bow and play the guitar strings with it, the most beautiful distorted tones come out. This rosin chord of different resins is wonderfully staged here, realistic and comprehensible. Nothing seems synthetic or artificial. The individual notes intertwine wonderfully and result in a composition of resins and woods. In the opening, Bowmakers reminds me of Richard Lüscher Britos' 46°N 08°E for a brief moment, but then quickly goes in a different direction. As it progresses, I smell something that reminds me of the smell of a soldering iron in wood. As if one would burn his initials into the wood or solder.
The Perfomance is then with me a double-edged sword. While wearing my sample I was not satisfied with the durability. I could perceive the fragrance often already after 1-2 hours barely and a radiance was as good as non-existent. In the meantime, however, but a bottle has moved in here with me and this performs but significantly better on my skin. 6-7 hours, the scent is thereby perceptible while he radiates the first hour quite strong and then withdraws and becomes much more intimate.
The bottle is minimalist, slightly retro in appearance and with a decent weight. The sprayer of my copy is unfortunately not very good. Since only a rather short and small spray comes out. At the price I expect there simply more or a better sprayer.
The Bowmakers has me contrary to my first assumption very quickly under its spell. This mixture of essential aromas of the varnishes and glazes paired with the dry sawdust and woodwork results in the sum of a wonderfully authentic fragrance experience for fans of wood and resins
The scent starts me a wonderfully authentic mixture of fresh sawdust and all kinds of glazes. I had before the first testing the concern that these varnishes or glazes could go in a pungent or even biting direction. For me, however, they radiate an immensely comforting and soothing aura in combination with the clearly perceptible cypress. Anyone who has ever been in a woodworking shop and witnessed the construction of a wooden instrument will immediately recognize this smell in the air. While I don't know anything about violin or bow making, I do know what it smells like to a luthier who builds guitars himself. And it's exactly this kind of snapshot that the Bowmakers is able to reflect in a truly three-dimensional way. The wood shavings that fall to the floor, the fine dust that trickles out of the saw and the varnish in all its viscous beauty. I know rosin from my own use in playing the guitar. If you "abuse" a violin bow and play the guitar strings with it, the most beautiful distorted tones come out. This rosin chord of different resins is wonderfully staged here, realistic and comprehensible. Nothing seems synthetic or artificial. The individual notes intertwine wonderfully and result in a composition of resins and woods. In the opening, Bowmakers reminds me of Richard Lüscher Britos' 46°N 08°E for a brief moment, but then quickly goes in a different direction. As it progresses, I smell something that reminds me of the smell of a soldering iron in wood. As if one would burn his initials into the wood or solder.
The Perfomance is then with me a double-edged sword. While wearing my sample I was not satisfied with the durability. I could perceive the fragrance often already after 1-2 hours barely and a radiance was as good as non-existent. In the meantime, however, but a bottle has moved in here with me and this performs but significantly better on my skin. 6-7 hours, the scent is thereby perceptible while he radiates the first hour quite strong and then withdraws and becomes much more intimate.
The bottle is minimalist, slightly retro in appearance and with a decent weight. The sprayer of my copy is unfortunately not very good. Since only a rather short and small spray comes out. At the price I expect there simply more or a better sprayer.
The Bowmakers has me contrary to my first assumption very quickly under its spell. This mixture of essential aromas of the varnishes and glazes paired with the dry sawdust and woodwork results in the sum of a wonderfully authentic fragrance experience for fans of wood and resins
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