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Notes04/18/2018
QuercusAlbus
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QuercusAlbus
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4
At the Head of a Certain Scale
If you were to ask me which of all perfumes is the best value-for-minlet, I do think I would have to put this one at the head of that scale. Certain of the Al-Rehab 'fumes would be close competitors, but I think this one would just ^have^ to take chief place. It's partly by reason of the ambrette-seed that this one takes my fancy so very particularly, that being a note that I have had a singular fondness for ever since I bought a small (?15ml or so) of an essential oil composition called 'Sweet Musk' fræ a hippy stall many years ago. I bought a second bottle as a gift for a certain couple I knew; and neither my bottle nor theirs lasted at all long - the aroma was so compelling - on several occasions when I visited them the aroma was veritably pouring through their bedroom door!
Wherefore to my perception the ambrette-seed is actually the chief note of this around which the others cluster; and it is a great window of opportunity to me that I can procure this ambrette-seed-heavy 'fume at such modest expenditure relatively. And maugre my love of that note, I still probably would not praise this 'fume if it were not in other respects well-composed, with its sweet & prominent flowery note - presumably mimosa - upholding the ambrette gorgeously (see how ambrette is the fulcrum with me?); and the green-tea note (with the citrus elements in train) - which I ^would^ say is ancilliary in this one, umschweifing about the mightier structural elements.
Wherefore to my perception the ambrette-seed is actually the chief note of this around which the others cluster; and it is a great window of opportunity to me that I can procure this ambrette-seed-heavy 'fume at such modest expenditure relatively. And maugre my love of that note, I still probably would not praise this 'fume if it were not in other respects well-composed, with its sweet & prominent flowery note - presumably mimosa - upholding the ambrette gorgeously (see how ambrette is the fulcrum with me?); and the green-tea note (with the citrus elements in train) - which I ^would^ say is ancilliary in this one, umschweifing about the mightier structural elements.
