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Proust moments: Bicycle, early summer, Frankfurt at night
Proust's moments are the avalanches of memories triggered by a smell/taste, when whole buried worlds open up due to the deep connection of corporeal sensory memory and emotion - just like the lost world of Combray is reborn for Marcel from Madeleine and lime blossom tea. Vetiver Hombre is such a fragrance for me, and so is Regia. It is the scent of blossoming trees, chestnuts, false acacias, dissolved in the early summer night air, which is cool and yet carries the memory of the heat of the day. You drive aimlessly through the avenues on your bonanza wheel and suck in this scent; years later you cycle the same ways after drinking through evenings with high school buddies, then fellow students and sometime you are on your way to her at night; again and again you feel fabulously alive in these moments and the perfume nocturne lies for all time over these sedimented memories and brings them back as if all this had only been yesterday.
Regia is mostly described as a traditional eau de cologne, but this memory effect is unique among the dozens of cologne waters I own and have smelt. I have long wondered what is behind it and suspect it is the combination of bitter and sweet citrus notes, herbs and the unique selling point Cassis (the current Parfumo Pyramid does not correspond to Florascent's). This note contributes here its woody-sweet-vegetable and minimal organic-animalic character (the urinary is fortunately missing) and my nose smells in the end the sweet miasma of nocturnal tree blossoms and evokes the magic of olfactory memory, or, as Proust writes: "But if nothing of an earlier past exists after the death of the persons, the downfall of things, then alone, more fragile but alive, immaterial and yet durable, constant and faithful smell and taste will continue their lives for a long time like erring souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, on the ruins of everything else and in an almost unreal tiny droplet infallibly carrying within them the immense building of memory."
Regia is mostly described as a traditional eau de cologne, but this memory effect is unique among the dozens of cologne waters I own and have smelt. I have long wondered what is behind it and suspect it is the combination of bitter and sweet citrus notes, herbs and the unique selling point Cassis (the current Parfumo Pyramid does not correspond to Florascent's). This note contributes here its woody-sweet-vegetable and minimal organic-animalic character (the urinary is fortunately missing) and my nose smells in the end the sweet miasma of nocturnal tree blossoms and evokes the magic of olfactory memory, or, as Proust writes: "But if nothing of an earlier past exists after the death of the persons, the downfall of things, then alone, more fragile but alive, immaterial and yet durable, constant and faithful smell and taste will continue their lives for a long time like erring souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, on the ruins of everything else and in an almost unreal tiny droplet infallibly carrying within them the immense building of memory."
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