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01/22/2020
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The reveries of days gone by
My first walk on my last London parfa stalk took me straight to 89 Jermyn Street to the Floris headquarters. Actually only planned as a side trip to spray "Lavender" briefly and take it with you. With classic lavender scents you can not only do almost nothing wrong with me - no, you can also really put me in raptures with them!
All the greater was my disappointment when the nice salesman, when I asked him about lavender scents, presented me all kinds of treasures, but not this simple "lavender". When asked, he said that the fragrance was no longer in the range, but that Floris, for some unknown reason, was still hoarding something in some warehouse - and that they could always be ordered online when they sold out after Christmas.
Only half consoled, I went stante pede to Fortnum & Mason, which is very close by, to console myself over my grief with a bottle of Grossmith's "Sylvan Song". Since then I have been waiting and indeed, after Christmas "Lavender" appeared in the Floris online shop for a ridiculous price and was ordered promptly.
And now I am sitting comfortably in the armchair, which still belongs to my husband's great-grandfather, a really wonderful old-fashioned baroque piece of furniture with curved upholstered mahogany armrests, the backrest framed by an elaborately carved, squiggled wooden frame. Of course with a matching footstool and wonderfully comfortable, as I assure you.
You are probably wondering what such ancient furniture has to do with Floris Lavender. A great deal!
Because the fragrance fits wonderfully well with this piece of furniture: old-fashioned in the best sense of the word, dignified, perfectly crafted, lovingly designed and absolutely timeless. Just as the great-grandfather's armchair is an eye-catcher in the otherwise very modernly furnished room, yet does not appear to be a foreign body or antiquated, but simply IS with all the dignity of its age, so too is Lavender quite naturally simply there, as if it had always floated in this room.
Up to now I would have said that Caldey Island Lavender is the most beautiful lavender scent I know, but now I'm starting to wonder. At the beginning I find the two not dissimilar at all, a crystal clear, transparent light lavender immediately captures me. Not herbaceous-wirey or sharp, but mild, fresh and not soapy at all. But with Floris, there is much more to the wonderful top note. Perhaps a violet with a leaf - or another modest flower. It is a very natural, soulful pleasure, without any synthetic material. In the depths I am able to straighten a little noble wood, which gives lavender a certain substance.
The fragrance does not try at all to pretend to be anything other than what it is. A simple, elegant, withdrawn touch, perhaps a vague reminder of earlier times, when simplicity meant great pleasure and saturation had not yet taken over. A quiet melancholic reverie of days long past.
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