04/10/2021

Farneon
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Farneon
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At the time, an olfactory bridge that would be en vogue again today!
In 1981 (when this fragrance came out) I was eleven years old. Especially the first half of this decade was certainly a transitional phase, also for me, as I naturally entered puberty and slowly but surely aspired to adulthood. Fashion and musical missteps abounded, but there was also always something new to discover, beyond Nena, mullets, cowboy boots, disco rollers and neon colors.
When I first came into contact with "Man Pure", I don't remember. I may have just been of age. At that time, I was probably also "too much man" in the fragrance, because he has quite a slightly soapy-leathery note, which, however, turned out much milder than in the decade before (transition phase just).
Anyway, the trends in the 80s came more from the bottom up, while today they are rather put into the world by big corporations and clever marketing strategists (in my opinion). "Man Pure" was one of the outstanding fragrances of that time, because it combined the old and the new in itself at that time. Had they known that the old would be resurrected in countless barbershops today, the fragrance would surely still be on the market. On the other hand, Jil Sander probably dared to do something, because aquatic freshness and earthy spiciness were already in there. Only with "male sweetness" one has probably not reckoned at the time.
The combination of ingredients was in any case suddenly no longer typical Chypre or Fougère, but contained a balsamic-herbaceous note, which built a bridge between different fragrance worlds. And since there's practically nothing that doesn't exist these days, I suspect that "Man Pure" would find its target audience today as well. Maybe more in the generation Ü45, but that's where all the money is! ;-)
When I first came into contact with "Man Pure", I don't remember. I may have just been of age. At that time, I was probably also "too much man" in the fragrance, because he has quite a slightly soapy-leathery note, which, however, turned out much milder than in the decade before (transition phase just).
Anyway, the trends in the 80s came more from the bottom up, while today they are rather put into the world by big corporations and clever marketing strategists (in my opinion). "Man Pure" was one of the outstanding fragrances of that time, because it combined the old and the new in itself at that time. Had they known that the old would be resurrected in countless barbershops today, the fragrance would surely still be on the market. On the other hand, Jil Sander probably dared to do something, because aquatic freshness and earthy spiciness were already in there. Only with "male sweetness" one has probably not reckoned at the time.
The combination of ingredients was in any case suddenly no longer typical Chypre or Fougère, but contained a balsamic-herbaceous note, which built a bridge between different fragrance worlds. And since there's practically nothing that doesn't exist these days, I suspect that "Man Pure" would find its target audience today as well. Maybe more in the generation Ü45, but that's where all the money is! ;-)
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