This is yet another 'fume that I have °salvaged° by the technique of sequestering it away for a while until I forget about it, & then one day, coming across it again °at the back of the drawer° (either literally or figuratively) I say "let's give that another go!" & do precisely that.
I kind of °pitched° into buying this, with only a little less than half my reflexes holding me back; & I think when uw do that, uw hardly if atall judge the 'fume aright. I kept picking at it & picking at it & ... until I was weary of it. Now I've simply putten the thing on, getting to know it afresh: &, for instance, that accord of various floral & fruity notes whereat I at first chafed myself "is it just a dull generick cheapo fruito-floralo job, or is there actually somewhat of art in it?" has now ¯renascated¯ itself as clearly an instance of art. Not, indeed, one of the ¯great works¯ is it; but it's definitely ^something^, and something ^well-decent^ at that. I don't know whence its familiar to me - nowhere I think: & that's the point, of course.
It's a rather curious floral-fruity-woody accord in which no note stands-out conspicuously - ~well integrated~, without doubt. It's a little °sneezy° as well - seems to °tickle° one's respiratory tract a little (let none IFRA snoop be reading this - if thou art, be thou accursèd!!), and I do like a bit of that - lends a 'fume substance. The level of muskiness is quite acceptible also - the musk being of a reasonably rich kind with some swooniness - but one cannot expect a full-body olfactory-faculty musk-massage fræ a 'fume of this price-brackett.
Nice bit of salvage-work there, I do deem!
I'm prompted here to raise this matter of sequestering 'fumes that one has doubts about, to give them a ¯latency¯ period. I realise this properly belongs in the forum; but I'll do little more than initiate the question here. I have read in other reviews of other 'fumes in other places (yes I am being cryptic, & I shall carry on being, as ^very^ strong feelings are often involved!) in which advice is given that the flacon be left to ¯stand¯ for a month or so; & other reviews that strongly gainsay this advice, adducing that the manufacturer has already done all the ¯leaving-to-stand¯ that might ever boot it. I wonder now, having °salvaged° three or four 'fumes recently by this latency-period method, whether the worth of it ever consists in other than a metamorphosis of one's ^perception^ of the 'fume - a dissipation of the tensions and guiltitudes stemming from the buying °battle°. And it is a battle often, trying to keep one's balance & poise & right-discernment amidst the continual buffets of retail staff under a grinding brief of maximal-selling.
{ ... @bout vi hr later ... }
Uw know, I'm liking this more & more. It's just caught me a glancing blow - which is nearly always the best way to perceive a 'fume - & momentarily I wondered what it was, assuming it was one of my more belovèd 'fumes lingering on some garment y-leften-out.
And another little (or maybe notso little) thing: it synergises well with the smell of coffee. And that is important with me, and with many other, I should think.
Has a pleasant evolution also, with that °sneeziness° morphing into a certain °powderiness°.
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