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"Life without coffee is possible, but pointless"
... that's how Loriot would have put it if the hot, black brew had been as important to him as the pug. A life without coffee - sure, not senseless, but in any case unthinkable. A torture. What could there be in the morning at 5.45 a.m., at the bitterest time of the day, that is of such central importance as a freshly brewed coffee? And more than that, what could be more beautiful, more glorious, if you had to get up now (leaving aside the morning grasp of the perfume shelf for a moment)? I love coffee in all its forms and currently prefer it freshly ground from a filter machine. In the morning I drink it with milk, in the morning black, at noon as espresso...
I wonder if Mohammed was actually served the very first cup of hot coffee by the archangel Gabriel?
However, coffee was first mentioned in Ethiopia in the 9th century in the delightful legend of a hungry goat: It ate from a shrub with white flowers and red fruit and then jumped around happily until well into the night, while all the other goats slumbered.
Coffee has been an integral part of Western culture for several hundred years, and there is hardly any other drink where it makes so much sense to try it in all its variations and find "your" personal coffee: from the original Turkish mocha, which, coming from the Orient, from Mecca and Cairo, was served at the first European coffee tavern in Istanbul in 1554 and then, from 1615 onwards, celebrated its triumphant advance in Europe, to the sung about Italian coffee, i.e. espresso, with its variations: Caffè americano (the black, watery one in a normal coffee cup), Caffè lungo (the watered-down espresso), Caffè doppio (the double), Caffè ristretto (the strong one), Caffè corretto (the one with cognac), Cappuccino (the espresso with hot milk and milk foam) and Caffellatte (the espresso with milk in a glass). And its American varieties, with syrup transformed into drinkable biscuits. To the French café au lait, to the Austrian brown, to the Austrian one-horse carriage with whipped cream and finally to the German filter coffee. Volumes could be filled for each of these coffee variations in terms of optimal preparation. I don't even want to start here with filter machines and Caffetiera...
Coffee is simply a science in itself, elixir of life, ghost alarm clock, hot pleasure, unparalleled fragrance experience... And what could be better than combining this perhaps most beautiful of all real gourmand fragrances with the refined composition of a perfume?
For a long time now I have been looking for the perfect coffee scent in the form of a perfume, because I hope that this will give me the opportunity to repeat the experience in Italy. You know, I don't want to bore you...
In short: I have found this perfect perfume. And I am so one hundred percent sure that I have found it that I could cheer Bach's coffee cantata up and down for joy:
"If I don't get three times the day My cup of coffee can drink,
That's how I become my agony
Like a withered goat's sausage.
Ei! how does the coffee taste sweet,
Sweeter than a thousand kisses,
Milder than muscatel wine.
Coffee, coffee I must have,
And if anyone wants me, I'll be there Oh, so pour me coffee!"
I have often said that there is hardly a more beautiful olfactory experience than walking through an Italian city in the early morning and smelling the fresh espresso that comes out of all the bars (and that is why I really refrain from continuing this repetition). But there is a second olfactory coffee experience: "Follow". In loving memory of my poor heart, which perhaps can't stand coffee all day long like the rebellious soprano girl, this coffee-loving daughter of a desperate father in the coffee cantata, I am now happy with "Follow":
What a head note! Hot, steaming, freshly brewed, fragrant coffee, strong and bitter, made from the best beans, covers my skin like a film. No sweet gourmet nonsense, no synthetic chocolate cookies to tune into this anthem. It is pure coffee, pure coffee, a wonderful discovery of the Ethiopians. There is no representable development of the aroma, the coffee remains very present in this form. However, a minimally sweet and creamy veil lies between the individual brewing vapours, as if a perfumed cloth were being waved through the air, it is vanilla and benzoin that promote this impression. But directly perceptible, even as vanilla ice cream, sugared whipped cream or something else, these tones are not - there is no milk scent here. Rather, it goes - probably also through the tonka bean - in the direction of spicy-vanilla. I don't find the scent really sweet, and if I do, then only as a reminiscence of sugared black coffee. As I said: no milk, no ice cream, no cream! And finally, slowly, after a long time, one perceives a few herbaceous and ambry notes in the depth of the fragrance, only minimally and adding to the spiciness.
"Follow" is a fantastic coffee scent - IF you want to smell like coffee. And it will be MY coffee smell, which I don't want to do without anymore. Because this fragrance really makes you happy!
I wonder if Mohammed was actually served the very first cup of hot coffee by the archangel Gabriel?
However, coffee was first mentioned in Ethiopia in the 9th century in the delightful legend of a hungry goat: It ate from a shrub with white flowers and red fruit and then jumped around happily until well into the night, while all the other goats slumbered.
Coffee has been an integral part of Western culture for several hundred years, and there is hardly any other drink where it makes so much sense to try it in all its variations and find "your" personal coffee: from the original Turkish mocha, which, coming from the Orient, from Mecca and Cairo, was served at the first European coffee tavern in Istanbul in 1554 and then, from 1615 onwards, celebrated its triumphant advance in Europe, to the sung about Italian coffee, i.e. espresso, with its variations: Caffè americano (the black, watery one in a normal coffee cup), Caffè lungo (the watered-down espresso), Caffè doppio (the double), Caffè ristretto (the strong one), Caffè corretto (the one with cognac), Cappuccino (the espresso with hot milk and milk foam) and Caffellatte (the espresso with milk in a glass). And its American varieties, with syrup transformed into drinkable biscuits. To the French café au lait, to the Austrian brown, to the Austrian one-horse carriage with whipped cream and finally to the German filter coffee. Volumes could be filled for each of these coffee variations in terms of optimal preparation. I don't even want to start here with filter machines and Caffetiera...
Coffee is simply a science in itself, elixir of life, ghost alarm clock, hot pleasure, unparalleled fragrance experience... And what could be better than combining this perhaps most beautiful of all real gourmand fragrances with the refined composition of a perfume?
For a long time now I have been looking for the perfect coffee scent in the form of a perfume, because I hope that this will give me the opportunity to repeat the experience in Italy. You know, I don't want to bore you...
In short: I have found this perfect perfume. And I am so one hundred percent sure that I have found it that I could cheer Bach's coffee cantata up and down for joy:
"If I don't get three times the day My cup of coffee can drink,
That's how I become my agony
Like a withered goat's sausage.
Ei! how does the coffee taste sweet,
Sweeter than a thousand kisses,
Milder than muscatel wine.
Coffee, coffee I must have,
And if anyone wants me, I'll be there Oh, so pour me coffee!"
I have often said that there is hardly a more beautiful olfactory experience than walking through an Italian city in the early morning and smelling the fresh espresso that comes out of all the bars (and that is why I really refrain from continuing this repetition). But there is a second olfactory coffee experience: "Follow". In loving memory of my poor heart, which perhaps can't stand coffee all day long like the rebellious soprano girl, this coffee-loving daughter of a desperate father in the coffee cantata, I am now happy with "Follow":
What a head note! Hot, steaming, freshly brewed, fragrant coffee, strong and bitter, made from the best beans, covers my skin like a film. No sweet gourmet nonsense, no synthetic chocolate cookies to tune into this anthem. It is pure coffee, pure coffee, a wonderful discovery of the Ethiopians. There is no representable development of the aroma, the coffee remains very present in this form. However, a minimally sweet and creamy veil lies between the individual brewing vapours, as if a perfumed cloth were being waved through the air, it is vanilla and benzoin that promote this impression. But directly perceptible, even as vanilla ice cream, sugared whipped cream or something else, these tones are not - there is no milk scent here. Rather, it goes - probably also through the tonka bean - in the direction of spicy-vanilla. I don't find the scent really sweet, and if I do, then only as a reminiscence of sugared black coffee. As I said: no milk, no ice cream, no cream! And finally, slowly, after a long time, one perceives a few herbaceous and ambry notes in the depth of the fragrance, only minimally and adding to the spiciness.
"Follow" is a fantastic coffee scent - IF you want to smell like coffee. And it will be MY coffee smell, which I don't want to do without anymore. Because this fragrance really makes you happy!
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