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Like a honey pie horse
Two or three weeks ago it was still about thirty degrees, yesterday it was 24 in the afternoon, and today I wore a scarf for the first time this season and turned on the desk lamp in the office in the evening. So: time for the winter scents!
Rappelle-Toi is a fragrance of which I have owned a 10 ml miniature for almost 2 years, which is still quite full. So I do not wear it often, but when I do, I always like to wear it. It never occurred to me to give it away. I kind of love him, although he is not my classic prey
For me, it is a honey scent, a very creamy, bitter forest honey. Absolutely sweet, absolutely viscous and resinous (in the figurative sense, the spray head does not stick, of course), but never pointy and sugary, but rather dark and spicy. And this not only in the base note, as indicated here, but from the first moment on, as I perceive the fragrance to be rather linear (or at best softly unfolding) than heavily iridescent or dynamically developing. Honey as backbone, as paradoxical as it sounds.
That is why all kinds of spices - also rather dark, wintery ones - are grouped together: Cardamom (a typical ingredient of the spices known as gingerbread or honey cake), juniper (which gives Rappelle-Toi a tart, masculine note and, among other things, prevents the fragrance from turning sweet or feminine) and two kinds of pepper (as a hard counterpart to soft honey; incidentally, it is not traditionally found in gingerbread, even if it is called that).
Others see the gardenia as the centre of the fragrance, indeed Rappelle-Toi perceive it as almost a gardenia soliflor. The fact that it's the honey in my case may be related to the fact that I have hardly any gardenia experience and may not exactly recognize this note (although I have sniffed a few fragrances like Cruel Gardenia by Guerlain once). Strong (unspecific) floral Rappelle-Toi also seems to me, a heavy floral scent, but certainly not suffocating. And one that harmonizes very well with the honey cake.
All in all: Spicy honey germ with a dose of spiciness and congenial flowers. Always lush and powerful, never pompous or oppressive. If I imagine it as a colour, it is brighter than the dark forest honey it smells like: Medium brown shining amber.
The fact that my statement, written about 2 years ago, ends with "For real men" is, of course, a little bit of a wink at this starting point. But it's not wrong either. Au contraire, au contraire! Not too much dosed, in the right season (now) and at the right time of the year and in the right mood (no territory marker for the tough business deal, but also no cuddly pussy scent; rather something for moments of calm, firm, but also a little drifting concentration) no guy needs to feel badly scented with this Artisan Pafumeur. And may grin ad libitum like a honey pie horse.
Rappelle-Toi is a fragrance of which I have owned a 10 ml miniature for almost 2 years, which is still quite full. So I do not wear it often, but when I do, I always like to wear it. It never occurred to me to give it away. I kind of love him, although he is not my classic prey
For me, it is a honey scent, a very creamy, bitter forest honey. Absolutely sweet, absolutely viscous and resinous (in the figurative sense, the spray head does not stick, of course), but never pointy and sugary, but rather dark and spicy. And this not only in the base note, as indicated here, but from the first moment on, as I perceive the fragrance to be rather linear (or at best softly unfolding) than heavily iridescent or dynamically developing. Honey as backbone, as paradoxical as it sounds.
That is why all kinds of spices - also rather dark, wintery ones - are grouped together: Cardamom (a typical ingredient of the spices known as gingerbread or honey cake), juniper (which gives Rappelle-Toi a tart, masculine note and, among other things, prevents the fragrance from turning sweet or feminine) and two kinds of pepper (as a hard counterpart to soft honey; incidentally, it is not traditionally found in gingerbread, even if it is called that).
Others see the gardenia as the centre of the fragrance, indeed Rappelle-Toi perceive it as almost a gardenia soliflor. The fact that it's the honey in my case may be related to the fact that I have hardly any gardenia experience and may not exactly recognize this note (although I have sniffed a few fragrances like Cruel Gardenia by Guerlain once). Strong (unspecific) floral Rappelle-Toi also seems to me, a heavy floral scent, but certainly not suffocating. And one that harmonizes very well with the honey cake.
All in all: Spicy honey germ with a dose of spiciness and congenial flowers. Always lush and powerful, never pompous or oppressive. If I imagine it as a colour, it is brighter than the dark forest honey it smells like: Medium brown shining amber.
The fact that my statement, written about 2 years ago, ends with "For real men" is, of course, a little bit of a wink at this starting point. But it's not wrong either. Au contraire, au contraire! Not too much dosed, in the right season (now) and at the right time of the year and in the right mood (no territory marker for the tough business deal, but also no cuddly pussy scent; rather something for moments of calm, firm, but also a little drifting concentration) no guy needs to feel badly scented with this Artisan Pafumeur. And may grin ad libitum like a honey pie horse.
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