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Fragrances, sounds and images in green
We all know how much fragrances can influence our lives: just the feeling of having chosen the right fragrance for the day makes us happier, more cheerful - we feel less naked, encounter the world quite differently.
Not only our senses are touched, but unfortunately also those of our surroundings.
But we've learned to control that; master the art of scent without bothering.
Fragrances can do so much more: not only for me they have tones, colors and shapes.
They embody many variants of art.
This is how, for example, huge oratorios, gripping operas, emergency tournaments and cheerful singing games are created; many fast hits, in which we want to sing and whistle along - swing and jazz are also included!
Everyone hears something different; sometimes we despair because we don't know this piece of music, have never experienced it before and therefore don't know it: Do I like this?
For me, scents often have colors: they show large, heavy oil paintings with much vibrant pink-marble-white flesh; martyrs, saints and bring bloody battles and fights into our field of vision.
Some fragrances are like densely woven tapestries; like fine "petit point" embroidery, stitched together by a higher daughter in hours of boredom.
Or heavy embroidered velvet and noble brocades.
They can be like coarse canvas, but also resemble light watercolours - conjured up with simple watercolours on paper.
They are impressions that can take us into the vastness of the universe!
Each of us sees and feels something different here.
"Ballade Verte" is certainly meant to be a piece of green music.
For me it's a picture: a painting, a kind of collage. Not only in the most different shades of green; no, it also shows the most different techniques.
I see pasty surfaces that were applied with a wide knife and sometimes even worked with my fingers; creamy shiny oil paint in generous brush strokes, slightly flowing green tones in watercolor technique and even fine lines, drawn with a colored pencil.
It is a kind of colorfully fragrant "patchwork carpet", reminiscent of a natural meadow:
tall, slender grasses that sway in the wind; more compact herbs and shrubs, lots of moss in a wide variety of textures and of course the flowers must not be missing.
In the background even a small brook gurgles cheerfully.
"Les Fantaisies Parfumées - Ballade Verte" lives up to its name: it stimulates the imagination - creates sounds and images.
It is more than just a scent: here I find a wonderful piece of nature, captured in a bottle.
So this fragrance creature opens with an unusual note: spicy resinous galbanum welcomes me, takes me firmly in the arm!
This powerful embrace is further enhanced by the sensory warming effect of the lightly peppery ginger: I feel safe!
Already now, but I don't even know what's left for me - what's waiting for me!
The blossom-rich scent swirls of rose and ylang-ylang run through this brown-yellow prelude in broad streams: the previous resinous, warm spice becomes brighter, golden - it shines a little more volatilely here and there: as if glowworms were scurrying around with their little lanterns.
A heart full of surprises opens up afterwards: strong resinous, a little stubborn figures emerge, bringing with them an animal scent.
The just bright picture darkens again, becomes more mysterious - vibrates a little before subliminal magic.
A typical sandalwood scent reinforces this impression.
The cedar wood now appearing flatters, grinds off corners and edges and leads to the light again.
"Ballade Verte" now turns emerald green with silver shimmer; the spicy woody cedar always carries this in its luggage.
Vanilla and white musk, both felt viscous, could be uncomfortable for me: it would not be the first time.
But here they become a further "soft focus": they underline the floweriness, soften the resinous spice and power, and astonishingly calm the flow of scent, which was previously perceived as quite lively.
"Ballade Verte" nestles, caresses and now brings with it the harmony associated with the colour green.
The senses are awake, but no longer agitated and slightly brushed against the grain by the resinous journeymen; it draws in a wonderful earthy, very slightly oscillating rest.
"Les Fantaisies Parfumées" awakens a spectrum of feelings that join together to form images and ornaments.
They are knowledgeably underpinned by higher and deeper green tones of nature.
This creates a very special sonic colour scent.
If you have alert senses and a corresponding imagination, you will be happy to get acquainted with this varied green work of art.
It is something special and probably skilfully composed according to a not frequently applied harmony theory of perfume art.
So let us look forward to the sonorous, colourful and fragrant green that awaits us after this dark, grey winter.
Until then, "Ballade Verte" could shorten the waiting time pleasantly.
Not only our senses are touched, but unfortunately also those of our surroundings.
But we've learned to control that; master the art of scent without bothering.
Fragrances can do so much more: not only for me they have tones, colors and shapes.
They embody many variants of art.
This is how, for example, huge oratorios, gripping operas, emergency tournaments and cheerful singing games are created; many fast hits, in which we want to sing and whistle along - swing and jazz are also included!
Everyone hears something different; sometimes we despair because we don't know this piece of music, have never experienced it before and therefore don't know it: Do I like this?
For me, scents often have colors: they show large, heavy oil paintings with much vibrant pink-marble-white flesh; martyrs, saints and bring bloody battles and fights into our field of vision.
Some fragrances are like densely woven tapestries; like fine "petit point" embroidery, stitched together by a higher daughter in hours of boredom.
Or heavy embroidered velvet and noble brocades.
They can be like coarse canvas, but also resemble light watercolours - conjured up with simple watercolours on paper.
They are impressions that can take us into the vastness of the universe!
Each of us sees and feels something different here.
"Ballade Verte" is certainly meant to be a piece of green music.
For me it's a picture: a painting, a kind of collage. Not only in the most different shades of green; no, it also shows the most different techniques.
I see pasty surfaces that were applied with a wide knife and sometimes even worked with my fingers; creamy shiny oil paint in generous brush strokes, slightly flowing green tones in watercolor technique and even fine lines, drawn with a colored pencil.
It is a kind of colorfully fragrant "patchwork carpet", reminiscent of a natural meadow:
tall, slender grasses that sway in the wind; more compact herbs and shrubs, lots of moss in a wide variety of textures and of course the flowers must not be missing.
In the background even a small brook gurgles cheerfully.
"Les Fantaisies Parfumées - Ballade Verte" lives up to its name: it stimulates the imagination - creates sounds and images.
It is more than just a scent: here I find a wonderful piece of nature, captured in a bottle.
So this fragrance creature opens with an unusual note: spicy resinous galbanum welcomes me, takes me firmly in the arm!
This powerful embrace is further enhanced by the sensory warming effect of the lightly peppery ginger: I feel safe!
Already now, but I don't even know what's left for me - what's waiting for me!
The blossom-rich scent swirls of rose and ylang-ylang run through this brown-yellow prelude in broad streams: the previous resinous, warm spice becomes brighter, golden - it shines a little more volatilely here and there: as if glowworms were scurrying around with their little lanterns.
A heart full of surprises opens up afterwards: strong resinous, a little stubborn figures emerge, bringing with them an animal scent.
The just bright picture darkens again, becomes more mysterious - vibrates a little before subliminal magic.
A typical sandalwood scent reinforces this impression.
The cedar wood now appearing flatters, grinds off corners and edges and leads to the light again.
"Ballade Verte" now turns emerald green with silver shimmer; the spicy woody cedar always carries this in its luggage.
Vanilla and white musk, both felt viscous, could be uncomfortable for me: it would not be the first time.
But here they become a further "soft focus": they underline the floweriness, soften the resinous spice and power, and astonishingly calm the flow of scent, which was previously perceived as quite lively.
"Ballade Verte" nestles, caresses and now brings with it the harmony associated with the colour green.
The senses are awake, but no longer agitated and slightly brushed against the grain by the resinous journeymen; it draws in a wonderful earthy, very slightly oscillating rest.
"Les Fantaisies Parfumées" awakens a spectrum of feelings that join together to form images and ornaments.
They are knowledgeably underpinned by higher and deeper green tones of nature.
This creates a very special sonic colour scent.
If you have alert senses and a corresponding imagination, you will be happy to get acquainted with this varied green work of art.
It is something special and probably skilfully composed according to a not frequently applied harmony theory of perfume art.
So let us look forward to the sonorous, colourful and fragrant green that awaits us after this dark, grey winter.
Until then, "Ballade Verte" could shorten the waiting time pleasantly.
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