04/30/2020
Parfümlein
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7.50 o'clock: With your inner child on the chain carousel, just before your meeting starts
What to do when you are in a bad mood, in case of cabin fever and rain?
We need a gourmand. A good gourmand. A real, reliable comforter who doesn't pretend to be able to wear it for a day and then leave you after two hours. But really does it, carrying through the morning hours when the day still seems to offer opportunities when you are alone. Carry through the midday hours when everything is already in full swing. And still be there in the afternoon, when a little relaxation and a hot coffee beckons.
As rare as these days may be - sometimes they are there and then such a faithful fragrance friend is needed.
In the spring I have Sweet Flowers from Montale.
It's already the bottle - when I look at it, I know that the scent is stored in the dark, in a safe place, so to speak, and is waiting for me with the same sweetness. It is the beautiful pink and red, which immediately puts you in a good mood anyway, because it is sweet and brave at the same time. Not a princess colour, rather one from Vogue.
And then, of course, it's the scent I really like. When I spray it on, an immediately comforting, sentimental sweetness spreads, which, at the push of a spray button, so to speak, beams me back to my childhood: To the funfair, which could be visited once a year for a week, a temporary amusement park with roller coaster and chain carousel, baked fish, love apples and of course cotton candy. If I knew: soon is funfair!, then I had to save pocket money for a few weeks, so that I could try out all the rides with my girlfriend when the time finally came. When I was still smaller than during the fair, I once went with my parents to the Prater and got lost there on the swan pond: While I did my rounds with my swan-boy, my parents were somehow gone. Because it was apparently me who - at least in their eyes - was gone afterwards, there was a lot of trouble, which saddened my then seven-year-old heart very much. So I could never forget the Viennese Swan Pond, just as little as the funfair in my home town, which I visited when I was 13 and 14. Over these memories a sweet, warm, well-known scent clearly spreads, inseparably connected with these pleasurable events: Cotton candy.
Sweet Flowers is thus a small gift, an olfactory reminder of sweet times, and when it hits the mark as skilfully as in this Montale fragrance, it is a very precious gift. Because on bad days nothing consoles more than the sweet memory of childhood (if it was beautiful).
But Sweet Flowers can do much more:
It's not a sweet, sticky, kitschy girl scent that captivates with gourmet notes and makes 18-year-olds find me irresistible. Sweet Flowers is much more mature. It CAN be nostalgic, soothing and lulling with its notes of cotton candy and pretty, artificial peach. But it can also be refreshing, as its citrus notes are so subtly perceptible that any stickiness is lost. Above all, it can be elegant, because the light earthiness of patchouli and the seriousness of jasmine, which goes so well with patchouli and adds brightness and a delicate airiness to the spicy-earthy note, make this perfume wearable for women who are in charge and just need a hug. So Sweet Flowers embraces tenderly and then returns to adulthood, and as if patchouli and jasmine weren't enough, my favorite flower appears, the epitome of feminine elegance, tuberose. Combined with the indispensable classics jasmine and patchouli, as a grand entrance after the comforting sweetness of cotton candy and peach, which never gets sticky thanks to bergamot, and in the faithful company of a rather plain vanilla, tuberose is integrated into this perfume as if it had never belonged anywhere else. Once again, it contributes decisively to the serious effect of the gourmand fragrance.
To sum up: Sweet Flowers is not for crybabies and childish minds, not for little girls with pink ribbons in their braids and not for teenagers who are madly in love. It's a perfume for adult women, those who go to work without a teddy bear and make decisions there, even if they have a run in their fine stockings. Women whose basic attitude is elegant and grown-up and who, from time to time, feel the need to awaken the inner child in them and let it rock them for a moment
As rare as these days may be - sometimes they are there and then such a faithful fragrance friend is needed.
In the spring I have Sweet Flowers from Montale.
It's already the bottle - when I look at it, I know that the scent is stored in the dark, in a safe place, so to speak, and is waiting for me with the same sweetness. It is the beautiful pink and red, which immediately puts you in a good mood anyway, because it is sweet and brave at the same time. Not a princess colour, rather one from Vogue.
And then, of course, it's the scent I really like. When I spray it on, an immediately comforting, sentimental sweetness spreads, which, at the push of a spray button, so to speak, beams me back to my childhood: To the funfair, which could be visited once a year for a week, a temporary amusement park with roller coaster and chain carousel, baked fish, love apples and of course cotton candy. If I knew: soon is funfair!, then I had to save pocket money for a few weeks, so that I could try out all the rides with my girlfriend when the time finally came. When I was still smaller than during the fair, I once went with my parents to the Prater and got lost there on the swan pond: While I did my rounds with my swan-boy, my parents were somehow gone. Because it was apparently me who - at least in their eyes - was gone afterwards, there was a lot of trouble, which saddened my then seven-year-old heart very much. So I could never forget the Viennese Swan Pond, just as little as the funfair in my home town, which I visited when I was 13 and 14. Over these memories a sweet, warm, well-known scent clearly spreads, inseparably connected with these pleasurable events: Cotton candy.
Sweet Flowers is thus a small gift, an olfactory reminder of sweet times, and when it hits the mark as skilfully as in this Montale fragrance, it is a very precious gift. Because on bad days nothing consoles more than the sweet memory of childhood (if it was beautiful).
But Sweet Flowers can do much more:
It's not a sweet, sticky, kitschy girl scent that captivates with gourmet notes and makes 18-year-olds find me irresistible. Sweet Flowers is much more mature. It CAN be nostalgic, soothing and lulling with its notes of cotton candy and pretty, artificial peach. But it can also be refreshing, as its citrus notes are so subtly perceptible that any stickiness is lost. Above all, it can be elegant, because the light earthiness of patchouli and the seriousness of jasmine, which goes so well with patchouli and adds brightness and a delicate airiness to the spicy-earthy note, make this perfume wearable for women who are in charge and just need a hug. So Sweet Flowers embraces tenderly and then returns to adulthood, and as if patchouli and jasmine weren't enough, my favorite flower appears, the epitome of feminine elegance, tuberose. Combined with the indispensable classics jasmine and patchouli, as a grand entrance after the comforting sweetness of cotton candy and peach, which never gets sticky thanks to bergamot, and in the faithful company of a rather plain vanilla, tuberose is integrated into this perfume as if it had never belonged anywhere else. Once again, it contributes decisively to the serious effect of the gourmand fragrance.
To sum up: Sweet Flowers is not for crybabies and childish minds, not for little girls with pink ribbons in their braids and not for teenagers who are madly in love. It's a perfume for adult women, those who go to work without a teddy bear and make decisions there, even if they have a run in their fine stockings. Women whose basic attitude is elegant and grown-up and who, from time to time, feel the need to awaken the inner child in them and let it rock them for a moment
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