It was obvious: despite legendary stories about the fictional Wolle, the collective of the same name did not make it to the homepage. It almost seemed as if they didn't want any comments about the amiably boozy gang from the Ruhr area. Quo vadis? The collective consulted with Chizza, for friends ChickenPizza, the creative director of the collective which wrote under his name on Parfumo. Before they started, however, they put on Tigerwood Royale by Ensar, which they wanted to review startsite-worthy. Here Bloodxclat had opened the door last, one would intersperse something about oud=expensive.
"How are we going to do this? Even the faun was there once, and other than a lot of rooting around in damp earth, the man doesn't come up with anything."
"Maybe something with sharks or dinos? Something with half octopus, half shark, or a shark with five heads. One of them looks like a purple chicken."
"Yeah, let's face it, that's...more likely not going to happen. An informative but at the same time perfume-infused, a euphoric commentary. That's what it should be. Only: we can not."
"We could copy something together, last was FvSpee on the front page, before that Gloyd, there we take individual passages, exchange them for today's fragrance and voila! That must then but!"
"Eucris Royale is a very beautiful scent and an equally distinctive one. It's so dry it's dusty and so tart that every now and then you catch yourself in the unmanly weakness of wanting to put a spoonful of sugar in it." I'm afraid that's a lie. Tigerwood Royale is not a dry oud, nothing here is dusty, rather it evokes leather, parched but not dry woods, minerality, leather boots cleaned by salty water with gravel components.
"At the same time, Tigeucris is black as night , but not sinister" because by night I meant more multi-faceted oud. "It is a friendly black, almost one full of: euphoria ('good mood')." For those who can't google. Euphoria can even be left standing because an oud of this top class, this multi-faceted, this is phenomenal. Tigerwood Royale "is an extremely vegetal, almost vegan fragrance, as unanimalistic as a herbarium." Herbarium I had to google, it means plant collection. This one consists of eaglewood resins, plants is a stretchy term. Unfortunately FvSpee er I mean I am wrong because the leathery notes do not imply animalism in the sense of there is a bull next to me and 34 others next to it, but just clear, straight leather. "I perceive dominantly dry cloves (are in the pyramid) and equally dry juniper berries (are not listed). Of course, there are blackcurrants in there." Here, unfortunately, FvSpee has made little effort. That's not how the oud smells here, and I don't see it in the pyramid either. Too bad. Let's rather take an excerpt from another award-winning commentary.
"EO Green starts with a remarkably bitter yuzu accord, meaty, strong and shrill. A kind of water mist accompanies it, like a subtle aqua note. This could be the lotus. The oakmoss blows in more green moisture, I also smell herbs, mosses, green tea. Very subtle and somewhat hidden, jasmine peeks around in the damp green."
Unfortunately, Tigerwood Royale is not green at all, more mineral, really like a stone, and a cold one at that, exposed to the elements, sometimes damp, sometimes as if from a cave.
"Over all this hovers a fresh, ethereal note, like mint or camphor with some citrus. It smells like a bright, citrusy incense to me. Something earthy and pungent resonates now, somewhat reminiscent of fresh ginger. This is where the ouds kick in and steer the scent into darker greener levels. Dark woods, wet woods, old woods. Roots are there, trampled earth, clay. Acetone sandalwood."
Dreamy...oh, isn't the tigerwood? Ok, sure, not tragic, EO Green is great too but Tigerwood another league. Maybe it's because of the origin of the oud. Malaysian oud is considered more playful, full of nuances and not as dominant as, for example, Cambodian oud, which is found in EO Green and has been incorporated here rather. Is not so with the Tigerwood, here we have only Malaysian Oud.
"Now we've got it, haven't we?"
"No, we're still copying something from Floid."
"Sun is creeping through the street canyon, it's still in the end of the night and in the open window is summer and someone is with you." Let's hope that not too much Tigerwood has been applied otherwise the open window is not enough, the fragrance has an incredibly strong sillage.
"From the corner the fan turns the citrusy mint of last night's herbal soda from the half empty bottle over to your mattress, it's full of the crumbs from the shortbread cookies that tickle more than just your nose, and so you turn to her skin."
What Flokt was referring to here was actually beer and cookie crumbs from Flod's homemade cookies. More like kept it green.
"Enough already, now for a conclusion underneath with two or three sentences about Ensar:"
Joking aside, the comment certainly doesn't reach the front page, but the fragrance would be worth it. There are many ouds which smell high quality and multi-layered while remaining oud at all times. Tigerwood Royale, however, smells so extremely ambivalent that one associates more than just oud. You see the jungle in front of you, see cold, smooth stone formations, smell the crusty salt on them. You perceive leathery notes of your own boots. Scuffed but high quality and weatherproof. The scents are the olfactory summary of a journey towards oud, which takes it all in. Fantastic.
(Thanks to all the involuntary co-writers!)
