06/08/2019
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Floyd
More than Honey
The story about this fragrance is already interesting to read, inspired by fabrics, tailor's chalk and other scissors-snippets it should be. The wearer of the little water should get the impression of wearing a tailor-made suit. What does a tailor smell like? Mrs Aksoy's tailor shop always smelled of detergent, dust and people. In the hip little tailoring studios I visited, it smelled like coffee and cigarettes. This one's supposed to smell like fine designer art. I felt challenged: Old Chucks, three-quarter-Cargo, grey Schlabbershirt and Hateras cap on, Sartorial on.
The whole thing starts off fresh and sweet, a little spicy and quite noble, already in the top note delicate honey notes emerge. Flowers seem only accessories and cannot be identified in detail; they give the fresh, spicy sweetness a little more width and transparency at the same time.
After about half an hour, the fragrance turns fresher: There are cedar and myrrh, which join the fresh ginger, while a light leather note crystallises out. All this, however, remains light and transparent on the always present honey base and changes with well perceptible musk and moss notes. The latter are then the honey companions with vanilla and amber in fade-out.
The shelf life is a good eight to nine hours, the Sillage is always moderate. The cutting history is nice, but if one had thematized manual flower pollination in China and described how they climbed the trees there with leather gloves, later harvesting the flower nectar again and adding vanilla and ambroxan instead of saliva, that would have been just as effective. "More than Honey" would have been a fitting name, following the well-known documentary. Chinese characters on the bottle and that would have looked nice. Alternatively maybe a fragrance twin: "Bernstein im Thamesenebel" for those who don't have a thing for environmental protection.
What the hell, it's still a noble fragrance, I already felt a bit underdressed, but only because of the story about the tailoring!
The whole thing starts off fresh and sweet, a little spicy and quite noble, already in the top note delicate honey notes emerge. Flowers seem only accessories and cannot be identified in detail; they give the fresh, spicy sweetness a little more width and transparency at the same time.
After about half an hour, the fragrance turns fresher: There are cedar and myrrh, which join the fresh ginger, while a light leather note crystallises out. All this, however, remains light and transparent on the always present honey base and changes with well perceptible musk and moss notes. The latter are then the honey companions with vanilla and amber in fade-out.
The shelf life is a good eight to nine hours, the Sillage is always moderate. The cutting history is nice, but if one had thematized manual flower pollination in China and described how they climbed the trees there with leather gloves, later harvesting the flower nectar again and adding vanilla and ambroxan instead of saliva, that would have been just as effective. "More than Honey" would have been a fitting name, following the well-known documentary. Chinese characters on the bottle and that would have looked nice. Alternatively maybe a fragrance twin: "Bernstein im Thamesenebel" for those who don't have a thing for environmental protection.
What the hell, it's still a noble fragrance, I already felt a bit underdressed, but only because of the story about the tailoring!
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