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11/06/2012
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When I read all the bewitching igredients I became really keen of Djhenné No. 22. I had expected a mixture of fresh and cool mint and lavender, followed by bitter chocolate spiced with the sweet and soft citrus taste of the seringa-blossoms. I ment to recognize the smell of yellow-gray wheat-fields under the summer-sun - in my mind. This all so I expected would be based through the wood, fine leather and softening amber. The myrrh as I imagined would give the little but important special impact.
Fortunately I bought at first a sample from a parfum-shop. The first time I tested it I thought that maybe I did not feel very well. The smell for me was similar to the fields I was forced to smell years ago where underploughed sewage sludge was polluting the air. The situation was that I was riding on a horse and it refused stepping closer to the fields. I had to return and to ride another way. Disgusting! After a short time I had to remove that "parfume" from my wrists with water and soap and pure alcohol because the smell did not vanish immediately.
But I tried a second time: The same! And a third time! Each time I took only a tiny little bit of the Djhenné no. 22 on my wrists.
What was happening each time? First there was arising the smell of old sweat: like the sweat of someone who had worked hard all over a day. I thought of the special kind of oud which smells for me like sweat. But there is not listed any oud. Neither was there a scent of mint nor of lavender. Then there was mixing in something like spoiled and fermenting cocoa. No seringa was blossoming. Just revers: The conjunction was developing to anything disgustingly sweet, I ment to identify old and sweaty leather like that from an old saddle. Sewage sludge? Yes, there was a remote smell of dried wheat-straw. No cedar at all, nowhere. This all together with for me unknown added scents was unbearable for me. What a pity! The third time I stood it through and surprisingly after about one hour it became less stinky, yes it even became a little bit sweet, slighty poudry. Djhennè was trying to become noble. But now my olfactory sense did not "trust" it any more.
I presented the sample a few days later to a forum-user who was wanting Djhennè as hard as I did. And she wrote to me in a cautious way whether she was right when she was feeling the smell disgusting and old, it had shaked her. So I had to agree. I did not tell her before of my olfactory event in order not to evoke a prejudice. I would be glad if there would be someone else who did not have such a negative experience with Djhennè No. 22. That this is only an individual feeling of two women.
Fortunately I bought at first a sample from a parfum-shop. The first time I tested it I thought that maybe I did not feel very well. The smell for me was similar to the fields I was forced to smell years ago where underploughed sewage sludge was polluting the air. The situation was that I was riding on a horse and it refused stepping closer to the fields. I had to return and to ride another way. Disgusting! After a short time I had to remove that "parfume" from my wrists with water and soap and pure alcohol because the smell did not vanish immediately.
But I tried a second time: The same! And a third time! Each time I took only a tiny little bit of the Djhenné no. 22 on my wrists.
What was happening each time? First there was arising the smell of old sweat: like the sweat of someone who had worked hard all over a day. I thought of the special kind of oud which smells for me like sweat. But there is not listed any oud. Neither was there a scent of mint nor of lavender. Then there was mixing in something like spoiled and fermenting cocoa. No seringa was blossoming. Just revers: The conjunction was developing to anything disgustingly sweet, I ment to identify old and sweaty leather like that from an old saddle. Sewage sludge? Yes, there was a remote smell of dried wheat-straw. No cedar at all, nowhere. This all together with for me unknown added scents was unbearable for me. What a pity! The third time I stood it through and surprisingly after about one hour it became less stinky, yes it even became a little bit sweet, slighty poudry. Djhennè was trying to become noble. But now my olfactory sense did not "trust" it any more.
I presented the sample a few days later to a forum-user who was wanting Djhennè as hard as I did. And she wrote to me in a cautious way whether she was right when she was feeling the smell disgusting and old, it had shaked her. So I had to agree. I did not tell her before of my olfactory event in order not to evoke a prejudice. I would be glad if there would be someone else who did not have such a negative experience with Djhennè No. 22. That this is only an individual feeling of two women.
