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not a bit well-behaved
"Andy!" I would have thought, blind tested, "Andy Tauer!".
The resemblance to the rubber chord in "Rêverie au Jardin" was too clear in the very first moment, in the very first day-test, that I couldn't help but draw parallels between "Kisu" and Tauer's garden dream.
For a few hours, anyway.
Until the rubber faded into the background and I smelled salt and sandy beach, naked warm summer skin, well lotioned, plus something like beach oats, mild floral notes and the wind from the coniferous forest.
"Pioggia Salata", by all means, "Aria di Mare" also fits the bill.
Ethereal coniferous, shady-dark-fresh, high on the mountain, not a grain of sweetness, however small.
Mentholic almost, yet not cold, not sharp - tart and serious, ascetically clear.
Spiced dark gold, Rei Kawakubo's "8 88."
Then again, warm skin on hot sand, there may be a rubber boat on the shore.
And pine needles, camphor, a mysterious something.
Day after day, night after night, back and forth and back and forth.
Dunes swaying gently in the wind, an old fishing boat, driftwood here and there.
Little flowers, tiny, sheltered from the wind in the sunshine.
Intangible, incomprehensible, fascinating, almost disturbingly beautiful.
And delicate, so delicate - transparent, stably fragile and yet enduring, staying with me shadow-like.
A hint of smoke, of varnish, of old dust.
Always different, always new.
Unique and yet not a bit arty.
Every sheet is my witness.
By the way: "Kisu" seems to be, if you believe various databases, the only fragrance for which Azzi Pickthall is officially responsible.
I could not believe that this olfactory fascination should be a single work, a chance hit because of me, a perfumist solitaire.
So I went on the search and found in the net references to a collaboration between Pickthall and the brand Agent Provocateur, whose eponymous first fragrance is to go back to Pickthall's influence:
"Together with perfume expert Azzi Pickthall, they created their first scent, aptly called, Agent Provocateur eau de Parfum. It won the 2001 FiFi Award for best New Fragrance with Limited Distribution."
(Source: http://www.beautynewsnyc.com/fragrance/designers-scent-the-air/).
Where else might Pickthall have his nose in the flacon...?
The resemblance to the rubber chord in "Rêverie au Jardin" was too clear in the very first moment, in the very first day-test, that I couldn't help but draw parallels between "Kisu" and Tauer's garden dream.
For a few hours, anyway.
Until the rubber faded into the background and I smelled salt and sandy beach, naked warm summer skin, well lotioned, plus something like beach oats, mild floral notes and the wind from the coniferous forest.
"Pioggia Salata", by all means, "Aria di Mare" also fits the bill.
Ethereal coniferous, shady-dark-fresh, high on the mountain, not a grain of sweetness, however small.
Mentholic almost, yet not cold, not sharp - tart and serious, ascetically clear.
Spiced dark gold, Rei Kawakubo's "8 88."
Then again, warm skin on hot sand, there may be a rubber boat on the shore.
And pine needles, camphor, a mysterious something.
Day after day, night after night, back and forth and back and forth.
Dunes swaying gently in the wind, an old fishing boat, driftwood here and there.
Little flowers, tiny, sheltered from the wind in the sunshine.
Intangible, incomprehensible, fascinating, almost disturbingly beautiful.
And delicate, so delicate - transparent, stably fragile and yet enduring, staying with me shadow-like.
A hint of smoke, of varnish, of old dust.
Always different, always new.
Unique and yet not a bit arty.
Every sheet is my witness.
By the way: "Kisu" seems to be, if you believe various databases, the only fragrance for which Azzi Pickthall is officially responsible.
I could not believe that this olfactory fascination should be a single work, a chance hit because of me, a perfumist solitaire.
So I went on the search and found in the net references to a collaboration between Pickthall and the brand Agent Provocateur, whose eponymous first fragrance is to go back to Pickthall's influence:
"Together with perfume expert Azzi Pickthall, they created their first scent, aptly called, Agent Provocateur eau de Parfum. It won the 2001 FiFi Award for best New Fragrance with Limited Distribution."
(Source: http://www.beautynewsnyc.com/fragrance/designers-scent-the-air/).
Where else might Pickthall have his nose in the flacon...?
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