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Notes09/15/2020
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My wife: You smell like mulled wine.
...Well, those are exactly the words you don't want to hear when you're torn by a perfume.
TF's perfumes provoke and polarize. But this is also desired. Every creation by TF has its own character, which makes the wearer something special. And not only in a positive sense.
While trying the TF perfumes my olfactory bulb stumbled over tobacco vanilla again and again. I wanted him to please me, but at the end of the day I was always undecided whether he was a candidate for me. Too pushy, too sweet, too special. Something was always bothering me. Many months later I reapplied it and suddenly it seemed as if I liked it after all. Had my sense of smell become tobacco-vanilised? Still not sure if it was for me, I had to change my mind. So it happened that one day I let another person sniff it: My wife's. I could always test the fragrance in a well-known fragrance house after work. I often stayed there.
On the way home - we worked in the same city - I held out my sprayed arm to my wife, excited like a little boy and full of pride: "You smell like an ashtray", were her words. Disillusionment set in. You want me to smell like an ashtray? Thank you for the image you conjured up in my head. Disappointed by my wife's reaction, I did not want to give up hope. Eventually, I, too, had changed my mind about the scent. A few weeks later I went back to the perfumery and tested TV again. Again I held my wife's arm out: "You smell like mulled wine". What? Now also mulled wine? The problem with that is that ever since then I always think I can actually smell mulled wine. I had never bought TV. Maybe because now I have these pictures of mulled wine and ashtrays in my head. 1-2 years passed. A few weeks ago I tried TV again. The lady in the perfumery sprayed TV generously (7-9 sprays) on my arm with a 100 ml bottle. I just thought that I couldn't get the stuff off my arm and it would eat through my arm. But it was bearable. Strangely bearable, despite the quantity. This time I loved the smell and I realized that I want to have it. There was no smell of an ashtray or mulled wine. The images in my head of mulled wine seemed to have disappeared. But it was something else that bothered me. The durability was frighteningly bad. After a good hour, TV could only be smelled up close. Could that be? The smell that is supposed to last forever? In 90% of all comments you can read that TV should have a very good durability. Finally, after all these years, I started to like the scent and now it won't last much longer? Did I just get a bad tester? You hear and read about reformulations from time to time. But could that be?
One thing is certain for me: I like the scent very much and I will test it again soon. After all, it is a potential candidate for purchase. And since it's my birthday soon and the golden donkey "family" wants to give in to his need again and give me a present on that day, it could actually end up in the shopping cart this time, as long as I'm not disappointed by the shelf life in the final test.
Only one question remains: What will I tell my wife when she asks me why I smell like mulled wine in October?
Peace!
PS: Was really excited while writing^^ My first commi. But was there with maximum effort.
TF's perfumes provoke and polarize. But this is also desired. Every creation by TF has its own character, which makes the wearer something special. And not only in a positive sense.
While trying the TF perfumes my olfactory bulb stumbled over tobacco vanilla again and again. I wanted him to please me, but at the end of the day I was always undecided whether he was a candidate for me. Too pushy, too sweet, too special. Something was always bothering me. Many months later I reapplied it and suddenly it seemed as if I liked it after all. Had my sense of smell become tobacco-vanilised? Still not sure if it was for me, I had to change my mind. So it happened that one day I let another person sniff it: My wife's. I could always test the fragrance in a well-known fragrance house after work. I often stayed there.
On the way home - we worked in the same city - I held out my sprayed arm to my wife, excited like a little boy and full of pride: "You smell like an ashtray", were her words. Disillusionment set in. You want me to smell like an ashtray? Thank you for the image you conjured up in my head. Disappointed by my wife's reaction, I did not want to give up hope. Eventually, I, too, had changed my mind about the scent. A few weeks later I went back to the perfumery and tested TV again. Again I held my wife's arm out: "You smell like mulled wine". What? Now also mulled wine? The problem with that is that ever since then I always think I can actually smell mulled wine. I had never bought TV. Maybe because now I have these pictures of mulled wine and ashtrays in my head. 1-2 years passed. A few weeks ago I tried TV again. The lady in the perfumery sprayed TV generously (7-9 sprays) on my arm with a 100 ml bottle. I just thought that I couldn't get the stuff off my arm and it would eat through my arm. But it was bearable. Strangely bearable, despite the quantity. This time I loved the smell and I realized that I want to have it. There was no smell of an ashtray or mulled wine. The images in my head of mulled wine seemed to have disappeared. But it was something else that bothered me. The durability was frighteningly bad. After a good hour, TV could only be smelled up close. Could that be? The smell that is supposed to last forever? In 90% of all comments you can read that TV should have a very good durability. Finally, after all these years, I started to like the scent and now it won't last much longer? Did I just get a bad tester? You hear and read about reformulations from time to time. But could that be?
One thing is certain for me: I like the scent very much and I will test it again soon. After all, it is a potential candidate for purchase. And since it's my birthday soon and the golden donkey "family" wants to give in to his need again and give me a present on that day, it could actually end up in the shopping cart this time, as long as I'm not disappointed by the shelf life in the final test.
Only one question remains: What will I tell my wife when she asks me why I smell like mulled wine in October?
Peace!
PS: Was really excited while writing^^ My first commi. But was there with maximum effort.
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