Apsu by Ulrich Lang
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7.3 / 10 78 Ratings
A perfume by Ulrich Lang for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is green-fresh. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Green
Fresh
Floral
Woody
Synthetic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Green notesGreen notes CorianderCoriander Violet leafViolet leaf BergamotBergamot
Heart Notes Heart Notes
WaterlilyWaterlily PimentoPimento IrisIris JasmineJasmine White teaWhite tea
Base Notes Base Notes
AmberAmber CedarwoodCedarwood FrankincenseFrankincense White muskWhite musk
Ratings
Scent
7.378 Ratings
Longevity
7.070 Ratings
Sillage
6.469 Ratings
Bottle
6.765 Ratings
Value for money
6.325 Ratings
Submitted by OPomone, last update on 16.04.2024.

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Sillage
7
Longevity
5
Scent
Axiomatic

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Axiomatic
Axiomatic
Top Review 30  
Primal Soup Joe
Apsu, the Mesopotamian interpretation of groundwater. According to this, a freshwater ocean is the origin of this world. In it, the separation between air and earth takes place.
According to this idea, our earthly home floats above this water and is protectively separated from the wet source by an air bubble.

Of course, a suitably funny deity with the same name should not be missing, who, together with the salt water goddess, Tiamat, sets about colonizing the world.
Oh wonder, her children strive for power, practice patricide and are punished by mom by letting even worse creatures see the light of day.
The Sumerians probably didn't yet know proper family planning.

So, that settles the name of the fragrance.
Let's see how this saga creeps into the course of the fragrance.

Sizzle!
Goodness gracious, the lawnmower is warming up! Green-colored chlorophyll plows its way up my nose.
Freshly mowed lawn as far as the eye can see.
Disturbing shrubs have been sacrificed for the sake of shaved aesthetics, so please don't expect any hesperides.

It then becomes deliciously aromatic. Coriander greens in abundance!
Someone should copy this!
Extremely close to the natural recipe and slightly salty.

Oh, what I would give for crispy nachos and one of those heavenly dips from Mexico. Green tomatoes, jalapeños and lots of coriander greens. The perfect green sauce on the other side of the Atlantic would be ready.

So, at this point in the fragrance progression in particular, it's wonderful to endure.
Just spread out a nice blanket on the freshly mown lawn, unpack your Mexican picnic basket and let the green be green.

But suddenly something Cascalone blows over from the pond...

... and the picnic blanket shifts as if of its own accord to the eerie shore full of ominous water lilies.

The smell becomes increasingly watery, increasingly musty...

The water becomes cloudy...

Air bubbles do not bode well...

UUUUUUAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!

The thing from the swamp rises thunderously from the murky broth!

And I can only watch, paralyzed, as it licks its sharp, fishy teeth with its slippery tongue.
On its head a crown of the deadest jasmine that ever existed.

It has paws like a whole toiling troop of miners.
And it smells stomach-churning.
The carrion is its signature.

There he is, the avenger of the saga's patricides!

But one evil rarely comes alone.
Also in the party is the villain's great-grandmother, preserved in algae.
Although she is no longer quite so aggressive due to advanced bone loss, she always has her poison cabinet with her in a rotten but stylish cellar bag.
Well, her twinset is debatable, but she has a solid basic taste. Everything in faux wood tones.
Her hairstyle dates back to the glory days of Jackie Kennedy.

She resolutely opens the bag, takes out a brass censer and begins to numb my senses with incense.
With a flawless cloth handkerchief soaked in white musk, she blows the smoke up my nose.
A strange, smoky freshness illuminates the scene in an unearthly way.
And I become paralyzed.

But my martyrdom has just begun.
Because Primeval Soup Joe is slowly but inexorably approaching. His stench and the magical smoke are turning greener than a spinach smoothie.

Meanwhile, the cheeky great-grandmother has opened her powder jar and is sprinkling iris dust around my nose.

Great-grandma: Gell, my darling, you're a good little boy.
That little bit of iris is fine.

And then she starts to sing...

Great-grandma: When monsters kiss Axios, then they must must must
they have to be very, very gentle
They are heavy and it hurts, they step on his toe

And the monster's lips get closer and closer!
Usuppen-Joe: Kiss!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the clock industry, especially the alarm clock guild, for always being quicker than the police to help in the worst emergency situations.
I have them to thank for waking me up from a bad nightmare.

A big thank you, of course, goes to the fragrance's short shelf life. Just long enough to make you realize that you should avoid the brackish pond in the forest in the future.

And, of course, a special thanks goes to the coriander green note. The Mexican sauce will soon be on the couch table next to the bowl of nachos.
Because after the scent experience, I'm treating myself to a binge evening of every imaginable movie adaptation of Swamp Thing to cope with the shock.
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Bottle
7
Sillage
8
Longevity
10
Scent
Carboytony

116 Reviews
Carboytony
Carboytony
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Fresh, crisp and green
This is one of my all-time favorite spring and summer scents. Sometimes I even wear in the winter because it's such a great pick me up.

This is such a lush, green fragrance so beautiful, so fresh, so crisp. On my skin I get loads of crisp fresh green notes, Violet leaf, and a gorgeous dose of cilantro right into the base notes. In the heart I get wisps of light white tea, soft fluffy white musk, and gentle notes of water lily as well as slight nuances of dewy Jasmine petals. Faint notes of Cedar and frankincense situate in the base notes.

This masterpiece is truly a must-have for anyone who loves green note fragrances.
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Bottle
6
Sillage
7
Longevity
5.5
Scent
Meggi

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Meggi
Meggi
Top Review 35  
McMeggi does not have to search long
We have a zinc tub on the terrace, in which a few water lilies live their existence. They have held out bravely for some years, but they have never bloomed. In this respect I cannot prove the assumption expressed in the following from my own experience.

By the way, said tub is source of occasional amusement for three quarters of my family. Sometimes it accommodates one or the other frog. Such visits are - depending on the suddenness of the appearance - always recognizable either by a sharp scream or by a quiet shiver of my wife. She really doesn't like phobias, but frogs are obviously a special case. Just by the way.

About the fragrance: The chain of associations worked perfectly and quickly. McMeggi (that's the little male in the brain who digs the not directly available information from the depths of the archive) took barely two minutes to draw the line. It leads over "water lily" (or water lily) to the unspeakable 'U4eahh! 2.43' from Yosh. He comes up with buckets of glue and varnish and even 'apsu' smells like glue in the front. So I have to assume that the so-called water lily is responsible for it and that I can't with its aroma.

Thus 'apsu' already starts his career with me with a heavy mortgage. Oha... Then watery peach on glue, a bitter, light wood note. Coriander? Not right away. At first I think of one and a half days old flower water, cucumber salad (look - I'm not alone with that!) and something like root stock. A touch of sweatiness finally justifies the promised spice. Over the course of an hour, the adhesive disappears into the background. Uff.

Perhaps to underline the perfumed claim, the fragrance also offers a bitter touch that may refer to the trendy tea. Its designation as "white", however, presumably simply stems from the manufacturer's desire to produce certain images. For my sake we can accept green tea peach.

I don't find everything so tingling. What seems more exciting to me, however, is that there has been some spice brewed in the underground, which could certainly do honour to certain candidates from the house of CdG. I come to this especially because of the banana wood note, which takes prominent place from the late morning. I generally can't be right about such things, but here it rings in the most pleasant part of the fragrance for me. Which of course doesn't mean too much.

At least the artificial wood develops less penetrance than elsewhere. The discreet seasoning - our cucumber salad now has an oriental touch - is quite good for the cause. The overall picture looks somehow aquatic in the afternoon and not bad at all.

Conclusion: Difficult to make a recommendation. Synthetic friends would probably be most enthusiastic about 'apsu'.

PS: If you want cucumber salad, you better go to Bottega Veneta's splendid 'Parco Palladiano II'.

I thank MisterE for the rehearsal.
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