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While researching the name of the fragrance, I came across Henry Miller. A guy who got around a lot, known in the New Age movement, interested in Nietzsche, oriented his way of life to Buddha and Lao Tzu, wrote, painted and also played the piano. One of his literary works is called Tropic of Capricorn and contained partly autobiographical passages. I just ordered it because the man knew how to live, was married five times, loved life, food and sex. All things people are driven by and talk about.........and he's a Capricorn.

He might not have worn the scent, but I think he would have taken a sniff because he was curious. Because he loved to live, was a pleasure seeker and open to all things new. Tropic of Capricorn is not for everyone, for some hard to find beautiful, if they capitulate at the start of the fragrance, because they say uh, the irgdenwie smells like poop, is totally musty, who wants to smell like that or wear something.........


TOC starts out sweet and fecal. Hyrax is the excrement of the klipschliefer or klipdachse (Procavia capensis) - thanks Regina! I guess that's where that fecal note at the beginning comes from. The fruit along with foul water from flowers does the rest and you need a bit of patience until the full beauty of the scent unfolds. Because eventually you're standing in a sea of blooming tuberose, narcotic, engaging and very sexy. You want to fall over the one that smells so damn seductive.

Hooked by dear Peter with Top Shelf, via a few drops of Acaciosa in a swap pack, Black Tar, Bouquet de Palmyre, The Decay of the Angel, I have now landed in the Tropic of Capricorn given to me by dear Regina. An exciting journey that has demanded a lot from the nose and has expanded my olfactory horizons again.

The show "Sendung mit der Maus" has been around for 50 years now and for 46 years the blue elephant has also been part of it, so that the mouse has a friend. A show that probably everyone knows and that you like to watch with the whole family, because it is not only fun, but also smarter. And then at some point came the terrible Teletubbies, little round plushies that somehow made a moronic impression on me. They were supposed to be educational for children of toddler age and hijacked the TV program. I was not interested in this thesis, I found them stupid, annoying and did not want to see them and decided for us that are not so valuable. I saved the blue elephant at home at that time, because I was the ruler of the remote control. The little elephant was namely my favorite.

Nishane's elephant isn't blue, the glass is brown when you light up the bottle. And he really is an elephant. It feels at first like you're really sitting in an enclosure with predators - animalistic, but not too much. Adulated elephants and wild cats that are also cute right from the start. Don't know if this could get tiring in the long run, so we'll see. There's also a slight mint note resonating and slowly the leather comes through. It lasts a couple of hours, then the oud stands alone and I like the drydown best, still sweet but nicely balsamic. So the animalicness fades as it goes on and gets weaker and weaker. As if someone had once properly hosed down the elephant with a hose and chased the cats away with the hose.

There are those brutal people who decapitate their egg with a knife. I can't do that, the sound of the knife rubbing on the shell is awful. I tick the egg and peel off the shell, then lightly cut the white and insert the spoon. I just don't like it when the yolk gets squished out and lost. Is that weird? Definitely!

Intermezzo came to me injured - and also kind of headless. I'm thinking in transit due to a hard impact or just a Monday bottle, the holder for the magnetic closure was no longer attached and I was furious. The day was already crappy and I immediately took out my anger on the dear Parfuma, who sent me this treasure. Sorry again at this point!

Then I bottled me something and put the bottle back in the packaging. A few days later again such a mishap. This time another bottle leaked. So I went to the hardware store, electrical tape and stop, there is also superglue, maybe that works with it, if the electrical tape does not funzt. It didn't work and I had to use superglue. Hm, maybe it also works with Interlude? No sooner said than done - it holds.

Would have been a real shame too, because Interlude smells damn good. Starts fruity with a good portion of ginger.Minimal I also take a kind of polish was, which one uses for furniture or slightly medicinal, somehow hard to explain. Just a very small hint, but that's what makes Interlude special. What fragrance notes that comes from, I could only guess. All the flowers in the scent make it so wonderfully floral, incense gives a very soft smoky note and opoponax makes it slightly powdery. The animalic scents give the fragrance power, it seems. Just like the oud. But I can't smell either. And it feels like there are pickled black nuts in the scent, but again, just a whiff. Leather I do not smell in the fragrance.

The more I wear the scent, the more I like it. I think my rating will still go up.

Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees. Coriander pods are one of my favorite spices. Freshly crushed and then in the potato fennel vegetables is really brilliant. And also just in the potato soup. Don't even know exactly how to describe the scent, but if it goes in one direction, it's so aniseed. According to my statement, Tabla wrote "Isn't there coriander seed in it?" Of course it's the little capsules in the scent, because they don't smell soapy either. Coriander also goes very well in bread, the scent is just lovely when you open the oven and the fragrance hits you.

For me, if fresh coriander is used in food, please chop it very finely and please just a touch. The parsley of Asian cuisines is namely not so my case, as soon as too much is in it, and it usually is, I have this impression of soap in the mouth. If too much is in it and coriander lingers in cold dishes for a while, it also creates a chlorinated taste/scent, which I find quite horrible. Really great I find him a mango vinaigrette, with pickled ginger, coconut milk and a few chili. That in the summer over mango slices and mozzarella - a revelation.

The perfume, on the other hand, is a dream. A chypre that gets that special kick from coriander. So the soapiness comes not from the coriander, but from the oakmoss. But it's subtle. Because if it were too strong, I wouldn't be so thrilled. I've often tried scents with oakmoss in the last few months and was always disappointed because they were too masculine or soapy for me. Coriandre is different and really a lovely floral dream spiced with coriander. Thanks Hallodri, for this donation and for getting me started!

Seven was the film of the year 1995 for me, will probably never forget. An acquaintance who lived in his huge omnibus, had then tickets for the preview and scared me at every scary scene. A quite crazy guy and lovable, who often had a parking problem.

The story is about a serial killer who is obsessed with the seven deadly sins and murders after them. The first of these murders is a fat man whose face is in a plate. He was fed to death and had died of "overeating". The scene is nasty, tied to the chair, the vomit under the table, flies everywhere. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt play well and the good Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey are also in it.

Would Bully Herbig make the film, that would be certainly ne quite corner funnier.

Maybe Winnetou drowned in the Chai Latte bath and stuffed like ne Christmas goose with gingerbread. So smells Exotique Crime for me:

after Chai Latte, with Christmas cookies to it, vanilla and some anise. Has what of Lira, maybe bissi less sweet.