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The name is also really well chosen in this case. Silk, delicate, not necessarily a weatherproof everyday companion, translucent, noble, actually unnecessary but very expensive. That says it all in itself.
OK not quite...

The Silk stands next to all the other better designer fragrances at Douglas and Co., doesn't differ much from them, only it's a bit more expensive and a bit more discreet in its appearance. You wear it exclusively for yourself. But why not? Back to the silk theme... the silk underwear case. You don't wear them to get compliments on the street.

But if you think that The Silk is an erotic scent, you are on the wrong track. We are dealing with a delicate, very fresh and at most a bit playful floral scent. Pepper and bergamot make the prelude nice and sparkling. The former also gives the floral heart note of lily of the valley and violet a certain tingling. But the overall impression is really very subtle. The fragrance is a pure skin scent. I only notice a slightly fruity touch of pear after a few hours. The base is then creamy with tonka and musk, but still a little pepper on top.

You can see that The Silk is really high quality. I've been wearing it for 6 hours and at the beginning I thought after half an hour that it would say goodbye right away, but with hardly any sillage it stays in place anyway. In itself I like the scent very much. An elegant, almost ethereal light floral scent, but with a certain brightness due to the pepper. It should not bother you that the surroundings have absolutely nothing of the scent. And then of course the question arises, if you don't mind spending so much money for this discreet pleasure. But this is simply a matter of discretion

"The mainstream fragrances all smell the same anyway," you read here again and again. The main thing is that it is suitable for the mass market.
Mugler is the brand that counteracts this most consistently. With the new fragrances (not the flankers), they have always managed to launch something innovative. And opinions are always very divided. Aura is no exception.

Mugler fragrances are also always quite loud and, one might say, intrusive. Here too, Aura remains true to the Mugler line.

Green-sweet reads quite strangely. But it's not that bad. Rhubarb leaf tickles a little bit in the nose and is immediately surrounded by vanilla. Later on orange blossom joins in, which becomes more and more popular. It looks immediately rather overloaded, because you smell everything at the same time, no transitions, no significant fragrance and base I do not perceive any. And the scents seem to be quite contradictory. One wonders how all this fits together. It's like Olympea with the salted vanilla. You really have to get used to it, because it's different from what you usually find in the mainstream sector. And it has a lot of sillage and no subtleties. You have to like that. It's extravagant and a bit pinched, which is often the case with fancy clothes. It can look great, but it's not exactly comfortable. A purchase needs to be well thought out.

I'm glad to have Aura in my collection, but it's one of those fragrances I don't want to wear that often. I must be a little brushed for ruckus. It looks extravagant, but anything but classy. It's bitchy and loud. You know Mila Le Blanc, the YouTuberess? She makes perfume videos and is quite entertaining, always top styled, curses incessantly and I'm sure she keeps her environment quite busy. I think Aura would suit her perfectly. I do not mean that in any way derogatory. I find it very refreshing from time to time, but please not every day

Again and again the question arises whether these extremely expensive fragrances are actually worth their money. L for men is currently in action at a cosmetics mail order company and costs only an incredible 300€ for 50ml. Almost a gift ha?

I am of the opinion that such fragrances are either for gourmets or just collectors who really feel joy when they wear a beautiful fragrance. And THEN it is worth the money. The ceiling is slowly falling on my head here, no end in sight, our dear Mr. Chancellor announced today that the corona measures will be tightened and we will soon all wear protective masks. For me, as very enterprising and active people, these are not nice prospects ...
Clearly, no perfume is going to keep me from catching on, or my parents... The prospects won't get any less bleak when I spray myself with L for Men, but for now, it'll be a little more bearable. And that's something I really need at the moment. So YES, I'm glad I have it and it's worth every euro to me at this moment.

Overloaded screamers, craving for attention, often read about CC fragrances among the fine noses in the community. That is absolutely right. If I were a self-righteous power-hungry man, at the head of a large corporation that takes drinking water from poor people in Africa or puts shopping malls in nature reserves, I would not want to wear it (hmm whereas... the statement is funny, because I don't think I would worry about my perfume being too much). Let's agree that L for Men is a statement of a fragrance that can be very intrusive on the right/wrong person when overdosed.

On all around dreary days like today I like the scent very much. I smell mainly wood and a little bit of vetiver with the sharp-citric smell of petitgrain and grapefruit. This is very nice because it makes the fragrance look heavy and lush on the one hand, but also fresh and invigorating. Every now and then the almost to death strained rose-ud combination flashes through. More oud than rose and really very subtle. If you hear about the omnipresent Rosenouds (pah so much for... here it hasn't been found anywhere in the wild yet), you can still have a sniff in here. The opulence of the scent comes from the intensity, and that it simply smells expensive and intense, although there are not so many different scents in it, and there is also no great scent progression.

Durability and sillage are perfect. A single sprayer for the whole day should be sufficient. This puts the price into perspective, because the bottle (the lid looks as tasteless as on the picture) looks really long.

I tend to see L for Men more in men's shoes, but it is also quite wearable for women. Rosenoud in the background loosens up the overall impression a bit. The fragrance is not as gruff as it would otherwise be with wood and petitgrain.

So for me this prepotent show-off turned out to be a real comforter. I hope you all stay healthy and have treasures in your collection that will make the hard weeks a little bit more bearable

A friend of mine, who doesn't know anything about perfumes, asked me some time ago which fragrance I would recommend to him. He was a very clichéd black-metalian. Pretty skinny, long hair, always wearing a homemade frock and metal shirts (all band logos illegible). All in all quite pretty, terribly convinced of himself and his taste in music and also otherwise equipped with one or the other not so useful character trait. But... quite pretty. Of course I immediately came across Tuscan Leather.

The fragrant trve-evil-elitaire-everything-other-than-nette black metal. Sorry about all the snobs, you should wear ombre leather, it's nice anyway.
I like Tuscan Leather a little better. I like this rough. There's a smoky, scuffed leather all over the fragrance. And that's where you're guaranteed to be noticed. In the beginning I also smell a bit of raspberry (much more subtle than Ombre Leather 16). And then in the base a little bit of amber and charred wood. Not much more happens here. Tuscan Leather is not a complicated scent, not a trace of elegance, not a gentleman. Tuscan Leather is for those who want to stand out and show their arrogance to anyone who crosses their path. Actually not people I like to have around me, but the scent still has something very attractive for me. It's funny... such a nice scent, but the person I see wearing it is someone I don't even like. Do you know something like that?

I only have the limited edition Ombre Leather 16, which I can still use as a comparison, the now regular OImber Leather I don't know, I don't know how the two differ. Anyway, Ombre Leather 16 is the nice sibling of Tuscan Leather. The two scents are similar, but OL16 has a much softer leather and I can clearly see the jasmine. The scents are very similar, but they are completely different in character. Tuscan Leather is abysmally beautiful, elitist and aloof, Ombre Leather 16 is more affectionate, elegant, friendly, exclusive.

Tuscan Leather is a phenomenon of a fragrance, an irresistible unsympathetic. I'm going to wallow in it for a while now, listen to the right music (Trve norwegian Black-Metal, everyone who listens to that is automatically better than the rest of the world *be careful sarcasm* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySoWnxfOnIs ) and I'm glad that scents don't always make people

The tree of knowledge! After I studied theology, I am of course happy about a perfume with such a name. And after I have studied CATHOLICAL theology, it is very easy for me to talk for hours about complicated things that I actually cannot understand. This is sometimes very helpful when writing perfume reviews. I also lack any background knowledge about chemistry, fragrances etc. I can only talk about what I smell in the end, but what is behind it... no idea! Almost like in theology (what a stupid comparison haha!)

The tree of knowledge. And it does NOT smell like an apple, not a piece! It's nice when a cliché is not served. But why it smells like fig, we all can read in Genesis 3.7 (ok ok, I'll stop. Don't get me started on this topic hihi).

When I smell the spray head of my bottle, it smells insanely obtrusive. So I sprayed very timidly, but the sillage is not as strong as I feared. It's just that fig with citrus on top smells a bit pungent. The scent quickly turns green and very soon woody notes are added. I don't find the scent particularly fresh. The wood is too present. It smells like the whole tree. Wood, leaves, fruit (i.e. figs), and also a little bit of the roots and the soil. And nothing else. From then on, the scent doesn't change for me anymore.

Feigenbaum with everything and that's it! Such a typical niche scent. If you're mainly interested in the Douglas Top 10, you probably won't be able to get much use out of it. Durability is slightly above average with a rather discreet sillage. I recommend the fragrance for the daytime. It already has something light and airy, which also goes very well with warm weather and outdoor activities. For men and women.

Jovoy's tree of knowledge has something very casual and relaxed about it. So I don't find the name so fitting after all. For the first time the Tree of Knowledge was not a fig tree at all. And the story of the Fall is not necessarily meant to spread good cheer, but in the art of perfumery you can allow yourself a little artistic freedom