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Today there is one of the most beautiful, if not the most beautiful gourmand fragrance in the Desigerbereich for you behind my 21.perfume Advent calendar door: Prada Candy.

Recently, I watched the last season of the cooking show "The Taste" practically in one through. I'm thinking of the curved tasting spoons, and today's menu features: four ways of caramel. The base is crunchy, slightly bittersweet caramel brittle, topped with a small melt-in-your-mouth tartlet of crème caramel, doused in liquid butter caramel, delicately sprinkled with caramel powder.

Who needs vanilla when you can have candy? I have a big heart for gourmand fragrances and especially for the Candy series. Here I always notice one thing: pure vanilla fragrances are often too boring and predictable for me. Quite the opposite of nougat, marzipan, cherry, chocolate or especially caramel. Yes it's sweet, yes it's sugary, yes it's pleasing, however it possesses one thing: toasty aromas. Just those deep nuances that are created when the sugar is heated and boiled down. If you overdo it, the sugar burns and turns black. This is where the colouring sugar couleur comes from, which tastes very bitter. But if you match the perfect moment and temperature, the sugar caramelizes and an incredibly addictive melange of sweet and tart notes emerges. And that's exactly how I feel about Prada Candy.

2011 I circumnavigated directly after the launch several times in the perfumeries this fragrance and diligently tested first on paper, then on the skin and ultimately decided against a purchase, because the durability on me with 2-3 hours seemed too bad. Today, however, I know how I can extend them.

The first Candy, which I then purchased as a large flacon, was the L'Eau variant. Barely tested, made as an impulse buy. This I wear more in everyday life. Later came Candy Sugar Pop and finally the original Candy. Currently I'm toying with a bottle of Candy Kiss, but I also like the Flower Candy very much. The only Candy variant, with which I do not warm up so at all is unfortunately Candy Night and although I love chocolate, but on my skin, unfortunately, this note often appears rancid.

The original Candy, the most purist version, if you can even speak of purist with all that decadent caramel, is my favorite. Sweet yet classy. To bite into delicious caramel in any states of aggregation, I mean consistencies of course, and even now as I write this my mouth is watering. I love to apply it in the evening after a stressful (work) day to snuggle up, relax and fall asleep soothed, comforting, enveloping, mellow. Gourmand at it's best.

Every lover of this genre should have tested this treasure, as an insider tip I can not call him now, for that he is too popular, once and experienced its magic.

Many thanks for reading,

Your Flaconesse

Dear perfume friends, I wish you all at the same time to the 20.perfume Advent calendar door a beautiful 4th Advent. Today hides this wintry men's fragrance behind it, Valentino Uomo, the second fragrance that I will give away this year for Christmas.

Do you know it too? The colder and darker the days get, the greasier and richer the food has to be too. In winter, I don't want a fresh cucumber salad and all the more want the steaming stew, preferably extra spicy. My current obsession is instant coffee. I'm sure the baristas and avid coffee drinkers among you are slapping their hands together at this point, but I've never been a coffee drinker, can't stand the caffeine. I preferred the strong beans in the form of chocolate bars. But now I also like them liquid, decaf, instant, 2 spoonfuls of sugar, sometimes honey, oat milk and preferably around 5pm. That sounds worse than from Starbucks, one or the other will say, but I like it.

And exactly so it behaves with this fragrance: I got to know him when I fished from large bay a men's bottling package. As a good Flaconesse you have to finally educate yourself in every field and this time the lesson was called men's fragrances. By the way: some of them I wear myself, as you already know, so you never know where the new favorite, the next great discovery will come from. So Valentino Uomo was included in the package and I liked it right away. Truly not a lofty fragrance of intellectual perfumery art, but it smells above all one thing: simply good.

Gourmandig sweet, enveloping, with subtle coffee note, which reminds me more of a dessert, than of the said hot drink. Such a beautiful fragrance must not be missing in my collection, but since my budget for this month was already used up, I came up with a smart idea: I just give it away for Christmas and that to my boyfriend. He has certainly nothing against it, if I him for you Unboxe and me from time to time a spray steal, because he liked him at the first Antesten just as.

When the fragrance arrived, here in a gift set with matching shower gel, I was surprised by the value of the box. The light brown cardboard has a diamond-like embossing and is a boon for every haptic. The logo shines in the middle, golden writing on a black background. The bottles inside make an equally noble impression. The 50mL flacon of the eau de toilettes is secured at the spray head as there is no lid. The glass has the same slightly thicker texture as the cardboard, feels good in the hand and has an interesting feel. The liquid shines through with a brownish tint, and the company logo shines from a badge on the front. And also the plastic shower gel bottle does not look cheap.

The spray head of the flacon is easy to operate, admittedly, the side could be a little finer. Immediately surrounds me a slightly herbaceous, spicy opening, this must be the myrtle, with subtle bergamot freshness, which merely colors the background. Then the gourmand sweet heart opens: a creamy dessert of coffee-flavored giandujanougat cream, gourmet nutella, so to speak. So the fragrance lingers for some time, indulgent, enveloping, before fading out over a subtly woody, finely tuned leather base.

For me, a fragrance that fits quite wonderfully into everyday winter wear. Less as a work companion, where he would not stand out here disturbingly, but rather suitable as a leisure, cuddle, sleep and feel-good fragrance and he is 100% unisex. What I appreciate about the men's sourmands is the spice that is often brought out more, the depth that appears as a counter to the sweet notes and makes the scent more interesting than it often is with the women's versions. Because many of the ladies gourmand declared as such seem to me too sweet, too flat.

Valentino Uomo has risen in the short time we've known each other to become one of my top three favorite designer winter men's fragrances, along with Le Male Le Parfum and Dior Homme Intense. In terms of fragrance feel, it has parallels with the latter, but seems less elegant, but enveloping-creamy.

Now I hope the presentee will be happy in 4 days about the fragrant gift, otherwise I just enjoy him myself, snuggled on the sofa in the afternoon with instant coffee.

Thank you for reading,
Your Flaconesse

Today there is the 19th door of my perfume advent calendar, are you also as excited as me? Well you know what's inside: Zadig & Voltaire - Girls can be Crazy

After Girls Can Do Anything and Girls Can Say Anything, this Girls Can Be Crazy now completes the Girls trilogy, but who knows, Zadig & Voltaire might throw a few more Girls Something fragrances with, let's say, rather infantile names on the market in the next few years. I'm all for creative names that are allowed to be a bit cheeky, but all these Girls are just childish tongue twisters to me, not quite as bad as the Kilians in the round flacons, but only a razor-thin embarrassment level away from that.

Before I tell you my first impressions of GCBC, first to the predecessors, which I, to have them back in my head and nose, recently sprayed again. The first of the series, if you can call it that, almost wins me over with a fresh-sweet, slightly synthetic orange blossom. It's not a highfalutin scent, but it strikes me as thoroughly pleasant. Quite the opposite of GCSA, this one is just squeaky fruity and overdone. Him I can not stand for long, even have to wash it off.

So I didn't expect too much from this new Girls fragrance, because scents with cola notes have never really appealed to me before. Sprayed on it reminds me in the very first moment of the first Girl, then quickly becomes much sweeter, not unpleasant, rather bright friendly and pleasing. No trace of pear. Cola maybe, but not a sparkling, freshly opened bottle, served on ice with a slice of lemon, but comparable to the cola syrup for's Sodastream , which is in our kitchen cabinet. I detect a creamy, almost coconut note, probably from the tonka bean. As far as my notes from the first test.

I have tested him quite bravely again and just for you simultaneously all thoughts recorded:
The first nasal puff is powdery-fresh, then it gets sweet right after that. This coconut-like creaminess is right there. I suspect today that this is supposed to be the cola: sticky, pappy. Unfortunately, again, not a pear or one so over-sugared that you can't recognize it as such. Some kind of chemical note is mixed in, if you sniff very close to it, it almost has something bitter almondy, benzaldehyde-like. It's hard for me to identify or even name individual scents here and reconcile them with the scent pyramid, harder than with other fragrances. It is a sweet mishmash, whereby the word lump seems more appropriate to me, because that's how the fragrance seems to me right now, every now and then the one, there the other over-sugared tip flashes out, but before I can grasp it clearly, name it, it's gone. The drydown, which seems a little less sugared for increased creamy, I can gain something synthetic-apart.

I would tend to assign the fragrance to the very young target group. He is somehow also pleasing and uncomplicated, but very sweet and rather synthetic. I would intuitively arrange him in the winter, because here, as so often with sweet fragrances, the cold seems necessary to me as a good counterpart. At warmer temperatures, he could yet become very sticky or even stuffy.

In a Flacon I would not invest here, because the first part of the Girls series seems more sympathetic to me. But who stands on sweet-synthetic, which could like this new release.

Thanks for reading,

Your Flaconesse

Today hides behind the 18th perfume Advent calendar door this fragrance: Lancome - La Nuit Trésor. A flanker of the well-known Trésor, one of the cult fragrances of the 90s. Both have nothing in common, however, except for the name. But why is that so?

First of all: what I even a Flanker? As Flanker other variants are called a known perfume, which carry the original name with in their name. This can be L'eau versions, Summer Editions or additions such as Night, Noir, Sport, etc.. Not considered as flankers, however, all modified concentration variants, so Eau de Toilettes, Eau de Parfums, Colognes and Extraits, as well as Eau de Parfum Intenses are not flankers to the original fragrance, even if the fragrance pyramid may differ between the concentrations.
Some flankers resemble the original fragrance, develop it further or its basic theme, this can be a concise fragrance note, a whole chord or just the basic mood.

The fate of many flankers, however, is, as here, that they no longer have anything in common with the original fragrance except the name. They could pass for perfumes in their own right. But why are they now released as flankers? This decision is mostly economic and marketing: the name of a well-known and popular perfume often sells better than a completely new one. People know what to expect, or at least they think they do.
With La Nuit Trésor L'Eau de Parfum, however, we now have the case that there are flankers to this fragrance again with name additions such as "Caresse" or "á la Folie". Here we have the situation of a double flanker, i.e. a flanker of a flanker. I haven't heard of a triple flanker yet, but who knows....

But now to the fragrance: I got to know him through a sample, which I took to a very relaxing holiday. My boyfriend and I were just newly in love, spent our first Christmas together and went just before the holidays to relax together after a stressful year of work in a cozy spa hotel. The weather was lousy, we didn't go out but warmed up in steaming rose, rhassoul and thermal baths. In the evening we dined chicly in the hotel's own restaurant and that was the time when I applied La Nuit Trésor for the first time: Dressed in pretty clothes and deeply relaxed, all I needed was an evening night out scent with subtle sexiness. I sprayed, 1, 2, 3 and even 4 sprays, these test tubes are small after all and don't give off that much perfume, and had to swallow hard as I stood in a room-filling cloud of scent. "Phew, strong" my beloved commented with a contorted face. And I gasped as well. "Ok that one I had imagined a little different!" I tried to apologize. As the evening went on, we slowly got used to each other.

Fruity-sweet, but also dark, slightly scratchy, the scent still strikes me when I first spray it on. The lychee, whatever lychee chocolates are supposed to be, I perceive well, followed by a floral vanilla, which I like much better here, so too vanillin creamy notes of comparable Gourmands. Delicately smoky to scratchy incense and papyrus give the scent a dark almost mysterious color.

It has a bombastic sillage, so please be merciful to your fellow man. To go out to eat I wore him afterwards actually no more, but to some wintry parties and so he developed in recent years, after the initial shock, one of my favorite Ausgehdüfte, of which I have now already emptied the 2.Flakon. Whether I buy him directly after, I do not know yet, because I have so many beautiful and special fragrances in my collection, which I want to give more space and maybe it is here just as with my former signature fragrance Jil Sander Style, sometimes you evolve and the party is over for the time being or at least another

However, I would recommend it to anyone looking for a not too pleasing, mainstream gourmand that brings a very special touch with that slight scratchiness.
I feel it so, and just also at the Intensive Testschnuppern for this comment, that our ways separate for the time being and I continue to develop in other directions, for me this party is over for the time being, but I was very happy there, keep it in good memory and who knows, maybe (next year in all certainty) once a new party beckons.

Thank you for reading
Your Flaconesse

Welcome, my dear perfume friends, to my 17th perfume advent calendar door. Today I would like to introduce you to a more unknown fragrance with a mysterious name: Equinox Bloom.

Equinox, meaning equinox or equinox (from Latin aequus 'equal' and nox 'night'), refers to the days in the year when the day is the same length as the night. In our latitudes this is twice in the year the case: on 20.March as well as on 23.September (+/- 1)
Literally translated, Equinox Bloom also means as much as equinox flower. So a flower that is the same day and night, neither at dusk nor in the rain closes to protect their delicate reproductive organs. However, this only makes sense if it is not pollinated by nocturnal insects. The queen of the night, on the other hand, a cactus plant, opens its flowers toward night.

A floral fragrance we have here in any case. First, one perceives fruity orange blossom, mixed with a very distinctive cream note. Herbaceous violet leaf stirs, provides the necessary friction, closely followed by lush white flowers with a slight tendency to sticky, indolic. This is necessary to keep the fragrance from seeming too pleasing or even too gentle. Slowly the waves smooth out and the fragrance fades out harmoniously over a brown sugared base. As a real sillage monster, 1-2 sprays are enough for me here, which I can smell clearly until the next day.

Equinox Bloom is truly a fragrance that I had to approach slowly. Bought blind because I thought the bottle with old pink bow and the wild, colorful artwork of the packaging was so beautiful. At the first test, it was a warm early summer day, I fell straight from the Latschen, what a Wuchtbrumme! A real sillage monster! Sticky florality and that only with one spray! Granted, the creamy note was something quite new to my nose, but all the lush rest, I had assotiazions of Indian curries in my head and nose. The sultriness of the day potentiated the sultriness of the fragrance into the unbearable for me. So I put the bottle in the cabinet and took it out again in winter. And yes, suddenly it clicked and I smelled the full beauty of this very special flower gourmand, which needs the cold of winter as a counterbalance.

Since then I enjoy this nose flatterer, but wear it only for me in the evening to snuggle up when I feel like something not too pleasing.

Thank you for reading,

Your Flaconesse