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Cardamom in a box
I think I have smelled fragrances in which cardamom is an ingredient. But I'm not sure.
What I am sure of is that the scent doesn't work on me at all.
"It does nothing for me!"
I just smell "cardamom in a box", kind of cardboardy, I don't know how else to explain it.
And otherwise:
Lily - where?
Rose - nothing...
Currant - wtf?
Tonka - hello?
Oh, you beautiful Celeste, unfortunately it won't work out with us,
it's sad, but you can move on, goodbye!
What I am sure of is that the scent doesn't work on me at all.
"It does nothing for me!"
I just smell "cardamom in a box", kind of cardboardy, I don't know how else to explain it.
And otherwise:
Lily - where?
Rose - nothing...
Currant - wtf?
Tonka - hello?
Oh, you beautiful Celeste, unfortunately it won't work out with us,
it's sad, but you can move on, goodbye!
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Give me the perfume..
Schützenfest at the end of the 80s. Visiting this traditional event with the mother-in-law in spe in uniform. The spouse in spe also in the green skirt. And it felt like everyone else present was there too, except me. Me totally ignorant of what to expect there, me young inexperienced bouncer.
The event takes its course, the tension rises by the minute - the room temperature as well. My mother-in-law-to-be has sweat on her forehead. She looks at me and says: "Give me just dat Parföng!". Irritated, I hand her the little bottle of N°5 that I've been saving for for months - and fate takes its course. Splashed into both hands and well distributed in the face and décolleté.
My face from that time I would have liked to see.
I got a new bottle as a gift from my spouse in spe. I still own that one - unopened.
How the fragrance smells? Indescribable, I am at a loss for words!
Often I think about whether I should try it again. But some things are perhaps better left alone.
Three times you may guess, whether the spouse of God in spe of that time has become my husband...
The event takes its course, the tension rises by the minute - the room temperature as well. My mother-in-law-to-be has sweat on her forehead. She looks at me and says: "Give me just dat Parföng!". Irritated, I hand her the little bottle of N°5 that I've been saving for for months - and fate takes its course. Splashed into both hands and well distributed in the face and décolleté.
My face from that time I would have liked to see.
I got a new bottle as a gift from my spouse in spe. I still own that one - unopened.
How the fragrance smells? Indescribable, I am at a loss for words!
Often I think about whether I should try it again. But some things are perhaps better left alone.
Three times you may guess, whether the spouse of God in spe of that time has become my husband...
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Wet dog with cucumber flavor in compost with seaweed...
...that triggered the blind-buy stimulus. I have to smell that!
What a combination. I like weird stuff, bring it on!
Good little flower meets berry and ends up on the wild compost in the woods. That's how I could describe it. But even that would be too wild a description for this scent. Ultimately, it is a berry floral fragrance with a musk base. Exactly what I don't like. By far better than some cheap scent, that is, qualitatively good, as you would expect from such a fragrance house.
But so boring!
I prefer to smell the withered flower. Or the wet dog. Or the compost. After all, that stimulates the imagination, as the name of the fragrance promises.
Who likes a berry floral fragrance with a musk base, I advise to test. But just do not "blind buy", afterwards it smells with you still after wet dog with cucumber aroma in compost with seaweed...
What a combination. I like weird stuff, bring it on!
Good little flower meets berry and ends up on the wild compost in the woods. That's how I could describe it. But even that would be too wild a description for this scent. Ultimately, it is a berry floral fragrance with a musk base. Exactly what I don't like. By far better than some cheap scent, that is, qualitatively good, as you would expect from such a fragrance house.
But so boring!
I prefer to smell the withered flower. Or the wet dog. Or the compost. After all, that stimulates the imagination, as the name of the fragrance promises.
Who likes a berry floral fragrance with a musk base, I advise to test. But just do not "blind buy", afterwards it smells with you still after wet dog with cucumber aroma in compost with seaweed...
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Brilliantly British = America First ?
You may now calmly hit me or write me nasty responses under my comment.
But when I first saw the bottle and the name of the fragrance virginally in a perfumery, the kaleidoscope of a carousel of thoughts raced through my head: "Brexit, Are they crazy now?, America First, They're crazy, the Romans!..." (I'm sorry, I can't help my thoughts, they're free...).
But in all seriousness, even though I'm a total fan of the British lifestyle and think the Union Jack is beautiful, I felt a little uncomfortable stepping on toes at first. You see, I'm suffering from the Brexit. The year before last in London, the year before that from Ireland on a short visit to Belfast, a couple of years before that in Scotland and with the will to visit many more places on the island (and mainland), I suddenly feel that as an EU member I am no longer a welcome member of the UK club. So the exuberant packaging of the bottle with the Union Jack and the name "Brilliantly British" came in handy. I had to gasp, then swallow.
But since the love of the UK in general and the traditional house Penhaligon's in particular is big enough and my heart as well: what the hell - test. In the end, but always wins the pragmatist in me.
Well, now I have the fragrance and can't figure it out. Why does such a fragrance have such packaging?
Yatagan talks about the tradition of lavender in England in his commentary. And although I was already in June/July in the Cotswolds, I missed it until now. So I've learned something again. For me, lavender has always been typically French, even though traditional English fragrance houses like to use lavender. In any case, I really like lavender, especially when mixed unconventionally with other notes. And salted caramel is one of those notes for me. I smell musk here (thankfully) at the very most to stabilize the scent. Even if the fragrance seems quite one-dimensional - he is not annoying, he is not penetrating, he is quite simply Gentleman.
And so then the circle closes. And I forgive the fragrance for the beautiful but, for me, inappropriate packaging. But that makes it unusually exciting. And has kicked off with me diverse emotions.
So, now you may complain about me....
But when I first saw the bottle and the name of the fragrance virginally in a perfumery, the kaleidoscope of a carousel of thoughts raced through my head: "Brexit, Are they crazy now?, America First, They're crazy, the Romans!..." (I'm sorry, I can't help my thoughts, they're free...).
But in all seriousness, even though I'm a total fan of the British lifestyle and think the Union Jack is beautiful, I felt a little uncomfortable stepping on toes at first. You see, I'm suffering from the Brexit. The year before last in London, the year before that from Ireland on a short visit to Belfast, a couple of years before that in Scotland and with the will to visit many more places on the island (and mainland), I suddenly feel that as an EU member I am no longer a welcome member of the UK club. So the exuberant packaging of the bottle with the Union Jack and the name "Brilliantly British" came in handy. I had to gasp, then swallow.
But since the love of the UK in general and the traditional house Penhaligon's in particular is big enough and my heart as well: what the hell - test. In the end, but always wins the pragmatist in me.
Well, now I have the fragrance and can't figure it out. Why does such a fragrance have such packaging?
Yatagan talks about the tradition of lavender in England in his commentary. And although I was already in June/July in the Cotswolds, I missed it until now. So I've learned something again. For me, lavender has always been typically French, even though traditional English fragrance houses like to use lavender. In any case, I really like lavender, especially when mixed unconventionally with other notes. And salted caramel is one of those notes for me. I smell musk here (thankfully) at the very most to stabilize the scent. Even if the fragrance seems quite one-dimensional - he is not annoying, he is not penetrating, he is quite simply Gentleman.
And so then the circle closes. And I forgive the fragrance for the beautiful but, for me, inappropriate packaging. But that makes it unusually exciting. And has kicked off with me diverse emotions.
So, now you may complain about me....
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F*** Pooh the Bear, I like Eeyore much better anyway (or "Do young pubescent bears have to shave?")....
Questions that move the world. The perfume world. Or at least me.
Why, really? Why, after my long commentary hiatus, am I starting with a fragrance that is extremely atypical for me?
Because it stings me? Because it doesn't suit me? Because it has that hated aftershave note? Because it's still in my collection anyway? Because everything isn't always light and uncomplicated? Because I don't own a single other Acqua di Parma fragrance? Because there's hardly a scent note in there that I like? Questions about questions...
Sometimes we're drawn to fragrances that so don't reflect our scent preferences. But isn't that how it is in real life too? I hope so, because otherwise you'd be predictable, conventional, boring and maybe always smell the same.
For some, that might mean security, but for me, it's rigid and stifling. And although I have always identified more with the somewhat depressed or notoriously depressed donkey in the story of Pooh the Bear, I might want to let the cheerful, happy and uncomplicated bear hang out many a time.
Translation: The fragrance starts out so honey-heavy for me that I can hardly get the image of Pu, the bear with honey around his snout and the honey pot in his paws, out of my head. But wait, little by little I see Eeyore flashing through in his hut of branches and sticks. Both of them take turns again and again, one after the other, always one of them is present.
And after 1-2 hours, the scent rewards me with the image of Eeyore after the rain in his dripping wet but still existing hut, saying, "Thank you for noticing me."
The for me too strong aftershave note after spraying, which fortunately later subsides, lets me sum up about the second part of my title: do puBÄRtäre young bears actually use aftershave?
Why, really? Why, after my long commentary hiatus, am I starting with a fragrance that is extremely atypical for me?
Because it stings me? Because it doesn't suit me? Because it has that hated aftershave note? Because it's still in my collection anyway? Because everything isn't always light and uncomplicated? Because I don't own a single other Acqua di Parma fragrance? Because there's hardly a scent note in there that I like? Questions about questions...
Sometimes we're drawn to fragrances that so don't reflect our scent preferences. But isn't that how it is in real life too? I hope so, because otherwise you'd be predictable, conventional, boring and maybe always smell the same.
For some, that might mean security, but for me, it's rigid and stifling. And although I have always identified more with the somewhat depressed or notoriously depressed donkey in the story of Pooh the Bear, I might want to let the cheerful, happy and uncomplicated bear hang out many a time.
Translation: The fragrance starts out so honey-heavy for me that I can hardly get the image of Pu, the bear with honey around his snout and the honey pot in his paws, out of my head. But wait, little by little I see Eeyore flashing through in his hut of branches and sticks. Both of them take turns again and again, one after the other, always one of them is present.
And after 1-2 hours, the scent rewards me with the image of Eeyore after the rain in his dripping wet but still existing hut, saying, "Thank you for noticing me."
The for me too strong aftershave note after spraying, which fortunately later subsides, lets me sum up about the second part of my title: do puBÄRtäre young bears actually use aftershave?
