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After predominantly positive experiences with Wesker now the first new release had to prove itself.
So suitcase packed, and off with the Wesker bus to Banat, a region in Southeastern Europe in the area of today's Romania. So here lies the home of the fragrance experience available here.
Arrived in Banat, after leaving the bus, you think to yourself: Ufff, but that is pungent here.
Of the previously known perfectly coordinated fruit notes is here at best in the far distance what to perceive. Here is clearly too much patchouli growing in the fields. So quickly back in the bus and off to the next stop!
20 minutes bus ride you have to endure already, until the bus stops again, so get off again.
Aha, here one feels already clearly more comfortable, and the blackberry hedges at the edge of the cemetery, which one gets to see, bear full ripe fruit.
So here it comes, the anticipated and beloved fruit opening. Fine wisps of smoke drift onto the hedgerows from the ongoing funeral in the middle of the cemetery.
Seems now not so the popular environment, but the rest and relaxation after the last bumpy part of the journey come just as called. The patchouli fields have moved to a comfortable distance.
Something animalistic has been raging under the hedges earlier, the earth is churned up, but you can't make out any animal directly, there's just some freshly gnawed wood in the thicket behind the brambles.
The funeral is over, the guests go to the exit, here the first Umdrunk with coffee and occasionally also tea takes place and a group of bikers in the leather outfit stand a little apart and consume some self-rolled, from hectic no trace.
The environment remains friendly, you feel good and could well stay a bit more here. But the bus driver has apparently no longer enough time. He pushes already properly and it remains only the (much too early) departure. The bus driver does not seem to like it so quite in Banat, or should the journey be already so fast again over?
Actually a pity...
Because here in Banat is somehow a special flair..

Next from the house of Wesker, which impressed me with Imperial maximum and with Deviant extremely (whereby the latter may reveal itself unfortunately only to the ladies), was now Eau de Mystique the way on the skin and in the nose start.
At the first (short) Antesten I thought, something hornier in the world is no longer to find. The fragrance character radiated for me a calm, relaxation, security, which I could experience so far only with Squid from the Zoologist zoo so. And so I imagined the mysticism of this fine little water...
Then followed a deep endurance test, but the mystique of the first test remained unfortunately out.
The start is with a very spicy orange with only slight sweetness still very pleasant, relatively quickly makes itself to this, however, the plum wide.
Similar to Imperial, the fruits in Eau de Mystique are anything but intrusive and are here initially embedded in a floral-resinous environment, which smells very pleasant.
Problematic for me is here: I like plum fragrances so not at all, where I can assist Eau de Mystique the most pleasant plum note, and my wife does not like the resinous components.
As it progresses, the sweet honey and incense notes in the base increasingly come to the fore.
Ultimately, we have it here nevertheless with quite great fragrance cinema to do, and if I could like the plum more (or alternatively this relaxation of Antestens would show up again), would be allowed to move in from this Wässerchen also more with me.
For me subjectively, this fragrance is not as pleasant as the competition from their own house, although I must concede the best H+S from the group Eau de Mystique.
The company Wesker has definitely deserved more attention with their fragrance portfolio, especially since the flacons are almost no longer to be surpassed in style.

Sometimes life is already crazy.
One looks through the Parfumo main page and stumbles under new acquisitions suddenly about a really pretty flacon...From the creator of this gem, the company Wesker, I had heard nothing yet, but the fragrance pyramids of 4 of the 5 currently available flacon read for me and my nose already very interesting.
Since one could order a sample set with the 3 older fragrances to 5ml each over the manufacturer's page at a really very fair price, I have now used the chance to be able to deal a little deeper with the manufacturers of these great flacons.
And today the Imperial was allowed to prove his ability on my skin and in my nose.
After spraying on the first thing that catches my attention is the sweet cherry (which is actually sour).
Meanwhile, I have learned to love quite the Kischnoten for me when testing, but what Imperial presents here is already really special. A so present and yet so little intrusive cherry I have never been able to smell before. Where other cherry perfumes are very intrusive, sweet or penetrating for the environment, this (sour) cherry is just perfectly presented and is accompanied by fresh sweet and pleasant floral elements. After the initial calming of the scent, these accords are joined by the smell of a freshly polished stainless steel plate, which doesn't smell as off-putting as it sounds, however. This stainless steel plate even manages to create a metallic taste on the tongue of both me and my wife when smelling it close to the skin. Something like this I have not experienced to date, but even this is in reality not as unpleasant as it sounds :).
After about 2-3 hours appear more and more the base notes, of which in addition to a sweetish and also fresh musk (very pleasant) this parchment scent stands out well and creates the impression of a delicate, thin old scroll.
After 10h + the fragrance can be perceived only skin.
Sillage is top in the first hours (and for the environment pleasant and not intrusive), decreases as expected in the further.
From perfect separates Imperial only the fragrance character not suitable for Everyday Parfum.
I'm sure, if on the bottle the name of a famous manufacturer would stand, one might put for such compositions several hundred euros on the counter...
But fortunately, this small East German company is in Chemnitz and not in Paris and the price can be considered quite somehow still fair, especially since as mentioned at the beginning, these flacons are already very stylish.
So I could for the first time on Parfumo award the full fragrance score!
And now first of all the savings stocking must hold out... :)
Chapeau, Wesker, I am thrilled!

On my Zoologist trip was now allowed to prove the enclosed exclusive sample (in my case the Yuzu Edition) before my nose.
At the start predominate rather citrusy tart notes with the typical Zoologist horse stable aroma, but I immediately notice the generally rather sweet character. Unlike all the Zoologist tested by me so far (and there are already a few by now), this is the first, which of intensity and sillage does not strike like an asteroid in your environment, but makes itself rather tenderly noticeable. Here is not the big monkey party, but a cozy get-together.
The horse stable aroma evaporates quite quickly and the fragrance develops with me to the tenderly sweet smoker with almost sacral character, the tart aromas then also step somewhat into the background, the sweetness remains and hovers as a fruity note behind the (bright) incense.
Unfortunately, the monkey wedding ends faster than the rest of the animal celebrations in Zoologist Park.
In conclusion, this already shows the dilemma. If I'm a fan of Zoologist, then I want a Zoologist, and then I kind of expect the intensity atom bomb, always something more, something more mature, something more putrid, something more animal.
If I'm a fan of incense scents (and I definitely am), then it's allowed to be more of this and more sophisticated, and others do that better.
Now the monkey stands on his wedding and must ask himself, what am I now?
In any case, I am not a zoologist, even if I can certainly go in everyday life times among people (because that can not really many in the zoologist park), but I am also not bad. I smell pleasant, without question, but there's still something missing.
What is unfortunately not missing is the decent price for this monkey wedding.

In the end, I have to get rid of one last impression. With many (not all) Zoologist one can already assign the fragrance well to the eponymous animal, with me most strongly with Elephant, but I can not understand with the best will in the world, what the Macaque here should have to do with the monkey...

My fragrance journey through the world of Zoologist now goes into the next stage with the bee.
Take a Nimm2 candy (the one with the liquid core, which you try to get off your teeth with your tongue for about 20 minutes after sucking). One imagines the Bonbon with honey taste, the core likewise with honey taste.
After desperate attempts to loosen the sticky honey core, one reaches now for the Propolis cough juicepulle and rinses the mouth still strongly with it.
With this association one hits the smell of Bee pretty exactly on the point.
Now, Zoologist is known for hitting users' noses with a sledgehammer, which can be both subjectively positive (like the incense in Squid) and negative (like the tea in Elephant).
But Bee's soft beeswax hammer already makes for a good nasal mood.
I wanted to eat myself all day or alternatively chase the bee and spread myself in the honeycomb :-).
Durability and sillage are super, only the price could be a little cheaper.
But a flacon as a hive must still move in with me.