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I was curious about Bois Datchaï because I have discovered a new love for fruit in me; fitting for the season I test autumnal fruits. Wood always goes anyway, plus my quest to find the most beautiful black currant, in perfume of course. Likewise, once again a desire for black tea, but not too pure. And as a perfume, of course. Let's go!
Top note: Campino candies, the dark ones, you know which ones - the first to be gone from the bag. And they're unsweet in aroma, so don't worry about sticky associations. Lots of green comes with it from the bush. As is often the case with currants, I can't help a little sour cucumber association (My quirk? Sour cucumbers and currant jam are in the cellar next to each other). Bits of pickles do not disturb here but further. Cinnamon also gives directly wonderful warmth, but quite unweihnachtlich.
Clearly smoky, in the manner of extinguished candle wick. Cozy like afternoons as a teenager alone in the nursery, the pocket money was enough for a scented candle, and that is a special feature at this age, as everything seems special and unique: the isolation, being misunderstood, the first skills to deal with it, which one develops at that age (essential oils, lookin' at you).
The scent is comforting; currant is certainly not just a familiar-domestic note for me. Many have them in the garden, grandma still a jar in the pantry, on the pancakes as a child there's a thick dark blob - who this makes secure feelings, you may want to test the fragrance times.
The feeling that often accompanies teenage years, actually have no appointments in the future, the class work is over, the coming months empty and you have time, so much time. One of the first CDs, The Cranberries, "No Need to Argue" purrs in the compact CD player to immediately give "Ode to My Family" to the best, cheesy novels from the small-town bookstore give so no preview of real life, leather cords knotted around the wrist, which should mean something important, a diary with a small lock. Here I am in the top note of the fragrance; don't get confused, the scent is not from the 90s, but to each his teenage years, right? Belatedly finding sweetness, belatedly wanting to be taken in my arms - these are the vibes Bois Datchaï gives me. A shy "Hi ..." to the inner teenager, of course, without eye contact.
I was going to write that the patchouli seems restrained, but I smell a note that reminds me of Keller, it will be. Again: does not interfere, but I would not need so. Maybe it's needed for some depth - luckily it doesn't stay in the cellar. Youth room, as I said. The black tea here does not remind me of the smell of Vaseline, it is quite discreet, more discreet still the leather - for me not really to make out.
I would locate Bois Datchaï in a home, more precisely, in a room to smell it alone. It's also not particularly strong and a rather brief pleasure. Bois Datchaï lends itself to fantasizing about being in a forest like Max in wolf costume in Where the Wild Things Are, perhaps as I did with Enchanted Forest, with which it shares currant, cedar, some patchouli (but the latter is much darker, more wintry, more fairytale-like). I'm not in a distant forest here, not really.
If the fragrance were a posture, then sitting with legs drawn up. Staring into the candle flame while sitting. A not-yet-knowing-where, with one foot in bird's nest, with the other standing on the branch - how nice it is when you don't have to leave and can feel the transition without fear. And transition also = autumn, to make the bow little elegantly.

"Creature" - I admit I was intrigued by the name of the perfume; I find the underlying message that we create ourselves and decide our identity comforting and encouraging.

Creature works on me as a spicy-woody scent with lots of citrus and a modern-resinous incense in the opening; it has almost no sweetness, but exudes a lot of empathy.
Through the elegant fading of the notes and the overall well-temperedness, the perfume seems delicate and androgynous. The creature is balanced, you also do not have to fear any single note (as I like sometimes the incense), however, you should like the rough direction spice drawer already.

Creature starts off deliciously citrusy with a good shot of tangy acidity, and speaks directly to me with resinous and woody notes. Very pretty! Immediately afterwards I get a kind of tea vibe, most likely rooibos, but without the scent really smelling like tea. This association comes, I'm guessing, from the tobacco-fig-cardamom combination. Soon the spicy-aromatic heart of the creature reveals itself. Then in the base there's a bit more fig, the orange blossom and general hyggelige Pleasantness with the usual suspects.
What I find most characteristic about the fragrance is its balance and that the notes hold back next to each other, no one plays to the fore or would loud. This is, even as a social utopia besides, very harmonious and pleasant.
The fragrance brings diversity with it, diverse aspects can be sniffed, again and again. So he is justified his dedication and is very successful in this regard.

Spices are not my direction, so it is difficult for me to name references here. "Etra | Etro" is the only one that comes to mind, but don't nail me on that. Creature also has a much more modern feel.

I wanted to test the scent primarily for its woody aspects, but they aren't dominant enough for me here. It is for me primarily a spicy fragrance. Nice and beautiful, but not for me, he is not my Beuteschema.
On the other hand, I can imagine the fragrance well on a quiet and rather introverted person, for a visit to the bookstore or antique shop, for level-headed moments at home. Creature is unisex as can be, and I see it in spring or fall.

The postulated world-embracing tenderness ("a tender homage to all living things" and the like advertising texts) I do not hear here, or at most very heady. The fragrance lacks pathos for that. It's more like the friendly affection of a visit. You stand together in the kitchen, have decided on a tea after the kind offer "Would you like something to drink?", stand together in front of the open hanging cupboard and are presented with the whole assortment of boxes to choose from. Then Carole King is put on the record player, the vinyl crackles on and you sit together at the kitchen table with the big wooden plate (untreated), and if you leave wet rings on it with your cup, that's not bad at all.

Delicate and clear, light blue and white - and the free-spirited feeling of a summer's day into which one simply lives. Mid-days when the streets seem to be deserted, when time seems to stand still. A breeze on the skin that feels like a caress.

Nothing But Sea And Sky starts fresh and light, and then is also immediately present with the bergamot and sandalwood. Here we have to do with a delicate projection, the perfume is not strong overall.

In the first impression, even as the alcohol fades, I associate Marseille soap, bed linen hanging outside, fluttering in the wind. I think of the quiet moment of freshening up in a darkened hotel room, at the sink, the rattling cold water and bar of soap from a traditional manufacturer, the intimacy of seeing the hair in a loved one's armpit. I smell tomato stems, a smell/taste that reminds me of delicious tasting, familiar kisses.

The citrusy notes naturally fade quite quickly. So onward in free association: Stepping out of a cool, dark hallway into the glistening brightness after a siesta, the hair on my arms shimmering and made bright by the sun, the scent of soap or cream accompanying me into the afternoon, I can almost smell the skid marks of rubber tires on hot asphalt.

There we have unmistakably the scent of skin after a day at the beach, there is the natural-outdoor sandalwood, just as it should be. No substitute sandalwood or what so everything is declared as sandalwood, but the cool creamy sandalwood as in Tam Dao. Here, however, it fits perfectly into the summery impression and does not make the fragrance darker.

This is not a particularly complex fragrance, even in development. Like an open palm and relaxed eye contact, the scent is immediately appealing to me. Everything is simple and clear, there is no brooding.

25 ml in slim atomizer laugh at me just so, with white teeth from the tanned face. I think that isse, the summer love 2021!

In the prelude really one to one British bitter orange marmalade - how delicious! And then it already becomes Christmassy, I think of candied orange peel, the peeling of tangerines and a candle in which I express the peels. Even the audible rharbarber, the neroli do not dissuade me from this first impression. Well, for me as an Alman oranges are of course southern fruits for the cold season and I have never seen an orange growing on a tree. For Californians, for example, the fragrance may seem quite different.

The green in the perfume, and I mean not only the honeysuckle, but here also times the rhubarb, comes across cypress-like. That may also be the ethereal, the cypress has in common with orange peel, I mean this intensely oily, volatile quality.

Citrus scents are said to have a mood-lifting effect. And yes, it works here! Whether it's the sophisticated breakfast (jam is a treat!), the Sunday special with toast rack, Advent with dim lights and with early twilight as a young child, or the imaginings/memories of a southern country, of summer.

I can smell artificial notes on the fragrance only insofar as it is the treated, candied orange. Not a naturalistic orange, but the one that is considered a delicacy. But not Capri ice cream, but what much older, the Spanish fruit house in Munich.
Cleaner, glue I do not perceive, and I say that as the owner of a (incidentally terrific) orange oil cleaner. And there I come back again to the element mentioned above "ethereal" and which I can only know insistently for lack of better knowledge; surely a chemical property.

As the fragrance progresses it shows the neroli more clearly, I also feel briefly reminded of Hermes' Jour, only better, without the rubber, hehe. The associated cypress turns into the heavenly scent of printed matter (subtle, don't expect a print shop).

It's totally fascinating to me that my scent impression is so different from the previous ones here: Sundrunk is more contemplative than effervescent for me, but still appropriate for a summer night party. It is the most bitter Orangina you have ever drunk. The sun is beating down on your shoulders. A precious candied orange slice for potato-and-kale eaters, in the 19th century. It shines its orange light into a dark living room and warms like a fireplace. Sundrunk is the unbridled bite into an orange, through the peel, through the white, until the juice swells into your mouth like a hot kiss at night in a lush Florida garden.
For me, it's an either-or scent: high summer or Advent. For both seasons, however, an asset, "makes your eyes light up," to stay linguistically in the Christmas world.

Chypre with patchouli and fruit. I admit, not only was I puzzled by the combo, I was also very suspicious. Feared old-fashioned mossy earth, pappy synthetic fruit and ole patchouli. Fantasized a hell of a concoction. However, you guessed it already: I was wrong. The fragrance is great!

A galactic prelude - I want to cheer. The mango still with green skin and firm flesh, bergamot gives pleasant freshness, nevertheless, the tickling of an overripe fruit with thought, but exclusively delicious, tingling, exciting. Not too sweet, thank goodness, and not the generic mango from the iced tea or the care product respectively room fragrance.
Patchouli, yes, underlining and clean, soapy almost. The scent is not vaporous, but really nice and refreshing, watery-clear (and I don't mean aquatic) in the heart notes.
There's nothing edgy, an easygoing scent if you like the general direction. Nothing earthy on me, nothing mossy. Pleasing, in a good way!

I have to agree with the previous speaker about the "horny, horny, horny". So: this is a sexy scent, too, and one that's a super fit for all genders. Intellectual, tongue-in-cheek sexiness with a splash of irony. More the flirt in the elevator than the seduction across the table sparkle in a cocktail bar. Light on its feet.

Longevity and sillage no monsters, at least not on my wrist. A light, clean scent for spring or summer. A coffee or a soda in the sun with the date, but also in the office, why not? I won't buy it because its vibes are close to Eau de Rhubarbe Écarlate, which I like to wear for such occasions. And he should also be a little more feminine for my current taste, Chypre Mojo/45 is already a pants fragrance, so to speak.

The composition is not what I would call Chypre, ever, but what I would call Mojo. And I segue into the obligatory babble section:

The titular mojo is not just what Austin Powers loses in one of his movies, but also, and more to the point, an amulet or outright spell that you carry with you. As a talisman or a pouch, in any case close to the body. Mojos are known from Afro-American music (play tip: Muddy Water - Got my mojo working); Mojo comes from the African hoodoo religion of the slaves who were brought to the USA. Southern states yes, swampy chypre, Louisiana moss on the other hand no. But this is a romantic notion communicated through images, songs, and books, a mood translated into perfume, not the muddy organic swamps. I welcome that here!
But back to the mojo: since love spells always find much demand and through use and change of meaning of the word it was also enriched with the connotation already mentioned above in connection with Austin Powers, which is: libido. And that fits wonderfully to music, the attracting and initiating agent for amorous this since the beginning of mankind, actually quite similar to perfumery.