Ludomat

After the exciting comments here, expectations were naturally raised in me when I bought it. The favor to fulfill them, he has not quite done me.

The black cumin is original as an ingredient, instantly recognizable but not always easy to stomach (just like the same fresh-pressed oil I got from the market, which dominates every meal, is so distinct and exotic that it doesn't like to fit into any recipe - maybe that's the querulousness of the title).

Together with myrrh, moss and frankincense here anyway quite pungent, somehow metallic. Even when slightly overdosed, Querelle gives me a headache with this bite. Then in the drydown, the spiciness is almost gone. Soothing tonka and amber also take a lot of time and appear late, for me only after 60-90 minutes, but then the really nice finish lingers for some time, tw. until the next morning. Since Q. then sucks in again something.

Find the name, despite Querkümmel, generally not really hit, disreputable harbor pubs and Schmuddel-Matrosen reminds here now really nothing. Too clear, strict, arrogant, clean he comes along, so also rather unerotisch, but that may also be because I'm always a little strained at the beginning and can relax with him not so good.

On hot days it comes better: a fresh, wake-up kick in the nose-butt. In fact, also not a bad office fragrance, because he does not oppress anyone, but still brings a small, unusual spice extra.

Have him since January, we had no easy relationship start, I had Monsieur already sent to the souk desert, but I try it every now and then, just currently whether the heat.
And as Eefje van Dampen says: relationship is work, work, work.

So I'm still working a little further on us - because ne really cool sock he is yes.

Acquired in the 15ml miniature as a kind of extra to another fragrance. After the rather mediocre judgments here I have already written him off - and planned to offer him immediately in the souk, perhaps a curious Parfuma zugreifen.

But miracles still happen, I am positively surprised.

Yes, peach, yes, slightly fermented, yes, a bit sultry, but 1969 doesn't get sticky in the process and can just pass for unisex. Cardamom and a bit of clove add spice (I think so too, that's where that fermentation impression comes from), the flowers hold back ...

But the biggest surprise for me is the coffee. In the drydown, it's a slightly unripe greenish spiced coffee with residual fruit.
Chocolate and musk support as warming ingredients, patchouli I hardly smell.

I've unsuccessfully tried a few coffee scents, many are too gourmand for me: Kilians Intoxicated is great made, but too heavy for me in the long run, Olfactive Studios Close up a bit fresher, but too cherry-sweet.
A*Men I found already at the time too sugary when it was launched. For others gladly ... who can get away with it. But not on me. But he could at least arouse interest in coffee as a prominent fragrance ingredient.

And now this nice surprise, I would not have suspected the coffee so perceptible, the subjective perception yet always strikes capers.

1969 holds out long, becomes more pleasant with the hours and does not impose itself too much (in the job probably nevertheless inappropriate, but that would be to check).

Conclusion: No masterpiece, but also no grip in the expected fermentation bucket.

I love green scents in many variations and this one brings its very own aniseed-curky note to the game and to my portfolio.
Starts with clear wormwood/abscotch, which also has similarities with anise, fennel or dill. But not dark and spicy, but light and herbaceous and fresh.
Not much later, there is a very strong cucumber impression, which, although not listed, is most likely due to calone - a synthetic fragrance that can smell like sea breeze, but also cucumber or melon. For me, the cucumber predominates, which I also find great. I already loved it back in Marc Jacobs' Cucumber Splash as a light summer scent.
At Dune Road it is woven into a light, rather dry-tangy, spicy-watery mixture, which is a boon on warm days
And with me the two fragrance chords wormwood + cucumber remain the main protagonists until the end, even if the fragrance becomes a little softer, warmer and woodier towards the base.
For me no aquat, not even close to water (like dunes, lakesides etc.), but rather green-fresh and spicy, I think more of blue sky, wind, outside, meadows, gardens...

Unusual station wagon, but also not so expansive that you disturb the surroundings. If you like this direction, it is a very nice, relaxing, very personal scent.

Probably 6-7 years ago on a business trip in Munich, of course he stopped by Beck's to collect some inspiration in the perfume department. Aha, Testostérone, that sounds interesting (my passion for somehow human or animal scents awakened quite timidly back then).
Sprayed on, leaving the shop and spending the whole day trying to get a hold of the scent: phew, like real sweat, it doesn't work -- but somehow also a bit horny and sexy -- I can't wear it when I want to, but it really has something -- etc.
"Colleague, what do you think of the smell in here?" "Not bad." "Not sweaty or gross?" "Nope."

Mmh, nevertheless left the city without a decision, but could not forget him. Next visit, tested again, same game.

And again a visit, in the meantime about one year has passed: but now I buy it. Beck: "Oh, we're sorry, we took Sentifique out of our assortment." Oh, crap, but half as bad, he was also difficult

After further years, during which I owned a small collection and learned to love some rather leathery, animal or oud scents, Testostérone came back to my mind.
Unfortunately nowhere to get, neither new nor on ebay.
Only a short time ago then actually a hit on ebay, half-full bottle, give it to me.

Finally in my hand, I still like it (relief), but I hardly dare to test it again properly and completely, so I spray myself more extensively with it. Today, Saturday, pretty hot, weekly market - just the right opportunity, fresh air gives security.

The fragrance: still as fascinating as ever. Basically dry, immediately there and with little development, as has been written below several times.
Coriander and probably cumin are very clear from the beginning: medicinal, tart, and therefore, strangely enough, clean. Birch tar quite perceptible, oud in light doses imaginable. Patchouli, if you like, is not in its classic earthy, musty form, but clear and tart.
Especially cumin (and maybe the atypical patchouli) also evokes sweat associations, and I feel the same with Al Oudh by L'Artisan Parfumeur, but in a much warmer, more oriental and chubby version. I'm surprised that there are no animal notes in it, civet, castoreum, hyraceum ...

Perhaps the name also causes more head cinema than actually necessary.
In fact, the fragrance remains noble and unobtrusive, if you can even imagine that despite the fresh sweat that is nevertheless present, I am certainly not looked at obliquely on the market. T'rone also goes surprisingly well with the heat, always maintains its cool dryness - and that for a long time.

I am now very happy to have T'rone in the collection, the 30ml that are still there are guarded like my eyeballs and only reduced further on special occasions

Some years ago during my holiday in Greece I got to know mastic as a food (I only knew the term before as glue for carnival beards).
In Athens everything with mastic flavor was available: chewing gum, ouzo, even frozen yogurt. I found the slightly citric, fresh resinous taste/scent sensational.
About 2 years ago I ordered the essential mastic oil original from the island of Chios for a space diffuser, where the oldest trees of Pistacia lentiscus are located and the quality of their resin is said to be the best.
Rather accidentally I recently came across the scent of Phaedon and blindly accessed a good online offer (but read the comments and statements here before).

I have no regrets
An authentic mastic scent, which is given tension and depth by the other components. And even if I can't smell exactly galbanum, cedar or vetiver in every stage of development, they underline the main protagonist, because again and again I am reliably flattered by mastic around my nose - until the drydown.
The scent is not loud, I don't find even the prelude too sharp.

In the beginning I was a little bit disappointed regarding sillage and durability, but with a generous application also on the clothes I got something out of it today, easily 7h, with a rather bodylike projection.

Although I love green fragrances, Lentisque is not green for me, but rather clear cool grey, like the smoked glass of the bottle, only lighter. All in all nice dry-resinous, I luckily can't smell any amber, clear warmth or even sweetness wouldn't suit me.

Lentisque manages to create a unique clarifying and soothing atmosphere, ideal on warmer days around 20°. Somehow a very private scent, nothing to show off or attract attention.

My personal mini time-out, my little mental escapade to Greece.