Mörderbiene

Some time ago - I was supposed to start school in summer - a cycle path was built in my hometown at the foot of the Swabian Alb. A whole new one with asphalt. If you know the area and its topography, you can imagine that this cycle path overcame a few meters of altitude; and the strongest, largest and longest gradient led us past the road. We, a few little boys before the generation Smartphone, had already got some of our new bicycles for the school in summer. The new cycle path came just in time. Even though we didn't necessarily use it for its intended purpose: When the construction work was finished and the cycle path was finished, we shot down the slope with our bikes every day, just to hit the rear brake into the ground - and whoever painted the longest brake track on the fresh, shiny black asphalt was the hero of our Kindi clique for one day

My first experiences with AUA, HEAT!!! I did not make on the proverbial hot plate. I don't know what ridden me to start my rear tyre after a particularly great brake track, but that was the first and last time.

And that's how Just Black smells: hot, black rubber on fresh, shiny black asphalt with a touch of burnt fingers. Quite soon (after a few minutes) a strong nutty-earthy, almost peaty note is added by the small stream next to the cycle path, which will largely run through the majority of the fragrance, soon accompanied by something citric, which is not quite able to weave itself in. In the back it becomes balsamic and slightly sweet vanilla before woods take over the direction. In the base I notice similarities to "Nouvelle Collection - Bois Noir" which also has this earthy-balsamic-woody note.
The pyramid, as well as other comments and statements made me hope for green and cabbage.
If this scent is green, then to my regret at most dark olive brown green.
In the pyramid given berry and mint I can imagine maximum, this fragrance has no green, no red, just black.

A highly exciting scent, but bulky, difficult and weird.

I'd rather keep my hands off this hot tire.


Many thanks to Caligari for the sample!

First of all a warm hello.
After a long silent partnership, I have decided to end it in favour of a slightly less silent partnership. One reason is the urgent desire to try to comment on me as well. Another also to strengthen the Swabian perfume fraction:)
I deliberately decided to dedicate my first Kommi Penhaligon´s to Elixir. The why should be revealed in the following lines. God knows I am not a professional when it comes to sniffing out individual ingredients and I am so happy that there are already very informative commissions on this fragrance

I would like to begin with a brief definition of the term. The teaching of aesthetics (ancient Greek aisthesis "perception") deals in the scientific sense with everything perceptible by the human senses. Optics, acoustics, gustatorics, haptics and of course olfactory. Contrary to the colloquial use, the rating plays no role, aesthetics does not decide between "beautiful" and "unsightly". A subfield of aesthetics deals with this evaluation. The Kallistik (ancient Greek kallista "very beautiful") deals in the field of aesthetics with beauty, which according to the doctrine is characterized by regularities and harmony.
But are regularity, symmetry, harmony really equated with beauty?
Every day we unconsciously perceive so many things that we consciously don't even notice because they are so normal and ordinary, almost boring. Only when something falls out of line, we take it consciously was. Initially we are bothered by this, analyse roughly at first and thereby gain the time to get involved in it.

With the cool incense and the warm rose, Elixir unites two unequal partners who form a fascinating symbiosis.
The contrast runs through the entire course of the fragrance. The fresh but subtle eucalyptus and cardamom pass through the heart to the incense, while the orange blossom soon introduces the rose (dark purple), which later fades slightly vanilla. This slowly pulsating dance of hot and cold takes place on a stage made of discreet, dark wood and lasts over a whole day
This dance leads the mind inside and the wrist to the nose.

The unusual in particular emanates an uncanny fascination, the otherness is what makes it special.
How beautiful can a small scar be on perfect female skin, like captivating two eyes of different colors. How interesting can traces of decades of use on an old herringbone parquet be, how successful an orchestral interpretation of drinking songs (see Orff's Carmina Burana), how refreshing the combination of hot mustard and sweet figs can be.
And yes, how beguiling can a scent of incense and roses be.
The inharmonious can also be so beautiful because it remains in the memory much earlier, because associations are made and memories are linked. On our soil, unlikely childlike primal forces have caused Lego bricks to smash, leaving deep furrows and dents, but it wouldn't occur to me in my dreams to have them abraded. And - well, this little scar, I love it every time anew.

This fragrance was a gift from a good friend who said it would be a perfect match for me because I had two sides too. Outwardly always a bit cool, distant, emphasizes polite and objective, but also romantic and passionate.
This may be a Swabian peculiarity to be a little closed to the outside, but I have also discovered Elixir absolutely for myself, and he has become my - possibly somewhat unusual - signature scent.
Moreover, this gift represents an important turning point in my fragrance career, it heralded the second (or rather the third, but more about that in another Kommi, is still in progress) Mörderbiensche Parfumzeit. Until then I owned exactly three fragrances, and wore two fragrances, Sierstorpff and Equipage Geranium, two rather classic men's fragrances.
Elixir opened my eyes to beauty and sent me on a great search for beauty.
I didn't lose my favor on the fragrances I mentioned because of this (I only use them much less inflationary), because beauty knows no bounds.
Therefore, Elixir is also equally suitable for men and women who, like me, have packed the never-ending search.
Even though I would spontaneously locate the fragrance in the colder and darker seasons of the year, this does not prevent me from enjoying it in summer as well. I also see Elixir authentically at almost every occasion.
The bottle is well known up to the label of other Penhaligons, but frankly I don't care. Penhaligons could also deliver Elixir in a cognac barrel or milk bucket (then I'd have more of it), and it wouldn't detract from the quality of the fragrance.

Experience teaches that beauty is hidden everywhere, sometimes more, sometimes less; sometimes more obvious, sometimes less obvious.
Therefore, paradoxically, contrary to the scientific view, aesthetics actually deals with the "beautiful" in its all-encompassing scope of contemplation, thus leaving behind the callistics that so misdefines the concept of the beautiful.


Greetings, your

Killer bee