Primel

Les Must de Cartier, the essential things you simply must have! Must have? I don't think so. That's why it's not necessary to have tasted that fragrance. Not even should. It's just that it would be nice.

For me Must is the better Opium, less ponderous, more spirited, a little green because of the fresh top note, a green Oriental :) Since the colour green is very much appreciated in the Orient and especially in the Muslim world, this fits well.

Spices and fruits do not push themselves into the foreground, and the scent is also completely unsweet. For me Must smells predominantly of tobacco (tobacco leaves were also sometimes green). On the one hand, the scent smells expensive, but not snobbish, exclusive and wicked, oriental, but also radiates a certain coolness. The tobacco note I perceived doesn't seem cosy, a green mamba hisses in the background (tobacco would be poisonous...), so the circle closes again. :) A fragrance with contradictions. H/S top (vintage version).

I was so infatuated with this fragrance for years that I wore it on all suitable and unsuitable occasions, for example during driving lessons. The driving instructor, a friendly elderly gentleman, silently endured this scent tsunami. But when we were almost run over by the tram, he lost his shape for a short time, he started to curse, the driver of the tram also waved his arms (fortunately I couldn't hear his curses) and I was glowing up to my ears. A fresh and citric scent would have been much better for my concentration

A few thousand years ago, the first blue-eyed man came into the world thanks to a gene mutation. Before that, there were only brown-eyed people. All people with blue eyes living today are descended from this ancestor, including me :) Furthermore, all blue-eyed people are related to each other. Since the fabulous beautiful Elizabeth Taylor had blue eyes, I am related to her! I find this idea very chic ;D However, Liz had violet blue eyes, mine are dark blue, but it doesn't matter, blue is blue after all!

Unfortunately, my blue (and unfortunately rather short-sighted) eyes will not manage to ever have a fragrance named after them. The violet-blue and unforgettable eyes of Elizabeth Taylor, however, are world-famous.......and the wonderful scent "Violet Eyes" was born......

This scent has absolutely nothing to do with violets, which I even regretted a little at first. However, the fresh and sour start is already so pleasing that I no longer mourn the violets. The fragrance has the stimulating, sparkling effect of a glass of champagne. With time, a ripe white-fleshed peach plops into the champagne glass, but the scent remains radiantly fresh, it smells rosy and unsweet (white peaches are rather rare in our country, but you can often find them in France, these peaches have a wonderful rose aroma). Despite the sparkling freshness, the scent remains true for many hours, with time it becomes soft-woody (cedar) and also very sensual. I think "Violet Eyes" is one of the most beautiful fragrances by Elizabeth Taylor (even if the gardenia favored by the film diva shines here completely with absence).

Unfortunately the scent is no longer available, I am desperate :( Maybe only delivery problems because of Corona? In any case, I'll buy an emergency stock of this scent, if I ever get hold of it again...

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Charlie was omnipresent in the 70's and it was impossible to imagine life without him, as well as Swedish clogs or the unspeakable round haircut that all children were given (from which I was fortunately spared due to my strong natural curl, well I had other problems...). Everybody and everyone wrapped themselves in this scent: the sister, the aunt, all the cousins, even my needlework teacher (today's variety of scents was still a long way off). Except of course my ma, she already used a little more exclusive scents back then......

Charlie was even available as a cream perfume back then! Hidden in a silver apple hanging on a silver chain you could always carry your favourite scent with you, that was the hit :) My older sister generously gave me the precious jewelry with a little bit of perfume, which I guarded like the apple of my eye. Unfortunately it got lost in the course of the years (like so much...).

Recently I bought a bottle again, the current version is probably more tame, but the 70s feeling immediately returned. Charlie is of course a Chypre, that's why I like him so much. Totally unsweet, a bit scratchy and with a high recognition value, but nowadays an exotic. I can't unravel the individual fragrance components with the best will in the world, for me Charlie simply smells like apple! Not of poisonous green Granny Smith, whose pungent odeur was very popular in the 80s for scenting shampoo and detergents (all kinds of insects were also caught by the hype of that time!) No, Charlie smells like an old apple variety: Jonathan, Bernese rose apple, leather apple, varieties that you only find on certain markets nowadays. My grandparents still had these apple trees in the garden and the apples were stored in the cellar, that smells wonderful and that's exactly what Charlie reminds me of

Instead of kiwi, mango, papaya and co. I will simply take an apple a day again.

. . .keeps the doctor away :)

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It is of course the "Curiosity" that got the cat into trouble, a saying that warns against too much curiosity (and name of a band from the 80s).

I first tasted the fragrance in 1989 on a stone-rich and beautiful South American woman during a language stay in Worthing/England. Margherita, as she was called, told me radiantly: "Obsesssssion!" I was thrilled and from then on downright obsessed by this scent, by the way, you could have scented a whole gym with this extract!

Obsession is an oriental scent, but for me it is not "spicy" or even dark, but rather "golden", fruity, flowery and spicy and very sensual, wearable for both sexes equally and absolutely timeless. And what is most beautiful: Not an exploding civet stink bomb, but the fuse glows softly and extinguishes gradually...

Young and unattached as I was then, I then travelled to the South of France to learn a little French as well. Unfortunately "Obsession" became a little bit disliked there. The huge, black (and a bit threatening) tomcat of the host family went crazy and even came to see me in the bedroom at night :D After listening to the howling and howling for a while, I even thought that the animal pronounced my name! Was I going crazy? It was just creepy :O .........Oh Obsession!

That this scent has a pretty strong effect on cats, I read somewhere (maybe here?). In any case, I did not wear this scent anymore from then on.

After careful consideration I came to the conclusion that I had only imagined this whole thing.





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The idea is simple: you isolate a pheromone (I'm not a chemist) et voilà....and you are so attractive and irresistible that everyone wants to mate you. In the worst case, you will be surrounded by a hungry mob, as Jean-Baptiste Grenouille did (well, he was a murderer). Therefore, this scent should be used with caution, after all, one does not want to be picked up by the "wrong" people. The fact that this very fresh, woody-leathery, natural scent is not perceived by everyone in the same way is simply because it has to compete with too many other scents: Perfumes, soaps, body lotion, hairspray, face cream, aftershave, mouthwash, toothpaste, deodorant...unfortunately he has hardly any chance against this concentrated power of scent.

Some time ago a man with long, greasy hair, tattooed from head to toe, sat down next to me in the bus. In expectation of the typical scent cloud (cold ashtray, marijuana, drug cocktail, neglect) I held my breath...made a timid puff...
(I must perhaps remark that I have been working with addicts for years and many of them smell like that, although not all of them).

But, that man smelled just wonderful! Not perfume, not soap, but like a pine forest in the mountains I couldn't believe it. Unfortunately, I had to get out of the car at some point, he made room for me because I was sitting at the window. He gave me such a ravishing smile that I got quite dizzy.....I hated to leave the bus. Fortunately for me, because I would have married this guy immediately, given him all my belongings and made a fool of myself :D

While testing and wearing the above mentioned scent I had this scenery in mind again. I am 99% convinced that this man was wearing Molecule 01!

I believe that this fragrance holds opportunities for people who are perceived by the general public as unattractive, or not perceived at all. If the man in the bus smelled bad, I would never have looked at him and then I would have missed his beautiful smile :)

Of course, all perfumes/perfumas are attractive and do not require a fragrance ;)

Still, throw your scents overboard, there can only be one!

. . . okay, okay was just a suggestion. .