TruuMax

Loose, light, lively and profound. For many, Gunter Sachs may have been like any other playboy stumbling around the world, but he certainly wasn't.

On a rather boring Sunday evening I once saw a documentary about this fascinating person. My attitude towards him was very critical in the beginning. I only knew the stories that were still being broadcast from time to time on RTL and similar gossip channels and newspapers on his birthdays.

How deep can someone of this caliber be?

As it turned out: extreme!

From artist to technical and economic genius, this man seems to have been everything, especially misunderstood.

I had a similar experience with this scent. I smelled it for a short time at the TF Counter in Breuninger and it was considered boring and one of many superficially very pretty but not unique scents.

But a few months ago I smelled him again in the duty free area of Munich airport... In the beginning I thought again only "quite nice", but then a creamy flower meadow in the forest rolled over me like a tank.

The fragrance emanates exactly what the Italians would probably call "Sprezzatura". It is noble and casual at the same time. A fragrance of a mixture of youthful lightness, beach villa and a lot of lust for life.

Certainly no fragrance as unique as A Midsummer Dream or as groundbreaking for the industry as Aventus... But a fragrance to fall in love with, for every day and every situation with more behind it than you would see at first sight.


Its durability and sillage are decent. 2 hours with good sillage and from the 5th hour on already very close


The bottle, like any Tom Ford bottle, is, in my opinion, great... However, as almost always the sign is not 100% straight on it, which is definitely something annoying at this price. Especially with this frequency on almost every second bottle.

Misty tea fields and a gently rippling brook run through a somewhat unreal looking scenery...

Once again my head is somewhere else. Everywhere and nowhere, as long as it is not here in the daily grind and ordinary. I want to go out into the world, jump into an airplane in an unknown country and direction of unknown adventures to feel that I am alive, to feel what I felt nochnie.

Especially during the current crisis, I had a lot of time to think... Less about life itself, but more about transience. In 20 years I will probably not remember every evening on the couch, but the days that meant something special. Does it even matter how long we live? Or is it only important how much we experience in the end?

What's certain is that everything would be boring if it was forever

And this brings me to the fragrance itself: it is a wonderfully moist smelling tea scent with fruity elements and a very light green twist in the aftertaste. Not like a CK One or similar but very unique and special. The iris is presented very differently than I would have ever smelled this note before. Not powdery and creamy, but somehow soaked and sparkling. Almost a little "chanelingy", if you know what I mean by that. Very noble and natural.

There is not much development. The fruit will eventually become the root and the tea will become warmer and less pointed over time, if that is the right word for it.


The durability and sillage are really remarkable for the type of fragrance: 3 hours with good projection and another 3 at about half an arm length to ¾. But all in all the theatre is over after 8 hours, which is a very acceptable performance for such a decent scent.


The bottles at THoOO are in a class of their own anyway... Every single egg is unique and is coated by hand with many layers of different colours. Especially in the light it looks really impressive. I would even go so far as to say that these could be the highest quality flacons in the entire industry.
Whether one finds the slightly kitschy to crisply gaudy color spectrum so great is a matter of taste that even here seems to divide minds... But they are always impressive.

Warm... Human... Soft... Somehow on a balance between not being there and caressing

Authentic, clean and yet very skin-like musk meets the molecule paradox: some smell almost nothing except something sweet and flowery, others smell you 5km against the wind.

I've never received so many positive comments about a fragrance like this one... Even though others say "I don't smell anything" the next moment.

It makes me think a little bit about a nude painting. It's so pure and peaceful and perfect... But at second glance you stand before a white, empty and cold canvas

Blind purchases should be avoided at all costs with this fragrance. It would be a pity if you couldn't smell it yourself ;)

The performance seems to be extreme in terms of both sillage and durability.

The presentation is also in a class of its own, even though the bottle changes from grayish green to black rather than this vibrant green.

... I breathe out the last big puff of my Parliament cigarette

The cold and humid air mixes with the smell of fresh smoke

Still some few meters I carry the nearly burned cigarette with me and think about it.

About my life, my experiences, the things you survived and what life has in store for you. It's so peaceful... Just the stars, light wind blowing through the old town and me.

This wonderful smell of a cold night slowly but surely drives away that of burnt tobacco and I stroll on out of town, further towards the church. The damp earth and the typical church smell always fill this place with a very calm, even if mysterious aura.

But now it is time to go home. Carelessly I throw the butt on the wet floor and kick it out in passing... The first sunrays of the day still accompany me gently on my way home.

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The fragrance really smells like a night walk in the rain. The first few minutes are almost aggressive and pungent smoky, but this quickly subsides and becomes a pleasant incense note. The cypress and cade wood together have an extreme effect on me like this typical smell of a rainy evening in early summer.

It's great for layering. But absolutely as a basis, so that the aggressive cigarette note can be removed

Very mysterious, very masculine at first...

And so I wander through the forest of curiosities... White flowers and lavender bloom around the swept granite floor and I make my way towards a greenhouse in a clearing

Yes, I do... Something's wrong...

Why is this greenhouse made of frosted glass?

Inside I see lemons growing on strange tendrils with small rosebuds and in the middle a cacao tree set in stone? What is this place?

With a rose in her hand the Japanese designer Hanae Mori approaches me and greets me. She tells me that she thinks she wants to create a modern and Mediterranean version of the land of milk and honey...

Flowery, slightly herbaceous lemon meets milky cocoa... Really weird. If someone would show it to me and ask me how much it costs, I would think that the scent would be somewhere between the other blue private blends of Tom Ford. The shelf life is really good 10 hours approx. and that with about 6 hours and 4 splashes of room filling Sillage.

Quite pleasing and yet super creative fragrance.

Nevertheless, you should not buy it blind, because the light cocoa note could be a little strange to some people to wear it yourself.

The bottle and spray head are phenomenally good. Great wide finely scattered cloud and a very pleasant glass.