Velamint

If I had to choose a fragrance that I could take with me to a desert island, it would be this dream of a fragrance, or the "Angélique Noire | Guerlain"
I always go back and forth depending on my mood.
The "Cuir Béluga | Guerlain" is simply out of this world.
When you read the individual components, you would never dream that everything would come together to form this divine blend. I was initially skeptical about the suede in particular, because I usually find leather in fragrances disturbing. But here it is a velvety-soft, cuddly leather that has been sprinkled with the typical Guerlain vanilla.
When I signed up here years ago, just as Corona was putting out its feelers, it was my first fragrance that I tested beyond the designer fragrances, and after the first spray I was anything but convinced. I simply couldn't do anything with it, it just smelled strange to my untrained nose. I went to sleep with the sample spray on my wrist and when I woke up the next day, I was blown away. Not only was it still perceptible after 7 hours, the scent had cast a spell over me. Guerlain's vanilla is out of this world anyway, but in combination with the delicate suede, the fresh mandarin (briefly at the beginning), the dry strawflower, the amber and the hint of patch as a base, the result is a composition that is second to none. I'm sure it smells exactly like this in my heaven.

Now that the new Sospiro fragrances are finally listed here, I had the pleasure of testing the Pasticcio and am very impressed.

The fragrance starts off fruity/sweet and later turns into a woody-sweet nose caress. I find the scratchy elements mentioned by some, which are said to come from sandalwood, exciting because they give the fragrance a few rough edges.

I can't smell all the ingredients; I don't notice orange blossom at all, for example, but that's not a bad thing, as it usually dominates the fragrances and I therefore only like it in very few perfumes, such as "Meringa | Profumum Roma"
Fortunately, I also don't notice the typical sun cream vibe ingredient ylang ylang, but instead a pleasantly restrained rose and an interesting spiciness.

All in all, a thoroughly interesting fragrance that always puts me in a good mood when I wear it, and that's exactly what a fragrance should do.
The longevity is good, the sillage moderate.
I will now gradually test the other Sospiros, this one has made me curious and is the second fragrance from the house after "Ensemble | Sospiro", which could also move into my home as a bottle.

For me, oriental fragrances are mostly too overloaded. They go directly to the 12 and make no prisoners.
In addition, I can not with Oud at all, I feel with this kind of fragrance simply uncomfortable.
With Raghba it is different, which is probably also due to the fact that oud plays a rather discreet role here.
The fragrance starts with a delicious blend of incense, vanilla sugar and musk, and actually remains exactly the same in the further course.
I love it.
The Oud is to be guessed, but more also not, and exactly so it is wearable for me.
The fragrance is in my opinion, the attempt of Lataffa to make an oriental fragrance interesting for a European, and that is more than successful.
The price of 25-30 euros for 100 ml is mega, so you can overlook the moderate durability, and puts after 4 hours simply again.
Of course, most find such fragrances in winter more suitable, I find, however, that you can wear such sweetness in summer and should, where the fragrances are at home, there's for example no winter at all, and yet almost exclusively such fragrances are imposed.
The warmth makes them bloom even better.
For me, definitely a purchase recommendation

It is to go crazy with this fragrance. I have now for the third time a filling here.
The first wandered after one-time testing immediately in the souk, I thought I hit the blow! Sweet I like yes, but what was that?
This diffuse clinical, what one perceives, the other again not, hit me full on the stomach.
I had associations of gym mustiness from deepest GDR times, polyclinic and smells of plastic/elastic treated with some chemical softener. Never again!

Then I got as an addition to a souk months later again a small filling of the fragrance, and somehow I thought to myself, what the heck - a gift horse you do not look in the mouth. Two sprays on it, smelled it briefly and immediately recognized it again, but this time with much less suspicion and "disgust". Something has the, but what?
Later, my girlfriend came over and immediately said that it smells wonderful here. I held out my arm to her and she was blown away.
My objections whether the clinical or chemical associations could not confirm you.
I found myself sniffing my arm over and over again.
Yes, there's something about it, but WHAT??

I ran out of the sample and now it so happened that I ordered a new bottling. Because this fragrance does not want to go damn out of my head.

It's not the holy grail for me, as it is for many others, but it's also not horrible or nausea-inducing by any means.
This scent is born ambivalence, at least for me. I love it and hate it at the same time. Doesn't make sense? I can't help it. :)

One thing the fragrance is definitely not, meaningless and boring. He is special and he stays in the head and in the nose.
Durability is, as almost always from this house, phenomenal.

Whether I will ever buy a bottle I do not know, but it will certainly find from time to time a new bottling the way to me

Today Cara moved in with me.
It was a rather spontaneous action, since I had sworn to myself to want to live alone from now on, for reasons.
It came differently, and I'm glad about it.
Cara is great
She doesn't like to be the center of attention, and yet she can't be ignored.
She likes understatement, and is delightful for that very reason.
She comes on quiet soles and beguiles with her ease more than quite a few Crowd-pleaser the already from 10 meters distance "place there" call.
Cara wraps you around the finger without you noticing it, and have you not seen is she come to stay.
Resolutions are there to be broken, so I gladly made a place next to me for Cara.

Cara?

CARA???

Oh there you are, hmmmmm......