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Eintracht Business Ultras
My relationship with Frankfurt am Main can best be described as 'volatile.' You can actually live quite well here - even though I am regularly struck by the Frankfurt blues every two years, and I immediately want to go somewhere else - finally a real big city and not some Hessian village with a few high-rises in it - and then I end up staying here. And just when I have somewhat made friends with the city again, I usually discover something new that is really uncool. Like the Eintracht Business Ultras.
The Business Ultras are a fan group of Eintracht Frankfurt. The 'Business' is expressed in the fact that the Eintracht eagle on their flag wears a tie, and 'Ultras' - I don't need to explain that, do I? And I can see in my mind's eye a pack of drunken bankers with loosened ties (who probably couldn't hit a barn door from the penalty spot) with Cohibas and Veuve Clicquot in magnum bottles wreaking havoc in the VIP lounges of the Commerzbank Arena (formerly: Waldstadion). And I think to myself: 'Really now - is that necessary?'
'Really now - is that necessary?' was also roughly what I thought when I first sniffed Acqua di Parma's Colonia Ambra, the currently most mediocre among the overall mediocre 'brown' premium colonias from Parma. They all seem a bit like Frankfurt to me when I am on the verge of the blues - trying a bit too hard to play with the big players of the world, the top notes puffed up, the margin probably great, but - metaphorically speaking - still just a village in Hesse with a few high-rises in it.
Right from the top notes - and Colonias like to rely on those - it falls far behind its brothers: indecisively citrus-dull, it lacks the charm that Colonia Leather or Colonia Oud can at least somewhat mask the mediocrity of their further development with. It is followed by a dusty (rose) sweetness - not comforting and not gourmand, hardly a trace of amber or sandalwood - not really bad, but everything is so annoyingly mediocre that Colonia Ambra presents itself as the signature scent for the Eintracht Business Ultras: misses the barn door and is uncool to boot.
Conclusion: next time I will write nicely about 'my' Frankfurt again. And about the next Acqua di Parma too. Promise.
The Business Ultras are a fan group of Eintracht Frankfurt. The 'Business' is expressed in the fact that the Eintracht eagle on their flag wears a tie, and 'Ultras' - I don't need to explain that, do I? And I can see in my mind's eye a pack of drunken bankers with loosened ties (who probably couldn't hit a barn door from the penalty spot) with Cohibas and Veuve Clicquot in magnum bottles wreaking havoc in the VIP lounges of the Commerzbank Arena (formerly: Waldstadion). And I think to myself: 'Really now - is that necessary?'
'Really now - is that necessary?' was also roughly what I thought when I first sniffed Acqua di Parma's Colonia Ambra, the currently most mediocre among the overall mediocre 'brown' premium colonias from Parma. They all seem a bit like Frankfurt to me when I am on the verge of the blues - trying a bit too hard to play with the big players of the world, the top notes puffed up, the margin probably great, but - metaphorically speaking - still just a village in Hesse with a few high-rises in it.
Right from the top notes - and Colonias like to rely on those - it falls far behind its brothers: indecisively citrus-dull, it lacks the charm that Colonia Leather or Colonia Oud can at least somewhat mask the mediocrity of their further development with. It is followed by a dusty (rose) sweetness - not comforting and not gourmand, hardly a trace of amber or sandalwood - not really bad, but everything is so annoyingly mediocre that Colonia Ambra presents itself as the signature scent for the Eintracht Business Ultras: misses the barn door and is uncool to boot.
Conclusion: next time I will write nicely about 'my' Frankfurt again. And about the next Acqua di Parma too. Promise.
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6 Comments
ExUser 8 years ago
Business-Ultras - whoop whoop, schon wieder etwas dazugelernt, ohne es zu wollen. Idioten gibt es halt in jeder Liga.
Meggi 8 years ago
Das ist doch noch peinlicher als ein Ausflug des Kegelclubs Westerrönfeld auf die Reeperbahn.
Nezdoux 8 years ago
Ach was, loewenherz, nächstes Mal packst Du Deine Parfumsammlung und ziehst nach München. Ist zwar auch nur ein Dorf, nicht mal mit Hochhäusern drin, aber im Scheunentore treffen und cool sein, sind wir ganz groß :-)
Rookie82 8 years ago
Und das zum 20 jährigen Jubiläum der Ultras ... tzz ;-)
mado 8 years ago
Haha, von den Business Ultras die Brücke zu diesem Duft schlagen - das muss man erstmal schaffen. Sehr schön! Hättest als Beispiel auch die pinke Eintracht-Fankollektion für die Damenwelt nehmen können, die es vor ein paar Jahren mal gab. Die war genauso unnötig ;)
Woodpecker 8 years ago
Meiner Erfahrung nach tragen "Business Ultras" zwar eher Terre d'Hermès, aber ich weiß, was Du meinst. Ich hatte das C. Ambra zusammen mit C. Oud als Proben erhalten und die beiden dann aus Spaß gelayert: Das ging irre gut! Aus 2 mittelmäßigen (ok - mir gefiel das C.O. auch besser) wurde ein erträglicher Duft. Unbedingt ausprobieren, falls zur Hand! Letzlich ist der doch dominante Cologne-Akkord nichts für mich und die Proben zogen weiter