Colonia Ambra Acqua di Parma 2015 Eau de Cologne Concentrée
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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, learned something new again, without even wanting to. There are idiots in every league.
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Meggi 8 years ago
That's even more embarrassing than a trip by the bowling club from Westerrönfeld to the Reeperbahn.
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Nezdoux 8 years ago
Oh come on, lionheart, next time just pack your perfume collection and move to Munich. It's just a little village too, not even with high-rises, but we're really good at meeting up in barn doors and being cool :-)
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Rookie82 8 years ago
And that for the 20th anniversary of the Ultras... tzz ;-)
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mado 8 years ago
Haha, connecting the business ultras to this fragrance - that's quite an achievement! Very nice! You could have also mentioned the pink Eintracht fan collection for the ladies from a few years ago. That was just as unnecessary ;)
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Woodpecker 8 years ago
In my experience, "business ultras" tend to wear Terre d'Hermès, but I know what you mean. I received samples of C. Ambra and C. Oud and layered them just for fun: it worked surprisingly well! From two mediocre scents (okay - I liked C.O. better too), I created a pleasant fragrance. Definitely give it a try if you have them on hand! Ultimately, the dominant cologne accord isn't for me, and the samples moved on.
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