Colonia Mirra Acqua di Parma 2017
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Haddu Myrrhchen?
Yeah, I have. A little….
A tame myrrh opens, far removed from the dark, smoky scent of Armani's 'Myrrhe Imperiale', rather bright-spicy (later I will get closer to this impression). A hint of herbal botany seems to be involved - in contrast, I don't feel much from the other promised plants. The fruit reduces to a watery hint at the front, the blossom is more aura than performer.
Instead, on the next testing day, it quickly revealed what had taken at least a few hours on the first day: wood, wood, wood. And unfortunately, not exactly of the finest kind. While there are undoubtedly worse representatives, there is simply a hardware-store-like, banal touch. The latter may have partially entered through the nutmeg route; I had previously suspected that woody nutmeg via eugenol can exhibit somewhat unfortunate parallels to the bitter end of a banana.
Anyway, on the second day, the stupid banal wood pretty much ruins the already not very exciting scent for me. The myrrh soon retreats into a kind of sugary amber direction, which has little to counter the latent hardware store and quickly retreats definitively from it.
Conclusion: With 'Colonia Mirra', the shine wore off for me too quickly. The whole thing feels very much like it was put together in a routine manner. A brief, shy association with Davidoff's 'Leather Blend' in the opening phase confirms my feeling more than it contradicts it.
A tame myrrh opens, far removed from the dark, smoky scent of Armani's 'Myrrhe Imperiale', rather bright-spicy (later I will get closer to this impression). A hint of herbal botany seems to be involved - in contrast, I don't feel much from the other promised plants. The fruit reduces to a watery hint at the front, the blossom is more aura than performer.
Instead, on the next testing day, it quickly revealed what had taken at least a few hours on the first day: wood, wood, wood. And unfortunately, not exactly of the finest kind. While there are undoubtedly worse representatives, there is simply a hardware-store-like, banal touch. The latter may have partially entered through the nutmeg route; I had previously suspected that woody nutmeg via eugenol can exhibit somewhat unfortunate parallels to the bitter end of a banana.
Anyway, on the second day, the stupid banal wood pretty much ruins the already not very exciting scent for me. The myrrh soon retreats into a kind of sugary amber direction, which has little to counter the latent hardware store and quickly retreats definitively from it.
Conclusion: With 'Colonia Mirra', the shine wore off for me too quickly. The whole thing feels very much like it was put together in a routine manner. A brief, shy association with Davidoff's 'Leather Blend' in the opening phase confirms my feeling more than it contradicts it.
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And yet, you wish it had a bit more sparkle.