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CoViD Comments, Eighteenth Piece: Kojak.
About three weeks ago, when I started this daily soap, the lockdowns and everything were still quite new (some even just starting), everything was getting tighter, and now there is already a lot of talk about the first easing measures. It happens so quickly. I think that by the third decade of April, hairdressers will be allowed to reopen and a few small shops, and around the beginning to mid-May, kindergartens and primary schools will reopen. Well, let’s hold on until then and hope that the virus doesn’t rub its hands and let loose again.
For a while now, there has been speculation about how all of this will impact us in the long term and how we will remember this time: as the time when people wanted to kill for a piece of toilet paper and broke into hospital basements to steal masks, and when we started to think that these over-80s were just unnecessarily burdening health insurance and hospitals? Or as the time when we realized that we could actually be very happy without constantly rushing from meeting to appointment to party and driving around like a madman producing CO2, when we reflected on important things, helped others, and called all our old friends again?
No idea. Maybe we will just want to forget and suppress it quickly and continue seamlessly as before, even in the bad ways. It all depends on us. I am modest. What I realistically dare to hope will remain is a small boost for cashless payments (I love that in the Netherlands or Scandinavia, where you can even pay for two rolls with a card or phone) and a small breakthrough for remote work for those who want it, even among previously more conservative employers. Personally, I don’t need remote work, but I have always been annoyed that it is made so difficult for young parents in my workplace (and elsewhere) to reconcile career and family through generous remote work regulations.
That was a look into the future, and now to the past. This fragrance seems to no longer be available, which is extremely unfortunate. I pulled it out today as a surprise sample from my box and unfortunately don’t remember who gifted it to me. I probably didn’t buy it. So, noble donor, please come forward so I can thank you. I didn’t expect anything special, especially since I have heard the name "Aigner" before but don’t associate anything with it. But after spraying it, my reaction was: "My goodness! This is some really hot stuff!".
The "Super Fragrance for Men," which is an extremely silly name and thus already good for 8 sympathy points (composed of 7 points plus one super point for men), is first and foremost really powerful. Again, a beautifully rich projection and longevity, but without excesses. Then I perceive it (I don’t know if you can understand what I mean) as close-fitting. This is a fragrance you snuggle into. I don’t belong to the L&L scene, but you understand what I mean. The only other fragrance I feel this way about is Opium pour Homme by YSL, to which I once wrote a comment with the motif "Heroes in Tights." More traditionally described, Super Fragrance is very green-spicy, with a strong animalistic note (wherever that comes from, certainly not from "Costus," as I researched what that is, nothing indecent and also no animal, it’s some kind of flower) and also very soapy and a bit sweet. And all of that is very, very beautifully and roundly composed and finely balanced. For me, an absolutely masculine fragrance, 150 percent (I still wish a female owner here on the list a lot of joy with it).
I find it very exciting and very fitting that this fragrance is from 1978. You can definitely see it as a precursor to the 80s powerhouse fragrances, already very related to them, but still tamed, in nuce, the later excesses still in the bud stage. I wouldn’t associate the fragrance with Magnum or Higgins, nor with Crocket or Tubbs, but with Lt. Theo Kojak from Manhattan, who was also a quirky character and colorful personality, but not yet such a stark individualist, still a very traditional cop with esprit de corps, an old-fashioned code of honor, and kiss-the-hand. And of course, SUPER Trouper by ABBA is playing!
P.S: If anyone still has supplies and wants to get rid of them... Pay with cash or toilet paper!
For a while now, there has been speculation about how all of this will impact us in the long term and how we will remember this time: as the time when people wanted to kill for a piece of toilet paper and broke into hospital basements to steal masks, and when we started to think that these over-80s were just unnecessarily burdening health insurance and hospitals? Or as the time when we realized that we could actually be very happy without constantly rushing from meeting to appointment to party and driving around like a madman producing CO2, when we reflected on important things, helped others, and called all our old friends again?
No idea. Maybe we will just want to forget and suppress it quickly and continue seamlessly as before, even in the bad ways. It all depends on us. I am modest. What I realistically dare to hope will remain is a small boost for cashless payments (I love that in the Netherlands or Scandinavia, where you can even pay for two rolls with a card or phone) and a small breakthrough for remote work for those who want it, even among previously more conservative employers. Personally, I don’t need remote work, but I have always been annoyed that it is made so difficult for young parents in my workplace (and elsewhere) to reconcile career and family through generous remote work regulations.
That was a look into the future, and now to the past. This fragrance seems to no longer be available, which is extremely unfortunate. I pulled it out today as a surprise sample from my box and unfortunately don’t remember who gifted it to me. I probably didn’t buy it. So, noble donor, please come forward so I can thank you. I didn’t expect anything special, especially since I have heard the name "Aigner" before but don’t associate anything with it. But after spraying it, my reaction was: "My goodness! This is some really hot stuff!".
The "Super Fragrance for Men," which is an extremely silly name and thus already good for 8 sympathy points (composed of 7 points plus one super point for men), is first and foremost really powerful. Again, a beautifully rich projection and longevity, but without excesses. Then I perceive it (I don’t know if you can understand what I mean) as close-fitting. This is a fragrance you snuggle into. I don’t belong to the L&L scene, but you understand what I mean. The only other fragrance I feel this way about is Opium pour Homme by YSL, to which I once wrote a comment with the motif "Heroes in Tights." More traditionally described, Super Fragrance is very green-spicy, with a strong animalistic note (wherever that comes from, certainly not from "Costus," as I researched what that is, nothing indecent and also no animal, it’s some kind of flower) and also very soapy and a bit sweet. And all of that is very, very beautifully and roundly composed and finely balanced. For me, an absolutely masculine fragrance, 150 percent (I still wish a female owner here on the list a lot of joy with it).
I find it very exciting and very fitting that this fragrance is from 1978. You can definitely see it as a precursor to the 80s powerhouse fragrances, already very related to them, but still tamed, in nuce, the later excesses still in the bud stage. I wouldn’t associate the fragrance with Magnum or Higgins, nor with Crocket or Tubbs, but with Lt. Theo Kojak from Manhattan, who was also a quirky character and colorful personality, but not yet such a stark individualist, still a very traditional cop with esprit de corps, an old-fashioned code of honor, and kiss-the-hand. And of course, SUPER Trouper by ABBA is playing!
P.S: If anyone still has supplies and wants to get rid of them... Pay with cash or toilet paper!
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