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Serenissima
Very helpful Review
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under the spell of the scent eclipse
After reading Floyd's thoughts on a fragrance, my own usually feel very small and insignificant.
So it must be a special kind of masochism that I keep sharing them here, despite their publication.
And especially with Alkemia's "The Raven", also still touched by the somewhat oppressive shadow of Edgar Allan Poe, it is probably the mystery of the complex darkness of this scent-weave that makes me write after all.
But perhaps it is also the glimmer of light that I sense over the course of the fragrance that gives me courage and makes me follow the darkness: Deeply embedded, it seems to be calling to me!
Are these shadowy figures in the scented darkness of this writing room now wearing the leather-reinforced armor of the men of war or the simple monk's robes of the scribe or even the scientist?
The faint glow of the few candles at the desks makes it impossible to tell.
Thick wafts of dark aromatic leather drift through the low vault, gather under its ceiling and slowly become spicier.
Because the scent of caraway, pepper and cardamom - all black and full-bodied - marries with it: very interesting and yet also very strange!
A little more of this would be too much for my sensitive airways.
A breath of air disperses the now amber smoke in the room, the special, slightly metallic scent of ink trembles and drifts quietly away: A door has been opened!
A being, a figure of light, its pale face glowing mysteriously under a mass of ebony-black hair, enters the room and the atmosphere changes.
The previously almost masculine dark fragrance takes on feminine, slightly green and floral notes with woody nuances:
Dark powdery iris and light violet-related aroma accents touch the senses softly, as if with delicate fingers, relaxing them as if they were being freed from the shackles of the previous intense darkness of the fragrance.
The tension eases: The strength and power of "The Raven" become more bearable for me.
At the same time, the sillage and persistence are only average, and yet the minor notes are so intense that I feel almost relieved at this change in the fragrance's progression.
For me, "The Raven" is not a perfume, not a fragrance - it is rather a densely interwoven, mysterious story that is told and which each of us probably experiences and interprets differently.
So it's not a fragrance for "I can recommend!"
(But when have I ever recommended anything?)
A fragrance to experience, but not an "experience fragrance", not a "fragrance event".
However, an interesting detour into a very special world of fragrances.
"The Raven" by Alkemia is like a book that I have read once, but will put on the shelf afterwards: The memory of it will come back with the regular/rather irregular dusting, but we won't live together!
It doesn't have to be; not every encounter has to end with love, but with respect!
And the creators of "The Raven", a special work of fragrance art, have my deep respect.
Drawing ink
Violet leaf
Black caraway
Black pepper
Leather
Black amber
Black cardamom
Black iris
Ebony
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