Havana Aramis 1994 Eau de Toilette

I always keep a sample of the best perfume in the world (Fahrenheit by Dior) in the center console of my car. A few weeks ago, this sample leaked, and in the same compartment of the center console was a pack of mint candies.

They must have soaked up the Fahrenheit. I didn’t know that at first, until I popped one of those candies in my mouth. I tasted a mix of mint and perfume, and it all turned into a wild party of spices and menthol.

Anyway, I suddenly got some kind of flashback to a perfume that I knew but couldn’t place. My old childhood room suddenly came to my mind, my wardrobe back then, where my first perfumes were stored (Nightflight, Joop Homme, Harley Davidson...) and another scent. This taste was a hundred percent that - still - unknown perfume, but I couldn’t remember the name.

Well, what can I say, I sucked on another candy, and I really saw the bottle in front of me. Dark, round, thinner at the bottom, with a powerful black cap on top! I just couldn’t recall it. When I searched for ideas about perfumes here in the evening, Cuba came to mind, tobacco leaves...HAVANA!! Then I landed on this fragrance site, but the bottle didn’t match. Upon a closer look, I then saw the old, "my" bottle! There it was. Ordered it directly from Amazon for 26 euros, and two days later I had it here. Well, not the same as before, nowhere near as intense as I remembered it, still sweet, smoky but not as powerful anymore. Regardless, I found it very amusing that I rediscovered the old scent through the combination of perfume and mint.