Top Notes 
Bitter orange
Pink grapefruit
Spearmint
Mandarin orange
Heart Notes 
Rhubarb
Absinthe wormwood
Basil
Petitgrain
Tuberose
Base Notes 
Cedarwood
Moss
Patchouli
White musk
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In the Bathroom with the Brown Wall Tiles
Being a child in the eighties was different from today. No mobile phones, but rotary dial phones, no streaming services, only three channels on TV, and we took photos on film and could only see the results after developing the pictures. Today, that’s hard to imagine.
Also, a bathroom with a dark brown bathtub and equally brown wall tiles is probably something no one can envision today. But back then, it was indeed modern. We washed ourselves with soap from the drugstore, and later, when my mother was regularly visited by an Avon consultant, we had shower gel in our house for the first time. I remember it well. The bottle was blue, and the equally blue gel smelled herbaceous, green, slightly bitter, and mossy. For me, this type of scent is still directly associated with soap and bathing and showering, just like the aldehydes in perfumes like Chanel No. 5.
That’s why today I suddenly found myself back in my parents' bathroom with all that brown, and I had that blue bottle in my mind. Currently, this room is in a raw construction state, just like the entire floor. After the renovation, the bathroom will probably no longer be brown. A few of the dark tiles actually resurfaced during removal. However, the scent of Sabotage brings back the old bathroom as it looked in the eighties. I see my mother with her permed short hairstyle. So much of my memories is so vivid when I smell this soapy, green, and fresh scent that was actually launched just last year. Probably intended for us, children of the seventies and eighties, to remind us of how it was back then.
I lather up with the blue shower gel that smells so wonderfully refreshing to me. Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa - everyone used it back then. Why not? Petitgrain and moss, patchouli, musk, and cedarwood were present in many scents back then - for men just as much as for women, from aftershave to elegant extrait de parfum. The wormwood note in Sabotage fits in wonderfully here and adds an extra dose of nostalgia. I can’t specifically identify the rhubarb and tuberoses. The composition is too harmoniously woven together as a whole.
Maybe a tiny hint of sweaty skin from the grapefruit, which the herbaceous-mossy shower gel gets to cleanse afterward? Or does this impression come from the musk in the base? I don’t know. Sabotage wouldn’t be a scent I would necessarily want to wear. I see it more as a sauna infusion or perhaps as a room aroma, intended to remind me of my childhood. A time I fondly think back to. Yes, there are days when I think that this much simpler way of living would do us good today.
A big thank you to SiameseDream for the testing opportunity.
Also, a bathroom with a dark brown bathtub and equally brown wall tiles is probably something no one can envision today. But back then, it was indeed modern. We washed ourselves with soap from the drugstore, and later, when my mother was regularly visited by an Avon consultant, we had shower gel in our house for the first time. I remember it well. The bottle was blue, and the equally blue gel smelled herbaceous, green, slightly bitter, and mossy. For me, this type of scent is still directly associated with soap and bathing and showering, just like the aldehydes in perfumes like Chanel No. 5.
That’s why today I suddenly found myself back in my parents' bathroom with all that brown, and I had that blue bottle in my mind. Currently, this room is in a raw construction state, just like the entire floor. After the renovation, the bathroom will probably no longer be brown. A few of the dark tiles actually resurfaced during removal. However, the scent of Sabotage brings back the old bathroom as it looked in the eighties. I see my mother with her permed short hairstyle. So much of my memories is so vivid when I smell this soapy, green, and fresh scent that was actually launched just last year. Probably intended for us, children of the seventies and eighties, to remind us of how it was back then.
I lather up with the blue shower gel that smells so wonderfully refreshing to me. Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa - everyone used it back then. Why not? Petitgrain and moss, patchouli, musk, and cedarwood were present in many scents back then - for men just as much as for women, from aftershave to elegant extrait de parfum. The wormwood note in Sabotage fits in wonderfully here and adds an extra dose of nostalgia. I can’t specifically identify the rhubarb and tuberoses. The composition is too harmoniously woven together as a whole.
Maybe a tiny hint of sweaty skin from the grapefruit, which the herbaceous-mossy shower gel gets to cleanse afterward? Or does this impression come from the musk in the base? I don’t know. Sabotage wouldn’t be a scent I would necessarily want to wear. I see it more as a sauna infusion or perhaps as a room aroma, intended to remind me of my childhood. A time I fondly think back to. Yes, there are days when I think that this much simpler way of living would do us good today.
A big thank you to SiameseDream for the testing opportunity.
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