Black Hashish ArteOlfatto - Luxury Perfumes 2014
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It's name choice!
There's nothing about you I don't like. Except your name. Yes, already Shakespeare said: "What's in a name?". Your name does not detract from your beauty, you are more than welcome on my skin and in my nose. Even if you come along so boldly and try to play the hitchhiker, to ride on foreign waves and travel (as it seems to be typical for your house in general). So be it. But have you ever thought about a second baptism? The obvious resemblance to your ancestor from the house of Nasomatto is as shameless as it is honest, but you simply have nothing to do with hashish. Maybe we'll find you a new name.
One that really suits you,
to your blowing leather breath,
to your invigorating darkness,
the smoky balsam,
the rough brown,
that evaporates,
spiritualizes,
floats away Memory of brutality,
faded gruffness,
Androgyny,
dry herb rising in resin,
tart melting on the tongue
a core of coffee and black snow.
Take it from me not krumm, but we baptize you around. Now don't be grumpy.
Maybe you can keep your first name. How about... Black Haze? Black Melt? Black Core? Black Snow? Or we'll throw something together for you from the following pool of words I can think of: Dark, Damp, Brown, Murky, Mud, Gloom, Somber, Saturn, Dusk.... Maybe the audience would like to participate? Other suggestions?
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So, how do I evaluate a fragrance that could not be a more obvious copy of one of the most famous niche fragrances? Probably only with my nose. It is actually the same to me that is served here in terms of the name and fragrance neatly at the role model. Because:
1. In my opinion, BH flies over his role model Black Afgano Extrait de Parfum . He is more subtle, airy, multilayered. In comparison, BA seems to me a bit peatier, edgier, coarser and plainer. For me, BH is an improvement. BA does not fascinate me nearly as much.
2. People looking for a cheaper alternative to BA will find it here. I do not know why I should pay Nasomatto prices, if I get virtually the same (in this case in my opinion even better), with a by the way terrific durability and sillage, significantly cheaper.
How do you see this? Is it legitimate or on the contrary even "reprehensible" to support such a thing? If musicians would cover a song and pass it off as their own composition without reference to the original, that would bother me. Why is it any different with a perfume, since it is just as much a work of art? Or is the name such an obvious allusion that it already passes for a "concession", so to speak?
The brand ArteOlfatto seems to be "inspired" sometimes by foreign sizes ( Habano Vanilla = "Tobacco Vanilla (Eau de Parfum) | Tom Ford" / Wild Orchid = Black Orchid Eau de Parfum ). Legally, it is obvious. But is the personal boundary between inspiration and copy crossed here? Or are the subtle differences legitimacy enough?
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Addendum: It occurred to me in retrospect that I assumed cannabis smell in general with hashish. Hashish (that is, the resin extracted from the cannabis plant) I have never smelled in the flesh, so I can not compare that at all with the perfume. But after the leaves / the typical Kiffgeruch smells this fragrance at least definitely not.
One that really suits you,
to your blowing leather breath,
to your invigorating darkness,
the smoky balsam,
the rough brown,
that evaporates,
spiritualizes,
floats away Memory of brutality,
faded gruffness,
Androgyny,
dry herb rising in resin,
tart melting on the tongue
a core of coffee and black snow.
Take it from me not krumm, but we baptize you around. Now don't be grumpy.
Maybe you can keep your first name. How about... Black Haze? Black Melt? Black Core? Black Snow? Or we'll throw something together for you from the following pool of words I can think of: Dark, Damp, Brown, Murky, Mud, Gloom, Somber, Saturn, Dusk.... Maybe the audience would like to participate? Other suggestions?
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So, how do I evaluate a fragrance that could not be a more obvious copy of one of the most famous niche fragrances? Probably only with my nose. It is actually the same to me that is served here in terms of the name and fragrance neatly at the role model. Because:
1. In my opinion, BH flies over his role model Black Afgano Extrait de Parfum . He is more subtle, airy, multilayered. In comparison, BA seems to me a bit peatier, edgier, coarser and plainer. For me, BH is an improvement. BA does not fascinate me nearly as much.
2. People looking for a cheaper alternative to BA will find it here. I do not know why I should pay Nasomatto prices, if I get virtually the same (in this case in my opinion even better), with a by the way terrific durability and sillage, significantly cheaper.
How do you see this? Is it legitimate or on the contrary even "reprehensible" to support such a thing? If musicians would cover a song and pass it off as their own composition without reference to the original, that would bother me. Why is it any different with a perfume, since it is just as much a work of art? Or is the name such an obvious allusion that it already passes for a "concession", so to speak?
The brand ArteOlfatto seems to be "inspired" sometimes by foreign sizes ( Habano Vanilla = "Tobacco Vanilla (Eau de Parfum) | Tom Ford" / Wild Orchid = Black Orchid Eau de Parfum ). Legally, it is obvious. But is the personal boundary between inspiration and copy crossed here? Or are the subtle differences legitimacy enough?
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Addendum: It occurred to me in retrospect that I assumed cannabis smell in general with hashish. Hashish (that is, the resin extracted from the cannabis plant) I have never smelled in the flesh, so I can not compare that at all with the perfume. But after the leaves / the typical Kiffgeruch smells this fragrance at least definitely not.
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