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Sucking on Ice Candies While Walking in the Woods
That Michel Almairac is one of my favorite noses is probably well known. Recently, I took another look at his creations and got stuck on this one. I still remember Bogner Snow so well, also a gift from my mother to Mr. Polly. It was 2000, just before I set off for the first time to the UK to study there for a while, and of course, it accompanied me for the first days in the new country. Unfortunately, this beautiful Eau de Toilette was also in the suitcase that we forgot on the train journey from Manchester to Wales during the transfer in Crewe. We both worried about the fragrance, as we both found it beautiful.
Looking at the notes today, so many years later, I am somewhat surprised. Galbanum. Ginger. Oakmoss. Not exactly my favorites. Juniper is also not one of my favorite notes, but with this Bogner, everything was so finely intertwined that I simply perceived a very noble, fresh scent. Disruptive factors? None to be found. I experienced Snow as fresh, but not at all aquatic. It had a certain coolness that I would, if I didn't know better, attribute to a mint note. This kind of coolness I know very well from L’Occitane Verveine Menthe or Goutal's Nuit Etoilée. Since mint was supposedly not included in Snow, I suspect a combination of Galbanum, Ginger, and Juniper that created this fine coolness in the end.
The scent also remains finely woody in my memory, and I believe it is the ambered base that made me like it so much. I still particularly enjoy fragrances with amber in the base on my better half. I wasn't bothered at all by the slightly antique touch that the oakmoss brought with it.
It probably left the market so quickly because, despite all its freshness, it had a classic touch and was not modern-aquatic, which would remind one of shower gel. No, Snow was more like sucking on ice candies while walking in the woods, and thus far away from Calone & Co.
By the way, we did get the travel bag and Mr. Polly's EdT back. Sometimes you just have to be lucky.
Looking at the notes today, so many years later, I am somewhat surprised. Galbanum. Ginger. Oakmoss. Not exactly my favorites. Juniper is also not one of my favorite notes, but with this Bogner, everything was so finely intertwined that I simply perceived a very noble, fresh scent. Disruptive factors? None to be found. I experienced Snow as fresh, but not at all aquatic. It had a certain coolness that I would, if I didn't know better, attribute to a mint note. This kind of coolness I know very well from L’Occitane Verveine Menthe or Goutal's Nuit Etoilée. Since mint was supposedly not included in Snow, I suspect a combination of Galbanum, Ginger, and Juniper that created this fine coolness in the end.
The scent also remains finely woody in my memory, and I believe it is the ambered base that made me like it so much. I still particularly enjoy fragrances with amber in the base on my better half. I wasn't bothered at all by the slightly antique touch that the oakmoss brought with it.
It probably left the market so quickly because, despite all its freshness, it had a classic touch and was not modern-aquatic, which would remind one of shower gel. No, Snow was more like sucking on ice candies while walking in the woods, and thus far away from Calone & Co.
By the way, we did get the travel bag and Mr. Polly's EdT back. Sometimes you just have to be lucky.
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And it's great that everything worked out well with the luggage.