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Memorable
I must say that it is difficult to describe (it is "compact" and almost impossible to decode) and it is one of the most "avant garde" fragrances that exist and that is already "in another league". A creation understood by those who have a more advanced perfume culture.
It is an experience that lasts at least 3 days (at which point you can still feel the "civet" of the drydown).
We know that Mr Gardoni mentioned “the final fragrance actually contains 86 ingredients, applied with a technique of “micro-balancing mini quantities of almost ‘invisible’ elements” to create notes, “ghosts,” and suggestions that are “hard to pin down.”
For me it started with a taste of caramelized bitter orange (or maybe tangerine marmalade?), and continued with the aroma of burnt sugar over custard and a little Coca-Cola. All of this is based on a symphony of different types (which are 5 after all) of lavender – distilled in such a way that the end result ends up being atypical for the lavender we are used to and which is mixed with a little pine resin and vetiver (perhaps also with medicinal mint candies). There is a multifloral and fruity facet with a bubblegum flavor. Sometimes it feels like I'm detecting many scents I've smelled before in the distant past. There are chords that disappear and come back again. There are so many ingredients (86!!!!) that I probably won't detect many. However, after 2-3 hours, I feel more flower petals and, as a result, the evocation of the soft skin of a female neck.
After the sensation of walking through the aromas of a street in the first “Blade Runner” film and climbing the stairs of a city that is constantly rebuilding itself with every step, the perfume takes me to the figure of an old sage taking refuge in his beard and in the shadows of the memories of an immense library – with reams of books getting lost in a ceiling of impenetrable clouds. A huge, silent space like the room where the hero of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey grows old.
A drydown awaits us accompanied by the orchestra's bass drums playing “Also sprach Zarathustra” – in the version from the soundtrack of this film.
Many other “ghost” places could be told but I don’t want to spoil the surprises of those who also come to experience MEM’s long journey.
MEM probably means Memory but it could also, in my understanding, mean Memorable. Because it could go down in the history of perfumery as one of the first of a new generation of fragrances – based on different assumptions.
It is an experience that lasts at least 3 days (at which point you can still feel the "civet" of the drydown).
We know that Mr Gardoni mentioned “the final fragrance actually contains 86 ingredients, applied with a technique of “micro-balancing mini quantities of almost ‘invisible’ elements” to create notes, “ghosts,” and suggestions that are “hard to pin down.”
For me it started with a taste of caramelized bitter orange (or maybe tangerine marmalade?), and continued with the aroma of burnt sugar over custard and a little Coca-Cola. All of this is based on a symphony of different types (which are 5 after all) of lavender – distilled in such a way that the end result ends up being atypical for the lavender we are used to and which is mixed with a little pine resin and vetiver (perhaps also with medicinal mint candies). There is a multifloral and fruity facet with a bubblegum flavor. Sometimes it feels like I'm detecting many scents I've smelled before in the distant past. There are chords that disappear and come back again. There are so many ingredients (86!!!!) that I probably won't detect many. However, after 2-3 hours, I feel more flower petals and, as a result, the evocation of the soft skin of a female neck.
After the sensation of walking through the aromas of a street in the first “Blade Runner” film and climbing the stairs of a city that is constantly rebuilding itself with every step, the perfume takes me to the figure of an old sage taking refuge in his beard and in the shadows of the memories of an immense library – with reams of books getting lost in a ceiling of impenetrable clouds. A huge, silent space like the room where the hero of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey grows old.
A drydown awaits us accompanied by the orchestra's bass drums playing “Also sprach Zarathustra” – in the version from the soundtrack of this film.
Many other “ghost” places could be told but I don’t want to spoil the surprises of those who also come to experience MEM’s long journey.
MEM probably means Memory but it could also, in my understanding, mean Memorable. Because it could go down in the history of perfumery as one of the first of a new generation of fragrances – based on different assumptions.