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Smoky dry woods
Bravanariz has dedicated itself as a brand to the immediate environment, that is, the plants, trees and everything that is located around Pontos, Catalonia. Pontos is located in the interior of the country and so the landscape fragrances of the label are also kept quite dry, very authentically told. Fum, on the other hand, is one of those creations that have been created with more artistic freedom, which are not meant to conform to any guidelines but are conceived abstractly. I find this approach exciting and so Fum found its way to me, which contains the smoky elements I appreciate. The scent tells of a winter landscape by a warming campfire, of a meal of oranges by the same, opened with the hands, symbolically little civilized and thus a kind of equivalent to the rough landscape.
In any case, it immediately smells of smoke, thereby for me not dissimilar to a gentle campfire, could also be the smoke of a match. Here I have to think of Incendo by La Curie. A dark premonition quickly overcomes you that this can't be it, even though you know that smoky scents of this type are often monothematic. Fortunately, within thirty minutes it becomes more multifaceted. Curious: sometimes I perceive the orange already here which fades away, however, after few minutes, sometimes I do not notice this at all at the beginning.
Fum becomes warmer in any case, the small blazing flame on the threshold of extinction ignites its power. It becomes warm, the wood now smells more intense and it's almost as if individual drops of resin fizzle away in the fire, releasing a hint of complexity as well as depth.
One wonders, how should the orange be incorporated, how fits now a tangy citrus element to this scenery? Conservatively considered not at all and actually resonates successively peeling out the orange. But not fresh but peeled, pale, in the process of drying, rather dull citrusy and acting more as a kind of room scent. This now underpins the smoky woods. One associates rather darkness at the campfire, only the sky firmament provides some light on the horizon.
Summa summarum a sympathetic small label which does not attract attention with new fragrances every month but even creates products around themes. This is remarkable and Fum, the Catalan smoke, is in terms of intensity a moderate olfactory pointer of the Spaniards. When it comes to the development of Fum, one can only choose terms like authenticity, multifacetedness and clarity.
Can one draw comparisons with smoky forests respectively with smoky woods or tar which are decorated with for example vanilla? Well, I think who likes the end of the first batch of Birch Tar & Russian Leather or Cotswold in the second half, will not be completely off the mark here. But I already mentioned it above: it goes more in the direction of Incendo whereas Fum is more ambivalent for me.
