01/01/2024
ElAttarine
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In the ivy cathedral
As the sun rises, the morning dew shimmers sweet and salty in the ivy forest. The ivy-covered crowns of the ancient trees reach higher than you can normally see, their roots deeper into the ground than even the fungi, worms and mold bacteria are constantly on the move. The light is muted and constantly refracted through the ivy greenery.
On the damp ground with its sweet-smelling mustiness, the animals of the forest rise up from their resting places, rub against each other and stretch their limbs. The flattened ground releases the smells of the night, as do the skins of the animals in the air, warm, uriney, animalistic, desiring-having, desiring, sexual, wild. Wild juices and secretions of all species and all expressions of life exude their aromas.
Here and there birds fly up, fly higher, settle down again. The view that follows them opens the space upwards. Marvel at the height of the treetops and the enormous expanse that arches over the forest. So you stand there, stretched out between earth and sky, with your feet on the ground, in this immense space of life.
From the hollow of the earth at the very bottom to the airy heights at the very top, where the ivy finally stops striving even higher and forms blossoms... There, where it is not far to the clouds.
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It really is hard to believe that Francis Kurkdjian created this fragrance for Burberry of all places! For me, Burberry stands for very controlled elegance, certainly not for obvious animalism. (However, I have already met quirky wearers of Burberry clothing on Exmoor in Devon, for whom this would certainly fit, sweaty and wearing wellies at dusk on the hunt for the "wild red deer...").
Neil Chapman, who in his review on "blacknarcissus" did not capture the scent in my opinion (whether mentally or emotionally, both are possible!), writes in his description of Ivy Musk: "Jesus. This is a monster. A joke. Surely. The pooiest civet I have ever smelled". The civet here is really fecal and capable of turning your stomach. The fresh and ozonic green notes, which overlay the "foul-smelling and truly shocking decaying Gorgon heart in a way that is simply unacceptable in modern society", remain simply inaccessible and incomprehensible to him. His reaction is accordingly only "olfactory horror and horror", the scent is at best suitable for stink bombs or terrorist attacks.
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I feel differently. My fragrance impression:
A very short opening with airy, fresh, salty notes, clear, beautifully tarry-sweet ivy, and immediately all the animalic notes come in. It has a presence! I also get a whiff of modern-day grass, damp earth and sweet mustiness. From this point on, everything remains present at the same time, clear and yet complex. The strong animal notes are very, very clear and I find them fascinating throughout and never repulsive. There are many facets of urine and animalism. But never so repulsive that I would turn my nose away.
And every spot smells different; like one of the animals, I sniff and sniff again and again with fascination where I have sprayed or dabbed.
Nothing here is banal, boring, pleasing or nice.
Another fragrance that is not for cowards, but very special and great! Yes, some fragrances take courage to wear - but it's actually fearlessness or courage to live that's needed here. To live with all the creaturely things that go with it. And when nothing human is alien to us anymore or we have passed through it and are therefore as fully human as possible, then it is good... EVERYTHING is life.
"And though worms destroy this body
Yet in my flesh shall I see God ..." (from Handel's "Messiah")
Oh dear, I'm completely addicted to this fragrance right now, I don't want to wear anything else. -
Yes, yes, I know, I'm always so easy to get excited about. But something like this. This one came on really quickly and it had me.
Thanks to @Can777 for putting me on this trail!
https://theblacknarcissus.com/tag/burberry-ivy-musk-review/
On the damp ground with its sweet-smelling mustiness, the animals of the forest rise up from their resting places, rub against each other and stretch their limbs. The flattened ground releases the smells of the night, as do the skins of the animals in the air, warm, uriney, animalistic, desiring-having, desiring, sexual, wild. Wild juices and secretions of all species and all expressions of life exude their aromas.
Here and there birds fly up, fly higher, settle down again. The view that follows them opens the space upwards. Marvel at the height of the treetops and the enormous expanse that arches over the forest. So you stand there, stretched out between earth and sky, with your feet on the ground, in this immense space of life.
From the hollow of the earth at the very bottom to the airy heights at the very top, where the ivy finally stops striving even higher and forms blossoms... There, where it is not far to the clouds.
---------------
It really is hard to believe that Francis Kurkdjian created this fragrance for Burberry of all places! For me, Burberry stands for very controlled elegance, certainly not for obvious animalism. (However, I have already met quirky wearers of Burberry clothing on Exmoor in Devon, for whom this would certainly fit, sweaty and wearing wellies at dusk on the hunt for the "wild red deer...").
Neil Chapman, who in his review on "blacknarcissus" did not capture the scent in my opinion (whether mentally or emotionally, both are possible!), writes in his description of Ivy Musk: "Jesus. This is a monster. A joke. Surely. The pooiest civet I have ever smelled". The civet here is really fecal and capable of turning your stomach. The fresh and ozonic green notes, which overlay the "foul-smelling and truly shocking decaying Gorgon heart in a way that is simply unacceptable in modern society", remain simply inaccessible and incomprehensible to him. His reaction is accordingly only "olfactory horror and horror", the scent is at best suitable for stink bombs or terrorist attacks.
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I feel differently. My fragrance impression:
A very short opening with airy, fresh, salty notes, clear, beautifully tarry-sweet ivy, and immediately all the animalic notes come in. It has a presence! I also get a whiff of modern-day grass, damp earth and sweet mustiness. From this point on, everything remains present at the same time, clear and yet complex. The strong animal notes are very, very clear and I find them fascinating throughout and never repulsive. There are many facets of urine and animalism. But never so repulsive that I would turn my nose away.
And every spot smells different; like one of the animals, I sniff and sniff again and again with fascination where I have sprayed or dabbed.
Nothing here is banal, boring, pleasing or nice.
Another fragrance that is not for cowards, but very special and great! Yes, some fragrances take courage to wear - but it's actually fearlessness or courage to live that's needed here. To live with all the creaturely things that go with it. And when nothing human is alien to us anymore or we have passed through it and are therefore as fully human as possible, then it is good... EVERYTHING is life.
"And though worms destroy this body
Yet in my flesh shall I see God ..." (from Handel's "Messiah")
Oh dear, I'm completely addicted to this fragrance right now, I don't want to wear anything else. -
Yes, yes, I know, I'm always so easy to get excited about. But something like this. This one came on really quickly and it had me.
Thanks to @Can777 for putting me on this trail!
https://theblacknarcissus.com/tag/burberry-ivy-musk-review/
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