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Highlander with French flair
I confess: I mainly know Scotland from television reports, not just about the British royals, and from the novels made into films by Rosamunde Pilcher.
They allow me to get to know a landscape that I would not do well in nature: I am somehow very Mediterranean and therefore not at all suited to this interesting and yet somewhat very rustic, rugged beauty.
Just reading about her sometimes makes me reach for a warmer jacket.
So, of course, "Paris - Édimbourg" from the "Les Eaux de Chanel" fragrance series is a delightful temptation, an encounter that is first fresh and spicy, then polished and multi-faceted, for which Olivier Polge is once again responsible.
After testing a few of his fragrance compositions for this series, I find his interpretation of the landscape extremely appealing and so I am happy to follow him through a plantation of light to dark green cypress spears and soft silky cedars with their slightly powdery aroma to a clearing where, thanks to the miracle of the Gulf Stream, a Hesperides grove with its golden fruits has found a home.
All their citrusy freshness, not only from ripe bergamot and lemons, but also their wood and foliage scented by the warmth of the sun in the wide sky, seem to have been infused into this creation; nothing is scratchy or biting.
Only the resilient, prickly juniper with its silvery-grey ripe dark blue berries emits rustic spice; a spice that adds that certain something to the gin and tonic at the end of the day in the late afternoon, early evening.
(It doesn't always have to be the expected Scotch whisky; this light, seemingly watery liquid also has its fans, who can choose one of the now numerous varieties with the most diverse "perfumes")
At first, this spice stings a little, but Vetiver's well-known personality and popular, classic base accompaniment harmoniously polishes off any corners and edges of the fragrance that may be too pungent, thus skillfully completing this wonderful fragrance picture.
Fresh, clear and spicy cool, like Scotland's landscape with dark forests, mysterious lochs under a wide, mostly cloud-filled sky:
This is the feeling that "Paris - Édimbourg" gives me; a patchwork fragrance impression of green, brown, gray and all the colors associated with the sun develops extremely pleasantly - present and yet not annoying and becoming softer, silkier over the course of the fragrance development, when the cedar wood once again takes over the scepter, or rather: the powder box, and thus ensures a well-rounded, spicy fragrance experience.
As we all know, "Paris - Édimbourg" also bears the name "Eau": So once again I experience the transparency of a fragrance that inspires me so much, which makes this series so interesting and wearable for me.
They are not intended to entice, beguile or seduce, but rather stand for skillfully thought-out short trips away from everyday life, for likeable companions full of French esprit and therefore don't get boring too quickly.
They also have the stylish elegance that characterizes this series.
They make fragrant statements that are definitely worth their weight in gold.
Getting to know some of the fragrances from the two series "Les Eaux de Chanel" and "Les Exclusifs de Chanel" was valuable to me; they show that even a new generation of fragrance creations does not harm a time-honored name.
Father and son Polge have created beautiful and wearable examples here.
Many thanks for these fragrant flying visits!
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