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Flash Commentary: Rumpelstiltskin at the Beauty Farm
NAME
What sense the name Wrappings (wrappings, wrapping papers, and a few more facets) for this fragrance has, I do not understand. What is certain, however, is that the fragrance by this name becomes the absolute set test candidate for the second Christmas holiday, the traditional day of bringing down the wrapping papers to the garbage can.
BRAND
Clinique is a US brand focusing on body and face care for the lady. In between, it had to call itself Linique in Europe times, because regulators or courts were of the opinion, Clinique sounded as if the anti-wrinkle creams and face masks had a medical benefit. For some time now you've been reading Clinique again, apparently the company has been in a legal battle and won. Fragrances are not part of the core business.
Fragrance
With the brand, one expects an unexciting, soft-creamy, somewhat boring to stuffy women's fragrance, whose claim to originality at best reaches as far as that of fragrance oils in the wellness sector.
Here, however, a wood gnome, perhaps Rumpelstiltskin, seems to have managed to break open the spa window and perform wild dances and archaic rituals nightly between the massage tables.
Indeed, we are met here by an extremely pithy and extremist green chyproid who has washed (or actually rather: who has not washed). Wrappings is everything that is green, from the entire kitchen herb bed of the monastery garden (though trampled and vandalized) to peppermint, moss, leaves and weeds. Further from the forest each a touch of berries, honey and wood.
In addition, lush flowers, but not a discreet bouquet in pastel, but a grobianisch zusammengeraffte heap of proletarian forest and meadow flowers, of which equal with plucked roots still generously earth trickles onto the sparkling white marble floor tiles of the Institut de Beauté.
CONCLUSION
Although no galbanum is listed: a rabid green fragrance that immediately made me think of Vol de Nuit. However, a direct similarity is not present, for that Wrappings is too telluric. Not a night flight, but a night hike through the woods, a randonée de nuit. One of the most unusual and original scents I have ever smelled. Very nice, unusually nice, but I practically can't imagine it on me, maybe because my name isn't Rumpelstiltskin. Definitely worth testing. That he has crept into the Clinique portfolio of all things and held there for 30 years, I rate as subversive irony.
DISCLAIMER
Tabla I thank you very artfully for this testing opportunity. According to your source, this is the original 1990 formula. Vintage this fragrance certainly smells.
What sense the name Wrappings (wrappings, wrapping papers, and a few more facets) for this fragrance has, I do not understand. What is certain, however, is that the fragrance by this name becomes the absolute set test candidate for the second Christmas holiday, the traditional day of bringing down the wrapping papers to the garbage can.
BRAND
Clinique is a US brand focusing on body and face care for the lady. In between, it had to call itself Linique in Europe times, because regulators or courts were of the opinion, Clinique sounded as if the anti-wrinkle creams and face masks had a medical benefit. For some time now you've been reading Clinique again, apparently the company has been in a legal battle and won. Fragrances are not part of the core business.
Fragrance
With the brand, one expects an unexciting, soft-creamy, somewhat boring to stuffy women's fragrance, whose claim to originality at best reaches as far as that of fragrance oils in the wellness sector.
Here, however, a wood gnome, perhaps Rumpelstiltskin, seems to have managed to break open the spa window and perform wild dances and archaic rituals nightly between the massage tables.
Indeed, we are met here by an extremely pithy and extremist green chyproid who has washed (or actually rather: who has not washed). Wrappings is everything that is green, from the entire kitchen herb bed of the monastery garden (though trampled and vandalized) to peppermint, moss, leaves and weeds. Further from the forest each a touch of berries, honey and wood.
In addition, lush flowers, but not a discreet bouquet in pastel, but a grobianisch zusammengeraffte heap of proletarian forest and meadow flowers, of which equal with plucked roots still generously earth trickles onto the sparkling white marble floor tiles of the Institut de Beauté.
CONCLUSION
Although no galbanum is listed: a rabid green fragrance that immediately made me think of Vol de Nuit. However, a direct similarity is not present, for that Wrappings is too telluric. Not a night flight, but a night hike through the woods, a randonée de nuit. One of the most unusual and original scents I have ever smelled. Very nice, unusually nice, but I practically can't imagine it on me, maybe because my name isn't Rumpelstiltskin. Definitely worth testing. That he has crept into the Clinique portfolio of all things and held there for 30 years, I rate as subversive irony.
DISCLAIMER
Tabla I thank you very artfully for this testing opportunity. According to your source, this is the original 1990 formula. Vintage this fragrance certainly smells.
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