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Lightning Comment: Rumpelstiltskin at the Beauty Farm
NAME
I don't quite understand the significance of the name Wrappings (packaging, wrapping papers, and a few other facets) for this fragrance. However, it is clear that this name makes the scent an absolute candidate for testing on the second Christmas holiday, the traditional day of taking down the gift wrap to the trash bin.
BRAND
Clinique is a US brand focused on body and facial care for women. At one point, it had to be called Linique in Europe because regulatory authorities or courts believed that Clinique sounded as if the anti-aging creams and face masks had a medical benefit. For some time now, Clinique has been back in use, apparently the company fought and won a legal battle. Fragrances are not part of their core business.
SCENT
With this brand, one expects a calm, softly creamy, somewhat boring to stuffy women's fragrance, whose claim to originality barely reaches beyond that of the fragrance oils in the wellness sector.
However, it seems that a forest troll, perhaps Rumpelstiltskin, has managed to break open the window of the spa facility and perform wild dances and archaic rituals between the massage tables at night.
What we encounter here is an extremely robust and extremely green chypre that has not been washed (or rather: that has not been washed at all). Wrappings is everything green, from the entire kitchen herb garden of the monastery (albeit trampled and vandalized) to peppermint, moss, foliage, and weeds. Additionally, a hint of berries, honey, and wood from the forest.
There are also lush flowers, but not a delicate bouquet in pastel, rather a clumsily gathered heap of proletarian forest and meadow flowers, from which generous amounts of soil are still cascading onto the sparkling white marble floor tiles of the Institut de Beauté, along with the uprooted roots.
CONCLUSION
Although no galbanum is noted: a rabidly green scent that immediately made me think of Vol de Nuit. However, there is no direct similarity, as Wrappings is too telluric. Not a night flight, but a night hike through the thicket, a Randonée de Nuit. One of the most unusual and original scents I have ever smelled. Very beautiful, unusually beautiful, but I can hardly imagine it on myself, perhaps because I am not named Rumpelstiltskin. Definitely worth testing. That it has sneaked into the Clinique portfolio and has been there for 30 years, I interpret as subversive irony.
DISCLAIMER
I would like to thank Tabla very politely for this testing opportunity. According to your source, this is the original formula from 1990. This fragrance certainly has a vintage scent.
I don't quite understand the significance of the name Wrappings (packaging, wrapping papers, and a few other facets) for this fragrance. However, it is clear that this name makes the scent an absolute candidate for testing on the second Christmas holiday, the traditional day of taking down the gift wrap to the trash bin.
BRAND
Clinique is a US brand focused on body and facial care for women. At one point, it had to be called Linique in Europe because regulatory authorities or courts believed that Clinique sounded as if the anti-aging creams and face masks had a medical benefit. For some time now, Clinique has been back in use, apparently the company fought and won a legal battle. Fragrances are not part of their core business.
SCENT
With this brand, one expects a calm, softly creamy, somewhat boring to stuffy women's fragrance, whose claim to originality barely reaches beyond that of the fragrance oils in the wellness sector.
However, it seems that a forest troll, perhaps Rumpelstiltskin, has managed to break open the window of the spa facility and perform wild dances and archaic rituals between the massage tables at night.
What we encounter here is an extremely robust and extremely green chypre that has not been washed (or rather: that has not been washed at all). Wrappings is everything green, from the entire kitchen herb garden of the monastery (albeit trampled and vandalized) to peppermint, moss, foliage, and weeds. Additionally, a hint of berries, honey, and wood from the forest.
There are also lush flowers, but not a delicate bouquet in pastel, rather a clumsily gathered heap of proletarian forest and meadow flowers, from which generous amounts of soil are still cascading onto the sparkling white marble floor tiles of the Institut de Beauté, along with the uprooted roots.
CONCLUSION
Although no galbanum is noted: a rabidly green scent that immediately made me think of Vol de Nuit. However, there is no direct similarity, as Wrappings is too telluric. Not a night flight, but a night hike through the thicket, a Randonée de Nuit. One of the most unusual and original scents I have ever smelled. Very beautiful, unusually beautiful, but I can hardly imagine it on myself, perhaps because I am not named Rumpelstiltskin. Definitely worth testing. That it has sneaked into the Clinique portfolio and has been there for 30 years, I interpret as subversive irony.
DISCLAIMER
I would like to thank Tabla very politely for this testing opportunity. According to your source, this is the original formula from 1990. This fragrance certainly has a vintage scent.
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