Series 3: Incense - Zagorsk Comme des Garçons 2002
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Between religion and floor wax
The first time I might have tested Zagorsk was about 7-8 years ago, when I started to get interested in fragrances and with my untrained nose was still looking for the right scent for me. At that time, Parfumo was still without the statement function, so with reliable regularity I had fragrances in front of my nose, whose sample order was based purely on the embellishing, poetic, imaginative representations. The fragrance references are known at or for each person different, not surprisingly, that it was therefore more missteps than anything else.
So also Zagorsk: church and incense, fits, I thought. My first encounter, however, was of a somewhat different kind, immediately I put the fragrance ad acta, because he smelled - attention, unobjective and purely subjective - awful. However, after I gradually got to know other CdG fragrances and my scent impression so not at all to the descriptions here wanted to fit, I had to order me again a sample.
My then, as well as today, unreflective first association is indeed church, yes, however, arise before my inner eye dark brown, from many prayers speckig glänzende wooden benches in a gloomy, blackened by candle soot, covered with rough stone floor tiles, old village church in the infinite expanse of Siberia. The incense-laden scent of the last service, mixed with the exhalations of hard-working elderly people and a hint of floor polish and soap still hangs in the air. Trembling touched by the breeze, the last candle goes out.
That sounds at first not at all convincing. In the meantime, however, I had not only the opportunity to visit Russian Orthodox churches and monasteries, but also to train my nose further. Zagorsk is meant to evoke a mood and therefore has little to do with freshly smoked incense (which, incidentally, was my expectation at the time). For me, it succeeds in evoking the atmosphere - and in parts - also the fragrance of a Russian Orthodox church, in this respect I can only agree with Gold.
At the same time, freed from intentions and naming, after the green-herbaceous unfriendly top note, it is an absolute clean feel-good fragrance of past centuries, when there was no fabric softener and synthetic musk, no 4711 was on the way or the British brought their lavender and moss to the man. It is bright, friendly, most likely I detect violet iris, some soap and hints of the CdG typical hinoki wood. Very discreetly in the background, candle soot, floor polish and incense continue to resonate. Absolutely contemplative - even without prayers.
He was allowed to move in immediately and can accompany me from now on a piece of my way.
So also Zagorsk: church and incense, fits, I thought. My first encounter, however, was of a somewhat different kind, immediately I put the fragrance ad acta, because he smelled - attention, unobjective and purely subjective - awful. However, after I gradually got to know other CdG fragrances and my scent impression so not at all to the descriptions here wanted to fit, I had to order me again a sample.
My then, as well as today, unreflective first association is indeed church, yes, however, arise before my inner eye dark brown, from many prayers speckig glänzende wooden benches in a gloomy, blackened by candle soot, covered with rough stone floor tiles, old village church in the infinite expanse of Siberia. The incense-laden scent of the last service, mixed with the exhalations of hard-working elderly people and a hint of floor polish and soap still hangs in the air. Trembling touched by the breeze, the last candle goes out.
That sounds at first not at all convincing. In the meantime, however, I had not only the opportunity to visit Russian Orthodox churches and monasteries, but also to train my nose further. Zagorsk is meant to evoke a mood and therefore has little to do with freshly smoked incense (which, incidentally, was my expectation at the time). For me, it succeeds in evoking the atmosphere - and in parts - also the fragrance of a Russian Orthodox church, in this respect I can only agree with Gold.
At the same time, freed from intentions and naming, after the green-herbaceous unfriendly top note, it is an absolute clean feel-good fragrance of past centuries, when there was no fabric softener and synthetic musk, no 4711 was on the way or the British brought their lavender and moss to the man. It is bright, friendly, most likely I detect violet iris, some soap and hints of the CdG typical hinoki wood. Very discreetly in the background, candle soot, floor polish and incense continue to resonate. Absolutely contemplative - even without prayers.
He was allowed to move in immediately and can accompany me from now on a piece of my way.
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