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Gasoline leather miracle
It took me a while to warm up to it, but now I'm completely transfixed. I can only imagine how older versions smelled, although I hear the current formulation is actually not bad. It's just the perfect balance of contradictory tendencies: the rawness of gasoline, the delicacy of florals, the diffusive greenness of violet leaf, the grounded reddish brown of leather. Its like one of those optical illusions where you can see two different things depending on wether you focus on the figure or the ground, both perfectly complementary and opposite, yet existing simultaneously. This feels like a rare stroke of brilliant perfumery genius combined with the stars aligning, considering all the parties involved in its creation, and it's a miracle that it's still available and in decent shape nearly 30 years later. This doesn't fit into any category, is really a work of art, and yet is still perfectly wearable and arguably even versatile. I only wish it had a bit more body in it's current form.