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Merci Monsieur Demachy
Dear Francois,
today you receive a love letter from Germany. From the East and from an area where most French people have not yet been.
Don't worry, my letter is purely platonic and I have no intention of throwing myself at you or any other part of your body. It also took me quite a while to figure out that you are the nose behind Hypnotik Poison. At first I was skeptical, because there are quite a few flankers of the 1985 Urpoison by my colleagues Jean Guichard and Edouard Fléchier. I'm not that much of a flanker. But here, oh yes, a discovery and what's the saying? Better late than never. I could easily throw myself into a purple negligee. But who would see that? So here I sit in hand-knitted socks and an alpaca wool sweater.
Liquorice is supposed to be in here? I thought the same thing for a while: No!
Floral absolutes, and of the kind I like. Orange blossom and jasmine went into the still. Somewhere I also read something about May bells and yes, with a lot of imagination I can also think them in. And then comes the licorice note. Well, liquorice is made from a root extract of liquorice. And it not only smells sweet, but also woody.
I liked liquorice even as a child. But that was almost 60 years ago. You may know my grandma (1914-2007). She hated liquorice and convinced me that it was made from bug blood and would attract mosquitoes. You can shape a child that way, but it didn't work for me. Mosquitoes? I wouldn't wear this full-bodied oriental in summer. Unless we get -5° C in July.
Besides, a mosquito is only human and in summer I usually wear chypres. The mosquitoes freeze to death before they bite.
You and I owe the fact that you are receiving this love letter to a dear perfume friend who discovered this fragrance with her nose.
I had actually resolved not to buy any more fragrances. But what are resolutions for? To overturn them. Dear Francois, this Poison ends up on my wish list and I give it 10 points each as an all-round score. How's the weather in France?
With best regards
Your M.