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CoVid comments, first piece: No body fluids!
I have the impression that since the CoViD pandemic hit Germany with full force, commentary activity here has declined. Although I have clicked a lot of new subscriptions in the last few days, I am getting much less relevant emails than before. Well, you writers out there, in the intensive care unit or in the coffin, hopefully you are not yet, but you certainly have good reasons to hold back here. Maybe you have a home office and need to do video meetings at home and take care of the three-year-old child at the same time, and you're so tired in the evenings that you fall right into bed. Or you're always chasing toilet paper. Or have come to the conclusion that dealing with scents is vain delusion. Whatever it is, stay healthy and in good spirits
The current crisis has brought me (this can change very quickly) a slowing down and calming of my daily and weekly routines. Furthermore, my specimen storage is still well filled and I have also placed some souk orders in the last few days; I hope that everything will arrive before the post office closes. And therefore I will comment here perhaps a little more often and more regularly than usual. Maybe sometimes even if I would have written only a statement or nothing at all. As a sign of cheerful play even in difficult times. As a flag signal that I am still here. And for my own amusement as well as for those who like to read my comments and who maybe are now sitting in quarantine at home and are happy about a nice distraction.
Normally I would probably not have written anything about FdDdRedA, because I almost completely agree with Terra. In the fragrance analysis, in the intrusive images, in the point evaluation. And also the others, most recently Augusto (also with the same note), have written very well. If I want to stay with the truth, there's not much left for me to do but to paraphrase the thoughts of the esteemed co-perfumers in other words. I'll actually do that right away, but before I do that, I'd like to say a few words about the name of the company and the fragrance (including the score, which I'll be giving from now on).
I don't know how the brand came to be called "État libre d'Orange" and have not tried to research it, but in any case it is a play on words. In its basic meaning, it is the Orange Free State (also known as the Orange Republic), a Boer Republic in southern Africa founded on slavery, which then became a sub-state or province in the South African Union (later South African Republic). "Oranje" because of the Dutch royal house of the Oranians, since the Boers came from the Netherlands. It remains to be seen whether the founders considered that it is a bit strange to name a "Free State" (i.e. a republic) after a royal dynasty. Since the company hardly wanted to express its sympathy with apartheid by naming it, it must be a jeu de mots, because "État" can also mean "state" or "stand" in addition to "state", so something like "free state of orange" resonates and wherever you want to turn the kaleidoscope of meaning. I think it would be funny if the company had its headquarters in the Provencal city of Orange or if it mainly produced orange fragrances. As far as I know, neither is the case, so maybe the creators were only coked on coke
I give four points for the name FdDdRedA. Bad, because first of all I can't stand scented names with excessive length, which cannot be pronounced reasonably. Extremely annoying habit, no fun, mostly mindless. Secondly, I think that it is not necessarily necessary to make jokes and gimmicks with religious names in a commercial context. I don't mind satire, but with luxury consumer goods, it doesn't have to be. Still four points, because rice and citrus fruits (citrus notes) go together, because that's how the stuff really smells. And because it sounds kind of poetic, I think. By the way, if there are French people or French teachers among the readers of this commentary, help to clear up the situation. I mean yes, the translation that is usually offered here: "The son of the rice and citrus god" is not quite correct, I mean, that would be: "Fils DU Dieu de Riz et des Agrumes". As it is written here, "Fils DE Dieu de Riz et des Agrumes" is rather "The Son of God [as a strictly Christian term Technicus] of rice and citric" (i.e. like "the Mother of God of Gouadeloupe").
Anyway, the name sounds somehow nicer, friendlier and more cheerful than the usual ELDO scent names like "Palast Nutten", "Fetter Elektriker", "Herrliche Körperflüssigkeiten" or "Weihnachten auf dem Balkon". And so it is. This here is the anti-secretions, the cuddly ELDO.
The very first thing I feel with FdDdRedA is a somehow disturbing animal or maybe rather vegetable stinky note, very slightly only, not disgusting, but slightly irritating, something slightly rotten and stinging (could come from coriander herb). But this retreats within minutes into the overall composition, which I actually feel, whether I am influenced by the hub or not, who knows, as a rather dual interplay of very fine, pleasant, soft citric (this is the dominant part) and creamy, equally fine rice. I write creamy, but the tendency here is not so much towards rice pudding as towards the finest dry-dusty rice powder, which can have a very noble fragrance. This is then played around and made more interesting by strong smelling but low dosed spices and playful flowers. This only scratches the gourmandism. It is a really beautiful and interesting scent, which then settles relatively quickly into a moderately sweet tonka-musk base, but in which rice and citrus fruits are still "kept". In fact - others have already said so - the fragrance in this very long finishing phase is then a skin scent in a double sense, on the one hand it is skinny, close to the skin, i.e. long lasting, small sillage, and on the other hand it is a skin-enhancing scent of which one only notices for sure that it is not the natural scent of the skin when comparing the sprayed left hand with the "naked" right hand. A pity actually, would be great if the own skin smelled like that.
So no brutal truths of pus, blood and sperm from the depths as in the Secretions Magnifique, but here the finest, almost sweet perfume for the surface. But the art of perfumery isn't suitable for Memento Mori either, which is why a lot is written about the Secretions, but fragrances like FdDdRedA are more likely to be worn, and that's a good thing.
The current crisis has brought me (this can change very quickly) a slowing down and calming of my daily and weekly routines. Furthermore, my specimen storage is still well filled and I have also placed some souk orders in the last few days; I hope that everything will arrive before the post office closes. And therefore I will comment here perhaps a little more often and more regularly than usual. Maybe sometimes even if I would have written only a statement or nothing at all. As a sign of cheerful play even in difficult times. As a flag signal that I am still here. And for my own amusement as well as for those who like to read my comments and who maybe are now sitting in quarantine at home and are happy about a nice distraction.
Normally I would probably not have written anything about FdDdRedA, because I almost completely agree with Terra. In the fragrance analysis, in the intrusive images, in the point evaluation. And also the others, most recently Augusto (also with the same note), have written very well. If I want to stay with the truth, there's not much left for me to do but to paraphrase the thoughts of the esteemed co-perfumers in other words. I'll actually do that right away, but before I do that, I'd like to say a few words about the name of the company and the fragrance (including the score, which I'll be giving from now on).
I don't know how the brand came to be called "État libre d'Orange" and have not tried to research it, but in any case it is a play on words. In its basic meaning, it is the Orange Free State (also known as the Orange Republic), a Boer Republic in southern Africa founded on slavery, which then became a sub-state or province in the South African Union (later South African Republic). "Oranje" because of the Dutch royal house of the Oranians, since the Boers came from the Netherlands. It remains to be seen whether the founders considered that it is a bit strange to name a "Free State" (i.e. a republic) after a royal dynasty. Since the company hardly wanted to express its sympathy with apartheid by naming it, it must be a jeu de mots, because "État" can also mean "state" or "stand" in addition to "state", so something like "free state of orange" resonates and wherever you want to turn the kaleidoscope of meaning. I think it would be funny if the company had its headquarters in the Provencal city of Orange or if it mainly produced orange fragrances. As far as I know, neither is the case, so maybe the creators were only coked on coke
I give four points for the name FdDdRedA. Bad, because first of all I can't stand scented names with excessive length, which cannot be pronounced reasonably. Extremely annoying habit, no fun, mostly mindless. Secondly, I think that it is not necessarily necessary to make jokes and gimmicks with religious names in a commercial context. I don't mind satire, but with luxury consumer goods, it doesn't have to be. Still four points, because rice and citrus fruits (citrus notes) go together, because that's how the stuff really smells. And because it sounds kind of poetic, I think. By the way, if there are French people or French teachers among the readers of this commentary, help to clear up the situation. I mean yes, the translation that is usually offered here: "The son of the rice and citrus god" is not quite correct, I mean, that would be: "Fils DU Dieu de Riz et des Agrumes". As it is written here, "Fils DE Dieu de Riz et des Agrumes" is rather "The Son of God [as a strictly Christian term Technicus] of rice and citric" (i.e. like "the Mother of God of Gouadeloupe").
Anyway, the name sounds somehow nicer, friendlier and more cheerful than the usual ELDO scent names like "Palast Nutten", "Fetter Elektriker", "Herrliche Körperflüssigkeiten" or "Weihnachten auf dem Balkon". And so it is. This here is the anti-secretions, the cuddly ELDO.
The very first thing I feel with FdDdRedA is a somehow disturbing animal or maybe rather vegetable stinky note, very slightly only, not disgusting, but slightly irritating, something slightly rotten and stinging (could come from coriander herb). But this retreats within minutes into the overall composition, which I actually feel, whether I am influenced by the hub or not, who knows, as a rather dual interplay of very fine, pleasant, soft citric (this is the dominant part) and creamy, equally fine rice. I write creamy, but the tendency here is not so much towards rice pudding as towards the finest dry-dusty rice powder, which can have a very noble fragrance. This is then played around and made more interesting by strong smelling but low dosed spices and playful flowers. This only scratches the gourmandism. It is a really beautiful and interesting scent, which then settles relatively quickly into a moderately sweet tonka-musk base, but in which rice and citrus fruits are still "kept". In fact - others have already said so - the fragrance in this very long finishing phase is then a skin scent in a double sense, on the one hand it is skinny, close to the skin, i.e. long lasting, small sillage, and on the other hand it is a skin-enhancing scent of which one only notices for sure that it is not the natural scent of the skin when comparing the sprayed left hand with the "naked" right hand. A pity actually, would be great if the own skin smelled like that.
So no brutal truths of pus, blood and sperm from the depths as in the Secretions Magnifique, but here the finest, almost sweet perfume for the surface. But the art of perfumery isn't suitable for Memento Mori either, which is why a lot is written about the Secretions, but fragrances like FdDdRedA are more likely to be worn, and that's a good thing.
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