03/01/2024
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Cartography of Tonka Bay
Logbook of the sloops. Upcoming shore leave. A couple of squeezes of lime against tropical mosquitoes. A last sip of bitter bay rum, lost drops behind the ears. Smells of numbing pain from the cloves. Like clouds of smoke over flints. They are probably cleaning the barrels of the pepper guns below deck, polishing the balsam-wood stocks with pungent mace.
You can already see the white beaches. Tonka grains dance in the warm wind, soon begin to shimmer in the sun, becoming tiny sweet thousand-pearls on driftwood made from dark vanilla pods. Their scent flows over the rough floors, creams the planks of the old cabins. I will give the bay a name and then we will move on. My Bonnie is over the Ocean.
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It took a few years for Stephen Dirkes to open another chapter of his Euphorium Brooklyn brand with "Bay Rum", whereby the house even bears the name Euphorium West Indies on the label for this fragrance and has thus relocated its headquarters on paper (!) to the Caribbean.
The fragrance opens with a few splashes of tart, fresh citrus notes (lime, petitgrain) on a spicy accord of bay rum, mace and allspice, which brings to light slightly bitter-hot aromas of cloves and pepper as well as warm, smoky notes. Balsamic amyris wood, which in itself smells a little like creamy sandalwood, vanilla and benzoin, then forms the link to the base of rather dark vanilla and sweet almond-vanilla tonka bean, which initially balances out the bitter-spicy notes, but then unfortunately swallows them up as it progresses, which makes the fragrance a little too creamy-sweet for me in the long run. Rather not for olfactory freebooters. However, this moderate evening excursion to the Caribbean can be a pleasant alternative for the winter.
You can already see the white beaches. Tonka grains dance in the warm wind, soon begin to shimmer in the sun, becoming tiny sweet thousand-pearls on driftwood made from dark vanilla pods. Their scent flows over the rough floors, creams the planks of the old cabins. I will give the bay a name and then we will move on. My Bonnie is over the Ocean.
**
It took a few years for Stephen Dirkes to open another chapter of his Euphorium Brooklyn brand with "Bay Rum", whereby the house even bears the name Euphorium West Indies on the label for this fragrance and has thus relocated its headquarters on paper (!) to the Caribbean.
The fragrance opens with a few splashes of tart, fresh citrus notes (lime, petitgrain) on a spicy accord of bay rum, mace and allspice, which brings to light slightly bitter-hot aromas of cloves and pepper as well as warm, smoky notes. Balsamic amyris wood, which in itself smells a little like creamy sandalwood, vanilla and benzoin, then forms the link to the base of rather dark vanilla and sweet almond-vanilla tonka bean, which initially balances out the bitter-spicy notes, but then unfortunately swallows them up as it progresses, which makes the fragrance a little too creamy-sweet for me in the long run. Rather not for olfactory freebooters. However, this moderate evening excursion to the Caribbean can be a pleasant alternative for the winter.
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