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The rhubarb musk scent - or: A perfume in a blind test
Those who have been dealing with perfumes and the background of their production for a longer time will surely already know: the pyramid as we get it in front of our nose is not always congruent with the actual ingredients of a fragrance. Not only is a large number of fragrances not listed at all (otherwise the pyramid would just scare many away), often the notes listed are more of a chord of different fragrances than individual natural or synthetic fragrances.
If you look at the two aspects, so that you can smell more or less than indicated in the pyramid, blind tests are of course even more fun. So also with French Affair.
The fragrance starts with a sweet and sour fruit with distinct green notes. The type of fruit is quite quickly identified and pretty clear: RHABARBER! Fresh, tart - only because of the sweetness, my thoughts went briefly in the direction of apple, but no, it remains with rhubarb.
Quickly moves bright musk into the heart of the fragrance, which is joined after a short time a warm-amber background noise. The combination of both provides - especially towards the end of the fragrance - a discreetly sweetish-powdery impression, although the tart rhubarb always gives a certain freshness. And the really extremely high-dose musk (don't get me wrong, everything here is soft and not piebald-synthetic) unfortunately reminds me of the typical Douglas fragrance mix in the women's department. Which is why I would have blindly classified French Affair in the mainstream.
The more surprised I am about the official pyramid of the perfume. Rose, moss, vetiver ... all aspects I have not perceived at all. Even from Chypre is here in classification and statements the speech. Not at all, for me the fragrance is an uncomplicated summer refresher with a soft base, which reminds me of many well-known women's fragrances.
And the conclusion? Blind testing is fun and brings one or the other surprise, with which one would never have expected. So let you send from friends perfumofreunden quiet times a few numbered sample...
If you look at the two aspects, so that you can smell more or less than indicated in the pyramid, blind tests are of course even more fun. So also with French Affair.
The fragrance starts with a sweet and sour fruit with distinct green notes. The type of fruit is quite quickly identified and pretty clear: RHABARBER! Fresh, tart - only because of the sweetness, my thoughts went briefly in the direction of apple, but no, it remains with rhubarb.
Quickly moves bright musk into the heart of the fragrance, which is joined after a short time a warm-amber background noise. The combination of both provides - especially towards the end of the fragrance - a discreetly sweetish-powdery impression, although the tart rhubarb always gives a certain freshness. And the really extremely high-dose musk (don't get me wrong, everything here is soft and not piebald-synthetic) unfortunately reminds me of the typical Douglas fragrance mix in the women's department. Which is why I would have blindly classified French Affair in the mainstream.
The more surprised I am about the official pyramid of the perfume. Rose, moss, vetiver ... all aspects I have not perceived at all. Even from Chypre is here in classification and statements the speech. Not at all, for me the fragrance is an uncomplicated summer refresher with a soft base, which reminds me of many well-known women's fragrances.
And the conclusion? Blind testing is fun and brings one or the other surprise, with which one would never have expected. So let you send from friends perfumofreunden quiet times a few numbered sample...
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