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02/11/2021
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Lightning comment - Yes, wakarament, nochamoi!
REPETITIVE AND NOMINAL
For the brand, concept and prices, please refer to the commentary on MAZHAR.
According to the fragrance insert, WAKA "also means a musical genre in Nigeria, a protected rainforest in Gabon, and an exclamation in Cameroon." The exclamation is reproduced in the comment heading. I'm puzzled by the word "also" because the package insert doesn't say what WAKA "actually" means, i.e. in its main meaning. Since the fragrance is associated with Madagascar, perhaps also an exclamation, e.g.: "Yes, stay where the pepper grows!". Anyway, so suitable as a CI fragrance of the African Union.
SEXUAL AND LEGAL
According to the manufacturer's advertising claims, this fragrance is said to be not only "relaxing" and "therapeutically beneficial" in the sense of traditional Madegassian medicine (TMM), due to the use of local medicinal plants, but also, and I quote verbatim: "aphrodisiacal". Holla the Wood Fairy!
How these claims are compatible in detail with Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 (Health Claims Regulation), would be a side aspect, which will not be pursued further here.
COMPARATIVE
My scent memory of MOJAVE GHOST by Byredo isn't very accurate anymore, but the scent came to mind when I saw WAKA. Perhaps, however, only because it has in common with this fragrance here that it is a highly interesting, but for me rather unpleasant smelling fragrance of a brand I like.
OLFAKTORISCH
Waka is a thermally not just cool, but downright cold scent. I don't know lemon eucalyptus, but from the first second (and not just in the heart note) Waka hits me in the face with a full load of eucalyptus candy mixed with lemongrass from a Thai soup. So the "lemon-eucalyptus" thing could well be true. Since I already dislike lemongrass in tom yam soup, not a good start. The impressions of the first few hours are metallic, medicinal herbaceous and tart to bitter. It makes me think of cacti and poisonous jungle plants. As it progresses, Waka gets a little warmer, more floral, spicier (it says cinnamon, I was thinking allspice) and more pleasing.
CONCLUDING
Waka is an unpleasant scent to me, but when I try to abstract from my personal preferences, it seems well-knit. Anyway, it's highly original, covers a spectrum of notes and scent impressions, and is developmentally strong. It is innovative and experimental.
Who is looking for a natural aphrodisiac, for which no endangered animals are slaughtered, who is an employee of the Secretariat of the African Union, all followers of Traditional Madegassian Medicine, as well as all those who are curious about a fragrance off the beaten track and have no allergy to lemongrass tom yam soups or emm eucal sweets, should try this fragrance.
For the brand, concept and prices, please refer to the commentary on MAZHAR.
According to the fragrance insert, WAKA "also means a musical genre in Nigeria, a protected rainforest in Gabon, and an exclamation in Cameroon." The exclamation is reproduced in the comment heading. I'm puzzled by the word "also" because the package insert doesn't say what WAKA "actually" means, i.e. in its main meaning. Since the fragrance is associated with Madagascar, perhaps also an exclamation, e.g.: "Yes, stay where the pepper grows!". Anyway, so suitable as a CI fragrance of the African Union.
SEXUAL AND LEGAL
According to the manufacturer's advertising claims, this fragrance is said to be not only "relaxing" and "therapeutically beneficial" in the sense of traditional Madegassian medicine (TMM), due to the use of local medicinal plants, but also, and I quote verbatim: "aphrodisiacal". Holla the Wood Fairy!
How these claims are compatible in detail with Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 (Health Claims Regulation), would be a side aspect, which will not be pursued further here.
COMPARATIVE
My scent memory of MOJAVE GHOST by Byredo isn't very accurate anymore, but the scent came to mind when I saw WAKA. Perhaps, however, only because it has in common with this fragrance here that it is a highly interesting, but for me rather unpleasant smelling fragrance of a brand I like.
OLFAKTORISCH
Waka is a thermally not just cool, but downright cold scent. I don't know lemon eucalyptus, but from the first second (and not just in the heart note) Waka hits me in the face with a full load of eucalyptus candy mixed with lemongrass from a Thai soup. So the "lemon-eucalyptus" thing could well be true. Since I already dislike lemongrass in tom yam soup, not a good start. The impressions of the first few hours are metallic, medicinal herbaceous and tart to bitter. It makes me think of cacti and poisonous jungle plants. As it progresses, Waka gets a little warmer, more floral, spicier (it says cinnamon, I was thinking allspice) and more pleasing.
CONCLUDING
Waka is an unpleasant scent to me, but when I try to abstract from my personal preferences, it seems well-knit. Anyway, it's highly original, covers a spectrum of notes and scent impressions, and is developmentally strong. It is innovative and experimental.
Who is looking for a natural aphrodisiac, for which no endangered animals are slaughtered, who is an employee of the Secretariat of the African Union, all followers of Traditional Madegassian Medicine, as well as all those who are curious about a fragrance off the beaten track and have no allergy to lemongrass tom yam soups or emm eucal sweets, should try this fragrance.
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