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Otto Normalverbraucher on DNA and Ratzinger
So folks, niche perfume is a fine thing, but mainstream is easier, I tell you. Let's say I want an extravagant niche scent and then my choice falls on "Io Non Ho Mani Che Mi Accarezzino Il Volto". And just like that, we have a mess, oh what am I saying, not just a mess, but even more.
1. Just imagine, I couldn't speak Italian (thankfully I can), how am I supposed to make it clear to the saleswoman which scent I want? If someone doesn't speak Italian, they can't even pronounce the name of the scent. They would need a simultaneous interpreter, but they wouldn't be able to tell them which name to translate. The only alternative is 4711, because you don't have to remember much there.
2. And then there's the memory gymnastics. Even if you can speak Italian (thankfully I can), you first have to remember such a short story-long name (unfortunately I can't). So again, an alternative is needed - in the form of a cheat sheet.
Everyone has to know for themselves how they want to handle this, but anyone who wants to buy such an extravagant scent as "Io Non Ho Mani Che Mi Accarezzino Il Volto" should be warned, it's hard work.
And the bottle, oh man, it's super cool, that's what they say today, or can you still say it's cool? So the bottle looks like the one from Tactics by Shiseido, but only at the bottom. On top of the cap, "Io Non Ho Mani Che Mi Accarezzino Il Volto" has this little black leather-like flap that looks like it's been tousled by the wind. It's somewhat similar to the homemade strawberry jam from mom. She also put a little flap over the glass lids, and it was red and checkered.
Anyone who goes into my bathroom and sees the bottle on the shelf always comes back to me within 10 seconds, with the bottle in hand, asking: hey, what a cool bottle is that or hey, where did you get that scent; When someone goes to the toilet at my place, I already start counting.
The scent itself is just as extravagant as the bottle.
Right from the top note, "Io Non Ho Mani Che Mi Accarezzino Il Volto" doesn't follow any well-trodden gourmand or oud paths, but tries to score with creativity. No citrus fruits, no flowers, but rather shoe polish on steel or a medicinal-looking herbal mixture: the whole thing comes across very cool-dry, suggesting freshness but without any citrus undertones. I assume that this steel-cold aura is due to the ubiquitous myrrh. The citrus notes indicated in the fragrance pyramid do not express themselves independently. It seems rather that their sole justification for existence is to lend the myrrh its steel-cold aura.
The initial medicinal bitterness recedes and leaves it to the flowers to give the myrrh in the heart note a new direction. It becomes creamy with woody and cinnamon streaks. At this stage, I find "Io Non Ho Mani Che Mi Accarezzino Il Volto" less bold than in the top phase. I almost have the impression that the scent pulls back on the skin without really becoming skin-close.
Towards the base, the coolness dissipates, and it becomes warmer. Well-perceptible leather and tobacco notes in combination with incense create a sacred impression. Not cathedral, but natural spectacle, not mass, but archaic ritual. That's how the scent fades after many hours.
"Io Non Ho Mani Che Mi Accarezzino Il Volto" pleases me very much. Not least because it is not another gourmand or oud scent. It doesn't need any verbena from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or verbena from Papua New Guinea. With the use of omnipresent myrrh, the scent gets its own myrrh DNA, which undergoes a metamorphosis from shrill - creamy - sacred from the top to the heart to the base note. This may take some getting used to for some, but it is certainly interesting and creative.
So folks, in my opinion, this would be a scent for Ratzi, yes exactly the Pope, isn't he retired now? So "Io Non Ho Mani Che Mi Accarezzino Il Volto" would surely please His Eminence, he has such a good sense for beautiful things, like red house slippers from Prada. And such a special scent would fit in perfectly.
1. Just imagine, I couldn't speak Italian (thankfully I can), how am I supposed to make it clear to the saleswoman which scent I want? If someone doesn't speak Italian, they can't even pronounce the name of the scent. They would need a simultaneous interpreter, but they wouldn't be able to tell them which name to translate. The only alternative is 4711, because you don't have to remember much there.
2. And then there's the memory gymnastics. Even if you can speak Italian (thankfully I can), you first have to remember such a short story-long name (unfortunately I can't). So again, an alternative is needed - in the form of a cheat sheet.
Everyone has to know for themselves how they want to handle this, but anyone who wants to buy such an extravagant scent as "Io Non Ho Mani Che Mi Accarezzino Il Volto" should be warned, it's hard work.
And the bottle, oh man, it's super cool, that's what they say today, or can you still say it's cool? So the bottle looks like the one from Tactics by Shiseido, but only at the bottom. On top of the cap, "Io Non Ho Mani Che Mi Accarezzino Il Volto" has this little black leather-like flap that looks like it's been tousled by the wind. It's somewhat similar to the homemade strawberry jam from mom. She also put a little flap over the glass lids, and it was red and checkered.
Anyone who goes into my bathroom and sees the bottle on the shelf always comes back to me within 10 seconds, with the bottle in hand, asking: hey, what a cool bottle is that or hey, where did you get that scent; When someone goes to the toilet at my place, I already start counting.
The scent itself is just as extravagant as the bottle.
Right from the top note, "Io Non Ho Mani Che Mi Accarezzino Il Volto" doesn't follow any well-trodden gourmand or oud paths, but tries to score with creativity. No citrus fruits, no flowers, but rather shoe polish on steel or a medicinal-looking herbal mixture: the whole thing comes across very cool-dry, suggesting freshness but without any citrus undertones. I assume that this steel-cold aura is due to the ubiquitous myrrh. The citrus notes indicated in the fragrance pyramid do not express themselves independently. It seems rather that their sole justification for existence is to lend the myrrh its steel-cold aura.
The initial medicinal bitterness recedes and leaves it to the flowers to give the myrrh in the heart note a new direction. It becomes creamy with woody and cinnamon streaks. At this stage, I find "Io Non Ho Mani Che Mi Accarezzino Il Volto" less bold than in the top phase. I almost have the impression that the scent pulls back on the skin without really becoming skin-close.
Towards the base, the coolness dissipates, and it becomes warmer. Well-perceptible leather and tobacco notes in combination with incense create a sacred impression. Not cathedral, but natural spectacle, not mass, but archaic ritual. That's how the scent fades after many hours.
"Io Non Ho Mani Che Mi Accarezzino Il Volto" pleases me very much. Not least because it is not another gourmand or oud scent. It doesn't need any verbena from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or verbena from Papua New Guinea. With the use of omnipresent myrrh, the scent gets its own myrrh DNA, which undergoes a metamorphosis from shrill - creamy - sacred from the top to the heart to the base note. This may take some getting used to for some, but it is certainly interesting and creative.
So folks, in my opinion, this would be a scent for Ratzi, yes exactly the Pope, isn't he retired now? So "Io Non Ho Mani Che Mi Accarezzino Il Volto" would surely please His Eminence, he has such a good sense for beautiful things, like red house slippers from Prada. And such a special scent would fit in perfectly.
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Nice story, Pokal!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utd9cHBPfRA. Italy, heartache, spirituality: "not even a priest to chat" ... You've captured everything perfectly. Thank you!!!