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Corpus Christi
... vs. ukiyoe - two different cultures, one fragrance ...
When testing (at first without looking at the scent pyramid) my spontaneous association was "Corpus Christi".
This catholic holiday, which follows Easter, usually falls in June - that is, in late spring/early summer. When I was a child, the church holidays had a different meaning than today - so also Corpus Christi, the procession with "sky" and flags was richly decorated with floral ornaments, children sprinkled petals along the way. These were flowers from their own gardens, busy women gathered what there was the night before and tied wreaths and bouquets. During the procession itself one passed by flowering lime trees, summer jasmine bushes etc.
Usually the iris also blooms at this time and is also used as a floral decoration.
Iris ukiyoe smells to me of this concentrated floralness and freshness, of the flowers of late spring and early summer; a little bit like iris blossom (iris flowers have a fragrance, not a strong one, but they do have a scent), but I smell many more flowers - including a restrained lily of the valley and a light lime blossom.
The fragrance is not heavy or too flowery, no - it smells natural and light, not only flowery, but also a little green.
Rose and orange blossom, which are indicated in the scent pyramid, I could not detect in the blind test, they were probably used very cautiously and together with the other ingredients give me this impression of the smell of late spring.
The fragrance is light, the Sillage also, durability with a few hours quite good.
When testing (at first without looking at the scent pyramid) my spontaneous association was "Corpus Christi".
This catholic holiday, which follows Easter, usually falls in June - that is, in late spring/early summer. When I was a child, the church holidays had a different meaning than today - so also Corpus Christi, the procession with "sky" and flags was richly decorated with floral ornaments, children sprinkled petals along the way. These were flowers from their own gardens, busy women gathered what there was the night before and tied wreaths and bouquets. During the procession itself one passed by flowering lime trees, summer jasmine bushes etc.
Usually the iris also blooms at this time and is also used as a floral decoration.
Iris ukiyoe smells to me of this concentrated floralness and freshness, of the flowers of late spring and early summer; a little bit like iris blossom (iris flowers have a fragrance, not a strong one, but they do have a scent), but I smell many more flowers - including a restrained lily of the valley and a light lime blossom.
The fragrance is not heavy or too flowery, no - it smells natural and light, not only flowery, but also a little green.
Rose and orange blossom, which are indicated in the scent pyramid, I could not detect in the blind test, they were probably used very cautiously and together with the other ingredients give me this impression of the smell of late spring.
The fragrance is light, the Sillage also, durability with a few hours quite good.
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