Cape Heartache Imaginary Authors 2013
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When I was part of the woods - or was I not?
I was full of incredible anticipation when I ordered a small bottling of Cape Heartache It was supposed to be woody...like a mixture of damp moss, forest floor, morning dew-covered berries and pine needles.
I was looking forward to retreating into a woodland dream world with this fragrance, mentally walking barefoot over damp moss.
Especially the fact that Cape Heartache was my first "Imaginary Authors" fragrance, I had high expectations and was already mentally sampling my way through the other fragrances in order to breathe in their stories and wear them on my skin.
Unfortunately, things turned out differently than expected.
I spray "Pfffft".
"Wait a minute...what's that?" I thought to myself and furrowed my brow.
I was literally suffocated by a surge of very dominant, powdery strawberry.
Yes...suffocating is the right word, because the scent was like a veritable powder mist that enveloped me directly and was perhaps going to draw me into its forest paradise the next moment...I sprayed again and again, that should be enough.
At that moment, I was the Strawberry King, wearing a crown of...yes...there was something...there was something moist, tannic, completely hidden...
Maybe I wasn't wearing a crown of pine needles after all, but at least a tiara.
Unfortunately, the dominant strawberry overshadowed this very pleasant and somewhat darker fir note quite a bit.
I got used to the fragrance and kept it to myself at first...came to terms with it...after that, unfortunately, shockingly little happened.
The dominant strawberry left something resinous behind...sweet resin, powder resin? Sweet, fluffy and not very sticky at the same time.
After about 4 hours, my trip to the strawberry field, which I hoped would be a forest, was over.
Somewhat disillusioned, I left the sample to rest for a few days before trying it again.
Maybe then I would experience the forest.
But again, nothing. Dominant strawberry, powder, powder, strawberry powder and a hint of fir. Then everything settles and disappears somewhere between invisible roots and fox holes.
Since this disappointment, I have been reluctant to try the other "Imaginary Authors" fragrances...and although I would be extremely tempted by a "A City On Fire | Imaginary Authors" or a "Memoirs Of A Trespasser | Imaginary Authors", I am keeping my distance for now...not out of fear of the fragrance, but of disillusionment.
I was looking forward to retreating into a woodland dream world with this fragrance, mentally walking barefoot over damp moss.
Especially the fact that Cape Heartache was my first "Imaginary Authors" fragrance, I had high expectations and was already mentally sampling my way through the other fragrances in order to breathe in their stories and wear them on my skin.
Unfortunately, things turned out differently than expected.
I spray "Pfffft".
"Wait a minute...what's that?" I thought to myself and furrowed my brow.
I was literally suffocated by a surge of very dominant, powdery strawberry.
Yes...suffocating is the right word, because the scent was like a veritable powder mist that enveloped me directly and was perhaps going to draw me into its forest paradise the next moment...I sprayed again and again, that should be enough.
At that moment, I was the Strawberry King, wearing a crown of...yes...there was something...there was something moist, tannic, completely hidden...
Maybe I wasn't wearing a crown of pine needles after all, but at least a tiara.
Unfortunately, the dominant strawberry overshadowed this very pleasant and somewhat darker fir note quite a bit.
I got used to the fragrance and kept it to myself at first...came to terms with it...after that, unfortunately, shockingly little happened.
The dominant strawberry left something resinous behind...sweet resin, powder resin? Sweet, fluffy and not very sticky at the same time.
After about 4 hours, my trip to the strawberry field, which I hoped would be a forest, was over.
Somewhat disillusioned, I left the sample to rest for a few days before trying it again.
Maybe then I would experience the forest.
But again, nothing. Dominant strawberry, powder, powder, strawberry powder and a hint of fir. Then everything settles and disappears somewhere between invisible roots and fox holes.
Since this disappointment, I have been reluctant to try the other "Imaginary Authors" fragrances...and although I would be extremely tempted by a "A City On Fire | Imaginary Authors" or a "Memoirs Of A Trespasser | Imaginary Authors", I am keeping my distance for now...not out of fear of the fragrance, but of disillusionment.
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For example, I don't smell anything powdery at all and the rest is a small, sweet, delicious wild strawberry in a big dark forest. I love the fragrance, perhaps because I was so surprised by it (I received it as a gift).
Experience shows that high expectations are disproportionately not fulfilled and then the disappointment is all the greater, so that the following experience report is usually quite ungracious. But that's human nature. :)