Floral Curiosities - Angel's Trumpet Ineke 2011

Ineke's "Floral Curiosity - Angel's Trumpet" smells exactly like my angel's trumpet "Jolly"!
After my lush light yellow blooming angel's trumpet "Maya," which smelled like Elie Saab's "Le Parfum," perished due to stem rot after wintering indoors on a very frosty late May night, I got myself a three-year-old angel's trumpet, Jolly.
It was my carelessness; I had taken many cuttings, but the frost came so early in the autumn that I unfortunately forgot to bring the rooted cuttings inside.
Angel's trumpets need a constant temperature of at least 12° to 16° even in winter and a bright spot. I only have this spot in one place in the apartment.
Actually, this is not a climate for angel's trumpets; the first night frosts come too early. Also, hard frost with icy north-northeast winds can mercilessly freeze many plants and early bloomers until early June. It becomes critical for angel's trumpets below 8°.
In Crete, angel's trumpets, especially Jolly, grow several meters high and bloom even in October with numerous flowers.
Jolly should be less sensitive to cold and also unfold a particularly fine floral scent.
Angel's trumpet flowers release their wonderful scent in the evening.
However, for noses like mine, my beautiful Maya, for example, was very animalistic and carrion-like when in close proximity and near the bloom. But she filled the terrace and the apartment with a heavenly scent with great sillage.
Quite different is Jolly. She was a late bloomer in the first two years with me; once, a fierce hailstorm shattered her leaves and pods, from which she did not recover that summer. The last two summers were too hot and too sunny-dry.
She only had 2 to 3 flowers by the end of August, which initially emit a slightly sharp-green and chemically rubbery scent in the evening but then develop into a much more subtle, very beautiful, unique floral scent. Her flowers are up to 25 cm long and have orange-red flower tips. The location on the terrace was also too windy for her. I moved her. I can already see small signs in plants when something is wrong with them.
However, after last summer, I "talked" to her and told her that she was now old enough and that she would either survive the winter in the apartment until the end of May with her cuttings and hopefully have to acclimatize. Otherwise, she would face the same fate as her predecessor Maya.
And lo and behold, her cuttings also thrived well; they even bloomed in January in the apartment.
And now she has set many pods for the first time and already has 5 flowers fully grown from the pods, with their beautiful scent only perceptible in the immediate vicinity in the evening.
But how does it relate to the scent of Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet"?
For some time now, I have been able to call the special edition of a 15 ml bottle in a book-shaped box with an old-fashioned design my own, thanks to the generous gift from a very dear and knowledgeable user here.
And already during the first test, I found it striking how similar Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet" develops to the real floral scent of Jolly. Although on the scent strip and at the spray head, the cool, subtle, yet lovely, very distinctive and unique floral scent of Jolly is perceptible to me.
But on the skin, it first develops a slightly sharp-green and chemically rubbery scent, just like the flowers of the real angel's trumpet "Jolly" do. It then evolves into this lovely, yet almost cool, reserved, distinctive floral scent. This lasts for many hours and ultimately retains only a hint of it. Only then do I also perceive a light musk scent.
For some time, I had the intention to comment on Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet." I wanted to make sure that this - at least for me - perfect correspondence of a flower with a perfume is indeed possible.
Once again this evening, I compared the scent of Jolly with that of Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet."
I also asked my husband about it. He found the scent of Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet" beautiful from the very first test without knowing that it was the scent of "Jolly."
We went together to the terrace to enjoy the scent of Jolly.
And afterwards, I let him smell it at the spray head and on my skin.
He said in astonishment: "But that's the smell of the angel's trumpet outside."
Despite all its loveliness, the scent of Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet" is not only unique. It is also oddly green and cool, very reserved in sillage, just like my angel's trumpet Jolly is.
Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet" can be worn without hesitation on all occasions; it is a light floral and unobtrusive summer scent.
Regarding the ingredients in the pyramid here, I can only say that I do not smell anything mentioned except for the green. Rather, the perfume smells only of the angel's trumpet flowers of my "Jolly."
That's how it should be with a perfume. One should smell it and enjoy it without thinking: Oh, there's also allspice, cedar, orange.
That's good for testing, but for wearing and feeling well-scented, you don't need that.
Here, a very successful perfume composition has been achieved. It's a pity that it remained a rarity as a special edition.
Above, Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet" is declared a feminine scent. Basically, as it is classified today, that is so. But aside from the fact that my husband does not want to wear perfumes at all, he willingly let me spray a little on him, as I could then perceive the scent mirrored; I found that Ineke's "Angel's Trumpet" suited him very well, even though he is not a young man.