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Ode to the water flowers
Ode to Dullness has made it: After a long time without writing any new reviews, I feel the urge to express my impression here: On the one hand, because this JhaG has something fascinating about it again, after the last new releases of the brand couldn't quite convince me, on the other hand, because I perceive the fragrance differently than it is described in the previous statements and reviews: I think it's great!
Yes, this JhaG is also very synthetic, so it joins the newer JhaGs, which are even more extreme in this respect than the brand's earlier ones. I think the use of a lot of artificial fragrances at the same time is also the reason why the perception of this fragrance is so different, because those who are allergic to one or more of the synthetic fragrances used will smell much less and find the fragrance weak at best, if not unbalanced.
It is interesting that some write that it is primarily ambroxan, Iso-E Super or even musk that they smell and that the fragrance is creamy. I don't feel that way. And this is despite the fact that I often perceive certain artificial musks much more strongly than others. We all know this: what we don't like, we can smell in the smallest quantities. Hairspray was mentioned here. I wouldn't have called it that myself because the hairspray of my childhood and youth smelled different and I no longer use hairspray. But still, now that I've read it: There are hairsprays that smell similar to this JhaG on approach.
I smell one thing in particular with Ode to Dullness: "water flowers".
Water flowers is a term I got from Parfumo. I don't even know which flowers it is supposed to be. Maybe lotus? It doesn't matter, because I'm sure you know this term from Parfumo from some of the pyramids and know what smell it usually refers to. I usually feel ambivalent when I read this term in a pyramid. To my nose, it usually means something watery and beautiful and floral that is different from other floral fragrances, very delicate and bright and beguiling without being pungent or even overpowering. I am ambivalent about it because, unfortunately, it is accompanied with reliable regularity by a rottenness factor, as if these flowers were already perishing slightly in stagnant fresh water.
In Ode to Dullness, I smell water flowers without the bumminess factor and that is the reason why I would like to take up the cudgels for this fragrance here.
I noticed something else interesting: I received the manufacturer's sample in a package from a perfumery as an encore. The package was scented and the perfumery had written to me that Ode to Dullness was the fragrance used. Of course, when I opened the package, I immediately noticed that it was scented. In that first moment from the freshly opened package, I smelled only bright, friendly, gentle, soft flowers, without being able to tell which flowers they were. No ubiquitous jasmine, no currently so modern rose, no tiare, no tuberose, not even my beloved ylang-ylang, nothing herbaceous like some lavenders, no lily, no gardenia,....but also no water flowers.
I am pretty sure that this JhaG contains a fairly new fragrance for flowers, which, because it is so artificial, cannot be spontaneously assigned to a real flower, but still smells floral, and also seems to change: no water flowers in the package, clearly water flowers on my skin.
What about the pyramid? Okay, the freesia is a flower. I can't smell it, but Ode to Dullness is very floral for me. Floral notes - yes, that too - we've already had it.
Sandalwood is written in capital letters. However, I smell neither the beautiful sandalwood scent of the real wood nor the substitute that is so often used, unfortunately, to my nose. I simply smell nothing of either.
Star anise. In fact, now that I read it, I can detect it in the fragrance. Delicately, more at the beginning, less in the course, but yes, I can detect star anise, albeit well embedded and in the background, so that I would not have thought of it on my own. There is also a minimal sweetness. It could come from the star anise.
Musk, we've already had that too: I don't smell any musk.
Tonka. Hm. I don't really smell tonka either, but something soft and warm that doesn't come from the flowers. I could attribute that to tonka.
It may well be that the whole thing is underlaid with Iso-E-Super and Ambroxan, but for me they are only slightly perceptible here because the water flowers are in the foreground for me.
I find the sillage to be rather low, but the longevity is very good: the day after wearing it, I can smell intense water flowers with star anise on my clothes.
I have now tested the fragrance twice and still had the scented package. I usually test three times before writing a review. So I am writing this review with the proviso that after smelling it several times, I may still feel that the fragrance is annoying after a while. I often have this feeling with such artificial fragrances and unfortunately such a fragrance is then burnt for me for the time being.
So far, however, my conclusion is: Great! Finally water flowers without the bum ambivalence!
P.S. I don't think we need to talk about the name of the fragrance. It's best to remember it until you've bought the bottling or the bottle and then quickly forget the name.
Yes, this JhaG is also very synthetic, so it joins the newer JhaGs, which are even more extreme in this respect than the brand's earlier ones. I think the use of a lot of artificial fragrances at the same time is also the reason why the perception of this fragrance is so different, because those who are allergic to one or more of the synthetic fragrances used will smell much less and find the fragrance weak at best, if not unbalanced.
It is interesting that some write that it is primarily ambroxan, Iso-E Super or even musk that they smell and that the fragrance is creamy. I don't feel that way. And this is despite the fact that I often perceive certain artificial musks much more strongly than others. We all know this: what we don't like, we can smell in the smallest quantities. Hairspray was mentioned here. I wouldn't have called it that myself because the hairspray of my childhood and youth smelled different and I no longer use hairspray. But still, now that I've read it: There are hairsprays that smell similar to this JhaG on approach.
I smell one thing in particular with Ode to Dullness: "water flowers".
Water flowers is a term I got from Parfumo. I don't even know which flowers it is supposed to be. Maybe lotus? It doesn't matter, because I'm sure you know this term from Parfumo from some of the pyramids and know what smell it usually refers to. I usually feel ambivalent when I read this term in a pyramid. To my nose, it usually means something watery and beautiful and floral that is different from other floral fragrances, very delicate and bright and beguiling without being pungent or even overpowering. I am ambivalent about it because, unfortunately, it is accompanied with reliable regularity by a rottenness factor, as if these flowers were already perishing slightly in stagnant fresh water.
In Ode to Dullness, I smell water flowers without the bumminess factor and that is the reason why I would like to take up the cudgels for this fragrance here.
I noticed something else interesting: I received the manufacturer's sample in a package from a perfumery as an encore. The package was scented and the perfumery had written to me that Ode to Dullness was the fragrance used. Of course, when I opened the package, I immediately noticed that it was scented. In that first moment from the freshly opened package, I smelled only bright, friendly, gentle, soft flowers, without being able to tell which flowers they were. No ubiquitous jasmine, no currently so modern rose, no tiare, no tuberose, not even my beloved ylang-ylang, nothing herbaceous like some lavenders, no lily, no gardenia,....but also no water flowers.
I am pretty sure that this JhaG contains a fairly new fragrance for flowers, which, because it is so artificial, cannot be spontaneously assigned to a real flower, but still smells floral, and also seems to change: no water flowers in the package, clearly water flowers on my skin.
What about the pyramid? Okay, the freesia is a flower. I can't smell it, but Ode to Dullness is very floral for me. Floral notes - yes, that too - we've already had it.
Sandalwood is written in capital letters. However, I smell neither the beautiful sandalwood scent of the real wood nor the substitute that is so often used, unfortunately, to my nose. I simply smell nothing of either.
Star anise. In fact, now that I read it, I can detect it in the fragrance. Delicately, more at the beginning, less in the course, but yes, I can detect star anise, albeit well embedded and in the background, so that I would not have thought of it on my own. There is also a minimal sweetness. It could come from the star anise.
Musk, we've already had that too: I don't smell any musk.
Tonka. Hm. I don't really smell tonka either, but something soft and warm that doesn't come from the flowers. I could attribute that to tonka.
It may well be that the whole thing is underlaid with Iso-E-Super and Ambroxan, but for me they are only slightly perceptible here because the water flowers are in the foreground for me.
I find the sillage to be rather low, but the longevity is very good: the day after wearing it, I can smell intense water flowers with star anise on my clothes.
I have now tested the fragrance twice and still had the scented package. I usually test three times before writing a review. So I am writing this review with the proviso that after smelling it several times, I may still feel that the fragrance is annoying after a while. I often have this feeling with such artificial fragrances and unfortunately such a fragrance is then burnt for me for the time being.
So far, however, my conclusion is: Great! Finally water flowers without the bum ambivalence!
P.S. I don't think we need to talk about the name of the fragrance. It's best to remember it until you've bought the bottling or the bottle and then quickly forget the name.
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