A Fleur de Peau Keiko Mecheri 1999

This statement fits!
At least for me!
If I replace the irritated nerves with senses and also underlay them with positive emotions, then it quickly becomes clear: "A fleur de peau" and I have found each other, although we didn't even know we were looking for each other! A fragrant encounter that may make you feel a little strange at first, but then reveals itself to be a surprisingly charming floral-animalic fragrance.

What an opening:
A soft suede glove generously powdered with iris (it makes me think of James Bond's mink glove in "Fireball") gently yet intensely touches my skin and awakens all my senses: "I tremble! I tremble!" it says in Mozart's "Magic Flute".
But not with fear, but with pleasant anticipation; I would like to experience more of this! As the fragrance progresses, however, it does not develop a sensuality that heightens to hot passion, but rather a gentle purr of comfort:
A tingle that feels so seductively alive due to the fine mandarin freshness and a great joy of reunion with a rich floral ylang-ylang fragrance embrace makes me shiver slightly.
How harmonious is this fragrance harmony that caresses me, even if it is special and certainly a little out of date.
I feel transported to a secretive boudoir, to the warm and fragrant rooms of a seraglio?
Thus warmed and receptive, I now eagerly await the next stage of this fragrance tenderness: rich, resinous and at the same time soft amber veils envelop me, awakening my remaining, previously dormant senses; they react for a moment, slightly irritated with goose bumps!
What does this extraordinary fragrance creation do to me?
Sweetsmell calls "A fleur de Peau" sexy: Yes, that's true!
For me, this fragrance exudes a stimulating, subtly developing eroticism with many different, appealing to provocative facets, without overdoing it.
This floral-powdered animalism of suede, paired with almost chaste mandarin freshness, finds a perfect climax in the almost sweetly woody warmth of amber, probably refined with vanilla.

A little dreamy in all this fragrant devotion, I feel transported to another time.
To an age in which sensuality, spiced with subtly enticing eroticism, was still allowed to get under the skin in a nuanced and quietly enticing way and not everything was so obviously called by its name.
For despite all the sensual stimuli, "A fleur de Peau" also displays a kind of chastity through the girlish tangerine freshness mentioned almost at the beginning.

A long time ago, I came across a fragrance composition that immediately and unexpectedly touched me deeply, but which I was only able to fully engage with gradually.
So it took some time before I was able to put all the different fragments of my fragrance perception into words.