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Hell is what you make it
Heaven and hell. Actually, it's not a nice idea that you remain in the dark until death, where you should end up. There are so many things in different religions that I don't like at all and this belief is one of them. How do we know if heaven is really so heavenly and hell is really cruel? Maybe it is much more fun down there in reality? We will find out, if it is true.
Why L'Artisan Parfumeur calls a delicate and absolutely reduced and contemplative incense fragrance the gateway to hell, I wondered back then when I first bought the original 1999 version. Passage d'Enfer Extrême, launched last year and also by the enchanting Olivia Giacobetti, is every bit as good as the original. Unfortunately, I no longer own the original version and can therefore also make no direct comparison between the two gates of hell, but what I sniff, all but very familiar to me.
In a few fragrance notes there were adjustments, but the fragrance picture is, as I know it from before: A fine incense scent, very bright, very delicate and in addition a few flowers. The whole thing is contemplative and yet, even if it may sound unusual for incense, also elegant. This is a fragrance that you can wear on any occasion. It doesn't offend, it doesn't bother anyone and it always gives the wearer a certain calmness and grandeur along the way. L'Ether, also by Giacobetti, can do the same, which is why I like to wear it in business, even for not-so-easy meetings and negotiations.
On the Extrême variant, I also find a vanilla in the notes listing. I'm not surprised by that. At times, I had the feeling that there is some vanilla involved here. However, this does not let the fragrance drift into sweetness at any time. He always keeps this cool, for my feeling sublime aura, yes, seems almost something distant and thereby grounded.
A dream fragrance. Absolutely. Just like the other two also. Since I still have enough of L'Ether in stock (yes, I'm afraid that's discontinued too), I don't need Passage d'Enfer Extrême at the moment, because they're already pretty damn similar, and this is a fragrance I actually wear rather rarely. But who knows? Maybe he may enrich my collection one day?
What this fine, ethereal fragrance is supposed to have to do with hell, however, we still haven't clarified. Well, I hold it there a little like Ronan Harris:
I believe that we'll conceive
To make in hell for us a heaven
A brave new world
A promised land
A fortitude of hearts and minds
Until I see this kingdom is mine
I'll turn the darkness into light
I'll guide the blind
My will be done until the day
I see this kingdom has been won
VNV Nation - Kingdom (like the original Passage d'Enfer also from 1999)
Hell is what you make of it!
Very many thanks to button nose for the testing opportunity.
