Top Notes 
Ginger
Nutmeg
Pepper
Cardamom
Coriander
Heart Notes 
Oud
Amber
Patchouli
Sandalwood
Base Notes 
Labdanum
Frankincense
Musk
Vanilla
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Fargo
A true explosion of scent: from strikingly spicy, to deeply aromatic, to incense-like and mysterious. Scandinavian Crime has everything I do NOT imagine when I think of "Scandinavian Crime." But maybe I read too few Swedish crime novels or their counterparts to form a picture. But wait: there is that Coen film. "Fargo: Bloodied Snow." With a brilliantly eccentric Steve Buscemi, which fits the eccentric top note.
The fragrance starts with a salvo of pepper, searing hot, sharp, piquant, and coarse, freshly ground, already burning from all the revolutions. Alongside crushed or ground fresh coriander and cardamom, very aromatic, finely rounded off with ginger. A top note can be this fresh; it doesn't always have to be lemons or bergamots flying around your ears. The beginning is bitter-fresh, edgy, scratchy, unusual. Damn good. So much so that it piques your curiosity. When you think these bitter notes dominate, you also get the impression, like in the film Fargo, that it remains a neo-film noir, until a peculiar black humor illuminates the entire work and captivates you, a brilliant mix.
In the heart note, the fragrance also becomes sweeter, balsamic, cough syrup tenor, forest honey, amber, patchouli, dark endless forests, it then somehow becomes really more Scandinavian. This dark side. A great mix that resembles many others but is still different, better in a different way, with recognizability.
Fargo takes place in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, U.S. states with many Scandinavian and also German immigrants. Then there’s the series Fargo, a spin-off of the film, which I actually like even better. It seems to fit even more with the fragrance from the heart note. The scent suddenly becomes as "charmingly criminal" as a Lorne Malvo and other tragicomic characters like the couple Peggy and Ed Blumquist in the series Fargo can only be: uncompromising, sharp as a razor, unrefined, primitive, masculine, but in a certain way also witty and engaging, seemingly naive but ultimately cunning. One shouldn't take it all too seriously. The fragrance, despite the incense and a lot of labdanum, ends up being relaxed through a lot of creamy vanilla and smoky amber, unlike many other such arrangements.
So the best of the fragrance really comes at the end, when many other scents have already failed and annoy or bore with their musk base, this one concludes with a stunning spice-incense-vanilla, almost Christmas-like, a hint of clove with a bit of dry shaving water, which one can never get enough of. At the very end, oud like in Brutus, sweet and muddy, but not repulsive. I could never get enough of Fargo, and I am already eagerly awaiting the upcoming new season.
The fragrance is definitely worth a test; its versatility and longevity are fabulous. In winter, it will certainly be better to wear than now, as the snow, whatever its condition, doesn’t really matter.
The fragrance starts with a salvo of pepper, searing hot, sharp, piquant, and coarse, freshly ground, already burning from all the revolutions. Alongside crushed or ground fresh coriander and cardamom, very aromatic, finely rounded off with ginger. A top note can be this fresh; it doesn't always have to be lemons or bergamots flying around your ears. The beginning is bitter-fresh, edgy, scratchy, unusual. Damn good. So much so that it piques your curiosity. When you think these bitter notes dominate, you also get the impression, like in the film Fargo, that it remains a neo-film noir, until a peculiar black humor illuminates the entire work and captivates you, a brilliant mix.
In the heart note, the fragrance also becomes sweeter, balsamic, cough syrup tenor, forest honey, amber, patchouli, dark endless forests, it then somehow becomes really more Scandinavian. This dark side. A great mix that resembles many others but is still different, better in a different way, with recognizability.
Fargo takes place in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, U.S. states with many Scandinavian and also German immigrants. Then there’s the series Fargo, a spin-off of the film, which I actually like even better. It seems to fit even more with the fragrance from the heart note. The scent suddenly becomes as "charmingly criminal" as a Lorne Malvo and other tragicomic characters like the couple Peggy and Ed Blumquist in the series Fargo can only be: uncompromising, sharp as a razor, unrefined, primitive, masculine, but in a certain way also witty and engaging, seemingly naive but ultimately cunning. One shouldn't take it all too seriously. The fragrance, despite the incense and a lot of labdanum, ends up being relaxed through a lot of creamy vanilla and smoky amber, unlike many other such arrangements.
So the best of the fragrance really comes at the end, when many other scents have already failed and annoy or bore with their musk base, this one concludes with a stunning spice-incense-vanilla, almost Christmas-like, a hint of clove with a bit of dry shaving water, which one can never get enough of. At the very end, oud like in Brutus, sweet and muddy, but not repulsive. I could never get enough of Fargo, and I am already eagerly awaiting the upcoming new season.
The fragrance is definitely worth a test; its versatility and longevity are fabulous. In winter, it will certainly be better to wear than now, as the snow, whatever its condition, doesn’t really matter.
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