Adiós Pampamia Mujer La Martina 2011

This fragrance is absolutely special and I have never smelled anything like it as a perfume before.

It starts like Sanbitter. With tingling carbonic acid, with this pleasantly sweet, bitter impact. I think I can sip it..

When the hazelnut joins in, my olfactory heart rejoices, because I love nuts in perfumes. The hazelnut is strongly represented, but the floral twists it in a direction that I don't really like. Then I really smell that old, dusty doll's head with the jingling googly eyes. And for a brief moment, it makes me feel really queasy... uff... ;-P I see dusty attics... a white, Latina wall cupboard with painted details in lime green and - this dark blonde curly-haired doll with a yellowed face, red cheeks and that very smell on its head. The smell is somewhat softened by the burnt wood, which makes the fragrance experience more pleasant again. The drydown is very gentle, nostalgic even.

Now I'm on the pampas, incense lends the landscape an almost infinite expanse. I find myself in the middle of the movie "Play me the song of death" in front of this creaky wooden house with this doll in my arms and melancholy in my heart. That's exactly how Adios Pampamia smells to me. Ennio Morricone's music also goes perfectly with it. The wearer of the fragrance would of course be Claudia Cardinale, alias Jill McBain.

I am enchanted by the scent of Adios Pampamia and somewhat disturbed at the same time. It's very well done and gives the woman wearing it a lot of nostalgia, depth and wistfulness. Ennio Morricone can do this feeling, Tango Argentino has always had it and so does Adiós Pampamia by La Martina.

I think a woman needs courage to wear this fragrance, even though it is rather light and delicate. But in a very special way.