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Geranium
Neroli
Heart Notes 
Patchouli
Peru balsam
Base Notes 
Vanilla
Tonka bean
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Challenge in Advent: On the Way to "My" Vanilla Scent - December 9, 2019
My first perfume was "Beautiful" by Estée Lauder. I wished for it when I was 15 and received it after I had tested it in a perfume shop and found it to be a revelation. Coincidentally, I was able to smell it again this weekend during my Advent stroll, after such a long time. I found it interesting on Saturday, but it didn't fascinate me as much anymore. Nevertheless, it will always hold a very special place in my "perfume heart" - as my very first own perfume. However, my perfume experiences go back much further: In fifth grade, I received various miniatures from my aunt, very old little bottles; I remember a very pretty dark blue one named "Soir de Paris." Is it still available? It didn't smell particularly special, but it looked good in my display case. Back then, I developed a little hobby: Together with my friend Katja, I would go to the city about once a month and visit perfume shops. Always the same line: Excuse me, we have a request - we are collecting samples, do you perhaps have any? And there were always samples for us. At that time, I had a large collection of all sorts of pretty scents, and through this hobby, my sister-in-law also found her long-time signature scent: Hinotori by Kanebo. It's no longer available; my brother bought the last supplies for her in a Frankfurt perfume shop - that's why the perfume has disappeared ;-). But I also got to know fragrances through others. It was the first phase of my scent interest, followed by many, many years of strict Armani loyalty - for her and then Giò during my studies in Italy, which explains my unwavering love for tuberose - then with Narciso Rodriguez for her as a ten-year-long only scent, and only now, after several months, have I returned to my childhood and am opening myself up to the scent universe again. Here I am now, testing vanilla scents in Advent - and today I experience what Hermann Hesse experienced a long time ago:
In Christmas times I like to travel
And am far from children's joy
And go into the forest and snow alone.
And sometimes, though not every year,
My good hour strikes,
That I, from all that was,
For a moment become healthy
And somewhere in the forest for an hour
Feel the scent of childhood deep in my mind
And am a boy again . . .
I am not a boy - but I am also on a journey - on the way to "my" vanilla scent. And exactly today, these lines resonate with me, that I "for an hour/ Feel the scent of childhood deep in my mind" - through Vanilla Patchouli by Les Senteurs Gourmands. Because that is my sister-in-law's youth scent. The late seventies and early eighties, peace movement, incense sticks, ceramic tea sets, and colorful Indian fabrics - and patchouli. I smell the fine Les Senteurs Gourmands scent, close my eyes - and I am immediately the little girl who gets to sniff this tiny bottle of perfume oil at her sister-in-law's, who suddenly feels transported to an oriental world and can intuitively grasp the spirit of those years more authentically than any adult who merely observes the youth of those years with a shaking head from the outside. Patchouli - that is freedom of thought and social consciousness, readiness to fight and inner depth. Patchouli can never simply be a note in a luxury perfume. Again and again, something revolutionary, rebellious resonates within it; there is always a message hidden in it, quietly but unmistakably... And no matter how peacefully and inconspicuously it may come wrapped in big names - it is always India, always incense sticks, always looking forward that envelops the one who wears a patchouli scent. And in that respect - even though I was never a patchouli fan, neither back then nor today - I consider this component to be a fantastic trigger for associations, an image conjurer that keeps our imagination busy until the last remnants of the daytime perfume have said goodbye. I advocate for patchouli - and also for Vanilla Patchouli by Les Senteurs Gourmands. Here the note is very intense, but it is softened and calmed by a hint of vanilla. However, there can be no talk of gourmand; the scent is far too spicy and almost a bit resinous. A beautiful scent - not for me, but for everyone who wants to consider today how they could improve the world just a little bit.
In Christmas times I like to travel
And am far from children's joy
And go into the forest and snow alone.
And sometimes, though not every year,
My good hour strikes,
That I, from all that was,
For a moment become healthy
And somewhere in the forest for an hour
Feel the scent of childhood deep in my mind
And am a boy again . . .
I am not a boy - but I am also on a journey - on the way to "my" vanilla scent. And exactly today, these lines resonate with me, that I "for an hour/ Feel the scent of childhood deep in my mind" - through Vanilla Patchouli by Les Senteurs Gourmands. Because that is my sister-in-law's youth scent. The late seventies and early eighties, peace movement, incense sticks, ceramic tea sets, and colorful Indian fabrics - and patchouli. I smell the fine Les Senteurs Gourmands scent, close my eyes - and I am immediately the little girl who gets to sniff this tiny bottle of perfume oil at her sister-in-law's, who suddenly feels transported to an oriental world and can intuitively grasp the spirit of those years more authentically than any adult who merely observes the youth of those years with a shaking head from the outside. Patchouli - that is freedom of thought and social consciousness, readiness to fight and inner depth. Patchouli can never simply be a note in a luxury perfume. Again and again, something revolutionary, rebellious resonates within it; there is always a message hidden in it, quietly but unmistakably... And no matter how peacefully and inconspicuously it may come wrapped in big names - it is always India, always incense sticks, always looking forward that envelops the one who wears a patchouli scent. And in that respect - even though I was never a patchouli fan, neither back then nor today - I consider this component to be a fantastic trigger for associations, an image conjurer that keeps our imagination busy until the last remnants of the daytime perfume have said goodbye. I advocate for patchouli - and also for Vanilla Patchouli by Les Senteurs Gourmands. Here the note is very intense, but it is softened and calmed by a hint of vanilla. However, there can be no talk of gourmand; the scent is far too spicy and almost a bit resinous. A beautiful scent - not for me, but for everyone who wants to consider today how they could improve the world just a little bit.
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