08/09/2020
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Neukölln 5: Candied grapefruit on a strange myrtle
A brand called "Free Spirit Louison - Tactless Technique" already smells as if it might try harder to be hipsterly original than to deliver solid fragrance quality. All the more so when one considers that "Louison" can also be a nickname for the guillotine and that the brand can therefore also be read as "Freigeist Fallbeil - Taktlose Technik".
In addition to minimalist chic T-shirts, face masks and similar stuff, the brand's website presents a series of room scented candles and several fragrance series, including an eau de colognes series. These include Cédrat 672 (no idea what the number stands for). There is no big story told about the fragrance, only that it was inspired by the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, where you have to hold willows, palm branches and myrtle in your hand in addition to lemon, which is a symbol of beauty and perfection. Sounds nice, but the scent pyramid that was communicated does not contain willows or palms, but:
K: Bergamot, petitgrain
H: Citron lemon
B: Musk chord, woody chords, myrtle.
However, as Yatagan and others before me have already noted, the scent does not smell of lemon (and also not of petitgrain), but of grapefruit, and that unfortunately neither beautiful nor lasting.
672 begins with a very, very bright, almost pointed lemon, which changes into grapefruit after a very short time. The grapefruit becomes quite fruity and fleshy and almost real in a relatively short time (but only almost, there is also a neon light synthetic touch), but is accompanied by a decidedly unattractive strong flowery, rubbery, sweaty, anal foreign note, which one does not have to endure for long, because this cologne is very close to the skin after 20 minutes and perdu after an hour.
Whoever wants to pay 48 euros for 50 millilitres of this experience can do so in a free country like this. But I would not necessarily recommend it.
To add to this, I was wondering if the skunk function might be because I can't get myrtle to work somehow. But that doesn't seem to be the case, as the great fragrance research function at Parfumo reveals. There are a lot of myrtle-based fragrances that I find highly exciting (but ultimately not 100% convincing) (like Grain de Plaisir, Aramis, Superuomo, Ambre Précieux, Ambre Sultan and Etrog by L'Arquiste), but there's also Patchouli Ancien by Les Ecuadors, which I really love, and Mirto by Tuttotondo, in which myrtle is even the leading note and which I'm really addicted to.
We ourselves stand disappointed and see affected
The guillotine falls, and all questions remain unanswered.
In addition to minimalist chic T-shirts, face masks and similar stuff, the brand's website presents a series of room scented candles and several fragrance series, including an eau de colognes series. These include Cédrat 672 (no idea what the number stands for). There is no big story told about the fragrance, only that it was inspired by the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, where you have to hold willows, palm branches and myrtle in your hand in addition to lemon, which is a symbol of beauty and perfection. Sounds nice, but the scent pyramid that was communicated does not contain willows or palms, but:
K: Bergamot, petitgrain
H: Citron lemon
B: Musk chord, woody chords, myrtle.
However, as Yatagan and others before me have already noted, the scent does not smell of lemon (and also not of petitgrain), but of grapefruit, and that unfortunately neither beautiful nor lasting.
672 begins with a very, very bright, almost pointed lemon, which changes into grapefruit after a very short time. The grapefruit becomes quite fruity and fleshy and almost real in a relatively short time (but only almost, there is also a neon light synthetic touch), but is accompanied by a decidedly unattractive strong flowery, rubbery, sweaty, anal foreign note, which one does not have to endure for long, because this cologne is very close to the skin after 20 minutes and perdu after an hour.
Whoever wants to pay 48 euros for 50 millilitres of this experience can do so in a free country like this. But I would not necessarily recommend it.
To add to this, I was wondering if the skunk function might be because I can't get myrtle to work somehow. But that doesn't seem to be the case, as the great fragrance research function at Parfumo reveals. There are a lot of myrtle-based fragrances that I find highly exciting (but ultimately not 100% convincing) (like Grain de Plaisir, Aramis, Superuomo, Ambre Précieux, Ambre Sultan and Etrog by L'Arquiste), but there's also Patchouli Ancien by Les Ecuadors, which I really love, and Mirto by Tuttotondo, in which myrtle is even the leading note and which I'm really addicted to.
We ourselves stand disappointed and see affected
The guillotine falls, and all questions remain unanswered.
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