10/21/2021
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Digital is better
I confess, it was love at first sight that made me buy blind. By that I mean the exterior of the bottle - how it would smell, I could not guess on the part of the online store. But this Cheapie sparkled at me from the monitor, with its adorable crass 80s design. Such style I like 1985 futurism: Everything neon, edgy, angular, pixelated 8-bit staircase graphics, RoboCop and Disney's Tron, edgy-cold synthpop, heartless drum machines and mercilessly bloated digital sound of a Trevor Horn or even Def Leppard's masterpiece 'Hysteria'. And of course the angular DeLorean in polished aluminum, plus the four-cylinder BMW turbocharger and supercooled Thatcherism. Yes, that's how they went the pop-cultural eighties - it was anything but warm, round, analog and cuddly. This zeitgeist broken down: 'Suddenly everything was digital - but no one knew what it was.'
As a fan of zeitgeist fragrances, I just had to buy the 'Le Coupé'. The person responsible for this design history lesson: Lomani from Paris. For the small money have the quite nice things, often oldschool and something out-to-date - which per se must not be bad. No matter how the fragrance will give - the 'Le Coupé' has already shot with its appearance my hat trick.
I expected a tranige petty synthetic broth - out comes nevertheless a small surprise, at least a respect success. Quite well he does on the skin, clean, clean. A bit shrill at first, then it settles down. Decent, nicely done synthetic lavender, rather round and firm. With increasing drydown it becomes more fruity. Reminiscent of blueberries and afterwards a touch of ice bonbons and lavender, with subtle plastic foil tonka bean. Soft and clean smelling like a laundry at opening time. It's never annoying, doesn't seem cheap but not classy either. Can pass for an office guy and a sportsman after, but doesn't smell showery either. In any case, despite his appearance, he doesn't seem at all 80s-brachial. Rather, it wants to hide - its sillage has a lot of room for improvement. You can break it down as a "blueberry lavender synthetic"
The 'Le Coupé' is nothing that would reverse the axis rotation of the globe - but is still solid in its class. Could the fans of the 'Prada L'Homme' quite like, perhaps also the Sauvage disciples. In any case, fans of the silver 'Power' by Kenzo. All fragrances, which I am by nature rather heartless towards, because they are very clean.
And yet I catch myself after hours, as I have to sniff it again and again, at the cheap 'digital' from France.
PS: After some thought, I came up with it: There is even a matching hotel to the bottle of 'Le Coupé' - namely the Ryugyŏng Hotel in Pyongyang - North Korea. It was - hearsay - started in 1987 and is still not completely finished. From the outside, however, it looks as impressively contemporary as Lomani's 'Le Coupé'. Makes you wonder what came first: the French perfume or the North Korean hotel?
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyŏng-Hotel
The music to the fragrance ---> Jean Michel Jarre 'Zoolook'
---> https://youtu.be/_x-v8KamefA
As a fan of zeitgeist fragrances, I just had to buy the 'Le Coupé'. The person responsible for this design history lesson: Lomani from Paris. For the small money have the quite nice things, often oldschool and something out-to-date - which per se must not be bad. No matter how the fragrance will give - the 'Le Coupé' has already shot with its appearance my hat trick.
I expected a tranige petty synthetic broth - out comes nevertheless a small surprise, at least a respect success. Quite well he does on the skin, clean, clean. A bit shrill at first, then it settles down. Decent, nicely done synthetic lavender, rather round and firm. With increasing drydown it becomes more fruity. Reminiscent of blueberries and afterwards a touch of ice bonbons and lavender, with subtle plastic foil tonka bean. Soft and clean smelling like a laundry at opening time. It's never annoying, doesn't seem cheap but not classy either. Can pass for an office guy and a sportsman after, but doesn't smell showery either. In any case, despite his appearance, he doesn't seem at all 80s-brachial. Rather, it wants to hide - its sillage has a lot of room for improvement. You can break it down as a "blueberry lavender synthetic"
The 'Le Coupé' is nothing that would reverse the axis rotation of the globe - but is still solid in its class. Could the fans of the 'Prada L'Homme' quite like, perhaps also the Sauvage disciples. In any case, fans of the silver 'Power' by Kenzo. All fragrances, which I am by nature rather heartless towards, because they are very clean.
And yet I catch myself after hours, as I have to sniff it again and again, at the cheap 'digital' from France.
PS: After some thought, I came up with it: There is even a matching hotel to the bottle of 'Le Coupé' - namely the Ryugyŏng Hotel in Pyongyang - North Korea. It was - hearsay - started in 1987 and is still not completely finished. From the outside, however, it looks as impressively contemporary as Lomani's 'Le Coupé'. Makes you wonder what came first: the French perfume or the North Korean hotel?
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyŏng-Hotel
The music to the fragrance ---> Jean Michel Jarre 'Zoolook'
---> https://youtu.be/_x-v8KamefA
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