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Character and Puzzles
First of all: I've often regretted that you can't give a score for the name of a fragrance here, but never as much as today: Teint de Neige, snow-white skin - which is an imperfect translation - is a smooth ten after precision, timbre, association potential and accuracy of fit
Teint de Neige is one of those fragrances that immediately spoke to me and to me, that I immediately recognize as something special. A fragrance with character and individuality to the point of stinginess. And a perhaps not off, but nevertheless deep, always mysterious smell.
It may be that he is the mother of all powder fragrances, it may be that his colour is white, but he never really presents himself clearly to me. Sometimes it looks matt creamy cool, almost buttery, sometimes almond marzipan. Sometimes there is a certain heaviness and pushiness, then again he withdraws as if insulted and wants to be followed. Sometimes he's borderline sweet, sometimes he's very well-behaved and harmless and says: "What do you want?".
And then there are fresh (perhaps ambry or resinous) tones and spicy notes (carnation? nutmeg? pepper?) - especially from about three hours after spraying on - which remind me of the basis of a classic men's fragrance and which I cannot identify with any of the ingredients mentioned and which I hardly believe can only be explained by musk and tonka. Where did this come from?
Conclusion: Teint de Neige is a fragrance full of character and mystery; impenetrable like a powdered face, not as virtuous as Madame de Tourvel, but not as serpentine as Marquise de Merteuil.
Contrary to the very flower-heavy declared ingredients, I do not perceive the fragrance as at all superficially "flowery"; it is durable (although I do not want to confirm the often criticized Pattex adhesion here). In spite of the 93% owners (and although name and bottle aesthetics probably clearly refer to a female audience) I feel Teint de Neige in accordance with the official declaration as wearable also for men.
Teint de Neige is one of those fragrances that immediately spoke to me and to me, that I immediately recognize as something special. A fragrance with character and individuality to the point of stinginess. And a perhaps not off, but nevertheless deep, always mysterious smell.
It may be that he is the mother of all powder fragrances, it may be that his colour is white, but he never really presents himself clearly to me. Sometimes it looks matt creamy cool, almost buttery, sometimes almond marzipan. Sometimes there is a certain heaviness and pushiness, then again he withdraws as if insulted and wants to be followed. Sometimes he's borderline sweet, sometimes he's very well-behaved and harmless and says: "What do you want?".
And then there are fresh (perhaps ambry or resinous) tones and spicy notes (carnation? nutmeg? pepper?) - especially from about three hours after spraying on - which remind me of the basis of a classic men's fragrance and which I cannot identify with any of the ingredients mentioned and which I hardly believe can only be explained by musk and tonka. Where did this come from?
Conclusion: Teint de Neige is a fragrance full of character and mystery; impenetrable like a powdered face, not as virtuous as Madame de Tourvel, but not as serpentine as Marquise de Merteuil.
Contrary to the very flower-heavy declared ingredients, I do not perceive the fragrance as at all superficially "flowery"; it is durable (although I do not want to confirm the often criticized Pattex adhesion here). In spite of the 93% owners (and although name and bottle aesthetics probably clearly refer to a female audience) I feel Teint de Neige in accordance with the official declaration as wearable also for men.
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Nikolina
