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A perfume is nothing more than a fragrance, yes, but wearing a perfume is something completely different - more of a state, a feeling, an individual overall experience, and sometimes a process of back and forth, of yes and no and the thousand shades of gray of 'maybe'. The magic of the whole thing is created between the fragrance and the wearer, one could snobbishly say, but there is also a field of tension there.
For me it's quite simple: either something clicks when I smell a perfume, then I give it a 9+ and the fragrance goes into the "buy" category, or nothing clicks. In this case, it was clearly the former: the fragrance immediately triggered its eponymous state of mind in my head.
I think the saffron and the citrus note in the opening already clicked audibly. Here it is already very finely tuned and not pungent to my nose (unlike the "Aoud Vanilla | Mancera", for example). What comes next is pure magic and very difficult to describe, because the fragrance notes flow together wonderfully and waft around the wearer in a smooth, comforting, sweetish veil. I can primarily smell rose, vanilla and something woody. Marshmallows? Not really. The scent creates roughly the same feeling I get when I wrap one of those three-meter-long scarves around me: no more freezing today!
So, do I get it or not? Well. 76% male, 23% female owners. So far, so good. But a majority of people here, albeit a small one, see the fragrance on ladies: 34% W, 30% M shows the pie chart. (Very curious, I guess there's a discrepancy between how people see themselves and how others see them?) But that's not a problem for me, is it? You wear the scent you like, regardless of whether others associate it with masculinity or femininity. What do I care about the opinion of the majority!
Yes, unfortunately it's not that simple. Here we are back at the beginning: it's the way you feel wearing it that counts, just like a chic scarf, and I would be lying if I claimed that this feeling could remain completely unaffected by the opinion of others. "No man is an island", or something like that. So I came to the decision not to buy the Instant Crush, as I (like many others here) initially saw it on a woman. I was almost ready to give the sample to a friend in the hope that I would at least be able to put it under my nose from time to time.
But then the sealing began. The longer I pondered, the more I came to terms with the idea of actually just wearing what I liked, regardless of gender. In small, slow steps, I approached the purchase decision like a flabby sea lion on the beach. Then I saw a good offer and snapped it up. I can only wish the same to every undecided lover of this fragrance!
(The H/S was not intoxicating in my sample of Mancera from December '23, but in my bottle (batch from 2022) it is convincing. It could be my imagination, it could be the atomizer, I don't know; in any case, I'm happy with it.)
For me it's quite simple: either something clicks when I smell a perfume, then I give it a 9+ and the fragrance goes into the "buy" category, or nothing clicks. In this case, it was clearly the former: the fragrance immediately triggered its eponymous state of mind in my head.
I think the saffron and the citrus note in the opening already clicked audibly. Here it is already very finely tuned and not pungent to my nose (unlike the "Aoud Vanilla | Mancera", for example). What comes next is pure magic and very difficult to describe, because the fragrance notes flow together wonderfully and waft around the wearer in a smooth, comforting, sweetish veil. I can primarily smell rose, vanilla and something woody. Marshmallows? Not really. The scent creates roughly the same feeling I get when I wrap one of those three-meter-long scarves around me: no more freezing today!
So, do I get it or not? Well. 76% male, 23% female owners. So far, so good. But a majority of people here, albeit a small one, see the fragrance on ladies: 34% W, 30% M shows the pie chart. (Very curious, I guess there's a discrepancy between how people see themselves and how others see them?) But that's not a problem for me, is it? You wear the scent you like, regardless of whether others associate it with masculinity or femininity. What do I care about the opinion of the majority!
Yes, unfortunately it's not that simple. Here we are back at the beginning: it's the way you feel wearing it that counts, just like a chic scarf, and I would be lying if I claimed that this feeling could remain completely unaffected by the opinion of others. "No man is an island", or something like that. So I came to the decision not to buy the Instant Crush, as I (like many others here) initially saw it on a woman. I was almost ready to give the sample to a friend in the hope that I would at least be able to put it under my nose from time to time.
But then the sealing began. The longer I pondered, the more I came to terms with the idea of actually just wearing what I liked, regardless of gender. In small, slow steps, I approached the purchase decision like a flabby sea lion on the beach. Then I saw a good offer and snapped it up. I can only wish the same to every undecided lover of this fragrance!
(The H/S was not intoxicating in my sample of Mancera from December '23, but in my bottle (batch from 2022) it is convincing. It could be my imagination, it could be the atomizer, I don't know; in any case, I'm happy with it.)
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