Gershwin Maria Candida Gentile 2009

A Love Supreme is the most famous recording of jazz legend John Coltrane. The album, recorded in December 1964 and released in 1965, is considered by many experts to be the greatest jazz recording of all time. Much more than George Gershwin, who is more of a classical composer, Coltrane's A Love Supreme stands for jazz in its purest form. Maria Candida Gentile's "Gershwin" cleverly represents the idea of this music, as improvisation with all its surprising turns is reflected here olfactorily: bitter-sharp hesperidic notes in the opening, a shift to pepper, almost simultaneously bright, sharp incense without a sacred component: it is quite profane here. The biting, perhaps somewhat austere scent in a cellar club.
The water flower (see ingredients) likely refers to the anemone. This modest little flower is rarely used in fragrances. What does it smell like after maceration or distillation? It won't really assert itself against the louder tones of incense, pepper, and citrus notes anyway. Just like the sycamore, the American plane tree. Whatever the case: wood(wind) instruments are in harmony.
For me, the combination of these tones in the heart and base notes creates a hay-like melody, somewhat sharp but still fascinating, initially loud, a bit shrill, then gradually quieter as the night grows longer.
Whether Gershwin or Coltrane: the scent is certainly something of a solitaire, even though there are now so many incense fragrances. It at least does not conform to the mainstream but tries to take different paths. That deserves respect and is pleasing. Even if one needs time to acclimate when it comes to jazz, especially with A Love Supreme.