Scent Stories Vol.1/Ch.01 - Dune Road MiN New York 2014
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The difficult path to the dunes
This fragrance made me change my inner evaluation several times.
It starts light green, delicate and somehow... vegetable!!! It clicks, I think of freshly harvested cucumbers, still cold from the night air. Quickly, within the first few minutes, something pungent creeps in, initially reminding me of rubbed leaves with lots of plant juice. But the spiciness becomes stronger, taking on a biting, cold character for my nose, alcoholic and somewhat synthetic. It almost burns the eyes, opening up a sea of white spirit in which pieces of cucumber are still floating. The salty note is also clear to me, everything has a thick salt crust. It really bites and scratches over the green, I can't imagine this part as a fragrance for me with the best will in the world.
After a good hour, it becomes softer, woodier, the scratchiness is gone. I stand on a pebbly beach and look out at the white clouds of musk in the cool sea air. Silvery driftwood warms slightly under the scattered rays of the morning sun. Seaweed lies in shrinking puddles of seawater. The green becomes darker and carries the scent of the sharp, rustling blades of grass in the dunes to me.
I find the base pleasantly rough, like a short trip to a coast in the north. Here I finally find the promised Dune Roads.
So my rating went from 6.5 (cucumber??) to 5.5 (it bites me!), and then climbed bit by bit to 7.5 for the pleasant base. So I end up with a 6.5 - a fragrance that I wouldn't want to wear myself, but which brings impressive and exciting images.
It starts light green, delicate and somehow... vegetable!!! It clicks, I think of freshly harvested cucumbers, still cold from the night air. Quickly, within the first few minutes, something pungent creeps in, initially reminding me of rubbed leaves with lots of plant juice. But the spiciness becomes stronger, taking on a biting, cold character for my nose, alcoholic and somewhat synthetic. It almost burns the eyes, opening up a sea of white spirit in which pieces of cucumber are still floating. The salty note is also clear to me, everything has a thick salt crust. It really bites and scratches over the green, I can't imagine this part as a fragrance for me with the best will in the world.
After a good hour, it becomes softer, woodier, the scratchiness is gone. I stand on a pebbly beach and look out at the white clouds of musk in the cool sea air. Silvery driftwood warms slightly under the scattered rays of the morning sun. Seaweed lies in shrinking puddles of seawater. The green becomes darker and carries the scent of the sharp, rustling blades of grass in the dunes to me.
I find the base pleasantly rough, like a short trip to a coast in the north. Here I finally find the promised Dune Roads.
So my rating went from 6.5 (cucumber??) to 5.5 (it bites me!), and then climbed bit by bit to 7.5 for the pleasant base. So I end up with a 6.5 - a fragrance that I wouldn't want to wear myself, but which brings impressive and exciting images.
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