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Rock? No, more Beatles: "Close your eyes and I'll kiss you..."
I've been on the fringes of the local music scene for a few years and I've always noticed that some bands were called rock bands, punks, goths or hard rock bands, which I would have musically classified more under pop, soft rock, sometimes even almost under Schlager. What made the difference was solely their appearance, stage outfit and makeup. I wondered for years why no one seemed to notice that but me.
I couldn't help thinking of that while testing Brighton Rock, even though I know from Smellie13's very insightful comment that the name doesn't refer to music.
Brighton Rock. The name suggests something powerful, rock in fact, rock music, power! Also fits a thriller, excitement, a gripping story, perhaps a detective challenge, social condition structure in one of the most famous seaside resorts in England, possibly a touch of abyss. The orange of the bottle matches this, alarming, vibrant, toned down a bit so it doesn't get too bloody aggressive. I was even in Brighton once, though only a single afternoon passing through on a rainy day in the cold autumn, but I remember a lovely bench right on the deserted shore and the view of sea-green, violently whipped-up water.
That could make for an interesting, intense, somewhat rock-wild scent, I thought. And since I'm in the mood for aquatic scents at the moment, while being terribly picky, my curiosity was piqued even more.
And then it arrived. At the same time as another fragrance package from the swap game. Oh, which one should I test first? I sprayed without further ado Brighton Rock right and the other fragrance left.
And - wondered me.
Somehow I smelled so little. That could not actually be. The other scent had that certain nothingness of a faint pale jasmine perfume, and Brighton Rock - with Brighton Rock I couldn't even tell what it was that I smelled there so softly and quietly when I pressed my nose to the spray.
Hadn't Franfan20 written something about Menthos Fruit? I do know those and they smell very intense. But, I pressed my nose again on the right arm, I only heard faintly mild, milky dimmed fruitiness.
A bad thought crept into my mind: the day before, I had heard from four different friends that they had been tested for Covid-19 and were now nervously waiting for their test results, because several people with whom they were in close personal contact had also fallen ill. I had sneezed several times in the last few hours. Had I perhaps been infected unnoticed and already had an incipient olfactory nerve disorder? I quickly dug out a Dua Fragrances and another intense scent I had tested a few days ago. I didn't even have to spray either of them, just by pulling off the respective cap, an intense burst of fragrance hit my nose. I could breathe a sigh of relief, my olfactory nerves were still intact.
But then what was going on with the two new additions? Not liking the soulless jasmine bland at all, I washed it off.
Then I sprayed myself generously with Brighton Rock. 6 fat sprays, hoping to then get a little more clarity on what he smells like to me:
Fruity, a mix of orange, artificial strawberry aroma, and that's right, there's that undertone of Menthos chewy candy in there, which ensures that the aromas have a mellowing effect. In the case of the chewy candies, I think it's done through lightly sweetened vanilla. Here, it's a bit of mildly almondy heliotrope at first, but it's quickly underlaid with delicate, sugar-glazed rose petals. Becoming a little spicier after a short while, the notes combine more and more into a soft, mildly sweet, fruity-aromatic powdery whole that seems increasingly noble. The heart note adds a soft undertone that I recognize from Modern Muse Le Rouge Gloss and from Qom Chilom, which I would describe as a latex note. It's probably this note that others here have portrayed as petrochemical or plastic factor. I really like this latex note, for me it's not unpleasantly artificial, but adds softness, so to speak, without weakening the scent or making it stuffy.
In the meantime, I've been testing Brighton Rock for three days. On the first day with the six full sprays, I had in the meantime clearly perceived the typical, slightly swampy smell of water lilies. On the second and third test, I could only notice much less of it. I couldn't detect anything salty on any of the days. Although Brighton Rock continues to have surprisingly little intensity and sillage, it does last remarkably long. He sounds over certainly another four hours almond powdery and with delicate latex note on remnants of mildly sugared fruits with a very slight hint of water lily and musk.
At low intensity and even for me insufficient sillage, it is already a little frustrating to wear this inherently beautiful fragrance and already after a few minutes to feel the desire to re-spray, which then also does not help much. However, on my necklace pendant, which obviously got some of the 6 sprays, I still smell very pleasant water lily on sweet latex three days later. Even after a long walk in the humid winter air, Brighton Rock was suddenly stronger and more fruity again. So I console myself then with the hope that he knows how to unfold in more humid weather or in the spring on the terrace better than now in the room in dry, winter heating air.
Well. Ultimately, it is with Brighton Rock quite similar to the music scene: If you close your eyes and listen only to the music, then you realize that behind the martial posturing of the supposed hard rockers sometimes surprisingly subtle pop musicians hide. And the bottle is probably rather salmon.
"Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, tomorrow I'll miss you..."
I couldn't help thinking of that while testing Brighton Rock, even though I know from Smellie13's very insightful comment that the name doesn't refer to music.
Brighton Rock. The name suggests something powerful, rock in fact, rock music, power! Also fits a thriller, excitement, a gripping story, perhaps a detective challenge, social condition structure in one of the most famous seaside resorts in England, possibly a touch of abyss. The orange of the bottle matches this, alarming, vibrant, toned down a bit so it doesn't get too bloody aggressive. I was even in Brighton once, though only a single afternoon passing through on a rainy day in the cold autumn, but I remember a lovely bench right on the deserted shore and the view of sea-green, violently whipped-up water.
That could make for an interesting, intense, somewhat rock-wild scent, I thought. And since I'm in the mood for aquatic scents at the moment, while being terribly picky, my curiosity was piqued even more.
And then it arrived. At the same time as another fragrance package from the swap game. Oh, which one should I test first? I sprayed without further ado Brighton Rock right and the other fragrance left.
And - wondered me.
Somehow I smelled so little. That could not actually be. The other scent had that certain nothingness of a faint pale jasmine perfume, and Brighton Rock - with Brighton Rock I couldn't even tell what it was that I smelled there so softly and quietly when I pressed my nose to the spray.
Hadn't Franfan20 written something about Menthos Fruit? I do know those and they smell very intense. But, I pressed my nose again on the right arm, I only heard faintly mild, milky dimmed fruitiness.
A bad thought crept into my mind: the day before, I had heard from four different friends that they had been tested for Covid-19 and were now nervously waiting for their test results, because several people with whom they were in close personal contact had also fallen ill. I had sneezed several times in the last few hours. Had I perhaps been infected unnoticed and already had an incipient olfactory nerve disorder? I quickly dug out a Dua Fragrances and another intense scent I had tested a few days ago. I didn't even have to spray either of them, just by pulling off the respective cap, an intense burst of fragrance hit my nose. I could breathe a sigh of relief, my olfactory nerves were still intact.
But then what was going on with the two new additions? Not liking the soulless jasmine bland at all, I washed it off.
Then I sprayed myself generously with Brighton Rock. 6 fat sprays, hoping to then get a little more clarity on what he smells like to me:
Fruity, a mix of orange, artificial strawberry aroma, and that's right, there's that undertone of Menthos chewy candy in there, which ensures that the aromas have a mellowing effect. In the case of the chewy candies, I think it's done through lightly sweetened vanilla. Here, it's a bit of mildly almondy heliotrope at first, but it's quickly underlaid with delicate, sugar-glazed rose petals. Becoming a little spicier after a short while, the notes combine more and more into a soft, mildly sweet, fruity-aromatic powdery whole that seems increasingly noble. The heart note adds a soft undertone that I recognize from Modern Muse Le Rouge Gloss and from Qom Chilom, which I would describe as a latex note. It's probably this note that others here have portrayed as petrochemical or plastic factor. I really like this latex note, for me it's not unpleasantly artificial, but adds softness, so to speak, without weakening the scent or making it stuffy.
In the meantime, I've been testing Brighton Rock for three days. On the first day with the six full sprays, I had in the meantime clearly perceived the typical, slightly swampy smell of water lilies. On the second and third test, I could only notice much less of it. I couldn't detect anything salty on any of the days. Although Brighton Rock continues to have surprisingly little intensity and sillage, it does last remarkably long. He sounds over certainly another four hours almond powdery and with delicate latex note on remnants of mildly sugared fruits with a very slight hint of water lily and musk.
At low intensity and even for me insufficient sillage, it is already a little frustrating to wear this inherently beautiful fragrance and already after a few minutes to feel the desire to re-spray, which then also does not help much. However, on my necklace pendant, which obviously got some of the 6 sprays, I still smell very pleasant water lily on sweet latex three days later. Even after a long walk in the humid winter air, Brighton Rock was suddenly stronger and more fruity again. So I console myself then with the hope that he knows how to unfold in more humid weather or in the spring on the terrace better than now in the room in dry, winter heating air.
Well. Ultimately, it is with Brighton Rock quite similar to the music scene: If you close your eyes and listen only to the music, then you realize that behind the martial posturing of the supposed hard rockers sometimes surprisingly subtle pop musicians hide. And the bottle is probably rather salmon.
"Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, tomorrow I'll miss you..."
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