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The man and the sea #08 - Between water and concrete
Hamburg, 11 March 2018: Driven out by the first warm day of the new year, our walk today leads us to the Elbe. Along huge container ships we walk along the banks: from the St. Pauli Landungsbrücken to the Elbe beach in Altona. In between, the sun bathes the city and the water in a wonderful light. The shadows of modern architecture and old cargo cranes are blurring. On the square in front of the fish auction hall, the last piles of garbage from the fish market are removed, while people are already happily strolling across the square between sweepers and cleaning staff.
Even though we are not at the sea, there is a certain maritime feeling - thanks to the harbour with its great variety of new and old ships.
On such a beautiful Sunday, people are relaxed, and the atmosphere of the city is different from that on busy weekdays
Fleurs de Sel has a similar effect to the hard concrete building landscape that stands right next to the water. This ensures that the colour of the river changes to brownish and gives the fresh air its dirty aftertaste. The wiry, parched, once-flowering herbs not only mark the beginning but set the tone for the entire fragrance. Dry and brown, but still giving off their aroma, they appear slightly dirty. With a background of leather notes - a bit like a classic-hot men's fragrance. Vegetables, like some others, I do not perceive, but only herbal spice
With time, an increasingly salty impression is added, but this never becomes superficial. A bit like fresh, unpurified, still slightly moist sea salt straight from the new glass. Forms a good contrast to the dry impression of wilted herbs. Towards the end, Eichmoos, in a dosage that even I like, together with the vetiver, doesn't let the fragrance fade out any less tart and green than it was at the beginning.
For me, the scent oscillates between the not yet exorcised, cloudy winter nature, which is located between all the dirt of the city and the water, which, not yet a sea itself, only gives a slight inkling of the real scent of the sea.
Fleurs de Sel conveys a certain desolation, which may not appeal to everyone. And it is certainly not a summer scent, as it has no freshness at all. While the shelf life is decent, the sillage is hardly present at the moment of spraying. It rarely shows itself and is a silent companion, similar to a tree that stands winterless at the side of the road and observes everything and whose smell you can only perceive if you get very close to its bark with your nose.
Even though we are not at the sea, there is a certain maritime feeling - thanks to the harbour with its great variety of new and old ships.
On such a beautiful Sunday, people are relaxed, and the atmosphere of the city is different from that on busy weekdays
Fleurs de Sel has a similar effect to the hard concrete building landscape that stands right next to the water. This ensures that the colour of the river changes to brownish and gives the fresh air its dirty aftertaste. The wiry, parched, once-flowering herbs not only mark the beginning but set the tone for the entire fragrance. Dry and brown, but still giving off their aroma, they appear slightly dirty. With a background of leather notes - a bit like a classic-hot men's fragrance. Vegetables, like some others, I do not perceive, but only herbal spice
With time, an increasingly salty impression is added, but this never becomes superficial. A bit like fresh, unpurified, still slightly moist sea salt straight from the new glass. Forms a good contrast to the dry impression of wilted herbs. Towards the end, Eichmoos, in a dosage that even I like, together with the vetiver, doesn't let the fragrance fade out any less tart and green than it was at the beginning.
For me, the scent oscillates between the not yet exorcised, cloudy winter nature, which is located between all the dirt of the city and the water, which, not yet a sea itself, only gives a slight inkling of the real scent of the sea.
Fleurs de Sel conveys a certain desolation, which may not appeal to everyone. And it is certainly not a summer scent, as it has no freshness at all. While the shelf life is decent, the sillage is hardly present at the moment of spraying. It rarely shows itself and is a silent companion, similar to a tree that stands winterless at the side of the road and observes everything and whose smell you can only perceive if you get very close to its bark with your nose.
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