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Back to the Future
What a crazy scent this is: at first glance with a jasmine arrangement that seems so incredibly retro! And at the same time I have to laugh, have to think about the film "Back to the Future", uncomplicated, relaxed, entertaining with its journey through time. Yes, I feel well entertained by the scent, amused, suddenly transported to the 90s, with a jasmine similar to that in Beauty by Calvin Klein - although I see when reading it that the CK is only from 2010. But the jasmine is not alone. There is also something that has an 80s vibe, and that I find both fascinating and inappropriate for me. So I have to smell the sprayed skin area intensively again and again to find out what exactly I am smelling, what it is, this retro vibe. But I can't get beyond the beauty jasmine, unlike CK combined with a fruity note.
The bottle also has something that makes me think of old times. First of all it looks modern and - apart from the fact that purple is not my colour - not ugly either. But as soon as I press the spray head, I get a fright: Somehow the spray hisses out as if there was excess pressure in the bottle, I have to think of spray cans from my childhood that still contained CFCs.
Behind the jasmine, another floral and fruity note comes out, which I think I know from earlier, but which I cannot name because it mixes so well with the jasmine. I can't get them properly isolated. It goes in the direction of magnolia or peony, which means a soft, gentle, slightly powdery flower. Something else is added, it has a touch of sweetness and warmth, I can't really name this note either. I'm thinking cream-flavored pudding. So not vanilla or tonka, not musk or amber, but also warm and minimally creamy.
Nevertheless, it remains a rather cool, rather unsweet fragrance overall. I have often read in comments and statements that a fragrance smells "perfumed" and wondered at a loss what it means. I still don't know what others mean by that, but if I were to fill the term "perfumed" with meaning, it would fit here.
Unfortunately, the jasmine remains in the foreground for the 9 hours that this fragrance lasts. And some jasmine unfortunately has the peculiarity of becoming increasingly unsightly biting, bitchy and stinging on my skin. I can see that here too. Impressive as this jasmine note is, it has ultimately led to the fragrance being rejected by Beauty. I'm afraid this one will be no different in the end.
Testing this curious retro fragrance was fun. But now I need an oil change and Van Halen!
P.S.: I wrote this comment offline without knowledge of the pyramid, and did not change it afterwards. The retro feeling probably came not only from the dominant jasmine, but also from the oak moss, which certainly contributed to the impression of cooling. But it is not the "real" typical oak moss, it must be a modern synthetic replica, otherwise I would have recognized it as such. The fruity one was watermelon, my peony-magnolia direction was rose with a touch of violet (once again typical that I don't recognize every rose as such) and my cream pudding was amber. As a patchouli-adapted person, I have of course not noticed patchouli in small quantities.
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