Alma de Rosario Mizensir 2015

I wanted to test two rose scents from Mizensir side by side. At least that was my intention when 'Rose Exaltante' and 'Alma de Rosario' were allowed to take their place on each of my wrists. However, on the right side, there was a lack of rose. It quickly became clear that "Rosario" can mean all sorts of things in Spanish, but it does not mean the "Rosarium" I had assumed; the corresponding word would have been "Rosaleda." Aha.

The name of the perfume actually refers to the garden of the perfumer's blessed mother. I write "blessed," as lawyers say, "with ignorance," because I do not wish for the good woman to have experienced the moment when her garden smelled like this.

An intense, almost spring-like floral stink opens on an aquatic breeze. After a few seconds, a thick, syrupy lily of the valley* sweetness rises up, almost intoxicating. A rough, woody base promises a prominent contribution from chemistry - which I did not expect to be any different from this provider.

Within half an hour, the scent settles into a kind of warm rubber, roughly like a mix of:
1. a carefully maintained car door seal on a scorching summer day
2. a gym exercise ball just pulled from its packaging
3. a ready-to-use condom
4. a fresh inflatable boat sizzling in the sun on the beach, along with the accompanying sea breeze.

I fear that all these associations stem at least partly from the so-called lily of the valley, which can show some originality - but unfortunately, this does not help me at all, especially since the mixture continues to blast away in a lab-like, penetrating unchangeability for hours.

Only around noon do I find the overall picture to be more floral than rubbery again. Besides the relentless main actress, I can hardly think of the other heart-achingly mentioned flowers, as the two ladies are reliably kept in check. While the cloying dominance gradually recedes, an annoyingly clean musk note and a watery-cumin-spicy (artificial) wood jump into the breach and, together with a vague floral remnant that again seems rather spring-like to me, flatten the rest once more.

Conclusion: I feel like part of the aforementioned "rest."

To conclude my little test series (for the opportunity, I thank Kovex!), I still need a brand conclusion, and it is sobering: The Mizensirs are almost universally disappointing, some even very much so. They are predominantly blatant chemistry bombs. The pharmacy price seems unjustified to me anywhere.

* I have previously had to notice that my perception of lily of the valley is special. To me, those things smell primarily annoyingly cloying-sweet, embodied by a particularly idiosyncratic "strain" of this near-weed in my front yard.