03/23/2021
Onfray
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Onfray
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Is that an eye?
Here now my second review of the total of three fragrances from the Brazilian cosmetics market leader Natura. About the brand I have already written in my first Renzension to "Hümor a Dois" and can therefore come straight to "Urbano Noite" and my first encounter with him.
The first thing I want to talk about, for once, is the packaging and the bottle. The bottle is an absolute eye-catcher for me. However, not because of its perfection or beauty, but precisely because of its imperfection:
At first glance of the printed bottle, I immediately stopped, because something disturbed my greedy but flowing gaze, which perhaps many of you also know when facing a sea of unknown perfumes and first trying to establish any visual orientation. So I immediately looked at the bottle more intently, turning it. What is that on there? An eye? A mask? Where is the front anyway, where is the back? Ah, I see, the eye is supposed to show through. But then it's half above the writing. No, that's not an eye Okay, the sprayer goes there, so it must be in the front. It doesn't rotate. Yeah, that makes sense. But then this is a faulty bottle. The pressure on the wrong side...
Anyway, enough of that, I said to myself. I want to smell the perfume after all, not find out if there's a flaw in the bottle here.
Compared to the bottle, the fragrance is easier to grasp:
At the beginning opened a strong, dense mixture of familiar Fougère upbeat (citrus-aggressive lavender) and a sharp sweetness initially not yet definable. As a smeller also interested in niches and perfume art, I was inclined to dismiss the fragrance as a typical 0-8-15 fashion smell for the young man, which will soon be gone, although it never disappears, because immediately at least two similar come after.
I stayed on, though, and that's where the confusing bottle may have even played a good part...
After a short time, the fougère thicket cleared and a note remained that reminded me strongly of cola. A really strong, urtypische Coca-Cola with real sugar, where you already guessed when drinking how sticky and thick-brown the mass will be, which would remain when boiled out. I suspect this impression comes from the combination of orange peel and pepper notes built on a woody, milky sandalwood tonka base. Normally you need cinnamon bark for a good cola, don't you? That seems to be missing here. But it is excellently replaced by the pepper notes and thus reduced to its sharpness.
Even after a few rounds in the store, I came back to the scent:
The scent became lighter and lighter, but also more and more delicious. In the end, I was left with such a subtle sweetness that I decided I definitely had to pack this scent. I left the store with a package on which I could now also solve the mystery of the print on the bottle. It really was an eye. An eye from a face or a mask. I took another sniff on the back of my hand, smelled the sharp, fiery, citrusy sweetness, and was motivated for the night on the town.
P.S. I later learned that both the fragrance composition and the bottle design allude to northeastern Brazil and the Mata Atlantica. This rainforest is far less known than the Amazon, but has an enormously high species richness (higher than in the Amazon), although after already in colonial times heavy destruction only remaining areas. In the fragrance, the Mata Atlantica is reflected in particular by the subtle pepper notes, which allude to a type of pepper native to the region. The drawing on the packaging and bottle are inspired by the "Literatura de Cordel" (cord literature). This form of simple folk literature was often offered at the beginning of the 17th century in the northeast of Brazil at small stalls and hung on strings. The booklets also contained many drawings in a similar style to those on the Urbano Noite wrapper.
The first thing I want to talk about, for once, is the packaging and the bottle. The bottle is an absolute eye-catcher for me. However, not because of its perfection or beauty, but precisely because of its imperfection:
At first glance of the printed bottle, I immediately stopped, because something disturbed my greedy but flowing gaze, which perhaps many of you also know when facing a sea of unknown perfumes and first trying to establish any visual orientation. So I immediately looked at the bottle more intently, turning it. What is that on there? An eye? A mask? Where is the front anyway, where is the back? Ah, I see, the eye is supposed to show through. But then it's half above the writing. No, that's not an eye Okay, the sprayer goes there, so it must be in the front. It doesn't rotate. Yeah, that makes sense. But then this is a faulty bottle. The pressure on the wrong side...
Anyway, enough of that, I said to myself. I want to smell the perfume after all, not find out if there's a flaw in the bottle here.
Compared to the bottle, the fragrance is easier to grasp:
At the beginning opened a strong, dense mixture of familiar Fougère upbeat (citrus-aggressive lavender) and a sharp sweetness initially not yet definable. As a smeller also interested in niches and perfume art, I was inclined to dismiss the fragrance as a typical 0-8-15 fashion smell for the young man, which will soon be gone, although it never disappears, because immediately at least two similar come after.
I stayed on, though, and that's where the confusing bottle may have even played a good part...
After a short time, the fougère thicket cleared and a note remained that reminded me strongly of cola. A really strong, urtypische Coca-Cola with real sugar, where you already guessed when drinking how sticky and thick-brown the mass will be, which would remain when boiled out. I suspect this impression comes from the combination of orange peel and pepper notes built on a woody, milky sandalwood tonka base. Normally you need cinnamon bark for a good cola, don't you? That seems to be missing here. But it is excellently replaced by the pepper notes and thus reduced to its sharpness.
Even after a few rounds in the store, I came back to the scent:
The scent became lighter and lighter, but also more and more delicious. In the end, I was left with such a subtle sweetness that I decided I definitely had to pack this scent. I left the store with a package on which I could now also solve the mystery of the print on the bottle. It really was an eye. An eye from a face or a mask. I took another sniff on the back of my hand, smelled the sharp, fiery, citrusy sweetness, and was motivated for the night on the town.
P.S. I later learned that both the fragrance composition and the bottle design allude to northeastern Brazil and the Mata Atlantica. This rainforest is far less known than the Amazon, but has an enormously high species richness (higher than in the Amazon), although after already in colonial times heavy destruction only remaining areas. In the fragrance, the Mata Atlantica is reflected in particular by the subtle pepper notes, which allude to a type of pepper native to the region. The drawing on the packaging and bottle are inspired by the "Literatura de Cordel" (cord literature). This form of simple folk literature was often offered at the beginning of the 17th century in the northeast of Brazil at small stalls and hung on strings. The booklets also contained many drawings in a similar style to those on the Urbano Noite wrapper.
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