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The carrot on the backside of a pig
In one scene of the film "Brust oder Keule" ("Chest or Club"), Louis de Funès as restaurant critic Charles Duchemin whirls through a kitchen. And what's with the carrot in the pig's backside?" Well, the strict guardian of the Grail of upscale Gallic gastronomy could not cope with such innovations. Although the director concealed the corresponding picture, the head cinema (a childlike one at any rate) worked quite well.
Who would have thought that I could have such difficulties with a fragrance (thanks for the sample!) much appreciated by Can777? Usually our opinions are closer together. And today I count three metaphorical carrots, which are inserted during the course of the fragrance at different times, so to speak...um....
But first of all there is a furious prelude of cherry, grass, something like bitter almond aroma and glue. Within half a minute, of course, the dancing odours are combined in an almost alchemistic way, in a kind of ambrating and freshly lacquered semolina and hedge cut sweetness. Garnished with a candied cocktail cherry. Should the idea of leather creep in today via care products? I remember from my childhood a shoe polish that smelled like almond / marzipan.
After about an hour it turns out, however, that the leather track is apparently not supposed to dominate at all: Pungent resin is added. I don't know what Dragon's Blood smells like, but it has to be. It is surrounded by creamy sweetness, with which it enters into a quite unique interplay. Bitter and sweet at the same time.
But unfortunately the aura of cherry-related bitter almond back aroma, which made it through the opening phase and now wobbles in unchanging penetrance around the events (Mohrrübe #1), increasingly disturbs me. Unsuitable (Mohrrübe #2) I also find the appearance of the rose, which is tipped over by a dry German red wine. I suspect that - in addition to the care product - the idea of leather should also fan out. For me it sometimes seems as if the connection between rose and leather can be quite tight, see Montale.
Last but not least (Mohrrübe #3) the fragrance swings early in the afternoon to a light-furry, later strangely becremt wood, which makes me think of the partly somewhat unhappy - and unquestionably fully synthetic - Elaborate from MGO.
A good part of my disappointment can be traced back to the fact that my previous Nimerè tests had set the bar fairly high on balance. In my (so far lonely) opinion, 'Dragon Blood' therefore falls behind some of his siblings.
Who would have thought that I could have such difficulties with a fragrance (thanks for the sample!) much appreciated by Can777? Usually our opinions are closer together. And today I count three metaphorical carrots, which are inserted during the course of the fragrance at different times, so to speak...um....
But first of all there is a furious prelude of cherry, grass, something like bitter almond aroma and glue. Within half a minute, of course, the dancing odours are combined in an almost alchemistic way, in a kind of ambrating and freshly lacquered semolina and hedge cut sweetness. Garnished with a candied cocktail cherry. Should the idea of leather creep in today via care products? I remember from my childhood a shoe polish that smelled like almond / marzipan.
After about an hour it turns out, however, that the leather track is apparently not supposed to dominate at all: Pungent resin is added. I don't know what Dragon's Blood smells like, but it has to be. It is surrounded by creamy sweetness, with which it enters into a quite unique interplay. Bitter and sweet at the same time.
But unfortunately the aura of cherry-related bitter almond back aroma, which made it through the opening phase and now wobbles in unchanging penetrance around the events (Mohrrübe #1), increasingly disturbs me. Unsuitable (Mohrrübe #2) I also find the appearance of the rose, which is tipped over by a dry German red wine. I suspect that - in addition to the care product - the idea of leather should also fan out. For me it sometimes seems as if the connection between rose and leather can be quite tight, see Montale.
Last but not least (Mohrrübe #3) the fragrance swings early in the afternoon to a light-furry, later strangely becremt wood, which makes me think of the partly somewhat unhappy - and unquestionably fully synthetic - Elaborate from MGO.
A good part of my disappointment can be traced back to the fact that my previous Nimerè tests had set the bar fairly high on balance. In my (so far lonely) opinion, 'Dragon Blood' therefore falls behind some of his siblings.
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