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08/19/2018
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Others call it wild boar hair
Anyone who has already got to know the Russian fairy tales as a child with Ivan Bilibin's illustrations does not associate the "Russian forest" with an idyllic Wichtel grove, but with a mysteriously threatening place where the eerie Baba Jaga whirls around in her mortar (goo.gl/images/7Y6995) or from which at any moment the furious Koschtschej could break out (goo.gl/images/UdHTWH).
And as tender and lovely as it is and...well, beautiful as Wassilissa may be - the surroundings with the hut on the chicken legs are not (goo.gl/images/XNuYH1). By the way, Modest Mussorgskij in his "Pictures at an Exhibition", here as an orchestral version: youtube.com/watch?v=KNdOMcbuiiA, from 0:00 to 3:23.
Et voilà - 'La Foret Russe' is by no means contemplative. It starts with this forest growing... lemons? Something sour, at least, on the threshold of fish accompaniment (trout "blue", optionally "miller's wife" with lemon). In addition there is an ethereal (spicy) freshness with a very gentle rubber stink, which I blame for the lack of a better idea on thyme and possibly vetiver.
But it becomes even more wooded, even if this does not happen without vulgarities. After an hour a bright forest smell has developed, but it quickly has a malicious sting in the form of a needle-like, sweaty, latently unclean note close to the faeces, which later in the morning even reveals itself to be quite open. The overall picture has also become rather bitter, as if from a kind of Franzbranntwein haze. Nice is different.
In the afternoon the scent softens. A certain basic spice remains present (thyme!), but is rounder than before. Vetiver and frankincense provide an acidified airiness that perfectly matches the needles. After almost eight hours, the acid touches the sweetness. But of course that would be a very harsh, ungainly specimen. Medicinal cough drop with thyme maybe. Towards the end of the evening, earthy-mineral aspects emerge.
And again, there's a disturbance on the nose. From the late afternoon on incense and Meinetwegen-Vetiver seem to me to form a goat cheese alliance. A thought of Zibet is also not far away. I can think of Tomaya's fine forest distillate 'In the deep forest'. In the pyramidal information he lists with a wink...
"... "Wild Boar Hair"!
I thank Can777 for the rehearsal.
And as tender and lovely as it is and...well, beautiful as Wassilissa may be - the surroundings with the hut on the chicken legs are not (goo.gl/images/XNuYH1). By the way, Modest Mussorgskij in his "Pictures at an Exhibition", here as an orchestral version: youtube.com/watch?v=KNdOMcbuiiA, from 0:00 to 3:23.
Et voilà - 'La Foret Russe' is by no means contemplative. It starts with this forest growing... lemons? Something sour, at least, on the threshold of fish accompaniment (trout "blue", optionally "miller's wife" with lemon). In addition there is an ethereal (spicy) freshness with a very gentle rubber stink, which I blame for the lack of a better idea on thyme and possibly vetiver.
But it becomes even more wooded, even if this does not happen without vulgarities. After an hour a bright forest smell has developed, but it quickly has a malicious sting in the form of a needle-like, sweaty, latently unclean note close to the faeces, which later in the morning even reveals itself to be quite open. The overall picture has also become rather bitter, as if from a kind of Franzbranntwein haze. Nice is different.
In the afternoon the scent softens. A certain basic spice remains present (thyme!), but is rounder than before. Vetiver and frankincense provide an acidified airiness that perfectly matches the needles. After almost eight hours, the acid touches the sweetness. But of course that would be a very harsh, ungainly specimen. Medicinal cough drop with thyme maybe. Towards the end of the evening, earthy-mineral aspects emerge.
And again, there's a disturbance on the nose. From the late afternoon on incense and Meinetwegen-Vetiver seem to me to form a goat cheese alliance. A thought of Zibet is also not far away. I can think of Tomaya's fine forest distillate 'In the deep forest'. In the pyramidal information he lists with a wink...
"... "Wild Boar Hair"!
I thank Can777 for the rehearsal.
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