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Others Call It Wild Boar Hair
Anyone who encountered Russian fairy tales as a child with the illustrations of Ivan Bilibin associates the "Russian forest" not with an idyllic gnome grove, but with a mysteriously threatening place where the eerie Baba Yaga whirls around in her mortar (goo.gl/images/7Y6995) or from which the raging Koschei could burst forth at any moment (goo.gl/images/UdHTWH).
And as delicate and lovely and… well, just beautifully as Vasilisa the Beautiful may be - the surroundings with the hut on chicken legs are not (goo.gl/images/XNuYH1). By the way, the wild mobile has been set to music - "Im-" is inappropriate… - by Modest Mussorgsky in his "Pictures at an Exhibition," here in orchestral form: youtube.com/watch?v=KNdOMcbuiiA, from 0:00 to 3:23.
Et voilà - 'La Foret Russe' is by no means contemplative or tranquil. It begins with the notion that in this forest… lemons grow? Something sour anyway, on the threshold of fish accompaniment (trout "blue," optionally "meunière" with lemon). An ethereal-(spicy) freshness joins in with a very subtle rubbery stink, which I attribute to thyme and possibly vetiver due to lack of a better idea.
But it gets even more forest-like, although this does not happen without some unpleasantness. After an hour, a bright forest scent has emerged, but it quickly develops a malicious sting in the form of a needle-like, sweaty, latent unclean note close to the fecal, which shows itself quite openly later in the morning. The overall impression has also become quite bitter, like a kind of spirit vapor. Nice is different.
In the afternoon, the scent initially softens. A certain base spiciness remains present (thyme!), but is rounder than before. Vetiver and incense provide a sour airiness that fits perfectly with the needles. After just under eight hours, the acidity brushes against the candy-like. However, this would then be a very bitter, unsweetened specimen. Perhaps a medicinal cough drop with thyme. Towards the evening, earthy-mineral aspects emerge.
And once again, there’s a disturbance on the nose. From late afternoon on, it seems to me that incense and, for all I know, vetiver form a goat cheese alliance. A thought of civet is also not far off. I recall Tomaya's fine forest distillate 'In the Deep Forest.' In the pyramidical details, he cheekily lists…
…“Wild Boar Hair”!
I thank Can777 for the sample.
And as delicate and lovely and… well, just beautifully as Vasilisa the Beautiful may be - the surroundings with the hut on chicken legs are not (goo.gl/images/XNuYH1). By the way, the wild mobile has been set to music - "Im-" is inappropriate… - by Modest Mussorgsky in his "Pictures at an Exhibition," here in orchestral form: youtube.com/watch?v=KNdOMcbuiiA, from 0:00 to 3:23.
Et voilà - 'La Foret Russe' is by no means contemplative or tranquil. It begins with the notion that in this forest… lemons grow? Something sour anyway, on the threshold of fish accompaniment (trout "blue," optionally "meunière" with lemon). An ethereal-(spicy) freshness joins in with a very subtle rubbery stink, which I attribute to thyme and possibly vetiver due to lack of a better idea.
But it gets even more forest-like, although this does not happen without some unpleasantness. After an hour, a bright forest scent has emerged, but it quickly develops a malicious sting in the form of a needle-like, sweaty, latent unclean note close to the fecal, which shows itself quite openly later in the morning. The overall impression has also become quite bitter, like a kind of spirit vapor. Nice is different.
In the afternoon, the scent initially softens. A certain base spiciness remains present (thyme!), but is rounder than before. Vetiver and incense provide a sour airiness that fits perfectly with the needles. After just under eight hours, the acidity brushes against the candy-like. However, this would then be a very bitter, unsweetened specimen. Perhaps a medicinal cough drop with thyme. Towards the evening, earthy-mineral aspects emerge.
And once again, there’s a disturbance on the nose. From late afternoon on, it seems to me that incense and, for all I know, vetiver form a goat cheese alliance. A thought of civet is also not far off. I recall Tomaya's fine forest distillate 'In the Deep Forest.' In the pyramidical details, he cheekily lists…
…“Wild Boar Hair”!
I thank Can777 for the sample.
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