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05/27/2020
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The photo inspired to the fragrance olfaktiv shows us a rather snowy street canyon with snow flurries in New York at night. An excellent motif by photographer Vivienne Gucwa, with a mood that catapults us straight into wintertime. You can literally feel the cold and hear the dimmed calm that emanates from this picture.
Ergo, "Flash Back in New York" would be and is a rather wintry eau de parfum with a metropolitan claim. The season thing might fit, but otherwise I don't quite get along with the fragrant "Flash Back in New York".
On the one hand, this is due to the omnipresence of cumin, clary sage and saffron in the opening. The concentrated spice is almost too much of a good thing.
Saffron in particular makes the creation soft in the top note, but more strenuous than it has to be when playing with cumin. The finely woven linen nuance has something, but only gets through minimally.
The leather comes out really massive later, but more so in the direction of velour and a touch of shoe polish. Yes, even Papyrus wants to play along, but all in all "FBNY" seems a bit artificial and overloaded with its leathery-woody borrowings. Maybe this fits to the well-behaved bourgeois side of the city and has something nischievous about it, but all in all the fragrance seems cumbersome and almost annoying despite the imaginary complexity.
Not that I was fundamentally uncomfortable or bored when I tested it, but all the time I was getting the feeling that this creamy, leathery, woody, spicy mix was really getting on my nerves after wearing it two or three times a quarter.
Yes, nicely done and certainly liked by many, but not for me - not even in winter or in New York. That he has no resemblance at all to the original Flash Back apart from that ... as a present!
Ergo, "Flash Back in New York" would be and is a rather wintry eau de parfum with a metropolitan claim. The season thing might fit, but otherwise I don't quite get along with the fragrant "Flash Back in New York".
On the one hand, this is due to the omnipresence of cumin, clary sage and saffron in the opening. The concentrated spice is almost too much of a good thing.
Saffron in particular makes the creation soft in the top note, but more strenuous than it has to be when playing with cumin. The finely woven linen nuance has something, but only gets through minimally.
The leather comes out really massive later, but more so in the direction of velour and a touch of shoe polish. Yes, even Papyrus wants to play along, but all in all "FBNY" seems a bit artificial and overloaded with its leathery-woody borrowings. Maybe this fits to the well-behaved bourgeois side of the city and has something nischievous about it, but all in all the fragrance seems cumbersome and almost annoying despite the imaginary complexity.
Not that I was fundamentally uncomfortable or bored when I tested it, but all the time I was getting the feeling that this creamy, leathery, woody, spicy mix was really getting on my nerves after wearing it two or three times a quarter.
Yes, nicely done and certainly liked by many, but not for me - not even in winter or in New York. That he has no resemblance at all to the original Flash Back apart from that ... as a present!
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