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Santos for her, or I don't want to, but I have to.
Is there a "Lehmanniade"? Many of the fragrances from Harry Lehmann, which I have been able to smell so far, have a constant core chord for my nose, which - sometimes quieter, sometimes louder, but almost always perceptibly resonating - creates the relationship of the Lehmänner, similar to the famous "Guerlinade", which (still?) can be found in all fragrances of the house Guerlain. I am not capable of deciphering, but I think that a combination of moss, aldehydes and grassy-fougère-like notes regularly forms a nucleus around which the sometimes very different Lehman scents were composed. The impression conveyed in the background is always a very soigned one and a bit more decoupled from the world and the present. A well maintained manor house - which also makes the unisex claim of Lehman fragrances plausible to a certain extent. Not only the Grande Dame lives in such a house, but also the Grand monsieur. Even the formally feminine looking Lehmänner can be worn by self-confident gentlemen by their somehow strict core fallen out of time; conversely, the same applies to the more masculine fragrances for free ladies.
Also with "Verité" I mean to be able to make out this - in the truest sense - "brand core" in variation. Especially in the first hour all sorts of bitter ferns and garden herbs lie over the mysterious dark red underground. When these have distorted, it becomes warm and austere: the seriousness of real eroticism. A cinnamon-patchouli dual on warm vanilla, which never becomes "cuddly" or cosy due to consciously used floral notes and remaining aldehydes, no: Verité remains aggressive, fixes the opposite. Promise and threat at the same time. Wait a minute, why am I writing so awful?! Do I publish penny novels now? "Tender robbers, anthology in large print"? Got a real heartbeat (no kidding!). A truly remarkable perfume, with deeper vanilla and floral notes, that makes me think of Cartier's "Santos" as a slightly more feminine, femme-fatal-like version, almost on a twin fragrance level in the last third. And one that really briefly blocked my analytical distance.
Then I scroll through the previous comments to find out the approximate age of the fragrance.
Hm...
Oh!
Wui...
Very old so, one of the early Lehmänner.
Roaring Twenties in Berlin? Fits.
Also with "Verité" I mean to be able to make out this - in the truest sense - "brand core" in variation. Especially in the first hour all sorts of bitter ferns and garden herbs lie over the mysterious dark red underground. When these have distorted, it becomes warm and austere: the seriousness of real eroticism. A cinnamon-patchouli dual on warm vanilla, which never becomes "cuddly" or cosy due to consciously used floral notes and remaining aldehydes, no: Verité remains aggressive, fixes the opposite. Promise and threat at the same time. Wait a minute, why am I writing so awful?! Do I publish penny novels now? "Tender robbers, anthology in large print"? Got a real heartbeat (no kidding!). A truly remarkable perfume, with deeper vanilla and floral notes, that makes me think of Cartier's "Santos" as a slightly more feminine, femme-fatal-like version, almost on a twin fragrance level in the last third. And one that really briefly blocked my analytical distance.
Then I scroll through the previous comments to find out the approximate age of the fragrance.
Hm...
Oh!
Wui...
Very old so, one of the early Lehmänner.
Roaring Twenties in Berlin? Fits.
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