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Frankincense from heaven and hell
First of all: This is one of the most incense fragrances I have tested so far. These are several different varieties and types of incense in one. It penetrates the skin and respiration like an incense. The perfume is not worn, it penetrates - per-fumare.
Incense from the first minute. And resin, and wax. The smell of sulfurized fruits, spicy sweet as the thought of Christmas, penetrate a floating layer of church frankincense. And there's myrrh! Scented floating glowing myrrh pervades the nave. And that smells so pleasant, as if one could simply paint the church association and get to the core of incense.
The scent fluctuates between occidental church and antiquity, archaic fire smoke and smoking fire, perhaps even to preserve food. Dried fruit, dried fruit, campfires. This incense, incense and incense again is so multi-layered. Not easy to grasp, of special quality. Dark, but not gloomy, pervaded by bright silver flags and strong etherics. Powerful, enveloping. No scratching in the throat, no touching on note distracts here. Nothing for everyday life, Wazamba is too strong for me for that.
Harzig, the pine resin unlocks the nose. The fruits fill in sweet stickiness, and build the bridge from the sweating fir cone to the prune. Apple, myrrh for brightness and effervescence and joy of life. Plum and pine resin and labdanum/cistus for darkness and warmth.
It is probably about concentration of fragrance matter, and also the smell, the sensation is concentrated. Hence the impression of ritual smoke, even if the rite is and remains unknown. The mood is not everyday. Here the perfumer has dared to attempt to make something extraordinary, perhaps something rooted in history, smellable and thus more unconsciously than consciously perceptible. This goes one step further than the atmospheric painting of the Lutensschen Nadelmädchen, as much as I like it, and which I already experience as very insistent and which it reminds me of in places. But Wazamba is denser, more violent, more comprehensive. This one's got a different handwriting. That the perfumer approaches scents and fragrances for his compositions from the historical point of view is not - by the way - an advertising stunt. This is not a light coniferous forest but a blazing fire in which resins and woods burn and soak and transform the environment with this scent. He takes you with him, there's nothing strange about it, I really appreciate that, otherwise the scent would be quite heavy to wear.
I begin gradually, hour by hour, to approach the radiance of incense and that is nothing peripheral with this fragrance. Surprisingly, I don't sit spellbound, but like to wear the scent consciously, for hours and by the way. What a scent experience. This is already the second scent from PdE, which leaves me somewhat impressed as soon as it passes away. But, as I said, it takes many hours.
Conclusion: He pulls you away. Contemplative, yes, also with great inner peace, but also with impressive power and complexity. Smoke and fruit acid, wood, dry and full-bodied. Heaven and hell. Meditation and soulful free feeling.
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