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Notes04/28/2020
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The Portuguese Spice Route
My trip would not be short, so I said goodbye to my wife and children, at least I intended to do so in a few moments. Six months...it would not be my last ship journey, I knew that. But a job with the Armada was worth a lot. We would start from Lisbon and travel first to the Cape Verde Islands. After that we had to sail around Africa and I hoped our ship would survive the trip. Rotten ships would be torn apart by the currents! They had overtaken it but you never know what to expect out at sea. Our destination was the Spice Islands of India. Several spices were on our list, some I knew and their breathtaking scent! I was looking forward to Ceylon and its cinnamon!
But other spices were also on the agenda. We needed cloves from ternate, myrrh and among other things vanilla. Which is why we had to take the route between Africa and Madagascar. It would be an exciting six months and I went back to my family to say goodbye.
Route des Epices is an exciting fragrance, both in terms of theme and composition. Many important commercial spices can be found again, but also Mediterranean plants from the Mediterranean area, from where the route just went to India. One example is the cistus. Other spices, such as pepper, are not used as fragrance components at all.
For me the perfume smells very fine and complex. The spices do not force themselves upon you. Cinnamon is clearly visible but pleasant, not penetrating. In general I would like to say that the scent smells like a mass of scents where none of them stands out but all fit into the big picture. I find this astonishing because cumin, cardamom but also cloves often have pungent olfactory properties. It smells like a breeze that blows over you from the spice market or from a ship loaded with different spices.
The big shortcoming is the H/S because this harmony of the scents, this olfactory euphony also leads to the fact that the H/S are expandable. Nevertheless a very nice thematically picked up spice scent. If it wasn't set, I would have bought it long ago, although spices are not in my focus
But other spices were also on the agenda. We needed cloves from ternate, myrrh and among other things vanilla. Which is why we had to take the route between Africa and Madagascar. It would be an exciting six months and I went back to my family to say goodbye.
Route des Epices is an exciting fragrance, both in terms of theme and composition. Many important commercial spices can be found again, but also Mediterranean plants from the Mediterranean area, from where the route just went to India. One example is the cistus. Other spices, such as pepper, are not used as fragrance components at all.
For me the perfume smells very fine and complex. The spices do not force themselves upon you. Cinnamon is clearly visible but pleasant, not penetrating. In general I would like to say that the scent smells like a mass of scents where none of them stands out but all fit into the big picture. I find this astonishing because cumin, cardamom but also cloves often have pungent olfactory properties. It smells like a breeze that blows over you from the spice market or from a ship loaded with different spices.
The big shortcoming is the H/S because this harmony of the scents, this olfactory euphony also leads to the fact that the H/S are expandable. Nevertheless a very nice thematically picked up spice scent. If it wasn't set, I would have bought it long ago, although spices are not in my focus
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