Les Notes Gourmandes

Macaron d'Amour
Dragée
2012

Puderblume
13.07.2021 - 10:33 AM
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8
Pricing
9
Bottle
7
Sillage
8
Longevity
9.5
Scent

Asterix and Cleopatra

When I think of 'dragee' I can't help but think of the beautiful Cleopatra from faraway Egypt and thus also of the film and the Asterix booklet "Asterix and Cleopatra", which I still sometimes enjoy reading.
Cleopatra is known to have bathed in donkey milk with honey, which is said to have given her a pure and flawless white skin.
The three Gauls, Asterix, Obelix and Getafix, also succumbed to her charm and beauty and traveled to faraway Egypt to help their friend build a collossal palace that the beautiful Cleopatra had commissioned for Caesar.
In my imagination, Cleopatra is soaking in warm milk in a snow-white marble tub. Orange blossom and almond oil are added to the milk, giving the bath a wonderfully sweet and flattering powdery scent. Due to the lush sweetness, one can definitely perceive a honey note.
The warm desert wind blows through the open palace and puffs the long, white cotton curtains and brings a woody, airy accord of cedar wood.
After the bath is completed, the lady-in-waiting puts a pure white cloth over Cleopatra. Cleopatra's skin is soft and velvety, smells softly powdery.
The orange blossoms and petitgrain have given way to a delicate almond scent, which fades out on a base of vanilla and warm cedar wood accord.
I am only too happy to feel like Cleopatra when wearing this fragrance. Especially in the warmer season, it makes you feel well-groomed and a sweet purity.
Its staying power is quite remarkable at about 8 hours. I could imagine that the durability in winter is somewhat lower, since in my opinion, the warmth of the fragrance can shine longer.
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