Long time ago, long time ago, long time ago
Long time ago, long time ago - long time ago
Vapor long ago the times when at the end of each tunnel always a bright light was to be seen, meanwhile one, often already touched by the fate, looks today more and more on already mowed meadows. Even the furrows that one still makes oneself are no longer as deep and fertile as they once were. It is now less about gaining new harvests than about defending the status quo! And more and more often, I'm left with a sinking feeling in my stomach, as if one had just, while opening a can in vain, torn off the tab ring!
Verdamp lang her is the first release of the well-known hit title of the group BAB from 1981. His text is very touching and virtually predestined to deal with the past. However, while Niedecken dealt with the death of his father, here I reflect on past times and some retrospection on it. The song and the perfume to be discussed, Open by Roger & Gallet, are children of the 80s, years of upheaval in the West and in the East, as well as an important and formative part of my life memories
Vapor long ago the year 1980 as the Greens were founded, 1989 was then the end of the GDR. In between were the Falklands War, AIDS, Chernobyl, Challengerexplosion, Perestroika, Ramstein flight accident, home computer and CD, Lindenstraße, Dallas, New German Wave, hip-hop, aerobics, mullet, carrot pants, leggings and Schimanski.
Vapor long ago my beautiful, carefree childhood and the eventful school years as with the beginning of the 80s and the Wehrdienstantritt also knocked for me the beginning of the "seriousness of life". It was the time in which many first pegs of the own life were hit, study, wedding, birth of the children, occupation start, removals, out and upheavals
Vapor long ago the year 1985 as with Open by Roger & Gallet a very distinctive perfume block of the 80s was set. This fragrance fits probably like no other in this time and is clearly an adult perfume, rough, tart, masculine and dry. At the start you get presented with the full broadside, citrusy soapiness and herb dominated spice with pithy sprinkles of lavender. As I said, all completely dry and with no discernible sweetness. In no time at all, a strong but pleasant men's barber atmosphere sets in, which in turn is briskly captured by herbaceous tobacco. This tobacco develops into the widely determining fragrance element, at first rather herbaceous-green, later increasingly darker, more pithy and earthy-powerful.
Vapor long ago also the year when I lost my heart to a perfume firecracker of the 80s and that was not Open. But a good friend has become me the Open of Roger & Gallet, since I was allowed to get to know him, well after the turn. After the rather stormy opening, it now makes more of a protective impression. The scent becomes warmer, woody tones come through, the smell becomes softer, gentler and very pleasant. All steadily accompanied by now darkly spicy and quite tart tobacco notes, which have not yet lost all the freshness of the beginning and also somewhat reminiscent of mossy, damp earth. Thus, a clearly masculine, old school feeling is conveyed overall, somewhat old-fashioned but very concise!
Damn long ago that the word conservative also had a positive connotation. With Open by Roger & Gallet, however, it has found a fitting fragrance equivalent and this from the beginning. Open does not instigate a revolution or change, but it is a guarantor for it, in a retrospective to remember that in past times, although not everything was better, but many things were also quite good and it is worthwhile to preserve this.
It's been a long time since I thanked you for your tireless reading! So, thank you very much!
"You don't have to kid yourself, the accidental success thing of 'Verdamp lang her' is of course that everyone interprets their own story into it." (Wolfgang Niedecken)
Top Notes 
Amalfi lemon
Lavender
Bergamot
Heart Notes 
Thyme
Sage
Base Notes 
Tobacco
Patchouli
Vetiver
NGL7
Jbl775
KimJong
Infragrante
RobbieX
Ady14141
