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05/02/2014, 08:13 PM
3Scent 10Longevity 7.5Sillage
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Stories from the Industry

Before I applied "Provenance Tales - Cynefin," I tried to find out the meaning of "Cynefin." And I did it the old-fashioned way: with dictionaries, Duden, and so on. It’s actually faster than using the internet, at least for me. I have everything right here and I’m quick with the alphabet; I used to be a bookseller, after all.
However, I found nothing. So I applied "Provenance Tales - Cynefin." At first, there was something like a stinging gas flame rising, chemical, poison green. Very quickly it became just green-chemical, synthetic. It smelled ozonic, aquatic, like cheap plastic welded together here with heat from time to time, and also a bit like sweat. Here and there it was reminiscent of oxygen welding; I see the blue flame in my mind's eye, the smells also reminiscent of glowing metal. Not even bad. Quite exciting, actually, when you don’t know what it’s supposed to smell like. I felt a bit like I was transported back over 50 years and reminded of experiments in chemistry classes at school. Those were often very enjoyable hours because the teachers had to teach everything back then, but they didn’t understand much about these subjects, for example. And we always found it funny when it smelled odd or stank. Especially since the teachers were so busy, we could make noise and do all sorts of things, a lot of nonsense, copying homework from others for the next classes, for example.
However, here and tonight, I have written down various things. The scent remained as I described. The sillage and longevity are quite intense, I note. But I am also a bit disappointed. Is that all there is? I have had such smells under my nose more often.
Then I went to the fragrance's page and found that the pyramid reads as if it were directly copied from the box of the bottle, partially translated and partially not. I immediately smelled the floral ozone, but without anything floral. Angelica seeds and Davana were supposed to be herbal, fougère. I only smell chemistry. The substances that are supposed to represent lavender and violet leaf only give off a synthetic green smell. The art of making "nature-identical" fragrance substances from such chemicals has not been attempted here. The same goes for the other listed substances.
I wonder what such a fragrance is supposed to tell us users?
Are we to be conditioned to raw chemical perfumes or fragrance designs with substitute materials?
Or is this supposed to be a warning and demonstration of what awaits us in the future - no, wrong - what is to be sold to us as a fragrance? Or better: How it will stink for us? when the regulations for cosmetics and fragrances are standardized worldwide to be compatible with chemical industry plants, sales, and stock market security?
Meanwhile, it smells even more intensely of metal.
I do quite like the smell in metalworking industries, in woodworking industries. I like the smells in the working world. The smell of a shipyard hall has something to it, I think.
And maybe I wear a nice perfume during such a visit because there’s a small reception afterward. I have experienced all of that, just the same.
I don’t have to smell like these places of work and production myself.
Maybe this fragrance is meant to remind us, for example, of the gradually disappearing smells of the producing working world. There aren’t so many of them left in our wealthy world anymore?
But that’s all a bit off-topic.
I have also worked in a meat processing factory - in the office, what else - I can’t even imagine how a perfume would smell that could olfactorily represent that working environment. I could smell it every evening in my clothes and hair. No, it didn’t smell like carrion; it smelled of meat and fat and cleaning agents and sometimes smoke.
Hopefully, I haven’t also provided ideas for perverse fragrances.
I am confused by "Cynefin" and have "lost the plot," so:
In that sense, the designation is correct: Provenance = origin. We are to smell where the fragrances come from, where they originated.
This fragrance is supposed to tell industrial stories in the form of scent. It does so with great longevity and clearly.
And what does Cynefin mean now? I don’t even want to know!
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8 Comments
Escada1970Escada1970 12 years ago
It's really intense, herbal-ozonic, and chemical, quite a nasty little potion. Great comment, thanks!
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KleineHexeKleineHexe 12 years ago
Chemistry is what hisses and stinks, physics is what never works out ;-)
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KugeldistelKugeldistel 12 years ago
Sometimes testing is really a challenge. It seems like you experienced a kind of fragrance disaster while getting to know this scent! :-)
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RapunzelRRapunzelR 12 years ago
Fire, water, air, and earth-I think you’ve really captured and described that well.
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ErgoproxyErgoproxy 12 years ago
Even if you're shaking your head now: Wishlist! :))
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YataganYatagan 12 years ago
I'll summarize: Top note: chemistry class, heart note: shipyard, base note: tailor workshop. Respect, you really dedicated a lot of time to this scent. ;) Medal (and trophy in spirit) for hanging in there. ;))
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FefaminzFefaminz 12 years ago
The scent is just great, especially if the workshop boss wants to fool his wife into thinking he’s been in the shop all day and just quickly put on some deodorant! ;-) Let’s toast with a glass of sparkling wine to that!
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PlutoPluto 12 years ago
Sometimes it's better not to know everything!
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