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Tarte au citron
In the basement of the Galeries Lafayette is the gourmet department; the name is really appropriate.
Here you will find delicatessen and fine delicacies, including a large patisserie area, where you can also drink coffee at small tables and enjoy the small nutritious delicacies immediately.
There, the "Tarte au Citron" attracts me again and again: small tartlets made of short pastry with fresh lemon puree and a meringue cap that is caramel browned.
Each bite is a pleasant mixture of lemon freshness and sweet meringue.
I had to think about this after "Fleurs de Citronnier" had been floating around me for some time and was fully developed.
So far I have had some difficulties with lemon-based fragrances: either they were biting, scratchy, even aggressive, or lifeless and uninspiringly synthetic.
Even big brand names didn't help; we didn't get along with each other.
So I was more than pleasantly surprised here, at a sample from Serge Luten's "Duftwasser-Sixpack".
Lemon blossoms, fresh and at the same time delicate in fragrance, appear with a light nutmeg spice - that is really just a hint, but still perceptible and pleasantly beautiful.
The proud, powdery-scented iris and the soulfully flattering neroli blossom form a harmonious transition to the white, full-bodied and sensuous white flower of tuberose.
Here, flower aromas and spicy citrus freshness combine at their best.
Styrax, the warm, vanilla-scented resin, appears surprisingly balsamic, but without covering the summery lemon flair.
Thus white honey and musk have the most beautiful layer to complete this fragrant lightness.
Just like the meringue cap, the delicious citrus mass on the "Tarte au Citron" described above.
For such a fresh, light summer scent, the shelf life of a few hours is quite surprising; also the scent remains beautifully clear without becoming cloudy or forming unpleasant corners and edges.
I have already noticed this with various citrus scents; here, however, the purity exists down to the last breath.
This fragrance is like staying under the blossoming canopy of leaves of a lime tree, on whose ground the sun draws fine lace motifs and bright lights shimmer through dark foliage.
"Fleurs de Citronniers" is a graceful preview of warm summer days, warming and caressing the skin. At which the desire for "Tarte au Citron" can then be lived out in style under a parasol.
I hope that this fragrant air spirit will bring just as much joy to Gelis, to which he will one day travel. I always find our different perceptions and experiences very interesting.
Sometimes it seems as if we are not testing one and the same bottling.
Let's have a look!
Here you will find delicatessen and fine delicacies, including a large patisserie area, where you can also drink coffee at small tables and enjoy the small nutritious delicacies immediately.
There, the "Tarte au Citron" attracts me again and again: small tartlets made of short pastry with fresh lemon puree and a meringue cap that is caramel browned.
Each bite is a pleasant mixture of lemon freshness and sweet meringue.
I had to think about this after "Fleurs de Citronnier" had been floating around me for some time and was fully developed.
So far I have had some difficulties with lemon-based fragrances: either they were biting, scratchy, even aggressive, or lifeless and uninspiringly synthetic.
Even big brand names didn't help; we didn't get along with each other.
So I was more than pleasantly surprised here, at a sample from Serge Luten's "Duftwasser-Sixpack".
Lemon blossoms, fresh and at the same time delicate in fragrance, appear with a light nutmeg spice - that is really just a hint, but still perceptible and pleasantly beautiful.
The proud, powdery-scented iris and the soulfully flattering neroli blossom form a harmonious transition to the white, full-bodied and sensuous white flower of tuberose.
Here, flower aromas and spicy citrus freshness combine at their best.
Styrax, the warm, vanilla-scented resin, appears surprisingly balsamic, but without covering the summery lemon flair.
Thus white honey and musk have the most beautiful layer to complete this fragrant lightness.
Just like the meringue cap, the delicious citrus mass on the "Tarte au Citron" described above.
For such a fresh, light summer scent, the shelf life of a few hours is quite surprising; also the scent remains beautifully clear without becoming cloudy or forming unpleasant corners and edges.
I have already noticed this with various citrus scents; here, however, the purity exists down to the last breath.
This fragrance is like staying under the blossoming canopy of leaves of a lime tree, on whose ground the sun draws fine lace motifs and bright lights shimmer through dark foliage.
"Fleurs de Citronniers" is a graceful preview of warm summer days, warming and caressing the skin. At which the desire for "Tarte au Citron" can then be lived out in style under a parasol.
I hope that this fragrant air spirit will bring just as much joy to Gelis, to which he will one day travel. I always find our different perceptions and experiences very interesting.
Sometimes it seems as if we are not testing one and the same bottling.
Let's have a look!
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