La dompteuse encagée Serge Lutens 2021

a man once said to me who seemed to be bothered by the fact that I reprimanded Uwe and Bernd for walking along the street in a civilized manner. He didn't say it in a friendly or respectful way, like another gentleman who smiled as he watched the two dogs peacefully sharing a portion of vanilla ice cream with cream at the ice cream parlor, but condescendingly and reproachfully.

In fact, this encounter made me buy the fragrance blind. Of course, I also like frangipani, ylang-ylang and almond. So I thought I would like the fragrance.

But it actually suits this encounter perfectly. Not that it's bad, but in all its beauty it has something oppressive about it. I smell a beautiful woman. I think she's a Maori, an original Polynesian beauty. Beautiful, irrepressible, original, indomitable. She has groomed herself with tiare oil and a flower in her full, black hair. She should be spending the day in the sun, in the sand by the sea, doing her daily work. But something is wrong. Something is dark and oppressive. I can almost see the iron cage in the dark cellar in which she is trapped and it is almost unbearable for me to witness this spectacle. The memory of this gentleman comes unpleasantly to my mind. Unfortunately, I have often had to experience strange men talking in this tone to women and girls. The scent makes me think.

This is a very clean shower gel fragrance. It also reminds me a bit of the Monoi range from Yves Rocher which I used a lot in the 90s. The smell of powder is also there but not dry or dusty. I smell ylang and frangipani, sometimes very far away like in a flower store with water and greenery. If there are almonds, then fresh, juicy, green ones and not sweet, roasted ones.

Unisex? - Yes! It is a clear clean fragrance that can also be worn by men. But it smells more like a women's shower than a men's changing room in an outdoor pool in the 90s. I find it unsweet and not really gourmand. I find the durability and sillage to be mediocre, not close to the skin and not room-filling, after 6 hours the spook is as good as over.