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Black honey
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Herbs
Night-blooming flowers11/28/2024
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Dark Entries or how music is transformed into fragrance
From the amount of Sixteen92 samples from a great swap with @IceMachine, I deliberately picked Dark Entries Extrait de Parfum for my first test. The reason is my musical fondness for Bauhaus, Dark Entries is the title of one of their songs.
I am very surprised. And thoughtful. I wanted to like the scent and find it at least interesting.
My nose makes me realize that there are apparently people who feel the same way about Bauhaus music as I do about this fragrance. That is an uncomfortable feeling.
For me, the fragrance is also very uncomfortable, sweet and dusty, bitter and nutty and sticky, sweet and stinky and scary. And unwearable.
Looking at the notes, I recognize the honey, which brings the sweetness. I associate the night-blooming flowers with the eeriness, the herbs with the bitterness and the candle wax with the stickiness.
The '2nd opinion' was ruthless and sounded something like this:
"What is THAT then? Marzipan with sweat? That smells like something humans don't like! It's in our spinal cord, just like spoiled food, we know that straight away! Get the fuck out of here, I don't feel like cooking in my bed!"
The thought that the music of Bauhaus could be perceived in this way makes me feel alone. For me it is wonderful, hypnotic, calming or electrifying, I feel at home with it.
I had hoped that the perfume would evoke similar feelings, but they are quite different.
What I find interesting about the fragrance are these associative insights and the considerations as to why the perfumer has transformed the song into precisely this fragrance.
Some people will like Dark Entries Extrait de Parfum, then perhaps listen to the song and feel exactly the opposite...
Again, it becomes clear that music and fragrances are a matter of individual taste, music AS a fragrance perhaps even more so.
The thought of another skin test makes me shudder.
First listen to Bauhaus now, but not Dark Entries...
Pardon my French! And thanks for reading.
I am very surprised. And thoughtful. I wanted to like the scent and find it at least interesting.
My nose makes me realize that there are apparently people who feel the same way about Bauhaus music as I do about this fragrance. That is an uncomfortable feeling.
For me, the fragrance is also very uncomfortable, sweet and dusty, bitter and nutty and sticky, sweet and stinky and scary. And unwearable.
Looking at the notes, I recognize the honey, which brings the sweetness. I associate the night-blooming flowers with the eeriness, the herbs with the bitterness and the candle wax with the stickiness.
The '2nd opinion' was ruthless and sounded something like this:
"What is THAT then? Marzipan with sweat? That smells like something humans don't like! It's in our spinal cord, just like spoiled food, we know that straight away! Get the fuck out of here, I don't feel like cooking in my bed!"
The thought that the music of Bauhaus could be perceived in this way makes me feel alone. For me it is wonderful, hypnotic, calming or electrifying, I feel at home with it.
I had hoped that the perfume would evoke similar feelings, but they are quite different.
What I find interesting about the fragrance are these associative insights and the considerations as to why the perfumer has transformed the song into precisely this fragrance.
Some people will like Dark Entries Extrait de Parfum, then perhaps listen to the song and feel exactly the opposite...
Again, it becomes clear that music and fragrances are a matter of individual taste, music AS a fragrance perhaps even more so.
The thought of another skin test makes me shudder.
First listen to Bauhaus now, but not Dark Entries...
Pardon my French! And thanks for reading.
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