№ 02 - L'Air du Désert Marocain Tauer Perfumes 2005 Eau de Toilette Intense

I have thought long about which fragrance to write my first comment on after the initial months of rather passive belonging to the community. I believe I have found a worthy entry with L'Air du Desert Marocain.

For months, I have observed, partly with slight concern, how the addiction to fragrances has grown ever larger. The concern comes from the fact that, as a musician, music has been my only real addiction until now. However, my engagement with fragrances has been so intense for the past six months that I felt something like infidelity towards "my" music.

AdDM has opened my eyes, as it is the parallels to music that make the world of fragrance so fascinating for me. In music, I especially love the dark timbres, in which bright spots occasionally shine like islands. Music by Gustav Mahler, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, or Aulis Sallinen, but also Depeche Mode or Radiohead are for me such wonders of sound.

AdDM is the olfactory counterpart to the music I love so much. A fragrance in which one feels secure, that catches you, revealing dark depths but also moments of brightness. If there were concerts where fragrance was "played" simultaneously: That would probably be my heaven.