Phtaloblue Tauer Perfumes 2020

Phtaloblue. At the moment, images of an art exhibition (abstract painting) pop into my head. And a swimming pool association also presents itself immediately. It steams neatly and from outside a fresh wind blows in, which mixes with the chlorine and the joyful screaming of children in the swimming pool. Phtaloblue is artificial, though. The challenging part is also in its genre: Phtaloblue is an aquat. That often means there's rather little development or complexity to be expected - unless you mix in salty minerality. That's not the case here. The scent remains clear, cerebral, theoretical. In fact, I feel that here the color "blue" has been translated into a fragrance in a sense. That's exciting to begin with. Synesthetic, so to speak.

Phtaloblue is, for me, ultimately a work without an author. Here I understand the film title as a borrowing and do not want to go for parallels in content. For me, the fragrance could have been composed by a machine. I don't mean that disrespectfully. It is simply challenging to identify individual elements from my perspective. Rose geranium, orange blossom, lavender. I had expected a lot from this. However, everything seems to diffuse a bit here. Fennel sounds interesting and if you know it, it makes perfect sense. I probably wouldn't have come up with it on my own, though.

Despite everything, Phtaloblue is a solid to good Aquat for me with just solid to good projection and durability. I don't see the redefinition of the "aquat" genre. It's hard to relate here. Of course, the fragrance is very wearable, anytime, anywhere. Seasonally, what we have here is a decidedly summer perfume. Stylistically and from the basic idea, I see similarities to L'Eau by Serge Lutens, which is more citrusy and thus more accessible in a way, and ends up pointing more clearly in the direction of white wash, while Phtaloblue wants water. Both, however, set for me a pretty clear statement and pursue the concept anti-fragrance.