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Harmony
Whether my early childhood passion for everything Japanese or the marketing department of The Merchant Of Venice evoke my associations cannot be said with certainty. In any case, for me Asian Inspirations embodies the essence of Japanese culture like no other fragrance.
The basis for the strong need of the Japanese for harmony was already laid in Japan's first constitution in 604 AD. It was a kind of law, which also regulated many questions of manners and courtesy to create harmony. It was also the time when Buddhism reached Japan and, together with the influences of Taoism and Confucianism, led to a syncretic and harmonious coexistence with the ancient Japanese religion Shinto. The goal always remained the same: Harmony
The pursuit of this harmony is evident in many areas of public life. If you want to fathom the less public life of the Japanese with all its rituals, polite phrases and etiquette in an original way, you have to go to the mountainous hinterland of Japan.
Asian Inspirations takes me on a journey to traditional Japan, far away from the big cities. A narrow road leads along a hilly road between countless small densely overgrown mountains. From time to time the vaulted, golden roof of a temple flashes out of the dark green overshadowed slopes. Countless water landscapes. The teahouse nearby is deliberately kept very simple to give its guests the opportunity for inner contemplation. The air has now become clearer and more humid. The splashing of water is omnipresent, yet there is a soothing, almost inert silence in the air.
Asian Inspirations starts off with an extraordinary green-spicy freshness that immediately reminds me of clear mountain water that, on its narrow path through the densely overgrown banks lined with mosses and herbs, runs crystal clear into a pond of koi carp.
While a delicate carpet made of the finest suede leather is the basis for the fragrance quite early on, the other spices, herbs, woods and resins do not even try to fight for supremacy. Vetiver also subordinates itself, although it serves as an unsweet, stable framework next to the flanking woods, to which deep green spices and rounding mild resins are added.
Everything merges into a perfect symbiosis that radiates calm and serenity but also a quiet authority.
Asian Inspirations is a rather soft fragrance with moderate sillage and medium shelf life. But here I find these characteristics perfectly balanced and in harmony with the fragrance. After 4-5 hours he has withdrawn very closely and leaves behind a delicate melange that has something gently meditative about it.
Since the scent has neither flowery nor sweet parts in it I see it almost more on the men's side against my previous commentator, although the statistics (see right) speak against me ;)
The concept of being in perfect harmony with nature, of allowing peace to return and of finding one's way to oneself seems to me to have been excellently implemented here. A concept that should work even better in today's hectic and fast-paced world. It does for me.
The basis for the strong need of the Japanese for harmony was already laid in Japan's first constitution in 604 AD. It was a kind of law, which also regulated many questions of manners and courtesy to create harmony. It was also the time when Buddhism reached Japan and, together with the influences of Taoism and Confucianism, led to a syncretic and harmonious coexistence with the ancient Japanese religion Shinto. The goal always remained the same: Harmony
The pursuit of this harmony is evident in many areas of public life. If you want to fathom the less public life of the Japanese with all its rituals, polite phrases and etiquette in an original way, you have to go to the mountainous hinterland of Japan.
Asian Inspirations takes me on a journey to traditional Japan, far away from the big cities. A narrow road leads along a hilly road between countless small densely overgrown mountains. From time to time the vaulted, golden roof of a temple flashes out of the dark green overshadowed slopes. Countless water landscapes. The teahouse nearby is deliberately kept very simple to give its guests the opportunity for inner contemplation. The air has now become clearer and more humid. The splashing of water is omnipresent, yet there is a soothing, almost inert silence in the air.
Asian Inspirations starts off with an extraordinary green-spicy freshness that immediately reminds me of clear mountain water that, on its narrow path through the densely overgrown banks lined with mosses and herbs, runs crystal clear into a pond of koi carp.
While a delicate carpet made of the finest suede leather is the basis for the fragrance quite early on, the other spices, herbs, woods and resins do not even try to fight for supremacy. Vetiver also subordinates itself, although it serves as an unsweet, stable framework next to the flanking woods, to which deep green spices and rounding mild resins are added.
Everything merges into a perfect symbiosis that radiates calm and serenity but also a quiet authority.
Asian Inspirations is a rather soft fragrance with moderate sillage and medium shelf life. But here I find these characteristics perfectly balanced and in harmony with the fragrance. After 4-5 hours he has withdrawn very closely and leaves behind a delicate melange that has something gently meditative about it.
Since the scent has neither flowery nor sweet parts in it I see it almost more on the men's side against my previous commentator, although the statistics (see right) speak against me ;)
The concept of being in perfect harmony with nature, of allowing peace to return and of finding one's way to oneself seems to me to have been excellently implemented here. A concept that should work even better in today's hectic and fast-paced world. It does for me.
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