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Force of nature, captured in a bottle
Now I dare to make my first comment - on a perfume that captivated me in a very short time and made me aware of the range of a fragrance and what it can trigger.
I'm relatively new to this enthusiasm for fragrances (and here at Parfumo) and it took me some time to find out which fragrances I not only like and like to smell, but which ones I like about myself. So I, like many others, probably searched this platform and more and more often perfumeries without interruption and eventually came across oud minerals. Once I smelled it in a perfumery, I found it so fitting that I bought it - despite the then really proud price and my just beginning weakness. Well, in retrospect I would do the same over and over again, and just recently I had a 100ml bottle follow with the news that Tom Ford had discontinued this fragrance. For me really unimaginable, even if he is not a pleasing TF suitable for the masses - but now all the more rare.
Before I try to describe the scent, I would like to take a little time to get out of the line of fire: I don't have a great deal of expertise in scents and composition, I still find it difficult to single out individual ones. But for the beginning this is forgivable, as I think, because the scent is rather linear and I'm more concerned with the feeling or memory that Oud Minérale evokes in me.
In the opening I perceive a similar oud chord that I know from Oud Wood or Oud Fleur, although not so warm and balsamic, but cool and a bit more scratchy and in combination with the rest so much more fitting. The dark grounds this otherwise rather aquatic scent, so I don't feel like I'm floating on the open sea - much rather with some driftwood on the beach.
But in the end, what fascinates me most is the salty, light, freshness, which fortunately lacks any shower gel vibe. Maybe also because it was my first fragrance that could imitate the smell of salty seawater so well, I don't know.
But every time I spray it on myself or even smell it on the atomizer (and this often happens), I have the feeling of standing in a spray cloud on the cliffs over the Atlantic Ocean...
...and how valuable it is that a scent can trigger such a thing.
I'm relatively new to this enthusiasm for fragrances (and here at Parfumo) and it took me some time to find out which fragrances I not only like and like to smell, but which ones I like about myself. So I, like many others, probably searched this platform and more and more often perfumeries without interruption and eventually came across oud minerals. Once I smelled it in a perfumery, I found it so fitting that I bought it - despite the then really proud price and my just beginning weakness. Well, in retrospect I would do the same over and over again, and just recently I had a 100ml bottle follow with the news that Tom Ford had discontinued this fragrance. For me really unimaginable, even if he is not a pleasing TF suitable for the masses - but now all the more rare.
Before I try to describe the scent, I would like to take a little time to get out of the line of fire: I don't have a great deal of expertise in scents and composition, I still find it difficult to single out individual ones. But for the beginning this is forgivable, as I think, because the scent is rather linear and I'm more concerned with the feeling or memory that Oud Minérale evokes in me.
In the opening I perceive a similar oud chord that I know from Oud Wood or Oud Fleur, although not so warm and balsamic, but cool and a bit more scratchy and in combination with the rest so much more fitting. The dark grounds this otherwise rather aquatic scent, so I don't feel like I'm floating on the open sea - much rather with some driftwood on the beach.
But in the end, what fascinates me most is the salty, light, freshness, which fortunately lacks any shower gel vibe. Maybe also because it was my first fragrance that could imitate the smell of salty seawater so well, I don't know.
But every time I spray it on myself or even smell it on the atomizer (and this often happens), I have the feeling of standing in a spray cloud on the cliffs over the Atlantic Ocean...
...and how valuable it is that a scent can trigger such a thing.
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This scent draws you in so much that you sometimes catch yourself sneaking into the bathroom at night to smell the diffuser. Just to have that memory, place or whatever right in front of your eyes
Unimaginable what a fragrance can achieve!