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Natural Force, Captured in a Bottle
Now I also dare to make my first comment - about a perfume that has captivated me in a very short time and made me aware of the reach of a scent and what it can evoke.
I am relatively new to this enthusiasm for fragrances (and here at Parfumo) and needed some time to figure out which scents I not only find beautiful and enjoy smelling, but which I also particularly like on myself. Like many others, I probably searched this platform and more and more often perfumeries non-stop until I eventually came across Oud Minerale. Once I smelled it in the perfumery, I found it so fitting that I bought it - despite the really proud price at that time and my just-beginning weakness. Well, in hindsight, I would do it all over again and just recently ordered a 100ml bottle after hearing that Tom Ford has discontinued this scent. For me, it's truly unimaginable, even though it's not a pleasing, mass-appeal TF - but now all the more rare.
Before I try to describe the scent, I want to take myself a bit out of the line of fire: I have no excessive expertise in terms of fragrance notes and composition, and I still find it difficult to pick out individual notes. For a start, I think this is forgivable, as the scent progression is rather linear and I am more concerned here with the feeling or memory that Oud Minerale evokes in me.
In the opening, I perceive a similar oud accord that I know from Oud Wood or Oud Fleur, although not as warm and balsamic, but cool and a bit scratchy, and in conjunction with the rest, it fits so much better. The dark note grounds this otherwise rather aquatic scent, so I don't feel like I'm drifting on open sea - much more like being on a piece of driftwood on the beach.
What fascinates me the most, however, is the salty, light, fresh quality that fortunately lacks any shower gel vibe. Maybe also because it was my first scent that could imitate the smell of salty seawater so well, I don't know.
But every time I spray it on or even just smell it from the atomizer (which happens often), I feel like I'm standing in a mist cloud on the cliffs above the Atlantic...
...and how precious it is that a scent can evoke something like that.
I am relatively new to this enthusiasm for fragrances (and here at Parfumo) and needed some time to figure out which scents I not only find beautiful and enjoy smelling, but which I also particularly like on myself. Like many others, I probably searched this platform and more and more often perfumeries non-stop until I eventually came across Oud Minerale. Once I smelled it in the perfumery, I found it so fitting that I bought it - despite the really proud price at that time and my just-beginning weakness. Well, in hindsight, I would do it all over again and just recently ordered a 100ml bottle after hearing that Tom Ford has discontinued this scent. For me, it's truly unimaginable, even though it's not a pleasing, mass-appeal TF - but now all the more rare.
Before I try to describe the scent, I want to take myself a bit out of the line of fire: I have no excessive expertise in terms of fragrance notes and composition, and I still find it difficult to pick out individual notes. For a start, I think this is forgivable, as the scent progression is rather linear and I am more concerned here with the feeling or memory that Oud Minerale evokes in me.
In the opening, I perceive a similar oud accord that I know from Oud Wood or Oud Fleur, although not as warm and balsamic, but cool and a bit scratchy, and in conjunction with the rest, it fits so much better. The dark note grounds this otherwise rather aquatic scent, so I don't feel like I'm drifting on open sea - much more like being on a piece of driftwood on the beach.
What fascinates me the most, however, is the salty, light, fresh quality that fortunately lacks any shower gel vibe. Maybe also because it was my first scent that could imitate the smell of salty seawater so well, I don't know.
But every time I spray it on or even just smell it from the atomizer (which happens often), I feel like I'm standing in a mist cloud on the cliffs above the Atlantic...
...and how precious it is that a scent can evoke something like that.
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This fragrance is so captivating that you sometimes catch yourself sneaking into the bathroom at night just to smell the sprayer. Just to have that memory, that place, or whatever it is right in front of you.
It's unbelievable what a scent can achieve!!