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La Llorona
From Tom Ford's first generation of Private Blends - it's been a good ten years since then - some fragrances - Tobacco Vanille, Oud Wood, or Neroli Portofino, for example - quickly became hits that you can smell on almost every corner. Others, however - this one: Purple Patchouli, as well as Moss Breches or Bois Rouge - turned out to be too difficult and unsuitable for the masses. And because Mr. Ford - at least on the side - is also a businessman, they quickly disappeared from his portfolio. Today, aside from mostly shockingly clumsy fakes on the internet, it is practically impossible to smell them anymore.
After the flop Purple Patchouli - and one must at least label it as such commercially - Tom Ford has experimented with the theme of patchouli several more times: White Patchouli has at least endured to this day, although not in the very forefront - and what will become of Patchouli Absolu remains to be seen. I also believe I perceive patchouli in Fucking Fabulous, even though it is not listed among its ingredients. Nevertheless: Patchouli seems to be no easy terrain for the fragrance portfolio of the Ford house, although he is otherwise not shy about difficult and dramatic scents.
In Latin America - especially in Mexico - there is the figure of La Llorona, which translates to: the Weeping Woman. The composer Andres Henestrosa dedicated a wonderfully lamenting song to her in the mid-20th century, which has become a kind of folk tune in Mexico. According to legend - which varies a bit from country to country - La Llorona is the wandering spirit of a beautiful young woman who, in anger over her husband's infidelity, drowned her children in the river and now cannot enter the kingdom of heaven until she has found them again. It is said that La Llorona drowns people in the river to claim them as her children.
Purple Patchouli is told and composed in the language of the story of La Llorona. There is the damp leaf green of aquatic plants, the hint of gray water that has been stagnant for far too long. There are intoxicating, sometimes almost fermented, sultry flowers, a dull earthiness, and a strangely floral resinous quality that is too much patchouli for those who do not like patchouli - and not nearly enough for those who love it. Purple Patchouli is an almost surreal scent - as if one were seeing La Llorona wandering through the riverside thicket in wet clothes with a lost gaze, searching for her lost children.
Conclusion: the blue Mauritius among Tom Ford Private Blends. Far too serious, unwieldy, and unyielding to have captivated the masses, yet highly interesting as a fragrance concept.
After the flop Purple Patchouli - and one must at least label it as such commercially - Tom Ford has experimented with the theme of patchouli several more times: White Patchouli has at least endured to this day, although not in the very forefront - and what will become of Patchouli Absolu remains to be seen. I also believe I perceive patchouli in Fucking Fabulous, even though it is not listed among its ingredients. Nevertheless: Patchouli seems to be no easy terrain for the fragrance portfolio of the Ford house, although he is otherwise not shy about difficult and dramatic scents.
In Latin America - especially in Mexico - there is the figure of La Llorona, which translates to: the Weeping Woman. The composer Andres Henestrosa dedicated a wonderfully lamenting song to her in the mid-20th century, which has become a kind of folk tune in Mexico. According to legend - which varies a bit from country to country - La Llorona is the wandering spirit of a beautiful young woman who, in anger over her husband's infidelity, drowned her children in the river and now cannot enter the kingdom of heaven until she has found them again. It is said that La Llorona drowns people in the river to claim them as her children.
Purple Patchouli is told and composed in the language of the story of La Llorona. There is the damp leaf green of aquatic plants, the hint of gray water that has been stagnant for far too long. There are intoxicating, sometimes almost fermented, sultry flowers, a dull earthiness, and a strangely floral resinous quality that is too much patchouli for those who do not like patchouli - and not nearly enough for those who love it. Purple Patchouli is an almost surreal scent - as if one were seeing La Llorona wandering through the riverside thicket in wet clothes with a lost gaze, searching for her lost children.
Conclusion: the blue Mauritius among Tom Ford Private Blends. Far too serious, unwieldy, and unyielding to have captivated the masses, yet highly interesting as a fragrance concept.
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