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04/09/2018
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QuercusAlbus
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Gleaming + Fragile Bottle Warning
Has anyone here ever worn, like, 15ml of ~Lua~ in one go? I have! I'll say why shortly.
I wish I hadn't seen the previous review, because I ^was^ going to say anyway that the foremost characteristic of this 'fume is that of being ~luminous~ (or ~gleaming~, to cite more verbatimly). I couldn't agree more with the previous reviewer as to that. TBPH, I have seen other descriptions of it to that effect; but it ^is^ the case that at my very first ever intraspiration of it my impression was ^very^ strongly as of something goldenly glowing. This really is an ^outstanding^ and ^defining^ characteristic of this 'fume, and cannot be overemphasised (except by ^truly insanely^ going on about it, of course!).
So this is a ~melony~ 'fume is it? It also has iris (or orris perhaps). That's no surprise, as the 'fumes I chose obliviously to their composition do strongly tend to have. And it's certainly musky - it's got that signature °transcendental° Xerjoff muskiness; and I think it is the synergy between that & the other components that brings about that °gleam° wherefrom, I deem, this 'fume derives its truly surpassing loveliness.
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Recently Xerjoff changed their bottles, from the shape as in the picture shown here to a more barrel-shaped one. And it was possible for a while to obtain bottles of Xerjoff 'fume in the old-shaped bottles at reduced price. I now know why: the old bottles are EXTREMELY fragile (scandalously so for a product of that price-brackett): those corners at the °shoulder° of the bottle do NOT take a knock!!. My 50ml of ~Lua~ got such a knock it could not take. The result was a (fortunately) small hole at one of those corners. Also fortunately, the bottle was kept in a metal cash-box type box, and the spilt 'fume was held in the box - perhaps a third of 50ml minus thitherto-use. I considered decanting this into the °salvage° bottle along with the remaining contents of the now-punctured bottle; but a purist instinct restrained me as it was now contaminated with dust & various particles, and had had considerable exposure to the air. So I just decided that I would be a ~Lua~-bomb that evening and poured it all on myself!
Obviously, in the absence of a serendipitous reason for doing that, it would have been a ^lunatic^ extravagance. Also, the place I was goi g to that evening was serendipitously appropriate to such an extravagance - outdoors, but with many poeple in close proximity. How many compliments did I get? None. But I tend not to get compliments for anything like that, because people are just a bit too trepidatious as to what my response will be: I seem to °project° some kind of °red-light° (as in traffic-light (!)) tending to preclude it.
Just had another look at the hole in the bottle: the glass is ^insanely^ thin at those corners - scarcely thicker than that of a Christmas-tree bauble!! Xerjoff did well to greatly improve their bottles to ones very conspicuously without those corners (the new bottles seem to actually ^say^ "we acknowledge that those corners were a big mistake!") but it is wrong that they were ever used in the first place. I thought I was bagging a really quite extraordinary deal, getting those 'fumes at substantially reduced price: and in one sense I was; but in another, it was ^merely fair^ that they let them go at substantially reduced price.
I wish I hadn't seen the previous review, because I ^was^ going to say anyway that the foremost characteristic of this 'fume is that of being ~luminous~ (or ~gleaming~, to cite more verbatimly). I couldn't agree more with the previous reviewer as to that. TBPH, I have seen other descriptions of it to that effect; but it ^is^ the case that at my very first ever intraspiration of it my impression was ^very^ strongly as of something goldenly glowing. This really is an ^outstanding^ and ^defining^ characteristic of this 'fume, and cannot be overemphasised (except by ^truly insanely^ going on about it, of course!).
So this is a ~melony~ 'fume is it? It also has iris (or orris perhaps). That's no surprise, as the 'fumes I chose obliviously to their composition do strongly tend to have. And it's certainly musky - it's got that signature °transcendental° Xerjoff muskiness; and I think it is the synergy between that & the other components that brings about that °gleam° wherefrom, I deem, this 'fume derives its truly surpassing loveliness.
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Recently Xerjoff changed their bottles, from the shape as in the picture shown here to a more barrel-shaped one. And it was possible for a while to obtain bottles of Xerjoff 'fume in the old-shaped bottles at reduced price. I now know why: the old bottles are EXTREMELY fragile (scandalously so for a product of that price-brackett): those corners at the °shoulder° of the bottle do NOT take a knock!!. My 50ml of ~Lua~ got such a knock it could not take. The result was a (fortunately) small hole at one of those corners. Also fortunately, the bottle was kept in a metal cash-box type box, and the spilt 'fume was held in the box - perhaps a third of 50ml minus thitherto-use. I considered decanting this into the °salvage° bottle along with the remaining contents of the now-punctured bottle; but a purist instinct restrained me as it was now contaminated with dust & various particles, and had had considerable exposure to the air. So I just decided that I would be a ~Lua~-bomb that evening and poured it all on myself!
Obviously, in the absence of a serendipitous reason for doing that, it would have been a ^lunatic^ extravagance. Also, the place I was goi g to that evening was serendipitously appropriate to such an extravagance - outdoors, but with many poeple in close proximity. How many compliments did I get? None. But I tend not to get compliments for anything like that, because people are just a bit too trepidatious as to what my response will be: I seem to °project° some kind of °red-light° (as in traffic-light (!)) tending to preclude it.
Just had another look at the hole in the bottle: the glass is ^insanely^ thin at those corners - scarcely thicker than that of a Christmas-tree bauble!! Xerjoff did well to greatly improve their bottles to ones very conspicuously without those corners (the new bottles seem to actually ^say^ "we acknowledge that those corners were a big mistake!") but it is wrong that they were ever used in the first place. I thought I was bagging a really quite extraordinary deal, getting those 'fumes at substantially reduced price: and in one sense I was; but in another, it was ^merely fair^ that they let them go at substantially reduced price.
MrLawman
