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08/29/2022
HerrKatz
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Extraordinary: Wish and Truth
The creation of the fragrance is attributed to the British perfumer Walter Poucher (1891 - 1988). Poucher was an excellent mountaineer and landscape photographer. He managed to combine both passions and published several very successful books in the 1940s and 50s. Does the fragrance herald from the mountains? Well, Poucher had long since (in 1923) written the standard work "Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps" and preferred to tackle the mountain perfumed and made up. In this respect, he certainly announced the fragrance from the mountains. The gentleman dandy also loved exclusive gloves.
Who wouldn’t want to meet him and marvel a little? In 1980, the British television audience had this opportunity. Walter Poucher was interviewed on the Russell Harty Talk Show, pastel turquoise eyeshadow adorned his eyes, soft red graced his cheeks and lips, and he had so much to share that the host turned to him in fascination.
This brings a guest, who was interviewed somewhat unfriendly at the beginning of the show, into a rage; it is the also fascinating Grace Jones, who, whether driven by this or that mood enhancer or not, now begins to hit the host like a little girl. There are many interpretations of this incident, not least Jones' own; perhaps I am wrong and she wasn’t even listening to the ongoing conversation. But I like the thought that she felt she still had too many mountains of life to overcome to be anywhere near as outrageous and interesting as this Walter Poucher.
I imagine how Bond Street, in its original composition, with heliotrope and incense, laudanum and violet, would have conveyed peace and serenity, elegance and generosity. But perhaps all this describes the fragrance of Bond Street, the vibrant and never entirely conflict-free coexistence of city and nature.
I unfortunately do not yet know the original (I hope my review is still tolerated here), but I know it must be great; see for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMbLxJwtgCo
Who wouldn’t want to meet him and marvel a little? In 1980, the British television audience had this opportunity. Walter Poucher was interviewed on the Russell Harty Talk Show, pastel turquoise eyeshadow adorned his eyes, soft red graced his cheeks and lips, and he had so much to share that the host turned to him in fascination.
This brings a guest, who was interviewed somewhat unfriendly at the beginning of the show, into a rage; it is the also fascinating Grace Jones, who, whether driven by this or that mood enhancer or not, now begins to hit the host like a little girl. There are many interpretations of this incident, not least Jones' own; perhaps I am wrong and she wasn’t even listening to the ongoing conversation. But I like the thought that she felt she still had too many mountains of life to overcome to be anywhere near as outrageous and interesting as this Walter Poucher.
I imagine how Bond Street, in its original composition, with heliotrope and incense, laudanum and violet, would have conveyed peace and serenity, elegance and generosity. But perhaps all this describes the fragrance of Bond Street, the vibrant and never entirely conflict-free coexistence of city and nature.
I unfortunately do not yet know the original (I hope my review is still tolerated here), but I know it must be great; see for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMbLxJwtgCo
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