This Is Us! Zadig & Voltaire 2021

For months I've been eagerly awaiting the day when this little waterer would arrive at my house. What did I have ready for it. A text, garnished with the best parts of my favorite song by the doctors (How it goes). The hymn of praise par excellence this was going to be. This combination of scents is just screaming for me. What is it? All sprayed away in one spray. Gone with the wind. Nix. Over and out
The fragrances were so verfüherisch and exactly my Beuteschema. I mean, what could go wrong? For a few months, I'm what the testing is no longer so experimental and prefer to spray first on a test strip before the skin is on it. Such is the case with This is us. The first moment is a sweet blast of vanilla and sandalwood. My nose is used to grenades, but this was a bit too much of a good thing. And yes, something actually smells like dill. Thoughts on this ranged from "Hm" to "yes, actually not bad at all" to "Whew, I don't know" to "Nah, sorry". But I'm not giving up just like that. This is THE scent that I had already chosen in my mind to be my new signature. I can't accept the way this is going. So I gave it time. And there it was. Over time, a soft, vanilla musky scent developed and set in. There it is! Exactly how I imagined it and up on the wrist. But what's it going to be now? The sandalwood means too well or feels way too comfortable. It takes a club in the hand and hits with full force again and again. In between the vanilla is allowed to have a go and so it goes on and on alternately. At some point both agree and make common cause. They show you who's in charge. "This is us", "us against the world", but without me. They retreat for a bit after their ruckus and then the scent kind of.... yeah, how do I put this... hollow. It's missing something. It doesn't get weaker, that's not it. Somehow it becomes inconsistent now and then the sweet force comes back after a short breather. Like I said, without me. Where's my savior in need? Where is the patchouli? Intimidated? Not in the mood? Busy elsewhere? Better things to do?

The shelf life is (as with all fragrances that you do not find so great) of course bombastic. The test strip still scents the room (since noon today), but showering could put an end to the whole thing at least on the skin. The bottle is now also no highlight. I wanted to like him ubedingt, but that is nothing. Since I was today rudely brought back to earth.