06/08/2021
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Bat out of Hell
She always knew she was different from the others. Even as a very young thing. Sure, she liked fruit, really ripe, bordering on fermented, nice and soft, juicy and sweet. Who didn't like that? But she always felt a darker side to her, too.
She was in the orchard, night had just fallen, when she heard it from the porch. A voice was yowling quite terribly:
Then she was so taken that she slipped off her overripe guava and fell from the tree. Fortunately, she landed in dry straw. Startled, her little claws dug into the damp earth, rich in minerals, and she thought to herself: that's what I want to be! I want to be mean and nasty, fearless and powerful!
Her cousins hunted insects, after all. And she had heard from other relatives, they even drank blood! Yes, that would be it, that would be really nasty and dark! The earth around her steamed sweet and spicy. She imagined it was smoke straight from hell.
If not now, when? She fluttered as fast as she could toward the chicken enclosure. There they all squatted asleep on their perches, unaware of anything. Hah, their victim, she thought to herself. As she fluttered closer, however, she noticed that the chickens were quite a bit larger than she was. But then she thought of the yowling man again:
Exactly! This is the opportunity, now or never. Just as she was about to go for the bite, the chicken woke up, turned its head once in confusion, flinging her into the damp grass as it did so. Then it went back to sleep, the chicken.
But the little bat lay dazed, breathing the cool air, the damp grass, the earth, the sweet fruit, and the dark wood of the forest. No, I'm not mean and nasty, I'm just little and nice. But that's good too, that's just my nature.
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The 2020 Bat starts with ripe, but not as overripe fruit as described above. They are determinative at first and would quickly become annoying if not for dry hay and moist soil. Fortunately, the fruits also withdraw quite quickly, are still present, but no longer dominant. The minerals are also very noticeable, which has something. The start is marked for me by an interesting contrast of damp (fruits, earth) and dry notes (hay, minerals). That is already quite well done.
Soon, a certain animalism is added. A slightly ashy note from the jasmine I would blame for this. This often bothers me, but here it fits quite well. Pissy or fecal smells there for me nothing. A little smoky and spicy is the whole also.
Towards the base, the animalism increases somewhat, leather flashes briefly times, dark wood and vetiver is also well recognizable. A little sweeter it is then again, the fruit notes come through again a little stronger and that's it then unfortunately already, because the durability I find not so intoxicating. The silage is, especially compared to other zoologists rather restrained.
Positively I would like to emphasize that no musk is built here. Musk is in many fragrances of Zoologist in the base somewhat overdosed, in my opinion (funnily enough, but not with the Musk Deer). However, I'm also not a big musk fan.
The Bat of 2020 is for me a perfectly wearable and also accessible fragrance. I would have wished me only a little more power and persistence. So he is on balance not evil and also not too dark, but just rather nice. However, that has quite also times what.
How the differences to the 2015s are I unfortunately do not know. If you believe the comments, that was already a different number. But whether that must necessarily be better, is on another sheet...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QGMCSCFoKA
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She was in the orchard, night had just fallen, when she heard it from the porch. A voice was yowling quite terribly:
Then she was so taken that she slipped off her overripe guava and fell from the tree. Fortunately, she landed in dry straw. Startled, her little claws dug into the damp earth, rich in minerals, and she thought to herself: that's what I want to be! I want to be mean and nasty, fearless and powerful!
Her cousins hunted insects, after all. And she had heard from other relatives, they even drank blood! Yes, that would be it, that would be really nasty and dark! The earth around her steamed sweet and spicy. She imagined it was smoke straight from hell.
If not now, when? She fluttered as fast as she could toward the chicken enclosure. There they all squatted asleep on their perches, unaware of anything. Hah, their victim, she thought to herself. As she fluttered closer, however, she noticed that the chickens were quite a bit larger than she was. But then she thought of the yowling man again:
Exactly! This is the opportunity, now or never. Just as she was about to go for the bite, the chicken woke up, turned its head once in confusion, flinging her into the damp grass as it did so. Then it went back to sleep, the chicken.
But the little bat lay dazed, breathing the cool air, the damp grass, the earth, the sweet fruit, and the dark wood of the forest. No, I'm not mean and nasty, I'm just little and nice. But that's good too, that's just my nature.
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The 2020 Bat starts with ripe, but not as overripe fruit as described above. They are determinative at first and would quickly become annoying if not for dry hay and moist soil. Fortunately, the fruits also withdraw quite quickly, are still present, but no longer dominant. The minerals are also very noticeable, which has something. The start is marked for me by an interesting contrast of damp (fruits, earth) and dry notes (hay, minerals). That is already quite well done.
Soon, a certain animalism is added. A slightly ashy note from the jasmine I would blame for this. This often bothers me, but here it fits quite well. Pissy or fecal smells there for me nothing. A little smoky and spicy is the whole also.
Towards the base, the animalism increases somewhat, leather flashes briefly times, dark wood and vetiver is also well recognizable. A little sweeter it is then again, the fruit notes come through again a little stronger and that's it then unfortunately already, because the durability I find not so intoxicating. The silage is, especially compared to other zoologists rather restrained.
Positively I would like to emphasize that no musk is built here. Musk is in many fragrances of Zoologist in the base somewhat overdosed, in my opinion (funnily enough, but not with the Musk Deer). However, I'm also not a big musk fan.
The Bat of 2020 is for me a perfectly wearable and also accessible fragrance. I would have wished me only a little more power and persistence. So he is on balance not evil and also not too dark, but just rather nice. However, that has quite also times what.
How the differences to the 2015s are I unfortunately do not know. If you believe the comments, that was already a different number. But whether that must necessarily be better, is on another sheet...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QGMCSCFoKA
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