Labdanum 4 Love

Chizza
03.04.2024 - 05:10 PM
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Valentine's Day 2024 in the home of a perfumer requesting anonymity:
"Shahaatz," whistled Eggo36, "Happy Valentine's Day! Unwrap the present once!"
"Is it Mon Cheri? But not already bitten into, please?"
"Much better. I've already eaten the chocolate thingies."
*Unpacking*
"Oh...a perfume...wow...great...Labdanum 4 Love. Sigh."
"Yeah, awesome, right? Labdanum because you smell like honey and resin, like Winnie the Pooh to me! So in female, with a different figure, pants and now not the one from Blood & Honey! You're so calm? So much in ecstasy? Let me be your piglet, that's enough thanks for me!"
"..."

Labdanum 4 Love actually has a very strong, palatable, resinous entrée; it immediately smells strongly woody, but also of tart honey. The woody notes seem very fresh, as if resin is seeping out of a freshly cut tree wound or mingling with it.
Cocoa makes an appearance: soft powder dusts the scene like a kind of homage to a white winter Christmas. The cocoa is slightly oily and tends towards earthy notes. Patchouli not only touches, patchouli penetrates the nucleus of the fragrance like a formidably thrust spear.

There is no question that Siam benzoin, often characterized by its chocolaty aroma and balsamic nuances, contributes to the effect of Labdanum 4 Love. What is also noticeable, but only after a certain amount of time, is the sandalwood. We are all familiar with the pungent and penetrating smell of cheap sandalwood. Here we are offered the high-quality version; pleasant, underlining the other olfactory facets. Noble, velvety-warm, soft-woody; the patrician among woods.

Only the oud needs to be printed on milk cartons. Indian oud, so powerful, aromatic, expressionistic Indonesian oud or leathery Thai oud - none of these have been seen. It may be that the relatively quickly emerging base may consist of these. Unfortunately, however, this would only amount to caricatures of these ouds, like part six of a movie series.

The Duftkumpels are not a jovial group of good friends, they are not even a group because there is actually just one man behind them. The products are usually sold via eBay, with more and more fragrances gradually appearing. Some of them, like this one, are very limited. The best-known works were created together with Hans Georg Staudt, while the more limited works appear to have been created independently.
Labdanum 4 Love is a success, but becomes increasingly flat towards the base and also quite quickly. All the ingredients around the balsamic, chocolaty part are strong. However, the transformation to a powerful and oud-heavy core is only partially successful. This is certainly not due to the raw materials themselves, which are of high quality. The transition itself is like the eye of a needle. The camel still comes through, the ouds only very idly.
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