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Eloise Midgen. Expectation vs. Reality or why it’s actually unnecessary.
Eloise Midgeon. Eloise Midgen? All the same. Not even a consistent name could be given to her throughout the book series. In Russian, by the way, she is called Eloisa. She was certainly the one with the severe acne. The one Ron didn’t want to go to the Yule Ball with, even though she was supposed to be sweet and pleasant company, according to others at least.
You can only attend the Yule Ball starting in fourth grade, unless someone from the Fourth or Fifth invites a younger person.
As a fourth grader and probably at the age of 15, which is how old Tshajbukoshka would have been in fourth grade at Hogwarts, she would have probably liked ‘Passion’.
But after all this time? - Get out of here with that stuff.
Eloise Midgeon accidentally hexed her nose off while trying to get rid of her acne. The acne was apparently made up just like her role by a very loving actress.
And for what?
To be briefly seen in the background and mentioned with a nasty implication regarding her appearance.
Not inviting girls or generally people to prestigious events because of skin issues seems almost prepubescent, and it is. And here we are again with ‘Passion’, this time even quite directly. The transition from baby shampoo to independence, to one’s own perfume. Yes: baby shampoo - or cream. There’s a scent in the background that is reminiscent of one of those baby care lines with light blue packaging (there are many, we know).
If you want aquatic, you have to jump into the Great Lake yourself, which isn’t even a problem for Tshajbukoshka, because they don’t like aquatic scents in the Tshajbu household anyway. It smells sweet. Sickly sweet, but somehow without concept, without transformation. Without magic, without passion. Even the cats on TikTok that once danced to ‘More passion, more energy, more footwork’ understood the principle that seems to have not reached the self-proclaimed ‘parfum lovers’, maybe they escaped the marketing department of Zara and are now playing the mischief-makers here, just without the solemn swearing. Here, you can only celebrate the bottle and the packaging.
By the way (addendum): The bottle looks SUSPICIOUSLY like the one from a scene in the first few minutes of ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’, when Albus Dumbledore stands in front of an advertisement for the Muggle perfume ‘Magic Divine’. At least someone did their homework on the bottle design, but unfortunately only there.
So one can be disappointed by the rest, by Ron, who behaves like a superficial jerk, by Eloise Midgen and her acne of doom, because she wasn’t allowed to pay anyone back for it - and by whatever has been produced here. Maybe Ron would have given Lavender ‘Passion’ for Valentine’s Day, then at least there would be a legitimizing reference. Maybe Umbridge would have used it as a room fragrance. Maybe.
Not only maybe are the OG Potterheads no longer 14, 15, or eleven years old. They might want to get empty bottles and fill them with something pleasant (or design both themselves or directly look for something where BOTH is true). Or imitate Eloise Midgen and accidentally hex their noses off while performing ‘Passions’.
Tshajbukoshka is disappointed. So deeply disappointed. Maybe it could be read between the lines, maybe it needed to be explicitly mentioned again. This stuff is shallow and light and yet so unpleasant that one wouldn’t want to endure it permanently. It annoys with its undefinable, seemingly vomited-up flower water from a drunken mountain troll and this unpleasant, ostentatiously sweet scent.
Something new has been thrown onto the market and of course, the target audience, which has already purchased waffle irons, cooking spoons, keychains, hair ties, and all other practical everyday items - to which Tshajbukoshka also counts a huge Hogwarts castle made from famous building blocks - that can be acquired under the license of the ‘Wizarding World’, JKR’s in-house brand, immediately let their credit cards burn, only to plummet to the ground like a feather (or literally any other object and person) that Neville levitated into the air and then forgot for a moment.
Sorry Neville, we actually love you. But we do not love ‘Passion’. Then we’d rather take Eloise Midgen, of whom we know hardly anything and who didn’t even appear in the film credits, let alone as an actress in this role, to the next party or straight to the honeymoon.
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Source for the perfume bottle from the poster in the 6th film: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Divine_Magic?file=Magic_Sign.jpg
You can only attend the Yule Ball starting in fourth grade, unless someone from the Fourth or Fifth invites a younger person.
As a fourth grader and probably at the age of 15, which is how old Tshajbukoshka would have been in fourth grade at Hogwarts, she would have probably liked ‘Passion’.
But after all this time? - Get out of here with that stuff.
Eloise Midgeon accidentally hexed her nose off while trying to get rid of her acne. The acne was apparently made up just like her role by a very loving actress.
And for what?
To be briefly seen in the background and mentioned with a nasty implication regarding her appearance.
Not inviting girls or generally people to prestigious events because of skin issues seems almost prepubescent, and it is. And here we are again with ‘Passion’, this time even quite directly. The transition from baby shampoo to independence, to one’s own perfume. Yes: baby shampoo - or cream. There’s a scent in the background that is reminiscent of one of those baby care lines with light blue packaging (there are many, we know).
If you want aquatic, you have to jump into the Great Lake yourself, which isn’t even a problem for Tshajbukoshka, because they don’t like aquatic scents in the Tshajbu household anyway. It smells sweet. Sickly sweet, but somehow without concept, without transformation. Without magic, without passion. Even the cats on TikTok that once danced to ‘More passion, more energy, more footwork’ understood the principle that seems to have not reached the self-proclaimed ‘parfum lovers’, maybe they escaped the marketing department of Zara and are now playing the mischief-makers here, just without the solemn swearing. Here, you can only celebrate the bottle and the packaging.
By the way (addendum): The bottle looks SUSPICIOUSLY like the one from a scene in the first few minutes of ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’, when Albus Dumbledore stands in front of an advertisement for the Muggle perfume ‘Magic Divine’. At least someone did their homework on the bottle design, but unfortunately only there.
So one can be disappointed by the rest, by Ron, who behaves like a superficial jerk, by Eloise Midgen and her acne of doom, because she wasn’t allowed to pay anyone back for it - and by whatever has been produced here. Maybe Ron would have given Lavender ‘Passion’ for Valentine’s Day, then at least there would be a legitimizing reference. Maybe Umbridge would have used it as a room fragrance. Maybe.
Not only maybe are the OG Potterheads no longer 14, 15, or eleven years old. They might want to get empty bottles and fill them with something pleasant (or design both themselves or directly look for something where BOTH is true). Or imitate Eloise Midgen and accidentally hex their noses off while performing ‘Passions’.
Tshajbukoshka is disappointed. So deeply disappointed. Maybe it could be read between the lines, maybe it needed to be explicitly mentioned again. This stuff is shallow and light and yet so unpleasant that one wouldn’t want to endure it permanently. It annoys with its undefinable, seemingly vomited-up flower water from a drunken mountain troll and this unpleasant, ostentatiously sweet scent.
Something new has been thrown onto the market and of course, the target audience, which has already purchased waffle irons, cooking spoons, keychains, hair ties, and all other practical everyday items - to which Tshajbukoshka also counts a huge Hogwarts castle made from famous building blocks - that can be acquired under the license of the ‘Wizarding World’, JKR’s in-house brand, immediately let their credit cards burn, only to plummet to the ground like a feather (or literally any other object and person) that Neville levitated into the air and then forgot for a moment.
Sorry Neville, we actually love you. But we do not love ‘Passion’. Then we’d rather take Eloise Midgen, of whom we know hardly anything and who didn’t even appear in the film credits, let alone as an actress in this role, to the next party or straight to the honeymoon.
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Source for the perfume bottle from the poster in the 6th film: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Divine_Magic?file=Magic_Sign.jpg
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4 Comments
Pollita 2 years ago
These bottles are so pretty. It's a shame that the contents don't seem to match.
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4ajbukoshka 2 years ago
It will probably find its fans, but tastes are known to differ 😬.
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Lenka85 2 years ago
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That really doesn't sound good; you were even generous with the points. Poor Eliisa, I can barely remember the movies and not her at all, but it seems like one of those typical teen things that got hyped up by American films. The girl with the glasses and beautiful curls has to be transformed before the superficial heartthrob finally notices her and she gets to go to the ball.
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Tagträumerin 2 years ago
A great review! I haven't enjoyed reading a review this much in a long time. Thank you 😊
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