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He just wants to play or: the calm after the storm
My wife is otherwise very tolerant about fragrances; until today she never said that one fragrance is too much. Sure, she doesn't appreciate every scent, my favourite selfish person doesn't find any appeal. But at least an Antaeus or an Interlude is not popular with everyone. Only once was it too much for her when the children decided to go for the Interlude just like me
The present Meleg product was the first to attract their disfavour because it makes me smell like not one but many incense sticks. When the children were lying down - it was my turn today - she said: "The poor children." I rather didn't say that our son likes to go to the zoologist (playing dino has to be realistic) or to some Amouage in general (he likes smoke and pepper, he always thinks he smells like a well seasoned chicken).
This takes a potential purchase off the table but let's get down to the scent. Actually this one starts really smoky but not smoky like incense but it smells like the eponymous birch tar. It is a dirty smoke, a smoke that affects the lungs. Who also knows what kind of tobacco it is, which is mentioned; if necessary the rejects of the Russian answer to Roth-Händle.
Now this extreme yellowish smoke dominates until a fine tobacco note creeps in, not a Roth handle after all. Very bright and soft, one hardly notices that there is still a person in the dense smoke, who lights up a cigarette. Judging by the smell, it is also not the bearish woodcutter but rather a self-confident but elegant lady. The fine vanilla component may also play its part in this. One notices her very gently. As a comparison: take Memoirs of a Trespasser, smoke everything repeatedly, shorten the vanilla and that is the result.
Gradually the benzoin blossoms, so to speak, and it becomes intensely balsamic as far as the smoke is concerned and soon becomes sweet. Nevertheless, it is of course resinous, a cuddly scent, which is not the case here, especially since this brightening is accompanied by the strict birch tar, just like the big and coarse brother takes care of his tender and yet strong-willed sister while walking through the forest.
If I had to name a picture for the scent or the stage in which the scent is now, it would be a crackling campfire, which still smokes slightly. The sniffing of one's own clothes now corresponds to the scent, which one must like. But I also think of well-being, of campfire romance or at least relaxed get-together around the campfire. Because the lovely notes of the fragrance almost invite you to do so, the fragrance is now rather balsamic and calming. Birch Tar and Russian Leather sounds like the campfire when the last embers go out and the last smoke is blown away by the wind.
A truly great fragrance, seldom has a staging of vanilla plus smoke been so well olfactorily experienced. This is now my second encounter with Meleg and this time he has convinced me. Unfortunately, I'm out of it when I bought it, as can be deduced from my introductory words. If this were not the case, he would be on my list now.
Castoreum
Birch
Birch tar
Tobacco absolute
Benzoin
Cedarwood
Peru balsam
Vanilla absolute
