Close to Midnight Musicology 2020
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Coffee music! - Or, I wanted to like you so much.... And I almost think I do!
I received a sample of this fragrance from a dear perfumer as an addition to the souk. (Thanks again at this point! :D) The given fragrance notes had already made me all tingly with excitement. Not to mention the name - both of the brand and the perfume. When I realize that I WANT to like a fragrance for whatever reason, it's usually a bad omen - disappointment is almost inevitable.
But! That could actually be different here...
In the meantime, it has been tested twice and since there is hardly anything about it here so far, I thought I'd try to find comprehensible words...
At the first snuff: undeniable enthusiasm! About the beautiful difference to the many perfume tests of more floral and fruity of late; perhaps also about the coffee note, which I experience so clearly for the first time in perfume.
(Was I actually in the perfume section of the orange drugstore chain recently and asked for a perfume with a coffee note and both ladies looked at me completely aghast - they'd never heard of such a thing! I beg your pardon? And all this time I thought I was clueless as a beginner...)
Anyway, coffee is present here, and in a very nice way for me: warm, soft, heavy - while keeping a touch of coolness, of fresh sharpness and dryness. This is definitely first coffee, not café. ;)
There's always a hint of something slightly sour that makes me wonder what it reminds me of.... As so often with this kind of development, I finally think of chocolate cherry pie for a moment, but that's not it. It's that sour touch that basically seems to develop quickly on my skin and always threatens to spoil pleasant perfumes for me.... (My suspect candidate is jasmine, possibly also labdanum.) But he holds himself here in both test runs so far in limits that it goes well and I can continue to indulge in the enthusiasm.
And then - after about an hour - it slowly gets sweeter.... Slowly... But steadily. Mmhhh.... :) Whereas up to now I've been sitting with my little coffee grinder on the windy, sunny autumn balcony, grinding beans, wafted by pleasantly cool fresh air with a hint of smoke from the distant neighbourhood mixed in now and then, I'm now slowly packing up and finally moving to a café where the smells of baked delicacies mingle with the coffee in the air and the spices of the chai tea at the neighbouring table. They use sugar a little more sparingly here than in some other bake shops. If I want the full on sweetness - preferably with a decent amount of vanilla - then I have to look elsewhere. Most of the time, though, the version offered here is exactly what I'm craving: there's still something tart, something spicy, something dark. That grounds and caresses at the same time.
And when I think about whether I would rather imagine the fragrance on a man or a woman, my brain reports "error" at some point, because the image jumps back and forth too quickly.
Bottom line: I wanted to like you so much. And I do - but hello!
But! That could actually be different here...
In the meantime, it has been tested twice and since there is hardly anything about it here so far, I thought I'd try to find comprehensible words...
At the first snuff: undeniable enthusiasm! About the beautiful difference to the many perfume tests of more floral and fruity of late; perhaps also about the coffee note, which I experience so clearly for the first time in perfume.
(Was I actually in the perfume section of the orange drugstore chain recently and asked for a perfume with a coffee note and both ladies looked at me completely aghast - they'd never heard of such a thing! I beg your pardon? And all this time I thought I was clueless as a beginner...)
Anyway, coffee is present here, and in a very nice way for me: warm, soft, heavy - while keeping a touch of coolness, of fresh sharpness and dryness. This is definitely first coffee, not café. ;)
There's always a hint of something slightly sour that makes me wonder what it reminds me of.... As so often with this kind of development, I finally think of chocolate cherry pie for a moment, but that's not it. It's that sour touch that basically seems to develop quickly on my skin and always threatens to spoil pleasant perfumes for me.... (My suspect candidate is jasmine, possibly also labdanum.) But he holds himself here in both test runs so far in limits that it goes well and I can continue to indulge in the enthusiasm.
And then - after about an hour - it slowly gets sweeter.... Slowly... But steadily. Mmhhh.... :) Whereas up to now I've been sitting with my little coffee grinder on the windy, sunny autumn balcony, grinding beans, wafted by pleasantly cool fresh air with a hint of smoke from the distant neighbourhood mixed in now and then, I'm now slowly packing up and finally moving to a café where the smells of baked delicacies mingle with the coffee in the air and the spices of the chai tea at the neighbouring table. They use sugar a little more sparingly here than in some other bake shops. If I want the full on sweetness - preferably with a decent amount of vanilla - then I have to look elsewhere. Most of the time, though, the version offered here is exactly what I'm craving: there's still something tart, something spicy, something dark. That grounds and caresses at the same time.
And when I think about whether I would rather imagine the fragrance on a man or a woman, my brain reports "error" at some point, because the image jumps back and forth too quickly.
Bottom line: I wanted to like you so much. And I do - but hello!
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