Harajuku* retaW Solid Perfume
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Japanese boring Eau de Cologne
The tube contains 6 grams of fragrant paste with the consistency of translucent wax vaseline. I couldn't find the ingredients - with our European hysteria about ingredients, it's a bit unusual for a product not to have an INCI on it. I suspect it's pure Vaseline, perhaps stearin. It spreads easily but is a little sticky. The website claims it's "very soothing for the skin", so I believe it.
This fragrance has a very rich composition, appearance: Bergamot, mandarin, yuzu/sakura, jasmine, leather, rose/amber, hinoki cypress, musk. Well, what can I say: it's like drinking orange juice and buying orange-flavored mineral water. I'm happy with it, that's what I expected.
What I don't like is that the smell is basically uninteresting. I can smell a single note, a pretty nice citrus note, but totally generic juice + zest ... and if I concentrate really hard to get the best out of it, I can detect a faint gray suede and a sort of masculine green. Extremely simple, like a universal perfume for cosmetics where the smell doesn't matter so much - a few hotel cosmetics, a simple eau de cologne (I know what! It's 4711 Cologne Classic).
And I'm still waiting for it to start. And it never starts, that's all.
The plus point is the - and in some ways surprising - intensity: I rubbed 5 mm of the paste on my wrist and for an hour I can feel it quite clearly (by Japanese standards). It really suits a splash of EdP and actually corresponds exactly to longevity mechanisms - as the wax gradually warms up, it releases the fragrance molecules. Okay, that's good.
This fragrance has a very rich composition, appearance: Bergamot, mandarin, yuzu/sakura, jasmine, leather, rose/amber, hinoki cypress, musk. Well, what can I say: it's like drinking orange juice and buying orange-flavored mineral water. I'm happy with it, that's what I expected.
What I don't like is that the smell is basically uninteresting. I can smell a single note, a pretty nice citrus note, but totally generic juice + zest ... and if I concentrate really hard to get the best out of it, I can detect a faint gray suede and a sort of masculine green. Extremely simple, like a universal perfume for cosmetics where the smell doesn't matter so much - a few hotel cosmetics, a simple eau de cologne (I know what! It's 4711 Cologne Classic).
And I'm still waiting for it to start. And it never starts, that's all.
The plus point is the - and in some ways surprising - intensity: I rubbed 5 mm of the paste on my wrist and for an hour I can feel it quite clearly (by Japanese standards). It really suits a splash of EdP and actually corresponds exactly to longevity mechanisms - as the wax gradually warms up, it releases the fragrance molecules. Okay, that's good.
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