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01/26/2021
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Smell good while surfing
Hello sniffers and welcome to a new fragrance commentary. I'm writing today about "A Lab on Fire", a brand with a really interesting name. I don't know very many scents from them yet, but I thought the scent "What We Do In Paris Is Secret" was pretty great.
Today, I present to you "Hossegor." A name that sounds really strange, doesn't it? Hossegor, or rather Soorts-Hossegor is a small town in France, which is especially known and loved by surfers for its beach. So the fragrance is dedicated to a summer resort, with which you can expect maritime notes.
And all those who hate winter can snuggle up in their cuddly blanket and think of summery places to keep warm (if cuddly blanket should be available,... which especially the ladies here but certainly have... the real guys among you certainly do not have such a thing and prefer to cuddle around with their toolboxes and go insane, when they can't place the different wrenches in their intended places right away or even worse, they notice that one or two wrenches are missing, not to mention when you jam your finger between the tool and the case when placing the tools, because the clamps are sometimes so tight that you have to press hard to get a tool to go back in, argh! :D)
Anyway, I'll get to the scent now, let's see if it really smells summery.
In general, the fragrance is thus already once turned out summery. He is fresh, although not really citrusy, but especially the salty part reminds of the salty air on the coast, which in turn reminds of a vacation or at least summer.
In the fragrance pyramid are a lot of fragrance notes listed, but I smell the fewest out. This may also be due to the fact that the sillage is not the strongest and many fragrance notes just do not radiate enough to smell them really well.
So I smell also later mainly general herbs, maritime notes and thus also the salt, plus some pepper and some amber as a slightly sweet scent. And so it smells also in the base, so that the fragrance is slightly spicy, but generally still seems quite fresh and thus good for the summer.
He is a nice, maritime fragrance, so you can look at times, although he is for the "performance" rather a little too expensive, as I find, but that's so with every niche fragrance, because even among those there are numerous summer fragrances that are extremely short-lived, but what also applies to mainstream or designer fragrances. Fom Ford's Mandarino di Amalfi, for example, is an absolutely stunning summer scent, but lasts with me just 30 minutes maximum!
Anyway, it's up to everyone whether they want to spend a lot of money on a short-lived fragrance, I think most people do that anyway from time to time. Sometimes it just "clicks" and you are sure that you want to have a certain fragrance in any case, especially if you are a freak like all of you :D
Well, that's about it. I wish you all a nice evening and see you next time :)
Today, I present to you "Hossegor." A name that sounds really strange, doesn't it? Hossegor, or rather Soorts-Hossegor is a small town in France, which is especially known and loved by surfers for its beach. So the fragrance is dedicated to a summer resort, with which you can expect maritime notes.
And all those who hate winter can snuggle up in their cuddly blanket and think of summery places to keep warm (if cuddly blanket should be available,... which especially the ladies here but certainly have... the real guys among you certainly do not have such a thing and prefer to cuddle around with their toolboxes and go insane, when they can't place the different wrenches in their intended places right away or even worse, they notice that one or two wrenches are missing, not to mention when you jam your finger between the tool and the case when placing the tools, because the clamps are sometimes so tight that you have to press hard to get a tool to go back in, argh! :D)
Anyway, I'll get to the scent now, let's see if it really smells summery.
The fragrance:
The scent starts off herbaceous, spicy and salty. The salt seems to emanate the strongest of all three scents at the beginning, reminiscent of maritime scents. Later, the salts are still present, but become somewhat weaker. Now I also smell out herbs like sage as well as black pepper. In general, the fragrance is thus already once turned out summery. He is fresh, although not really citrusy, but especially the salty part reminds of the salty air on the coast, which in turn reminds of a vacation or at least summer.
In the fragrance pyramid are a lot of fragrance notes listed, but I smell the fewest out. This may also be due to the fact that the sillage is not the strongest and many fragrance notes just do not radiate enough to smell them really well.
So I smell also later mainly general herbs, maritime notes and thus also the salt, plus some pepper and some amber as a slightly sweet scent. And so it smells also in the base, so that the fragrance is slightly spicy, but generally still seems quite fresh and thus good for the summer.
The sillage and the durability:
The sillage didn't turn out particularly strong, despite spicy scents like pepper. Summery fragrances are, however, generally rather weaker, from therefore this goes here in order, since one expected anyway nothing strong. The shelf life is quite good, however, with six to seven hours. The bottle:
The bottle is a white, seemingly non-transparent container. The lid is black and cylindrical and on it is a flame with a laboratory glass, which is the brand's logo. I find the bottle nice, he is times something different, but he also reminds me a little of a pepper spray somehow...Conclusion:
So, the fragrance here has me now not completely convinced. He is in itself quite okay, but I often had the feeling that so none of the fragrance notes really got going. Of course, this can also have advantages, if, for example, thereby especially salty notes do not become too strong and thus pungent (which is often the disadvantage of some maritime fragrances, so when especially salty notes are so strong that they already start to sting very unpleasantly in the nose). So the fragrance remains at least loose and remains for warm days well usable, but has just no notable strengths, I find anyway. He is a nice, maritime fragrance, so you can look at times, although he is for the "performance" rather a little too expensive, as I find, but that's so with every niche fragrance, because even among those there are numerous summer fragrances that are extremely short-lived, but what also applies to mainstream or designer fragrances. Fom Ford's Mandarino di Amalfi, for example, is an absolutely stunning summer scent, but lasts with me just 30 minutes maximum!
Anyway, it's up to everyone whether they want to spend a lot of money on a short-lived fragrance, I think most people do that anyway from time to time. Sometimes it just "clicks" and you are sure that you want to have a certain fragrance in any case, especially if you are a freak like all of you :D
Well, that's about it. I wish you all a nice evening and see you next time :)
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