How does one actually react when a previously hated direction suddenly becomes appealing?
In my case, I tried to get to the bottom of the trick, sniffing until my nose was sore.
First of all, Prin Lomros really knows what he's doing. He transforms worn-out themes into truly thrilling narratives.
I received a sample labeled “Cigar Rum - Strangers Perfumerie.”
Well, there are three variations of the fragrance.
Which one could it be?
Sizzle!
I figured it out without knowing the fragrance, the 2024 version!
Davana doesn't fool me.
Cheers!
But let's take it step by step.
First, I get this dried fruit mixture that I have come to dislike, often found next to scented candles.
Wood shavings are all too gladly soaked with it and placed in a bowl next to the couch.
Not my decor.
Then a mandarin bursts forth, and the water-rich Davana redefines the kitschy opening.
Bitter, floral, spicy, darkly fruity.
Thank you!
Red Skies smells very similar at this stage of the fragrance development.
Davana as the secret en vogue ingredient?
After all, it drifts into a more serious direction, almost coloring the fruity notes gray.
This is where the wonderful trick lies!
And with a gray seriousness, I enter the gentlemen's room of the fragrance development.
Wood-paneled, surely cozy in ambiance and slightly smoky.
Somewhere, a cup of grog steams, untouched.
The melancholic pause to reflect on the ephemeral - this is how fruit can also be modulated - directs a fixed gaze at the fresh cool spray outside the window.
Davana, seaweed, and vetiver make sky and sea merge into a silvery olive green.
Autumn.
No. An autumn awakening!
For a very refined and elegant rose enters the gentlemen's room.
No crude nakedness.
Extremely tastefully draped, light in its movements, deep in its intentions.
Are the fruits, the cinnamon, and the warm ylang skillfully tailored?
I like this long-missed rose from earlier decades.
Davana and rose now face each other, gazing long and knowing of one another.
Their evening in the cozy room will always smell floral, their maturity will be solidly underscored by the remaining components.
Both protagonists, Davana and rose, prove that the other ingredients are sufficient as a backdrop and should only act in the background.
And with that, I could finally make peace with the theme of fruit in the gentlemen's room.
Amber
Black tea
Cedarwood
Cinnamon
Davana
Dried fruits
Honey
Kelp
Mandarin orange
Oak wood
Raisin
Rose
Rum
Tobacco
Tonka bean
Vanilla
Vetiver
Ylang-ylang
Bureaucratic Copper
Ragas
Axiomatic
