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Roberto, the boss in the test kitchen of Café Sicilia from Noto, took little Corrado by the hand, he learned and played with him in the kitchen.
For him it was like his playroom, and everywhere the delicious sweets.

Years later when he had to take over his aunt's café to prevent it from simply being sold, because selling the café would mean he could never go back to his playroom, this room where he spent so many hours with Roberto, Corrado came back to the café.

No, a sale, Corrado could not let that happen.
Fortunately, Roberto was still at Café Sicilia, so he wasn't facing the daunting task all alone.
Well, almond granita is so typical of Sicily.
Gladly also with fresh brioche
Corrado still took the little-known Romana almond for his granita and is firmly convinced that one tastes this also.
Corrado scurries with a tremendous passion through his cafe, through Noto, yes through life.
A passion that reminded me when testing Byzantium, when perceiving the almond immediately to Robertos almond granita.
Byzantium starts Sweet, Almondy, but not oppressively cheap.
The association with marzipan is very clear.
A few spices from the test kitchen are also recognizable a short time later.
The spices and the somewhat woody make Byzantium slightly oriental and prevent this fragrance is only sweet.
I'm not sure yet if I just like to smell Byzantium or if I also like to wear it.
Despite the low price, the fragrance is endowed with depth and passion, these factors that even high-priced specimens often do not.
For me personally, a little less almond, a little more spice would be more portable.
But so he finds certainly also very many lovers, just also because of the spectacular price-performance ratio .

1979 Cherry Lolly licking , I stand in the coffee and admire the hustle and bustle.
There is a pot of coffee brought.
There comes a piece of apple pie.
The coffee grinder rattles along,
Dishes clattering,
and then that smell of tobacco in the air, there's smoking everywhere
Cigarettes,
Cigarillos,
Cigars
Pipe
Tobacco smells like the big wide world.
The cherry lolly was free, you remember those little short cherry lollies?
The clatter of crockery quietens..
the confusion of all the conversations in the coffee fades,
the pot of coffee has disappeared into thin air.
I'm back in the here and now
What remains is that smell of the cherry lolly and tobacco.
A dear Parfuma was so nice and surprised me with a filling

"Red Tobacco" by Mancera

The first thing I actually noticed was the smell of sweet cherries.
A scent hallucination?
Spices and tobacco came along
Very well balanced
There are fruits hiding in the scent.
Never did Red Tobacco seem too sweet to me.
Never did Red Tobacco seem too heavy to me.
In the course it becomes warm, and woody.
I don't think I smell the Nepalese oud among the other woods.
For this I feel in between like on a market in Sri Lanka.
Spices, incense,
and always remains but this very gentle and moist, warm tobacco. clearly perceptible

My wife says, ne ne ne Not for men
I say but but just for men

Red Tobacco, is a sweetheart,
A soul-flatterer
I think it will end up in my top 10

He is a good 6 hours in my vicinity perceptible.
On clothes even longer

Crushed under the flint, colorful pepper and rose geraniums.
Thundering water, 1000 meters until it falls from the table mountains of Venezuela's Gran Sabana.
The Salto Angel , the Angel's fall is the highest waterfall.
In the helicopter you can smell the foggy air.

In small camps at the foot of the mesas , in this humid , mosquito infested muggy air , it smells like earth ,
not our European forest soil.
It smells of woody earth, of stones being cooked over.
It gets sweaty.
It's punishing when you stay a few days in the jungle.
Terre d'Hermès I compare to the environment.
Woody, smelling of stones is the base.
The pepper blends with the fruits underneath.
Striking, masculine , almost austere.
Spicy , strange , full of life.
As it progresses warmer , patchouli is perceptible.
Terre d'Hermès is thereby very well durable, the sillage sufficient .
I would recommend not to wear the fragrance in the tent or these small huts in the rainforest, he could provoke.
On the skin good 6-8 hours
On clothes with me even the next day to smell.


I like Terre d'Hermès
I like Gran Sabana
I like Salto Angel
For me Salto Hermès

Hermès always takes me back to South America, to Venezuela

Thank you

A hiking letter is to blame.
9 different SweDoft's to test.
Not all of them deserve a review.
This one did, though.

Darin's Musk surprised me first thing this morning.
I was expecting a more tart masculine scent.
I expected something smoky, maybe still cool leather.
With musk come with me these associations.

But now came out of the spray button pure warm joie de vivre.
It sprayed a not too sweet mist, which had something really cuddly about it from the opening.
A really nice aromatics I perceive.
First the powdery sweet.
Something flowery.

In the course he loses nothing of it, he is for me only softer and the sweetness decreases something.
Darin's then becomes a little spicier.
At no time, however, does Darin's Musk seem unmanly to me.

To cuddle wonderfully suitable, it will be difficult from each other not enough to get to leave the noses of each other.

For me a very nice warm, powdery fragrance.
A fragrance that wants to please and I really like it.
I smell Darin's Musk still after 5 hours clearly and very much on my arm

Snuggling by the fireplace perfect

Precious cuddly scent is a much better description, anyway, than just soft rinse scent.

I am glad that I was allowed to get to know Darin.

The Milky Way and some torches light up the dry sandy surroundings. Torches whose flames are nourished by various oils and resins.
Leather straps hold the soaked cloth to the torch.
The light is not only to drive away the darkness, along with the resinous oil infused scent, the fire fights night after night against the souls that never came out, the souls that had to stay in the Taklamakan.

Resinous, smoky and dark, Taklamakan begins to excite me.
No, nothing animalistic gets in the way.

Light woods, not coniferous, dry old roots weathered by heat and cold glow before them. Burning resin crackles up now and then.
Not existing Animalik provides a well portable, oriental woody fragrance that is not lost in a fragrance mess.
Friendly, but not fruity or heavy sweet, Taklamakan welcomes its wearer.
Why not in the summer, this oriental goes well in the summer.

Is it the vanilla that shows the way like a light in the dark? Or the rose?
I believe that both well coordinated positively influence the entire course.

Good 6 hours I perceive him on me.

A cloth smelled even 2 days later still clearly oriental.

Taklamakan lands also because of the beautiful flacon on my Christmas wish list.

I am glad that I was allowed to get to know him.