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The fragrance of a souk
Hot air at noon
Sandy smell in the air
Spices in the air
Convivial hustle and bustle at the market
All kinds of offers
From leather goods
To incense
To spices
Loud clamour
Wild haggling
All the scents mingle
Forming clouds
Besides performances of Lokum
Powdery, dry, intense
Dried fruits
Dates without end
On the floor you find apples
Partially fermented under the table
Fruits, spices, snacks
Souk
**
"Anatolia Anatolia | Prin" is a fierce fragrance. Not only in its intensity, but also in the number of different aromas that flow into it. Leathery-oud undertones gently embed intense-expansive spices. Fruity nuances round off. Patchouly grounds the whole. Apple irritates together with lokum. The result is a note of cooked peas. Too much for me in the long run.
Dates radiate, locum is powdery and slightly rose-like. I had to wrap the sample in cling film, because the scent leaked out of the atomiser. Oud is very perceptible at the beginning. Dark and woody, which probably wants to create the leathery notes. Cinnamon and dates, the latter with honey sweetness. A fierce prince to start with.
Sandy smell in the air
Spices in the air
Convivial hustle and bustle at the market
All kinds of offers
From leather goods
To incense
To spices
Loud clamour
Wild haggling
All the scents mingle
Forming clouds
Besides performances of Lokum
Powdery, dry, intense
Dried fruits
Dates without end
On the floor you find apples
Partially fermented under the table
Fruits, spices, snacks
Souk
**
"Anatolia Anatolia | Prin" is a fierce fragrance. Not only in its intensity, but also in the number of different aromas that flow into it. Leathery-oud undertones gently embed intense-expansive spices. Fruity nuances round off. Patchouly grounds the whole. Apple irritates together with lokum. The result is a note of cooked peas. Too much for me in the long run.
Dates radiate, locum is powdery and slightly rose-like. I had to wrap the sample in cling film, because the scent leaked out of the atomiser. Oud is very perceptible at the beginning. Dark and woody, which probably wants to create the leathery notes. Cinnamon and dates, the latter with honey sweetness. A fierce prince to start with.
Oriental market hustle and bustle in Spanish view
Faraway countries in memories
Built from dreams
Wishes for wanderlust
Mediterranean touches
Desert ships on the market
A touch of heat
An animalistic flash
Cooling spices
Cold rose water
Thawed roses
The sea not far away
Fresh breezes float through
Green leaves float
A touch of saltiness, a touch of sweetness
Quickly the animalism fades
Powdery interspersed
Dark woods at the market stalls
**
"Oud 31 | Kai Porten Parfums Privés" is now the long-awaited first release by Kai Porten. Due to the change from Duftanker/MGO to Christian Carbonnel, I could almost guess in which direction it will go, without going into the further circumstances. Yes, it is unmistakably a Carbonnel fragrance, as you know it, because the DNA fits perfectly into the picture of his creations and you can also recognise a small part of "Nefs | Nishane" in Oud 31. That may not be wrong, because this way it is clearly more suitable for the masses.
But I wanted to approach it with an open mind and perhaps be positively surprised.
The animalic floods that some people are talking about can only be perceived on my skin and in my nose in the first minute. It goes straight into an iced rose, cooling spice and light breezes. This makes it less special than I had suspected. I mainly detect cardamom and certain green notes. The spiciness flashes a little sweetness in the first few minutes and slowly warms up. The fresh impression comes through quite airy and light and is reinforced by the green aromas.
Gradually, the fragrance becomes warmer, sweeter and also more floral, moving in a more feminine direction and out of my field of pleasant fragrances.
The base is determined on my skin by a light woody note and slightly powdery musk.
The question now is, is it too simple or mass-produced or do you find the creation exciting and new. To be fair, it has a really good balance and no note comes too far to the fore. However, it is too unspectacular for me, as it doesn't seem far removed from Carbonnel's other works. For me, it simply lacks something special, new or differentiated, where Carbonnel dares to do something new and doesn't go down the same old path.
It's just a Carbonnel fragrance. They are always well balanced, always wearable, always quite deep, but never something really new or special.
I'll still try it on my neck more often, but I'm still crying over a missed DNA opportunity.
And regardless of the fact that perfumes are luxury goods and I don't deny that natural raw materials have also found their place here. But I just have to voice the same issue. For a Carbonnel fragrance, that's just too much dough. Nefs is certainly more of a rip-off, although the fragrance is good, but for a sweet-floral DNA that smells like that for hours, it's not enough creative art for me. Personally, it's just too close to the mass market, although Kai has become known as a connoisseur of the deepest niche.
From there:
Oriental thought
Spanish made
Unspectacularly brought
Built from dreams
Wishes for wanderlust
Mediterranean touches
Desert ships on the market
A touch of heat
An animalistic flash
Cooling spices
Cold rose water
Thawed roses
The sea not far away
Fresh breezes float through
Green leaves float
A touch of saltiness, a touch of sweetness
Quickly the animalism fades
Powdery interspersed
Dark woods at the market stalls
**
"Oud 31 | Kai Porten Parfums Privés" is now the long-awaited first release by Kai Porten. Due to the change from Duftanker/MGO to Christian Carbonnel, I could almost guess in which direction it will go, without going into the further circumstances. Yes, it is unmistakably a Carbonnel fragrance, as you know it, because the DNA fits perfectly into the picture of his creations and you can also recognise a small part of "Nefs | Nishane" in Oud 31. That may not be wrong, because this way it is clearly more suitable for the masses.
But I wanted to approach it with an open mind and perhaps be positively surprised.
The animalic floods that some people are talking about can only be perceived on my skin and in my nose in the first minute. It goes straight into an iced rose, cooling spice and light breezes. This makes it less special than I had suspected. I mainly detect cardamom and certain green notes. The spiciness flashes a little sweetness in the first few minutes and slowly warms up. The fresh impression comes through quite airy and light and is reinforced by the green aromas.
Gradually, the fragrance becomes warmer, sweeter and also more floral, moving in a more feminine direction and out of my field of pleasant fragrances.
The base is determined on my skin by a light woody note and slightly powdery musk.
The question now is, is it too simple or mass-produced or do you find the creation exciting and new. To be fair, it has a really good balance and no note comes too far to the fore. However, it is too unspectacular for me, as it doesn't seem far removed from Carbonnel's other works. For me, it simply lacks something special, new or differentiated, where Carbonnel dares to do something new and doesn't go down the same old path.
It's just a Carbonnel fragrance. They are always well balanced, always wearable, always quite deep, but never something really new or special.
I'll still try it on my neck more often, but I'm still crying over a missed DNA opportunity.
And regardless of the fact that perfumes are luxury goods and I don't deny that natural raw materials have also found their place here. But I just have to voice the same issue. For a Carbonnel fragrance, that's just too much dough. Nefs is certainly more of a rip-off, although the fragrance is good, but for a sweet-floral DNA that smells like that for hours, it's not enough creative art for me. Personally, it's just too close to the mass market, although Kai has become known as a connoisseur of the deepest niche.
From there:
Oriental thought
Spanish made
Unspectacularly brought
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Apple delirium dreams
"Apple Brandy New York | Kilian"
Like sides of a coin.
Young, fresh, energetic.
Mature, elegant, eloquent.
Sweatpants, oversized sweater, sneakers.
Suit pants, turtleneck, loafers.
Developments from young to old.
Tangy apples in rough quantities,
energetic, warm and cooling at the same time.
Wooden barrels as far as the eye can see.
Burnt out, alcoholic residue.
A brandy that is able to absorb the flavors of the apple.
Not burning, rather caressing.
Dark shadows from resinous clouds.
Enveloping around the barrels of strength.
Kilian, leaning on Hesperides.
Guardian of the golden apple.
Guardian of alcoholic desire.
Wild and unbridled,
elegant and charming at the same time.
Two sides of the same coin.
Kilian created a fascination with the trio of unbridled narcotic fragrance. "Straight to Heaven Extreme | Kilian", "Apple Brandy New York | Kilian" and "Single Malt London | Kilian" are dreams of excessive enjoyment of alcoholic worlds. Fragrances that polarize, yet are wearable. Both in casual clothes and imposing expressions.
Apple Brandy embodies this even more than its brothers. Does he but even more tangy, younger and wilder by its sour impression of an extravagant apple grain. Thus, with apple, wood and alcohol, the three main components are also quickly described, which create a wonderful fragrance that trumps here with an appealing linearity. Apple and alcoholic notes determine the first minutes with a hint of cinnamon. That's where the fun comes in and shows how the energy pulsates. After a few minutes, the whole thing swings around to a woodiness that reveals hints of labdanum. Not creaky, rather dark resinous underpinnings to present more. More feeling of a burnt out barrel that held precious alcohol. Remnants of apple are still perceptible and give again and again a bright flash in the otherwise dark-woody course.
I'm glad to have secured this discontinued fragrance yet and enjoy this expressive DNA. The fascination with this type of fragrances lives and offers even more than the already good "Apple Brandy on the Rocks | Kilian" .
Like sides of a coin.
Young, fresh, energetic.
Mature, elegant, eloquent.
Sweatpants, oversized sweater, sneakers.
Suit pants, turtleneck, loafers.
Developments from young to old.
Tangy apples in rough quantities,
energetic, warm and cooling at the same time.
Wooden barrels as far as the eye can see.
Burnt out, alcoholic residue.
A brandy that is able to absorb the flavors of the apple.
Not burning, rather caressing.
Dark shadows from resinous clouds.
Enveloping around the barrels of strength.
Kilian, leaning on Hesperides.
Guardian of the golden apple.
Guardian of alcoholic desire.
Wild and unbridled,
elegant and charming at the same time.
Two sides of the same coin.
Kilian created a fascination with the trio of unbridled narcotic fragrance. "Straight to Heaven Extreme | Kilian", "Apple Brandy New York | Kilian" and "Single Malt London | Kilian" are dreams of excessive enjoyment of alcoholic worlds. Fragrances that polarize, yet are wearable. Both in casual clothes and imposing expressions.
Apple Brandy embodies this even more than its brothers. Does he but even more tangy, younger and wilder by its sour impression of an extravagant apple grain. Thus, with apple, wood and alcohol, the three main components are also quickly described, which create a wonderful fragrance that trumps here with an appealing linearity. Apple and alcoholic notes determine the first minutes with a hint of cinnamon. That's where the fun comes in and shows how the energy pulsates. After a few minutes, the whole thing swings around to a woodiness that reveals hints of labdanum. Not creaky, rather dark resinous underpinnings to present more. More feeling of a burnt out barrel that held precious alcohol. Remnants of apple are still perceptible and give again and again a bright flash in the otherwise dark-woody course.
I'm glad to have secured this discontinued fragrance yet and enjoy this expressive DNA. The fascination with this type of fragrances lives and offers even more than the already good "Apple Brandy on the Rocks | Kilian" .
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The Death of P
Grist mill, here without grain
Shredded wood everywhere you look.
Less grist mill, more sawmill
Wood store, saw blades, fresh wood, processed wood
The apprentice sweeps up the sawdust
Geppetto mucks out
Figures and Pinocchio are chopped up
The machines run, run hot
Oil, tree resins drip into the warm sawdust
Oil drips in and out of the machine
Warm, dark, heavy oil-like
Steam, smoke escapes the noisy machines
Aroma of charred wood residue
Creaking bushes around the factory
Sawmill would fit better
Wood of all kinds is processed
First comes mahogany
Warm, light wood varnish, straight for further processing
With a hint of essential oil
Next is walnut
Light, warm and shell-like
Walnut shell as aroma
In the drydown cedar is processed
Sometimes dark, sometimes light, typically aromatic
Gristmill, Sawmill
A pure creation of wood
Unworn, unprocessed in the change
Pure woodiness without frills
Without distraction of other dominance
Pinewood - not in this case
Only about mahogany and walnut
American, rough and wild
...
My first Pineward fragrance and definitely not my last. I'm a sucker for that rough woody aroma. Sawdust, cut boards and slight hints of wood varnish, oily woodiness and nutshell. The creaky character of the labdanum is perfectly embraced and not at all distracting. Amber gives just the point of creamy resinousness to give the fragrance that certain something. It may be an atypical Pineward due to the lack of green notes, but it is a perfect fragrance for a wood lover.
The first three hours are dominated by sawdust, mahogany and walnut. In the drydown, the cedar comes more into play and closes the fragrance. In the drydown, the scent also starts to become more mass-produced, but I don't want to see that as a negative point.
This is exactly how I imagined it. Pure, without many disturbing elements, a slight touch of resin that adds a hint of sweetness. Gristmill makes you want more. More tests of Pineward and in general this area of the niche, which I am almost completely unfamiliar with.
Postscript:
It feels like the drydown is a little different every time. Sometimes creamy-woody, sometimes a little ambery, the next time purely woody. Exciting.
Shredded wood everywhere you look.
Less grist mill, more sawmill
Wood store, saw blades, fresh wood, processed wood
The apprentice sweeps up the sawdust
Geppetto mucks out
Figures and Pinocchio are chopped up
The machines run, run hot
Oil, tree resins drip into the warm sawdust
Oil drips in and out of the machine
Warm, dark, heavy oil-like
Steam, smoke escapes the noisy machines
Aroma of charred wood residue
Creaking bushes around the factory
Sawmill would fit better
Wood of all kinds is processed
First comes mahogany
Warm, light wood varnish, straight for further processing
With a hint of essential oil
Next is walnut
Light, warm and shell-like
Walnut shell as aroma
In the drydown cedar is processed
Sometimes dark, sometimes light, typically aromatic
Gristmill, Sawmill
A pure creation of wood
Unworn, unprocessed in the change
Pure woodiness without frills
Without distraction of other dominance
Pinewood - not in this case
Only about mahogany and walnut
American, rough and wild
...
My first Pineward fragrance and definitely not my last. I'm a sucker for that rough woody aroma. Sawdust, cut boards and slight hints of wood varnish, oily woodiness and nutshell. The creaky character of the labdanum is perfectly embraced and not at all distracting. Amber gives just the point of creamy resinousness to give the fragrance that certain something. It may be an atypical Pineward due to the lack of green notes, but it is a perfect fragrance for a wood lover.
The first three hours are dominated by sawdust, mahogany and walnut. In the drydown, the cedar comes more into play and closes the fragrance. In the drydown, the scent also starts to become more mass-produced, but I don't want to see that as a negative point.
This is exactly how I imagined it. Pure, without many disturbing elements, a slight touch of resin that adds a hint of sweetness. Gristmill makes you want more. More tests of Pineward and in general this area of the niche, which I am almost completely unfamiliar with.
Postscript:
It feels like the drydown is a little different every time. Sometimes creamy-woody, sometimes a little ambery, the next time purely woody. Exciting.
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The gods covered in a veil of flowers on Mykonos
1899 is one of the fragrances that have reached me quite quickly and picked up. After I had 1740 already as a small bottle with me and this has appealed to me in a very deep way, I wanted to check out the pages of the other fragrances. The selection at Histoires de Parfums is not too large, however, so balanced in the comments that there could be something for everyone here. Since 1899 Ernest Hemingway emerged as my next fragrance, I now also did not want to wait any longer.
But how did I just come to these and what has me angefixt the appropriate research to catch up?
Pretty simply said, because this fragrance should sniff like Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb or at least a modified and more luxurious form of it. Spicebomb has remained permanently in my collection since the day of release and to this day I have found no reason to change anything here. Even the Flanker never made it. Even the Extreme variant has never convinced me so much that I leave the original in the corner. However, I find the scent very interesting and therefore like to test out new perfumes of this category. In addition, I should not even come to the thought Spicebomb times to sort out, because my wife loves this fragrance on me and threatens with divorce, should I ever come to mind. ?
Talked often of a fresher variant and a somewhat floral basic character. Furthermore, with some spice and a Spicebomb DNA. I like to be surprised and since an online retailer just had good discounts I struck in the madness equal times at a 60ml bottle to.
The test environment was different from the last Xerjoff tests, which I had before extensively under the nose. Rather relaxed, less expectations and generally a little less urge to discover something new. However, I quickly realized that something special has landed under my nose here.
Not because the general spiciness, pepper or sharpness blew my socks off. It was the insouciance, which the fragrance has put on the day and has put me in the moment in fascination.
YES, it was this pleasant, slightly citrusy freshness at the beginning, the slightly shimmering florality in the background and a finely tuned spiciness. Everything spread slowly and delicately, almost a little fragile and enveloping like a delicate veil. Far from the spice and candy bombs of the current days. Much more delicate and shy, but still strong enough to give the wearer that special something. Gradually, the citrusy notes pull back a bit and stay in the background to give the delicate floral bouquet a bit more of a stage. None of the three components weighs too heavy, everything seems from a cast and harmonizes surprisingly well, because if I think of a mixture of spice and flowers, then my nose would rather make the bend.
But so Histoires de Parfums offers a wonderful fragrance full of eventful tenderness, in which one imagines two half-naked gods lying in the warm dawn enveloped by flowers.
Also, the Spicebomb DNA described in some comments is present, the my wife can not tell the difference at first sniff.
One must say to this framework but also that the sillage can not hold a candle to the original of my collection. 1899 can not have a monster sillage due to the selection of fragrance notes and components or in view of the fragrance character. For the first two hours, you definitely perceive the scent very well, but not much further, as the power gradually weakens. This is not bad for me personally, because I as a wearer have the fragrance yet longer in the nose. This is but just not so noticeable by the flowers and the freshness.
From the durability, however, he must not hide. Early sprayed on you perceive him still in the evening on the neck and others can enjoy the great 1899 in warm embraces.
But how did I just come to these and what has me angefixt the appropriate research to catch up?
Pretty simply said, because this fragrance should sniff like Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb or at least a modified and more luxurious form of it. Spicebomb has remained permanently in my collection since the day of release and to this day I have found no reason to change anything here. Even the Flanker never made it. Even the Extreme variant has never convinced me so much that I leave the original in the corner. However, I find the scent very interesting and therefore like to test out new perfumes of this category. In addition, I should not even come to the thought Spicebomb times to sort out, because my wife loves this fragrance on me and threatens with divorce, should I ever come to mind. ?
Talked often of a fresher variant and a somewhat floral basic character. Furthermore, with some spice and a Spicebomb DNA. I like to be surprised and since an online retailer just had good discounts I struck in the madness equal times at a 60ml bottle to.
The test environment was different from the last Xerjoff tests, which I had before extensively under the nose. Rather relaxed, less expectations and generally a little less urge to discover something new. However, I quickly realized that something special has landed under my nose here.
Not because the general spiciness, pepper or sharpness blew my socks off. It was the insouciance, which the fragrance has put on the day and has put me in the moment in fascination.
YES, it was this pleasant, slightly citrusy freshness at the beginning, the slightly shimmering florality in the background and a finely tuned spiciness. Everything spread slowly and delicately, almost a little fragile and enveloping like a delicate veil. Far from the spice and candy bombs of the current days. Much more delicate and shy, but still strong enough to give the wearer that special something. Gradually, the citrusy notes pull back a bit and stay in the background to give the delicate floral bouquet a bit more of a stage. None of the three components weighs too heavy, everything seems from a cast and harmonizes surprisingly well, because if I think of a mixture of spice and flowers, then my nose would rather make the bend.
But so Histoires de Parfums offers a wonderful fragrance full of eventful tenderness, in which one imagines two half-naked gods lying in the warm dawn enveloped by flowers.
Also, the Spicebomb DNA described in some comments is present, the my wife can not tell the difference at first sniff.
One must say to this framework but also that the sillage can not hold a candle to the original of my collection. 1899 can not have a monster sillage due to the selection of fragrance notes and components or in view of the fragrance character. For the first two hours, you definitely perceive the scent very well, but not much further, as the power gradually weakens. This is not bad for me personally, because I as a wearer have the fragrance yet longer in the nose. This is but just not so noticeable by the flowers and the freshness.
From the durability, however, he must not hide. Early sprayed on you perceive him still in the evening on the neck and others can enjoy the great 1899 in warm embraces.
