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Last year I was looking for citrus scents, this year it's the coconut scents. I don't know where that suddenly comes from. Actually I never liked coconut much, I don't even like Bounty :)

It was always too sweet, too pushy, too over the top! But when I sat on the terrace in my new beach chair in the first warm sunrays and enjoyed the warmth, the desire for a coconut scent suddenly arose in my head. My nose still timidly tried to express concerns á la 'brain? Are you sure? We don't really like the smell of coconut, remember?' But the brain played out its position of power mercilessly and replied something like 'Coconut must come and now silence on the cheap seats!'.

Hmm... ok... if Brain says so, then my ordering finger obeys, of course! So I read perfume comments for hours, sniffed my way through the whole range from artificial to sticky to imperceptible and finally ended up at Virgin Island Water by Creed. Ever since the first sprayer I have been shocked and in love with this wonderful fragrance. I can't get enough of it.

From the very beginning, it is a harmonious mix of high-quality coconut fragrance and fresh lime, which comes along on my skin in the perfect strength for me. It is not too loud and not too quiet, it smells very elegant and not like coconut water from a can. The Sillage is not special for me, but the durability is. Even after a long, summery day at the office, you can rely on the little island water.

However, there is no real scent and I do not perceive more than coconut and lime. But that could also be due to my nose, which is probably still snapping because it was simply ignored. Anyway, I'm glad to have listened to my brain this time - it happens too rarely anyway :)

Somehow I had never really noticed that perfume is also available at Aldi. Normally, my stay there is limited to the shortest possible period of time in which I collect everything I buy there anyway and then disappear again. Not because I have anything against Aldi, but because I don't like to stay in grocery stores longer than necessary. I don't know what childhood trauma that comes from, I don't care!

But during the Corona Lockdown I was standing in a very long queue in the discount store mentioned in the beginning of this article and I followed my thoughts. 'there is a neon tube defective, it should be replaced'... 'I hate flip-flops'... 'haven't I forgotten anything?'... 'wow, always these card payers who can't remember their PIN'... 'huh?'.. Since when does Aldi have perfume?'..

So I had to take a closer look. After a few moments I had put Fuchs together to tell me which Scent Twins it should be and I decided on Light Silver. The original was somehow still positive in my memory and so I thought, for the price it can't hurt, because now the summer is approaching unstoppably.

At home I tried it immediately and thought: 'What a wonderful lemon scent! Who would have thought it was possible for this price? Well, if it stays like this, then this is my new favourite summer scent!'

Long Story short: It didn't stay that way and it's not my new favourite summer scent! What started so promisingly developed after about 30 minutes into a very unpleasant direction. The wonderful lemon had completely fizzled out and what remained was an old man's aftershave fragrance that drifted a bit into the musty stuff the longer I gave it a chance. I was really disappointed!

Two weeks later I tried again with the original. I sprayed some of it on the back of my hand in a drugstore and unfortunately the fresh start disappeared much too quickly. What was left also reminded me a bit of aftershave, but it didn't smell as stale as I had experienced with Light Silver.

Why this scent was stored in the brain region with the positive memories, I really don't know. Today he wouldn't be able to get there and his evil twin wouldn't get there anyway!

Monsieur Mugler and I will no longer be best friends in this life. And I like Angel... when my neighbor wears it. On her it smells wonderful and the felt for 3 days, on me the scent is unfortunately not perceptible after 2 hours, neither for me nor for others. I don't know, how that goes with such a wumms-fragrance... I like aliens too... when my daughter wears them. She makes him smell so mysterious. He smells like a mosquito kettle on me, but lasts the said 3 days. Thank you for nothing!

I had already come to terms with the fact that I did not correspond to Monsieur Mugler's target group when I discovered Womanity 2 years ago, who stood by me faithfully and freshly for a whole summer. So soothed, I was even willing to try Angel Muse. The perfume connoisseur of my trust had assured me several times before that he was not to be compared with Angel and that I could try a spray attempt calmly. I firmly held my wrist out to her and... was totally disappointed! It smelled like a wet dog! Oh, no! Oh, no! This only happens when I use a scent that contains too much iris in some form or form.

But before I had really finished bathing in my self-pity, the grapefruit, which had probably let the wet dog out in the beginning, suddenly became much friendlier. Patchouli came by as a rescuer in distress and held his protective hand over me. He watched over the grapefruit and the wet dog and made sure that no one got cheeky on my skin anymore, but that a really pleasant, warm scent could unfold. And that scent stayed overnight! He celebrated with me through and danced while others danced again and again on and in the nose around. I really like to use it now when I need a fragrance I can rely on. I know that wet dog won't stay long! :D

Monsieur Mugler has found something for me that makes us forget the arguments of the last years. You could say we greet each other again! :) The hazelnut cream, which is contained according to the fragrance pyramid, he didn't treat me to. He kept my Hanuta! ;)

I have ordered a bottling of Byredo Sundazed because this summer I am very keen on fresh fragrances and I am looking for one that can last longer than 2 hours on my skin. So far Byredo hasn't done it with Blanche, but everyone deserves a second chance!

So, after the summer shower Sundazed hung up and waited... Pleasant freshness spread, that was already good on such a warm day. Lemon - check, Mandarin - check, Neroli - double check! I perceived everything and harmonized for myself. So far - so good!

Suddenly I was surrounded by a cosy warmth. Delicious - cotton candy! The freshness was getting less and less and I really didn't know if I should find that a pity or not... is perhaps depending on the time of day and the situation... but since I wanted to go to sleep that evening, this delicately sweet scented coat was more than okay.

I fell asleep with a good feeling and imagined that a large pink unicorn was sitting at the foot of the bed watching over my sleep, eating cotton candy and drinking a whole bottle of Fanta mandarin... and I think sometime in the night it had to fart and the smell seemed very familiar to me! :)

It had been cloudy the whole day and when the sun found its way through the clouds in time for the Mini-Open Air in the neighbouring village, I spontaneously and euphorically put on the scent sample of Replica - Under the Lemon Trees for my first outdoor event this year.

While I was still spraying, slight doubts crept up on me as to whether my research was still there... 'what if it smells like Citron Noir?'... because I had gone through a really bad smell development with it a good week before... 'maybe my skin just isn't made for citric scents? What if it smells like a toilet block or like a mosquito kettle?' The fresh lemon scent, which now rose into my nose, made me throw all my doubts overboard: 'No matter, after 2 hours it's gone anyway, like all the others!' With this certainty I happily made my way to the Open Air.

When 2 hours had passed, I still had the full lemon scent in my nose, which was actually threatening to tip over towards the toilet block or the mosquito kettle, but could still stay on the wire rope at the last second. It is a fine line between genius and madness, between elegant and cheap, between summer resort and insect spray.

After another 2 hours, when the lemons were still dancing samba in my nose, I asked my friend to sniff at me and tell me if I still smelled lemony... he did as he was told and then said, "Ahem, joooa, you can still see!" Uh... okay. Enthusiasm is different. He must have missed the samba...

Another 2 hours later we started our way home and I still had the full olfactory lemon grove in my nose... another tryout of my friend turned out negative. I was sitting alone under the lemon tree. All night long! Even the next morning a gentle breeze blew by under my nose - the samba dancers had been through the night and had become tired. But they were still there. Just for me!

Conclusion: A citric, fresh summer scent that stays with me for an exceptionally long time, gradually collects all the scent molecules from my skin and stacks them in my nose until there is really nothing left to stack. A fragrance with which one can spend a freshly squeezed lemon summer night alone. But if you also want to please others with it, you have to hurry! :)