MisterShaver

... asks the nice waitress at the Resturant. I had Tam Dao in my pocket as a sample when I bought it and had it on completely unsuspectingly. It has provided that evening for long conversations.
Now I can see it is slightly woody, it has something creamy and maybe that's why the association with vanilla comes along. The rose is rather in the background, but amber and musk are also perceptible. And all in a nice order. But what remains from the beginning is with me the creaminess.
The thought of a forest clearing is somehow there, but the image of dark woods is also present. All times it is a fragrance that fits very well into a dignified bar with fine gin. A jazz band plays light evening music and a light breeze blows through the open balcony doors, smelling of fresh rain on dry forest ground. Just such a lukewarm autumn evening when summer is still so long in October. In the room you can hear the gentle rustling of the dresses from the ladies, a cigar is lit, some ice cubes clink in the glass, other scents make their way through the room from time to time or pass with their straps ....
Perfect! Perfect! And I feel safe and cozy enveloped by my Tam Dao scent. Sit back, enjoy. Slowly the sun is setting behind the horizon as a glowing red ball ... That's all it takes.

Whenever I have decided for a fragrance without looking in here before, I had to read here, it is in this community often a differentiated commented fragrance. Is that good or bad?
Very noticeable for me is that the fragrance was always very good when I bought it. The reading here about the then purchased scent led mostly to the fact that I liked the scent even better afterwards. Possibly pure defiance?
Anyway, that's how it's been here. In the excellently equipped perfumery Thaler in Bolzano I was very well advised due to my search for a scent with sandalwood and in the end I landed at the Acqua di Parma Concentrada Sandalo at the pass to hell. I don't speak French and only read here what I had bought there. I also read the comments that were always rushing to associate this name with anything about the fragrance. And I bought this perfume without knowing what the name meant to say. But now I happen to know exactly, that such composed scents, like all others, react on the skin according to the chemical attitude of the skin owner. Therefore I noticed a wonderful slightly woody, but also warm scent. It's very close to the body, you write it here. Aha... has anyone ever asked their environment if that's the case? I do. So, also my fellow men perceive the smell. And pleasant. I'm not going to take it apart because it leads nowhere. The fragrance does not smell as one might think when knowing the name translated into German. But it's a soft, sandalwood scent with incense in the bag. Not a church, but in time for a sunny autumn. And the name is just sound and smoke, it doesn't matter and I'm sure Olivia Giacobetti wanted the same fragrance and didn't want to create a mass product. It is what it is. A gentle autumn scent with a slope to the fireplace room and a gin bottle on the table. Besides a copy of the last Playboy to pay tribute to the theme hell. If that's what's important.

With this fragrance I really have to hang on to Apicius' statement and thank Mr. Wasser. Because alone like the smell came to me .... I had birthday and in the apron one is asked what one wishes. Here my wife and daughter were the questioners. Now one wishes oneself a smell often by coupon, but I wanted to have something in the hand. So I sent my two ladies to the perfumery of my confidence with the idea there to talk and try to find the scent that the shop owner - who has and knows my fullest confidence and my scent demands - serves up. I learned that there were a few at the start, but my ladies chose this one. That alone is enough for me as a good introduction.
But now came the day of revelation, speak, my judgment. And this one fell without me reading here.
Now this fragrance is my first from Guerlain. So there's nothing for me to compare that to. I am also not familiar with the other fragrances mentioned here. So I am free of anything that could cloud my judgement on the floor of a commentary "that smells like".

And now I notice that the first time I spray it on, a small, delicate nasal explosion takes place. The mixture of the first fragrance components reminds me of a fresh rush with a slightly bitter brake. And I perceive the pleasant echoes of the almond and somehow something vanilla-like. But it's not cute. Is there any bitter vanilla? I don't know, actually you bring in something rather sweet, sometimes even something heavy and pompous. But not here. It is probably the mixture of the tonka bean with the almond that triggers this in me. And all that follows is what I prefer so much. Something leathery, something woody and something oriental.
My perfume dealer of trust did a great job, my ladies recognized it, and I confess that the scent shows me that a somehow masculine scent can have a sweet overtone. Only so much of it that he doesn't drift into the sweet field.
And that's why it's the ideal scent for me. Perfect for the warm summer evening where you want to set fine accents. Which of course will also fit in the office.
And therefore I can thank Mr. Water, because without him I should not have experienced it.

I'm so happy!

... and one asked oneself, how can we make our Ur Colonia fragrance, which has been around for a long time and rightly so, different without betraying it?

That could be how Pura got here. It starts with a citrus scent, but it only has orange in it. Okay, that's enough. Because in the overall composition the Ur Colonia is there, but somehow more modern. Pura doesn't start as loud as the Ur Colonia and the course remains exactly on this level. The beginning is just fresh and then it becomes something that you don't know so much about the great father. It evolves with a slight understatement to a truly elegant fragrance. It goes well with the fine suit, the leather shoe, the loose fitting tie with open upper shirt button. However, it is more inconspicuous for the environment, the scent remains close to the body. It's like a fine watch that was a bit more expensive, but doesn't look so fat (my tip would be the Junghans company with the Meister series).
And is all this now bad in the direction of ISO-E-Super? Not to me. It is perhaps an approach to another segment of the public that has so far been more dedicated to the modern and hip fragrance area. If that were even necessary. If so, then it is the possibility to build a bridge between these worlds. But it is by far no ingratiation by copying the synthetic fragrance world. Not by a long shot! The pura stays on its side, so to speak. It never slides into this sticky candy world or even violently clinging to the top note. It's just nobler, but it could go through on the modern side. Those who wear Pura still look fine, balanced and rather elegant. If you hang your clothes on the hanger in the evening then there is something else there. A light hint of fresh laundry .... does that come from the pura, or was it really the detergent? Just because I think it's possible it could come from the pura makes this fragrance something fine.
I think it's wonderful!

.... By the way, that's where Chnuddelchatz can stay and be stolen from me. Because what he does doesn't interest me very much.