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Mt 16,18
You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church...
Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam...
σὺ εἶ Πέτρος, καὶ ἐπὶ ταύτῃ τῇ πέτρᾳ οἰκοδομήσω μου τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ...
Is it not somewhat ironic to classify a fragrance that pays homage to the personified male-centrism of the Catholic Church as unisex?
But perhaps we women are *included* when Sorcinelli evokes the fraternal atmosphere ("abbracci, saluti fraterni") in the Vatican...
Everyday life there probably looked like this: Morning toasts with overflowing goblets of Dr. Koch's Trink 10 (vintage), followed by a form-preserving stay in St. Peter's Basilica ("formalità all'interno della Basilica di San Pietro") despite the onslaught of a tour group of sweet-flowered perfumed pilgrim tourists. (Grazie a Dio, the wilted but still green stuff on the side altars has not yet been completely cleared away) In the evening a bit of coziness in the Vanillestüberl, otherwise the aforementioned friendly greetings to one another. Oh well.
Was this or something similar really a hyped fragrance at the time among candidates and colleagues (without -inside)? Not rather - as artificial as it smells - a cheerful Carrara marble plaster additive? And on top of that, the icing of the glorified past?
Transalpin at least, I don't remember any such vapors from Vatican returnees.
The bottle (although I only know it by sight): As original as it is, it only just scrapes past clerical kitsch imho. (In Sorcinelli's blessing sign series Memento then the carom?)
"Tu es Petrus" is a great name for a mediocre fragrance in my opinion. But Vatican is always attractive, and I fall for it too. If the fragrance was appropriately called "Eau Multivitaminée", I wouldn't have been interested in it.
I actually like Sorcinelli, but the increasing discrepancy - it seems to me - between the claim made in the perfume name and the fragrance result makes me skeptical.
So "Do it Peter" as a perfume name (without thought and remembrance of all the problems associated with this Bible verse) seems to me to be just a sensationalist, rather hollow façade for the purpose of enhancing banality. What a pity.
Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam...
σὺ εἶ Πέτρος, καὶ ἐπὶ ταύτῃ τῇ πέτρᾳ οἰκοδομήσω μου τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ...
Is it not somewhat ironic to classify a fragrance that pays homage to the personified male-centrism of the Catholic Church as unisex?
But perhaps we women are *included* when Sorcinelli evokes the fraternal atmosphere ("abbracci, saluti fraterni") in the Vatican...
Everyday life there probably looked like this: Morning toasts with overflowing goblets of Dr. Koch's Trink 10 (vintage), followed by a form-preserving stay in St. Peter's Basilica ("formalità all'interno della Basilica di San Pietro") despite the onslaught of a tour group of sweet-flowered perfumed pilgrim tourists. (Grazie a Dio, the wilted but still green stuff on the side altars has not yet been completely cleared away) In the evening a bit of coziness in the Vanillestüberl, otherwise the aforementioned friendly greetings to one another. Oh well.
Was this or something similar really a hyped fragrance at the time among candidates and colleagues (without -inside)? Not rather - as artificial as it smells - a cheerful Carrara marble plaster additive? And on top of that, the icing of the glorified past?
Transalpin at least, I don't remember any such vapors from Vatican returnees.
The bottle (although I only know it by sight): As original as it is, it only just scrapes past clerical kitsch imho. (In Sorcinelli's blessing sign series Memento then the carom?)
"Tu es Petrus" is a great name for a mediocre fragrance in my opinion. But Vatican is always attractive, and I fall for it too. If the fragrance was appropriately called "Eau Multivitaminée", I wouldn't have been interested in it.
I actually like Sorcinelli, but the increasing discrepancy - it seems to me - between the claim made in the perfume name and the fragrance result makes me skeptical.
So "Do it Peter" as a perfume name (without thought and remembrance of all the problems associated with this Bible verse) seems to me to be just a sensationalist, rather hollow façade for the purpose of enhancing banality. What a pity.
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