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Rookie82 3 years ago 23 3
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With fruit salad to the summer figure?
As I've often heard elsewhere, Hermés is a house with a sympathetic approach to launching new products. On the one hand, it gives me the impression that it takes its time and leaves room for ideas and inspiration. In addition, I imagine that here in the usual market processes of a product re-placement, the instrument of market screaming big grumbling, in the form of naturally bought opinion-forming influencer gobbledygook, is largely left out.
I could be wrong, however, with the latter also, since I by far no longer everything mitbekomme and sustainably try to avoid this form of content.

The house Hermés has it as everyone knows in the past managed to set a milestone in the men's area. One hardly leans far out of the window, one puts this foolhardy assertion on ...
And of course, as it is then just so one is then also measured by the great last throw. Of course, one could succumb as a house Hermés the nervous mind game to orient themselves necessarily also to the success of the predecessor series. Certainly, this is also the wish, but with the approach to create something completely new, to leave existing trends as far as possible to the left and to put a certain form of pioneering spirit and quality in the center. Well knowing with an accompanying increased existing risk to put the project just also simply times in the sand
Damn it ... and that alone is why I am so grateful to this house that I am almost ashamed to have no bottle of the brand in the collection. Also H24 will not achieve this goal for the time being. What will you do if sense organ and feeling / mind do not come to the same conclusion.

The fragrance I would actually like to like, convinces me unfortunately in any phase. Even after repeated tests, the fruit salad in the prelude does not reach me for one thing. I get on the one hand with the sweet pear in the prelude not warm, moreover, the good Jazzbob has "lupft" me on another impression, on which I have not come so far by itself. A green banana has crept into the potpourri of the opening with, which unfortunately lasts far too long for me at the end and accompanies the fragrance until the fade. The sweetness offered is here for me after a short time to get over, because rather subtle nature and therefore used for me to an acceptable extent.
This melange certainly pleases many, may in the long run viellleicht even - and that is Hermés simply to be trusted - style-forming be, but fetches me in no moment.

To credit I would like to hold the fragrance that he is at no time too loud. From the beginning it is of pleasant sillage, the durability allows in the profession no tear of overtime, but remains in the true sense of the word in the green area.

Continuing, the fragrance develops after about 60 minutes becoming more pleasant, but with all sympathy, the lost meters at the beginning he is simply not able to catch up.

Nevertheless, I wish the fragrance from the innermost conviction and the aforementioned reasons that it establishes itself on the market. It would be great if this approach pays off for Hermés and one can also be oriented in the future to this approach to product development economically justifiable.
The will is the last thing I doubt here.

Test recommendation at this point , whereas either way ... the problem of a pandemic plaque solves H24 in any case.
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Rookie82 3 years ago 20 5
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Fallen Boxer
My rather superficial impression of this eau de parfum reminds me a little of the story of a legendary boxer, who has the most ambitious sporting times but for some time behind him.

Less upright proud, but meanwhile rather exhausted by the business and the constant limelight, he still holds his world championship belt of the probably most influential federation in every camera, but knows every person included in the topic deeper in it around his actually low significance.

The truth is nevertheless that the vemeintige industry leader in the ring actually already for years his title against the most up-and-coming and actually best opponents of his class may defend no more.

A clever management standing behind it, which is of course exclusively about the "brand" and the monetary options of value skimming, knows of course about the circumstance that their athlete acting on par with the best would have few chances.

His style with which he once set completely new standards is nowadays not only seen through for some time and often copied no worse, he also leads only against a weaker competition with a lower budget to victory. The top has evolved, as is common in almost any profession.

Undeterred, his fans continue to stand by him. In earlier times of dominance and sporting greatest success reveling they ignore the industry-wide known status quo, refer to the title for them of course not disputed u. solve still far too expensive tickets to in the meantime considerably unequal duels without sporting attraction.

The brand is booming, the ruble rolls and yet all know .... the star is sinking and his face is increasingly fading. People are wishing him closure and maybe ... but just maybe the former star will actually be remembered as a legend.




The original Aventus have taken many weeks ago on the basis of a sharing after a long time again in my collection. What I described a few years ago as an emotion benchmark, triggers today neither something like emotions, nor does it leave a qualtitiv high-quality impression. Equivalent alternatives are in my view for a ridiculously small fraction of that to get.
Thats it ..
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Rookie82 3 years ago 7 1
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Longing for serenity
It feels like we are currently living through the longest winter since the collection of meteorological indicators. 2 days ago one got to see the sun in the south and southwest for ages again, a much too short pleasure but at least with me directly a feeling of joy developed, as I admitted it in the form but not had for a long time. Today, however, one sits again in his premises, is again torn whether the necessity exists to pull an artificial light source. Almost "stubbornly" I decide against it. Outside ... 50 meters visibility and one collides (once again) on a wall of fog, which is almost exemplary for the times that we currently now more soon a year to live through.

The longing for serenity, for conviviality and effervescent joie de vivre is not uncommon for this time of year, but probably the longing has never been greater than these days, in places like presumably a Venice Beach, to indulge the mind in long-awaited caresses and leave all the dreariness behind.

About an hour ago, I decided to dig out the sample of Pacific Cannabis. I remembered a day in the summer of 2020 at the gym. Tightened thumbscrews were already a familiar feeling there too, just felt in a different world from a retrospective perspective. Aquatic discreetly sweetly interwoven little clouds made a good day even better at the time, and yet I had not appreciated it as I am now aware of its time, was simply the desire for an "artificially" induced increase in well-being simply hardly given.
On days like these, the view outside literally shattering against this unyielding wall of fog, Pacific Cannabis is an olfactory embrace, a beckoning of hope that cements the belief in better times and makes it seem tangibly close. I feel better, and I feel a sense of gratitude.

Now, if you'll excuse me ... i must now order this beautifully crafted perfume, which, by the way, I would have preferred to see with a name like "Pacific Hope".

Keep your ears stiff
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Rookie82 3 years ago 24 7
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Successful departure from perfection
Release date 2018, a fully justified average score of 8.5, but no one has ever felt the need to dedicate more than 140 characters to this fragrance poem. If you want to take the time to investigate the causes, you can conclude that a plagiarism accusation is possibly the reason for this criminal disregard
However, from my point of view, this approach makes things much too easy for me.

Those who in the past, due to lack of hobbies and too much free time, have followed my contributions know that I am constantly "swaying" around Kurdjians Baccarat Rouge. It is always important to me to mention that it is the Extrait variant. This fragrance fascinates and touches me. It is able to lift the mood quickly and yet I use it rarely enough to have refrained from a firm purchase again and again
But what's the reason for that?
Do I think it's too feminine? Not at all... unlike the EdP, I think of him as maximally genderless.

Then what is it?
Well, I think the perfection was simply taken to the extreme by MFK in such a way that I subconsciously miss a note that gives beauty an endearing "blemish".

Visually, I'm probably looking for something like Cindy Crawford's mole, a distinctive reference point that only in very few cases manages to make something absolutely beautiful even more beautiful by something supposedly "bad".

The absolute round of the original seems almost surreal and it lacks the decisive impression of the original, let's call it that way, credibly imprints the stamp that it seems to be from this earth

So I always have the impression that I have to be at least the most noblest dressed person in this world to create a harmonious overall picture in combination with B540.
Not only does this read complicated - and probably silly - it's also.
So I'm constantly looking for less perfect alternatives and I'm very happy to have already found twice as many

The somewhat more distant cousin Kalan is in this context what you would probably call the NoBrain alternative nowadays. Goes all year round, always, everywhere... fits perfectly, but it doesn't reach the quality of BR540, but he doesn't want to either.

Spirito Fiorentino, on the other hand, operates on an absolute level, in the uppermost premium segment, but has - watch out for puns - Cindy's (liver) leather patch over the upper lip, which I found so attractive in the 90s. He manages not to reveal the supposedly sought-after blemish as such, but turns the perfect round into something like the perfect oval. A perfect oval may not be considered possible by many people, as they only know them as round or square, but from my point of view, one can act too ambitoniert when trying to appeal to a sensory impression.

Some people consider this additional leather twist a disturbing factor, I have read about burnt rubber with an eyebrow raised to the maximum. But for me it is certain ... it's not a bug, it's a feature!

A very fairly priced bottle is currently on its way to me.
The hope is very big to have found the perfect not perfect fragrance. The 10 disguised as 9, which gives me much more range of use to choose from, but still remains special enough to keep the absolute eye level.
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Rookie82 4 years ago 8 2
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Promoted to Chief Designer
Congratulations from me ... on the one hand for the promotion itself and highest respect for the stamina shown.

Bottled has been with the company since '98, completed his training as the best in his class and has obviously been resting (too) long on his laurels. If you think it's not so bad, you could also say that he has been working to a reasonable standard of quality, but hasn't even begun to realize his full potential.
He always identified himself with the company and, according to his own statement, but perhaps only for convenience, a career change was never an option.

Halfway dragging talent in connection with the wealth of experience gained until 2019 - basically nobody knows the shop better than he does - have been enough to offer him the position of chief designer after 21 years. Today, almost a year later, this decision is rightly celebrated as one of the perhaps best in the recent history of the company.

Thinking about this for too long, decision-makers, self-critical as they are ideally positioned in a reflective manner in their profession, will probably struggle with the missed opportunity that companies have not realigned themselves with this personnel at an earlier stage. Well, in the aftermath they are all always smarter.

Bottled, who until now has been more of a swimmer than a draught horse, is really taking off in his new role and hardly anyone beyond the executive floor notices!

If one would like to olfactorically assign his talent, which has been known since his training, one could certainly do this by means of the apple-cinnamon note, which is more than 20 years old and still very pleasing to the eye.
But if, in addition to talent, skills such as passion and a strategic orientation, based on the nerve of the time of known paths and trends, complement the existing competencies, then as a decision maker you can also pat yourself on the shoulder as a personalities. One should even do it!

Bottled Infinity has managed to carry the legendary approach of its more than established basic DNA into modern times. Many people try to do this, but most fail. In my opinion, the goal has not only been achieved, but exceeded by far. If the classical DNA recedes somewhat into the background after about 30 minutes, I would like to emphasize that he remains true to himself in his own way until the end.
This fruity-sweet, never too synthetic-looking opening is complemented by an impact of the most modern fragrances, which, however, in contrast to a Boss fragrance would suggest, leave a very high-quality impression in my nose.
This mixture is then for many hours, 6-8 it will be depending on the dosage at the end, setting the tone and as the good lucky devil already formulated it aptly, this does not make you think of a cheap designer fragrance, but creates a niche vibrant, in a pleasing way ... wearable all year round and here of course, in my view, halfway clearly undervalued.

If you're not bothered by a moderately sweet flicker in the background, you might have thought, like me, that Bottled Infinity is one of the best fragrances of its genre.
Originally, the idea was to let him compete against the PDM-Percival, so that in the end one of them would leave. The idea is off the table, they complement each other wonderfully in a collection.

200ml Bottled Infinite I bought for about 50 Euro.
In view of the high quality offered for the money, I strongly recommend a test to curious readers.
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