Senses

"Red Velvet (Eau de Toilette) | Pink Sugar", what an auspicious name! It immediately conjures up associations with soft, reddish wafts of fragrance and an evening sky full of red cotton candy.
And the scent pyramid!
Synthetic strawberries, radiant orange blossom, gourmand notes and cream. If that's not a gourmand's secret fragrance dream!

I have to admit, I have tried many of the other fragrances from the "Pink Sugar" brand, but none of them appealed to me as much as this one.

The opening is very frothy, strawberry-like and completely synthetic. But in a skillful way, not at all disturbing or penetrating. Then comes a flowing transition to the soft, caramel-like gourmand note and bright orange blossom, which remains in the background. The gourmand note lingers on for hours until it reaches a creamy, strawberry finish. "Red Velvet (Eau de Toilette) | Pink Sugar" lasts for more than 9 hours, which is sensational for a fragrance in the lifestyle segment.
The fragrance can be worn at any time of day or night, except in midsummer when temperatures are above 25 degrees.

...said the 2nd year apprentice in the library specialization at the Humboldt University in Berlin to me when we took the elevator to the top floor for the interview after my "test run". The view from the very top over the exceptionally beautiful Berlin in the middle of April was fantastic.
My test run, in which I was to fetch two very different non-fiction books on two different floors in the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum only with the help of a piece of paper on which the locations of the books were noted, also went very well. The supervisor and time stopper, namely the trainee with whom I had contact all morning until the end of the entire interview, told me that no one had ever found the two requested media so quickly and brought them to the desired location as I had.
I remember both media well; one was a short essay about the need to save the climate now. Otherwise there would soon be no more habitable earth. The other book was from after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but dealt with a very old-fashioned topic: "Negro music is the key to the decay of the West!". Both monographs I skimmed briefly to get an idea of their content.
Arriving on the top floor, I opened one of the tilting tall narrow windows - the April day in Berlin was lime-scented and somewhat earthy, just as "Believe | Britney Spears" is for a long time - and said in jest to my guard, " What if I hop down here now?" It was all a joke, he had the scare, I had the fun.
The conversation then went not so fun, but that is now also no matter. Long live the lindenblütige liveliness of "Believe | Britney Spears" on an april beautiful day in Berlin or elsewhere.

But this bottle just caught my attention. I find this rectangular transparent perfume container with the stylized flower tendrils and "Forsaken" written in matching font very appealing. In addition, there is the rectangular abraded blood-red flacon lid and the small removable ring wrapped around the neck of the flacon with the two short chains, from which two drops of blood hang, which I find simply beautifully designed.
Now to the scent: "Forsaken" starts with ripe, synthetic-looking citrus and a crisp pear that are fruity but not tropical-sultry. After a few minutes, the jasmine shows up. Powdery, resinous and smoky, like dried jasmine flowers, a symbol of transience. This dried jasmine bouquet, persists in its scent direction, but is repeatedly broken by the citrus and crisp ripe pear. Then, hours may have passed, synthetic amber and patchouli show up in earthy resinous wrapping of the rest of the fragrance notes. The durability is about 8 hours, the sillage is initially perceptible arm long, but after an hour becomes weaker and is only very delicate perceptible

This 80s-Leisetreter I got me out of curiosity in the bay.
The fragrance smells initially citrusy, like a ripe cut lemon, mixed with the somewhat fensterkittigem smell of galbanum. The bouquet of full blooming white flowers is already close on the heels of the top note. No single note of the flowers is for me individually to determine. Better perceptible for me are the woody and earthy base notes, which flash from the top note together with light-footed musk again and again and ground the fragrance so and fix.
In total, "Luna" keeps 6 hours, then the fragrance may be refreshed.

Now that autumn is unfolding in full glory, it's time for autumnal gourmands. "BALR. 1" is one such fragrance. Full-bodied radiant caramelized plum supported by an opaque floral bouquet. Interspersed with all sorts of tropical fruits and some crunchy sand. I think the sandalwood is responsible for that fine-crunchy sand note. The scent remains stable under hours, but never gets boring due to the finely nuanced background notes. The sillage is and remains well perceptible for almost 5 hours. After that, "BALR. 1" with a shelf life of 10 hours slowly weaker, but is still quiet to erschnuppern.
The flacon I find very original, it has high recognition value.

Conclusion: A quite unusual fragrance that fits fully into the autumn