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Wonderful
Since I had to dispose of a bottle of this fragrance a few weeks ago, which I had probably left lying around in my colourful collection for too long and whose top note was unfortunately totally ruined, Mauboussin hasn't let me go
Because when emptying the atomizer I accidentally spilled a little bit on my shirt and was very surprised when after a while an enchanting scent blew around me, which was due to the at first not very pleasant smelling stains.
The shirt wandered into the laundry, but the scent persisted in my memory.
A little research on Mauboussin revealed that the perfume is a mega-bargain, given the very ambitious prices for the brand's jewellery, and so what belongs together came together.
This opulent, soft, warm bouquet had me from the first second on and in my enthusiasm I am a bit irritated that currently 68 members own the fragrance, but so far only 3 comments and 2 statements have been made about it.
Such a beautiful, round fragrance, in which head, heart and base form a unit, I had to search for a long time.
I do not smell the fruit and not explicitly the flowers, for me Mauboussin is immediately an Oriental, which gets along completely without spices.
In between I find a note that I also recognized in Micallefs Hiver, and when comparing the two there are definitely parallels.
However, I like Mauboussin better by classes, especially since after a while he develops an irresistible elegance besides opulence.
He is not loud, has no huge silhouette, but stays close, but very persistent with me.
I'm struggling for words, but I can't really describe him. It is not very sweet, neither fruity nor flowery, not powdery or balsamic, it is not easy to classify and yet it is a stunning work of art, which I admire very much
The only downer: I don't consider hoarding in view of my experience described at the beginning and I would be heartbroken if I had to throw some of it away again.
Because when emptying the atomizer I accidentally spilled a little bit on my shirt and was very surprised when after a while an enchanting scent blew around me, which was due to the at first not very pleasant smelling stains.
The shirt wandered into the laundry, but the scent persisted in my memory.
A little research on Mauboussin revealed that the perfume is a mega-bargain, given the very ambitious prices for the brand's jewellery, and so what belongs together came together.
This opulent, soft, warm bouquet had me from the first second on and in my enthusiasm I am a bit irritated that currently 68 members own the fragrance, but so far only 3 comments and 2 statements have been made about it.
Such a beautiful, round fragrance, in which head, heart and base form a unit, I had to search for a long time.
I do not smell the fruit and not explicitly the flowers, for me Mauboussin is immediately an Oriental, which gets along completely without spices.
In between I find a note that I also recognized in Micallefs Hiver, and when comparing the two there are definitely parallels.
However, I like Mauboussin better by classes, especially since after a while he develops an irresistible elegance besides opulence.
He is not loud, has no huge silhouette, but stays close, but very persistent with me.
I'm struggling for words, but I can't really describe him. It is not very sweet, neither fruity nor flowery, not powdery or balsamic, it is not easy to classify and yet it is a stunning work of art, which I admire very much
The only downer: I don't consider hoarding in view of my experience described at the beginning and I would be heartbroken if I had to throw some of it away again.
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The younger sister
Siblings are often - consciously or not - in competition with each other, especially if they are of the same sex, close together in age and in the same circle of friends.
So it is inevitable that the sympathies are not always equally distributed and that some people like one and others like the other better.
In the best case, however, one likes both of them equally, and that's how I feel about Beyond Rose and her somewhat older sister Calligraphy Rose, whose scent DNA is about 80% identical and who seemed to be so similar to each other that I could mistake them for each other when I met the younger one and had not had any contact with the older one for a while.
Beyond Rose also immediately captivates me with an opulent, sweet-spicy, syrupy rose tone. Maybe it is a little bit more sparkling and lively in the beginning - it has more pepper
In her heart she seems to be a little hippie, because I perceive patchouli here and have to smile about the Goa association of Mahatma, which matches my impression.
She is just as cuddly and flattering as Calligraphy with this warm balsamic and resin base, which also ensures very good adhesion, so that the "little sister" with her unobtrusive cheerful presence accompanies me throughout the day.
Which scent I would prefer here, I can't say for the life of me.
They are both wonderful and are in no way inferior to each other in terms of presentation, they come in great, luxurious flacons, which I find very appealing.
And so I welcomed both Sisters of the Rose warmly into my home.
So it is inevitable that the sympathies are not always equally distributed and that some people like one and others like the other better.
In the best case, however, one likes both of them equally, and that's how I feel about Beyond Rose and her somewhat older sister Calligraphy Rose, whose scent DNA is about 80% identical and who seemed to be so similar to each other that I could mistake them for each other when I met the younger one and had not had any contact with the older one for a while.
Beyond Rose also immediately captivates me with an opulent, sweet-spicy, syrupy rose tone. Maybe it is a little bit more sparkling and lively in the beginning - it has more pepper
In her heart she seems to be a little hippie, because I perceive patchouli here and have to smile about the Goa association of Mahatma, which matches my impression.
She is just as cuddly and flattering as Calligraphy with this warm balsamic and resin base, which also ensures very good adhesion, so that the "little sister" with her unobtrusive cheerful presence accompanies me throughout the day.
Which scent I would prefer here, I can't say for the life of me.
They are both wonderful and are in no way inferior to each other in terms of presentation, they come in great, luxurious flacons, which I find very appealing.
And so I welcomed both Sisters of the Rose warmly into my home.
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Wanderer between the worlds
In retrospect, it sometimes seems to me that I have already lived several lives.
Not in the sense of rebirth, but in the form of self-contained periods of time, after each of which a serious change took place and a completely new phase of life began. A moulting, so to speak, or a new chapter.
Close Up sends me decades back into a time that seems like a completely different world to me today. Although I grew up in a place that even then called itself a "city", it consisted of several formerly independent neighbouring communities in a rural environment, which at some point were combined and declared a city.
In one of these districts there was a cider factory, where the citizens delivered their apple harvest every autumn, which was pressed there and filled into barrels, where the apple juice was then fermented into must. Also my grandparents always had several barrels in the cellar and when the filling was fresh and the alcohol content was still low, we children also got one or the other glass of it.
I find this not yet fully fermented, fruity cider together with the scent of fresh horse apples exactly in the top note of Close Up. And I like it
While the horse droppings in the background constantly resonate, the must becomes increasingly spicy, developing into a Christmassy glow cider with cinnamon and cloves, so to speak.
Now a delicate tobacco note also appears, which is exceptionally well suited to the whole thing.
I also find parallels to Haram/Farah and Ambre Narguilé in the course of the fragrance, but in a direct comparison these two are clearly more almond-marzipan and the horse manure is missing, which makes Close Up so unique for me.
If it is initially very present and easily perceptible, it becomes increasingly quiet and after three or four hours can only be sniffed directly on the skin with the nose.
I find it very tasty and would like to thank the person who gave me this olfactory flashback to the past.
Not in the sense of rebirth, but in the form of self-contained periods of time, after each of which a serious change took place and a completely new phase of life began. A moulting, so to speak, or a new chapter.
Close Up sends me decades back into a time that seems like a completely different world to me today. Although I grew up in a place that even then called itself a "city", it consisted of several formerly independent neighbouring communities in a rural environment, which at some point were combined and declared a city.
In one of these districts there was a cider factory, where the citizens delivered their apple harvest every autumn, which was pressed there and filled into barrels, where the apple juice was then fermented into must. Also my grandparents always had several barrels in the cellar and when the filling was fresh and the alcohol content was still low, we children also got one or the other glass of it.
I find this not yet fully fermented, fruity cider together with the scent of fresh horse apples exactly in the top note of Close Up. And I like it
While the horse droppings in the background constantly resonate, the must becomes increasingly spicy, developing into a Christmassy glow cider with cinnamon and cloves, so to speak.
Now a delicate tobacco note also appears, which is exceptionally well suited to the whole thing.
I also find parallels to Haram/Farah and Ambre Narguilé in the course of the fragrance, but in a direct comparison these two are clearly more almond-marzipan and the horse manure is missing, which makes Close Up so unique for me.
If it is initially very present and easily perceptible, it becomes increasingly quiet and after three or four hours can only be sniffed directly on the skin with the nose.
I find it very tasty and would like to thank the person who gave me this olfactory flashback to the past.
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Where are you going?
Does a beautiful story always need a happy ending?
For a love story, I think that would be quite an advantage.
And such a one I had dreamed and hoped for after the many positive comments on Vol de Nuit.
Well, the story is quickly told in this case:
Scent sprayed on, after a greenish-bitter-citric prelude (pleasant) I briefly notice the much praised (and really very beautiful) Guerlinade, then a powdery touch remains and after half an hour everything is gone.
The performance is over so quickly that I can hardly describe anything
I have tried it fifty times, always with the same result, which leaves me frustrated.
Is it my skin? Does she really eat that smell? Or is the eau de toilette simply too weak? Did they accuse me of plagiarism at the end, although I bought it from an online perfumery?
Unfortunately, the same happened to Chant d'Arômes
Fortunately, there are also guerlains who stay with me.
Be that as it may - I would have loved to indulge in the scent and rave about it, but unfortunately I can only say with regret: le vol est mort...
For a love story, I think that would be quite an advantage.
And such a one I had dreamed and hoped for after the many positive comments on Vol de Nuit.
Well, the story is quickly told in this case:
Scent sprayed on, after a greenish-bitter-citric prelude (pleasant) I briefly notice the much praised (and really very beautiful) Guerlinade, then a powdery touch remains and after half an hour everything is gone.
The performance is over so quickly that I can hardly describe anything
I have tried it fifty times, always with the same result, which leaves me frustrated.
Is it my skin? Does she really eat that smell? Or is the eau de toilette simply too weak? Did they accuse me of plagiarism at the end, although I bought it from an online perfumery?
Unfortunately, the same happened to Chant d'Arômes
Fortunately, there are also guerlains who stay with me.
Be that as it may - I would have loved to indulge in the scent and rave about it, but unfortunately I can only say with regret: le vol est mort...
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The day after
It's curled up there.
Gently I put my hand over it. He's cool.
Yesterday he snuggled up warm against my neck
I'll pick it up
A very pleasant creamy fragrance clings to it, not sweet, but with a slightly green vibrating impact.
My nose is drawn to it and she breathes a few deep breaths of this delicious echo of my past undertakings.
The smell is clearly noticeable even at a distance and I hesitate, I would like to keep it for a while
Then I put the scarf into the washing machine with all the other clothes and turn it on
Why not repeat the experience from the very beginning?
The simple bottle with the typewriter label releases a load of juicy citrus fruits, which I find neither sweet nor particularly sour or bitter, but simply refreshing and above all natural.
Very briefly, I perceive the typical classic 4711 Eau de Cologne scent, but Le Labo's Bergamote 22 is embedded in a gentle creaminess, although this seems to me to be a somewhat inappropriate description, because cream in itself smells at best slightly chemical and only receives the "typical" cream smell through the added fragrances.
It is probably the vanilla that creates this soft, flattering, somehow homely and not at all chemical association.
At the same time the scent oscillates and seems to be there and then gone again.
I often have this perception when vetiver or even ISO-E-Super is included.
Vetiver provides here for a golden-green lightness, which Bergamote 22 radiates for me.
On my skin I can't perceive the scent very strongly, but it transfers well to clothes and sticks there for a very long time.
Of course you should not expect a monstersillage from a citric perfume and so I am also very satisfied with this fine and noble clean scent, which even days later from the dirty laundry still winks at me.
Gently I put my hand over it. He's cool.
Yesterday he snuggled up warm against my neck
I'll pick it up
A very pleasant creamy fragrance clings to it, not sweet, but with a slightly green vibrating impact.
My nose is drawn to it and she breathes a few deep breaths of this delicious echo of my past undertakings.
The smell is clearly noticeable even at a distance and I hesitate, I would like to keep it for a while
Then I put the scarf into the washing machine with all the other clothes and turn it on
Why not repeat the experience from the very beginning?
The simple bottle with the typewriter label releases a load of juicy citrus fruits, which I find neither sweet nor particularly sour or bitter, but simply refreshing and above all natural.
Very briefly, I perceive the typical classic 4711 Eau de Cologne scent, but Le Labo's Bergamote 22 is embedded in a gentle creaminess, although this seems to me to be a somewhat inappropriate description, because cream in itself smells at best slightly chemical and only receives the "typical" cream smell through the added fragrances.
It is probably the vanilla that creates this soft, flattering, somehow homely and not at all chemical association.
At the same time the scent oscillates and seems to be there and then gone again.
I often have this perception when vetiver or even ISO-E-Super is included.
Vetiver provides here for a golden-green lightness, which Bergamote 22 radiates for me.
On my skin I can't perceive the scent very strongly, but it transfers well to clothes and sticks there for a very long time.
Of course you should not expect a monstersillage from a citric perfume and so I am also very satisfied with this fine and noble clean scent, which even days later from the dirty laundry still winks at me.
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