Susan

You should definitely like frankincense. Myrrh too. The iris, which I also perceive clearly at first, quickly becomes background and remains perceptible only as a gentle pudrigkeit.....

Certainly, the listed patchouli also contributes in some way to the overall impression.....but for me it is not explicitly recognizable.....and also the leather flashes only for a brief moment and withdraws quite quickly back into hiding......probably to where the woody notes are already hiding from my nose......last are namely also quite discreet......which comes to me personally now again a little bit.......

In general, this fragrance seems to weaken amazingly quickly.....

After about 30-40 minutes, nothing remains but a hint of delicate powdery amber-honey sweetness with a bit of musk.....

Now this is not bad, but just a little disappointing....

For a brief moment, I feel like I'm in paradise.

For a brief moment, I think there might be a chance to reconcile myself with "zeitgeist" and synthetics after all....

The conceptual idea behind MEMOIRES DU FUTURE is to pay tribute to the "great fragrances" of the 20s to 40s, unite them with modern (synthetic) perfumery and bring them to new (zeitgeisty) life.

MEMOIRES DU FUTURE is a floral fragrance bedded on a chypre base.

So far so good. I should actually like this sight unseen. And it does.....at first.

For about 5 minutes I revel in "MEMOIRES" .... then - all of a sudden - the fragrance shows me the "olfactory" stink finger and transports me with an "olfactory" Ar**tritt in the "FUTURE"......was in this case the laboratory would be.....

All the beautiful blooms are swept away, buried or outright destroyed by a landslide of aldehyde....

From this stage on, I lack the technical chemical vocabulary to further describe the scent progression.

It just smells artificially chemical and sterile.

You can definitely like that. It is not now so that it would smell repulsive...

I personally, however, will not at all happy with this concept.

I don't usually appreciate it when reviews consist primarily of personal pictures and stories.....that may be quite amusing to read at times and absolutely true for the reviewer himself, but in the end it's far too individual and personal to allow the reader a somewhat objective idea of the scent......

With VIERGES ET TOREROS I see myself now but yet prompted to give at least a brief sketch of my spontaneous visual scent associations to the best......in the first place because I have rarely found a fragrance name as exactly "apt" as this......and YES....even virgins can be passionate ;-).....now then:

I smell:SEX

Namely, SEX between a hot-blooded and ultra-masculine-animal-leather-scented torero and a no less passionate, albeit slightly gentler and more floral-scented, Spanish woman.....whether she's actually a virgin remains to be seen ;-).....

Venue: a box on the grounds behind the arena....at 45 degrees.....the skin moist and hot......
Lips and hands greedily groping....

The perfumeCOURSE also follows that of a passionate love encounter.....it starts stormy, voluptuous, demanding ....reaches its climax in the perfect fusion of two subjects (analogous to the fusion of two bodies).....then gradually comes to rest in gentler and more tender realms......

To the fragrance:

Let it be said up front that this is almost certainly not a fragrance that will make friends with ease.

Although he follows all in all a fairly "classic" line, it is still very special. Similar to MAAI is also broken here with the stereotype of tuberose as an explicitly "feminine" fragrance note. It is staged in a pleasantly striking, unsweet and quite masculine way....

VIERGES et TOREROS opens with a clear and robust leather note, which is accompanied by spicy citrus......here could possibly one or the other already irritated turn away.....which would be a shame, however.....because within a few minutes, the wonderfully floral animalic joins......

And now the tuberose also has its big appearance......but, as already said, not in the usual sweet sultry way, but clearly greener and edgier.....the green impression is still somewhat strengthened by vetiver.....

As it progresses, the general scent becomes gentler and less demanding....but remains animalic-spicy-floral throughout.....

VIERGES et TOREROS certainly doesn't have the punch of a MAAI, but it's still a nice alternative if you're in the mood for more subtle animalicism....

But attention: NO fragrance twin...!!!

.....or: spatial geometry for the nose.

An oloid is a geometric solid with two edges but no vertices. It is one of the few known solids that roll over its entire surface.

Now the question surely arises for the scent-savvy reader: who cares about that...

And I have to admit: Probably no one.

Except (you guessed it): my very special "friend" Geza Schön *grins*.

II.2.a. Oloid Perfume is "Geza" at its purest......synthetic, sterile and aloof.....

One of the advertising slogans reads, "Not just a fragrance. A transmitter. Carries your innermost to the outside world."

Whatever this "innermost" may be, it does not seem "human". It could possibly be the "innermost" of an extraterrestrial life form.....a cyborg possibly.......something that does not communicate via a "soul" but uses binary codes to communicate....

Advertising slogan number 2 would also fit this: "Within me is infinity, my heart beats a thousand waves".

Thinking in the context of
II.2.a. Oloid of "infinity," I do not think of the immeasurable human soul, but of cold, empty space ........when I think of "a thousand waves," I do not think of the gentle waves of an azure sea, but rather of microwaves or some toxic cosmic radiation....

But now to the fragrance:

This is based on the scent of the associated soap II.3.a (which, by the way, has the shape of an oloid).

According to the manufacturer, this composition is a "subtle, clear woodruff note" that smells "cool and clean". The impression "cool and clean" I can absolutely confirm.....der woodruff, however, I do not really want to open......vielleicht but I just have no idea of "woodruff" :-D.....

What I perceive - and almost exclusively - is a bombastic citrus with a hint of musk.....similar to the "Sidolin strip free - lemon".......this does not change, by the way, in the further course.....it only becomes weaker, and thus more pleasant.....

There is really nothing more to say about II.2.a Oloid.

If you like cold, clinical-sterile, super clean scents, you might like this one.
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...which would certainly find numerous lovers, were it only a little better known.....

First of all, to the complete pyramid:

Head: almond, vanilla, sugar

Heart: bitter almond, almond milk, neroli

Base: musk, vanilla bean, amber, tonka....

I don't think the "gourmand-sweet" classification quite applies, or at least could lead you down the wrong path.......

ANIMANOBILE is not a "sweet gourmand" in the classic sense.....it is a delicate, filigree fragrance that makes me think of the soft and graceful movement of angel wings......

The start is bitter-green-milky with only moderate sweetness......just enough "sweet" to keep it from seeming tart, and just enough bitter green to keep it from slipping into sugary-sweet gourmand......

A really excellent balance has been achieved here for my nose, proving once again the high quality and craftsmanship of Omnia Profumi

Gradually, the bitter-green tones fade and the sweet impression gains the upper hand.....all however, the fragrance still remains elegant and subtle......even the neroli, which is often difficult for me, blends in wonderfully harmoniously and brings a fine and subtle freshness.....

The musk now also enters successively and skilfully counteracts a shaping into a "pure gourmand".....

Towards the base, the fragrance becomes increasingly warmer, cuddlier and delicately caramelly.....but retains its airy-tender impression until the end......

I could very well imagine that friends of "Douce Amere" could well find pleasure in ANIMANOBILE, although the latter is finer, airier and more elegant.......