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But everything that touches us, you and me, binds us together like a bow stroke that draws a voice from two strings. (from: Love Song, by Rainer Maria Rilke) Basically, YSL perfumes are not really my fragrance house. Although over the course of my long...

Sometimes, when a bird calls or a wind stirs in the branches or a dog barks in the distant homestead, then I must listen and remain silent for a long time. My soul flees back, to where, a thousand forgotten years ago, the bird and the blowing wind were...

….she was able to save the boy and herself at the last moment on the wooden raft that was supposed to take them away from the Indian territory. On the river, this otherwise unsuccessful singer and barmaid proved to be incredibly...

................Carmina Burana and L'Air du Temps are very special to me, connected with a time when I was a young woman. A time when this perfume was my daily companion...

…….he had already gone to bed, almost sleepy he still hears her quietly entering his bedroom. The small nightlight on the console is still on and he sees how her long dark hair is artfully...

For Munich standards, she was a bit late to sign up for a ski course in her early twenties when she enrolled at Sport Scheck. In the early eighties, one was properly equipped with a jumpsuit and skis from Head, and she set off to the Dolomites...

I have owned two pieces of amber for many decades, which are kept in tiny turned soapstone boxes. Occasionally, I sniff them, and even after so many years, they have preserved their incomparable, warm balsamic scent. I bought them in Munich,...

The scent starts off citrusy fresh. Probably to put the tester's sense of smell at ease, I thought to myself during the first sniff... I have no idea what exactly Paradisone® is. In any case, this component of the top note must lend that...

Today while tidying up and reorganizing the perfume cabinet, I came across this beautiful Deseo bottle.... Yes... where have you come from, my little darling... I haven't sniffed you in ages... come here…. what a pretty bottle...

Daughters-in-law are known to have a hard time, but is that really the case? When I first met my future mother-in-law, I could see at first glance that she was a true lady. But more of the pragmatic...

It is midsummer, and as has been announced for some time, the municipality is renovating the streets in the town and covering them with a fresh layer of tar. What a hellish device a tar machine is, as it slowly approaches you in slow...

The base is the foundation of any structure... What a cliché. In the opening, fresh tarragon herb, accompanied by beautifully polished woods. It’s not quite there yet, as Oregon lavender is supposed to be part of it too....