Perfume is memories but replicas do not have any!

I am writing this article for personal reasons.I lost my mother three years ago at the age of 84 and still remember her young and well dressed and her perfume. She loved heavy florals like madame Rochas or vanilla musky like Jovan. I had done a trip to Morocco in 2017 October and had asked the shop assistant in a perfumery shop in Tangier to assist me in buying a 50ml perfume for present to my mom. He sprayed on paper strips two perfumes and I chose one for her. I remember it was full of green notes and white flowers, tube- reuse , jasmin, gardenia, rose and amber and musk. I paid 12€ for an amazing parfum in a gorgeous, elegant bottle which looked like a round crystal flusk in a blue, velet pouch. I expected to pay much more for an eau de parfum 50ml and of such quality I decided to try the juice. I sprayed once on my left wrist and found out that this was not synthetic , was very fresh, projected well and not loud of course it was very well balanced and it was a feminine perfume. It lasted well too for about 4 hours in a rather warm season, beginning of October in Tangier the weather is like July in Paris.

It was later and during the first carantine of covid-19 that I decided to know more about perfumes not due to idleness but because i had some adequate knowledge on aromatherapy and essential oils from flowers ,woods and herbs. It was then that I decided to have a better appreciation and awe to Arabic perfumery which is so trendy now. See for example how popular Kayali perfumes are in Canada and in USA. So i had to buy samples and bottles by Ajmal, Sterling which owns Just Jack and Armaf, Rassasi and Al Haramain. . All  o based in Dubai. Just Jack though is located in London.

Right now all designers launch perfumes which are smokey due to the resins and all designers have perfumes based on agar wood. Niche companies like Italian Xerjoff have embraced the Arabic perfumery and culture even in the presentation. Don't the lids from Xerjoff  perfumes have a gothic shape of ancient gold rings of Egyptian vampire gods? Perhaps i suffer from a vivid imagination but that's how I see their lids.

Maybe the medinas of Fez and Tangier influenced Jim Jarmush to make a film about rich vampires who buy blood from a hospital. But on me they had an influence which mainly affected my aesthetics. I know better now than ever what  good quality is. And of course good quality does not nessecarily mean a huge price. Real niche often is so plain and simple that does not need to show off or be overpriced to get to be appreciated! And you know what? Harrison Ford could save a replica but not her memories. The replica never had any.