going for the heavy stuff
Sorry to talk again about my sniffer…but with the airways free but somehow the system still being clogged up, I feel like not being ready to seriously evaluate rose version 3 or anything else, except for the heavy stuff, like….Aromatics Elixir (for a serious review follow this link to the perfumeshrine blog by helg). I got more curious after reading her interview with Jean Jacques… and returning home after my usual Sunday half-marathon the nose was half-way ready for input. And why not start with something calibre 30, if it doesn’t kill the sniffer, it will make it stronger. So spritz, we go and wow…that IS heavy stuff! Brave perfumer. What comes to mind is people of the labyrinth and their modern rose. In the elixir we find this 70-ies rose, that I find annoyingly sticky, and yet can’t remove the nose from the paper strip. Like (but this is the eighties…) I couldn’t get my nose off the TV, featuring Dallas, followed by Denver … Now, that’s what I call a role model, not these strange desperate housewives…I never got into it. I guess I missed big money there.
I am loosing track. So, back to the elixir. The nose is not ready for any details, but there is this lilial soapiness, and a mysterious backgrand, WOW! again, a brave dose of patchouli, reminding me of a trial made a couple of weeks ago, sitting in a corner, waiting to be finished, another line towards a rose. Both, this trial and aromatics elixir need a closer look once the system works as it should. Maybe I need to come up with a walk-in-paper-strip spraying technique, though!
“So, what else is up, until the sniffer is behaving again”, you might ask.
“Well”, I might answer, “this is a secret! Arrrgh…I wished I talk about it, but that’s the poiint with secrets. Thus, when not jogging, cooking or watering orchids or sniffing elixirs, I was working on my second electronic brain Sunday afternoon for a little future project that still is a secret.”
October 29th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Aromatics Elixir isn’t quite my kind of thing, so I’ll keep quiet on this. Dallas and Denver, aahh, I remember it well, lol. Desperate Housewifes isn’t my cup of tea.
Secrets? Yes, we’d like to know. Maybe one day, when you’re ready.
October 29th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Sorry, I should’ve proofread! Meant to say Housewives.
October 29th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
hehehe…don’t worry about the Housewifes. Happens to me all the time and much worse! (Do you know the firefox spelling checker plug-in? This really helps. It underlines everything you write if its wrong.
And finally the secrets…of course. It is like making a Christmas present… one day it will be there, wrapped and ready to be unpacked ;-)
October 30th, 2007 at 3:30 am
The problem with scents like Aromatic Elixir (and Opium, Obsession and many others) is that mst of us can recall a person or two who used to marinate themselves in it. Very often, these persons weren’t our favorite people. It makes trying to decypher the perfume after all these years less of a nose thing and more trying to let go of a memory. A hated math teacher, in my case.
And now I’m thinking about those Dynasty perfumes: I think both Krystle and Blake Carrington had their own scents. Probably not the greatest moments of 80s perfumery. And far far away from whatever secret you’re working on.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:21 am
Now, that is a very interesting aspect you mentioned and I just thought: “maybe this is why I came up with Dallas and Denver anyway”….because they are 80-ies for me and because they featured folks that were not easy to get along with. I do not know whether they marinated themselves… *love this expression*
Fragrant greetings to you!
October 30th, 2007 at 9:21 am
Oh, Andy, to see my review and the JJ interview re-generating interest in Aromatics Elixir! (Thank you!)
Interestingly I think it’s the method of “spray and walk through the mist” that was introduced for it that should account for a lighter effect. Otherwise it’s very powerful, indeed.
The patchouli is in mega doses in there and it’s not a sweet kind.
Hope you’re feeling better!
October 30th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
I appreciate that new goth-style rose scent by people of the labytinths, if i were a woman i would love it, for sure. Heavy stuff rocks!
October 30th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Oh, absolutely, Helg. when I read the interview, I knew I have to jump over my shadow and go for the aromatics elixir, although I was scared of the sniffing being an overkill. Well, in a sense it might be under normal conditions. But I figured out that for a nose that just gets 30% of what it usually does, the elixir might be the perfect start! I thank you for this review and send you fragrant greetings
Dear Jeff
I do not know. Maybe yes, but then….I guess if I was a women I would run constantly to the men’s department ;-)
Greetings from Zurich
October 30th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
If to talk about heavy stuff…what about creating a fragrance with a smell of chillie pepper? It would be something! :)
October 30th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
hehehe…you might need a weapon license, like you (in theory) need it for pepper spray. But how about Harissa by Comme des Garcons? ;-)
October 30th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Actually i dont like Harissa, synthetic orange with a hint of pepper….no! I mean REAL PEPPER. I’m just a big lover of VERY peppery food (indian and thai), so i dream about strong chillie pepper scent :)
October 30th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
I love Comme des Garcons, but to say the truth they produce too much of not interesting scents. Of course they have excellent Odeur 53, Odeur 71, 2man, synthetic series…etc. But they also do many boring scents, for example this week end i tried their new scent (some pink one with probably japanesse name i dont remember) and what? Nothing special, absolutely! I found Baldessarini Ambre much more interesting than that CDG scent…