joy and dance in spring
It is raining again and the affair with spring in January was more a one night stand than anything serious. But, the last two days were gorgeous with the light and temperatures feeling like March. It reminded us that things change to the better now and that the cleaning forces of winter come to an end and leave room again for decadency, joy and dance in spring. Away from these clean candles and out into the green swamp!
While waiting for spring, here an interesting thought about the two incenses, after having read PerfumePosse before running out of the house this morning. Maybe you want to read their thoughts first here:
I never thought about it, maybe I am wrong altogether, but in a sense the Incense extrême is a skin scent, staying close to the skin and mixing into its wearer’s scent aura, to use Chandler’s words “wrapping” its wearer, whereas the Incense rosé (that I am wearing right now this rainy morning with great joy…two puffs keep you going for eternities) is more on “the take me over”- side, taking quite some room for itself on the stage. In a sense, the Incense rosé with its castor note is more on the dark and dirty side. The French side of perfumes.
Now, this is -of course- a rough, “early in the morning” thought, but you might go one step further: Is this the dichotomy of European versus American fragrances? Wrapping versus taking room?
But then: Maybe it is not such a good idea to think about one’s fragrances in these if you are the creator. Creators tend to be blind.
So, without further thinking, we wait for tomorrow, when finally the first of the two, the Incense extrême, is ready and we can hit the button and forget about it and start thinking more about the Incense rosé and other ongoing experiments.
January 22nd, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I’ve yet to sniff the Incense Rose, but cannot wait. The Incense Extreme, however, always seems to get the compliments whenever I hug my friends. So it may be more of a skin scent, wearing closer to the body. I’ll have to experiment more when my full bottle comes; I’ve drained my sample you so kindly sent. Have a wonderful day.
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
All await the new baby !
Love to you…
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Andy, while my sample has yet to arrive (the mail to Mexico is questionable at best so I had the sample mailed to the US and my mother will bring it next week), I am convinced that I will love it. I find that most incense scents stay pretty close to the skin…even CDG’s Avignon, on me, was hard to smell after an hour unless you sniffed my wrist. The point is, does it fill a need? I always ask myself, when would I use this? I bet this would be great in the heat of summer when some perfumes would be too strong.
I am really looking forward to the Incense Rose, as well!
Kelley
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Dear Matt
It is interesting: I got some compliments on the I. extrême and in both cases from women who usually are not that fond of my scents because they find them too much…. But both of them did not hug me nor came otherwise close..thus, at least on me it is somewhat more diffusive.
And finally: Thank you very much for buying!
Dear Chayaruchama
I just got a phone call from Pascal, asking me to stock him up because his pre-orders have eaten what I have brought him…. It looks like I.e. will have a nice start tomorrow.
Kisses to you!
Dear Kelley
You know… (talking longevity) Incense is less a base note than more a middle to top note. And it is quite hard to fix…. and I think you are right about summer. Although…with AC we are living like in eternal spring ;-)
Greetings to you!