Patience is the Virtue of the Happy
Uncommented Fragrances No. 52 “Patience is the virtue of the happy.” A quote from the Dutch philosopher Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677) seems to me a fitting guideline for testing this fragrance. The miserable average ratings already hint at it: The fragrance initially fails to promote itself for a long time. Upon applic...
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The Great Crawling - Part 2
What fascinated me so much about the Loant series that I wanted to test the fragrances (a heartfelt thank you to Franfan20 for sending the sample series!)? It is the ant on the bottles that captivated me immediately. The word "ant" is likely related to the Old High German word for "diligent." Anyone who has ever dealt...
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The Great Crawling - Part 2
What fascinated me so much about the Loant series that I wanted to test the fragrances (a heartfelt thank you to Franfan20 for sending the sample series!)? It is the ant on the bottles that captivated me immediately. The word "ant" is likely related to the Old High German word for "diligent." Anyone who has ever dealt...
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A Riddle
Unkommentierte Düfte No. 50 For a while, I wondered which fragrance would be suitable for the 50th comment in my little series "Unkommentierte Düfte," until I suddenly became certain some time ago that it would be: Piver's Un Parfum d‘Aventure. A riddle: the unknown traditional house The fragrance house L.T. Piver is o...
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Lord on Speed
Uncommented Fragrances No. 147 I am anglophile. Many know this. I have a fondness for English fragrances. Many know this. I enjoy wearing tweed blazers. Many know this. That’s why I eventually stumbled upon Deco London. Lothar Ruff, owner of The English Scent and a reliable style advisor for British shaving and fragran...
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Heavy Metal
Dark, heavy, massive. Perfume Calligraphy is liquid Heavy Metal: Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Blind Guardian. During my first test of this perfume, I had expected something more elegantly Arabic, mentally led in a different direction by the beautiful script on the bottle. In reality, however, the scent is not playful and...
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Emancipation
Uncommented Fragrance No. 136 I will leave the discussion about the reformulation and the supposedly much better original scent aside here, as I probably know the original (tested 15 years ago), but have neither a sample in my fragrance organ nor a memory stored in my brain. Therefore, I explicitly do not participate i...
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The Great Crawling - Part 2
What fascinated me so much about the Loant series that I wanted to test the fragrances (a heartfelt thank you to Franfan20 for sending the sample series!)? It is the ant on the bottles that captivated me immediately. The word "ant" is likely related to the Old High German word for "diligent." Anyone who has ever dealt...
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The Great Crawling - Part 2
What fascinated me so much about the Loant series that I wanted to test the fragrances (a heartfelt thank you to Franfan20 for sending the sample series!)? It is the ant on the bottles that captivated me immediately. The word "ant" is likely related to the Old High German word for "diligent." Anyone who has ever dealt...
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An Antidote
You wake up surrounded by overturned ashtrays, empty champagne glasses, unwashed plates; some of the leftovers have spilled onto the floor. Your wife seems to have made it to bed. At least you don’t see her amidst all the chaos. Your cat is enormous and your face is disheveled, as a first glance in the mirror reveals....
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For Connoisseurs
Uncommented Fragrance No. 149 All the guys who are only interested in a strong sillage and endless longevity can really stop reading here immediately, without hesitation and without a guilty conscience towards me. I am not resentful, and I don't care about differing opinions anyway. However, if you like to choose a fra...
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Phenomenology of Lemon
There is a fragrance line on the edge of the scent universe that places an intense, fruity, somewhat dark lemon with a slightly animalistic note at its center. Lemon with flesh is my association. This includes fragrances like Citrus Paradisi by Czech & Speake, Spiced Limes by Crown (or in a slightly weaker version from...
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