“Hmmm, this is good, isn’t it?”, said the perfumer enthusiastically, nose wide open.
“Well… that’s the one you showed me yesterday”, replied the W.-factor somewhat annoyed. He was wrong. “No!”, I go, “it may be somewhat close, though. You probably get the roses. Good, ain’t it?” the perfumer again.
“Well… “, the W.-factor goes, “there is something about it, I do not get along with. It is for women.”
“It is a chypre!”, the perfumer replied , somewhat disappointed already, and continues: “You do not like chypres, that’s it! I know. You did not appreciate Chypre by Coty. The gold standard! But imagine coming across this scent somewhere on the corridor! A woman wearing it passed by. You smell her perfume. This perfume! What would you do?”
The perfumer waves the white paper soaked with his rose latest TRIAL under the W.-factor’s nose.
Hope dies slowly.
“Run away”, the W.-factor replied, and continued working on some students tests.
So you see. Life of a perfumer can be hard ;-)
Fact is: The W.-factor does not like Chypres and for all of you who want to dig deeply into the matter of Chypres: Please visit Helg’s perfumeshrine and read her posts on Chypres. Ah…and when visiting her blog: Check our her review on the Incense extrême please!
Second fact: There is rose in the incense rosé and there is rose in this chypre -rose- TRIAL that still runs under no particular name. Both roses are integrated into a big splash of citrus (Clementine for the incense rosé, Bergamot and a touch Clementine for the rose trial).
But the take on the roses are quite different. In the rose TRIAL the rose is a powerful rose, integrated into a chypre structure; and -beside the natural absolute, I use for the first time a steam distilled rose oil (damascena, Bulgaria). This one complements the absolute and its dark sweetness and goes fantastic with the touch cinnamon (cinnamon alcohol), and Bay (eugenol!). Together with Bourbon Geranium steam distilled oil, Egyptian jasmine absolute, some salicylates and other flower power enhancers, the rose accord is heaven for me.
Next: Talking dilutions of this rose trial, and some words on patchouli.
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