Thoughts On Frederic Malle Leaving His Own Brand -- And Reviews Of Some Of His Classic Scents

Frederic Malle has announced he's leaving his own brand -- some thoughts from me, followed by reviews of a few his classic releases

— The speculators I alluded to above are theorising about all manner of likely (and less likely) reasons and scenarios. Take your pick from whichever of the following you fancy: i) thwarted creative freedom, ii) clashing and disagreeing with the marketing strategies employed by a multi-national monolith, iii) not wanting to put up any longer with his perfumes being cheapened, iv) the end of the…

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I love this interview excerpt with Bourdon, who made Bois d’Orage, which I also love.

dear kristina, its minimum wage tgirly fragrence anon...I'm still on my fragrence journey, i was wondering, are there any scents u luv that are really like rainy and aquatic, but with a sharp spice or citrus underneath...i wanna remind people of a rainy day with no work and nowhere to really go <3

hi darling <3 i love acqua di gio (this one is harder to find now that they have acqua di gioia) & light blue, i love cool water - this one is a masc marine smell but also soapier than the other two, i love how it feels on my skin. i love pierre bourdon's work, he worked with olivier creed on erolfa & GIT as well

erolfa is on the more expensive side, i had a sample and i really liked the vibrant citrus at the top. kind of like eating a fruit salad and getting a sudden splash of seawater in your face

Is there a list of frev figures who claimed to be at the storming of the Bastille? The people I know who said they at least witnessed it is pretty eclectic like Herault, Léon and Saint-Just.

I found all the (official?) ”vainqueurs de la Bastille” listed in alfabethical order here (1889). However, according to Michael J. Sydenham’s Léonard Bourdon: The Career of a Revolutionary, 1754-1807, who’s subject of study claimed to belong to this group, simply holding this title was not a guarantee that you had actually taken part in the storming itself:

The only people found on the list that I myself recognized were those of the dantonist Louis Legendre, the girondin Claude Fauchet and the general Antoine Joseph Santerre. I therefore don’t know if the people claiming to have participated in the storming here below are just lying (saying you played a role in it after all being something that would easily better your patriotic reputation) or if their participation just wasn’t recorded (which doesn’t sound particulary hard to be true either):

Stanislas Fréron claims in a letter to Lucile Desmoulins dated October 18 1793, that both he, Barras and La Poype ”besieged” the Bastille.

Pierre Nicolas Berryer wrote in his memoirs that the Convention deputy Bourdon d’Oise participated in the storming of the Bastille, and still kept the blood stained coat he had worn during it five years later:

At the same time, and as if he felt the need to convince me even more of the strength of his mind, [Bourdon] took out from under his bed an oblong casket, in which was tucked the coat he had worn on the day of the storming of the Bastille… […] He took great care to point out to me that his coat was still covered with stains from the blood he had spilled at the Bastille. 

Albert Mathiez summarized in the article La vie de Héron racontée par lui-même (1925) a memoir the Committee of General Security spy François Héron wrote while imprisoned after thermidor. In it, he would have claimed to have participated in the storming of the Bastille, as well as the women’s march on Versailles, the demonstration of June 20 and the Insurrection of August 10.

According to Dictionnaire des parlementaires français (…) de 1789 à 1889, Jacques-Alexis Thuriot took part in the storming.

Regarding some more well known guys and their Bastille activities, Desmoulins, in a letter written to his father written July 16, leaves a rather detailed description of the storming. Through the following part, he does however indicate that he himself missed it:

Then, the cannon of the French Guards made a breach. Bourgeois, soldiers, everyone rushes forward. An engraver climbs up first, they throw him down and break his legs. A luckier French guard followed him, seized a gunner, defended himself, and the place was stormed in half an hour. I started running at the first cannon shot, but the Bastille was already taken, in two and a half hours, a miracle that is.

Camille also adds that, on July 15, he was among the people who scaled the ruins of the stormed Bastille:

However, I felt even more joy the day before, when I climbed into the breach (montai sur la brèche) of the surrendered Bastille, and the flag of the Guards and the bourgeois militias was raised there. The most zealous patriots were there. We embraced each other, we kissed the hands of the French guards, crying with joy and intoxication.

On July 23 1789, Robespierre wrote a letter to Antoine Buissart telling him he had gotten to see the ”liberated” Bastille, but he had of course not participated in the storming himself:

I’ve seen the Bastille, I was taken there by a detachment of the brave bourgeois militia that had taken it; because after leaving town hall, on the day of the king's trip, the armed citizens took pleasure in escorting out of honor the deputies they met, and they could only march among acclamations from the people. What a delightful abode the Bastille has been since it came into the power of the people, its dungeons are empty and a multitude of workers work tirelessly to demolish this odious monument to tyranny! I could not tear myself away from this place, the sight of which only gives sensations of pleasure and ideas of liberty to all good citizens.

According to Danton: le mythe et l’histoire (2016), Danton did not take part in the actual storming of the Bastille, however, the following day he went to the abandoned prison and took the provisional governor hostage:

Absent from the storming of the Bastille, it was on the night of July 15 to 16 that Danton took action. At the head of a patrol of the bourgeois guard of his district, of which he proclaimed himself captain, he claimed, we do not know in what capacity, to enter the "castle of the Bastille,” placed under the control of the elector Soulès, as provisional governor. Without worrying about his powers, Danton has him kidnapped and taken to City Hall, surrounded by a threatening crowd. But Soulès was released the next day upon the intervention of La Fayette; Danton's initiative was openly disavowed and blamed by the assembly of electors.

According to Clifford D. Connor, Marat wrote the following about his activities on July 14 1789 in number 36 of l’Ami du peuple (12 November 1789):

Duty Free Quick Takes

smelled on the strip, not on me

Hermes Jour d'Hermes

Nose: Jean-Claude Ellena

notes: grapefruit, lemon, water; white flowers, gardenia, sweet pea; musk, woody notes

a rather unfriendly fancy-hotel-soap scent in a chilly aquatic-fruity style; nice enough but doesn't spark joy.

CK One

Nose: Alberto Morillas

notes: lemon, green notes, bergamot, pineapple, mandarin, cardamom, papaya; lily of the valley, jasmine, violet, nutmeg, rose, iris, freesia; green accord, musk, cedar, sandalwood, oakmoss, green tea, amber

Surprisingly musky! A nice contrast between unisex citrusy-green freshness and something a bit dustier or sweatier.

CK IN2U For Her

Notes: pink grapefruit, bergamot, currant leaf; cactus, orchid; vanilla, cedar, amber

Painfully screechy chemicals and cloying sweetness and unpleasant "choking" musks? Wow.

CK Be

Nose: Rene Morgenthaler

Notes: lavender, green notes, bergamot, mint, juniper, mandarin orange; grass, peach, jasmine, freesia, magnolia, orchid; musk, sandalwood, cedar, vanilla, amber, opoponax

A very simple but peaceful "clean green" synthetic scent, like a single gong ringing out into a quiet evening.

YSL Paris

Nose: Sophia Grojsman

notes: rose, mimosa, hyacinth, geranium, green notes, nasturtium, orange blossom, hawthorn, cassia, bergamot; violet, lily, linden, ylang-ylang, lily-of-the-valley, jasmine, iris; musk, heliotrope, sandalwood, oakmoss, amber, cedar

A delicate, baby-blue, powdery violet with other soapy florals. Not nearly as loud or sweet as I expected from descriptions; more of a clean ladylike scent.

Davidoff Cool Water

Nose: Pierre Bourdon

notes: sea water, lavender, mint, green notes, rosemary, calone, coriander; sandalwood, neroli, geranium, jasmine; musk, oakmoss, tobacco, cedar, amber

This is the OG aquatic scent and it's still startling how happy a smell it is and how it does right what countless imitators get wrong. Crisp, masculine, with a bit of tart fruit, it basically smells like the world's cleanest, most invigorating shower.

Armani Stronger With You

Nose: Cecile Matton

notes: cardamom, pink pepper, violet leaf, mint; pineapple, cinnamon, melon, sage, lavender; vanilla, chestnut, amberwood, cedar, guaiac

Interesting sweet-dark chestnut note, drowned out by an obnoxiously loud woody-amber.

Lancome Poeme

Nose: Jacques Cavallier

notes: narcissus, datura, peach, plum, poppy, mandarin, blackcurrant, bergamot, green notes; mimosa, vanilla, tuberose, ylang-ylang, orange blossom, jasmine, freesia, heliotrope, rose, leather; amber, tonka bean, musk, cedar

This is a real, full-bodied perfume; a big ol' heady aldehydic floral, lots of sweetness, lots of fluffiness, tuberose and mimosa are definitely involved. Your mom is wearing her good jewelry and going to the opera. Can one...actually, y'know, wear it? in 2023? Probably not, or at least not without irony, but it at least has artistry.

Brickclub 4.11.5, “The Old Man”

Once again, Gavroche is singing and I have no idea what to make of it--except that it seems ominous. It’s hard to follow whether all the animal references refer to the same animal, but it sounds like it’s about a tiger eating, or at least glad at the prospect of eating, two drunken sparrows, who either become or are called wolves while intoxicated. This... seems like a bad omen.

The chorus of the song lists places--two customs tollgates (Passy and Pantin, which is argot for Paris), and two things I think are villages? (Chatou and Meudon)--with nonsense rhymes and the refrain “I have only one God, one king, one sou, one boot.”

The king is also interesting--Gavroche has sung about kings before, but it’s surprising to hear him owning one, even in a fairly nonsensical song.

I really don’t know what to do with this song; if anyone has ideas or links I’ve love to see them.

I also cannot find any reference to the Rue Bassompiere that Enjolras & co. escape down. The Boulevard Bourdon, where the Amis are when the dragoons charge, is the portion of the Boulevard that continues south of the Elephant of the Bastille, next to the canal; the Rue Lesdiguières, where they meet Mabeuf, is parallel to it with no intervening parallel streets, and the connection between them is the end of the Rue de la Cerisaye. The 1830 map I’m getting all of this from does not list a Rue Bassompiere anywhere in the key--there is a Rue Basse-Saint-Pierre, which would have been pronounced as Bassompiere, but it’s all the way over by the Champs-Elysées. Gavroche’s progress down from Ménilmonant follows the map, but as soon as the Amis appear the geography starts getting weird--in the next couple of chapters, they’re somehow going to miss Saint-Merry despite going right past it, and the Rue de la Chanvrerie where they build the barricade is Hugo’s own spelling for what the map calls the Rue de la Chanverrie and Hugo will insist was originally the Rue de la Champverrerie.

And then there’s Mabeuf.

He’s weaving in the street like a drunken man, not seeing where he’s going. Courfeyrac tells him they’re going to fight, there’s going to be cannon-fire and saber cuts, and Mabeuf just says “Good.” And then--after establishing that they’re going to die--he asks where they’re going. Courfeyrac says they’re going to overthrow the government, and Mabeuf says “Good,” and his face gets blanker, but “Suddenly, his step became firm.”

The rumor spreads that he’s a Conventionist, an old regicide. He’s the farthest thing from it--but he’s found his way to the Revolution.

I am always surprised that we learn in passing that Courfeyrac has accompanied Marius to Mabeuf’s many times. In Marius’s POV, we never heard anything about this--his two friends were always contrasted with each other and kept quite separate. It’s one of a lot of examples where the narrator makes it sound like Marius hasn’t spoken to a living human being in months and then casually drops in a perfectly normal exchange with one of the Amis, and it really makes me question the reliability of everything else we see solely or mostly through Marius’s eyes--he’s so depressed and checked out that in his own POV, he’s completely alone and other people (besides Cosette) just aren’t making an impression; but clearly at least until the last few months, when he started to pull away from everyone including Mabeuf, he was still managing to keep up at least some social ties.

Déclin des insectes : la pollinisation a le bourdon

See on Scoop.it - EntomoNews

Les plantes à fleurs se reposent sur les pollinisateurs depuis l’ère des dinosaures pour effectuer leur reproduction sexuée. Pourtant, elles tendent maintenant à augmenter leur taux d’autofécondation pour faire face au déclin de ces derniers. Quelles sont les conséquences de cette adaptation ?

  La Science, CQFD

Natacha Triou

Mercredi 17 janvier 2024

    Avec

Emmanuelle Porcher - Écologue, chercheuse et enseignante au Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle

Pierre-Olivier Cheptou - Directeur de recherche au CNRS au Centre d’Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive à Montpellier

  "Entre les plantes à fleurs et les insectes pollinisateurs, c’est une symbiose qui file le parfait amour depuis 150 millions d’années. Mais la crise environnementale est en train de changer la donne. Comment la disparition des pollinisateurs affecte-t-elle les plantes ?

  C’est le système reproductif le plus sophistiqué et le plus performant du monde végétal : la pollinisation. Les insectes profitent des plantes pour se nourrir, les plantes profitent des insectes pour se reproduire. Mais cet équilibre ancestral est menacé. En moins de 30 ans, les populations d’insectes ont probablement chuté de près de 80 % en Europe. Pour faire face à ce déclin massif et plus rapide qu’aucune autre extinction terrestre : certaines plantes s’autofécondent. Cette relation fleur-insecte est fragile, que se passerait-il si elle disparaissait ?

Comment la pollinisation entre fleur et abeille évolue sous l’influence environnementale ?

Un reportage réalisé par Céline Loozen.

  Au Laboratoire Écologie, Systématique et Évolution de l’Université de Paris Saclay, Olivier Chauveau, botaniste et ingénieur de recherche, étudie chez plusieurs espèces d’Iridiceae des mécanismes de pollinisation qui semblent émerger des modifications environnementales. Très colorées et endémiques de la pampa brésilienne, ce sont des fleurs élaiophores : elles sécrètent de l’huile, que des abeilles spécialisées cherchant d’autres ressources viennent recueillir.

  LA_SCIENCE_CQFD - Reportage

7 min

  Comment fonctionne la pollinisation et quelles conséquences du déclin des insectes ?

Retrouvez le thread de l’émission du jour sur le fil X (ancien Twitter) de "La Science, CQFD".

Les interactions plantes-pollinisateurs, une vitrine de la crise de la biodiversité - Leçon inaugurale d’Emmanuelle Porcher au Collège de France (2023)

Un "bébé" toute seule ? Les fleurs des champs s'autofécondent et "lâchent" les pollinisateurs (GEO, 2023)

Les fleurs des champs abandonnent les insectes pollinisateurs (CNRS, 2023)

Le déclin des insectes pollinisateurs (MNHN, 2023)

Le rôle oublié des insectes pollinisateurs (Vidéo CNRS, 2023)

À écouter : Sans pollinisateurs, les fleurs des champs font des bébés toutes seules (Avec sciences)

Davidoff Horizon Extreme Eau Parfum

A marca Davidoff ficou mundialmente conhecida por introduzir conceitos revolucionários na produção de tabacos. O seu fundador, Zino Davidoff, aprendeu a arte dos charutos e cigarros com seu pai, quando este abriu uma tabacaria em Genebra. A Davidoff expandiu-se rapidamente para outros segmentos de luxo como charutos, óculos, conhaques, artigos de couro e perfumes, tornando-se conhecida mundialmente com fragrâncias únicas como o Cool Water Eau de Toilette e o Echo Eau de Parfum. Originária da Rússia, a família Davidoff fugiu para a Suíça em 1906, em meio a tumultos políticos na Rússia. A marca expandiu-se em perfumes, artigos de couro e acessórios em 1980. A primeira fragrância introduzido pela empresa foi de Davidoff para Homens, em 1984. https://youtu.be/ztzOfSR8z58 A primeira fragrância foi criada em 1984 e a mais recente é de 2021. As fragrâncias Davidoff foram feitas em colaboração com os perfumistas Antoine Lie, Aurelien Guichard, Pierre Bourdon, Nathalie Lorson, etc. Davidoff apresentou a sua nova fragrância masculina Horizon em Fevereiro de 2016 como um perfume que simboliza o elo entre terra e ar, representando a liberdade, a aventura e a exploração. Um ano mais tarde, sua nova versão chega como Davidoff Horizon Extreme.

Davidoff Horizon Extreme

Davidoff Horizon Extreme Eau Parfum - Ele olha para frente, fixa um ponto na distância. Rápido e livre como uma águia, ele sobe de rocha a rocha. Pés no chão, ele sabe exactamente para onde está indo.. Horizon Extreme é uma composição oriental - amadeirada que vem em concentração EDP. A composição é plena de contrastes: as suas notas de topo frescas de toranja, gengibre e alecrim cruzam-se no coração quente de cedro, cypriol, couro e noz moscada. Acordes de âmbar e um cremoso sândalo podem ser descobertos na base.

Notas de topo: toranja, gengibre, alecrim Notas de Coração: cedro, cypriol, noz moscada, couro Notas de Base: sândalo, âmbar

O frasco Robusto, masculino, sóbrio e elegante, o frasco DAVIDOFF Horizon inspira-se nas formas da natureza, pedras erodidas e polidas pelas areias do tempo. Forte, directo e sem artifícios, emana uma presença intensamente firme, poderosamente masculina, que é maravilhosamente equilibrada por curvas serenas em vidro transparente para revelar a cor âmbar quente da fragrância. Descrito pelo designer de garrafas Alnoor como "um objecto que alguém quer pegar na sua mão", a tampa de metal distinta também é altamente funcional e apresenta mini-mecânica que protegem o spray de ser empurrado em movimento. Davidoff Horizon Extreme está disponível em 40, 75 e 125ml Eau de Parfum. Read the full article

Gadin 8 Liste de souhaits de Gézhillmlacotrage

En mon assolullité blattienne de connaissance du chat qui ment deux fois par jour, je présente cette supique au Tibrun de la plègue :

Cher Monsieur Tibrun,

Je m’appelle Gézhillmlacotrage pis j’ai deux ans. Ch’t’un enfant très gentil pis j’ai été super sage toute l’année. Papa y’a dit que ça servait à rien que je t’écrive parce qu’on est yinque des coquerelles pis le tibrun c’est pour la plègue, faque j’ai demandé à maman pis maman, elle, al’a dit que c’tait corrèque, mais là papa y’a dit que maman a faisait du fauzespoir. Ché pas c’est quoi du fauzespoir, mais là le monsieur bourdon avec les boucles d’antenne y’est passé pis papa y’est parti. Papa y va sauver la lempire des méchantes couleuvres pour qu’on devienne la plègue, faque là maman a dit que je peux t’écrire.

J’ai compris que tu zexauces des souhaits. Je voulais te demander pour des craies de toutes les couleurs, comme Miangeustraoutch al’a. C’est son mononque qui y en a rapporté du pays des perruches pis Miangeustraoutch al’a dessiné plein d’oiseaux couleurés su’l mur de pierres entre nos champs. J’aimerais ça moi aussi avoir des craies, même si chu pas tant bon en dessin. Je pourrais quand même dessiner des nœuds porte-bonheurs s’es portes du village pour empêcher les poilus de rentrer chez mes amis. Chu bon pour dessiner les nœuds.

La semaine passé, Miangeustraoutch al’a délégagé. Son papa y’a dit que ça devenait trop dangereux. C’t’à cause des gros poilus. Y’a-tu ça chez toi, Tibrun, des gros poilus? J’espère que non; sont pas gentils les gros poilus. Y font peur parce qu’y portent des narmures pis des braoules cloutées pis y descendent jamais de leurs gros bisons barbus, sauf quand qu’y rentrent chez le monde le midi quand toute la famille fait dodo pour leur faire des chatouilles. Mais c’est tellement des grosses chatouilles que les enfants pis les papas pis les mamans y rient trop fort pis leurs mandibules décrochent pis leur âme leur glisse par la bouche pour s’envoler dins étoiles rejoindre le vieux Crichnouque. Maman a dit que ça fait pas mal pis c’est juste très drôle, mais moi j’ai pas envie de rire autant que ça. Je veux juste retourner à’ maison, pis je veux que Miangestraoutch a revienne pour qu’on fasse des dessins ensemble.

Moi, j’ai pas vraiment besoin de mes propres craies. Je peux partager avec les amis. Mais pour ça y faut des amis. Monsieur Tibrun, tu pourrais-tu ramener les frères Mlesplégionstre, pis aussi Gnamiognel qui habitait au bout du rang, lui qui sent la soupe? Je pense qu’y’ont assez ri. Tu peux aussi ramener mes grandes sœurs. J’ai changé d’idée, ça me dérange pus qu’y jousent avec ma doudou.

Maintenant maman pis moi on habite chez le meunier Haleuspiatatal parce les gros poilus sont venus faire des chatouilles au village. A m’a réveillé pis on est partis par les tunnels pour éviter le gros soleil. On entendait leur narmure, pis je pense que j’ai entendu mes sœurs rire. J’tais content qu’y se fassent chatouiller, parce qu’y m’avaient volé ma doudou, mais là je m’ennuie plus de mes sœurs que de ma doudou.

Le meunier y crie fort pis y me laisse pas jouer dans le moulin avec lui pis maman. Y dit que c’est pour les grands seulement, le moulin, pis y m’embarre dans le pouloulailler. Au début j’aimais ça courir après les pouloulets, mais là j’aime pus ça pis je veux dormir avec ma maman.

Maman a dit que ça sera pus très long, que bientôt le meunier y va partir pis qu’y va nous laisser son moulin. A dit aussi que les poilus vont finir par aller hiberber pis qu’on va pouvoir retourner à’ maison. Moi je trouve ça long. Je veux rentrer tussuite! Pis je veux revoir les amis, pis papa, pis je veux que les gros poilus retournent chez eux pis qu’y’emmènent le meunier avec eux. J’ai décidé que c’est ça mon souhait. Tu peux me le zexaucer, Tibrun, parce que j’ai été super sage. Laisse faire les craies, tu peux les donner à un enfant qui est meilleur que moi en dessin.

Merci Monsieur Tibrun! Je t’aime.

Bonne journée, donne des bisous à tes sénaneurs,

Gézhillmlacotrage

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Cacheté par le Bureau du Tribun, Elurmurd J3-S1-M5-A4-L2-C20, Ère de Syeb Traduit de l’hiryal par le Jorneau

Tiens, j’ai envie d’écrire un texte de vieux con ce matin. Je me dis que 51 ans c’est le bel âge pour écrire mon premier texte de vieux con. Alors, entendons nous bien, je ne ferais jamais parti de la secte des « c’était-mieux-avant » et autre « on-ne-peut-plus-rien-dire ». D’ailleurs, en ce moment et à ce propos, y’a une petite musique qui m’agace. On voit des Didier Bourdon, Patrick Sébastien et autre Michael Young dirent des trucs comme « on ne pourrait plus refaire ce qu’on faisait aujourd’hui » etc. Je trouve ça complètement con et surtout complètement faux. J’ai toujours suivi les humoristes, satiriques et autres clowns. Et, sincèrement, on a jamais été aussi loin que maintenant. Je dirais l’inverse même. Quand j’avais 20 ans, on n’aurait jamais entendu à la radio les propos d’une Blanche Gardin, d’une Mahaut Drama, d’une Fanny Ruwet, d’un Wally Dia, d’un Pierre-Emmanuel Barré ou d’un Guillaume Meurice par exemple. Et quand à ceux qui pleurent éternellement l’esprit de Choron, je trouve que Salch, Berth, Lindingre ou l’équipe du Groland, par exemple, ne déméritent pas. Et à ceux qui me répondront : « oui, mais ils ne sont pas nombreux » je leur répondrais que c’était déjà le cas à l’époque. En ce qui concerne le « c’était-mieux-avant », ce n’est pas vrai non plus. Les années 80 et 90 c’étaient déjà de la bouillie ultralibérale, des gros cons racistes un peu partout, de la musique de merde, « Top 50 » ou autre « 2Be3 », et, comme aujourd’hui, fallait être spéléologues pour trouver des alternatifs. Et la télé, bah, c’était déjà de la télé. Le Hanouna de l’époque s’appelait Dechavanne et il faisait déjà des débats à la con style : gauchistes contre néo-nazis. Alors… On va se nicher mon vieuxconisme ?... Et bah, je suis un grand nostalgique de l’ennui des années 90. Je trouve qu’il était plus classe, plus beau, plus libre. Quand je m’ennuyais, en 1995 par exemple, j’allais me balader ou je dessinais des conneries. Je vous jure que c’était chouette de se balader dans Nancy sans avoir en poche ce portable maléfique. Et c’était tout aussi chouette de dessiner sans avoir cette envie mortifère de vérifier, tous les 2 minutes, si on n’a pas une notification quelconque. Un truc que j’aimais bien aussi c’était d’aller à Paris. J’y avais mes habitudes chez certains bouquinistes mais aujourd’hui ils ont tous disparu… Voilà. Je suis nostalgique de la vie sans portable, dont je suis tristement addict, et du Paris du « Boulinier » et autres « Mona Lisait ». Je donnerais tout pour retrouver ce bel ennui et le Paris des années 90…

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Send me a ✨(or 'sparkle' if you can't see it) and I will answer with what I think your muse would wear as a fragrance! Multimuses, please specify which muse! @starlsssankt

Oud Wood by Tom Ford (signature) now this just SCREAMS sasha to me imo. Its something Aleksander smells like on a regular day to day basis for the boy in the woods. Its dark, musky, woody, but refined and yet not overwhelming for a day to day scent. Having smelled this in person I could 100% see Aleksander wearing this 10/10. Wonderful scent. The amber drydown is fabulous.

Pour Homme Oud Noir by Versace (little palace) there is something about how Versace does their perfumes that has me certain that Sasha has worn it before. It gives me him in house at the Little Palace vibes with the neroli opening and the oud and leatherwood drydown. Its 'tres' elegant and befitting the -coughrulercough- of the little palace.

The Tragedy of Lord George by Penhaligon's (lmao because of the bottle but it screams 2nd army wear)this scent is by far the simplest of the ones listed but its pure Aleksander items in the fragrance with Woodsy Notes, Brandy, Amber and Tonka Bean. It feels like its barebones more militant sasha if i could explain it. I've never smelled this one before so it might be more refined than I'm expecting because this company is fantastic on how well formulated their fragrances are which i'm not mad about for sasha considering how sophisticated he seems to be.

FRENCH LOVER by Pierre Bourdon you know what just look LOOK at the description from the site and tell me it isn't sasha. Raw masculinity. For the man who would not normally wear perfume, who believes in naked attraction and relies on the simple seductive power of his rugged appearance. The spicy freshness of pimiento, angelica and juniper flowers melts into a woody sea of cedar, patchouli and vetiver, bound by galbanum and frankincense in a mysterious enhancement of men’s natural scent.

Parfum Murah Cocok Untuk Musim Panas

Hallo fragrance-lovers apa kabar? Semoga kalian dalam keadaan sehat & bahagia semua ya, Amin.

Pada blog ini, saya ingin membahas mengenai salah satu parfum favorit saya dalam pemakaian untuk kondisi / cuaca yang panas. Dalam hal ini pengujian saya untuk cuaca di Jakarta. Parfum yang akan saya bahas ini ialah Davidoff Cool Water eau de toillete. Parfum untuk pria ini dapat dikatakan memiliki klasifikasi wangi Aromatic Aquatic.

Seri "Cool Water" ini di launching / di perkenalkan kepasaran pada tahun 1988, pencipta wangi dari Davidof Cool Water ini ialah Pierre Bourdon. 

Parfum ini memiliki top notes: Sea water, Lavender, Mint, Green Notes, Rosemary, & Corriander, lalu di bagian middle notes nya ada Sandalwood, Neroli, Geranium, & Jasmine; lalu yang terakhir, dibagian base notes nya terdapat Musk, Oakmoss, Tobacco, Cedar, & Ambergris.

Sekarang saya ingin menceritakan tentang pengalaman saya dalam memakai parfum yang satu ini. Dibagian openingnya / di fase-1, parfum ini memberikan karakter wangi yang Segar (fresh), & "Tajam" (Sharp), wangi di fase-1 ini memberikan vibes / nuansa yang energic, serta memberikan nuansa kesegaran yang seolah-olah kita sedang bersantai di tepi pantai sambil menikmati hembusan angin laut di pagi hari. 

Kemudian kurang lebih 5 menit setelah fase-1, barulah masuk ke fase-2 yang memberikan wangi Woody (kayu-kayuan), & sedikit asam, sehingga menciptakan karakter nuansa wangi yang Maskulin. 

Kemudian kurang lebih 30 menit berlangsung dari fase-1, munculah fase-3 atau fase drydown, yg mana pada fase dry down wangi yang disuguhkan ialah wangi yang manis & asin sehingga memberikan nuansa yang hangat, & nyaman.

Parfum ini cocok untuk di pakai pria muda - tua, untuk aktifitas ke kampus, bersantai dengan teman-teman/keluarga, aktifitas setelah ber-olah raga, bahkan untuk aktifitas ke kantor. Parfum ini pun cocok buat kalian yang sering beraktifitas outdoor (diluar ruangan) saat siang hari, dengan suhu yang panas, & terkena polusi yang berlebih.

Ketahanan wangi dari parfum ini dikulit saya bisa sampai 3 jam-an, & untuk di pakaian bisa sampai 5 jam-an.

Jadi, bagi kalian yang sedang mencari parfum murah yang cocok untuk di pakai saat kegiatan outdoor dengan suhu panas, & banyak polusi serta wangi yang fresh, maskulin, & simpel, Saya rasa parfum dari Davidoff Cool Water yang satu ini bisa menjadi bahan pertimbangan kalian, dalam mencari parfum dengan kategori tersebut.

Akhir kata, terima kasih telah membaca blog ini, semoga kalian selalu di berikan kesehatan, rejeki, & kebahagiaan.