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| JCE for president. |
I inaugurated this journey today with Poivre Samarcande, a perfume that is an excellent example precisely of Jean-Claude Ellena's sensitive ability to play with the volume of notes if you permit the music reference. It starts out strong, not heavy, but strong with a direct presence that makes you very aware of the perfume you just applied. On me this last about an hour, not more. Then it just exhales, and lies down on your skin and the incense-like sharp woodiness becomes a soft spice veil. I imagine that lying in a big room a few blocks away from a spice market...a few hundred years ago...this is the scent that the transparent floating flowing curtains would reveal as the wind carried the air over the market to my house. But with only the nicest spices... I love this fragrance. It is so elegant and so clean. Slightly severe. No sweetness, no trying to please. Intellectual. And warm skin that smells of travel to places far away.
Samarkand, or Samarqand, is a city in Uzbekistan. It is on the Silk Road between China and the West. In 2001 it was added to UNESCO:s Wold Heritage List. Samarkand is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world.
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| The Registan in Samarqand. |
Tomorrow is Rose Ikebana day.
PS: You can order your own Hermessence or other Jean-Claude Ellena creations for Hermès directly from Hermès via their beautiful web.
Hi, my name is Sigrun and I just wanted to say hi. I'm looking forward to hear what you think of the Hermessences. I tried them myself first time this summer and I wasn't terribly impressed at first, as they're so airy in their Ellena style. But, they're growing on me, it's as their sketchiness does leave more room for myself to fill things up. Don't know if this makes any sense, just my 2 cents :)
ReplyDeleteHi Sigrun! How nice to get a hi from you! I completely understand your reflection, very interesting your thought about how they leave space for your addition, hadn't thought about it that way but being a person who works with communication that idea really appeals to me. I have had Ambre Narguilé for a couple of years and that one is quite tangible and sultry. It stands out from the other ones in that aspect I feel. There is something in the stringency and directness in the entire line that I am very attracted to, but they are quite different from each other the fragrances to say the least. :) Do you have a favorite? Will write more in next posts! Please share more of your reflections if you feel like it!
ReplyDeleteThank you :) Hm, I think my favourite is Paprika Brasil, followed by Vetiver Tonka and Vanilla Galante. Ambre Narguilé is certainly a great scent but I have some personal issues with it (traumatic childhood holidays in the Austrian alps featuring apfelstrudels). Nothing serious, but I rather wear other scents if I have a choice :)
ReplyDeleteIt's especially VG and also Brin Reglisse I was thinking about when I mentioned that "more room for myself"-thing. I think for most scents I create a mental persona corresponding to that scent, but for VG (as it's so vague) and for BR I don't seem to come up with any credible ones (BR: lakritstroll?, that's just too weird, even for me). Usually I enjoy those personas but lately that whole thing has started to annoy me. I usually shun vanilla scents and I was very surprised when I liked VG and felt liberated by wearing it as it could somehow be shaped into anything at all.
This must be a nice perfume for men. Is the scent of this perfume contains pheromones attract women? :)
ReplyDeleteEula, from my perspective on perfumes - if you find a fragrance that defines the true you, then you will attract the ones that are compatible with the help of that and everything else that you are. :) If you are interested in pheromones I do however recommend a book with the title "The scent of Eros".
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