07/20/2018
Landlord
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Dreamlike is better!
Oops, the "water of the black lemon" is discussed quite controversially here and it doesn't seem to really "hit". Astonishing! While there is a lot of harmony in the citric Eau de Cologne area, the "Eau de Citron Noir" is very pleasant. Oh what, pleasant: Dreamlike is better!
The very first minutes belong to a biting, spicy citrus prelude. The smell of the "Calabrian lemon" is unfortunately not present to me, but the top note reminds me of a fresh, ripe grapefruit, strong and herbaceous. That's good, that's nice, but of course it doesn't make this perfume so special. It flashes when after a few minutes the teen note is added, not a bitter East Frisian tea fix, but a mild black tea that changes wonderfully with the lemon. But it gets really exciting when, after about an hour, the scent of warm, sun-charged woods creeps in - whereby, surprisingly, each of the three components remains in the base note, the scent experience simply increases in complexity. This is a very special Eau-de-Cologne experience, dark and fresh, dry and cool, not a bit scratchy or beastly, harmonious, but anything but pleasing and extremely independently composed. For me a fragrance with a real WOW effect!
Well, the Sillage is "only" on a good EdC level after the dynamic start, but the durability of six hours is quite impressive and the bottle of a beautiful, dark and very matching night blue. I'm not really impressed by this, but I admit that I've always been fascinated by the bottles of Hermes' "colourful" Eau series in their simple yet extraordinarily striking design, but so far none of the fragrances they contain has really convinced me!
Well, now what's with the "black lemon"? As other reviewers before me have already explained, it is actually an Arabian lime that is boiled in salt water and then dried in the sun. The fruit turns black, the shrunken and Loomi fruits taste intensely fruity, smoky and sweetish earthy. I suspect that it would be very difficult (or in case of doubt expensive!) to extract essential oil from the Loomi and that Madame Nagel has reproduced this fragrance experience molecularly. But one way or another, a "water of black lemon" evokes dreamlike, Mediterranean-exotic associations that the fragrance does justice to. Chapeau!
The very first minutes belong to a biting, spicy citrus prelude. The smell of the "Calabrian lemon" is unfortunately not present to me, but the top note reminds me of a fresh, ripe grapefruit, strong and herbaceous. That's good, that's nice, but of course it doesn't make this perfume so special. It flashes when after a few minutes the teen note is added, not a bitter East Frisian tea fix, but a mild black tea that changes wonderfully with the lemon. But it gets really exciting when, after about an hour, the scent of warm, sun-charged woods creeps in - whereby, surprisingly, each of the three components remains in the base note, the scent experience simply increases in complexity. This is a very special Eau-de-Cologne experience, dark and fresh, dry and cool, not a bit scratchy or beastly, harmonious, but anything but pleasing and extremely independently composed. For me a fragrance with a real WOW effect!
Well, the Sillage is "only" on a good EdC level after the dynamic start, but the durability of six hours is quite impressive and the bottle of a beautiful, dark and very matching night blue. I'm not really impressed by this, but I admit that I've always been fascinated by the bottles of Hermes' "colourful" Eau series in their simple yet extraordinarily striking design, but so far none of the fragrances they contain has really convinced me!
Well, now what's with the "black lemon"? As other reviewers before me have already explained, it is actually an Arabian lime that is boiled in salt water and then dried in the sun. The fruit turns black, the shrunken and Loomi fruits taste intensely fruity, smoky and sweetish earthy. I suspect that it would be very difficult (or in case of doubt expensive!) to extract essential oil from the Loomi and that Madame Nagel has reproduced this fragrance experience molecularly. But one way or another, a "water of black lemon" evokes dreamlike, Mediterranean-exotic associations that the fragrance does justice to. Chapeau!
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