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04/29/2024
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magical, smoky darkness
It's been here for a long time, this bottling from my dear friend Can777, and like many others he chose for me, it took me some time, including a few attempts at writing, to approach "Osang" from Mendittora's "Talismans Collection":
That's how complex this fragrance is, so deep and strongly touching the senses.
Now seems to be the right time; perhaps it is spring with all the incipient life that gives me access to a fragrance prelude, clover-infused flowering meadow with many playfully feeding insects.
Some bright tones in the otherwise sustained minor scent concert: even if this spring and summer meadow matures in the course of the fragrance, the still fresh floral green becomes fragrant hay and the bees' harvest becomes rich, creamy and golden honey.
Only heliotrope with its vanilla veil resists this change until it magically interweaves with the powdery summer beauty of the proud iris and thus spreads the net for the spicy and resinous-smoky variety that now follows.
This is also where the brightness of this composition ends; from now on, dark tones and sounds dominate the fragrance that spreads leisurely across the skin.
Styrax resin still carries a hint of vanilla, adding brief light effects to the incipient wafts of smoke from precious and delicious resins, the selection of which may take some getting used to.
Benzoin and labdanum meet golden-brown chunks of myrrh, veils of frankincense and amber marry with the striking, familiar musky-animalic: this rich smoke, richly spiced with nutmeg and pepper, awakens the senses, beguiles them or brushes them against the grain, possibly even repels them - this varies depending on the mood of the day! Heavy wafts of oud set fragrance highlights before astonishingly creamy sandalwood accords together with Peru balsam ensure a soft, fully floating final note.
Any unevenness in the development of the fragrance is smoothed out, creating a distant feeling of well-being.
"Osang" also offered me its barbs for a long time, which I couldn't get to grips with at all; I never managed to get anywhere near the harmonious finale of the fragrance.
I am currently on a journey from the green, blooming resurrection to the resinous, very strongly spiced darkness, deep inside the earth with all its questions and magic!
Does this "talisman" hold a memory of what has been or/and of what is to be expected?
Rich sillage and the duration of the shelf life give you the opportunity to think about it.
"Osang" is no everyday fragrance companion, no mere passing encounter.
Rather, it opens the door to a place of contemplation, a capsule for pausing, lingering and finding oneself.
That's how complex this fragrance is, so deep and strongly touching the senses.
Now seems to be the right time; perhaps it is spring with all the incipient life that gives me access to a fragrance prelude, clover-infused flowering meadow with many playfully feeding insects.
Some bright tones in the otherwise sustained minor scent concert: even if this spring and summer meadow matures in the course of the fragrance, the still fresh floral green becomes fragrant hay and the bees' harvest becomes rich, creamy and golden honey.
Only heliotrope with its vanilla veil resists this change until it magically interweaves with the powdery summer beauty of the proud iris and thus spreads the net for the spicy and resinous-smoky variety that now follows.
This is also where the brightness of this composition ends; from now on, dark tones and sounds dominate the fragrance that spreads leisurely across the skin.
Styrax resin still carries a hint of vanilla, adding brief light effects to the incipient wafts of smoke from precious and delicious resins, the selection of which may take some getting used to.
Benzoin and labdanum meet golden-brown chunks of myrrh, veils of frankincense and amber marry with the striking, familiar musky-animalic: this rich smoke, richly spiced with nutmeg and pepper, awakens the senses, beguiles them or brushes them against the grain, possibly even repels them - this varies depending on the mood of the day! Heavy wafts of oud set fragrance highlights before astonishingly creamy sandalwood accords together with Peru balsam ensure a soft, fully floating final note.
Any unevenness in the development of the fragrance is smoothed out, creating a distant feeling of well-being.
"Osang" also offered me its barbs for a long time, which I couldn't get to grips with at all; I never managed to get anywhere near the harmonious finale of the fragrance.
I am currently on a journey from the green, blooming resurrection to the resinous, very strongly spiced darkness, deep inside the earth with all its questions and magic!
Does this "talisman" hold a memory of what has been or/and of what is to be expected?
Rich sillage and the duration of the shelf life give you the opportunity to think about it.
"Osang" is no everyday fragrance companion, no mere passing encounter.
Rather, it opens the door to a place of contemplation, a capsule for pausing, lingering and finding oneself.
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