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We're getting around a lot
We're getting around with Pierre Guillaume and Mike. Today the journey goes to Gabon. Where PG wants to show us a wooden guard statue of Fang. We enter a small room and a thick cloud of smoke surrounds us. Here incense was sacrificed to the ancestors. We leave the door open or at least it is open long enough for most of the smoke to be blown out. In the room an old Fang man greets us, at whose sight I wonder whether we have also traveled in time. Africa in the 1930s. Fortunately, my hair is long enough for me to wear it as a beard. So everyone thinks I'm a very bearded man. Women are not allowed in this small room. Since we are in the 1930s, the sanitary facilities in this fishing village are not so fabulous and the small room smells a bit like a stable, I think. I whisper with family tester M and ask if he feels the same way. "No," he says, "it doesn't smell like a stable. It's just leathery." Maybe that's how the older man smells, or he's sitting on a leather stool.
We get to take a closer look at the Guardian Statue. We may even buy it, because the statue itself is not sacred, only the box to which it is attached. Of course we can't buy it. There are ancestral bones in the box. The statue only looks after the bones. It is about 20 centimeters high and made of hard dark wood, which was polished and oiled until it shone black. The statue looks really exotic. PG mumbles that she has a heart of wood. He is just a sensitive artist and always comes along with such romantic reflections. We'd better leave the statue in the smoky little room. Who else would watch the bones of the ancestors. We breathe again deeply the now only mildly smoky air. A little oil and resin from the statue remains on our hands. We're going out. Outside the sun roars down on us.
That's how it was then. Today I am quite happy that I ordered the sample from the PG website. Somehow I have now tested so many PG fragrances that I want to test those I don't know yet. I can wear Noir Okoumé but definitely not at work. The top note is almost pure smoke. But after a few seconds, the smoke goes back. The fragrance is then resinous, woody and a little bit flowery (but I sometimes smell flowery where there is none, I don't guarantee flowery). But I don't find him powdery, he's lightly leathery. Unfortunately, Noir Okoumé is also on my skin at least shortly before stall. That's funny and impressive, but makes it unsuitable as a perfume. At least if I want to meet other people who aren't as crazy as I am.
Noir Okoumé also goes to women, but better to men and better to older women than to young women. It can also be worn when cleaning out the stable, but otherwise not at every workplace. If you go to an exhibition about African art, you can't be better scented, but the projection is rather small. How long it'll last, I don't know yet. The bottle will not differ from the others in the Noire Collection. I would not buy Noir Okoumé, but would like to keep the sample anyway. The scent is definitely worth a test. Compared to Arabian Horse I find Noir Okoumé really harmless. Family tester M says it's only leather stuff hanging in the stable, but not the stable itself.
