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Down the rabbit hole
After I was ridiculed by a sales clerk when I told her that I only have one perfume that I wear practically every time I think it's time for perfume on the 15/365 days, I wasn't going to let that sit on me.
"Okay, how conceited are you? - Yes," I thought to myself. But in the same train of thought: Is it really that strange?
Since I like to think of myself as a curious person - fine. The following week I went back and headed straight for Tom Ford. Some of my colleagues were blathering on about Oud Wood, Tobacco Vanilla and who knows what else. The saleswoman there seemed to be a little more open to the matter and promptly held out the test strip for the supposedly great wood. After two seconds I knew: Nope, no way. Get rid of it.
"Do you have anything else?"
Her hand gallantly slid to the black bottle of Fucking Fabulous - which looked rather boring in color comparison - sprayed the strip full and handed it to me with her red nail polish fingers.
What the hell is that?" my head thought. Holy shit, I've never smelled anything like it in my life. While she rambled on about top, heart and base notes and I was lost for words, I continued to suck in the scent, aiming to cram every particle on that piece of paper into my nose. Boy, did it blow my head off.
"...at 450€ for 100ml."
Apparently I had asked for the price, but in my trance I hadn't even noticed it.
So my head was blown up for the second time, which catapulted me back into the here and now, the test strip still firmly in my hand.
I unintentionally said goodbye a little too Arnold Schwarzenegger-like with "Thank you very much. I'll be back." and walked home.
I smelled this test strip every 10-20 steps. What vanilla, leather, this bitterness and what else did to my olfactory sense was extraordinary. I slept happily that night and sniffed the scent again the next morning as my first official act. God yes, it was still there.
Time jump today:
I'm writing my first EssenceVitae review and dedicating it to the perfume that made me feel like I was Alice in Wonderland who had just fallen down the rabbit hole. A new world has opened up to me that I didn't even know existed before. This world arouses discussion and fascination, is both exhausting and relieving for the mind, costs time and money, but above all brings one thing: an incredible amount of joy.
Thanks to Tom Ford. Thanks to Jean-Baptiste. Thanks to my colleagues.
And many thanks to the arrogant saleswoman, who may not even be that arrogant (maybe just a little) - for the small but gentle nudge into the most fragrant hole in the world.
"Okay, how conceited are you? - Yes," I thought to myself. But in the same train of thought: Is it really that strange?
Since I like to think of myself as a curious person - fine. The following week I went back and headed straight for Tom Ford. Some of my colleagues were blathering on about Oud Wood, Tobacco Vanilla and who knows what else. The saleswoman there seemed to be a little more open to the matter and promptly held out the test strip for the supposedly great wood. After two seconds I knew: Nope, no way. Get rid of it.
"Do you have anything else?"
Her hand gallantly slid to the black bottle of Fucking Fabulous - which looked rather boring in color comparison - sprayed the strip full and handed it to me with her red nail polish fingers.
What the hell is that?" my head thought. Holy shit, I've never smelled anything like it in my life. While she rambled on about top, heart and base notes and I was lost for words, I continued to suck in the scent, aiming to cram every particle on that piece of paper into my nose. Boy, did it blow my head off.
"...at 450€ for 100ml."
Apparently I had asked for the price, but in my trance I hadn't even noticed it.
So my head was blown up for the second time, which catapulted me back into the here and now, the test strip still firmly in my hand.
I unintentionally said goodbye a little too Arnold Schwarzenegger-like with "Thank you very much. I'll be back." and walked home.
I smelled this test strip every 10-20 steps. What vanilla, leather, this bitterness and what else did to my olfactory sense was extraordinary. I slept happily that night and sniffed the scent again the next morning as my first official act. God yes, it was still there.
Time jump today:
I'm writing my first EssenceVitae review and dedicating it to the perfume that made me feel like I was Alice in Wonderland who had just fallen down the rabbit hole. A new world has opened up to me that I didn't even know existed before. This world arouses discussion and fascination, is both exhausting and relieving for the mind, costs time and money, but above all brings one thing: an incredible amount of joy.
Thanks to Tom Ford. Thanks to Jean-Baptiste. Thanks to my colleagues.
And many thanks to the arrogant saleswoman, who may not even be that arrogant (maybe just a little) - for the small but gentle nudge into the most fragrant hole in the world.
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