05/26/2024
ElAttarine
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Become an animal
You had lured me...I followed you, fascinated, without thinking and yet with fear and trembling.
You frighten me... Your strength and power, dark, intense, relentless, you draw me further and further into the depths of darkness, further and further. My attention is strained to the utmost. Will I be able to stand it, will I be able to endure it - and oh, I want it so much... Here in the dark - is it your cave? Is it your lair? - the room expands without me being able to see clearly, but I can feel and smell it... Here I become a little calmer. I sense: in your heart it is wide and soft, deep and secure, wild, impetuous - and calm. Like in the eye of the storm. I am allowed to arrive, even if I still have the feeling that nothing here is harmless.
You let me remember... the hay and soft sheepskin on which I was bedded before my memory set in, the familiar and unfamiliar skin whose scent I absorbed, trembling with exhaustion or desire, the scent of deepest lust and the feeling that I have always - or never - felt it like this, my wounds and deepest pains that I thought I had overcome, all the tears I have cried and those I have never cried...
You let me be an animal... You tell me: If I have looked you and thus myself in the eye, nothing can frighten me anymore, nothing can happen to me anymore. It's never harmless. And it's so beautiful!
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"Al Hayvaan/ الحیوان" simply means "The Beast", apparently in several other languages too. In Arabic, it is also used as an insult like "Du Schwein" or "Du Ratte" in German. This fragrance is, of course, a real animal, and what a real animal it is, but I think it also gives the term back its dignity. With this fragrance, I can become an animal myself in the best sense of the word, or - if that's too much for you - at least reflect on the fact that we are all animals too.
Gabriel Kuhn says that it is necessary to "become an animal" in order to get rid of the bad rule of mainstream ideas about what constitutes us as living beings and agents. That we are never neutral, that we cannot always control everything, that we cannot always understand everything that is important, that we are always subject to processes that we cannot control on our own. The world would certainly be a better place if we could accept this instead of always feeling superior to the animals. For me, that is also part of the deep meaning of this fragrance (and animalic notes in general).
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Duftkumpels is a great and promising house. They use only natural ingredients in many fragrances. But even where synthetics have been used, they have been incorporated incredibly well (see, for example, in "Fleurs et Phéromones" and the reviews and statements under "Tilleul Friction de Nuit"). Great craftsmanship characterizes all the fragrances I have been able to try so far.
The detailed text in the webshop states that "Al Hayvaan" is "the only fragrance creation worldwide [...] in which all 5 pheromone sources of the local animal world known and known to us worldwide are on the list of ingredients" Here, however, civet, ambergris, gazelle musk, hyraceum and castoreum have not simply been mixed together, but blended with other notes with great skill. The result is not a repulsive or even fecal animalistic mixture, but a fragrance that can be quite demanding, especially at the beginning, but which develops beautifully and harmoniously. Consistently animalistic, clear, but at the same time also expansive, carrying, enveloping, deeply serene. The five animal ingredients are soon joined in the fragrance by the woody and almost spicy notes of Assam oud, which in itself has something animalistic about it. I also notice labdanum, which I always like very much. Cretan labdanum from 2002 was used here, which was extracted in a traditional way that is hardly available anymore: it was combed from the goats' beard and thigh hair after they had run through the cistus bushes. (Today, the resin extracts are usually obtained directly from the plant parts.) I don't perceive patchouli, vanilla, cocoa, cinnamon or rose as individually prominent notes; they only complement the warm and sweetish parts of the animalic notes and repeatedly illuminate individual aspects here and there like rays of sunlight falling through different parts of a stained glass window.
The fragrance is agile and lively, its heart beats! -----
I saw the werewolf, and the werewolf was crying
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For the werewolf, somebody like you and me.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=cat+power+werewolf#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:8bdec7d3,vid:UD9Isy9aKUk,st:0
You frighten me... Your strength and power, dark, intense, relentless, you draw me further and further into the depths of darkness, further and further. My attention is strained to the utmost. Will I be able to stand it, will I be able to endure it - and oh, I want it so much... Here in the dark - is it your cave? Is it your lair? - the room expands without me being able to see clearly, but I can feel and smell it... Here I become a little calmer. I sense: in your heart it is wide and soft, deep and secure, wild, impetuous - and calm. Like in the eye of the storm. I am allowed to arrive, even if I still have the feeling that nothing here is harmless.
You let me remember... the hay and soft sheepskin on which I was bedded before my memory set in, the familiar and unfamiliar skin whose scent I absorbed, trembling with exhaustion or desire, the scent of deepest lust and the feeling that I have always - or never - felt it like this, my wounds and deepest pains that I thought I had overcome, all the tears I have cried and those I have never cried...
You let me be an animal... You tell me: If I have looked you and thus myself in the eye, nothing can frighten me anymore, nothing can happen to me anymore. It's never harmless. And it's so beautiful!
-----
"Al Hayvaan/ الحیوان" simply means "The Beast", apparently in several other languages too. In Arabic, it is also used as an insult like "Du Schwein" or "Du Ratte" in German. This fragrance is, of course, a real animal, and what a real animal it is, but I think it also gives the term back its dignity. With this fragrance, I can become an animal myself in the best sense of the word, or - if that's too much for you - at least reflect on the fact that we are all animals too.
Gabriel Kuhn says that it is necessary to "become an animal" in order to get rid of the bad rule of mainstream ideas about what constitutes us as living beings and agents. That we are never neutral, that we cannot always control everything, that we cannot always understand everything that is important, that we are always subject to processes that we cannot control on our own. The world would certainly be a better place if we could accept this instead of always feeling superior to the animals. For me, that is also part of the deep meaning of this fragrance (and animalic notes in general).
-----
Duftkumpels is a great and promising house. They use only natural ingredients in many fragrances. But even where synthetics have been used, they have been incorporated incredibly well (see, for example, in "Fleurs et Phéromones" and the reviews and statements under "Tilleul Friction de Nuit"). Great craftsmanship characterizes all the fragrances I have been able to try so far.
The detailed text in the webshop states that "Al Hayvaan" is "the only fragrance creation worldwide [...] in which all 5 pheromone sources of the local animal world known and known to us worldwide are on the list of ingredients" Here, however, civet, ambergris, gazelle musk, hyraceum and castoreum have not simply been mixed together, but blended with other notes with great skill. The result is not a repulsive or even fecal animalistic mixture, but a fragrance that can be quite demanding, especially at the beginning, but which develops beautifully and harmoniously. Consistently animalistic, clear, but at the same time also expansive, carrying, enveloping, deeply serene. The five animal ingredients are soon joined in the fragrance by the woody and almost spicy notes of Assam oud, which in itself has something animalistic about it. I also notice labdanum, which I always like very much. Cretan labdanum from 2002 was used here, which was extracted in a traditional way that is hardly available anymore: it was combed from the goats' beard and thigh hair after they had run through the cistus bushes. (Today, the resin extracts are usually obtained directly from the plant parts.) I don't perceive patchouli, vanilla, cocoa, cinnamon or rose as individually prominent notes; they only complement the warm and sweetish parts of the animalic notes and repeatedly illuminate individual aspects here and there like rays of sunlight falling through different parts of a stained glass window.
The fragrance is agile and lively, its heart beats! -----
I saw the werewolf, and the werewolf was crying
[
For the werewolf, somebody like you and me.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=cat+power+werewolf#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:8bdec7d3,vid:UD9Isy9aKUk,st:0
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