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Aliana
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Fresh Perfume Oil
One of my oldest fragrances... how can I view and describe this familiar scent neutrally?
I’ll give it a try and apply the oil to my inner elbow. Right away, a complete impression.
The oil is light in color and light in my perception.
At first, it has a citrusy and slightly peppery aroma, and I think it could be ginger.
Also, a light, fresh smoke, like that from mastic or dammar, is briefly noticeable.
The next thing that comes to mind is tea tree oil. Very light, just on the edge, but it gives the scent a slightly herb-fresh, invigorating quality. It’s actually unlikely that tea tree oil scent is contained in a perfume.
A slight camphor association also comes to mind, but I’m more likely mistaken than I could insist on it.
As you can see - many associations, nothing precise.
Maybe I’m just unconsciously searching for what comes across as slightly scratchy, because it is definitely present.
It’s also interesting that this scent, with all its sharp brightness, has a subtle depth for me from the very beginning that I cannot fathom. Everything I associate with depth - woods or resins, seems to elude me here, but the impression is there.
A floral component makes the oil smell somewhat like soap foam, but I don’t recognize this flower (or are there several, and I can’t untangle the mix?).
And suddenly, just like with Lailati, I think of a bathroom fogged up with steam, where someone has just taken a long shower and left without ventilating. The steam is slowly cooling and condensing on the walls, the scents of various care products and fresh towels overlap, forming a clean whole that can be felt in the throat when inhaled. Maybe that’s the depth I subconsciously sense - the smell and feeling of being completely permeated by water, shower, skin, and hair oil, completely enclosed in the steam of the bathroom, like in a cocoon?
After about 30 minutes, the scent intensifies, becomes louder, and a couple of new notes are added. I believe I smell geranium leaves - the same scent I get when I cut off the faded flower heads and remove the wilted leaves from my scented geraniums. Along with these green, spicy leaves, there’s pepper again and also something else. Lemon-scented geranium or even rose. Since geraniol is a natural component of rose oil, it’s very hard for me to distinguish whether it’s rose, or geranium, or something else...
After about 1 hour, a couple of other spices mix in, I think I perceive green cardamom pods and a hint of curry (or is it cumin?), but it remains fresh and floral, only the prickly/scratchy aspect has disappeared. Instead, the green increases, no idea what exactly it is, but it’s herbaceous. And that’s how it smells until the near end.
It’s a fresh, herb-fresh, clean scent, without notable potency or spirit, but with average longevity - after about 6 hours, the scent on my arm has become quiet, and for another 2 hours, I can only sniff it very closely.
The name Best is pure unoriginality, but I don’t care much about names. What doesn’t particularly excite me is the scent. The only interesting thing about it is the guessing game around its notes; otherwise, it’s clean, fresh-herb, bright, with a hint of spice. Still, the perfume oil is not a bad purchase, but even a repeat buy.
On the side, I’ll tell you something, and not to amuse you - this oil is my foot perfume, along with a sandalwood oil and a good mood aroma roll-on. I massage it into my feet with my fragrance-free foot cream, and in between, I also dab and rub it on my feet. Since it overlaps, my feet smell permanently of perfume, even after showering. I have no idea if it works for problem feet, I do it simply because I like it and because the light tea tree oil note tricks me into thinking the oil could be nourishing for my feet. Despite all the criticisms I have/would have of it as a normal perfume, this is already the sixth or seventh bottle I have standing here.
Nothing about this oil is really expensive or high-quality. Especially not the bottle. Cracks in the screw cap are part of the package (with many oils from the company), and labels coming off in the leaking oil are a common sight right when unpacking. More than half came with broken plastic parts. At first, I still complained and returned them, but even the replacements came damaged. So I accepted it. Some opened and half-empty bottles I gave to friends who really liked the scent and still rave about it. They use the oil quite normally on their neck and décolletage.
I’ll give it a try and apply the oil to my inner elbow. Right away, a complete impression.
The oil is light in color and light in my perception.
At first, it has a citrusy and slightly peppery aroma, and I think it could be ginger.
Also, a light, fresh smoke, like that from mastic or dammar, is briefly noticeable.
The next thing that comes to mind is tea tree oil. Very light, just on the edge, but it gives the scent a slightly herb-fresh, invigorating quality. It’s actually unlikely that tea tree oil scent is contained in a perfume.
A slight camphor association also comes to mind, but I’m more likely mistaken than I could insist on it.
As you can see - many associations, nothing precise.
Maybe I’m just unconsciously searching for what comes across as slightly scratchy, because it is definitely present.
It’s also interesting that this scent, with all its sharp brightness, has a subtle depth for me from the very beginning that I cannot fathom. Everything I associate with depth - woods or resins, seems to elude me here, but the impression is there.
A floral component makes the oil smell somewhat like soap foam, but I don’t recognize this flower (or are there several, and I can’t untangle the mix?).
And suddenly, just like with Lailati, I think of a bathroom fogged up with steam, where someone has just taken a long shower and left without ventilating. The steam is slowly cooling and condensing on the walls, the scents of various care products and fresh towels overlap, forming a clean whole that can be felt in the throat when inhaled. Maybe that’s the depth I subconsciously sense - the smell and feeling of being completely permeated by water, shower, skin, and hair oil, completely enclosed in the steam of the bathroom, like in a cocoon?
After about 30 minutes, the scent intensifies, becomes louder, and a couple of new notes are added. I believe I smell geranium leaves - the same scent I get when I cut off the faded flower heads and remove the wilted leaves from my scented geraniums. Along with these green, spicy leaves, there’s pepper again and also something else. Lemon-scented geranium or even rose. Since geraniol is a natural component of rose oil, it’s very hard for me to distinguish whether it’s rose, or geranium, or something else...
After about 1 hour, a couple of other spices mix in, I think I perceive green cardamom pods and a hint of curry (or is it cumin?), but it remains fresh and floral, only the prickly/scratchy aspect has disappeared. Instead, the green increases, no idea what exactly it is, but it’s herbaceous. And that’s how it smells until the near end.
It’s a fresh, herb-fresh, clean scent, without notable potency or spirit, but with average longevity - after about 6 hours, the scent on my arm has become quiet, and for another 2 hours, I can only sniff it very closely.
The name Best is pure unoriginality, but I don’t care much about names. What doesn’t particularly excite me is the scent. The only interesting thing about it is the guessing game around its notes; otherwise, it’s clean, fresh-herb, bright, with a hint of spice. Still, the perfume oil is not a bad purchase, but even a repeat buy.
On the side, I’ll tell you something, and not to amuse you - this oil is my foot perfume, along with a sandalwood oil and a good mood aroma roll-on. I massage it into my feet with my fragrance-free foot cream, and in between, I also dab and rub it on my feet. Since it overlaps, my feet smell permanently of perfume, even after showering. I have no idea if it works for problem feet, I do it simply because I like it and because the light tea tree oil note tricks me into thinking the oil could be nourishing for my feet. Despite all the criticisms I have/would have of it as a normal perfume, this is already the sixth or seventh bottle I have standing here.
Nothing about this oil is really expensive or high-quality. Especially not the bottle. Cracks in the screw cap are part of the package (with many oils from the company), and labels coming off in the leaking oil are a common sight right when unpacking. More than half came with broken plastic parts. At first, I still complained and returned them, but even the replacements came damaged. So I accepted it. Some opened and half-empty bottles I gave to friends who really liked the scent and still rave about it. They use the oil quite normally on their neck and décolletage.
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