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Nasomatto Black Afgano ~ fragrance review
I’ve been known to let people sniff a perfume I’m wearing and tell them an outright lie: “Oh, this? It’s built around a molasses-corn silk note that’s just been developed!” or “The perfumer was trying to re-create a country scene. Imagine a field in early summer: the scents of cows, manure, grass, damp earth, and a near-by forest full of blooming honeysuckle!” I tell these “stories” with a straight face and excitement in my voice and often people believe me: “That’s what it smells like!” they say.
I do believe it’s possible to pull the proverbial wool over the eyes (and noses) of even the most jaded perfume lovers if you wrap vibrant images, an exotic storyline, and “forbidden,” “rare” and “hard-to-import” ingredients around a new fragrance; maybe it’s even EASIER to pull the wool over perfume lovers’ eyes because we often have well-developed imaginations, and we desperately want new perfumes to be BOLD! OUTRAGEOUS! ORIGINAL!
I became excited about Nasomatto Black Afgano as I read news releases about its formulation…
Nasomatto Black Afgano ~ new fragrance
Nasomatto has launched Black Afgano:
This bottle of perfume is part of the project Nasomatto. The fragrance aims to evoke the best quality of hashish. It is the result of a quest to arouse the effects of temporary bliss.
Nasomatto Black Afgano is available in 30 ml Extrait de Parfum. (via intertradeurope)
Nasomatto China White ~ fragrance review
Can one compare heroin addiction to perfume addiction? Recently, a quote from the book Opium: A History struck me: “heroin is…an escape to tranquility, a liberation from anxiety and stress…a way out of the drudgery of life.”* Some days I feel that way about my colognes, and a perfume habit, like a drug habit, can deplete my bank account, but at least perfume won’t kill me. (Please, no comments on the chemicals contained in perfumes…those I ignore.)
In 1874, pharmacist C.R. Alder Wright of Saint Mary’s Hospital, London, was experimenting to find a non-addictive replacement for the pain-killer supreme — morphine; Wright boiled morphine with acetic anhydride and created a new substance — diacetylmorphine. Twenty-four years later, the German chemist Heinrich Dreser of Bayer Laboratories (the “birthplace” of aspirin) in Elberfeld, Germany, used diacetylmorphine in a pain killer he named “Heroin” — from the German word heroisch (meaning “mighty, heroic”).* Bayer marketed Heroin as a remedy for tuberculosis, laryngitis, coughs and, most ironically, as a “possible cure for morphine addiction”.**
Heroin was celebrated as a wonder drug — five to eight times more powerful than morphine…
Nasomatto China White ~ new fragrance
Nasomatto has launched China White, their sixth fragrance:
The result of a “quest to reveal the strength of fragility, ” and following the concept of “overdosing” on the power of a scent, Nasomatto’s newest fragrance, China White, is unlike any other. Controversially named after a type of heroin popular in the 1980s and with an opaque white ceramic top, this heady new concoction stands out even amongst the other scents in the Nasomatto collection…
