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by cymric » Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:15 pm
Aha. It took some interesting Wikipedia-material to get me up to speed: frankly, I'm impressed that you knew of this very rare language. Are you a language enthusiast, perchance?
To explain: dsquared2 is the name for two Canadian brothers (twins, to be precise) who moved to Milan, Italy many years ago to pursue their dream of beginning their own fashion line. Recently they produced their first perfume: heWOOD. At the time of writing you cannot get it in the States yet; although there are reports of people obtaining it in Canada. And it is of course available in Europe. Compared to the two dozen scents I sampled the other day---at a perfume counter, I should add, so not really into genuine classic aftershaves and EDTs such as your beloved Floris No. 89---it is quite the oddity. It has a base of cedar and vetiver, and its main fragances are violet leaves and violet blossoms. The 'top notes' are fir, amber and musk. I'm still not sure whether I agree with the sweet flowery violet aspect, although I really like the wood base. (Indicating I should sample more cedar and vetiver scents.) It reminds me of Tabac in the way that both are sweet scents, but not sweet as in sugary fruit or overpowering blossoms, but sweet as in aromatic wood. heWOOD is exceptionally potent stuff: a whiff of the EDT on my wrist lasted for 24 hours, and survived a shower, a one-hour swim in a chlorinated swimming pool and normal day-to-day work and household activities. The pool truly killed the scent, though.
It doesn't come cheap---the EDT costs €75 for a bottle of 100 ml, and the aftershave balsam (without alcohol) is €50 for 100 ml. Hence me being a bit hesitant about getting the balsam.
) appears to make a difference (at least iwth me), I'll give it another try.
