one of those mornings in sensory perception land… when it rains it pours… got 4 of the 5 Comme des Garcons series 3 (incense family) … love this stuff… being a dyed in the wool incense freak… for all out incense my all time numero uno is Villoresi Incensi… you can’t spary it on your skin… there is so much resin in the Villoresi it is gummy on the skin and sensitizing (to me at least) but on clothing it is wonderous suggestive meditative… CdG has done brilliantly in this area as well… Kyoto is phenomenal, Ourzazate truly is remeniscent of acacia resins and desert sage… so fooking much better than the run of the mill men’s “pinecone air freshener” pitsauce… way to go CdG!..
Speaking of funky… we mean get down funky… gnarly funky… obtained a vial of “african stone essence” which is, in plain language, african rabbit crap infused in alcohol… the cute little rabbit craps… ok, not rabbits… technically they are Hyrax… and yes, they have a potent aroma… are known to the trade as “stones” … I guess “extract of smelly critter shit” is harder to sell at the retail level… opened the bottle, took my customary whiff, nearly died on the spot… this will take some getting used to… advertised as being a “cross between civet and castoreum”… can’t wait to put a tiny dab of this on my pant cuff and go play with the dog… chances are he’s going to totally bug out thinking there’s some alien beings in the vacinity… but the funny thing was, there is a very distinct pheromonal something or other in them hyrax turds… I was buzzy in kind of a good way… then the thought comes to mind… could this be the source of “the secret ingredient” in, you know… brand X from South Africa ? It had a kind of energizing, uplifting, go for it assertive kick… and in judicious doses could be a great fragrance potentiator… now, an another souce has provided me with synthetic civet as a basis for comparison… I hafta say… synth civet comes pretty repectably close to Hyrax as a fragrance, although it may be missing the pheromonal nuances of true poo… even synth civet seems to have some kind of potentiating quality to it… so possibly the catty perfumes had a catalyst effect on existing pheromones…
As for P88… the shite rocks, mon… imagine a mone as romantique as alpha-nol with the kick of concentrate -none… I spray 3 squirts of 10 mu onto a paper towel and inhale deeply… blam, pow, shazzam… I am instantly in love… with… nothing in particular… sitting here in my office… but everything I think of, my ex girlfriend, the dog… everything is uplifted and positive, unlike alpha-nol I’m a touch juiced up, a la -none, without the pissy edge on -none… sort of… welll… like a low key orgasm ? Or like part of the mental activity of a low key orgasm ? Yeah… like that… like an orgasm has some autonomic intensity, some push to it, but also filled with these glowy hypnotic swimming sensations… not what has Harris gotten into with this ?
And, for the finale, Scharffen Berger 70% vs 82 % chocolate… it’s a toss up… IMO… the 70% captures the bouquet of South American bean, more acidic and multi layer than the broad Hershey taste of African, kind of an espresso with a twist of lemon… where the 82% definitely moves in the leather-tobacco region… like comparing two winemakers… You could do some great culinary things with the extra dark 82%, harden it in the freezer then shave it into peelings with a Microplane and add an unexpected terpene note like cardamom… how did we ever put up with milk chocolate for so long ?