Summer season Rerun: Andy Tauer Hyacinth and a Mechanic

Nicely, this one is definitely sort of a rerun of a rerun of a rerun, because it dates again so lengthy.

However it begins with ennui.

I do have issues sitting on my desk that I needs to be . Fascinating issues. Good issues. However for some motive I simply wasn’t feeling prefer it. Over the weekend Cinnamon talked about Lostmarch Lann’Ael , which is one thing that I really like and I do know have a bottle of someplace within the mess the closet the place I hold the scents are. (Cinnamon, you’ll be able to order this from Lostmarch- they don’t ship to the US, sadly.) I made a decision to go and take a gander in there and rapidly gave up, realizing that I’m simply going to must take a morning and kind it out- take away the bottles of mouthwash and bars of cleaning soap and back-up Erno Laszlo and put some semblance of order in there. Within the meantime nonetheless I used to be simply occurred to seize bottle of Tauer’s Hyacinth and a Mechanic. H&aM began off as an experiment: a “Bottle Journey” the place it was despatched to individual to individual to strive (and typically write about) after which to be despatched on. The pricey and dearly missed Gaia, The Non Blonde despatched it to me, and after a goodly sniff (and I’ll admit, a small decant) I despatched it to another person, and at one level it was misplaced to the wilds on the publish. I wrote about it, twice even, as soon as concerning the bottle journey on PST and as soon as about assembly Mr Tauer right here:

Andy and I

“So, anyway, a few weeks in the past Andy Tauer was in LA at ScentBar to premiere his Hyacinth and a Mechanic. HaaM was an experiment initially, beginning with a ‘bottle journey’ the place one would attempt to take a look at then ship it on down the road to the subsequent particular person. This was again in 2007 and on the time on PST I wrote:

‘I discover the opening intensely inexperienced. Actually intensely inexperienced. The truculently inexperienced hyacinth is paired with lily of the valley and a naked whiff of chilly camphor to make a lush however identifiable Tauer scent. Like his Reverie au Jardin, which challenges the way you suppose lavender smells, the tart, inexperienced whiteness of the opening is light-years away from what you suppose {that a} hyacinth ought to scent like, however by some means appears completely proper, like a lightbulb over your head. “Oh yeah! That’s hyacinth!”

‘Then the mechanic pops up. He begins off smelling oily, a bit just like the word in SMN Nostalgia, that leather-based and oily old-car scent that I liked in that scent however wished lasted longer. It then will get stronger, nearly Kolnisch Juchten- like in its fatted roundness. This mechanic could be bringing a bouquet, however he is also bringing a sandwich. There isn’t lots of improvement on this, it dances round from cool whiteness and fatted leather-based darkness. Do I’ve to let you know that I’m in thrall?’

“I’m joyful to state that just about 10 years later I’m nonetheless in thrall. It’s every little thing I keep in mind and I’m thrilled that I used to be capable of rating a bottle, particularly because it was a “come to the shop and get it solely in the course of the time I’m right here” sort of deal. So I truly popped for a bottle regardless of telling myself I’ve fairly sufficient scents for somebody who’s forbidden to put on them anyplace close to work. After all it’s hardly a hardship to spend a while with Andy- he is likely one of the nicest folks you may ever meet. Now all we now have to do is mercilessly bug him to place this one into wider launch..

Gotta arrange this..

In any case, in any case this, how is it? Nonetheless bizarre. Deliciously so. That Tom of Finland mechanic continues to be there, holding a bouquet is his mitts and with whom you’ll get critically Woman Chatterley. And now for the sentence from that overview that’s the worst:

“$89 for 100ML, accessible solely on the level of sale on the time of the occasion. I bought my bottle at ScentBar.”

This half might be essentially the most annoying, as a result of it’s doing one thing I sort of hate: going “nanny nanny boo-boo! I’ve it and you’ll’t get it!” however possibly it can persuade Mr. Tauer to rerelease it?

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