In my first strong and passionate connection, he always used the perfume "Le Male" by Jean Paul Gaultier. When we parted, this fragrance turned into my sadness. In the first months after the split, whenever I felt him on the streets or in shops, I remembered him and I went so far as to follow a boy through Sephora, Paris, sniffing him like Jean-Baptise Grenouille, enough to steal them. a memory that would never return.
After some time, a friend of mine introduced me to her new boyfriend; an arrogant, arrogant man who spoke more than he listened. He also wore a Le Male. In a Tirana club, near our table full of girls, several boys sat down. One of them started talking to me. He talked and sweated and laughed at his senseless jokes. He also had the scent of "Le male". Slowly, my connection to this fragrance began to fade. I chose not to identify my past story with "Le Male" that I smelled everywhere, regardless of age and men that I would never approach even if we were the only ones left on a deserted island.
I also lost the desire to buy perfumes created for the masses. I did not like to treat personal scent as a topic of conversation in the market ?Chance you put? I have it too. Try Bvlgari because he is very good ". I started looking for scents that identified me and I liked the whole shopping experience; the explanation from the sellers, the story of the "noses" after these perfumes, I liked when the creators risked and created a fantasy that you felt as if it belonged only to you. I wanted the perfume experience to be the same as the book: Imagine it as I wanted it.
When Illusions Liquide opened near our Anabel office in Bllok, I was one of the first to enter and I remember being introduced with the same feeling and curiosity as I felt when I discovered the new collections on the walls of Vienna's Mumok or Prados. Madrid.
The furnishing of the shop itself has a mysticism in its darkness and the use of wood, iron and black. It is not an ordinary shop full of lights that you would normally find in Tirana. He does not shout "See me!" On the street, but there is no modesty, because in the showcase, with perfumes placed as works of art on raw wood or iron, it promises exclusivity, authenticity and sophisticated taste.
I would call Illusion Liquide a Montmartre of rebellious perfume artists. Most of the "noses" that created these perfumes, once worked for large companies, while as one of them, the self-proclaimed "Nose", Alessandro Gualtieri, says, "creating perfumes was no longer fun, but stress to do something. that the kilja did not exceed 60 euros ?. In addition to Comme des Garçons or Costume National, you have to be a fan of fragrance to know other names.
Nasomatto and Orto Parisi were created by Gualtieri at his laboratory in Amsterdam. He dies breaking the rules. "I want to create a perfume that is intelligent in itself and does not become a slave to the meanings I give it." Nasomatto scents reach the extremes of fantasy extremes. Black Afghano, one of the best-selling perfumes of this brand, has a mix of tobacco, room fragrances and cannabis. "Bold perfumes for brave people," Gualtieri explains.
As for his newest line, Orto Parisi, Gualtieri is convinced that those parts of the body that carry the most fragrance are the ones that have the most spirit. The whole line is built on the central theme of contradictions, freshness and fragrant scent, attraction and disgust. "It reminds us that our bodies emit scents that are both sincere and wild, mirrors of our soul," he concludes.
MiN New York does not dare so much with body chemistry, but if the creator were a director, the fantasy that has poured into the fragrance, would lead to Cinema Verita movies with childhood details, like a fresh bathroom after an outdoor game, or the scent of a lazy summer day without air conditioning, when we nap with open curtains. Fantasy goes to the scent of a box with old memories like pictures or love letters.
Some perfumes at "Illusion Liquide" are presented as an old friend that reminds you of beautiful times from your childhood and youth, other scents create a mystery, it takes some time to understand and recognize them, but then you are surprised how they turn into your skin and you unknowingly take a little of their character. There are also scents that are love with the first smell. Slightly throws on the neck and the skin gets ready for a kiss and you get ready for an adventure. "I never thought that mimosas could become such a good perfume," says the girl who accompanied me through the perfume shop, as she shows me a bottle from Ella K.
"Ella K. is a mental condition." This is how the creator Sonia Constant defines her, who after working for years for big world companies, decided to use all the experience of what should be done and what should not be done, to create this brand for perfumes for women. "Adventure is her religion. Freedom is its extravagance, ?reads the company's official website. The perfume with mimosa scent is probably one of the most interesting discoveries. Mimosa in Albania is unfortunately only associated with the Teacher's Day and with an already outdated female name, but in the hands and mastery of Constant, this short-lived flower gets the attention it deserves.
Another well-known line in the world of perfume experts is that of Filippo Sorcinelli. For him, inspirations can come from cinematic moments, such as. from a sentence Hannibal Lecter says to Clarissa in Ridley Scott's famous film "Hannibal" "Would you tell me: Stop, if you love me, stop!" With this expression in mind he created UNUM, a tribute to boundless love, to elegance, art and the fight against human mediocrity and lack of sophistication.
The brand "Escentric Molecules" on the other hand, turned into a phenomenon for the innovative idea of the British creator Geza Schoen: To realize a fragrance only from one molecule. "Every time I throw Escentric 02, I feel people's attention. They are all curious about the scent, seduced and distracted by it, ?says one passionate about this line on one of the pages where different people write their sincere appreciations for perfume lines. And Esentric Molecules always gets 5 stars.
It will take a few days to get acquainted with all the perfumes of "Illusion Liquide" and some writings about the stories of each of the names that have created these perfumes. I would like to talk more about Juliette Has a Gun, the line of Nina Ricci's great-grandson, created with the famous master in the world of perfumes, Francis Kurkdijan "A weapon of temptation because life is short and pleasures are many" is the definition I "Juliette Has a Gun" in "Illusion Liquide" has two lines, one more economical and another more exclusive line.
Liquides Imaginaires, on the other hand, goes beyond the temptation stage and demands that perfume transport you to new cultural and spiritual levels, bringing to the surface "parts of the soul and destiny."
Even coffee beans placed on the table at the entrance, which help not to mix the aromas, are not enough to smell them all. Even if you write the names of the companies on your mobile phone and google them later at home to make them look as knowledgeable as possible, they would make you even more ignorant of them. Every brand has its history, every fragrance is like a work of art where mediocre sentences "this perfume has a mixture of moss and orange leaves" would only offend all the love, many years of experience and passion that these creators have poured into every fragrance. . The best experience with Liquides Imaginaries perfumes is only on the skin. But not as we usually try at Sephora by spraying and sniffing them quickly, to make sure it "smells good." You should feel the perfumes of "Liquides Imaginaires", wait a while as they are spread across the skin and see how that fragrance that attracted you so much when you chose it, slowly becomes part of yours. You become that fragrance and that fragrance becomes you and no one else resembles you. After all, why would we be special if we weren?t exclusive?
