Hommage à Paul Klee Lights and Shadows

Impressions: Artistic, mysterious, confident, Spring, creative, playful with dark background. Rhubarb, Ink, plum, paper, burnt wood. (Creative cool scent, from Switzerland) 1st Impression: Woah! the sour notes threw me for a loop. Quite sexual and almost sweaty, but a very well balanced perfume, for sure. I can imagine myself wearing this to concerts, cultural events, and going out to museums and art galleries, primarily. The dry down brings out the more inky notes that inspired me to buy this thing, though they are there from the beginning. It is a bit intimidating, confident, and challenging. Assertive and creative. Enflaming of emotions. 2nd Impression. First notes are quite fresh fruity, with an herbal background. Not as challenging now that it's on my skin. Turns after 15 minutes into a quiet, pleasant tartness. 1 hr in and it is still fruity, but a dry, darker quality develops. A restrained, verdant smell, with a piquant sourness that is quite pleasant, with an overlay of ripe fruit and a hint of ink 2 hours in: moderate to small silage, a bit darker now, more inky and powdery, but still fruity and sour. Bold and delectable. This is one of my absolute favorite scents for artistic extroversion. Not really something you'd wear at most jobs, but everywhere else would do well. It is a very unique, amazing smell, that I love to smell - admiring it enormously.

Oh gosh, this one’s gorgeous. Ink, stone fruit, paper and old singed woods. Incense, veneer and felt. Hints of powder. I feel the rhubarb, despite providing an enjoyable green tang, is just a bit too strong and sharp for my palate. Perhaps I’m sensitive to it. Regardless the whole composition is very smooth—incredibly natural, sophisticated, contemplative, melancholic. An amazing tribute to artistry, and as might be expected it could be considered most ‘wearable’ by artists or those looking to hone their artistic sides, but I put ‘wearable’ in quotes as this is much less a scent to be worn and much more of one to meditate upon, with, or to even, ‘become.’ Progression is slight. Sillage moderate, longevity high. Bravo, good sir!

“Colour and I are one. I am a painter." At the heart of Paul Klee’s work one finds comedy via satirical grotesquery and a willingness to distort as he turned his creative style into a vehicle to bring art to life from ever changing perspectives. Painting, music, teaching, writing - Paul Klee’s interests were dotted across many art forms and genres and incorporated many different ways of expressing themselves. However, with every creative push for expansion and application, however searching, somehow a small aspect of his signature remained present - a kind of spiritually informed abstract expressionism of the possibilities of the human subconscious. Hommage à Paul Klee | Lights and Shadows is a wonderfully beguiling and playfully contrasting scent that feels both expressionistic and reflective. With the fragrance cleverly progressing as a chronological reversal of high points throughout Klee’s diverse career the colourfully brushed fruity notes of his latter day early modernist orientalism create mouthwateringly tart, bitter, sweet and sour flavours. However, upon night fall, moondust would sprinkle mild powderiness over this still life by the window. Vincent Micotti once again overtures a composition with the rhubarb note familiar from eap 16; if sensitive intellectualism had a scent there’d be no better note to characterise it. The heart and dry down of Lights and Shadows turn deeper and darker owing to an ink note drying over subtle parchment in a nod to Klee’s years as a persuasive writer, teacher and painter - with many of his nights spent in front of easels or hunched over writing desks by the fireplace. The curious case of Paul Klee comes to life beautifully through this scent, intelligently composed with an extremely satisfying artistic pretension. But in spite of its abstraction it never loses track of the inspirations that have informed it and remains a celebration of spiritual humanism.