Picked up a couple of new Hispanic scent type items over the weekend. These were next to the Florida Water in a small Hispanic grocery in Falls Chruch, Va:
Both really Crusellas brand, which seems to be associated with Murray & Lanman of Florida Water and Kemp-Barclay, which I thought was the parent company.
The first, the spearment, is nice and light and I guess works as aftershave. No tenacity. Don't think you would want any.
I am kind of afraid to wear the other, which is "rue water." Very interesting scent. Has a nice note of pine resin--not pine tar, not pine needles--but also has a bit of peppermint and other interesting things going on. Bolder than most of these scents. Seems associated with witch craft though. Would not want anyone to recognize it and wonder what I was doing exactly!? Not even sure whether it is intended to be worn as a scent rather than, for instance, solely be spread around the house.
Rue water again raises the question of the relationship between Hoodoo, VooDoo, Santeria, Romani and other "Gypsies," and traditional European witchcraft, as rue water, or at least rue, seems to show up in more than one of these!
Not sure how many more of these scents I am going to buy blind, though. Too darn many of them out there according to the internet. Even at just about $4 for 7.15 oz, costs mount up and I do not know that I will end up wearing any of them, except the M&L Florida Water and the Colonia de Rosas or whatever it is. Also, the Crusella violets. Not sure that any of these have the pure spiritual purposes of, say, the Rue Water!
They are interesting, though.
Both really Crusellas brand, which seems to be associated with Murray & Lanman of Florida Water and Kemp-Barclay, which I thought was the parent company.
The first, the spearment, is nice and light and I guess works as aftershave. No tenacity. Don't think you would want any.
I am kind of afraid to wear the other, which is "rue water." Very interesting scent. Has a nice note of pine resin--not pine tar, not pine needles--but also has a bit of peppermint and other interesting things going on. Bolder than most of these scents. Seems associated with witch craft though. Would not want anyone to recognize it and wonder what I was doing exactly!? Not even sure whether it is intended to be worn as a scent rather than, for instance, solely be spread around the house.
Rue water again raises the question of the relationship between Hoodoo, VooDoo, Santeria, Romani and other "Gypsies," and traditional European witchcraft, as rue water, or at least rue, seems to show up in more than one of these!
Not sure how many more of these scents I am going to buy blind, though. Too darn many of them out there according to the internet. Even at just about $4 for 7.15 oz, costs mount up and I do not know that I will end up wearing any of them, except the M&L Florida Water and the Colonia de Rosas or whatever it is. Also, the Crusella violets. Not sure that any of these have the pure spiritual purposes of, say, the Rue Water!
They are interesting, though.