Acqua Fiorentina is back!

Horror it was, when I heard that Acqua Fiorentina from Creed was discontinued about a year ago. It was not love on the first sight on me but one moment I did fel in love with the fragrance when I completely perfumed myself with it. So far I had just testing it on my wrist but this was something completely new!

The fruity floral but also aromatic composition was inspired on a warm evening on the country side in Tuscany. The plum is what it made difficult for me in the beginning but once I wore the fragrance, I was so indulged by it's fresh but deep romantic aura.

The new Acqua Fiorentina has been reformulated, this due to damn regulations - I hate that perfumers are limited due to that! - and might be slightly different but almost unnoticeable.

Mr. Creed did add Diamond Jubilee Apple to the blend, a lively twist to the famous melange of Renaissance roses, green-gauge plum (often used in desserts), Florentine pear, sparkling white grapefruit, Sicilian bergamot, ... .

The result is a New "Old" Acqua Fiorentina, which hopefully may be available for many years!

(Picture: Maxime Heirbaut for YOUR Antwerp)

"A Single Man" - a fragrance by Wim Janssens

One of the most beautiful films that so deeply touched me is A Single Man by Tom Ford. The story, scenes, conversations, settings, ... everything is perfected by the maker. The emptiness, the sorrow, the loneliness, the pain, ... . The pure existential crisis of the main character who lost his partner in a car crash. Love that is so much more then the sexual orientation, love in its purest form. A cumulation of instant moments to define happiness... .

Reflecting to my life I recognize a lot of the emotions captured in the film. Pain I feel constantly due to suffering from a post traumatic whiplash injury which resulted in Fibromyalgia.
The lost of dear ones and the lust for living my live at the fullest as possible.

Pain is a constant drive to make me smell, craving for constantly olfactive impressions. That is why I did create my fragrance "A Single Man", which captures the deep scent of leather, the sweet embrace of violets, the warmth of tobacco and the depth of musk and tonka been.