oscar
09-10-2004, 09:42 AM
Chikara
Users,
For the benefit of those who haven't read all of the 100,000 odd posts on this forum, (I'm sure
there's one or two of you), I'll do a brief recap (before beginning an EPIC!) ;)
My first exposure to Chikara
was in the form of a sample that Bruce sent me in a leaky atomizer. I recorded my observations and opinions on the
"Huge News!" thread. (http://pherolibrary.com/forum/showthread.php?p=118235&highlight=chikara#post118235)
When I received my first actual production run bottle, which I believe to have been from batch #51-#150, I was
disappointed. Unlike the nicely balanced sample I'd been sent, this bottle had a very heavy note of vanilla which
virtually eclipsed all of the other notes that had made my sample so well rounded.
Even in light of my
disappointment I was not surprised that others found the scent to be quite pleasant. It was not unlike some
mainstream colognes: Le Male, A*Men, and Rochas Man, to name a few that I heard it being likened to. But what these
guys who liked it didn't know was that this wasn't Chikara. This was just the first in a series of mixing station
lab debacles that went on for months!
Only after following up on complaints about weakly fragranced batches did
Bruce come to discover for certain that something was going very wrong. There was a serious quality control issue at
hand. From what I could see it looked like there might even have been discrepancies between bottles from within the
same batch.
Cutting to the chase, Bruce has evidently gotten a handle on the situation. I received a new bottle
of Chikara six days ago. It's the "Nickel-Knurled-Top" version, the most recent incarnation.
THIS CHIKARA
IS THE SCENT THAT BRUCE INTENDED IT TO BE. I know this because he got to smell my sample before he sent it to
me. If it wasn't the way he had intended it, he wouldn't have sent it!
It's a much more sophisticated
fragrance than my beta was, if only for the fact that the notes are back in balance again. In this batch, as it was
in the sample, the pheromones are actually included as notes. They contribute a layer of the overall fragrance that
was all but buried in my beta.
There's but a small handful of people who can attest to what I'm about to say:
Bruce, myself, and whoever else were recipients of the samples, AND who have tried the new batch. To my knowledge
that may only be Bruce and me. I know Bruce won't go out on the limb and say it in light of all that's transpired
in the last four months on this long, strange, trip that has been the occasionally painful "birthing" of his life's
work.
So I'll say it.
CHIKARA IS BACK!
Oscar :)
Users,
For the benefit of those who haven't read all of the 100,000 odd posts on this forum, (I'm sure
there's one or two of you), I'll do a brief recap (before beginning an EPIC!) ;)
My first exposure to Chikara
was in the form of a sample that Bruce sent me in a leaky atomizer. I recorded my observations and opinions on the
"Huge News!" thread. (http://pherolibrary.com/forum/showthread.php?p=118235&highlight=chikara#post118235)
When I received my first actual production run bottle, which I believe to have been from batch #51-#150, I was
disappointed. Unlike the nicely balanced sample I'd been sent, this bottle had a very heavy note of vanilla which
virtually eclipsed all of the other notes that had made my sample so well rounded.
Even in light of my
disappointment I was not surprised that others found the scent to be quite pleasant. It was not unlike some
mainstream colognes: Le Male, A*Men, and Rochas Man, to name a few that I heard it being likened to. But what these
guys who liked it didn't know was that this wasn't Chikara. This was just the first in a series of mixing station
lab debacles that went on for months!
Only after following up on complaints about weakly fragranced batches did
Bruce come to discover for certain that something was going very wrong. There was a serious quality control issue at
hand. From what I could see it looked like there might even have been discrepancies between bottles from within the
same batch.
Cutting to the chase, Bruce has evidently gotten a handle on the situation. I received a new bottle
of Chikara six days ago. It's the "Nickel-Knurled-Top" version, the most recent incarnation.
THIS CHIKARA
IS THE SCENT THAT BRUCE INTENDED IT TO BE. I know this because he got to smell my sample before he sent it to
me. If it wasn't the way he had intended it, he wouldn't have sent it!
It's a much more sophisticated
fragrance than my beta was, if only for the fact that the notes are back in balance again. In this batch, as it was
in the sample, the pheromones are actually included as notes. They contribute a layer of the overall fragrance that
was all but buried in my beta.
There's but a small handful of people who can attest to what I'm about to say:
Bruce, myself, and whoever else were recipients of the samples, AND who have tried the new batch. To my knowledge
that may only be Bruce and me. I know Bruce won't go out on the limb and say it in light of all that's transpired
in the last four months on this long, strange, trip that has been the occasionally painful "birthing" of his life's
work.
So I'll say it.
CHIKARA IS BACK!
Oscar :)