BMM10 The Road To The Final Spritz Final Recap
Welcome back Fragrance Fans Im Somerville Metro Man and Im here on location for The Final Spritz. The Osborne Olfactory Arena in Basenotes City has just witnessed a fight to the finish and a new champion for 2010 has been crowned. The two combatants in this final game Tauer Perfumes Lair du Desert Marocain and Serge Lutens Chergui had won their way here in impressive style.
Tauer Perfumes LAir du Desert Marocain was the first small perfumer to find one of its bottles in the Big Boutique. LAir du Desert Marocain was bitterly disappointed in not being included last year. This year they truly showed they belonged in this tournament as the list of their victims came from the biggest perfume Houses out there. That list started with Creed Millesime Imperiale, followed by Bvlgari Black, then Guerlain Heritage, and Dior Eau Sauvage in the regional final. In the Fragrant Four they completed their tour of the big Houses by trouncing Chanel Egoiste by double-digits. The Scirocco Offense truly was a force of nature and so far there was no bottle in the tournament who was able to stand up to it for an entire game.
If there was going to be one bottle that could weather the sandstorm that LAir was going to bring to The Final Spritz it was going to be Serge Lutens Chergui. Another bottle left out of last years tournament and another bottle which showed the committees short-sightedness in the way they played this year. As impressive as LAir du Desert Marocains march to The Final Spritz was, Cherguis was even stronger. Of the five opponents Chergui faced the closest any one of them got was 18 points. Every other margin of victory was greater than 20. The list of victims was no group of weak sillaged bottles either from Comme des Garcons Avignon, to Dior Homme, to Czech & Speake No. 88, to Boucheron Jaipur Homme and finally the overall #1 seed Guerlain Vetiver in the Fragrant Four. Chergui had shown they were the 500lb. gorilla of this years tournament.
Both sets of fans felt like this game was going to be different and the tension they showed before the game was a good preview of what was to come. As LAir du Desert Marocain took the court their fans began the Whooooosh! sound that had seen five opponents swept away. As they have every match Chergui looked on impassively as they stood at center boutique in their simple rectangular glory waiting for the match to start. The Serge Lutens fans had been here last year with Ambre Sultan, only to leave disappointed, they were confident but wary of getting their hopes up for a second year in a row.
Both bottles approached the mid-boutique circle and from the glint off of both bottles it was obvious both were ready to seize this opportunity. The beginning of the match was a torrid spray-for-spray battle and before anyone in the O-rena could take a breath or sit down the score was tied at 10. Then has had happened so many times in this tournament the Scirocco Offense began to hum away in unison with their fans Whooosh and the other bottle began to miss and with a little time left in the half LAir du desert Marocain had a nine point lead, 37-28. In every other game LAir would build upon that lead but something different began to happen here. Chergui started to solve the Scirocco Offense and began keeping LAir from scoring and Chergui began to feed off their defensive success and started scoring again. By half time they had whittled the deficit down to three, 38-35. As the bottles retreated to the locker rooms Andy Tauer was seen walking in with LAir. He had just returned from Exscence in Milan in time to see LAir play this Final Spritz in their fancy new bottles.
The second half was a wonderful exhibition of fragrant flamboyance as both of these high-powered bottles showed why they were here. LAir had made this Final Spritz on the effectiveness of their Scirocco Offense and they werent going to stop. Chergui believed they had finally figured out a way to stop it and they were going to keep up the pressure. The early part of the second half saw LAir doggedly defend their halftime lead and the margin remained at three with one quarter remaining, 45-42. The fourth quarter would be something to witness. Chergui began with a 10-4 run to take the lead 52-49. Then LAir blew back to cut the margin to one at 52-51 heading into the final minute. Chergui scored twice in succession and then LAir began a frantic effort to try and send The Final Spritz to overtime but they just kept missing the critical shots. As the clock ticked to 0:00 the score read Serge Lutens Chergui 54-Tauer Perfume LAir du Desert Marocain 52.
Andy Tauer walked over to the owners box and shook hands with Serge Lutens you could see smiles on both mens faces as they knew both bottles had done their Houses proud. Unfortunately all sporting contests only have one winner and Serge Lutens got to stand at the center of the boutique surrounded by his victorious Chergui and raise the Basenotes March Madness Gold Flacon over his head in celebration.
Before we leave you with our traditional rendition of One Spritzing Moment it is time to hand out the thanks to bluesoul for once again organizing a truly memorable event. I now turn over the proceedings to bluesoul for the Closing Ceremonies and Awards Show.
Thanks to all of you for participating and reading along.
Until next year, Somerville Metro Man.Out!
Welcome back Fragrance Fans Im Somerville Metro Man and Im here on location for The Final Spritz. The Osborne Olfactory Arena in Basenotes City has just witnessed a fight to the finish and a new champion for 2010 has been crowned. The two combatants in this final game Tauer Perfumes Lair du Desert Marocain and Serge Lutens Chergui had won their way here in impressive style.
Tauer Perfumes LAir du Desert Marocain was the first small perfumer to find one of its bottles in the Big Boutique. LAir du Desert Marocain was bitterly disappointed in not being included last year. This year they truly showed they belonged in this tournament as the list of their victims came from the biggest perfume Houses out there. That list started with Creed Millesime Imperiale, followed by Bvlgari Black, then Guerlain Heritage, and Dior Eau Sauvage in the regional final. In the Fragrant Four they completed their tour of the big Houses by trouncing Chanel Egoiste by double-digits. The Scirocco Offense truly was a force of nature and so far there was no bottle in the tournament who was able to stand up to it for an entire game.
If there was going to be one bottle that could weather the sandstorm that LAir was going to bring to The Final Spritz it was going to be Serge Lutens Chergui. Another bottle left out of last years tournament and another bottle which showed the committees short-sightedness in the way they played this year. As impressive as LAir du Desert Marocains march to The Final Spritz was, Cherguis was even stronger. Of the five opponents Chergui faced the closest any one of them got was 18 points. Every other margin of victory was greater than 20. The list of victims was no group of weak sillaged bottles either from Comme des Garcons Avignon, to Dior Homme, to Czech & Speake No. 88, to Boucheron Jaipur Homme and finally the overall #1 seed Guerlain Vetiver in the Fragrant Four. Chergui had shown they were the 500lb. gorilla of this years tournament.
Both sets of fans felt like this game was going to be different and the tension they showed before the game was a good preview of what was to come. As LAir du Desert Marocain took the court their fans began the Whooooosh! sound that had seen five opponents swept away. As they have every match Chergui looked on impassively as they stood at center boutique in their simple rectangular glory waiting for the match to start. The Serge Lutens fans had been here last year with Ambre Sultan, only to leave disappointed, they were confident but wary of getting their hopes up for a second year in a row.
Both bottles approached the mid-boutique circle and from the glint off of both bottles it was obvious both were ready to seize this opportunity. The beginning of the match was a torrid spray-for-spray battle and before anyone in the O-rena could take a breath or sit down the score was tied at 10. Then has had happened so many times in this tournament the Scirocco Offense began to hum away in unison with their fans Whooosh and the other bottle began to miss and with a little time left in the half LAir du desert Marocain had a nine point lead, 37-28. In every other game LAir would build upon that lead but something different began to happen here. Chergui started to solve the Scirocco Offense and began keeping LAir from scoring and Chergui began to feed off their defensive success and started scoring again. By half time they had whittled the deficit down to three, 38-35. As the bottles retreated to the locker rooms Andy Tauer was seen walking in with LAir. He had just returned from Exscence in Milan in time to see LAir play this Final Spritz in their fancy new bottles.
The second half was a wonderful exhibition of fragrant flamboyance as both of these high-powered bottles showed why they were here. LAir had made this Final Spritz on the effectiveness of their Scirocco Offense and they werent going to stop. Chergui believed they had finally figured out a way to stop it and they were going to keep up the pressure. The early part of the second half saw LAir doggedly defend their halftime lead and the margin remained at three with one quarter remaining, 45-42. The fourth quarter would be something to witness. Chergui began with a 10-4 run to take the lead 52-49. Then LAir blew back to cut the margin to one at 52-51 heading into the final minute. Chergui scored twice in succession and then LAir began a frantic effort to try and send The Final Spritz to overtime but they just kept missing the critical shots. As the clock ticked to 0:00 the score read Serge Lutens Chergui 54-Tauer Perfume LAir du Desert Marocain 52.
Andy Tauer walked over to the owners box and shook hands with Serge Lutens you could see smiles on both mens faces as they knew both bottles had done their Houses proud. Unfortunately all sporting contests only have one winner and Serge Lutens got to stand at the center of the boutique surrounded by his victorious Chergui and raise the Basenotes March Madness Gold Flacon over his head in celebration.
Before we leave you with our traditional rendition of One Spritzing Moment it is time to hand out the thanks to bluesoul for once again organizing a truly memorable event. I now turn over the proceedings to bluesoul for the Closing Ceremonies and Awards Show.
Thanks to all of you for participating and reading along.
Until next year, Somerville Metro Man.Out!
