Aliage
Alliage
Estēe Lauder 1972

Version from 1972

Bottle Design Ira Levy

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7.9 / 10 129 Ratings

Aliage (1972) is a popular perfume by Estēe Lauder for women and was released in 1972. The scent is green-chypreartig. The longevity is above-average. It was last marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
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Main accords

Green

Chypre

Spicy

Fresh

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lemon

Peach

Heart Notes

Green notes

Galbanum

Jasmine

Pine

Rosewood

Thyme

Base Notes

Oakmoss

Musk

Myrrh

Vetiver

Perfumer

Francis Camail

Ratings

Scent

7.9129 Ratings

Longevity

8.296 Ratings

Sillage

7.496 Ratings

Bottle

6.799 Ratings

Value for money

7.510 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 15.04.2024.

Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/20/2021

6
Pricing 6
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Nordnase
41 Reviews

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Nordnase

Top Review 21

ALLIAGE - THE BEGINNING

June 1992. A big bank. First day in the office. New country, new city, new system, new colleagues.
PURE ANXIETY !!!

Everything is foreign and so unspeakably far from familiar. It doesn't help, I have to go through it, because I have a family to feed. Everything is new, my own office, my own desk and my own PC. I'll never make it - shortness of breath, shaking knees, fluttering heart, nausea.

Then it's off to the stock market. OMG - it's like a movie. A crowd of well-dressed men and few women are gathered, I'm like in a trance. Slippery parquet, ringing, screaming, rattling the
Dax -board above me - it's hell.... What was I thinking - I'll never make it... These numbers, these people, this rush - dear God, help me. Everything is spinning....

But then comes the saving hand, the saving look and the saving words - my boss stands next to me, looks me in the eye and says : " ... everything is only half as bad... They all just want to play... In a few weeks you'll understand everything and everything will be more normal... "
I croak some reply and wish for the final bell of the stock market to ring...

So it was then, and many crazy days followed. One scent has always accompanied and protected me during that time: ALLIAGE - he says : Until here and no further. Keep your distance, this woman must stand her ground - at all times. Hard and yet tender, unapproachable and yet enveloping, woody and yet warm - ALLIAGE unites everything and the feeling of that time, which brought so much growth and change. I have never experienced such an atmosphere of departure again.

Unapproachable green and woody notes, united with peach, pine and musk, conclude a fragrance that ends somewhat bitter-herbaceous and yet endearing. Quite typical understatement for the office. Clear demarcation. Desperation paired with hope and kindness. This scent is contradictory and indicative of my state then. And also today. Never would I want to miss it.

He is unique.

ALLIAGE continues to accompany me. The story is not over yet.

04/09/2024

8
Pricing 8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Greenfan1701
61 Reviews

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Greenfan1701

Top Review 17

I want it green

Yes, I admit it, I'm a self-confessed 70s fan. The fragrances of that time shaped me, I know, I know.

I had Alliage with two LLs pretty soon. I scraped together the little bit of money I had saved at the time and bought a bottle. Of only 15 ml, I couldn't afford more, so it was quickly emptied. When I could, I bought more, again and again. This went on for a few years until I discovered Chanel Cristalle. Then THAT was my fragrance (it still is today, - but enough about that).

This is a vintage perfume that is really only made for people who like green chypre fragrances. If you prefer powdery, fruity or rather sweet scents, you're not in the right place.

Alliage is so green-chypry, I have to admit that I can't smell anything individually because I'm far too biased. I love this fragrance (although I've given it away before, sheep), I'll always love it and now especially when the warm, hot days come, because I'll be wearing it a lot, I already know that.

And, how could it be otherwise, dear Ola still had a bottle for me. THANKS

07/14/2012

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Helpful Review 5

The cost conundrum.

At first glance, Alliage, one of the Estée Lauder line’s inexpensive mainstays might be considered simply ‘cheap and cheerful.’ It reads, “Sport Fragrance Spray” in a functional, rather non-stylized bottle. Not exactly sexy. But cheap and cheerful implies an innocent simplicity whose grinning surface advises not digging any further. On the contrary, I’d argue that Alliage is inexpensive but sophisticated and spectacular. One of the impressive set of perfumes in the stellar-but-cheap sweepstakes.

Everyone seems to talk about Alliage’s notes, and I will as well, but briefly. I don’t get the peach. I don’t get the oakmoss. I do get a heavy green (loads of galbanum accented by vetiver) brightened by citrus rind oils (bitter orange, lime?) and florals. But since the green is already firmly in place, the floral tone is a clean, airy white jasmine bolstered by musk and what smells like rosewood. I’ve heard people lament the loss of a more heavily oakmoss-laden earlier version of Alliage, but I don’t miss Miss Moss. Alliage is wonderfully balanced just the way it is.

The cool white florals seem a dry counterpoint to the sweet galbanum. And galbanum’s lasting chalkiness lines up perfectly with a resinous base that gives depth and a slow-moving quality. Myrrh? Incense? It all feels very languid and heavy-lidded. I don’t need the bitter green that moss might add. Consider Alliage’s sibling Devin by Aramis for that.

Alliage has a cool quality that implies poise as much as temperature. Its cool impression is similar in to the effect given by mint/basil or camphorous components, but without their harshness or muscle-balm feeling. In cooler weather, Alliage feels forest-like, a bit moist. In my dry southern California heat, Alliage keeps its cool longer and more comfortably than any other perfume I’ve tried. It doesn’t blend with the skin. It’s more like a richly colored clothing accessory, like the perfect tie. It works as an accent and draws the nose’s attention. It doesn’t blend. I think this is how Alliage remains cool through drydown.

Clean and green, not so much tart as a bit sharp. This is one of the few fragrances I wear to work as an RN in a hospital. It’s cool but not quite grass-like, not quite floral. It has wonderful endurance, but after the topnotes, mild sillage. I think it just reads as quality grooming products to my patients and colleagues.

Again the price dilemma. In this case a happy one. Why does this cost so little? It sells at the same department stores that flog haphazardly brewed, blaringly marketed perfumes for 3-4 times the price. Alliage is a distinctive fragrance of high quality and name-droppable pedigree (Bernard Chant) that has been typically well maintained over the years by Estée Lauder. I could wear this forever (were I not so perfume-promiscuous, that is.)

06/19/2012

10
Pricing 5
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Gold
541 Reviews

Gold

Helpful Review 5

The greenest of all

Alliage is the greenest of all perfumes. In a certain way related to classics like Bandit and Cabochard, Alliage is the opposite of sweetness, the epitomy of coolness. I think it would make a fantastic male fragrance, too, it's crisp, uncompromising and - above all - the work of a genius! I hope they'll never discontinue it.

01/23/2021

7
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 5
Scent

Amberfreak
9 Reviews

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Amberfreak

MECK, MECK, MÄH

From Estee Lauder I am used to class and elegance, so I dared as a blind purchase the Aliage Sport. On the sprayer it smells promisingly herbaceous, so here with it immediately and generously on both wrists and temples.

Meck, meck, mäh, I can not believe it ... A buxom hungry goat charges lovingly tended garden, trampling and eating everything indiscriminately: Roses, herbs, grasses, shrubs. Munch, munch, burp, burp, burp ... the show goes on like this for 5 hours, then oversaturation is reached and the goat disappears. The demolished garden smells from now on quite great for about another 4 hours.

The most extreme Animalik causes only incredulous head shaking... why is the scent here largely highly praised?

P.s. By the way, I must mention that my skin chemistry generally lures most even rudimentary animalic notes from the reserve maximum out and an epicenter of the aroma is always on the right more diligent hand... On the paper strip, the goat is well camouflaged, so hardly detectable without warning.