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Heaven is one of the few older Chopards I hadn't commented on before. Why did I not dare? Well, with this fragrance I have a hard time, especially when it comes to rating.
When it was launched in 1994, I was dating my first great love and I was 17. I wore Casmir almost exclusively at the time, and since it blew my boyfriend away at the time, he also became curious about this men's fragrance, of which he found a sample in a magazine. Actually, he wore no perfume, but Heaven had it and so my mother gave him a small bottle.
Heaven is not aquatic to my nose, as it likes to be described here. I always found it to be a crossover between warm, aromatic scents and the usually rather austere fougères, as this one was also marked by a lavender note. Basically, fragrance-wise, Heaven has almost everything that Ms Polly likes. Bergamot in the opening, jasmine in the heart and musk in the base. The musk note is absolutely delicious. It makes it soft, delicate and cuddly, but despite all the fluff, this Chopard always retains a teeny bit of edge because of the lavender. It never drifts into the too sweet or trivial. I find the comparisons to Joop's Nightflight, which a later great love of mine wore, hard to follow. Nightflight, for me, is primarily fresh and woody. I don't see an aquatic in that one either. But Heaven is neither classically fresh nor woody, I think. It's just a really nice crossover. Period.
Unfortunately, my childhood sweetheart almost never wore it. If he did once, I was literally glued to his neck like a licked stamp. That's how infatuated I was with this glorious scent.
A few years later, this was over and I went on vacation with my parents, as almost every summer. Along for the ride, as they did almost every year, were my uncle and aunt and their three children. When the subject of fragrances came up, my usually somewhat cheeky aunt proudly announced that my uncle was currently wearing the wonderful Heaven by Chopard. I had admittedly noticed a lovely scent on him, but was it actually the same perfume that had previously knocked my socks off on another wearer? Honestly? No. The scent was still beautiful, sure, but it wasn't a 10 anymore, it was maybe an 8. And that's exactly why I don't really know what grade to give this discontinued treasure. I think an 8.5 is fair. But Heaven proved to me at a young age that it's never the scent alone that gives you a broadside, it's always the wearer that plays a certain role. I know I'm negating a lot of dreams here, because as beautiful as a scent is perceived to be, the ultimate kick is ultimately provided by - ONLY the wearer. So sorry....
Despite everything, I miss this Heaven. He had, by the way, like the Vintage-Casmir also, a fabulous durability. With 2-3 sprays, you could linger in Heaven for a whole day. I understand why some spend a lot of money on this vintage treasure.
When it was launched in 1994, I was dating my first great love and I was 17. I wore Casmir almost exclusively at the time, and since it blew my boyfriend away at the time, he also became curious about this men's fragrance, of which he found a sample in a magazine. Actually, he wore no perfume, but Heaven had it and so my mother gave him a small bottle.
Heaven is not aquatic to my nose, as it likes to be described here. I always found it to be a crossover between warm, aromatic scents and the usually rather austere fougères, as this one was also marked by a lavender note. Basically, fragrance-wise, Heaven has almost everything that Ms Polly likes. Bergamot in the opening, jasmine in the heart and musk in the base. The musk note is absolutely delicious. It makes it soft, delicate and cuddly, but despite all the fluff, this Chopard always retains a teeny bit of edge because of the lavender. It never drifts into the too sweet or trivial. I find the comparisons to Joop's Nightflight, which a later great love of mine wore, hard to follow. Nightflight, for me, is primarily fresh and woody. I don't see an aquatic in that one either. But Heaven is neither classically fresh nor woody, I think. It's just a really nice crossover. Period.
Unfortunately, my childhood sweetheart almost never wore it. If he did once, I was literally glued to his neck like a licked stamp. That's how infatuated I was with this glorious scent.
A few years later, this was over and I went on vacation with my parents, as almost every summer. Along for the ride, as they did almost every year, were my uncle and aunt and their three children. When the subject of fragrances came up, my usually somewhat cheeky aunt proudly announced that my uncle was currently wearing the wonderful Heaven by Chopard. I had admittedly noticed a lovely scent on him, but was it actually the same perfume that had previously knocked my socks off on another wearer? Honestly? No. The scent was still beautiful, sure, but it wasn't a 10 anymore, it was maybe an 8. And that's exactly why I don't really know what grade to give this discontinued treasure. I think an 8.5 is fair. But Heaven proved to me at a young age that it's never the scent alone that gives you a broadside, it's always the wearer that plays a certain role. I know I'm negating a lot of dreams here, because as beautiful as a scent is perceived to be, the ultimate kick is ultimately provided by - ONLY the wearer. So sorry....
Despite everything, I miss this Heaven. He had, by the way, like the Vintage-Casmir also, a fabulous durability. With 2-3 sprays, you could linger in Heaven for a whole day. I understand why some spend a lot of money on this vintage treasure.
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