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Forever and for Always
It was on a warm spring day sometime in mid/late May 1997.
At 19 years old, I was on my way home from trade school in the late afternoon.
At the time I was living with my boyfriend a bit out of town, rural, on the outskirts of town. Near the main train station, I had to change from the streetcar to the intercity bus.
This drove however only every half hour. I had just missed one and thus still had plenty of time.
The spring sun burned mercilessly and somehow I was dressed a little too warm. There were no benches at this stop, it was right on the sidewalk next to a large drugstore.
To pass the time and escape the heat, I went inside and looked around a bit.
When I got back out to the street, my bus was pulling up. I got on, looked for a seat, then I remembered the perfume I had sprayed on my wrist at the end. I smelled it and was immediately lost in love up to both nostrils. WOW! What a fragrance! Warm, sensual, powdery, elegant - I had never smelled anything like it before. I kept sniffing it on my wrist, couldn't get enough of it.
Completely intoxicated I came home and told my friend about it. Soon after, on the next occasion - it must have been my birthday - I got this fragrance as a gift.
Since then, he accompanies me through my life.
In younger years, I wore him only on special, solemn occasions. There were others beside him at that time: Diors "Dolce Vita", Valentinos "Very Valentino" and also Boudoir of Vivienne Westwood stood in my perfume shelf.
However, the more I gained in years and maturity, the more often I used it in everyday life. Then in my 30s, it became my signature fragrance. There were no others besides it. The fragrance was me and I was the fragrance - inseparable.
It's commonly known about symbiotic relationships that they often don't have a good ending. And so it came, as it had to come:
One fine day in 2015, I wanted to buy a new bottle in the perfumery of my confidence, because the filling level of my current bottle was threatening to end.
Somewhat confused, I stood in front of the perfumery shelf, but could not find my favorite fragrance. So I approached a saleswoman and asked for the D&G women's fragrance with the "red cap".
I was not prepared for the answer and it hit me full broadside: "There is no longer for some time so. The fragrance has been reformulated, got a new bottle...", with quick steps she walked towards the shelf and reached for a bottle. Slowly, as if I had concrete blocks on my feet, and incredulously, I followed the eager saleswoman "That's what it looks like now! However, it's a completely new scent: more modern, more contemporary. Here, try it" Still not thinking clearly, I held out my forearm to her and received a generous sample. After a short wait, I smelled it, holding in my innermost being the tiny hope that this could all be a bad joke. But this hope died with the first sniff and once again it hit me hard. Completely horrified, I shouted that it couldn't be, that this had "always" been MY fragrance. The saleswoman shrugged her shoulders with little sympathy. Desperately, almost pleadingly, I asked if she really didn't still have a bottle of the old fragrance somewhere, which she answered with another shrug of the shoulders and an "Unfortunately, no".
Deeply dejected and about 1.50 meters shorter than when I entered the store, I crawled out. Since I always used the fragrance very sparingly (a spritz on the neck is enough for the WHOLE day), a large bottle lasted me a very long time - and since the fragrance had always existed for me and it was undisputedly the most beautiful fragrance in the world, it had never occurred to me that it could be taken off the market. I was able to get hold of a bottle at a large German mail-order company - but it still stands in its original packaging in my drawer. The contents seemed much too precious to me. For a long time I mourned and felt as if a part of me had been lost. Two half-hearted attempts to find a new fragrance for myself failed miserably. If I can't have my Dolce & Gabbana "Red Cap", then I won't wear a fragrance at all! And so a few years passed until my dear cousin told me about Parfumo at the end of 2020... It took almost three quarters of a year until I could warm up to the topic of perfume again.
My first review is of course for my first, but recently not only love.
The fragrance I can not really describe in itself, or dissect him nasal into its individual parts.
But I can say that it is an incredibly strong, sensual, elegant, warm-cool, noble, velvety, heavy, feminine femme fatale fragrance. A discreet dosage is absolutely necessary here and decides on hop or flop!
Immediately after application, it can sting quite a bit in the nose and you do well to apply some patience. Already after a few minutes, when the body heat begins to unwrap the fragrance wrapped in red velvet, its magic unfolds. Certainly not a fragrance for every woman. The wearer must already put a certain dominance and strength to the day to be up to this fragrance.
The fragrance was at the time of its launch the first fragrance of Dolce & Gabbana ever. He had therefore also no name. It was simply the Dolce & Gabbana perfume for women and in time was also nicknamed "Red Cap", because of its red cap.
The original version was distributed by Euroitalia with "Made in Italy".
At some point, D&G then switched to Procter & Gamble with manufacturing still in Italy at first, then later "Made in Germany".
Even then, a small change in the fragrance took place, which had not bothered me much, however, because the fragrance remained true to itself on the whole.
Today I have both versions (Euroitalia "Made in Italy" and P&G "Made in Germany"). In direct comparison, the original version (Euroitalia "Made in Italy") is a little more refined and profound than the one from Procter & Gamble when you smell it closely. Nevertheless, I do not find the difference serious.
Apparently, the outcry of D&G wearers was quite loud and not everyone has fallen into a long-standing paralysis of shock, as I did at the time. In the meantime (as of 2021), the "Red Cap" is once again available for purchase in online stores. Distributed now by Shiseido/Beauté Prestige International, "Made in France".
However, I have NOT yet smelled the current version. To be continued!
At 19 years old, I was on my way home from trade school in the late afternoon.
At the time I was living with my boyfriend a bit out of town, rural, on the outskirts of town. Near the main train station, I had to change from the streetcar to the intercity bus.
This drove however only every half hour. I had just missed one and thus still had plenty of time.
The spring sun burned mercilessly and somehow I was dressed a little too warm. There were no benches at this stop, it was right on the sidewalk next to a large drugstore.
To pass the time and escape the heat, I went inside and looked around a bit.
When I got back out to the street, my bus was pulling up. I got on, looked for a seat, then I remembered the perfume I had sprayed on my wrist at the end. I smelled it and was immediately lost in love up to both nostrils. WOW! What a fragrance! Warm, sensual, powdery, elegant - I had never smelled anything like it before. I kept sniffing it on my wrist, couldn't get enough of it.
Completely intoxicated I came home and told my friend about it. Soon after, on the next occasion - it must have been my birthday - I got this fragrance as a gift.
Since then, he accompanies me through my life.
In younger years, I wore him only on special, solemn occasions. There were others beside him at that time: Diors "Dolce Vita", Valentinos "Very Valentino" and also Boudoir of Vivienne Westwood stood in my perfume shelf.
However, the more I gained in years and maturity, the more often I used it in everyday life. Then in my 30s, it became my signature fragrance. There were no others besides it. The fragrance was me and I was the fragrance - inseparable.
It's commonly known about symbiotic relationships that they often don't have a good ending. And so it came, as it had to come:
One fine day in 2015, I wanted to buy a new bottle in the perfumery of my confidence, because the filling level of my current bottle was threatening to end.
Somewhat confused, I stood in front of the perfumery shelf, but could not find my favorite fragrance. So I approached a saleswoman and asked for the D&G women's fragrance with the "red cap".
I was not prepared for the answer and it hit me full broadside: "There is no longer for some time so. The fragrance has been reformulated, got a new bottle...", with quick steps she walked towards the shelf and reached for a bottle. Slowly, as if I had concrete blocks on my feet, and incredulously, I followed the eager saleswoman "That's what it looks like now! However, it's a completely new scent: more modern, more contemporary. Here, try it" Still not thinking clearly, I held out my forearm to her and received a generous sample. After a short wait, I smelled it, holding in my innermost being the tiny hope that this could all be a bad joke. But this hope died with the first sniff and once again it hit me hard. Completely horrified, I shouted that it couldn't be, that this had "always" been MY fragrance. The saleswoman shrugged her shoulders with little sympathy. Desperately, almost pleadingly, I asked if she really didn't still have a bottle of the old fragrance somewhere, which she answered with another shrug of the shoulders and an "Unfortunately, no".
Deeply dejected and about 1.50 meters shorter than when I entered the store, I crawled out. Since I always used the fragrance very sparingly (a spritz on the neck is enough for the WHOLE day), a large bottle lasted me a very long time - and since the fragrance had always existed for me and it was undisputedly the most beautiful fragrance in the world, it had never occurred to me that it could be taken off the market. I was able to get hold of a bottle at a large German mail-order company - but it still stands in its original packaging in my drawer. The contents seemed much too precious to me. For a long time I mourned and felt as if a part of me had been lost. Two half-hearted attempts to find a new fragrance for myself failed miserably. If I can't have my Dolce & Gabbana "Red Cap", then I won't wear a fragrance at all! And so a few years passed until my dear cousin told me about Parfumo at the end of 2020... It took almost three quarters of a year until I could warm up to the topic of perfume again.
My first review is of course for my first, but recently not only love.
The fragrance I can not really describe in itself, or dissect him nasal into its individual parts.
But I can say that it is an incredibly strong, sensual, elegant, warm-cool, noble, velvety, heavy, feminine femme fatale fragrance. A discreet dosage is absolutely necessary here and decides on hop or flop!
Immediately after application, it can sting quite a bit in the nose and you do well to apply some patience. Already after a few minutes, when the body heat begins to unwrap the fragrance wrapped in red velvet, its magic unfolds. Certainly not a fragrance for every woman. The wearer must already put a certain dominance and strength to the day to be up to this fragrance.
The fragrance was at the time of its launch the first fragrance of Dolce & Gabbana ever. He had therefore also no name. It was simply the Dolce & Gabbana perfume for women and in time was also nicknamed "Red Cap", because of its red cap.
The original version was distributed by Euroitalia with "Made in Italy".
At some point, D&G then switched to Procter & Gamble with manufacturing still in Italy at first, then later "Made in Germany".
Even then, a small change in the fragrance took place, which had not bothered me much, however, because the fragrance remained true to itself on the whole.
Today I have both versions (Euroitalia "Made in Italy" and P&G "Made in Germany"). In direct comparison, the original version (Euroitalia "Made in Italy") is a little more refined and profound than the one from Procter & Gamble when you smell it closely. Nevertheless, I do not find the difference serious.
Apparently, the outcry of D&G wearers was quite loud and not everyone has fallen into a long-standing paralysis of shock, as I did at the time. In the meantime (as of 2021), the "Red Cap" is once again available for purchase in online stores. Distributed now by Shiseido/Beauté Prestige International, "Made in France".
However, I have NOT yet smelled the current version. To be continued!
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