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Sherapop
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Escape...to Norway
We've been experiencing some fairly Norwegian weather this winter in Boston, so it seemed like a good time to try out Geir Ness LAILA, which claims to be "the essence of Norway".
Well, I'm afraid that I have some bad news for the people of Norway: LAILA smells just like Calvin Klein ESCAPE, an oceanic, melon-aquatic perfume produced in 1991, four years before LAILA. I do not believe that Geir Ness set out to copy ESCAPE, any more than I believe that L'EAU D'ISSEY is a "knock off" of the same, but sometimes cultural and market forces conspire to produce very similar perfumes, even in very different parts of the world by perfumers who probably do not know each other. ESCAPE got there first, so everyone else who creates this sort of iconic melon aquatic is going to be accused of plagiarism by less charitable souls than myself.
If you like ESCAPE, you'll like LAILA. If not, you won't. They both have excellent longevity and are strong, declarative compositions. But they both are melon aquatics, which is a genre that no longer really appeals to me.
