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03/09/2021
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Rossiniopera
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Opium eau Verte
My teenage daughter sometimes asks me what is the typical fashion of this and that decade. Before I start listing things, I say that a fashion decade doesn't necessarily start at the year zero and end at the year nine - after all, it takes time for a new decade to find it's own style, and the beginning of a new decade is most often a natural continuation of the end of the last one. Since there are also many different styles within the long span of ten years, you could also speak of "half-" or "mini-decades" of fashion, either within one specific decade, or crossing from the end of one to the beginning of the next.
So, if she asks me about the 80s, i. e. clotheswise, I tell her that the late 80s were very different from the early 80s, which had more in common with the end of the 70s.
Now, transfer this train of thoughts to perfume... and I find Gherardini Donna from 1982 at the end station of a journey that started in 1977 with YSL Opium and picked up Mystère de Rochas the following year, two spicy perfumes that sort of marked the beginning of the perfume fashion of the 80s. Yes, I know there were other styles too, but this is where I feel a clear connection...
Gherardini Donna is a warm perfume, green and ambery and full of sunshine, but it is also gently smoky-spicy, with a hint of vanilla at the bottom. It is as if Opium put away her red and gold evening gown, slipped into "something more comfortable," like a white cotton dress, and took a Sunday trip to the countryside. Actually, even the bottle with the G-shaped hole in it looks like it was created by YSL!
I find Gherardini Donna to be a very nice perfume, suitable for sunny spring days. I discovered it a couple of years ago when I bought three Gherardini miniatures to test - the other two were the sweet, floral Grazia and the rough, leathery G, but Donna was the only one I went on to buy a full bottle of. Worth trying, if you enjoy warm, spicy-green scents that are not too heavy, from the inspiring semi-decade of late 70s to early 80s.
So, if she asks me about the 80s, i. e. clotheswise, I tell her that the late 80s were very different from the early 80s, which had more in common with the end of the 70s.
Now, transfer this train of thoughts to perfume... and I find Gherardini Donna from 1982 at the end station of a journey that started in 1977 with YSL Opium and picked up Mystère de Rochas the following year, two spicy perfumes that sort of marked the beginning of the perfume fashion of the 80s. Yes, I know there were other styles too, but this is where I feel a clear connection...
Gherardini Donna is a warm perfume, green and ambery and full of sunshine, but it is also gently smoky-spicy, with a hint of vanilla at the bottom. It is as if Opium put away her red and gold evening gown, slipped into "something more comfortable," like a white cotton dress, and took a Sunday trip to the countryside. Actually, even the bottle with the G-shaped hole in it looks like it was created by YSL!
I find Gherardini Donna to be a very nice perfume, suitable for sunny spring days. I discovered it a couple of years ago when I bought three Gherardini miniatures to test - the other two were the sweet, floral Grazia and the rough, leathery G, but Donna was the only one I went on to buy a full bottle of. Worth trying, if you enjoy warm, spicy-green scents that are not too heavy, from the inspiring semi-decade of late 70s to early 80s.
