Clandestine Guy Laroche 1986Eau de Toilette

Clandestine (Eau de Toilette) by Guy Laroche

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Clandestine (Eau de Toilette) (Guy Laroche)

7.9 / 10 49 Ratings

Clandestine (Eau de Toilette) is a popular perfume by Guy Laroche for women and was released in 1986. The scent is floral-fruity. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.

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Perfumer

Daniel Molière

Fragrance Notes

Top Notes	Aldehydes, Pineapple, Apricot, Bergamot, Plum
Heart Notes	Damask rose, Heliotrope, Honey, Iris, Jasmine, Carnation, Tuberose, Ylang-ylang
Base Notes	Amber, Benzoin, Musk, Patchouli, Vanilla, Cedar, Civet

Ratings

Scent

7.9 | 49 Ratings

Longevity

8.8 | 39 Ratings

Sillage

7.8 | 37 Ratings

Bottle

7.4 | 47 Ratings

Submitted by Lissy, last update on 04.05.2020.

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05/02/2020

9
Scent 9
Longevity 9
Sillage 6
Bottle

Rosaviola

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Top Review 12

Clandestine by Guy Laroche

From Clandestine by Guy Laroche I bought a 100ml bottle, which still contains about 40ml of EdT. The bottle still has a rather thick tube, as it hasn't been usual for a long time. The newer the fragrance, the thinner the tube. Over time not only the fragrances were thinned out, but also their atomizer tubes in the truest sense of the word.
I estimate the age of the bottle to be at least 25 years or older. I have some of these primeval rocks at home and almost all of them are still intact.
With this bottle the sprayer does not work so well anymore, often you have to push it a few times, but then it works again.

Guy Laroche (1921-1989) was a French fashion designer, one of his clients was Sophia Loren. During his creative period, he released some great fragrances in addition to Clandestine, such as Fiji (1966), J'ai Ose (1977), or for the gentlemen Drakkar (1972), of which there are also several versions. Clandestine was released in 1986 and was probably the last great fragrance from Guy Laroche.

What can I say, that smell is a bomb. Right from the start you hear aldehydes with lots of juicy, ripe fruit. I smell apricots and plums here mostly, pineapple not so much. Also some bergamot can be seen. Cibet is already visible in the top note. Meow! Already the top notes show up with a huge sillage, as it was usual in the eighties After a few hours, when the fragrance has calmed down, you can also see some flowers in the heart notes Roses, powdered iris, also jasmine and some honey. The flowers are densely interwoven and not all flowers can be seen so easily.
The base is also warm and animalistic with patchouli, vanilla, amber, musk and even more civet. So civet stays in this vintage version from beginning to end.
I probably don't have to say that you should use the fragrance very sparingly.
Otherwise you get the impression of a mountain lioness on heat.
The durability is as usual for the eighties at least 12 hours.

The bottle looks like the eighties, angular with a jagged pattern in the glass. The color of the fragrance itself is a dark golden yellow-ambery hue that's best suited to the bottle. Probably the fragrance has matured a bit already.
I even have a spare bottle of this. I don't wear it very often, but when with pleasure

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08/05/2019

9.5
Scent 9
Longevity 8
Sillage 9
Bottle

Alex1984
43 Reviews

Alex1984

Little naughty Lolita

If you ever wondered what an 80’s fruity floral smell(ed)s like, here you have it!
Main difference? Bigger sillage, long lasting and downright sexy.

Clandestine, coming out a year after Poison, was a departure from Fidji and J’ai Osé. And it inevitably borrowed some of it. And from La Nuit.
Starting out plummy and liquor like, Clandestine doesn’t take much time to show what it’s all about. Underneath a short lived metal ray of aldehydes, the top is about fruit. Big, decaying fruit. Plum, peach, a slightly pissy blackcurrant... it’s playful, carefree but yet, debaucherous.
It also crams big bold flowers; tuberose, rose, jasmine...add some ylang with its custardy sweetness and a big dollop of honey, and what you get is a massively indolic heart. Sexy, decadent, narcotic. There’s a powdery veil that prevents it from going all the way...yet.
But the drydown! Oh, the drydown, long and skanky filled with the last remains of honey, carnation, and joined by a big slice of civet and musk, dims the lights and lets the animal out.

Clandestine starts fun and sexy, goes wild midway down the night, ending up in a dark alley making out with a stranger. There’s a ‘Poisonesque’ fruitiness, the same dirtiness of La Nuit but dialed down a bit, and lots of class.
For all it’s notes and progression, Clandestine could just as easily go to a party, to a gala, or for dinner and drinks.
80’s volume, and yet, there’s a bit of elegance taken from earlier decades. The animalic aspect is far more amplified on warm skin, but never reaching the levels of other monsters. A fruity floral with a kick!
Yeap! Just like they don’t make ‘em anymore.

Review based on a splash from 1986 (Edt).
Sillage and longevity? I’ll see you in the morning!

03/07/2015

9
Scent 10
Longevity 10
Sillage 5
Bottle

GothicHeart
87 Reviews

GothicHeart

Very helpful Review 6

Lurking in the shadows...

Clandestine was the clincher that put Guy Laroche in my top five perfume houses once and for all, because, according to my personal taste of course, every fragrance that the house launched until Guy Laroche's death in 1989 was a perfect ten, and has earned a more or less legendary or even cult status over time. I mean, think about it for a while. Fidji, Eau Folle, Drakkar, J'ai Ose, Drakkar Noir and finally Clandestine.
Of course it comes as no surprise that after Monsieur Laroche's departure for perfume heaven, and with the brief flash of Horizon in 1993 (probably due to momentum), good ol' L'Oreal thought it was a good time to start joking.
Drakkar Dynamik, Drakkar Essence, J'ai Ose Baby and J'ai Ose Aqua. I personally didn't laugh at all. I just pray there's not any Fidji Urban Chic or Clandestine So Cute in the making...
And now that the eulogy is over, let's get to the point.
We all know that there's always a good chance for something very interesting and possibly dangerous to be happening behind these huge metal waste containers that are usually found in dimly lit and occasionally wet dark alleys. I mean, come on, we've seen it in a thousand movies, so it's got to be true.
Well, the interesting and surely dangerous thing that is happening behind this particular one that stands before us, is Clandestine. With her trashy but flashy dress raised, her panties lowered, and happily peeing behind it. Moments after she has left one of these thunderous '80s clubs, where she was dancing like crazy all night long.
What's more interesting is that upon getting caught in the act, she doesn't bother to cover herself. Not in the slightest. On the contrary, she looks at you at full defiance, utters "What?" and goes on with her business.
And she goes from Clandestine to in-your-face in an instant. And this instant is enough to make you fall desperately in love with her!
Because the smell of this stupendous and intoxicating aura engulfing her, is speaking of pure, unrestrained woomanhood and it will make you stagger and swoon every single time. For it's not possible to escape this musty, dirty but in the same time sweet and guile attack unscathed. Because you stand the same chances as if you were under full frontal assault (pun intended) by a crazed battalion of civet cats, with Company A ferociously gnawing on (tube)roses and Company B looking to gnaw anything on you that resembles plums. Ferociously as well. With their CO smiling from the shadows of her hiding place...
But don't worry about any connotations between her and the contents of her hiding place being more than concrete. Cause it may be that no matter how hard she tries to sell her lady self, the tramp within her will always show, but who doesn't like this kind of tramps? And who wouldn't be ready to die for her after seeing her audacious poise despite being that exposed? OK, maybe not die, but at least watch over her until she finishes relieving herself. And perhaps follow her obediently afterwards, drawn by the invisible leash that Clandestine has tighten around your neck. For it may be gallant and noble to defend a queen, but it's always the plain rabble girls that will pay you back with everything they've got.
And this one has got it all...

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