05/02/2020

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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
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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