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"Woman pure": anything but purist
The first thing that comes to mind about Jil Sander is her fashion line, with which she attracted attention:
Excellent cuts, which emphasize straight lines and natural tones and represent a counterpoint to the opulence and colorfulness of the fashion of the other fashion designers of the time.
For me it was and is always too sober, too austere - indeed, too purist!
So I transferred this feeling also instinctively to her fragrances; but was already convinced in the spring of 1982 by a colleague of the opposite: she showered me with the power of "Woman Pure" in the form of the Eau de Toilette.
I have described my experiences with it in the appropriate commentary.
I still remember well her warm animalistic aura when she returned to the office from an extended lunch break (during which a workman had announced himself at home).
That's why I also reacted first something rejecting, when this fragrance was offered to me as an extrait as a gift. I just did not dare me!
But since I met a good fragrance friend here, who will certainly appreciate this concentrated Chypre power, Jil Sanders "Woman Pure" as a perfume was now allowed to travel; even if I only as a stopover in transit traffic to Franconia.
Of course, I had to test this almost creamy-oily fragrance woman anyway!
My curiosity allowed nothing else and besides, it could have been that my memory deceived me - it is already some years ago that the Eau de Toilette and I collided.
For spraying almost too heavy is this fragrant extract: actually, you should apply it with a glass rod to be able to dose it appropriately.
So it is recommended to spray extremely sensitive.
Because already the prelude is rich: fresh-spicy, quietly smoky and aldehyde radiant.
The then opening generous flower garden offers very mature white bloomers; jasmine, lily of the valley and tuberoses start full of power and also the always very proud gardenias do not hold back their swathes of fragrance!
The proud rose, the spicy and so lovable garden carnation and even the always friendly smiling ylang ylang vine are assigned only a supporting role here.
They are allowed to be there, but rather have to form a kind of platform for the former floral-scented power.
They do their best in good "Chypre manner" and thus receive the base classic fragrances in style.
Sensual, not without exuding a certain earthy, damp animalicism, oakmoss, vetiver and cedar enter this fragrance stage, before benzoin and styrax join in resinously smoky and suitably spicy.
A well-dosed, but not exactly delicate leather note surrounds the previous fragrance development like a well-cut loose robe!
Sensual, proud and very idiosyncratic shows Jil Sanders "Woman Pure" Perfume finally!
At the same time, this extremely interesting fragrance creation also does not forget to show off her self-confident femininity!
This fragrant beauty expects attention!
She wants to dominate and demands submission!
She is beautiful!
But I can't give this scent power the space she imagines:
Her overly fragrant dominance disturbs me!
(Is it perhaps, after all, the experience I had with the eau de toilette that still blocks me?)
Every positive review here is fully justified!
And yet I can understand why "Nachtgarten" parted with this omnipotent creation and gladly send it on myself, hoping for a future in which this chypre fragrance woman is appreciated as she deserves.
Sometimes it is not meant to be!
But again, it was an interesting experience to see how skin, senses and skillfully scooped fragrance react to each other.
Therefore, my great thanks to "night garden", which provided my ever-present scent curiosity with new food
Excellent cuts, which emphasize straight lines and natural tones and represent a counterpoint to the opulence and colorfulness of the fashion of the other fashion designers of the time.
For me it was and is always too sober, too austere - indeed, too purist!
So I transferred this feeling also instinctively to her fragrances; but was already convinced in the spring of 1982 by a colleague of the opposite: she showered me with the power of "Woman Pure" in the form of the Eau de Toilette.
I have described my experiences with it in the appropriate commentary.
I still remember well her warm animalistic aura when she returned to the office from an extended lunch break (during which a workman had announced himself at home).
That's why I also reacted first something rejecting, when this fragrance was offered to me as an extrait as a gift. I just did not dare me!
But since I met a good fragrance friend here, who will certainly appreciate this concentrated Chypre power, Jil Sanders "Woman Pure" as a perfume was now allowed to travel; even if I only as a stopover in transit traffic to Franconia.
Of course, I had to test this almost creamy-oily fragrance woman anyway!
My curiosity allowed nothing else and besides, it could have been that my memory deceived me - it is already some years ago that the Eau de Toilette and I collided.
For spraying almost too heavy is this fragrant extract: actually, you should apply it with a glass rod to be able to dose it appropriately.
So it is recommended to spray extremely sensitive.
Because already the prelude is rich: fresh-spicy, quietly smoky and aldehyde radiant.
The then opening generous flower garden offers very mature white bloomers; jasmine, lily of the valley and tuberoses start full of power and also the always very proud gardenias do not hold back their swathes of fragrance!
The proud rose, the spicy and so lovable garden carnation and even the always friendly smiling ylang ylang vine are assigned only a supporting role here.
They are allowed to be there, but rather have to form a kind of platform for the former floral-scented power.
They do their best in good "Chypre manner" and thus receive the base classic fragrances in style.
Sensual, not without exuding a certain earthy, damp animalicism, oakmoss, vetiver and cedar enter this fragrance stage, before benzoin and styrax join in resinously smoky and suitably spicy.
A well-dosed, but not exactly delicate leather note surrounds the previous fragrance development like a well-cut loose robe!
Sensual, proud and very idiosyncratic shows Jil Sanders "Woman Pure" Perfume finally!
At the same time, this extremely interesting fragrance creation also does not forget to show off her self-confident femininity!
This fragrant beauty expects attention!
She wants to dominate and demands submission!
She is beautiful!
But I can't give this scent power the space she imagines:
Her overly fragrant dominance disturbs me!
(Is it perhaps, after all, the experience I had with the eau de toilette that still blocks me?)
Every positive review here is fully justified!
And yet I can understand why "Nachtgarten" parted with this omnipotent creation and gladly send it on myself, hoping for a future in which this chypre fragrance woman is appreciated as she deserves.
Sometimes it is not meant to be!
But again, it was an interesting experience to see how skin, senses and skillfully scooped fragrance react to each other.
Therefore, my great thanks to "night garden", which provided my ever-present scent curiosity with new food
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