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Snow White, Red Blood
Chanel Nº 5 has many ilustrious heirs, mainly, across the ocean. Among those, White Linen helds a honored place.
In spite its cold, brooding, abstract forefather, White Linen is pure romanticism, although in its simpler, less complicated way. It evokes images of inmaculate, freshly washed skin (it is said that one of the inspirations that Coco Chanel took from her famous Nº 5, was the perfect skin of the famous French courtisan Mimi D'Alençon), of Nivea Creme (the familiar accord of lemon, lily of the valley, rose and jasmin, also rebooted in Lorenzo Villoresi's Teint de Neige), clean sheets drying hanging at the sun, white dresses and expensive soap. I can easily imagine a Victorian, or Edwardian beauty wearing it. But, although romantic in spirit, this pale beauty of perfect manners hides a rebelious spirit. It could have easily been the perfume of Lucy Seward in the 1979 film version of Dracula. This is a passional woman, although polite and inteligent. Blood under the snow. Rosy warmth under the white coldness
The rose-lily-violet combo makes it very old-style, but the crisp aldehydes gives it a modern twist. One of the best perfumes of the last 40 years. One of the best rose-violet fragances in the market.
I only could wish that the sillage and lasting power were a bit stronger, and that the perfume version was still available.
In spite its cold, brooding, abstract forefather, White Linen is pure romanticism, although in its simpler, less complicated way. It evokes images of inmaculate, freshly washed skin (it is said that one of the inspirations that Coco Chanel took from her famous Nº 5, was the perfect skin of the famous French courtisan Mimi D'Alençon), of Nivea Creme (the familiar accord of lemon, lily of the valley, rose and jasmin, also rebooted in Lorenzo Villoresi's Teint de Neige), clean sheets drying hanging at the sun, white dresses and expensive soap. I can easily imagine a Victorian, or Edwardian beauty wearing it. But, although romantic in spirit, this pale beauty of perfect manners hides a rebelious spirit. It could have easily been the perfume of Lucy Seward in the 1979 film version of Dracula. This is a passional woman, although polite and inteligent. Blood under the snow. Rosy warmth under the white coldness
The rose-lily-violet combo makes it very old-style, but the crisp aldehydes gives it a modern twist. One of the best perfumes of the last 40 years. One of the best rose-violet fragances in the market.
I only could wish that the sillage and lasting power were a bit stronger, and that the perfume version was still available.
A luxury perfume...that costs only 14 €...
Forget all your prejudices while you approach to this drugstore-supermarket perfume. It is cheap indeed, very cheap. In the city where I live it is sold at the Mercadona Supermarkets, and costs about 14 €. The price is cheap... but the smell is not.
This is a very decent clone for fragances like Serge Lutens Feminité Du Bois and Dior's Dolce Vita. With an amazing longevity and staying power. The smell of Oud Noir could be the smell of the court of the Three Wise Men: spicy, dense, oriental, with notes of cinnamon, nutmeg, santalwoood, cedarwood, vanilla and tonka. But it is not shrilling or loud. Its tone is polite and demure. It is like a beautiful and warm cup of Chai tea with soya milk and some sort of Arabian pastry. If you come to Spain, and you are a fan of Oriental frangance, do not let pass the chance, and attempt to try Oud Noir. A niche perfume...at the price tag of a drugstore fragance.
This is a very decent clone for fragances like Serge Lutens Feminité Du Bois and Dior's Dolce Vita. With an amazing longevity and staying power. The smell of Oud Noir could be the smell of the court of the Three Wise Men: spicy, dense, oriental, with notes of cinnamon, nutmeg, santalwoood, cedarwood, vanilla and tonka. But it is not shrilling or loud. Its tone is polite and demure. It is like a beautiful and warm cup of Chai tea with soya milk and some sort of Arabian pastry. If you come to Spain, and you are a fan of Oriental frangance, do not let pass the chance, and attempt to try Oud Noir. A niche perfume...at the price tag of a drugstore fragance.
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In the French Countryside
In the city in where I live, this is already been sold.
Cassis Frenesie is a beautiful perfume. Even more, an astonishing one. All in it is pretty, and recalls the perfumes of bygone days. The bottle is the classic apothecary bottle of all the R&G perfumes, but with applications of what seems to be white china. The box, in pale blue hues, has a pattern like the classic French Toile de Jouy
Forget the sour cassis that have most of the cassis perfumes, with its hints of cat's wee. CF is nothing like the sort. For me, it smells like freshly cut grass, still moist and dewy, early in the morning. So simple. So beautiful. So natural. It has not a great deal of evolution, and the drydown is reminiscent of posh shampoos and ancient tonic waters. Really, this stuff is worth of Madame Pompadour, and Marie Antoinette.
Sillage and lasting power are very good for an Eau de Cologne.
Cassis Frenesie is a beautiful perfume. Even more, an astonishing one. All in it is pretty, and recalls the perfumes of bygone days. The bottle is the classic apothecary bottle of all the R&G perfumes, but with applications of what seems to be white china. The box, in pale blue hues, has a pattern like the classic French Toile de Jouy
Forget the sour cassis that have most of the cassis perfumes, with its hints of cat's wee. CF is nothing like the sort. For me, it smells like freshly cut grass, still moist and dewy, early in the morning. So simple. So beautiful. So natural. It has not a great deal of evolution, and the drydown is reminiscent of posh shampoos and ancient tonic waters. Really, this stuff is worth of Madame Pompadour, and Marie Antoinette.
Sillage and lasting power are very good for an Eau de Cologne.
