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I got to know Addict from Dior here on Parfumo while browsing through the fragrances.
When he came out in 2002, I seem to have missed that somehow.
I wanted to get to know him over 10 years later and was looking for a 2002 bottle, which I found and of course got
It was a 100ml residual bottle in midnight blue without golden collar. Unfortunately there is not much left inside, but from time to time I enjoy the noble drop. Unfortunately, I have to be economical with the 2002 version.

Dior`s Addict is a heavy, sweet, erotic scent that really fits the night best.
During the day, overdosage risks making you look too "dressed up". Therefore you should be very economical when using it during the day. But best at night as well..

I smell white-blooming plants like orange blossom and jasmine here, the blackberry doesn't get through to me like that. A little rose shows up, but she has a hard time standing up to the white flowers. But here one should not expect a rose scent
The queen of the night blossoms with her sweet and swollen flowers. Vanilla and sandalwood give the fragrance even more warmth.
No scent for wallflowers or gray mice as they say...although still waters often have a deep foundation, so this is not quite true. Or better said, no scent, if you don't want to attract attention.

The Queen of the Night (Selenicereus grandiflorus) is a cactus species from the genus Selenicereus. Its name is derived from Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon. There are some species of this cactus and almost all of them flower only for one night, sometimes two nights in a row, in the year. The blossom is up to 30 cm tall, white and smells bewitchingly sweet and intense. Its flower often attracts bats for pollination, but I can imagine that moths also participate in pollination. The plant itself likes to climb, even up to 5 meters high. I know the scent, my mother has such a cactus. Unfortunately I have not been able to enjoy her scent for a long time, since I moved out of my home.

Finally, to distinguish between the individual versions:
The original version from 2002 has a solid blue bottle, only the twist-off head is golden. The inscription "Dior Addict" can be found at the top right next to the atomizer.
The 2012 version has a golden collar, top right is still Dior Addict.
This version is still quite good, but it doesn't last as long as the first one
The 2014 version only has the inscription "Dior" at the very bottom, the inscription is missing at the top right. Also the head appears to me now silver instead of gold and the turning device to close it has given way to a normal lid closure to remove it.
I cannot say anything about the latest version 2014 in terms of fragrance, as I only have the first two.

Maybe I'll be lucky enough to get an older bottle again. I'd go for it

I got to know Venezia pastello quite late, some years ago. A former colleague told me that he is great and that she liked him very much in the past.
Unfortunately he was hired a long time ago and is almost only available at exorbitant prices.
Since I have the "normal" Venezia in my he collection I wanted to get to know this one and the bottle is also so pretty!

After a long search I could find a 75ml bottle with little content, but unfortunately the content was no longer in order and smelled tilted, too tart, too herbal... I sprayed the tilted content in the air and now I keep the beautiful and somewhat kitschy bottle for my planned bottle showcase...
other people collect porcelain, I will exhibit the most beautiful empty bottles in the planned showcase......

A little later I finally got an intact 25 ml bottle at a humane price - sometimes the search for a certain scent takes a little longer. Especially with vintage fragrances it can take years. Here you often have to practice patience. I often think to myself: If the fragrance wants to come to me, it will find me...

Now finally to the fragrance itself. Venezia pastello is a child of its time. In the mid-nineties, sweet and fruity fragrances were modern, as well as aquatic fragrances.
Nevertheless, her sweetness was more mature than today's fruity-sweet fragrances - not so squeaky-sweet. And there was always a certain ripeness to it
I smell in Venezia pastello sweet raspberries and ripe peach out, something heliotrope, not too much and something floral. Jasmine and rose, according to the pyramid of scents
After a while I notice a slightly tart and woody undertone, which must come from sandalwood and cedar.
That's what I meant by the certain "maturity" that the olfactory sweet scents of the nineties often radiate
Something that I miss in modern fragrances of this kind and makes them monotonous.
Cute is okay with me, as long as it doesn't just stick to that and get too monotonous.

The shelf life is in the upper middle range and the sillage in the middle range.

I probably won't buy it again, unless it is a bargain on my way.
But I am glad to have gotten to know this beautiful fragrance suitable for everyday use.

I bought Raphael 4 from 4711 Mühlens blindly, after Raphael 1 convinced me so much.
Unfortunately I don't have the Rahael 1 anymore, but I would like to welcome it again in my collection.
Raphael 4 is also very impressive. Here you get a good scent for little money. Strictly speaking, they are not offered so cheaply in the bay anymore...but if you find something of Raphael 4711 somewhere cheaply : get it, it's worth it

Raphael 4 is a floral-spicy power scent from the eighties, somewhere between Dior's Poison EdT and Elizabeth Taylor's Passion. Not everyone could afford Poison in the eighties.
And so Raphael 4711 brought out a series of fragrances similar to the great models and affordable
Raphael 4 has a very dense and lush fragrance, with equally good sillage and shelf life.
impossible to smell out every single component of this densely woven scent, I'm glad if I can recognize a part of it.
I can see plums here, juicy as on a cake. I'm sure tuberose is in plenty, not too sweet, and jasmine. Spices are not too scarce here either.
The base is also warm and lush with ambergris and musk.
So overall not a subtle but noble fragrance if you dose it appropriately.
A successful fragrance from Raphael 4711.

I bought Parfum de Peau from Montana about 6 years ago.
I was lucky enough to find a pretty old vintage bottle. It's a 50 ml splash/bottle and might be from the nineties or late eighties. Batchode I couldn't find one.
The box is also still tadeless and a leaflet is in the box, as it used to be. On the leaflet you will find the corresponding care products such as a body foam, moisturising emulsion, body cream, shower gel, soap etc. there was also an extra of it and an EdT light.
Parfum de Peau is referred to therein as a spicy aromatic chypre.

Who is behind the names Claude Montana?
Claude Montana, born in 1949, is a French fashion designer, whose trademarks in the eighties were large shoulder pads, narrow waists and leather pants. A self-confessed homosexual, he married his muse, the model of the same age, Wallis Franken, in 1993. They had known each other since 1977 and she was already running for his shows. Wallis played in Madonna's erotic video clip "Justify my love" in 1990. She is the lady resembling Jamie lee Curtis with suspenders and a peaked cap, who approaches Madonna's toyboy Tony Ward at about minute 3.10. Wallis had a penchant for self-destructive relationships and was obsessed with her hopeless, rather one-sided love for Claude Montana and so this marriage also ended tragically. She threw herself out of the window of her hotel room in Paris in 1996

Back to the fragrance Parfum de Peau. The fragrance came out in 1986 in the middle of the eighties. The fragrance is correspondingly undecendant.
Right at the beginning the Tagetes assert themselves, followed by orange blossoms, black currants and leather.
The leather described in the base notes asserts itself with me right at the beginning. Tagetes are also called Stinkerchen and have a slightly civet-like, slightly urine-like note. This makes the scent appear animalistic and naughty. The leather does the rest.
It takes a while for the fragrance to calm down a bit, then it becomes a little tame and shows its flowery heart.
It is difficult for me to smell the individual components of the flowers, I can identify Narcisse the best. Jasmine and rose should also be underneath
The base notes are dreamlike already. I hear warm soft amber and a fruity blend. Some oakmoss should also be part of it.
I can still smell the base note on my skin after 20 hours.
Well, in the eighties you still got a lot of durability for your money.
The dosage should be handled rather carefully.
With measure and goal applied an absolutely dreamlike fragrance, which I like to wear again and again.
According to the cardboard, the spirally twisted bottle is supposed to represent a woman in motion.
I will guard my bottle like a treasure

Today I would like to write something about Coco Mademoiselle EdP from Chanel.
Coco Mademoiselle was not my first fragrance from Chanel, which was of course N°5, as EdP.
At some point Coco Mademoiselle was added as a blind purchase in an almost full 35ml Edp bottle
I don't know the EdT of it yet.

With Coco Mademoiselle, Chanel has tried to create a modern fragrance for young ladies to appeal to a younger clientele. N°5 or N°19 are not very popular with young ladies, it takes a certain maturity to appreciate these fragrances. When I brought N° 5 into my collection I was 37 and N°19 came a little later
Finally, Coco Mademoiselle was allowed to move in with me.
The Mademoiselle is a cheerful and young scent. But of course "older" ladies may also wear this fragrance. I don't think much of age restrictions on scents. Old-young male-female-female, everyone should wear what they please, and for themselves. A fragrance should please my nose and contribute to my well-being and not someone else's. This had to be said, because many people wear scents to impress others

Enough beat around the bush, back to Coco Mademoiselle:
The fragrance begins with a little bergamot and sweet tangerines. Orange blossoms add some powdery notes.
Soon the flowery heart shows up with sweet jasmine and beguiling ylang-ylang, rose I perceive less here.
The base is pleasing with white musk and some vanilla. Patchouli is only discreetly present here, but I still smell delicate tangerine. I like that quite well that the tangerine here proves to be so long-lasting.
The fragrance is floral and sweet, but not too sweet and never looks cheap. A noble Chanel for the young lady with class so to speak.

My bottle has a rectangular shape with a golden neck and white cap. The inscription of the name is on an icy background on the otherwise transparent flacon with apricot-coloured liquid.
With Coco Mademoiselle, Chanel has succeeded in creating a fragrance for the younger (and not-so-young) consumer to stay in the market.