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A short fun
The fragrance has a really realistic liquorice / aniseed note in the head, which is nowhere indicated. Much nicer than the one on Classique EdP, which I also like, but which always reminds me a bit of cough drops.
Unfortunately, it doesn't last long, and the rather powdery flower scent (lilac? Doesn't say, what's going on with the scents here :P) to which it later develops.
After 3-4 hours at the latest, everything in the base then disintegrates into a creamy something without any particular recognition value (fragrance: blue cream pot for 1.19 at any supermarket. Not directly Nivea or Penaten, but a bit of everything). Not bad, but nothing I really need either.
After all: I hardly perceive vanilla. All in all, the base smells more like amber than musk, and the cedar is not the usual warm spicy woody scent, but rather a bit papery. In my clothes it holds like this until the next day, after 5-6 hours there is nothing to smell on my arm.
Too bad, he started so well. The first 20 minutes are really good, if the scent would stay like this he would probably get 9-10 points from me.
On the other hand, you can also look at it the other way round: after 20 minutes, you have a harmless, well-groomed fragrance for little money that will not bother anyone and does not smell like cotton candy with caramel sauce
Unfortunately, it doesn't last long, and the rather powdery flower scent (lilac? Doesn't say, what's going on with the scents here :P) to which it later develops.
After 3-4 hours at the latest, everything in the base then disintegrates into a creamy something without any particular recognition value (fragrance: blue cream pot for 1.19 at any supermarket. Not directly Nivea or Penaten, but a bit of everything). Not bad, but nothing I really need either.
After all: I hardly perceive vanilla. All in all, the base smells more like amber than musk, and the cedar is not the usual warm spicy woody scent, but rather a bit papery. In my clothes it holds like this until the next day, after 5-6 hours there is nothing to smell on my arm.
Too bad, he started so well. The first 20 minutes are really good, if the scent would stay like this he would probably get 9-10 points from me.
On the other hand, you can also look at it the other way round: after 20 minutes, you have a harmless, well-groomed fragrance for little money that will not bother anyone and does not smell like cotton candy with caramel sauce
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From spicy woody to soap and back again.
I really like the first phase of this fragrance. Beautiful warm woody with some citric and oriental hints and neat flowers. Jasmine rose iris, fits so far.
But then a truck full of green-white striped Fa soap from the '90s comes and knocks everything down.
This soap note lasts several hours and certainly has her friends here, too.
Only, with the bottle and the start I had not expected that at all - oriental, flowery: yes. Soapy lily of the valley leg: no.
The same funny "swimming pool" note that bothered me with Vanderbilt and Chloé is also in here. I'd like to know exactly what that is. An aldehyde? It's not going to be chlorine.
This second phase of Varensia spreads an incredibly aggressive, clean-soapy freshness that I unfortunately don't like at all.
After approx. 5-6 hours the scent calms down again and becomes mildly patchouli-woody. Phew, done. Anyway, it's an exciting fragrance. The durability is also not bad.
No matter what's up there, if there's no (synthetic) lily of the valley in there, I'll eat a broom.
But then a truck full of green-white striped Fa soap from the '90s comes and knocks everything down.
This soap note lasts several hours and certainly has her friends here, too.
Only, with the bottle and the start I had not expected that at all - oriental, flowery: yes. Soapy lily of the valley leg: no.
The same funny "swimming pool" note that bothered me with Vanderbilt and Chloé is also in here. I'd like to know exactly what that is. An aldehyde? It's not going to be chlorine.
This second phase of Varensia spreads an incredibly aggressive, clean-soapy freshness that I unfortunately don't like at all.
After approx. 5-6 hours the scent calms down again and becomes mildly patchouli-woody. Phew, done. Anyway, it's an exciting fragrance. The durability is also not bad.
No matter what's up there, if there's no (synthetic) lily of the valley in there, I'll eat a broom.
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Low sodium food
Of the three Olympea clones I have tested so far, this one has the least to do with its model.
The somewhat nasty, but also characteristic "salt note" in my nose (I find it rather sweaty, but slowly make friends with it - but that's another topic), which makes the scent recognizable, can only be guessed at easily. In the first 5 minutes it has at least a bit similarity with Olympea after approx. 2 hours.
The cold, aldehyde-like flowery "overtones" from the original, which remind me of Gabriela Sabatini, are also missing here.
The fragrance process disintegrates into two phases that do not fit together at all, and the transition is strange and inharmonic. The first is flowery (usual jasmine rose mix, much shallower than Olympea) with a bit of fruit compote and hairspray notes and reminds me of LVeB, the second is a base that smells almost the same as the Black Opium clone (with a hint of... coconut??).
As if someone at LR had tipped two old dupes together and said: "I got it!"
The version of Keshi is much better copied (but unfortunately not always available, seems to be a kind of promotional item), although unfortunately with more fruit (too much melon) and less flowers.
As an independent fragrance, I don't find it very special either. It is neither a good copy nor a good perfume, and as neither of them has any recognition value.
But it's not particularly bad either, but fits seamlessly into all the cardboard vanillas with this pseudo rugged artificial note that have come out in recent years and cost more than 10 times as much for the most part.
The somewhat nasty, but also characteristic "salt note" in my nose (I find it rather sweaty, but slowly make friends with it - but that's another topic), which makes the scent recognizable, can only be guessed at easily. In the first 5 minutes it has at least a bit similarity with Olympea after approx. 2 hours.
The cold, aldehyde-like flowery "overtones" from the original, which remind me of Gabriela Sabatini, are also missing here.
The fragrance process disintegrates into two phases that do not fit together at all, and the transition is strange and inharmonic. The first is flowery (usual jasmine rose mix, much shallower than Olympea) with a bit of fruit compote and hairspray notes and reminds me of LVeB, the second is a base that smells almost the same as the Black Opium clone (with a hint of... coconut??).
As if someone at LR had tipped two old dupes together and said: "I got it!"
The version of Keshi is much better copied (but unfortunately not always available, seems to be a kind of promotional item), although unfortunately with more fruit (too much melon) and less flowers.
As an independent fragrance, I don't find it very special either. It is neither a good copy nor a good perfume, and as neither of them has any recognition value.
But it's not particularly bad either, but fits seamlessly into all the cardboard vanillas with this pseudo rugged artificial note that have come out in recent years and cost more than 10 times as much for the most part.
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Unexpectedly flowery, smells more expensive than he is
I know neither the YR nor the Montale-Tiaré, but most of the cheaper "Tiare" fragrances smell more like a coconut vanilla body lotion with a small crumb of flowers.
This one, on the other hand, actually smells like flowers, and also like Tiaré. Vanilla and coconut only push themselves into the foreground at the base. I didn't get to the musk in my test, either it's used very discreetly, or it was too cold.
Fortunately tuberose and lily of the valley also hold back, they can quickly absorb a scent completely in their direction, so that one only perceives tuberose chewing gum or lily of the valley soap. But here it is already quite balanced.
I don't notice the jasmine leaf or "orange tree", and unfortunately I just miss a fresher (flowery or citric) note, the Tiaré seems a bit dull and one-sided here. You could also call it "sweet" or "creamy", but I just call it "dull".
Conclusion: Much better than expected, but still not quite "mine".
This one, on the other hand, actually smells like flowers, and also like Tiaré. Vanilla and coconut only push themselves into the foreground at the base. I didn't get to the musk in my test, either it's used very discreetly, or it was too cold.
Fortunately tuberose and lily of the valley also hold back, they can quickly absorb a scent completely in their direction, so that one only perceives tuberose chewing gum or lily of the valley soap. But here it is already quite balanced.
I don't notice the jasmine leaf or "orange tree", and unfortunately I just miss a fresher (flowery or citric) note, the Tiaré seems a bit dull and one-sided here. You could also call it "sweet" or "creamy", but I just call it "dull".
Conclusion: Much better than expected, but still not quite "mine".
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No "little sister," more like a younger distant cousin.
The hype about the "perfect dupe" to Coco Mademoiselle is clearly wrong for Madame.
There are expectations that a Dupe can never fulfill (at least I don't know of any that are 100% the same), CM fans are lured with the prospect of a bargain, while those who don't quite get along with Mademoiselle (but already with the rough direction) might be deterred.
Therefore I would like to write here from the point of view of the latter.
Madame Glamour starts out much more citrical than Mademoiselle - a spicy bergamot lemon note (the lemon is not in Chanel, I think) and light, bitter grapefruit. It's a matter of taste, interestingly enough such a start is not resented by many expensive time-honoured perfumes. Here already, because Lidl and cheap. You would expect more :P
I personally like this tingling, fresh sharpness, which sets after 2-3 seconds.
Like a bottle of soda that is just opened and small droplets hiss towards the nose.
But I don't think it's so really pungent, the scent is not strong enough for that. Unless you spray it in the nose ^^
I'm not much of a citrus fan except for grapefruit. But it smells a little flowery. Bergamot is a matter of habituation, in the first moment always mean, hatschi, but then comes out a pleasantly bitter freshness, which no other fruit can do. Just when it's a little colder, these citrus notes last surprisingly long.
The initially yellow grapefruit becomes pinker and pinker over time, until the fragrance ends up in a kind of fanta pink grapefruit chord. This is also available at CM, but Madame still has more citrus fruits in stock, and the impression is slightly more fruity and less "smooth". The scent changes before my nose between floral and fruity, with a softer orange-tangerine note, looks more changeable and difficult to define (rose? orange! But not? Ah, rose), where Mademoiselle is rather straightforward and clearly jasmine. Which one finds better of it, is again a matter of taste here (the jasmine note with CM I find however more successful!).
In this respect I actually like both - but from then on the Chanel becomes unpleasant for me.
Mademoiselle has an olfactory stick in the A..., a kind of leaded wood note like a heavy wall unit in a room that is rarely ventilated. I suspect that it is a "light" patchouli distilled to death, fractionated and filtered, a single note of it permanently booming in the background, which I feel into the sinuses and which makes the scent somehow stilted (and perhaps "elegant" from the parallel universe). On top of it there is also a small, pungent, sweaty synthetic note, which I know mostly from men's fragrances (One Million, Invictus and a thousand others), and which often makes me sick of it. This note is often missing in cheap dupes of the respective fragrances and is probably expensive or patented. But I still don't like them ^^
Madame is looser on it and instead has a slightly different, somehow showery wood note (if someone still knows the old purple shower gel from Lidl, "Red Summer" or something similar, there was also in it), which I also can't assign 100% (which smells more like patchouli components) - but which doesn't shout so loudly "here's my perfume! Maybe even a little more athletic. Whereby I notice, Madame and Mademoiselle could actually change the names ;)
In the base, which unfortunately starts earlier with Madame Glamour (I would like to have another Fanta, please), things continue similarly. Madame Glamour is just a little more showery - but also a little more vanilla, with a little more musk, although I don't find this at all a heavy sweetness here, probably because of the slightly soapy shower gel impression - and with Mademoiselle this wall unit still resonates. And towards the end a little more cinnamon, which in the combination gives me the impression of a somewhat stale spice cabinet. But it is not really oriental, rather a bit subliminally old-fashioned.
The Lidl version has more citrus and thus a slightly spicy, tingling / fresh spiciness, which I find very pleasant and which directly makes the fragrance appear less severe and bland (an impression I unfortunately have with some Chanel fragrances). Also a bit more suitable for summer. With Chanel I always have the feeling of sniffing in a strange cupboard without permission. This one fits much better in mine ;)
With Mademoiselle you actually notice that the fragrance is more expensive. All corners and edges were ironed out highly professionally and probably with expensive means, with the EdP even more than with the EdT. But that's exactly what I don't like about it.
So far Suddenly Madame Glamour is the only Lidl fragrance that convinced me to some extent (X-Bolt made it to a "quite ok", the rest I found terrible). Even if I use it rather rarely, I hope that it will never be stopped, Chanel is no alternative.
Who doesn't share my strange preference for this kind of grapefruit-limo notes and absolutely wants to smell of Chanel and money is wrong here.
P.S.: My older bottle (from 2015) smells exactly the same as the new one, except for the unfortunately already somewhat stale top notes. I have tested Coco Mademoiselle several times, the EdT and the EdP (The EdT is more similar, as already mentioned here). That still smells the same as I've known it from several girlfriends for years.
By the way, I don't find it cucumbery at all, and I'm quite sensitive there (e.g. at Chalou Gold)
There are expectations that a Dupe can never fulfill (at least I don't know of any that are 100% the same), CM fans are lured with the prospect of a bargain, while those who don't quite get along with Mademoiselle (but already with the rough direction) might be deterred.
Therefore I would like to write here from the point of view of the latter.
Madame Glamour starts out much more citrical than Mademoiselle - a spicy bergamot lemon note (the lemon is not in Chanel, I think) and light, bitter grapefruit. It's a matter of taste, interestingly enough such a start is not resented by many expensive time-honoured perfumes. Here already, because Lidl and cheap. You would expect more :P
I personally like this tingling, fresh sharpness, which sets after 2-3 seconds.
Like a bottle of soda that is just opened and small droplets hiss towards the nose.
But I don't think it's so really pungent, the scent is not strong enough for that. Unless you spray it in the nose ^^
I'm not much of a citrus fan except for grapefruit. But it smells a little flowery. Bergamot is a matter of habituation, in the first moment always mean, hatschi, but then comes out a pleasantly bitter freshness, which no other fruit can do. Just when it's a little colder, these citrus notes last surprisingly long.
The initially yellow grapefruit becomes pinker and pinker over time, until the fragrance ends up in a kind of fanta pink grapefruit chord. This is also available at CM, but Madame still has more citrus fruits in stock, and the impression is slightly more fruity and less "smooth". The scent changes before my nose between floral and fruity, with a softer orange-tangerine note, looks more changeable and difficult to define (rose? orange! But not? Ah, rose), where Mademoiselle is rather straightforward and clearly jasmine. Which one finds better of it, is again a matter of taste here (the jasmine note with CM I find however more successful!).
In this respect I actually like both - but from then on the Chanel becomes unpleasant for me.
Mademoiselle has an olfactory stick in the A..., a kind of leaded wood note like a heavy wall unit in a room that is rarely ventilated. I suspect that it is a "light" patchouli distilled to death, fractionated and filtered, a single note of it permanently booming in the background, which I feel into the sinuses and which makes the scent somehow stilted (and perhaps "elegant" from the parallel universe). On top of it there is also a small, pungent, sweaty synthetic note, which I know mostly from men's fragrances (One Million, Invictus and a thousand others), and which often makes me sick of it. This note is often missing in cheap dupes of the respective fragrances and is probably expensive or patented. But I still don't like them ^^
Madame is looser on it and instead has a slightly different, somehow showery wood note (if someone still knows the old purple shower gel from Lidl, "Red Summer" or something similar, there was also in it), which I also can't assign 100% (which smells more like patchouli components) - but which doesn't shout so loudly "here's my perfume! Maybe even a little more athletic. Whereby I notice, Madame and Mademoiselle could actually change the names ;)
In the base, which unfortunately starts earlier with Madame Glamour (I would like to have another Fanta, please), things continue similarly. Madame Glamour is just a little more showery - but also a little more vanilla, with a little more musk, although I don't find this at all a heavy sweetness here, probably because of the slightly soapy shower gel impression - and with Mademoiselle this wall unit still resonates. And towards the end a little more cinnamon, which in the combination gives me the impression of a somewhat stale spice cabinet. But it is not really oriental, rather a bit subliminally old-fashioned.
The Lidl version has more citrus and thus a slightly spicy, tingling / fresh spiciness, which I find very pleasant and which directly makes the fragrance appear less severe and bland (an impression I unfortunately have with some Chanel fragrances). Also a bit more suitable for summer. With Chanel I always have the feeling of sniffing in a strange cupboard without permission. This one fits much better in mine ;)
With Mademoiselle you actually notice that the fragrance is more expensive. All corners and edges were ironed out highly professionally and probably with expensive means, with the EdP even more than with the EdT. But that's exactly what I don't like about it.
So far Suddenly Madame Glamour is the only Lidl fragrance that convinced me to some extent (X-Bolt made it to a "quite ok", the rest I found terrible). Even if I use it rather rarely, I hope that it will never be stopped, Chanel is no alternative.
Who doesn't share my strange preference for this kind of grapefruit-limo notes and absolutely wants to smell of Chanel and money is wrong here.
P.S.: My older bottle (from 2015) smells exactly the same as the new one, except for the unfortunately already somewhat stale top notes. I have tested Coco Mademoiselle several times, the EdT and the EdP (The EdT is more similar, as already mentioned here). That still smells the same as I've known it from several girlfriends for years.
By the way, I don't find it cucumbery at all, and I'm quite sensitive there (e.g. at Chalou Gold)
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