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With Aqua Allegoria fragrances, I always feel like I'm walking into a room where people are passionately baking, cooking, drinking tea or mixing cocktails. Natural-looking ingredients and simple compositions make the scents so culinary and delicious. I have a few very clear favorites from the Guerlain range, including Ginger Piccante and Teazzurra, but I especially love Bergamote Calabria.

This fragrance has the potential to be a signature scent, it gets very skin deep and human, has little of the artificial, distant feel that makes many fragrances seem more like armor than a second skin. I've become relatively sensitive to synthetic fragrances and don't use extremely strong perfumes or perfumed laundry detergent or skin creams (can trigger allergies in the long run anyway and pollutes the environment). The Bergamote Calabria I can tolerate well (but spray it rather towards my neck as a precaution, so that it does not permanently rise from my nose into my head) and do not have the feeling to bother others with an exaggerated sillage. Who hugs me warmly in greeting or sits right next to me, should catch a pleasant whiff of it.

When I smell this Guerlain, I immediately think of a balmy summer evening in Italy. I have the image of Betty Draper from the series Mad Men in mind, who designs a new self as an emancipated woman and spends a last vacation with her husband in Rome: An attractive woman in black, airy cocktail dress, make-up of the late 60s and hanging earrings with a large pearl on each side enters the terrace of a restaurant and orders an aperitif. Sex appeal and Italian dolce vita, but also a bit of thoughtful sensuality, make Bergamote Calabria as complex to me as people are. Fruity, citrusy bergamot is carried by a deep, pithy base - delicious like a good vermouth with lemon zest in a crystal glass. The bottle is a perfect match: Golden elegance meets delicate yellow cheerfulness.

So I would like to live!

Let's start with a little translation first:

allure - English noun: attraction, charm, seduction, verb: to charm, to be attracted
- french. Noun: 1. pace, speed, 2. appearance, 3. demeanor, behavior

Apparently there are strong differences in meaning depending on which language you translate "allure" into. The French translation is still quite general, while the English is more precise. However, if you add the French meanings 2 (appearance) and 3 (behavior), you get a formula that gets you somewhat closer to the English meaning. An outwardly beautiful person, can appear quite repulsive if he behaves in a level-less manner. Conversely, a visually unattractive person can still seem attractive if they shine by their behavior. If a person has both good looks and good behavior: JACKPOT!

But there's something else about a person that turns our heads: their scent. You can smell someone or you can't. By perfume, this impression is additionally strengthened, because it develops differently on the skin with each wearer*in and because the scent reflects what type we are: spirited, sensual, natural, sophisticated, etc.

Chanel "Allure" has exactly this potential to turn an attractive person into an attractive one. It has a certain charm, an aura that I associate a lovely person with. I sprayed it on my forearm in the morning and "watched" it throughout the day. A pleasant waft of fragrance kept coming to me, making me feel comfortable and at home. Warm, gentle, feminine and soft is how I imagine the person wearing "Allure". She is fresh, clean, powdered and creamed, in short: well-groomed. As the evening progressed, the scent became heavier and retreated into the skin.

My conclusion: I'm not THE person with whom I associate "Allure", but on another woman I can imagine him very well - on a good friend, a woman in the middle of life. Personally, the scent is also a bit too heavy for me, a bit bitter, but miles more pleasant than other scents with bitter notes. But it shouldn't be hard to find a lighter version of this fragrance, or at least a variation, maybe even a dupe that's much cheaper.

"Allure" - a good choice, then, to whom it suits. But it's worth keeping your eyes open for similar fragrances

A little disclaimer in advance: Dear Chance-wearers, don't let this comment spoil your mood. He is, as always, purely subjective.

Here goes: The hype around some perfumes is sometimes inexplicable to me. I feel the same way about Chance. I test it now for the second time and come again to no positive result. And apparently I am not alone. The classification of the fragrance already shows that it can't quite decide what it wants to be. One could interpret this positively and claim that it is versatile, mysterious or ambivalent. But no, I mean that he is a mishmash of different fragrances, which at least on my skin smell like nothing more than after a lush bath in splashed together, synthetic fragrance (ge)waters.
Chance smells like the wall of scent that slaps you in the face when you walk into a crowded perfumery. That bitter, synthetic heaviness that instantly goes from my nasal to my oral mucosa and makes me feel like I weigh 10 kilos more.

- With the spraying on, the synthetic austerity crashes into me.
- About 15 minutes after spraying on, a friendly floral note winks out - probably iris or jasmine. However, the fragrance remains bitter and heavy.
- Hours later, the scent remains heavy. Pink pepper and vanilla be "thank you?" The floral wink turns into a somewhat musty, or at least organic note. You can give the fragrance credit for that.

Last but not least, a note for sensitive noses and people with migraine problems: From this fragrance you should better keep your hands off.

(Okay, I have to admit that this review was a bit nasty. But from me speaks now once the frustration about this fragrance. Other reviews fall out for it the friendlier, if a perfume really convinces or at least has potential)

She nudges a dozen petals in the wind with her pink fingertips. Her lap screeches musk and patchouli. A bitter grimace laces my throat.

Microsleep

A group of teenage girls drag their fake designer handbags and a thick cloud of Fleur Musc behind them, cackling. Too much makeup and a row of split ends in the straightened ends of my hair crowd me.

The Fleur Musc could be so beautifully floral if it were a little less so. Unfortunately, it remains too flat, gumming up the town's nasal cavities with its penetrance.

Too bad, otherwise it would be a very nice fragrance!

Dear sniffle nose,

one thing in advance: I think every fragrance deserves to be tested without bias. So read on only if you have already made your experience with "This is her".

I stumbled upon "This is her" a few years ago and had THE revelation. I'm sure you're all familiar with the following situation: you're walking along and suddenly you're surprised by a breeze that unexpectedly wraps you in a heavenly veil, as if an angel himself had whizzed past you. One moment you're still dazed by the beauty, the next moment you become a scent-hungry sleuth, nervously following the trail like a lemming. That's how I felt about my arm when I first sprayed "This is Her" on for testing - I could've spun around my arm sniffing continuously like a dog that doesn't know it's chasing its own tail. But now enough with the animal comparisons and back to the topic! :)
The fragrance is unisex, but that doesn't make it any less attractive to women - on the contrary: for me, unisex fragrances have something erotic about them. And in fact I was relatively often addressed on the fragrance by all genders.
Attention, trigger warning! For all those who love "This is her" unreservedly, it may now slowly become uncomfortable. Those who feel similarly to me may find themselves right back. I wore "This is her" for about a year...until the headaches came. This doesn't have to be because of the scent per se, but is probably because I've been avoiding synthetic and strong fragrances in cosmetics, detergents, and cleaning products for a while now, and have become more sensitive as a result. (By the way, I also react to other perfumes quickly with headaches) If you also have such a fine nose as I do, but you do not want to do without "This is her" completely, you get from me, ONLY HERE AND ONLY FOR A SHORT TIME ;), the ultimate manual:

1) Wear the fragrance rarely and only as a going out fragrance or on special occasions. Most of the time you are then a little woozy anyway and a light perfume would be lost among all the smells anyway. Showers you before going to bed, so that you do not inhale the fragrance at night (and sleeps best with the window open)
2) Spray the scent only with a light spray. He is intense enough, so that you can perceive him even then. If necessary, it can be layered with a more natural fragrance and thus also gets a more individual touch.
3) Do not spray on your clothes. There the fragrance remains longer synthetic.
4) Wears it best not directly on your neck or chest, so it pulls permanently directly from the bottom up into your nose and makes you all dizzy. Ask someone if he/she can spray the scent on your upper back.
5) Choose the right time of year for the scent. It is even heavier in the air on mid-summer days than on cooler days, when it is less depressing to the senses.

"This is her" is a fragrance that is attractive to Otto-normal people. Sophisticated scent-noses are less able to relate to it and usually find it clichéd, flat and too strong. If I had to choose between a bath in a pack of fabric softener and a walk in the woods, I'd go for the walk in the woods - in other words: you shouldn't wear "This is her" too much and too often. That's how I'll keep it: Generally wear the light, more natural fragrances. And if it may be sometimes more, then a breath "This is her", layered with a green fragrance - then I get some well-meaning looks - YES! BUT no migraine.