Best Classic Perfumes 1 - Going Down Scented Memory Lane on Persolaise Love At First Scent ep 82
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Episode 82 of Love At First Scent
This was a CZcams Live broadcast streamed on Sunday 19th April 2020. Unscripted. Unedited. Unrehearsed.
In this episode, I decided to go down memory lane and share some of the classic treasures in my collection. The perfumes I covered are:
Yes Saint Laurent Opium - fairly recent extrait and vintage edt (at the 6:00 minute mark)
Guy Laroche Drakkar Noir (at the 22:00 minute mark)
Paloma Picasso Minotaure (at the 29:00 minute mark)
Christian Dior Dune (at the 36:00 minute mark)
There was also a brief preview of coming attractions, in which I mistakenly said that Relax was by Benetton. It was, of course, by Davidoff.
Please let me know below if you enjoyed this episode and would like to see similar ones in the future.
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[All samples obtained by me.]
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A child of the 70s, my Dad wearing Drakkar Noir, Kouros, Aramis and my Mum wearing No.19, Coco, Fidji. My big cousin wearing Antaeus😊 then my non maternal stepmother showering in First / White Linen and me going outside to escape it - and her 🙄
Oh my word -- what a list!!! Just reading it is enough to stimulate my olfactory bulb.
I went to the launch party at Studio 54 for Opium...It was an extremely sumptuous event...very Asian with thick bamboo timbers tied w/red silk cording and tassles and lots of palm and bamboo greenery..with magnificent silk hand painted pillows of various sizes ranging from oversized to "normal" sized throw pillows...arrangements of heliconias and other exotic florals..etc etc etc....What a night......Thanks for the reveal and I remember Opium in a much more "heavy" form...Bob
Nooooooo! That’s amazing! And did people really find the scent as scandalous as we’re now led to believe.
Thanks for sharing this!
Yes..of course..and you could smell it everywhere after that..lol...A real classic but of course it could easily be over applied...lol
Wonderful 😊
I caught the tail end ….of it I wore it during 1990 took a. Break and then the black opium came out I’ll try anything once ahem but that black opium was such a let down :( it literally is a revolting scent not a come closer to me scent….like the original
Missed it as I slept a bit too much this afternoon. 🤦♂️ More of these please!
Episode ideas:
- Difficult/challenging to wear but beautiful perfumes. Somewhat related, perfumes you absolutely disliked but now you love them.
- Similar to SL, episodes on your favourite compositions from L'Artisan Parfumeur, Vero Kern, Naomi Goodsir, Papillon, and others niche/indie houses.
- Perfumers profiles: you pick a perfumer and discuss his/her works - more specifically his/her lesser known, or earlier creations, least liked ones, most popular ones, your favourite ones, and so on.
We were wondering what had happened to you 😆
All excellent ideas, thank you. And, as always, thanks for watching.
As someone obsessed with scent since the early 70's, I can't believe I haven't come across your CZcams videos before. I have never heard anyone speak so beautifully about perfume let alone so intelligently. As a teenage boy the first cologne that I fell in love with was Aramis but I graduated to Azuree shortly thereafter, wearing it on and off though the years and greatly admire the 2019 reformulation. Other loves have been Tabu, Opium, Mitsouko, Calandre as well as countless others, so you can imagine how much your presentation of Classic Perfumes meant to me. Thank you for being here!
What a kind comment to receive -- thank you. And that's quite a list of scents there!
I am currently obsessed with your videos and reviews. I love the way you review the scents, the way you speak and your French!
I got gifted a bottle of vintage opium (the tall bottle) in the beginning of my fragrance journey (in 2017). I love it very much.
Wow, thank you so much 🙏 I’m pleased you’re enjoying them. Treasure that bottle.
OMG! I can't believe you just talked about Zest soap! Classic 80s! It was murder on skin...so drying...You are the best Mr. P! And so is your taste in shirts!
Thanks for watching. And yes, you're right about Zest.
My favorite perfumes are ones that are so well blended that no one note really stands out. What I don’t like about many modern niche perfumes is that they focus too much on one note.
Yes, I too sometimes miss perfumes that are more concerned with abstract blends.
This is a terrific observation. I see exactly what you're saying.
Yes!! I love memory lane and classic scents! It never ceases to excite me when I see throw back reviews, and discussion of the historical significance of classics - particularly when juxtaposed to today's scent culture.
Yes, I love them too, because the audience can interact properly and meaningfully.
Thanks for watching 😊
I just adore Opium by YSL and I’m on the younger side. It’s so opulent and luxurious smelling. It’s powdery, resinous and ambery, dark, complex and even a bit smoky to my nose. I often wear it in winter, such a fitting way to wear it when it’s snowing and it just warms you up and envelopes you in the silage like a hug. Recently, I’ve started wearing it during summer nights when I’m going on a date or a night out with the girls and I layer it with Coco Noir or Chanel no 5 and I get so many compliments on it! When they’re combined, you can probably smell me from a block away!
Keep wearing it and keep enjoying it.
Thanks for watching.
I am so happy to have discovered your fabulous account! A friend used the original Opium in 1977 from the get go, and it was absolutely hated by everyone. Wherever she went she found people distancing from her. For quite a while it was generally hated and voted the worst perfume in various polls in my country. (I suspect many were simply overdoing it with too generous splashes) Personally I couldn't wrap my head around it, but nonetheless felt there was 'something' in there. I bought the pure perfume in 1994, by then a little softend down, but never felt comfortable wearing it. Normally I can wear very "heavy" perfumes, and they turn out very fresh and balanced on me. But never Opium. Smelling it recently I found it very reformulated from the original. On the other hand I absolutely loved Cinnabar, buying it from 1978. The Chinese Red colouring trademark, the fruity, spicy freshness, radiating an abundance of joy and confidence. The spices brought a hint of being a little 'Christmasy', but it was fantastic during fall and winter season. Cinnabar was a HUGE perfume and (to me) had everything Opium was missing. Where Opium was dark only Cinnabar had a bright, fiery, playful and alluring seductiveness. As for the 1992 'Dune' : Simply Wonderful. So many changes and boring scent scapes were emerging by that time. Dune was heaven sent. I immediately fell in love with its 'fresh, soft breeze & salty sea' - vibe. And of course the sunny beach-vibe as well, but I did like the 'windy, salty sea breeze'- feeling the most. It was a huge success as an office, daytime perfume, as well as a beautiful evening perfume. It is now so heavily reformulated that in a shop I was adviced not to smell it if I was accustomed to the original. Off topic but I hope it's OK mentioning this: I recently tried a flanker of "Allure", named "Tendre" (white box) and it was very pleasant. It has some of the softness of 'Chanel no.5 Eau Premiere', but the 'Tendre' is like a gentle mist of the original Allure.
I would love to hear your takes on the following perfumes : "First" Van Cleef & Arpels, ~ "Private Collection Jasmine White Moss" Estee Lauder ~ "24 Faubourg" Hermes. The last two mentioned possibly discontinued, but I mention them nonetheless.
Thank you so much for this. I'm so pleased to have found another Dune fan.
I’m 2 years late, but am catching up, and had to write for sentiment’s sake: Aramis was also my father’s fragrance. He does when I was 17 and I haven’t smelled it since. I’m afraid of the scent memory. But I feel glad to know it was the smell of your father as well @Persolaise Perfumes
Thanks for sharing this, Paige.
“Acidified into action”
Persolaise, you are such a gifted wordsmith! I’m so happy I found your channel as you have rekindled my curiosity for fragrance... I’m currently enjoying the Habit Rouge I gave myself for Christmas. An inspired work! Thank you!
Thank you so much for watching, David.
My mother wore opium on special occasions when I was a child. It was such a heady hypnotic fragrance.
Absolutely.
I was waiting for something like this but did not think to say it. What I was thinking to ask you was to do an episode on old vintage masculines. A one off hit from brands of old. Stuff from Lauder, Salvador Dali, Bogart, Rochas, etc. I guess it can be a chapter or two in the book of Scented Memory Lane, and you've done just that!
I would like this series to continue for as long as you can continue it.
My own scented memory lane is not as exciting as yours I'm afraid. Being born in 1985, my memories began in the 90's. I only started collecting a few years ago. Up until then I just used whatever was lying around. Those included D&G PH, Allure, Boss Bottled, CK One. I only knew about the existence of Farenheit, Angel, Opium, Antaeus, Kouros less than ten years ago. You can imagine when I found out that private collections and niche existed too!
Of course, my dad wore Old Spice, Tabac, Denim, Brut....which I remember sniffing in the bathroom and secretly wearing. For special occasions he took out his Cacharel PH and Hermes Eau d'Orange Verte. He gave me a mini of the latter when I was 8 or 9. I took it with me to school everyday. I don't remember what his bottle looked like but the mini was dark green, without an atomiser, said Hermes on it and smelled like what the Concentre version smells like today.
For my mom, it was Poison Poison Poison. She still has an empty and dusty vintage bottle stashed away somewhere. I guess she stopped buying it some time in the late 90's. Now she wears whatever her children buy for her. But her standards remain high.
I'm the only one in my family who wears a variety of perfume, including those that are marketed to women. Their comments never end when they smell my sillage. Sometimes I smell like an Arab woman, they tell me. Or an expired fizzy drink. Like a sweaty grandmother. Like oud diluted in urine. When I wore Songe d'un bois my sister said, " You smell like a hooker dunked in powder". Well, if I'm going to enjoy my perfume then let us entertain ourselves and make them suffer for our amusement. Hehehehehe
Oh yes, Zest soap, for when one needed energy to perform a task. And Imperial Leather...the only soap with paper stuck to it! I have not seen it in years if not a decade. It smelled horrible but I want it.
Thanks for this wonderful comment, Raza.
Wow... your relatives certainly don’t hold back with their words 😆 Keep wearing whatever you enjoy, I say! Even if it’s just to inspire your family to come up with crazier descriptions.
30 year old dude here.
I just picked up another bottle of Drakkar Noir, it’s not horrible. A little more minty in the opening, a little less mossy to my nose.
I wore it as a signature scent from 18-22. I liked the bottle design.
I think you nailed it in your description about being aggressively clean. I get that vibe.
I still rock it, just a lot less sprays than most current designers from today. I find 4 sprays lasts 8 hours on my skin.
I’m so pleased that people are still wearing it.
Many thanks for watching.
As for the 80s, Anaïs Anaïs was Life for young women and it's the 1st perfume I bought with my hard earned cash. I loved it. Then there was Obsession, wow! That was the sexiest perfume ever. I had a friend who wore it and even though she was no J-Lo, thanks to Obsession's sillage she had men weak at their knees in a 20 ft radius. Now I think they are pretty bad but they have their place in my olfactory memory.
I don’t know, I think Obsession still holds up pretty well. And Anais Anais is a classic!
You're a true perfume lover. Always a kind word to say about them. Is there any perfume you don't like? 🤔😁
I used to love Anais Anais! I'm too scared to try it again in case I hate it!
My mother wore Opium and Youth Dew in the 70s and early 80s. Really big scents! I think that's where my love of fragrances started because it certainly wasn't with my dad's Old Spice. 😄
Ha! Thanks very much for watching. But you know: Old Spice was a pretty good perfume.
I think you can wear perfume no matter what age you are! Also wonderful topic! I love this channel as you have such a vast knowledge, are so intruiging, and provide such wonderful stories. Although I'm only 23, it is so fascinating to hear about these popular scents of the past!
You should do top 5 from each decade in different videos! Great idea!
Many thanks for your kind comment, and for watching. Maybe you’ll be able to track down samples of some of these scents one day.
Really enjoyed this episode :) I was certainly around when these perfumes came out but I didn’t pay them much attention until NOW. It’s not exactly a trip down Memory Lane for me, but when I do get a chance to smell these 80s and 90s perfumes, they strike me as being strangely familiar :) Thank you for sharing with us!
Ah, interesting point. The smells must have been around you at the time.
Thanks for watching.
Love the ‘memory lane’. Thx
Thank you so much for watching.
Opium vintage is an authentic olfactory experience, in my opinion Opium and Shalimar can be the two best orientals (Vintage version) I have ever smelled.
I'd heartily agree.
Thanks for watching.
Oh I so agree with you.
I have a bottle of Champagne from 1994 and will now treasure it forever! Yvresse did not smell the same. Sophia Grosjman - make more fragrance please.
I don’t think we’ll be seeing any more work from her.
When we were fifteen in the 80s my friend wore Poison to school in the morning.. lots of it during History class!! Most of us wore national eau de colognes but later we got Loulou and Anais Anais for our birthdays. I remember we wore a lot of purple, and some kids were into The Cure 💜
By the way, fantastic flowers! Are those orchids?
(The reason we wore national scents is because imported perfumes were very hard to find during the 80s in Brasil. We had to wait for somebody to bring them from abroad or buy it at extremely high prices in a few stores)
Oh my word. Poison to school. I love it!!!
Great video!!!Very nostalgic. I fell in love with Opium last year being 27/28 and it opened to me such a memory lane once I smelled the vintage edt - I have the same miniature as you do. It’s so important to me- a precious memory . It was worn by my Aunt from the Netherlands who was visiting us every summer in the 90s when I was little . Once I smelled the vintage version it immediately transported me to all these summers back in the past. I wear it from time to time now, especially in the afternoons.
Can’t wait to see your next videos. XO
Thanks for watching and sharing that wonderful story. Treasure your little sample.
Ohh no being wary of going back! And now that I know Bowie wore this? I shall be bathing it into it tonight!!!!
Enjoy.
Opium was my mother perfume (from Iran)too.
After many years when I was in India I bought her a bottle but she said she doesn't like it anymore and force me to exchange it with any Chanel perfume 😢
At my deepest part of my heart I still imagine/remember her with that perfume plus perfume from her make up.
By the way at the moment she wears Clinique the one that you like too( sorry don't remember name😅)
Thanks very much for watching and taking the time to write.
I think the Clinique scent must be Aromatics Elixir.
"you're not fully clean, unless you're ZEST-fully clean!"
😂
Thanks for watching.
Wow, Opium extrait! I've never tried this one but I sure will. In French you do say Ambré instead of Oriental. Opium is one of my all-time favourites, it is beautiful in the summer, in the fall, in each season. I love Cinnabar, and I've already mentioned Parfum sacré from Caron, but do you know that wonderful scent? They're all spicy amber fragrances, amazing olfactive family. Thank you for another great video!
Parfum Sacré is one I need to try as soon as possible. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@Persolaise Ooh, I wonder whether you'll like it. Caron have a lot of amazing fragrances.
Love this topic! Was born in the 70s and often revisit perfumes that were popular at the end of last century. Would love to see another video on this topic. Thank you!
Wonderful, thank you. I'll do my best.
I loved Dune. Just went to ebay and purchased a 5ml mini of the pure parfum 90s Vintage!
Oooooh! Treasure it!
Just found your channel, subscribed. Great video - I remember these. I still have Opium, it's in my collection just to pull out to smell it. I miss Colors by Benetton, would love for this to come out again. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks very much indeed 😊
Hold on to that precious Opium!
Love colors by benneton. I still had a bottle in 2014. List my house and all my perfumes in a fire. I love perfumes that you can't tell the notes. They are their own scent
What a fun video! I put on some vintage Opium to watch it (from a sample I had from a brooklyn museum class that coincided with their studio 54 exhibit). I love it but after an hour I am beyond over it! Haha I knew and loved it as a teenager in the 80’s but I must have had better endurance then.
My two significant teenage boyfriends wore Tuscany Per Uomo and Armani eau pour homme. I never hear anyone discussing these and am curious how aficionados such as yourself rate them. Most teenage boys wore Drakkar Noir, so that one had funny less than grand connotations. It’s what high school smelled like. I am trying hard to recall what I wore and the only two full sized bottles I recall were an Anais Anais (NOT very original) and the first Armani for women. I also loved samples and minis that my mother would get in gifts with purchase, but sadly it never occurred to me that these things could be saved and collected.
I am also now reminded of perfume sample strips in magazines and rubbing them on my wrists. Oh the ‘80’s!!!
Thanks for this wonderfully detailed comment.
Tuscany? As in the Aramis scent? I seem to remember wearing that one too, although I could be mistaken.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Anais Anais, by the way. Such a distinctive piece of work.
Oh this was great fun! I'm currently going through a nostalgic fugue state of sorts, gobbling up bottles of the vintage classics from the 1970s and 1980s which most remind me of being an impressionable child and teen looking to the chic cultivated women in my life's orbit for aesthetic direction and guidance on etiquette, elegance etc. I'm caught between a rock and a hard place though: do I buy the oldest vintage juice I can afford and risk it arriving in a totally turned state OR do I take a 50/50 gamble on the contemporary formulation of a classic fragrance, already knowing in advance that it won't compare to the older variation and may disappoint horribly? I'm going with the latter just to give my wallet a rest and have some cheap thrills. 😄Thanks for this video, I love the topic of vintage fragrances and will enjoy any discussion of them.
I agree: not knowing what you’re getting when you buy something old is always slightly worrying.
Thanks very much for taking the time to write.
this was brilliant! you're the best perfume channel out there! thank you!
That’s really kind. Thank you so much 🙏
Good in pointing out the distinct profiles of Opium: mossy/dark/boozy plum. I think it has the perfected version of the spicy accord found common with Cinnabar, KL, etc. Coco has further refined it though.
Dune on the other hand has that same wonderful base as with Must de Cartier especially in the parfum version. Spectacular ambery oceanic perfume with anisic nuances.
I also am fascinated with you mentioning Dolce Vita. I do think that it’s be more successful only if it wasn’t overshadowed by FdB. To me, DV is better, warmer, cozier and fuller in drydown.
Thanks for this interesting input. I confess, I rarely think of Opium when I smell Coco, but I totally see why you link the two.
I just picked up a 60ml, 80° splash version of the Eau de Toilette for $34. 🤩💥 I'm guessing it's between 1977 and 1981 production. I can't wait to compare it to the original Estee Lauder Cinnabar minis I have from 1978-1982. I still need an old Youth Dew to try, which Opium is apparently based on. Most people don't know the original Youth Dew was bottled in the rectangular bottle. I believe EL made a Youth Dew intense type flanker before Cinnabars release too.
Wow - come back and let us know what it’s like.
Many thanks for watching.
@@Persolaise It's gorgeous. Not as intense or spicy as Cinnabar, which in my opinion is quite dry. Opium is more complex. I only tried a little bit from the stopper, dabbed on my wrist. I believe it's a 1982 Charles of The Ritz bottle according to the batch code on the bottom. I get more of the sweet florals like Jasmine and Rose as well as the mandarin and plum whereas Cinnabars florals in my opinion seem relegated to Carnation. Amazing for a 40 year old spash. It is like 90+% full though.
Opium was my mother's fragrance in the 80's and I adored the cloves note. She doesn't wear it any more and I would have bought a bottle for old times' sake, but I no longer recognize the notes that made it so special.
Yes: it used to be all about the spices, but now they’ve had to make it all about the incense.
Thank you for taking the time to write.
Dune is so beautiful. I love Dune Pour Homme as well. Opium is certainly a Sibling of Cinnabar and Youth Dew. I have all 3 and on paper Cinnabar was actually the sweetest! Love hearing about vintage fragrances
Thank you. Dune is gorgeous.
I was born in 92! 😢 I wish I was a teenager in the 90’s!
Any particular reason?
@@Persolaise I would’ve been able to smell all the wondrous perfumes from the 70s to 90s then! Also - I truly feel like an odd old soul, who can’t relate to this tiktok generation… but would’ve fit in quite nicely… if I was just born a couple decades earlier! 😂
Ordered Minotaure today!Such a great scent!Although,in 1992.,I was already involved in scents,as a 19yrs old,I've never ever purchased it,till now!:)At that time,I remember(clearly),wearing Trussardi pour homme,and Tsar by VC&A(pretty mature scent):)...I smelled Minotaure recently,and damn,I had to pull the trigger:)Smells so 90':)
Ah, excellent. Thanks for letting me know 😊
I have a bit left of the Opium perfume. I also have a mini. In fact, I have two shoe boxes full of mini perfumes. The first time I smelled Opium I thought it smelled like men’s Old Spice aftershave. The perfume was a game changer. I always wore it when it rained. The bath powder and soap are heavenly and the bottle is so elegant. I no longer wear it but it is a lovely perfume.
It’s an absolute classic.
Thank you so much for watching.
Hi Mr. P - Sujata here. Since my comment below, I've acquired a vintage bottle of Dune EDT from a trusted seller. I have no reason to think there is something wrong with the perfume itself - so it must be me! I can't stand the stuff! All I get is a cheesy after shave that takes a long long time to dry down to something sickeningly sweet. My husband tried it and ended up trying hard to wash it off but it's very strong and lingered and lingered. I'm a bit stumped at my reaction to it because I know how many people just adore Dune, especially the vintage version...but then again I can't stand Dior's Poison either...it's that strong anise/licorice note...ugh!
Oh dear - sorry to read this. Maybe it’s just not to your taste.
@@Persolaise 🤷🙂
My mom had it in the 80s and I loved it immediately. I think it swayed my taste in perfume for life.
I guess you mean Opium 😊 Yes, I’m sure it was influential in many people’s lives.
Thanks for watching.
@@Persolaise Opium yes, of course, I-m sorry. Poison - I didn't like so much as a girl, mom had that one as well, but Hypnotic Poison did it for me, I still wear it. Loved Obsession, bought that for myself as a teenager. And to answer your question, of course I enjoyed it. Oh my god, Dune!!! I'm listening to the episode and writing the reply.... I wore Fahrenheit as well. Dune was the first perfume for which I bought a second bottle. I'd buy one now if I found it. Gorgeous. To me it wasn't heady.... Thanks for the memories and sharing.
to clarify (again!) ,answering your question if you should continue with episodes like this one... Loved wearing Eternity and Escape.
@@Persolaise I loved Colors of Benetton, I couldn't remember the name of it a couple days ago!!!! Wore it in 94.
Thanks for all these messages. I’m so pleased the selection struck a chord with you 😊
So glad Dune is in the list. Use to be my favourite 😊😊
It’s so beautiful, isn’t it.
Thanks very much for watching.
Opium was a revolutionary fragrance in its day 1977 commercially it was seriously expensive it was the days when men were encouraged to gift it. It was reformulated a lot from mid to late 80s to keep it affordable. Opium used to come alive on the person who wore it. Unfortunately not as organic as it used to be. But affordable commercially now. 😀
It certainly was a special piece of work.
Thank you for watching.
re watching ha benetton colors reminds me of JOOOP which reminds me of ad decisions in 88 when i was 17!!!
Memories!
Thanks for watching.
I use to spray drakkar noir everytime I went to the shops. That and polo original.
Ah, brilliant.
Thanks very much for watching.
Opium was the trendsetter of its era… when Opium came out in 1977, it triggered such other similar classics as Estée Lauder’s Cinnabar, and Marilyn Miglin’s Pheromone.
Thanks very much for watching.
@@Persolaise
Thank You for providing such great content.
Younger? 🤣🤣🤣. My teenage fragrance was Yardley’s Oh de London! from about 1965 - 1971. It was sooo good. I wish I could smell it again. ❤️
Fair point 😂
Thanks for watching.
Loved the episode! A true trip down memory lane for me as well. And I owned a bottle of all the scents, including Relax and Benetton Colors (both the men and women version).
Wow, that’s wonderful. Thank you so much for watching.
What about a top 10 of discontinued scents? I dearly miss Nino Cerutti and Nuit d'Ete by Joop! from that time...Or more recently Black Cashmere.
The problem would be getting samples.
You bestride the very apotheosis of CZcams for me, D. Flippin' 'eck do I love your videos.
Very, very kind. Thank you.
My memory lane tresure is a big bittle of KL homme. My mome used to wear it in the late 80s, great video!!
Wow, that IS a treasure. Thanks for watching.
I wore the original Opium, Fracas, and Obsession when I was in college ❤
Cinnabar too!
Wow - thanks for sharing.
Great video! Would love to hear you talk about Calandre, Tuxedo, Quartz, to name a few. Thanks!
Oooh, that's quite a list.
Thanks for watching.
I will have to revisit Dune as though I owned it and wore it ‘ I wasn’t a huge fan as found it too aquatic on me . I too worked in Boots on the perfume counter when I was 16 and first left school in 1977 and have so many fragrance memories. Loved this trip down memory lane .
Oh wow, I'll bet you've got so many stories!
Persolaise Perfumes I was sixteen and rather a silly shallow girl but I loved fragrance and always have.
Opium is the first perfume I knew as it is my mom's signature scent, and then Chanel's no 5 was one of my grandmothers, but I didnt know for years it was chanel 5.
I myself started wearing tabac when I was 12 in 87 then switched to cool water a few years later then switched to obsession for men, then le male when I was clubbing and going to raves alot.
Ah, Cool Water! I wore that too. All-time classic.
Thanks very much for watching 😊
My signature were Giorgio Beverly hills, Poison, Samba, Samsara. Good memories I think Samsara can by a nich perfum
That’s quite a list!
Thank you for watching.
Was it this video where you were talking about going away from calling perfumes Oriental? I see what you mean about consistency with the names of other families, but I think there is such tradition and history in calling perfumes “oriental”. It makes them seem exotic which matches how they smell. Nothing wrong though with then breaking perfumes down more into ambers, spices, etc.
We could talk about this for hours 😉
Thanks for watching.
Please more from memory lane!!!
Let me see what I can do.
Thanks for watching.
Had a great time, reminiscing about the great ones, I would like to revisit, Molyneux vivre, aramis, fidji, and why really they became the force majeure, before the 80's
Wonderful. Glad you enjoyed it.
@@Persolaise wonderful, can't wait, listening, to Kebu, moroders chase.
I just smelled halston z 14 ( my mom had it for women it was interesting back in the 80s but I migraine inducer ) ok but this one? Mmmm I loved it sort of reminds me of an opium type of scent I actually wanted the wood part to be woodier ?
Thanks for watching.
Obsession for men was softer and sexier and the womens ugh gave me instant headache! Do you know what the diff is between them ? I’ve always wondered why the womens made me sick and the mend was heavenly
It could have been anything. They’re quite different compositions.
I love this theme! Keep the videos coming! One that I've always found underrated is Clinique Wrappings. It's so unique and unconventional. Indeed not as popular as the great Aromatics Elixir, but what are your thoughts about it?
Thanks very much for watching, and for the vote of confidence.
As for Wrappings... ask and you shall receive a link: persolaise.com/2012/06/persolaise-review-wrappings-from.html
@@Persolaise my bad! my searching skills are not so good >.< thanks!!
Not a problem 😉
Are we doomed because we grew up in the 80s and long for scents that can NEVER be recreated? Now that I know everything has been reformulated and certain ingredients (okay - a lot of them) are gone forever PLUS I am older and can smell less, where do I start looking for a new signature scent? Who does not adhere to IFRA regulations?
Well, hopefully you can get some ideas on this channel and on Persolaise.com. Thankfully, there are still lots of brands making wonderful perfumes.
Love your shirt!
Thanks very much indeed.
I'd be interested to know what you mom wore, what were her favorites when she worked in retail
Oh, she had lots of favourites. Dune, Aromatics Elixir... too many to list.
I haven't been able to wear Opium since the acquisition of YSL and all the reformulations but in fairness, it's hard to achieve the same effect with the varying eugenol restrictions- ditto for Bellodgia. My favourite was the Tom Ford YSL era EDP with prune and blackcurrant in the topnotes. It was excellent like an enchanted fur coat. I wish I hadn't given my bottle away..
I wonder how many different Opiums there have actually been over the years.
Many thanks for watching.
@@Persolaise apparently the various formulations had also coincided with the change of hands. I've been told that the best version to be experienced was from the era that YSL was owned by Charles of the Ritz. Apparently, it's loaded to the rafters with precious ingredients like real sandalwood and musk. But until I experience that vintage I won't know for sure.
Blagoevgrad is a city in Bulgaria not a typo 😅😂
Thank you.
The Zara save your money it’s like bath and body works doesn’t last long i Do Love waterlily tea dress for summer due to the mint which makes me weak someone told me xerjoff 1861 renaissance has mint and citrus and is much better well I can’t afford it but I will make myself afford it! Mint lemom lily of valley sigh and this is a poison coco and opium gal
I’m not a fan of the Zaras either.
Love opium and now want to try Dune.
You’ve got a treat in store.
Thanks for watching 😊
I always preferred cinnabar to Opium but did have both .
They're both very special in their own ways.
Thanks for watching.
Purchased Dune last week….. I think it has lost some magic. My favorite vintage is Bandit perfume but the perfume is no longer made. Fahrenheit is sex in a bottle. I agree the perfume industry is out of control…. Quantity over quality…sad.
Such a shame about Dune.
Funny how so many viewers commented the fact that Opium reminds them of the 80s. It came out in 1977 and it was all the rage in Brazil then among the fashionable ladies, including my aunties. It was very obnoxious and the trend for Opium died very fast there as it was clearly not suited to the climate. Incidently, around that time every men who could afford imported fragrances would wear Pacco Rabanne Pour Homme, in the dark green bottle, another stink bomb, especially in the tropical heat. I have sniffed Opium recently and I still dislike it. I find it cloying and headache inducing. Sorry, hope I don't cause any ofence.
Thanks for writing. Don’t be silly: no offence taken at all. We all have our own different responses to scent. I actually have a little sample of Paco Rabanne Pour Homme as well... 😆
What do you think about Pacco Rabanne pour homme? Is it bad or is it me?🤨
I’d need to revisit it. I seem to remember it being quite mossy... but I could be totally wrong.
I missed it again!!!
have you watched that german tv show called perfume?
It's on ZDF, not sure if you can catch German Tv channels in the UK
No, what’s it about?
Don’t worry about missing the live broadcast 😉 At least you get to watch the recording.
That series is on Netflix, based on the movie Perfume.
@@Persolaisethe film tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Whishaw), an olfactory genius, and his homicidal quest for the perfect scent.
@@Persolaise It is inspired by the novel of the same name by Patrick Süskind
The story follows Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an unloved orphan in 18th-century France who is born with an exceptional sense of smell, capable of distinguishing a vast range of scents in the world around him.
Hi again,
I’m aware of both the book and the film; in fact, I talked about the film on BBC Radio 4’s Film Programme a few years ago. But I didn’t know they’d also turned it into a TV series. Thanks for the info 😊
No one ever tells me when you’re on
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Yes, sadly fast fashion and fast perfumes became a thing, as corporate shareholder value took a hold of a creative world that used to stir our imagination, influenced soley by art, class, taste, sophistication, and heart. I am sorry but notes of plastic and penicillin, as innovative as they may sound do nothing for my soul!
Thanks very much for this :-)
Personally, I think there's room for everything, as long as it's well done. But I totally agree that cynicism has been the driving force far too often.
@@Persolaise Perhaps I am not as generous as you are in your views.I agree w/ freedom of taste and choice, but also wouldn't think twice telling you, you need a good shower if you ask me about your new "well done" plasticy penicillin concoction you're so excited about 😉.