Evening in Paris Bourjois 1959 Perfume Essence

There must be a bunch of oakmoss or orris root in here. It has that "classy but skanky" quality I love so much about vintages. Heavy violet powder and syrupy ylang ylang are garnished with a shake of heliotrope and rose petals. I see a well groomed woman in a little black dress and pearls dabbing this behind her ears. She checks her handbag to make sure her red lipstick and cigarettes are in there, then throws a fur around her shoulders. Her husband is taking her to the opera and then a supper club for cocktails and dancing.

I wore vintage Evening In Paris to an event and a male friend kept standing close to me and sniffing. "You smell like my great grandmother" he said, then quickly added "But you smell wonderful! I don't know. I've never been so confused about being turned on."