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C for Women Clive Christian 2010

7.8 / 10 71 Ratings

A popular perfume by Clive Christian for women, released in 2010. The scent is floral-oriental. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Oriental

Spicy

Sweet

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Pot marigold

Mandarin orange

Narcissus

Bergamot

Cognac

Coriander seed

Geranium

Petitgrain

Heart Notes

Tuberose

Jasmine

Orange blossom

Ylang-ylang Rose

Rose

Violet

Cistus

Osmanthus

Base Notes

Amber

Musk

Vanilla

Tonka bean Vetiver

Vetiver

Sandalwood

Ratings

Scent

7.871 Ratings

Longevity

8.955 Ratings

Sillage

8.651 Ratings

Bottle

8.370 Ratings

Value for money

5.810 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro · last update on 11/25/2022.

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/17/2013

Boszka79
11 Reviews

Boszka79

3

Embracing tuberose dream.

Clive Christian C For Women has a very special place in my heart...and in my collection also.The first reason why I love this fragrance insanely is because the way I explored this gorgeous scent.It was the most memorable scent-experience in my life so far. The second reason comes from the first: because C For Women a very exclusive perfume in my opinion,I thought it's worth to be the crown of the most beautiful day of my life..so I wore C For Women on my wedding day.:)

My story began with an Italian vacation in Tuscany,there is the place where I met with this beauty. Our first encounter was fascinating,charming and love at first sniff in that small but very lovely niche perfumery in Viareggio. The beautiful smell was luxurious, elegant and exclusive,rose and jasmine-infused tuberose. In that late night hour it smelled dangerously feminine yet sensual due to the powdery violet-musk hue.The warm summer night breeze just amplified the tuberose buttery aspect on my skin with the lush and almost exotic shade of jasmine, rounded with the herbal top notes and intimately embracing soft lightly woody amber musk background.The shy rose and violet just gave a multidimensional layer to the scent.
We had an almost overnight conversation with the lovely saleswoman about perfumes,scents and other fragrance-experiences,yet when she told me the hefty price tag of this essence( 360€)...-the smile on my face quickly turned into astonishment.My heart was broken ,I left the store without the perfume...

I spent one more week in Italy after this day. The divine scent of C For Women remained on my clothes almost a month after washing them...
The vivid memories and that fascinating experience were so unforgettable, so after I return to Sweden,I ordered my own bottle online from England.:)
Clive Christian's masterpiece is one of the most pricey part of my collection, but I have to say it's worth every single penny.

It was a clear choice,which fragrance I'd like to wear on my big day... Our wedding was on a frosty Swedish winter day and this perfume was just perfect for that. The daring,femme-fatale C For Women under this weather condition turned into an embracing, intimate and disarmingly sensual scent.Now the tuberose was solid and pretty,lightly musked and coyly scented by rose and orange blossom.At this time C For Women was soft,divine,irresistible and heavenly.
This perfume has thousand faces and it's an amazingly composed white flower symphony...Rapture...

05/22/2017

9Scent 9Longevity 9Sillage

Isabelle1
47 Reviews

Isabelle1

1

Love this a lot...

Was wearing it yesterday evening, I love this fragrance more than 1 of CC which i also own, I got so many compliments, for my taste it is divine in the beautiful summer evenings of the French Riviera, at least it is on my skin. When people asked me which fragrance it was, I just said it was my secret because in a way I feel not so comfortable by announcing the name etc...

12/22/2014

7Scent

Rickbr
190 Reviews

Rickbr

While the C for Men is a very modern masculine, in the veins of Tom Ford Tuscan Leather, the C Woman seems like a successful attempt to make it modern and expensive an accord which was overused during the eighties in feminine fragrances: the big and over tuberose. It opens with that syrupy, fruity and flower tuberose, backgrounded by a violet aroma, typical of laundry products. But then, you have plenty of things surrounding it: boozy aroma, nutty-like tonka beans, incense, leather, patchouly. It seems as if the fragrance tries to equalize on different directions and i think it works, because in this way it doesn't make the tuberose so omnipresent and tiresome.

01/09/2012

4Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Medusa00
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Medusa00

Top Review 22

One to overdo...

.... would Salvador Dali Mr. Christian, if he knew that C smells almost 1:1 like the Dailflor, which was released under the name Dali in 2000. But Dali didn't even know what Daliflor smelled like, since he has been pushing up daisies since 1989, and I dare to boldly claim that Daliflor wouldn't have suited the Maestro very well either. I only bought Daliflor because of the bottle. I don't use it. In principle, I could copy parts of my comment on Daliflor here. At least the first part. If C contains cognac, then I like to gnaw a pattern into the edge of my desk. The top note spills over with a flowery and spicy decadence. Compared to that, I even prefer the vervain in Daliflor. Otherwise, I say: copied.
In the heart comes the musty floral broth, which I also found extremely borderline in Daliflor. You know it! Smells like a bouquet of flowers that has been sitting for a few days, and you forgot to remove the lower leaves, the water is a bit green and stagnant. The whole thing is dominated by sultry-sweet killer tuberoses.
When I think of the price for this duplicate, not only does a feather grow on me, but the entire headdress of Chief "Stinking Sock" from the Dakota tribe.
The base is warm, amber, woody, and somehow quite nice, but I have also smelled that in and with other fragrances. Mr. Christian, your next fragrance should be called "Greed." But as long as there are people who spend 300 euros on such fragrances, you probably won't starve!

12/17/2017

5Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Gold
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Gold

Very helpful Review 21

Reflections on Christian C.

For over 30 years, I have been traveling to Russia. In 1982, when Brezhnev was still in power, there were no "advertising messages" in the streets of Moscow or on the walls of buildings, apart from banners with communist slogans. And apart from a few perfumes produced locally ("Moscow Rouge"), even a curious teenager like I was back then could find nothing to make his fragrance-obsessed heart race.

In June 2012, the Osmotheque in Versailles offered an exciting workshop that I would have loved to attend: "Social Change in the Mirror of the Development of the Perfume Industry." The metamorphoses of Russian society could serve as a prime example for such an analysis.

However, I do not want to write a socio-psychological essay here and will skip the last thirty years, starting instead in January 2015. On my way to the perfume paradise of Moscow, to the department store "ZUM," I notice the Media Markt advertisements. The impressive temples of the Moscow subway stations, mostly dating back to the Stalin era, have been bombarded with Media Markt ads, and the typical Media Markt layout looks as ugly in Cyrillic as it does in German. Together with the chandeliers and the marble in the "Revolution Square" station, the advertising here creates a particularly jarring aesthetic. Big companies are allowed to express their "opinions" everywhere in Moscow. Civil rights activists are not... - but that's another topic.

The ZUM department store in Moscow is on par with Harrods in London. Everyone is there, even Roja Dove with a large stand, Maison Guerlain with its "exclusive fragrances" - and Christian, Clive. Yes, Clive... with a fragrance that was new to Moscow at the time, simply called "C." This cost a mere 800 euros, or 32,000 rubles (at the time's exchange rate).

800 euros for a fragrance that seems to me to be a copycat (a crossover of "Opium" and "Salvador Dali") and strongly reminiscent of the 80s....
The price of this noble little water was at that time as much as the monthly pension of an average Russian babushka (grandmother).

But here in Russia, the standards are different. Who cares about the grandmother from the rundown village outside the mega-city? The rich and the super-rich come to ZUM - and there are plenty of them in the metropolis. Christian and Co. are thus well positioned here. And of course "Xerkoff" or "hoff" (I refuse to correctly memorize this name internally), how could I have forgotten this highly hyped company.

In the evening, our aunt, who has a top job at Gazprom, invites us to a fancy restaurant. It's called "Cash Flow" - how fitting. The upscale joint is located in a shopping arcade near Red Square. In the entrance area, I experience my "Clive Christian Moment of the Year": Here, a small sales booth has been set up, a stand where stressed oligarchs or their chauffeurs can quickly pick up a gift for their spoiled wives or lovers. Mind you, this is not a perfumery, but just a sales stand in front of a restaurant.
And what perfumes can you buy here? The golden bottles of "Clive Christian," of course. And a few bottles of Xerkoff-roff-stuff... - I notice those as well. A really fine little booth assortment. Everything else would simply be too mundane and would bring in too little "cash flow."

The next day, I choose the counter-program and head to the store of the company "Novaya Zarya." But I am met with disappointment. Almost all current Russian perfumes are poor copies of Western mainstream scents. Those that once had their own profile ("Red Moscow," for example) have been reformulated and smell bland and dull. I buy a bottle of rose water for the face and a copy of "Fidji," which is called "Fiesta" here.

That’s it.

The English perfume critic I most admire on "Basenotes" has long since signed off and deleted all his reviews. He stated that he hadn't smelled a new creation in years that could be considered a work of art. He is bored and repulsed by the commercialization and the ever-expanding flattening in the perfume sector. The man speaks to my heart.

I have tested all the "Clives" - NOTHING. They are not bad, but nothing, absolutely nothing about these perfumes justifies the high price. And I could now list a few other scents that were available at the booth in front of the "Cash Flow Restaurant."

But I am still not completely disillusioned. I remain curious and sniff at everything, always hoping to discover a masterpiece again. The fragrances from Christian, Clive, are not among them.

Updated on 05/10/2020

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