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What's Old is Young Again
I enjoy smelling this. I don't want to wear it, and I'm not sure I would want to be too close with someone who was wearing it, but I wouldn't mind smelling it on someone a bit further away from me. There's a clarity and sharpness to it, not freshness because that's what Jicky does. The clarity of it is almost like alcohol, which might be the oakmoss. That isn't a favourite note of mine and I find for me it comes to dominate anything it's in (like Floris Sandalwood & Patchouli room scent for example). I much prefer the Parfum of this to the EDP.
In the contemporary context my mind goes immediately to "grandmother" when I smell this. But I can see how, through a different lens of a different era, this is entirely young and fresh, and masculine and feminine, all depending on the context. It's far too easy to dismiss this when you first wear it because practically every cheap drugstore and mail order perfume for the last 100 years has inherited something from this. If only I could smell this in a world where it were new.
In the contemporary context my mind goes immediately to "grandmother" when I smell this. But I can see how, through a different lens of a different era, this is entirely young and fresh, and masculine and feminine, all depending on the context. It's far too easy to dismiss this when you first wear it because practically every cheap drugstore and mail order perfume for the last 100 years has inherited something from this. If only I could smell this in a world where it were new.