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02/08/2020
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I can't get warm with "Purple Fantasy" or I can't figure it out. Even back when I bought the fragrance for its lovely purple bottle (1st version), I flashed it, trimmed it a bit, was neither repulsed nor turned on, and put the bottle next to the others where it looked pretty for many years. But nothing else.
Now, almost 20 years later, I pulled him out in a "What did he smell like?" action and tried to break down his DNA. Also this request turned out to be so difficult that I had to read up what I should smell there now. And found by far not all the allegedly used notes, but others.
Take the top note, for example: the usually very fleeting start, which is often tilted first in vintage fragrances, is surprisingly fresh and modern in Purple Fantasy: beautifully british, sweet powdery fruit.
PEZ says hello.
It can stay that way...
But it doesn't.
While I hope for a delicious apricot again, PF is going in a completely different direction. Herbs, tea, not to say herbal tea Nanu?
Spicy, tea-y, the sweetness powdery but hardly there!
Where's the fruit bomb? Who picked the flowers? Maybe I can guess a little bit of coconut, but even this only vaguely.
Greenish dark herbs set the tone and remain persistent.
Only gradually does the fruit powder reappear and the fragrance becomes creamier towards the "end".
This contradiction, this "two souls in one breast", I don't know with Guerlain. Not bad, really not! But also no crowdpleaser. Perhaps, like imho Mahora, come to the market too early, remained misunderstood or did not reach class goal? No matter why, worth testing!
Now, almost 20 years later, I pulled him out in a "What did he smell like?" action and tried to break down his DNA. Also this request turned out to be so difficult that I had to read up what I should smell there now. And found by far not all the allegedly used notes, but others.
Take the top note, for example: the usually very fleeting start, which is often tilted first in vintage fragrances, is surprisingly fresh and modern in Purple Fantasy: beautifully british, sweet powdery fruit.
PEZ says hello.
It can stay that way...
But it doesn't.
While I hope for a delicious apricot again, PF is going in a completely different direction. Herbs, tea, not to say herbal tea Nanu?
Spicy, tea-y, the sweetness powdery but hardly there!
Where's the fruit bomb? Who picked the flowers? Maybe I can guess a little bit of coconut, but even this only vaguely.
Greenish dark herbs set the tone and remain persistent.
Only gradually does the fruit powder reappear and the fragrance becomes creamier towards the "end".
This contradiction, this "two souls in one breast", I don't know with Guerlain. Not bad, really not! But also no crowdpleaser. Perhaps, like imho Mahora, come to the market too early, remained misunderstood or did not reach class goal? No matter why, worth testing!
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