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Serenissima
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The woman is an island, "Fidji" is her perfume
Through this advertising slogan, "Fidji" became a success in the world of fragrances in 1966 and has remained so to this day.
At that time, couturier Guy Laroche had already known for years how important it was to find the right name for a creation.
With Fidji, this island nation in Oceania, he succeeded in meeting the spirit of the times and awakening a longing for the foreign, the strange.
He relied on the imagination: the unspoiled nature of the Pacific islands, the tropical climate, the splendor of the exotic, fragrant plant life - all this is "Fidji" even today!
In 1966, I was already a teenager, so it is not surprising that I still remember so well this fragrance with the seductive name.
Whether I met him at that time, I do not know: my environment was actually too bourgeois to allow such longings in fragrance form.
Later, I forgot about it, and since I've been here in this community, I haven't managed to get a bottling of the perfume or eau de toilette.
Until recently, when I was allowed to browse Marieposa's collection and she sent me a sample of the 2003 eau de toilette (along with other gorgeous scents).
Even before the first spray, it was exciting: would this composition match my imagination of the last 55 years?
This floral-fresh fragrance being, even in this lighter concentration, the exoticism of the island world whose name it bears, does not disappoint!
It seduces to dream and allows day after day the escape from everyday life in the most beautiful way.
Already alone the prelude is a true olfactory journey: Flowers over flowers and a trace of resin open the view into a world of fragrances that seduces and at the same time delights.
The flowers listed in the fragrance pyramid and a hint of lemon and bergamot together with galbanum lead the way to the heart of this fragrance island, which beats so strong, spicy and radiant.
Cloves, possibly some pepper and a pinch of cinnamon play no small role along with luminous aldehydes.
The classic base of spicy and at the same time balsamic fragrance notes closes with a sparkling amber fireworks.
Green and fresh, floral and woody, earthy and exotic sensuality spreads "Fidji" as an eau de toilette on my skin, spreads the magic of the South Seas and lets me enjoy this time out for a few hours.
"Fidji" was described even then as a "glowing, delicate and vibrant perfume" and it is touted as a concept "of escape, refined exoticism, sensuality and seduction."
I can't describe the current eau de toilette any better than that.
Therefore, Guy Laroche should also keep the last word here.
At that time, couturier Guy Laroche had already known for years how important it was to find the right name for a creation.
With Fidji, this island nation in Oceania, he succeeded in meeting the spirit of the times and awakening a longing for the foreign, the strange.
He relied on the imagination: the unspoiled nature of the Pacific islands, the tropical climate, the splendor of the exotic, fragrant plant life - all this is "Fidji" even today!
In 1966, I was already a teenager, so it is not surprising that I still remember so well this fragrance with the seductive name.
Whether I met him at that time, I do not know: my environment was actually too bourgeois to allow such longings in fragrance form.
Later, I forgot about it, and since I've been here in this community, I haven't managed to get a bottling of the perfume or eau de toilette.
Until recently, when I was allowed to browse Marieposa's collection and she sent me a sample of the 2003 eau de toilette (along with other gorgeous scents).
Even before the first spray, it was exciting: would this composition match my imagination of the last 55 years?
This floral-fresh fragrance being, even in this lighter concentration, the exoticism of the island world whose name it bears, does not disappoint!
It seduces to dream and allows day after day the escape from everyday life in the most beautiful way.
Already alone the prelude is a true olfactory journey: Flowers over flowers and a trace of resin open the view into a world of fragrances that seduces and at the same time delights.
The flowers listed in the fragrance pyramid and a hint of lemon and bergamot together with galbanum lead the way to the heart of this fragrance island, which beats so strong, spicy and radiant.
Cloves, possibly some pepper and a pinch of cinnamon play no small role along with luminous aldehydes.
The classic base of spicy and at the same time balsamic fragrance notes closes with a sparkling amber fireworks.
Green and fresh, floral and woody, earthy and exotic sensuality spreads "Fidji" as an eau de toilette on my skin, spreads the magic of the South Seas and lets me enjoy this time out for a few hours.
"Fidji" was described even then as a "glowing, delicate and vibrant perfume" and it is touted as a concept "of escape, refined exoticism, sensuality and seduction."
I can't describe the current eau de toilette any better than that.
Therefore, Guy Laroche should also keep the last word here.
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