Top Notes 
Coconut
Green tea
Bergamot
Orange
Electroplated Toothpick
Heart Notes 
Apricot
Jasmine
Base Notes 
Sandalwood
Cedar
Sherapop
1239 Reviews
Sherapop
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A Disastrously Named Nice Little Secret
If Guerlain's PURPLE FANTASY was a commercial flop, it can only be because the name drove women away, for the fragrance itself is beautiful. I must confess that even I, once a bona fide Guerlainophile (until the Fall), approached PURPLE FANTASY with some trepidation. What could it possibly be? Something sweet and fruity along the lines of Victoria's Secret's many fragrances with similar names? (think: Very Sexy, Super Model, Oooh la la, Sexy little things, the list goes on and on...)
Far from it, in fact. PURPLE FANTASY is a spicy, slightly fruity floral, to my nose. In fact, I would have categorized this as oriental fruity. I do not agree with floral green label (at another iste), for PF opens very spicily with a gentle fruitiness dominated by the bergamot, which is not sweet at all. Then, all of a sudden, the beautiful jasmine floral makes its presence known, mingling with a subtle dose of cedar and sandalwood, creating a lovely, lasting layer that is very different from the opening, yet equally appealing.
There is no syrup here; no grape; nothing that the name might suggest: loudness, brashness, cheapness--these are all absent. I believe that if this fragrance were re-launched under a pseudonym, it would succeed.
The presentation, by the way, is delightful. The little 1oz ridged cylindrical bottle is fashioned out of smokey purple glass, and it comes wrapped in a thin mesh bluish-purple bag with blackish-purple silk drawstrings, all attached at the bottom to a deep purple satin covered stand. All of this purple, conjoined with the disastrous name, no doubt kept buyers away. But this is a fine fragrance, as one might have expected from the unsurpassed twentieth-century house of Guerlain!
Far from it, in fact. PURPLE FANTASY is a spicy, slightly fruity floral, to my nose. In fact, I would have categorized this as oriental fruity. I do not agree with floral green label (at another iste), for PF opens very spicily with a gentle fruitiness dominated by the bergamot, which is not sweet at all. Then, all of a sudden, the beautiful jasmine floral makes its presence known, mingling with a subtle dose of cedar and sandalwood, creating a lovely, lasting layer that is very different from the opening, yet equally appealing.
There is no syrup here; no grape; nothing that the name might suggest: loudness, brashness, cheapness--these are all absent. I believe that if this fragrance were re-launched under a pseudonym, it would succeed.
The presentation, by the way, is delightful. The little 1oz ridged cylindrical bottle is fashioned out of smokey purple glass, and it comes wrapped in a thin mesh bluish-purple bag with blackish-purple silk drawstrings, all attached at the bottom to a deep purple satin covered stand. All of this purple, conjoined with the disastrous name, no doubt kept buyers away. But this is a fine fragrance, as one might have expected from the unsurpassed twentieth-century house of Guerlain!
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