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I am REALLY shocked....
One thing up front, I would love to rate this fragrance if the difference between vintage (1st Lancaster version) and today's (mid-2020 batch) wasn't so severe....
I encountered the fragrance (again) a few years ago. The first time smelled; immediately taken back to early youth. So brutal as with this fragrance I have NEVER experienced. Although I could not track down to this day, who wore it, but this someone, and this fragrance must have played a big role in that time. A time that let me feel only positive things associated with this fragrance.
Alone for nostalgia reasons, the fragrance burned itself into my brain, until I finally bought a bottle of it. Already there it was the Coty variant, but the comparison to the vintage version I did not know until then. I was satisfied... until the bottle flew to the floor after infrequent wear and the contents spread all over it.... The bathroom smelled for days afterwards....
Thus ordered a new bottle, this time from 2020... somehow pack me no longer... everything so brutally synthetic, the floral chords stand out immensely, the sweetness was also no longer the, as I once perceived it... maybe it's my nose, but maybe it was reformulated again? Durability and sillage - although still good - no longer so strong... or am I about odor-blind become?
By chance here in the Souk (thanks again) get a full vintage cornflower--version.
What can I say?
I could have cried... I was overwhelmed... Shit, YAAAA!!! THIS is it!!! So present as never before! So brutally full-bodied, the finest cherry juice, slightly tart at the beginning (which is both completely missing in the current version) and this irresistible sweetness that lingers for hours! The vanilla, which I find discreet and only appears in the background over time, the finely integrated floral chords (where does this synthetic crap come from the current version, which was skillfully and only discreetly used in the Vintage?) and the subtle sandalwood note, which increases somewhat towards the end. Funnily enough, the sandalwood comes with me at my elbows more strongly than in other places, and how should it be otherwise; never as pungent and synthetic as in the current version.
Just everything much more elegant... Would pass today in my opinion as a niche fragrance!
Sillage and durability in this version really a beast. Is loved by my girlfriend. I think you mentioned in the first hour every 5 minutes, how good I would smell yet (when she tried the current variant at home, she said it would be a completely different fragrance!)
The presence lingers for several hours, which is extreme for my skin. Even after a good 24h you can still smell him skin.
I can understand that today's version is hated by some.... but how on earth could not love this vintage version!? Although so on the face, but also so awesome!
Funnily enough, I personally think that today's version smells much more vintage than this one I just described....
What have they just done with you!?
I must confess, however: If you do not know the vintage version, the current is still quite ok (apart from these penetrating synthetic flower chords). Finally, it was enough to put me back 30 years....
Nevertheless, I can now with direct comparison no longer give an assessment, because in my opinion it is no longer the same fragrance...
Long speech, short sense: Current version quite ok to revel in nostalgic times.... but more also not... Too bad about this once magical masterpiece!
UPDATE 08.11.21: Could now still test a Cotyversion of 2019 and 2012!
Version 2012: the fragrance is still very reminiscent of the Lancaster version, although the shelf life has already been reduced by quite a bit.
Version 2019: The fruity component and the cherry are still present, however, freshly applied you have the feeling it would be the vintage version after 5-6 hours... the floral accords are brought more to the fore here.... The magic of the former original is still guessable.... The durability and sillage were again reduced by some...
Version 2020: The shock variant!!! Cherry so to speak no longer present, only a pungent synthetic lily of the valley scent.... Sillage and durability... about the same as 2019...is probably due to the Lyral ban that this version seems so horribly unbalanced.... maybe the version of 2021 is a little better tuned?
I encountered the fragrance (again) a few years ago. The first time smelled; immediately taken back to early youth. So brutal as with this fragrance I have NEVER experienced. Although I could not track down to this day, who wore it, but this someone, and this fragrance must have played a big role in that time. A time that let me feel only positive things associated with this fragrance.
Alone for nostalgia reasons, the fragrance burned itself into my brain, until I finally bought a bottle of it. Already there it was the Coty variant, but the comparison to the vintage version I did not know until then. I was satisfied... until the bottle flew to the floor after infrequent wear and the contents spread all over it.... The bathroom smelled for days afterwards....
Thus ordered a new bottle, this time from 2020... somehow pack me no longer... everything so brutally synthetic, the floral chords stand out immensely, the sweetness was also no longer the, as I once perceived it... maybe it's my nose, but maybe it was reformulated again? Durability and sillage - although still good - no longer so strong... or am I about odor-blind become?
By chance here in the Souk (thanks again) get a full vintage cornflower--version.
What can I say?
I could have cried... I was overwhelmed... Shit, YAAAA!!! THIS is it!!! So present as never before! So brutally full-bodied, the finest cherry juice, slightly tart at the beginning (which is both completely missing in the current version) and this irresistible sweetness that lingers for hours! The vanilla, which I find discreet and only appears in the background over time, the finely integrated floral chords (where does this synthetic crap come from the current version, which was skillfully and only discreetly used in the Vintage?) and the subtle sandalwood note, which increases somewhat towards the end. Funnily enough, the sandalwood comes with me at my elbows more strongly than in other places, and how should it be otherwise; never as pungent and synthetic as in the current version.
Just everything much more elegant... Would pass today in my opinion as a niche fragrance!
Sillage and durability in this version really a beast. Is loved by my girlfriend. I think you mentioned in the first hour every 5 minutes, how good I would smell yet (when she tried the current variant at home, she said it would be a completely different fragrance!)
The presence lingers for several hours, which is extreme for my skin. Even after a good 24h you can still smell him skin.
I can understand that today's version is hated by some.... but how on earth could not love this vintage version!? Although so on the face, but also so awesome!
Funnily enough, I personally think that today's version smells much more vintage than this one I just described....
What have they just done with you!?
I must confess, however: If you do not know the vintage version, the current is still quite ok (apart from these penetrating synthetic flower chords). Finally, it was enough to put me back 30 years....
Nevertheless, I can now with direct comparison no longer give an assessment, because in my opinion it is no longer the same fragrance...
Long speech, short sense: Current version quite ok to revel in nostalgic times.... but more also not... Too bad about this once magical masterpiece!
UPDATE 08.11.21: Could now still test a Cotyversion of 2019 and 2012!
Version 2012: the fragrance is still very reminiscent of the Lancaster version, although the shelf life has already been reduced by quite a bit.
Version 2019: The fruity component and the cherry are still present, however, freshly applied you have the feeling it would be the vintage version after 5-6 hours... the floral accords are brought more to the fore here.... The magic of the former original is still guessable.... The durability and sillage were again reduced by some...
Version 2020: The shock variant!!! Cherry so to speak no longer present, only a pungent synthetic lily of the valley scent.... Sillage and durability... about the same as 2019...is probably due to the Lyral ban that this version seems so horribly unbalanced.... maybe the version of 2021 is a little better tuned?
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