Le Bain Joop! 1988 Eau de Parfum

The experience of a perfume not smelling quite as good on your own skin and developing less pleasantly than on a paper strip or even just yesterday on a friend is probably very familiar to all of us - and every time it's just sad.

Here, I got to experience exactly the opposite. Sprayed on, it smelled too sweet, too heavy, too vanilla-like, simultaneously reminiscent of a teenager and an old grandma. However, once I sprayed it on my skin, I was truly enchanted. It felt as if I had taken a milk bath with Cleopatra herself, enriched with the most beautiful flowers and golden oils. In one moment, I felt my mother's embrace and at the same time, the mother within me awakened, preparing warm milk with honey for her children, and not two seconds later, I felt as if I had never been so pure and clean since my birth.

I must confess, even though it is more of a scent for cold days, I wore it even at 35 degrees during my summer vacation in Turkey; when it fits, it just fits, and what can I say, I was in love. By now, it gets to delight me more from autumn to cold spring, warming me from the outside in, and I can recommend it to all true perfume enthusiasts who dress in scents even when going to bed, after a warm shower, about an hour before bedtime, regardless of whether you share the bed with your better half or your own whole self.