Body Silk by La Perla
Bottle Design:
Pierre Dinand
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Body Silk 1987

7.9 / 10 35 Ratings
A popular perfume by La Perla for women, released in 1987. The scent is chypreartig-spicy. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Chypre
Spicy
Floral
Powdery
Oriental
Ratings
Scent
7.935 Ratings
Longevity
8.228 Ratings
Sillage
7.629 Ratings
Bottle
6.639 Ratings
Submitted by Hasi · last update on 05/05/2023.
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Minigolf

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Helpful Review 5  
Wild Spicy Transformation Wonder
They have filled a magic trick into a bottle. How is that supposed to work? First, you take a whole lot of imagination, let it settle, and then choose the scents that please you the most, the ones that come to mind first. Then mix them vigorously and make sure there is variety. Roses come to mind?... Jasmine?... In they go.
And spices? Cloves? Rosemary, woods?... Everything is fine as long as it’s done with "heart and soul." No fear of "wild nature"...
And when everything together pleases your nose, the "potion of the magic trick" is ready. And no alchemy... although at the end of the experiment, gold comes out. More precisely, "nose gold."
It reinvents itself every time you wear it. It can be a dress of scent. Just as well, a spice market through which you stroll relaxed.
Or a country garden where fragrant wild roses and herbs grow. Or a summer evening on the terrace. Or the fine powder that you dab on your cheeks for celebrations, with a delicate brush.
Or a walk through wild meadows...
I could believe that "Body Silk" adapts to the dreams and wishes of its wearer, knows exactly the mood in certain moments, the willingness to absorb certain images.
This scent is not just "floral-woody-spicy-powdery."
It CAN be anything, and it transforms from wild-spicy to floral-powdery to woody-forest to elegantly refined..... It KNOWS what you need......
Just a magic trick????
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Ute

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Ute
Top Review 13  
A confident, quirky, perfect fragrance with spicy surprises
It has always been a real challenge to acquire the scent here in Germany ...
even though production has also been discontinued in the States, I have managed to get my hands on a bottle time and again over the decades ...
Everyone who has set foot on American soil has been fervently sworn in by me not to return home without a bottle of Bodysilk; some have managed to bring me joy through the sweat of their brow, while others have failed due to sheer exhaustion ...
Now it’s over !!!
I guess I will have to bid on the last remnants of samples on eBay that I can find ...
Those who have followed me this far might be rolling their eyes and thinking:
a real weirdo !!!

Yes, I might be, because for a good 20 years Bodysilk has been my undisputed favorite, one that I keep falling for again and again, one that has never become uninteresting, one that has never felt familiar and boring ...

"June" has beautifully described La Perla Classic ... I like Classic too, it’s elegant and wonderful ... aaaaber :

Bodysilk is the characterful enhancement of Classic ... louder and more quirky, wilder and more present ... yet in a way that is never too intense for me, never too overdone, simply a perfect scent experience ...
the top note has more robust herbs,
the base note has a spicier character ...
I have often been approached about it, and I have never heard that it was too much ...

Bodysilk is for me the big, surprising, sometimes naughty,
but never tasteless sister of Classic ...

And depending on my mood, my nose may lean towards the herbal components one day, towards the powderiness and softness another day, and on the next day towards the woody, spicy wildness ...
No other perfume has affected me so differently.
I am really depressed !!!
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2 years ago
1
Orangey, and Tree Fruits - with chypre,
it feels like an early version of Fruchouli
(but more --natural-- and with extra powder and musk).
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2
Dark, heavy floral dignity on a dark, flowing chypre base. Not sweet, slightly wicked, a bit slippery, a bit demanding, but beautiful.
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2
This sharp-demanding scent directly on the skin creates a smooth-fruity aura that truly resembles silky
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