Parfum de Peau / Montana (Parfum) by Montana
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Parfum de Peau
Montana
1986 Parfum

8.3 / 10 16 Ratings
A popular perfume by Montana for women, released in 1986. The scent is floral-animal. Projection and longevity are above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Floral
Animal
Spicy
Sweet
Powdery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
GingerGinger PepperPepper TagetesTagetes Orange blossomOrange blossom BlackberryBlackberry BlackcurrantBlackcurrant
Heart Notes Heart Notes
NarcissusNarcissus JasmineJasmine PatchouliPatchouli RoseRose
Base Notes Base Notes
FrankincenseFrankincense LeatherLeather MuskMusk AmberAmber

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Ratings
Scent
8.316 Ratings
Longevity
8.715 Ratings
Sillage
8.115 Ratings
Bottle
8.620 Ratings
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This is a variant of the perfume Parfum de Peau / Montana (1986) (Eau de Toilette) by Montana, which differs in concentration.

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Can777

257 Reviews
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Can777
Top Review 39  
Lead me to the promised land…!
Do you remember how it was back then, my friends, before we had our performance? At night,…in the clubs? The air was stuffy and humid-sultry from the sweat of the guests who poured it out by the liter while dancing. Who needed fog machines back then,…it was smoky! Before every performance, the same sensual ritual. Like an impenetrable incantation. We dusted our fans and bodies with Montana. And then each of us took our positions in the club and the music started. Today, I believe they call that GoGo? Ninety percent skin, and we waved our fans to the beat of the music. Montana was the signature scent of the group. Each of us loved Montana, and so we all wore it. Six beautiful men. Tanned skin, polished, smooth-shimmering, and pumped full of masses of youthful testosterone. One more beautiful than the other. We danced once like royal peacocks in the garden of the Sun King. We swung the abanicos (fans) like the wings of a peacock or like the wings of an angel in its painfully beautiful flight of birth. In just a few seconds, the clubs were flooded with Montana. The perfume permeated every fiber and crack of the club. When you can almost taste a perfume,…then it’s this one! It goes through the olfactory system directly to the brain and from there directly into desire and admiration. There are perfumes that demand more than just skin as a foundation. Some perfumes require pride, a very high self-confidence, and a well-measured portion of arrogance as their breeding ground. Or simply backbone! Montana had all of that…!

Explanation
How can one get to know a perfume at all? Here’s a little chapter from my life! Once, a long time ago, I danced with a group of Ibizan fan dancers through the clubs. It was 1986, and months were born into the world at the same time. One of the guys suddenly wore Montana and brought it along. And we all were inevitably in love immediately and wore it too. Thus, Montana became our signature scent. The style of the GoGos back then was to dance with oversized fans (abanicos). Very sensual and quite unique. They were swung like flags or gliding sails, and they swung like ellipses almost weightlessly through the air. The dance appeared as if a torero was fighting a bull. Or similarly, like a peacock courting when he struts around his mate. Erotic when danced well? No question…!? Some may remember? Yes, I was young and I brewed the money. Here, it was definitely the case! Just to buy myself a new bottle of Montana again. And God knows,…I had the money and infinitely many bottles of Montana. And so I danced for it. And indeed,…it was always worth it. Even when the party was over…! *Beep*

Conclusion
How does Montana smell…?
One thing must be said,…unique!
What is it made of? Unfathomable! Definitely daffodils. Bound in the juiciest orange blossoms and herb-wild marigolds. Marigolds are hardly found in perfumes anymore. Too exclusive,…who knows? Touched by berry-like roses and profoundly warm-humid patchouli. Encased in a warm-sultry hint of worshipful and most sensual incense, creamy-soft and narcotic musk. What remains after endlessly sensual hours is an armada of sensuality. A hint of the softest leather that comes closer to human skin than anything else and a warm-inviting kiss of resinous-expensive amber. Montana is a revelation, a wet dream, a symbol of sensuality. It is the tornado among floral-spicy, leathery chypres. Back then as today, it slaps everything down with a resounding slap in the environment and in the face of their incompetence. And this with roaring applause! There is nothing, absolutely nothing that has ever come close to Montana. And this still holds true today! To attempt to replicate it would be arrogant and in today’s time, suicidal. Yes, there is wearable arrogance and boundless self-confidence among perfumes. Here, today and forever, we have the absolute elite. A monument of untouchability….!

What would Montana as a perfume say to itself today?
I AM NOT UNIQUE. IT JUST LOOKS THAT WAY FROM UP HERE!
Everlasting arrogance has always surrounded Montana…!

There’s still a story afterward…!
About eight years later, I met Claude Montana personally in a very well-known club in Berlin. I hadn’t danced for money in a long time. He was sitting on a huge leather couch surrounded by his “entourage.” When he saw me in the crowd of guests, he stood up and came towards me. It wasn’t easy for him as he was quite drunk. But he approached me with pride and grandeur. A petite, small man with the figure of a youth. He barely reached my chest when he stood in front of me. He wore his mustache, which almost looked fake. But it was real! What he said to me in broken English when he stood before me…? “Hello! My name is Claude. Would you like to come to my private party at the hotel? It would be my pleasure...!” And he politely extended his hand to me. And even in that desolate state, he had style. He was polite and extremely charming in his question. What did he smell like that evening? You can guess three times. Montana, of course! Did I go with him? No,…I did not! In terms of his height, Claude Montana may have been small. In terms of his fashion, his art, and his perfumes, however, he was a titan. Or as I like to say,…The poison,…is always in the small bottles!
And it still resonates today…!

I really hope you are well and happy, Claude? You genius…!
In deepest, deepest admiration…!
Can

And so you still lead me today into the promised land of your art!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI1zWp-rtvQ

Everlasting, always, and infinitely,…MONTANA!
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Kerstinveith

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White, Sunny Winter Landscape
I sit in the sun, wrapped in the fur of my jacket.
My gaze rests on the glittering, smooth, white surface of the snow. The blue sky and the sun contribute to a wonderful moment...
In the distance, something glows, slowly approaching me...
It is a beautiful sphere, shining blue and halogen-like, dazzlingly bright. I have to put on my sunglasses.
The sphere slowly descends, and I see that it is completely made of ice, clear, cold ice against a blue background. Beautiful.
It has now come to rest on the snow surface, and I walk closer to it. Its ultra-bright light becomes a bit softer, and I can examine it more closely. Countless yellow and white flowers are embedded in the ice, illuminated in icy blue by the sphere.
The impulse to open it is there, and I follow it...
Incredible things unfold before me! This beautiful, icy, crystal-clear blue sphere contains glowing coals that are battling against the cold of the ice - it is unclear who will prevail.
Among the glowing coals, there is also resin, incense-like. It is nestled on an enormous amount of leather, resting in soft moss. Amber chunks blend with the moss, and I perceive a deep, extraordinary, very intense scent. It is warm and cold at the same time, exuding a fascination that draws me in magically, but also warns me to be careful not to sink into it! It radiates a dangerous aloofness, and that is exactly what attracts me!
The coals continue to glow long, long after. Towards the end, the heat wins, the ice melts - slowly.
I watch the spectacle of this natural force for a long time, until just before the sun completely disappears from the sky, I head home...
The next morning, the heat in the sphere still glows a little...
Coal stuck with resin and melted leather can still be smelled... covered with many warmed floral essences and nectars...
Slowly, the sphere dissolves. I am confused and touched by this experience.

Montana.
VINTAGE
Back then, it was simply called Montana. A polarizing, extraordinary chypre fragrance.
It can evoke elegant aloofness, sublime eroticism, but also deep, passionate (yes, FLOWER...) desire... depending on the mood, aura, and wearer (I am against gendering, I only do it because I find it super feminine. But I have never smelled it on a man, so I don't want to presume anything!)
Probably the marigold and the ginger, which initially spread this first extraordinary, exotic, almost unpleasant scent that one must first get used to. But once you do, you are lost in a sea of flowers on leather mats surrounded by moss of resins and amber...
I perceive the scent as not sweet, rather bitter, slightly sharp, only rounded out after a while, deep and warm.
ANIMALISTICALLY GOOD!
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Sheelchen57

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Finally!
After almost 30 years, I have it again! It arrived today and the DNA is almost unchanged; it has probably been reformulated in the meantime, but I find it just as good as back then. Many of the ingredients I can't identify, but orange and ginger definitely stand out for me. Parfum de Peau smells herbaceous-woody, right down to the base. It's a pity that the body cream in the large jar is no longer available. I wonder how intense the body lotion must be? But you have to be careful with the cap; it comes off easily if you touch the bottle at the top. I gave half of it away back then; I might not have been quite ready for this herbaceous woodiness, but now I could crawl into the bottle. :-)
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Minigolf

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Dark Lurking in the Depths
It begins slowly. Dark berries float on top, aromatic, fruity, also prickly and slightly rough.
Almost already inside but still quite at the top, orange flowers with a faint hint of "animalic." Not really "animalic," yet not purely "plant-based." But this makes me incredibly curious about what is yet to come. WHAT COMES???
A quiet rumbling, something wants to emerge, struggling, not quite there yet, but it’s only a matter of time.---WAITING---I’m happy to wait, to enjoy the suspense.
The first to stir is a rose, velvety red, darkly shimmering and equally fragrant.
Together with a hint of jasmine, just escaping the deepest level.
But it doesn’t take long for patchouli to join in, bathing everything in a deep brown, reddish light.
Like distant lamplight behind a window on a moonless night. Dreamy and beautiful.
Time of silence, time for reflection on the essentials.
This silence is hardly touched by what now wants to stir, like from afar, akin to silent mists. Yet distinctly felt. VIBRATIONS.
The impression of invisible, spicy smoke, ancient and sublime.
And woods transformed into "liquid gold" from trees long gone. The scents of their bark and inner wood finely preserved. Dark and warm. Tinty "tar-like" accents, far away yet perceptible.
Where do they come from? And where do they go?
They emerge from the depths of the fragrance, first lurking, seeking interest, lingering for a long time before slowly disappearing back to where they came from.
In the stillness of darkness.....
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Herb chypre flowers and incense - she wears yellow silk, looks like a daffodil, seeks her equal, sets all the tracks.
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Fruit cream flower spice on sweet dirty summer hot skin, tonight we will be as one.
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What you hear is not applause! The clapping is slaps being handed out by Montana in the realm of new designers. Clap along..!?
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Noble drop in a great bottle. Floral-sweet with a hint of animalistic. For special occasions...
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