My Melody Mülhens 1979 Eau de Toilette

As a teenager in the late 70s, it was "the most beautiful fragrance in the world" for me. All the fragrances I had known before were as fascinating as they were inappropriate-serious-adult. But then came MyMelodie and it was inspiringly "entertaining" (Serenissima quote). It was almost dancing, lively, cheerful, flowery-romantic, without the adult seriousness we had previously sniffed at. If it seemed to us as young things at the time that MyMelodie was not a great work of fragrance art (again quoting Serenissima), it was because this fragrance was within our reach and not a "sinfully expensive ladies' bottle".
Back then, quality and price were much more closely linked than they are today. It seemed like a miracle to me that this somehow didn't apply to MyMelodie, because this "most beautiful" fragrance in the world was at least within our reach if we spent "all our pocket money". So it became the first perfume that I secretly declared to be "my" fragrance and which I noticeably missed when it disappeared.
A good 40 years later, I realize in retrospect how much it influenced me. Inspired by parfumo, I remember. Looked repeatedly in the souk. No trace of it there, but on Ebay. But in the niche fragrance price range. That's why I went on strike at first, but after a while the nostalgia horse started to ride me again (instead of the other way around, räusper). I accidentally won the auction for five times the price, so to speak, and I wondered if it would be worth it. As it turned out, yes, because I paid for the knowledge of an early coinage!

The bottle (as pictured), comes with almost full contents. A small but sufficient amount on the back of the hand becomes a time machine. However, not quite as far back as expected. Instead of a teenager, I wake up in a slightly later stage of my life! How so? The nose knows immediately: MyMelodie appears almost identical to "Nina Ricci's Fleurs de Fleur", which stepped into the gap years later. I wasn't even aware of this because I had suppressed the existence of the gap at the time. I just always wondered why I liked Fleur de Fleurs so much. Ah, you just live forwards and only understand backwards!
Of course, this impression requires a direct wrist comparison, which confirms the incredible similarity in character and color. Both are "full-bloodedly colorful" in a similar way. The slight difference: MyMelodie is a little sunnier and creamier and Fleur de Fleurs is soapier and pinker, but the difference is really only a hint due to the direct comparison. Two lush, colorful, gorgeous big flower bouquets, absolutely equal: colorful, clear, bright as day, honest, sunny, pure. MyMelodie lasts forever (even after 8 hours, the base is still on the skin, although the bouquet blossoms a little later than Fleur de Fleurs. There, however, the sillage is somewhat higher and the "bouquet" already glows and blooms in the top note.

What I regret is that all these findings are of little use, because both are vintage fragrances. Treasures for occasional use. As a fragrance lover, however, I don't really want to collect them so much as use them! I want to be able to spray generously and buy more! It's a real shame that the modern fragrance industry behaves as if the wheel hadn't been invented yet. After all, good music is always played as the same music and enjoyed again!
But maybe someone will discover the gap in the market and set up a company where you can have vintage original fragrances recreated and use them liberally!