08/04/2017
MadameVizard
13 Reviews
MadameVizard
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Emerald City Oficial Perfume
I had a bottle from the late 90's (not 2002, as say the file of the perfume), and this is sadly discontinued today. It was a reedition of a perfume extract from the early XX th Century. Therefore, my bottle has more or less 15-20 years, but the smell is unchanged.
This is a perfume extract, which means that the smell is strong and concentrated, and the bottle is very small, but a little amount goes far. And what a gorgeous bottle! A tiny, tall, thin, curvacious flask with a label in which there is an illustration depicting a nymph, in Mucha style.
Now, the smell. I said it was strong and concentrated, but it never was cloying or suffocating. It was the freshest, the greenest of all the green perfumes ever. The grandmother of fragances like Chanel nº 19, Estée Lauder's Alliage or Private Collection. If you know the classic Spanish cologne Heno de Pravia, this was like a super-intense, concentrated, strong version of it. Heno de Pravia on steroids. The exact smell of the freshly cut grass and the clovers (I live in the midst of a meadow full of clovers, and I can say it is exactly the same fragance). It could have been the official perfume of the Emerald City in the film The Wizard of Oz.
It is a pity, for me, to see how the vast majority of all this classic Spanish brands of perfumes, which produced excelent items, are today dissapeared, most when you see the masses of mediocre products released for what used to be prestigious houses and sold at outrageous prices. Clover (Trébol), like other perfumes of the same line (Violet -Violeta-, Rose -Rosa-, Muguet -Lily of the Valley-...) were simple, original, totally umpretentious, beautiful and were a great value for the price.
This is a perfume extract, which means that the smell is strong and concentrated, and the bottle is very small, but a little amount goes far. And what a gorgeous bottle! A tiny, tall, thin, curvacious flask with a label in which there is an illustration depicting a nymph, in Mucha style.
Now, the smell. I said it was strong and concentrated, but it never was cloying or suffocating. It was the freshest, the greenest of all the green perfumes ever. The grandmother of fragances like Chanel nº 19, Estée Lauder's Alliage or Private Collection. If you know the classic Spanish cologne Heno de Pravia, this was like a super-intense, concentrated, strong version of it. Heno de Pravia on steroids. The exact smell of the freshly cut grass and the clovers (I live in the midst of a meadow full of clovers, and I can say it is exactly the same fragance). It could have been the official perfume of the Emerald City in the film The Wizard of Oz.
It is a pity, for me, to see how the vast majority of all this classic Spanish brands of perfumes, which produced excelent items, are today dissapeared, most when you see the masses of mediocre products released for what used to be prestigious houses and sold at outrageous prices. Clover (Trébol), like other perfumes of the same line (Violet -Violeta-, Rose -Rosa-, Muguet -Lily of the Valley-...) were simple, original, totally umpretentious, beautiful and were a great value for the price.
