02/10/2012
Sherapop
1239 Reviews
Sherapop
2
The Final Member of an Ill-Fated Series
Victoria’s Secret CHIFFON PEONY FREESIA is the sixth and final of the ill-fated Parfums Intimes series, which appears to have been definitively discontinued not terribly long after being launched! This fragrance offers the light florality of freesia mingling with peony in a pleasant ever-so-lightly resinous base. There are also occasional tiny wafts of a smell not unlike that of wet paint, as evidenced by the fact that earlier today when I walked downstairs to get the mail, I mused to myself, “Oh someone must be painting the hall.” In fact, it was CHIFFON PEONY FREESIA!
For some reason, although I have zero tolerance for plastic notes, I am not plagued by headaches when confronting gasoline, rubber cement, glue, or wet paint. Oddly enough, if the truth be known, I rather like those smells. I don’t want to give the impression that CHIFFON PEONY FREESIA just smells like wet paint—-most of the time, it does not-—but while wearing it I do detect a few light wafts of a paint-like note now and then.
The good news about this fragrance, which I feared would not work for me at all, is that the peony note is not the one that makes me cringe. Victoria’s Secret may not create bona fide, old school, big-time perfumes, but among their "prestige" lines are entirely wearable fragrances, which have obviously survived a testing period before they are launched, as I’ve yet to encounter one that makes me physically ill.
This bottle, and also that of VELVET AMBER BLACKBERRY, the fifth in the series, is not nearly as nice as those of the first four edps, and I do not believe that the liquid inside is on the same quality level either. LACE, CASHMERE, SILK, and SATIN were apparently discontinued last year--in all likelihood because they were charging much more for them than Secret Garden-donning VS clientele are accustomed to paying. But this is a perfectly fine ordinary floral fragrance for everyday wear and unlikely to offend anyone except perhaps those with marked sensitivity to paint fumes.
Not that any of this matters much, since it’s been discontinued…
For some reason, although I have zero tolerance for plastic notes, I am not plagued by headaches when confronting gasoline, rubber cement, glue, or wet paint. Oddly enough, if the truth be known, I rather like those smells. I don’t want to give the impression that CHIFFON PEONY FREESIA just smells like wet paint—-most of the time, it does not-—but while wearing it I do detect a few light wafts of a paint-like note now and then.
The good news about this fragrance, which I feared would not work for me at all, is that the peony note is not the one that makes me cringe. Victoria’s Secret may not create bona fide, old school, big-time perfumes, but among their "prestige" lines are entirely wearable fragrances, which have obviously survived a testing period before they are launched, as I’ve yet to encounter one that makes me physically ill.
This bottle, and also that of VELVET AMBER BLACKBERRY, the fifth in the series, is not nearly as nice as those of the first four edps, and I do not believe that the liquid inside is on the same quality level either. LACE, CASHMERE, SILK, and SATIN were apparently discontinued last year--in all likelihood because they were charging much more for them than Secret Garden-donning VS clientele are accustomed to paying. But this is a perfectly fine ordinary floral fragrance for everyday wear and unlikely to offend anyone except perhaps those with marked sensitivity to paint fumes.
Not that any of this matters much, since it’s been discontinued…
