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7.5 / 10 11 Ratings
A perfume by J. for women, released in 2010. The scent is sweet-gourmand. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Sweet
Gourmand
Fruity
Fresh
Floral

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
BlackcurrantBlackcurrant Citrus fruitsCitrus fruits QwivbronlexQwivbronlex
Heart Notes Heart Notes
PearPear Orange blossomOrange blossom PralinéPraliné Yellowed CalculatorYellowed Calculator
Base Notes Base Notes
VanillaVanilla Woody notesWoody notes MuskMusk Fermented TransistorFermented Transistor
Ratings
Scent
7.511 Ratings
Longevity
8.310 Ratings
Sillage
7.99 Ratings
Bottle
6.914 Ratings
Submitted by TheDrake, last update on 02/19/2024.

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Elbchen

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Elbchen
Very helpful Review 8  
Open your mind - it`s beautiful inside!
I really have to write something about this wonderful fragrance!
I have always been indifferent to where a scent comes from. It could be floating on a palm leaf from Timbuktu for all I care.

I became aware of Modern Classic during a visit to the wonderful Bloom Parfumery in London.
I actually wanted to test iris scents across the board, but none of them made me go BÄMM.
However, the two lovely ladies, who were so pleased that I came from Germany and stopped by, were tireless in providing me with sniffing materials.
They dashed up the ladders and brought down fragrances I had never heard of, and they were genuinely enthusiastic about it.
I never felt pressured to buy anything. After I had already decided on one scent, they gave me a fragrance sample on a paper strip and she said she would love to know what I thought of it - just the price... the price...
she winked at me and held out the strip.

Bämm. A small one, but a Bämm nonetheless. On the skin, waited a bit, and yes, a scent that suits me. I smell a fresh, berry-light fragrance on my skin and find it beautiful every time I spray it. Sweet, yes, but not brutally sweet with a club, rather mild and balanced.
A delicate orange blossom mixes with a juicy, luscious pear, and the praline envelops everything with a soft, chocolaty hint, nothing scratchy or prickly, but round and beautiful.
The top and heart notes are quite close to each other, but that doesn't bother me at all.
A slightly woody note mixed with a wonderful non-sticky synthetic vanilla and a soft, powdery musk rounds off the scent perfectly for me.
I find it a shame that it is received so poorly here. Because it is truly not bad!

The price is ridiculous! I have had fragrances on my skin that cost three times as much and were not worth the money. If a different name were on this fragrance, would it then fare better? From Russia, so what?
A palm leaf from Timbuktu would also not bother me. I don't test names, I don't test flags, I test fragrances. I fall in love with emotions, images, and my own perception.

I consider it an enrichment for my collection because it is something different, and that's exactly why I took it home with me. I was astonished by the price.
In the Bloom Parfumery, names don't count, as the nice lady explained to me. Only the content matters; they have niche perfumes, and this one belongs in that category. It doesn't matter what the fragrance costs; that is not important to them, only whether a scent is liked, suits someone, and one can find oneself in it. I have rarely heard more beautiful words in a perfumery.
And I feel very comfortable with it, associating it with my stroll through London, and I have a lasting beautiful memory of this great store.
It is a purely feminine fragrance; I don't just see it on young women, no, I wear it too.
It quickly settles on the skin, but it stays, and I really love the fruity beautiful side of the fragrance!

Conclusion: I couldn't care less who makes what.

Absolutely wearable, even really beautiful. I'm happy to share if someone likes!
Open your mind!
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Meggi

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Top Review 15  
Abrasive-Fine Sanding
It drips. Like from a sweet pear, just fished out of the jar. Or canned peach. Some such fruit anyway, from which a good part of the special has been robbed by the surrounding lorke. This is not necessarily to be understood as derogatory, as it is hardly avoidable with such fruit. Our fruit is lightly scraped underneath, like from completely flavorless bergamot astringent.

A colleague remarked after sniffing the test tube: “Like Asti for spraying.” That would be a description from the malicious corner. I find it amusing, but I won't adopt it.

I prefer to observe how gradually a strange mixture develops, a kind of slowed-down gourmand, which is by no means meant negatively. On the contrary: When after about half an hour the orange blossom, for my part, emerges, it knows how to behave. Only minimally white-flower-stinky, instead airy and fragrant, without being ethereal-volatile.

In line with this, a initially hinted chocolatiness gradually forms. Not dark patchouli chocolate, more creamy than dusty. Regarding patchouli, it seems to me rather that a freshness is at play, which consists of an idea of mint and a dusty-airy part like that of noble patchouli. Nice. So far, I like this better than the two Brocard-Pik ladies, although - speaking of ladies - today’s colleague is certainly not a candidate for me either.

After a good hour, Modern Classic for Women can be described as a subtle gourmand, fruity-sweet as well as mildly chocolaty alike. The indication “praline” is perhaps meant to refer less to a specific scent and more to primarily distinguish the fragrance from other gourmands - like a piece from the confectionery differs from a bowl of pudding.

Unfortunately, this only works partially. The scent stays away from the vanilla-pamps direction (vanilla only comes to the forefront later), but the chocolate is not really noble. It is too sweet and melts in a somewhat unclean way, reminding me of the sugary-crumbly wannabe-melting of Eastern Bloc chocolate. And this is honestly not a slight due to the manufacturer’s provenance. I myself do not come from the Eastern Bloc, but I did try chocolate and alleged pralines during corresponding stays back then. The cocoa flavor of a (good!) “Western chocolate” was apparently standardly replaced there by heaps of sugar, which moreover showed somewhat like crystals and left an abrasive-fine sandy feeling instead of smooth melting in the mouth.

Around noon, the “woody notes” reveal themselves as artificial wood substrate, which unfortunately has a hint of lacquer-sticky hardware store quality. This is only noticeably felt directly on the skin. I have to go there anyway, as Modern Classic for Women has generally already retreated significantly. Primarily, it now offers pleasantly pamps-free, but otherwise rather flat vanilla and the aforementioned cheap chocolate, only gently be-fruited. In the afternoon, the fragrance ends with just this accord.

Conclusion: I can't do much with what the manufacturer’s announcements suggest to me. This ultimately doesn't matter - if it weren't for the chocolate disillusionment and the somewhat monotonous finish. Nevertheless, I find the fragrance overall quite decent, just not for me.

I thank 0815abc for the sample.
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Opens very intensely, sweetly heavy - but pleasant. Great for layering (carefully dosed) with smoky, woody men’s fragrances :-)
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Cooked pear in sugar with orange blossoms and Dr. Oe. vanilla pudding cream. A nice scent that I associate more with a young woman.
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Serious fruit scent blend = Dolcelisir x Vince Camuto. Overall sweet and synthetic. Not bad, not exciting.
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Gourmand seducer.
A fantastic mix of a hint of "Angel" and a good dose of "La Vie est Belle".
Intoxicatingly deliciously feminine.
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