CK1984

Until a few weeks ago I would have negated the initial question...

I haven't been around that long, just a few months, but I've tried a few fragrances over the years. Many things got the rating "Okay, but don't need to have" some few got a "must have" but none of the fragrances I dreamed of. Then I bought a niche sample collection on Ebay and there was this scent. I will never forget the moment when I carefully sprayed the first spray onto my wrist. Never before have I smelled such a sexy, dark, wicked, soft and at the same time gentle chocolate head note.... After a while, the chocolate diminished a little, but it was still there. The base was then like a soft, dark cream, slightly wicked and somewhat suggestive. Awesome! Of course I researched directly the original flacon and almost fell from the chair.... 650 euros. Yahhhhh, sure. Forgotten as quickly as possible was the motto. Especially since the scent was only very easily perceptible after 3 hours. The durability is really not very good...

But that was easier said than done. With other gourmands (even if this one isn't a real one) I sprayed on, I always thought of this breathtaking top note. Every scent that went a little into the chocolate was immediately compared to this one in the back corner of my brain. Nothing, but nothing came of it. I even dreamed of this soft chocolate musk coat.... i still couldn't afford it (although I've recently seen it in the offer for "only" 470 Euros).

Well, and then I stumbled across a Dupe. I'm not a huge fan of Dupes, but I have to admit that I first looked at some fragrances as Dupe to save money and only bought original samples and/or bottlings from those I liked. I had a remnant in the original sample and could compare it. And what can I say? The top note is absolutely identical for my dilettante nose, the further course deviates only minimally and the dupe lasts 6 instead of 3 hours. And yes, the Dupe moved in. The fragrance has lost a little of its luster. It is somehow frightening that the fragrance can be reproduced quite exactly for 35 instead of 650 euros...

Despite everything I keep my eyes open again and again in the souk. Maybe there will be a bottle left or a sharing, I would be there in any case! And when I've finally richly married/earned/gottoed, I bathe in the scent every morning and every evening

...used to be one of my mother's favorites. The smell struck me already in the stairwell and I loved it! The spicy chicken, oranges, mandarins etc. in the sauce and in addition white, completely normal rice, which became still milkier by the spice of the remainder....

All this wouldn't be a reason for my first comment, but I didn't know that Serge Lutens and Christopher Sheldrake were invited to dinner with us in the past, only to create a perfume 20 years later, exactly according to this fragrance.... Although, one of my brother's friends was called Christopher... i wonder what he does You happen to take an English last name and make perfumes?

Fascinated, I read the other comments and statements here and wonder where all those impressions come from that I can't at least comprehend? I have to say that I definitely don't have a super-nose and I'm still learning, I've only been there for a few months and I'm still testing myself through the world...

For me, this spicy curry-fruit-milk cocktail (where the curry comes from, the vulture knows, maybe the mix of coconut, liquorice and spices) will last for hours. He is very close, which I find very pleasant, because even though I love this evoked memory of our old kitchen with its steamed up windows, our wooden bench and my mother on the stove, I don't know if I want to share it with the rest of the world... i will probably use up the rehearsal, all on my own, on some lonely, melancholic evenings, and thank SL for giving me such a vivid childhood memory. But it will probably stay that way.