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Heaven light!
Anyone who knows how the masterpiece men's perfume "Heaven by Chopard" from the 90s smells will have with the headline immediately a nasal inspiration as Hei smells.
And anyone who knows the decade perfume Heaven will rub their fingers, because he now for a cracker price finally gets something to the neck what can be compared deservedly with Heaven.
For those who don't know Heaven. It was discontinued and is one of the fragrances that the gentlemen community mourns with the most after.
100ml were last traded for 500 €, if you get it at all. There comes even Gucci Envy not with. Heaven is a masterpiece that goes under the radar. Less known than a Cool Water, but at least as celebrated.
Joop Nightflight smells similar to Heaven.

With Hei, you get a fragrance that comes in a very sophisticated bottle, has an above-average sprayer, and has a minimalist aesthetic name.
Hei is worth every one of the few cents, if you keep in mind that it is a Heaven Cologne/Light. It doesn't last 10 hours like Heaven did back in the day. It also doesn't have as strong a glow as Heaven.
But what perfume does these days?
Not even the extract de parfums have the radiance of the 80/90s.
If you put on an eau de toilette in the 80s and 90s it was equivalent to a spatial nuclear detonation, which caused a bomb squad to secure the area and seal it off for three days until further notice.
I'm just saying
Trussardi Uomo (which I offer as an original in the souk by the way!), Kouros, Davidoff no.1, Boss no. 1, Gucci Nobile etc.
To get there these days it already needs a 2019 Creed Aventus or MFK Baccarat Rouge or PDM Pegasus.
So with a shelf life of about 5 hours and a sillage of about 1 hour, you can be quite satisfied to get a men's fragrance so cheap.
In direct comparison, I can say the following:
The association to Heaven is immediately there, as soon as one applies Hei.
It is more discreet, lighter, airier.
But there's also something missing from the scent. When you put on a scent like Heaven or MFK BR you have a kind of tingling magic powder cloud around you. A kind of stardust that beguiles the senses.
There is no other way to describe it. This nasal impression is difficult for me to put into words and few fragrances create this magic. Hei can not deliver that.
BUT
Only decade fragrances can do that!
Still, Hei is a good perfume.
Fresh, airy, aquatic with a more floral note than Heaven. It's less heavy than Heaven. It is lighter but less beguiling. It has the sweetness of Tonka, but less so. It is a bright scent for a positive feeling. "Uplifting. Goes anywhere. Casual, office, date. Even at the club in the summer.

Clubs? These are the places where you are social, meet people and kiss even if you have a cold.
Anyway it can't rain all the time.

Moving on...
Three sprays on the body (neck / ears) and two on clothes let me perceive the scent outside even after an hour at intervals on myself. Also something I miss today in fragrances.
Nevertheless, it is skin deep after an hour.
Off to Cancun Mexico in a few days. No face diaper and social cordon for fake pandemics, and indoctrinated fear neurotics. Since I want to see what the ladies say after 2 hours and whether there are compliments

Young people today can hardly imagine what was going on back in the 90s when this men's perfume was launched. People always talk about the Aqua Di Gio hype. I was there and it was nothing compared to Davidoff's Cool Water. CK One hype? Also just a lukewarm breeze against the comet impact Davidoff put down with Cool Water. I'm 45 now and I can say that no men's fragrance ever made such an impact in my perception as this fragrance did. No Aventus, no sweet Le Male plürre, nothing. And completely deservedly so.
Everything, but everything about this fragrance meshes perfectly. This fragrance is the Sweet Child o' Mine of men's perfumes. He is perfect!
The scent matches the name, like vice versa, the deep ocean blue bottle, matches both. The advertising was hard to beat for perfect accuracy. Similar to Heaven by Chopard.
The bottle is handy, looks damn good, the lettering is the icing on the cake of perfection.
Or rather, front to back: A masterpiece.
When the fragrance came out, everyone bought it. And I mean everybody had Davidoff Cool Water. And the best thing was, nobody gave a shit. The stuff was so good, you just had to smell it. Cool Water was so good that various shower gel, deodorant and soap companies, immediately brought out a product, which smelled like this fragrance milestone. ...Unfortunately
There is something special about smelling this fragrance. This perfume smells so unique and good, hardly anything beats it. Of course, the scent is now overbroken. It's nothing individual, or new anymore. The scent doesn't blow anyone away anymore, how could it after a whole generation has worn it ad nauseum. ...But still: Once a year I take out this masterpiece and spray myself full of it. Especially in winter, when it's freezing cold, Cool Water really hits the nose. That clear, fresh mint and lavender and cool, sweet aquatic men's scent cloud that surrounds you is just divine. When I wear this scent, I know I smell good. Especially in the winter, I notice the scent on myself in swarms all the time. Something I appreciate in a good scent. There is nothing worse than not noticing your own scent after 5 minutes. This is one of those scents that I wish no one had ever smelled, and then I spray it on myself and start the fucking hype

When I smelled Chanel Platinum for the first time at Douglas in the summer of 2005, I put the fragrance strip which my girlfriend at the time gave me aside at first. I was looking for something that smelled like Heaven by Chopard, but different. Heaven was until then my absolute favorite fragrance, but had somehow worn off for me.
Now I can hardly believe those words, because Heaven (A Century men's fragrance) has been discontinued. But that's just how it is, you miss things only when they are no longer tangible, and then you suddenly know what you had in it.
I needed something new. The 90s were over, I was 29, my hair was short again and I just needed a breath of fresh air. I stood with Claudia in the Douglas and sniffed at everything that looked fresh and aquatic.

... "But smell again, this is really good".
So I smelled again. Hmmm...Right that's not bad at all. ...Ey that smells really good. ...Wow, that's really awesome.
Chanel Platinum Egoiste lasted a good ten years as my signature scent before the search began again. The search for the perfect scent, or the perfect one wave as the surfers say. The relationship broke up but Platinum lasted a long time. But the association with the woman was already too strong for me to continue using the scent. And now I find myself searching again. But I have been searching for 5 years. There is hardly a fragrance that smells so balanced and perfect as CPE.

I'm wearing it right now, and have to say that the scent has unfortunately been reformulated. It still smells exactly like it did in 2005 , but it is toned down today. The projection and sillage have diminished. If
one put on the fragrance in the early 2000s, it lasted easily 12 hours and one was approached by women outside the club because of it.

When spraying on spreads a cool, luxurious lavender note, with a touch of neroli. Slightly soapy and metallic, minimally floral, but not feminine. If you put on Platinum Egoiste, you smell damn good.
My ex wanted to eat me up every time so good is this perfume, and women would randomly approach me about it. When I smell it anywhere, I immediately think "man that smells good...Platinum, good taste." Timeless, luxurious, masculine and easily in the top 25 best fragrances of all time. If you've never smelled the fragrance, you should definitely do so, it's an incredibly good perfume. I envy anyone who can rediscover it for themselves now