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Daisies is a 1966 Czech film directed by Vera Chytilova. Two teenage girls, both named Marie, think that the world is ruined and that they themselves have no future. They decide to fill their lives with destructive misdeeds, in which they abuse and destroy the world around them. This feminist, free-spirited and crazy farce was immediately banned by the government as soon as it was released.

Dancing under the apple tree, cocktails, boredom, cake battles, faded flowers, the statue of Dorian Grey

Or in other words:

Yuzu zest, green apple, watermelon, hazelnut, peach, cinnamon, chocolate, candy, sugar, rose, jasmine, sambac, musk, vanilla, cedar wood, opoponax, leather, patchouli. For the notes (Frangrantica.com)

At the time of Heidi Slimane's artistic direction, between 2000 and 2005, the creative choices of perfumes were the same as for this Private Collection. The result will be three magnificent colognes that will remain in the memory, including the sublime and brilliant Bois D'Argent born in 2005.

Bois D'Argent is the work of the talented Annick Menardo. Although very inspired by the sober sophistication of the artistic director Dior at the time, the perfumer wanted to work on her favorite ingredient, the pallida iris in fanciful and bold features. Thus the iris is no longer the retro flower that powders the scents of yesteryear but a resolutely modern note that is sometimes tinged with light and sometimes with darkness to make us enter a Silver Wood with a thousand wonders...

"Bois d’argent is not an easy perfume to adopt on the first try, even if it fascinates from the first moments, it asks to be tamed, tamed, but once you have it in your skin, you have the impression that you have always known it. To the Perfume about Dior's Bois D'Argent.

I describe there version prior to 2018... more precisely the versions « Cologne »

I do not quite agree with the official olfactory description of Traversée du Bosphore... Certainly, I recognize Bertrand Duchaufour's signature with a very recognizable note of rum the first seconds, then from the top notes, I admit that we feel this duality between softness and stronger notes... but I find that the wake will substantially remain the same over the hours with I find it difficult to distinguish the flowers of the olfactory pyramid, which for me are more attached to the smell of rose loukhoum.
But certainly, it is an original gourmet oriental fragrance, with a well-hardened character coating an adorable sweet sweetness.

Unfortunately discontinued in 2019, this gourmet and atypical oriental remains in my opinion a must of the niche brand.

Inspired by a sentence from a poem by Rumi, the 13th century Sufi poet, "I closed my mouth and I spoke to you in a hundred silent ways", Hundred Silent Ways communicates love without words through a series of berries and tender flowers like the skin of a loved one, there is a seductive undeniable femininity about Hundred Silent Ways, but it is also elegant.

Let's start with a little culture, Antaeus is a character in Greek mythology son of Poseidon and Gaia, was a little subversive and it was said that he stripped those who approached his lands. He was killed by Heracles. Hero or antihero, duality is perfectly transcribed by the creator of this amazing, divisive and truly extraordinary fragrance. Perfume is supposed to represent the myth of a hero who is both vulnerable, strong and generous. The perfumer chose this aromatic and spicy leather with a quite surprising originality.

For me, it's not a leather like any other. First of all, the construction is a bit like that of a bergamot-free chypre with a start of lemon, clary sage and myrtle that I almost already find animal. This is not specified by the brand but it almost seems to me to feel a cloves and a little purple side. The heart is very surprising. Notes of rose and jasmine are associated with that of very present coriander and freshly cut hay. The bottom is resolutely chypre with the oak moss and patchouli accord but it is wrapped by the leather notes of labdanum and animal notes of castoreum and beeswax. I find this perfume really very amazing especially in its evolution. I can't help but think that if the brand had chosen an eau de parfum concentration, it would have been almost importable. The eau de toilette is already relatively heady for a long time but, when the opulent side fades a little, the side remains both leather and chypre very elegant, unprecedented, sophisticated and probably very masculine since the brand says so. I wonder what "Antaeus" would look like on feminine skin and I like to think it would be particularly chic and a little subversive. It is a very beautiful perfume but you must dare to wear it. It is really bold and, even if it keeps an "1980s" side, it remains very attractive and, I find, quite incredible.

Some would say that the old batches were better...yes maybe but they remain eternal for any lover of good fragrances.