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It is a very fine little fabric, the still very new (and somehow also very "old" in terms of style, because it is sublime and classically primed) "Rouge Privé".

I already love and appreciate the now almost 60-year-old classic, so the new variation (or slightly iridescent interpretation) is in no way inferior to it.

The noble bitter-orangey-powdery notes continue to form the core, extremely gently and envelopingly coated by an aristocratic leatheriness, which is flanked by a very carefully dabbed fudge note.

The old advertising from the 60s with the British cavalry, the lords and the horse saddles fits again.

All in all, this composition of citrus/orange, powder/dust, leather and something minimalist caramel/vanilla is something quite unique in the perfume cosmos, which is now often copied and usually also dreadfully synthetic.

Guerlain at it's best!

I really like a whole series of the Vuittons. For example, "Sur la Route" (ingenious), "Imagination" (casually beautiful) or Orage (purist).

My expectations were correspondingly high, as I thought I was going to receive something pleasantly casual and pleasant with that certain French style icing on the cake.

In fact - I am downright repulsed and horrified by "Pacific Chill". Penetratingly exotic and quite sharp in its acidity. The fragrance lacks any elegance or even something like understatement.

The whipping exoticism flows oppressively into the nose, developing 0.0 over hours. As I walked past, my wife commented on the penetrating stuff I had put on it.

And indeed - I have faint memories of certain 8x4 or Fa deodorants from the 90s that had similarly clumsy, tangy exotic fruits stumbled together....

No, that was pretty much nothing - and the price is outrageous to boot.

Yes, well, of course, my 1,000th perfume comment can't be a snub, a reckoning, a tearing up. I do that often enough here :) and unfortunately, from my point of view, there is often and abundantly reason for it.

But the main reason for the exchange here, where I have been living for over 7 years now, is of course to enrich myself, to be inspired and to focus on the beautiful sides of snooping.

Acqua di Parma with their No.5 for praise now gives me plenty of reason to praise them. This is truly a pretty perfectly composed, very high quality, casually arranged Mediterranean summer scent. An abundance of citric aromas, lots of bergamot, lemon, naturally guessed.

Not sharp or sour, but rather quite creamy rimmed, dolce-vita-like. Carefully spicy, juniper and pepper play a subtle rounding off. One thinks with anticipation of the wonderful dolce-far-niente holidays in this great country, which will come back sometime when all the virus misery is put aside.

Yeah, really, big time on No. 1000! Lemon fans, hit it! :)

Actually, Lacoste has only managed to create one men's fragrance in my memory: The 1985 original

Even if the bottle is completely new - the content is not worth mentioning. The usual slightly fresh, slightly green-spotted water with sage, whose cheap, unimaginative Coty Laboratory origin cannot be denied in any second.

Cashmeran thick on top. Synthetic pure, soulless and uncharismatic and compared to that much too expensive.

Could one perhaps, strongly stretched out, be converted to hand disinfectant. A lot of it will be used up this winter.

I grew up with the 1974 original scent, which has absolutely nothing in common with this one except the name. The old one a somewhat rough, herbal, leathery patchouli whip with testicles, big as tennis balls, this newcomer rather Mister Kuschel-Bieber.

I perceive me among all the stuck together appearances of the last decade somewhere in the quality range "mediocre". Benchmarks for good gourmands are still for me things like "L'Instant Guerlain EdP" or "Dior Homme", which I would attest a remarkable innovation, an absolute balance and a timeless elegance.

After that, there was simply too much jumping on already rolling trains and pacing after them. Why the old "gentleman" is not simply renewed in the green patchouli sense without attacking the core character is a mystery to me; half the world of fragrances is already gourmand.

But well, it is solidly successful here, patchouli is a bit smoky-caramel, balsamic, but on the whole, due to the vanilla, also a bit rich in the basic sweetness. On the whole, however, it is relatively well-balanced, harmonious, and with a careful dosage also cuddly in the best winter sense. For me absolutely not a candidate to buy, but made decently by hand.