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In keeping with the city's long trading tradition, a perfume was of course launched in 2021 to mark its 1,600th birthday, by the makers of the Merchant of Venice line. The packaging apparently involved seaweed and its byproducts, which are not particularly pleasing to the lagoon. Now this can be seen cynically as politically correct zeitgeisty money-making or simply enjoy the fragrance and the city.
As a Venice lover, I opt for the latter for once.

Venezia 1600 Sal is actually very close to a sea breeze scent, sweetness outweighs the salty. I would cut the notes listed above down to calone, some floral sweetness, and fabric softener musk. In the interplay, however, they work unexpectedly charming and pleasing
For various Aqua di Gio etc fans so worth a test, for Venice fans anyway. Definitely unisex, at my boyfriend I like the fragrance almost more:)

In sum: if it wasn't for the Venezia 1600 logo on the bottle, combined with the buying experience in a delightful little perfumery in Venice, the fragrance would definitely not have been worth even a glance for me. I'll gladly pass on aquatics with calone and other synthetics with clean notes. But sometimes marketing then just works even with hard-boiled, who are pleased to have fallen into the Venice trap!

Chanel N°5 was for me always the Eau de Toilette version of my grandma. I found that as a child in the 70s floral-old fashionable.
Then, in the course of my perfume workshop at 4160Tuesdays, I had the opportunity to look around the Vintage Vault. And there we were able to discover the Eau de Cologne version. That was a real enlightenment. Floral-old-fashioned, my ass! But so not! This is probably how the fabled number 5 was supposed to be: The flacon was from the late 40s, the fragrance perfectly preserved, Mademoiselle Chanel's spirit dwelling among us.
Probably she also spoke to me, only I was so intoxicated that I can no longer remember exactly:)-
Hardly back from London, I have then organized me 2 Flakons, you never know...
The EdC is much less floral than the EdT, less sweet for it drier, aldehydiger. More Roaring 20ies than demure 50s. More Jersey dress than Dior bodice. And thus resolutely modern, timeless, and elegant.
Subsequently, the Vintage Extrait version had to come along for comparison purposes, for purely scientific comparison purposes, of course....
The Extrait is of course also a dream, but closer to the body. The EdC has more sillage, shoulder pads, so to speak. Otherwise, they are but very similar, since not so blümerant as the EdT.
Overall, the wearer - or even the wearer - but should be close to the aldehydes and also not allergic to white flower, because a floral base can not be denied, albeit modern processed.
One of my Holy Grails to land back in the diction of the present and end the trance state!

The very first thing I notice is a nice round, non-pungent grapefruit. The rose bed is there, but very discreetly in the background, not to say homeopathically barely present. The pyramid described above is also very true, as woody spices join in further (vetiver rather yes, clove I'm not so sure), on a continued creamy base ("suede").

There's a distinct retro 60s vibe hovering over the scent, with hints of grandpa's aftershave. This definitely makes Dawn Rose unisex to masculine for me. So kind of contrary to its name, which made me expect a Rose de Mai wetted with dew.

Nothing is reinvented here, but classically proven further declined. You could also say Chypre for Mad Men agency newbies who still have to work their way up to management.

Normally I don't have great expectations regarding duty free shops. Snobbish attitude you could also say. But after the current Guccis all have such pretty packaging and I'm not only snobbish, but also superficial *gg *, I have made me to test.
The result surprised me positively. Various Blooms are pleasing and Mémoire d'une Odeur was the big surprise. He is so not at all sweet-fruity-pink-lovely-hairsprayig, that I wonder how the has managed to land on the mainstream shelf or before that was not tested down in various marketing panels to the soulless all-water.

Dry, powdery and kamillig is the. Unusual and not striving for complaisance at any price. And indeed, the chamomile is embedded in such a way that Mémoire has an overall nostalgic feel.
I suspect that those who don't like the scent associate chamomile tea with childhood illnesses and, accordingly, the memory is rather bad. For me it turns out fortunately that I do not have to think of dislocated stomach and other camomile applications, which came in the 70s and 80s in the medicine cabinet to the applications:)
Mémoire envelops me in the most pleasant way for a relaxing evening on the sofa with a fine English crime novel on the screen and I enjoy its skillfully composed unusualness.

.... with the most striking resemblance to Chanel Number 5 in extrait concentration. But at a fraction of the price. So ladies, who are addicted to the flowery aldehydes, grab the bottle! With so much money saved goes as a bonus then but loose the little black in the Rue Cambon out:)-

As it progresses, Topaze becomes a bit more powdery and dry than the original, perhaps because more inexpensive musk was processed? or because my number 5 extraits are all vintage and therefore somehow rounder than the newer editions? Who knows....
Anyway, a joyful discovery for me, as I'm addicted to exactly this restless classic as described by Parfumo Yatagan. For more modern people, then, Topaze is probably granny horror or horror granny. It makes me blissfully happy!