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A Déjà Vu?
Dear Angelliese, your comment has hooked me!
In response to your wonderful comment, I doused myself with an extra portion of Madame Rochas before going to bed tonight. The Eau de Parfum leads a very lonely existence in my perfume cabinet. Once upon a time, it was my signature scent for almost 30 years, but since the body lotion was discontinued, I strayed. I went on a big journey and found myself wandering through Lacoste pour femme and several other suspects before arriving at Amouage. In Gold Woman, I almost found you again, but you had become too strong for me. Then Dia Woman came into my life, and I discovered a note in Dia that fascinated and captivated me deeply. At first, I didn’t know why that was, and I bought the outrageously expensive perfume because I simply had to have it! Dia lifts my spirits, refreshes me, awakens my zest for life, and gives me the kick to keep going. Until this evening, I thought Dia was my great, new love, my signature scent. And now you come sneaking back into my life through the back door. I sprayed you on half an hour ago, and I am melting away! Everything I love and adore about Dia, you carry effortlessly in your hand luggage, you great diva! I believe I could return to you with remorse, and I don’t care whether it’s to Grandma or to Mother. You are simply you, and all the reformulations have not harmed your soul at all. I will now sleep on this with you and tomorrow we will see things more clearly and face the facts! I am both excited and humbled at the same time. Let’s spend this night together, and tomorrow, over coffee, we will see where we go from here.
In response to your wonderful comment, I doused myself with an extra portion of Madame Rochas before going to bed tonight. The Eau de Parfum leads a very lonely existence in my perfume cabinet. Once upon a time, it was my signature scent for almost 30 years, but since the body lotion was discontinued, I strayed. I went on a big journey and found myself wandering through Lacoste pour femme and several other suspects before arriving at Amouage. In Gold Woman, I almost found you again, but you had become too strong for me. Then Dia Woman came into my life, and I discovered a note in Dia that fascinated and captivated me deeply. At first, I didn’t know why that was, and I bought the outrageously expensive perfume because I simply had to have it! Dia lifts my spirits, refreshes me, awakens my zest for life, and gives me the kick to keep going. Until this evening, I thought Dia was my great, new love, my signature scent. And now you come sneaking back into my life through the back door. I sprayed you on half an hour ago, and I am melting away! Everything I love and adore about Dia, you carry effortlessly in your hand luggage, you great diva! I believe I could return to you with remorse, and I don’t care whether it’s to Grandma or to Mother. You are simply you, and all the reformulations have not harmed your soul at all. I will now sleep on this with you and tomorrow we will see things more clearly and face the facts! I am both excited and humbled at the same time. Let’s spend this night together, and tomorrow, over coffee, we will see where we go from here.
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Dia - my twin soul fragrance
Today I want to take the plunge and write my first perfume review. I will start off a bit more broadly and then get to the point.
In 1977, as a very young girl, I got to know "my fragrance," the scent of my life, my great love, which accompanied me for 30 years as my signature scent and my second self. We went through a lot together: vocational training, marriage, we had my children together... I liked to claim that I had integrated my fragrance firmly into my metabolism and that I would fall ill in body and soul without it. My fragrance was Madame Rochas.
I was not a perfume person; I applied my fragrance daily with the Madame Rochas Satin Caresse Perfumed Moisturizing Body Lotion. I wore it like a second skin and felt enveloped in it from head to toe.
Then came the first shock when my fragrance was suddenly reformulated in 1989! Instead of lemon, there were now orange blossoms in the top note, aldehydes and bergamot were replaced by broom and honeysuckle, but neroli was allowed to stay. My beloved oak moss was taken out of the base note. Both the packaging and the color of the cream changed; it was now light pink instead of white. I reluctantly got used to the slightly altered scent, as there was still so much familiar that it outweighed the changes. Then, 20 years later, came the absolute shock: production was discontinued! I felt amputated, the grief was immense, and I actually became ill from sorrow. I searched like crazy for a new fragrance that suited me and to which I could form a connection. There were a few nice scents, mostly one-night stands, some were allowed to stay for a few days (some from that time still lead a shadowy existence in my bathroom cabinet), but none had that certain something. I was on the verge of becoming a scent-neutral, shriveled old maid. Terrible!
Then came the day when Lacoste pour Femme entered my life. It was in a hospital, and I caught a whiff of this fragrance in the hospital corridor. With my nose in the air, I followed the scent trail that led to an elevator whose doors were just about to close. Boldly, I placed a foot in the middle of the elevator threshold, just in time before the doors fully closed and had to open again. There stood a nurse; I remember she was wearing a blue wool cardigan over her white coat and had her arms crossed in front of her chest. The elevator started moving, and I caught a whiff of it, the scent that touched me deep inside and ignited a burning desire within me to possess it. I gathered all my courage and approached the stranger, simply asking her which perfume she was wearing. She was a bit surprised but readily answered that it was Lacoste pour Femme.
I left the elevator and the hospital without making my hospital visit; I had to go to the nearest perfume store immediately! There, with a pounding heart, I had a sample sprayed on my wrist, and YES! This fragrance immediately conquered me, it was love at first sniff.
There was also a body lotion from Lacoste pour Femme, which I purchased, and a beautiful time began. We harmonized perfectly, and I received just as many nice compliments as before for Madame Rochas. Until some time ago, when first the production of the body lotion was discontinued and then the perfume was reformulated! I was thrown back again and mourned my fragrance. Although I still own almost 80 ml of Eau de Parfum, it no longer smells the way it did when I fell in love with this scent. So it was time to search again.
This is how I ended up here, first reading about all the fragrances that resembled my first perfume, Madame Rochas. This led me to the scents of the house Amouage, starting with Gold Woman. Gold Woman is very similar to the scent of Madame Rochas, but I found that I seemed to have outgrown it somehow... and so my search led me to Dia Woman. Everything I read about this perfume made me more and more curious, and the desire to test it grew within me. So I ordered a sample of 2.5 ml for 12 euros plus shipping and packaging from "Aus Liebe zum Duft." Hellishly expensive, I think! But I had to test it. At that time, I didn't know that you could get decants of lovely perfumes at significantly cheaper prices in the souk.
What can I say? It arrived, I tested it, and it was all over for me. That soapy accord at the beginning has something that awakens all my life forces and makes me straight, upright, and strong. I love this fresh, green, soapy, clean, noble scent. It lifts me up, makes me wide awake, and gives me a wonderful feeling of security, elegance, grooming, buoyancy, and confidence. If a fragrance has a soul, then I have finally found it again, my twin soul. I finally feel whole again.
The scent of Dia lasts a long time on me; I also bought the body lotion again, as I am a cream fan. But I always spritz a little perfume on the nape of my neck or in my décolletage from time to time, and experiencing that soapy tickle in my nose every now and then is like a freshness kick, a vitamin boost that carries me through my workday. I cannot pick out the fragrance notes described in the fragrance pyramid. For me, Dia Woman is a wonderfully composed, soulful, holistic, noble, friendly, bright scent, wonderfully suitable as a daily companion and also for the evening. I can imagine wearing Dia in summer as well as in winter, day and night. I am so glad that we found each other, Dia and I.
In 1977, as a very young girl, I got to know "my fragrance," the scent of my life, my great love, which accompanied me for 30 years as my signature scent and my second self. We went through a lot together: vocational training, marriage, we had my children together... I liked to claim that I had integrated my fragrance firmly into my metabolism and that I would fall ill in body and soul without it. My fragrance was Madame Rochas.
I was not a perfume person; I applied my fragrance daily with the Madame Rochas Satin Caresse Perfumed Moisturizing Body Lotion. I wore it like a second skin and felt enveloped in it from head to toe.
Then came the first shock when my fragrance was suddenly reformulated in 1989! Instead of lemon, there were now orange blossoms in the top note, aldehydes and bergamot were replaced by broom and honeysuckle, but neroli was allowed to stay. My beloved oak moss was taken out of the base note. Both the packaging and the color of the cream changed; it was now light pink instead of white. I reluctantly got used to the slightly altered scent, as there was still so much familiar that it outweighed the changes. Then, 20 years later, came the absolute shock: production was discontinued! I felt amputated, the grief was immense, and I actually became ill from sorrow. I searched like crazy for a new fragrance that suited me and to which I could form a connection. There were a few nice scents, mostly one-night stands, some were allowed to stay for a few days (some from that time still lead a shadowy existence in my bathroom cabinet), but none had that certain something. I was on the verge of becoming a scent-neutral, shriveled old maid. Terrible!
Then came the day when Lacoste pour Femme entered my life. It was in a hospital, and I caught a whiff of this fragrance in the hospital corridor. With my nose in the air, I followed the scent trail that led to an elevator whose doors were just about to close. Boldly, I placed a foot in the middle of the elevator threshold, just in time before the doors fully closed and had to open again. There stood a nurse; I remember she was wearing a blue wool cardigan over her white coat and had her arms crossed in front of her chest. The elevator started moving, and I caught a whiff of it, the scent that touched me deep inside and ignited a burning desire within me to possess it. I gathered all my courage and approached the stranger, simply asking her which perfume she was wearing. She was a bit surprised but readily answered that it was Lacoste pour Femme.
I left the elevator and the hospital without making my hospital visit; I had to go to the nearest perfume store immediately! There, with a pounding heart, I had a sample sprayed on my wrist, and YES! This fragrance immediately conquered me, it was love at first sniff.
There was also a body lotion from Lacoste pour Femme, which I purchased, and a beautiful time began. We harmonized perfectly, and I received just as many nice compliments as before for Madame Rochas. Until some time ago, when first the production of the body lotion was discontinued and then the perfume was reformulated! I was thrown back again and mourned my fragrance. Although I still own almost 80 ml of Eau de Parfum, it no longer smells the way it did when I fell in love with this scent. So it was time to search again.
This is how I ended up here, first reading about all the fragrances that resembled my first perfume, Madame Rochas. This led me to the scents of the house Amouage, starting with Gold Woman. Gold Woman is very similar to the scent of Madame Rochas, but I found that I seemed to have outgrown it somehow... and so my search led me to Dia Woman. Everything I read about this perfume made me more and more curious, and the desire to test it grew within me. So I ordered a sample of 2.5 ml for 12 euros plus shipping and packaging from "Aus Liebe zum Duft." Hellishly expensive, I think! But I had to test it. At that time, I didn't know that you could get decants of lovely perfumes at significantly cheaper prices in the souk.
What can I say? It arrived, I tested it, and it was all over for me. That soapy accord at the beginning has something that awakens all my life forces and makes me straight, upright, and strong. I love this fresh, green, soapy, clean, noble scent. It lifts me up, makes me wide awake, and gives me a wonderful feeling of security, elegance, grooming, buoyancy, and confidence. If a fragrance has a soul, then I have finally found it again, my twin soul. I finally feel whole again.
The scent of Dia lasts a long time on me; I also bought the body lotion again, as I am a cream fan. But I always spritz a little perfume on the nape of my neck or in my décolletage from time to time, and experiencing that soapy tickle in my nose every now and then is like a freshness kick, a vitamin boost that carries me through my workday. I cannot pick out the fragrance notes described in the fragrance pyramid. For me, Dia Woman is a wonderfully composed, soulful, holistic, noble, friendly, bright scent, wonderfully suitable as a daily companion and also for the evening. I can imagine wearing Dia in summer as well as in winter, day and night. I am so glad that we found each other, Dia and I.
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