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Bye Bye Noelle
With the last drops of my Noelle on my skin, I want to leave a few lines here, as the fragrance is very rare and apparently no one here owns it. It is a perfume that deserves not to be forgotten, as it is very beautiful and a classic, well-wearable floral scent.
Noelle starts elegantly with rosemary and geranium. The heart note is dominated by a pleasant slightly sweet rose scent. A delicate hint of vanilla in the base note makes Noelle warm and
styrax gives the perfume lasting power and allows it to finish balsamic and sweet, but not too sweet.
Noelle is a very feminine fragrance and can be worn on many occasions, as it is not intrusive but pleasant to smell. It leaves a luxurious impression. In my opinion, it can be worn in all seasons and is always perfectly scented. The longevity on the skin is moderate to good.
If you should encounter this French perfume somewhere, test it if you like classic floral scents. I will now say goodbye to my specimen.
Noelle starts elegantly with rosemary and geranium. The heart note is dominated by a pleasant slightly sweet rose scent. A delicate hint of vanilla in the base note makes Noelle warm and
styrax gives the perfume lasting power and allows it to finish balsamic and sweet, but not too sweet.
Noelle is a very feminine fragrance and can be worn on many occasions, as it is not intrusive but pleasant to smell. It leaves a luxurious impression. In my opinion, it can be worn in all seasons and is always perfectly scented. The longevity on the skin is moderate to good.
If you should encounter this French perfume somewhere, test it if you like classic floral scents. I will now say goodbye to my specimen.
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Sweet as Honey
MLAWS is an unusual fragrance that seemed strange and foreign to me at first, almost repelling me, and I found it nearly unbearable. But thanks to the generous sample from Antoine - once again, heartfelt thanks - and my desire to get closer to the scent, I was able to wear MLAWS several times now. Lo and behold, I liked the fragrance more with each testing. Apparently, I have gotten used to the foreign nuances of the scent. However, I wouldn't wear this perfume every day, as you really have to be in the mood for its unusual sweetness.
Right after application, MLAWS smells appealing and soothingly sweet, but after a few minutes, it develops a slightly piercing, intrusive, sweet-animalic note that may be attributed to saffron. The sillage is medium to good and smells, to my family members, average like floral shampoo or shower gel and not as extraordinary as it seems to me.
After about 3 hours, the fragrance becomes more intimate and quite bearable, provided you like very sweet, oriental scents. A smoky undertone from the tobacco makes the fragrance soft and warm.
Overall, the well-lasting scent is more suited to southern women; Germans might feel slightly overdressed with it. The fragrance reminds me of spicy sweet honey - and a bit of antibiotic syrup!
Right after application, MLAWS smells appealing and soothingly sweet, but after a few minutes, it develops a slightly piercing, intrusive, sweet-animalic note that may be attributed to saffron. The sillage is medium to good and smells, to my family members, average like floral shampoo or shower gel and not as extraordinary as it seems to me.
After about 3 hours, the fragrance becomes more intimate and quite bearable, provided you like very sweet, oriental scents. A smoky undertone from the tobacco makes the fragrance soft and warm.
Overall, the well-lasting scent is more suited to southern women; Germans might feel slightly overdressed with it. The fragrance reminds me of spicy sweet honey - and a bit of antibiotic syrup!
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The Cornerstone of Passion
I am always a bit sad that Avon perfumes seem to be generally unpopular in this forum and often receive poor reviews. Of course, I am aware that there are higher quality and better perfumes, but Avon scents have a small special bonus for me, as I had my first cosmetic experiences with this brand. You can think what you want about it, but Avon has launched quite a few classics that were very popular for many years and still are today. One of them is my latest test scent, Tasha.
Since I have never worn Tasha myself, I approached the fragrance without personal expectations. I was all the more surprised when Tasha sent me on a time travel that took me 30 years back to my childhood. These feelings came before a real memory. The warm, soft, yet elegant scent immediately left me with a familiar, safe, and cozy impression. The first person that came to mind was my mother, although she didn't wear perfume at that time.
Eventually, my memory found the corresponding images:
As a girl, I often sat in the parental living room on the large brown and cozy round couch, wrapped thickly in a blanket, holding a colorful brochure in my hands. It was one of the Avon catalogs that our neighbor, an Avon representative, regularly brought over. I looked at the desirable cosmetics, wanting to have everything. Every time I turned a page, the sheets exuded a delicate but characteristic scent...
Back in the here and now, it becomes clear to me that the Avon representative must have lightly perfumed the catalogs back then - with Tasha! These catalogs early on sparked my interest in cosmetics and perfume. For me, Tasha was thus unconsciously one of the first cornerstones of the resulting passion.
Tasha is a floral scent that convinces with warmth and delicate powderiness through woody notes and musk.
Amber, patchouli, and oak moss are not detectable to me, but they are likely responsible for the depth and good longevity of the fragrance. The scent behaves quite linearly, so it doesn't surprise with great scent changes, but without this characteristically developing aspect from the beginning, I would probably never have experienced this unusual scent memory.
Tasha is a beautiful, always wearable scent that I really like.
It's a pity that I only consciously tested Tasha now, even though the small samples had been with me for a long time, but I am grateful for this scent memory.
Since I have never worn Tasha myself, I approached the fragrance without personal expectations. I was all the more surprised when Tasha sent me on a time travel that took me 30 years back to my childhood. These feelings came before a real memory. The warm, soft, yet elegant scent immediately left me with a familiar, safe, and cozy impression. The first person that came to mind was my mother, although she didn't wear perfume at that time.
Eventually, my memory found the corresponding images:
As a girl, I often sat in the parental living room on the large brown and cozy round couch, wrapped thickly in a blanket, holding a colorful brochure in my hands. It was one of the Avon catalogs that our neighbor, an Avon representative, regularly brought over. I looked at the desirable cosmetics, wanting to have everything. Every time I turned a page, the sheets exuded a delicate but characteristic scent...
Back in the here and now, it becomes clear to me that the Avon representative must have lightly perfumed the catalogs back then - with Tasha! These catalogs early on sparked my interest in cosmetics and perfume. For me, Tasha was thus unconsciously one of the first cornerstones of the resulting passion.
Tasha is a floral scent that convinces with warmth and delicate powderiness through woody notes and musk.
Amber, patchouli, and oak moss are not detectable to me, but they are likely responsible for the depth and good longevity of the fragrance. The scent behaves quite linearly, so it doesn't surprise with great scent changes, but without this characteristically developing aspect from the beginning, I would probably never have experienced this unusual scent memory.
Tasha is a beautiful, always wearable scent that I really like.
It's a pity that I only consciously tested Tasha now, even though the small samples had been with me for a long time, but I am grateful for this scent memory.
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Mudda, what are you wearing again?!!!
Encouraged by my previous commenter, I tested Arpège again after a long time. Arpège was my "subtle" main fragrance for work and everyday life in the late 80s. "Subtle" because I also wore KL, Habanita, Poison, Loulou, Paris, Ysatis... at that time, you know, the 80s. My experience yesterday showed me that Arpège is not inconspicuous in today's time.
Yesterday, after 20 years, Arpège was back on my skin. Freshly perfumed, I walked past my daughter and immediately received a horrified "Mudda!!!" When I probed further about what was so terrible, I got an answer I absolutely did not expect: I smelled old, moldy, and musty. I had not anticipated such an extreme, but honestly meant reaction. OK, Arpège is not a youthful fragrance, as it seems to fail to win friends among the largely aldehyde-free teenage generation.
Well, I must admit, Arpège is not immediately appealing, but it has hidden facets and charms. Whoever wears it needs self-confidence, as Arpège no longer meets the general taste and one must reckon with being considered "outdated".
I would describe the scent progression from my perspective as follows:
In the opening, strongly aldehydic fruit bombs fly around your nose. The sillage at this point is gigantic. With the heart note, the fragrance becomes quieter. A bouquet of flowers appears, based on an indistinguishable rose-jasmine accord. However, the flowers are neither sweet nor fresh, but rather smoky and earthy with a certain sharpness. The scent is never constant; it is constantly in motion and continuously reveals different olfactory impressions. When transitioning to the base note, Arpège becomes quite tame and reveals a very delicate, warm vanilla note. Hours later, soft, woody aromas still reach the nose.
In the early 90s, the formulation of Arpège was changed, but apparently, it was not particularly appealing to me either, as the fragrance was later sold again in its original form. By then, however, I had reoriented myself, discovered many other beautiful fragrances for myself, and did not use Arpège again.
I would love to delve deeper into Arpège and rediscover its secrets, but due to the generally rather negative family feedback, it will have to go on the waiting list for now.
Yesterday, after 20 years, Arpège was back on my skin. Freshly perfumed, I walked past my daughter and immediately received a horrified "Mudda!!!" When I probed further about what was so terrible, I got an answer I absolutely did not expect: I smelled old, moldy, and musty. I had not anticipated such an extreme, but honestly meant reaction. OK, Arpège is not a youthful fragrance, as it seems to fail to win friends among the largely aldehyde-free teenage generation.
Well, I must admit, Arpège is not immediately appealing, but it has hidden facets and charms. Whoever wears it needs self-confidence, as Arpège no longer meets the general taste and one must reckon with being considered "outdated".
I would describe the scent progression from my perspective as follows:
In the opening, strongly aldehydic fruit bombs fly around your nose. The sillage at this point is gigantic. With the heart note, the fragrance becomes quieter. A bouquet of flowers appears, based on an indistinguishable rose-jasmine accord. However, the flowers are neither sweet nor fresh, but rather smoky and earthy with a certain sharpness. The scent is never constant; it is constantly in motion and continuously reveals different olfactory impressions. When transitioning to the base note, Arpège becomes quite tame and reveals a very delicate, warm vanilla note. Hours later, soft, woody aromas still reach the nose.
In the early 90s, the formulation of Arpège was changed, but apparently, it was not particularly appealing to me either, as the fragrance was later sold again in its original form. By then, however, I had reoriented myself, discovered many other beautiful fragrances for myself, and did not use Arpège again.
I would love to delve deeper into Arpège and rediscover its secrets, but due to the generally rather negative family feedback, it will have to go on the waiting list for now.
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Just a "Florini"
When the fragrance was released and the advertisement was running on television, I couldn't help but keep looking. I imagined being overwhelmed by a sea of flowers with this scent - it could be a fragrance I would like again. However, that was before my time here at Parfumo, and I was completely unaffected by negative opinions. Still, I didn't buy it, not even tested it, and I was all the more pleased when I received it as a gift.
Well, one shouldn't be ungrateful, but already during the first test, I could hardly hide my disappointment. No, there was no sea of flowers rushing towards me as I had imagined, but rather a light citrus scent in the top note, followed by a very subtle floral scent with a powdery finish.
The fragrance behaves so weakly in all stages that you have to stick your nose to it to get anything out of it. The sillage is extremely weak, and the longevity is at least average if you are looking for the scent.
I have nothing against light fragrances, which certainly have their place and are more suitable for some occasions than many heavy scents, but I can get these much cheaper. Most body lotions scent more than Flora. The fragrance develops for me at best into a "Florini." The scent is quite nice, but that's not enough for me, and I use it very rarely; when I do, I apply it generously, otherwise I hardly smell anything from it.
Since I can expect that Gucci did not use only the cheapest fragrance materials at these prices, I hope that Flora behaves like a young wine and perhaps matures a bit more. So I look forward to next summer to see if Flora develops after all or if my nose appreciates it more by then.
If not, I won't be sad if Flora disappears from the market again and makes way for Gucci fragrances as they were known in the past.
Well, one shouldn't be ungrateful, but already during the first test, I could hardly hide my disappointment. No, there was no sea of flowers rushing towards me as I had imagined, but rather a light citrus scent in the top note, followed by a very subtle floral scent with a powdery finish.
The fragrance behaves so weakly in all stages that you have to stick your nose to it to get anything out of it. The sillage is extremely weak, and the longevity is at least average if you are looking for the scent.
I have nothing against light fragrances, which certainly have their place and are more suitable for some occasions than many heavy scents, but I can get these much cheaper. Most body lotions scent more than Flora. The fragrance develops for me at best into a "Florini." The scent is quite nice, but that's not enough for me, and I use it very rarely; when I do, I apply it generously, otherwise I hardly smell anything from it.
Since I can expect that Gucci did not use only the cheapest fragrance materials at these prices, I hope that Flora behaves like a young wine and perhaps matures a bit more. So I look forward to next summer to see if Flora develops after all or if my nose appreciates it more by then.
If not, I won't be sad if Flora disappears from the market again and makes way for Gucci fragrances as they were known in the past.
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