Nerolia

In keeping with the spirit of the times, one has pulled the teeth of the original:
CK Everyone is now vegan, made from natural ingredients and comes in recyclable packaging. Even the perfumer has been reused. Gender neutral, the fragrance has always been, there was not much to change.
The fragrance is - especially in the base note - unmistakably based on the original.
The "dirt" (musk?) and the tart note still present in the original are missing, however.
A perfect all-world fragrance without corners and edges - the name is program.

Many years ago - I was still a child - an old lady gave me a bar of scented soaps from "Roger & Gallet". The soaps must have been lying in the cupboard for some time, because their scent had gone a bit. Nevertheless, this box was a real treasure of scents for me. Occasionally I opened it, took out every soap, smelled it and enjoyed its scent: rose and other flowers and also sandalwood. I had forgotten this soap box for a long time until I sprayed "Blue Grass" on it today.

A scent from another time. It's not like that anymore. You can't even call it old-fashioned, because nobody still smells like it. Even today's soaps smell different.

The fragrance has something pragmatic and serious. Everyday life is hard and wants to be mastered. First the work, then the pleasure. Perfume is only worn with a good dress on Sundays. And I want it to smell clean.

Nowadays this is almost a niche fragrance. I'm glad I got to experience that!

During my visit to the drugstore I was irritated by the perfumery department: a whole floor full of variations of the same thing. Everything was too bright, too monotonous for me today. I went to the basement, to the natural cosmetics department. There, too, I tested myself through the offer. This, in turn, seemed to me to come more from a specialist book on aromatherapy: unbalanced citrus clouds and seemingly randomly mixed grass notes with a therapeutic undertone.
Then I saw on a shelf some simple flacons, very inconspicuously packed in brown cardboard: 100 Bon. To find out what's in there, you have to read it. The bottle doesn't jump into your face with a "buy me!" I picked up the tester and was happy: wonderfully delicate aromas, perfectly balanced.
Today "Cèdre & Iris Soyeux", "silky soft cedar and iris" was allowed to come along. That hits the scent very accurately.
After a very fast orange opening an illusion of cinnamon begins for me, finely pulverized. But a very fine orange aroma remains - more a longing than that it would actually be there. No tangy orange, no. More like the smell of long dried orange peels rubbed between your fingers. Over time, the woody-powdery base note wins, but lasts for a very long time. A scent just for me alone, and only when I want, so weak is the projection.
For me the ideal fragrance when everything is too much for me and I can't stand any other perfume.
This won't be the only 100Bon, because: "Ça sent bon!".

As a big fan of EA's "Green Tea" I couldn't miss the White Tea. I had him sprayed on a test strip recently. There I had liked the smell also quite well, so that it added to me a little later.

In today's test on my skin, besides a nice, clean smell, a pungent, artificial undertone rises into my nose, which makes me cough. What's that? What's that? When I smell directly at the clothes, where the scent is sprayed on, I don't notice it. But something has to evaporate that doesn't do me any good. After some time the pungent smell is gone and I notice now a light teen note. But she hides well. The focus is on synthetic-floral-fresh aromas, which are also popular in detergents and fabric softeners. It should be Freshly Washed Laundry. If you like to give your laundry the "full roar" fragrance, you should love it.

For me, who has to use a fragrance-free detergent because of intolerances, this is nothing. If I have to choose and dose my perfume carefully, then I certainly don't want to smell like detergent.

Too bad about the good tea! I'll have another cup of green, please.

Actually looking for a saffron scent, I ordered "Ungaro" blind and tested it in the meantime. My comment refers to the newer version with the purple color:

The fragrance reminds me of pure, pleasantly warm sunshine in liquid form! It goes straight into the heart and warms.

The opening begins with berry aromas. A little bit like sunny raspberry leaves and all kinds of berries, directly from the bush. A true aroma explosion, but never artificial or sticky. Soon a beautiful, flowery scent rises into my nose. That must be jasmine, but also something else, maybe heliotrope? From the very beginning, the resinous-spicy base note is also noticeable. Like sticky, resinous tree sap. Maple syrup and some forest honey smells like this. The saffron is not in the foreground, but it gives the whole thing the necessary grounding and spice.

For me, the entire composition represents a warm late summer evening in its purest form. The vegetation is at its peak: berries are ripe, flowers are blooming and trees are full of sap. The air is warm.

The fragrance slowly fades away and after a few hours I only smell the resinous base note slightly. The sun has set blood-red.

The shelf life is average, but for me it fits perfectly as an evening fragrance that has faded away until the sun has set.

It is not intrusive, quickly gets very close, but it has this "magic" for me, as only few modern fragrances still have it. He would have fitted in well with the '80s or early '90s. Hats off to the masterful perfumer (Kurkdjian).

He is not the saffron we are looking for yet, but he can stay here for sure. I'm just thinking about ordering a second bottle.