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Yes, we all know it: The tiresome topic of reformulations;
whether better/worse, opinions (and spirits) differ -
was everything really better in the past?

Not really, because tastes change, whether we want to admit it or not!
Can we blame perfumers (companies) for wanting to keep up with the times and reach as broad an audience as possible?
Apparently, "the market" wants just that! (Brave new world)
More pleasing, harmonious, conventional, cuddly, uncomplicated is how perfumes are supposed to be these days,
so they can sell! (That's just capitalism: Demand determines supply) - Edges and corners are not desired, as the rejection could be too great (= declining sales figures = olfactory graveyard). Not everyone (the least!) is a friend of classical music (Classical adapts to reach a younger audience and spices up Bach and Mozart with electronics) or high literature (By now, there's Goethe's Faust 2.0, so more people go to the theater, and even the last backwoodsman knows what it's about); similarly, not all of us perfume lovers are "connoisseurs" yet - even though I wish everyone to become one ;)

Dior Addict 2014 is a beautiful charmer; an oriental as I love it!
I also own a 2012 bottle and I have to say that I find both wonderful!
The new Addict far surpasses its predecessor in terms of longevity and sillage.
However, it is tamer than the original Addict, because anyone who chose that knew what they were getting into: "So let him who would bind himself forever examine himself," because: Longevity is otherworldly.

I admit, Addict has become more pleasing, but it is precisely this pleasing quality that I love about it, and it has lost nothing of its character! Vanilla from start to finish, but a vanilla that makes your mouth water. Where it was once the queen of the night, it is now Arabian jasmine: It works!
It does not detract from the whole, because Addict knows how to enchant (me every time anew)

Erotic, pronounced (provocative), sensual - associations that come to my mind when I have to smell my wrist again and again, addicted/high. A perfume, as we know, says more than 1000 words;
this one says: Take me! (And I did, right away the big bottle!)

Addict has a standing and, above all, it is not for everyone,
because Addict carries you, not the other way around! Delicate souls are more likely to flee than to wear Addict, as it can sometimes be overwhelming - the dose makes the poison!

Basically, it's like with the Euro:
Many still mourn the old Deutsche Mark (I still convert! One should avoid doing this when buying a bottle of this addiction),
but there is no way around the Euro - it is simply here -
Reformulations in the perfume industry are just part of it (better perfume reformulated than children), but they also invite you to discover and love new facets/interpretations of a scent or, if you don't like it, to dare to explore new perfume paths!
There are so many great non-reformulated scents just waiting to be discovered by us.

I, however, remain loyal to Addict and am still thrilled!;
a little sex appeal to spray is just good for the soul sometimes (always!!)

Lacoste Pour Femme Intense is certainly a wonderful and beautiful gourmand fragrance;
it resembles its sister, at least in the heart and base notes; the beginning starts powerfully with beautiful caramel - for a brief moment, Joop - LeBain also flashes through, which could possibly be due to the musk. The problem: the classic sister is already just a lukewarm (albeit beautiful) breeze on my neck - the only intense thing about this variant is the speed with which it evaporates from my skin! 2 hours (!!), then the show is already over. No one perceives the scent on me - not even when asked!
This is truly a short & disappointing intermezzo (for me and my skin); because the scent itself has potential! It is pleasing, warm, powdery like the EDP. The caramel in the top note is sweet and liquid; at first (beautifully) sticky!

Unfortunately, however, a (mis)blind purchase that I could have done without!
(Just no sympathy! I wanted it this way!)

I envy all the others for whom the scent lasts and lasts and lasts! - That must be a wonderful fragrance experience!

For my skin, unfortunately (!!) a tragedy - much ado about nothing.

The first time I encountered Kelly was at the age of 20, almost 10 years ago.
This meeting was brief but moving and apparently stuck in my mind.
A fragrance sample as an addition to my actual purchase gave me a face-to-face with the somewhat quirky Kelly. At this point, it should be mentioned that at 20, I had very different fragrance preferences than I do today, a decade later. Nevertheless, I wore Kelly on Christmas Eve, of course the full amount; back then, the motto was: More is More! I liked her, as she was so different from all the other "flirtatious scents" in my collection; elegant, more refined than coy, more nobly precious than vulgar. As you can imagine: Kelly was not purchased. I wanted loud, intrusive, heavy, sweet, too much of everything - showing up in the club with Kelly somehow felt inappropriate; she was more of a noble cousin than a party girl.

Today, in 2018, the world looks quite different - "Noses mature!" (or die off!), there's something to that! My nose has become more receptive to new scent nuances.
On my way to the perfume store (new year-new luck), hoping to find THE perfume this time, one that I wouldn't get tired of in two weeks, I sniffed through a few new "fragrance highlights" (same, same but different): already smelled, I know that one, smells like XY, smells like LVEB, everything smells the same, I can't smell anything anymore! - Suddenly, Kelly called back to my memory:

"Excuse me, do you happen to have the EDP Kelly Calèche here?"

"Star scents are up front, I think! Do you know the new one from Ari Grande?"

Caught between "Help, you’re getting old!" and "What kind of person are you!" I found the bottle and immediately took home 100ml (blind!), true to the motto: Better one good one than ten bad ones.

Applied at home: WOW - Life is a loop! Christmas Eve, first encounter, Kelly is back,
and finally, I can enjoy her completely, as she is still so different from the others:

First, the extremely high-quality leather should be mentioned: magnificent - I have only smelled a similar leather (finely polished) in Anglomania by Vivienne Westwood; it is (for me) perfectly dosed and distinctive.
At the beginning, I perceive a slightly citrus note like in the EDT - it is not listed, but there is something "zesty" to be detected. Rose is a tricky subject; usually too musty and stuffy for me, here it comes across wonderfully "velvety" - together with the leather, a g e n i a l symbiosis. The scent feels (unlike in my memory) neither too refined nor too "grown-up" - quite the opposite: I find it really appealing and wearable for those in their 30s but also for all the other "-ies" because: different from the others. I only perceive vanilla in the base, and more as a thought than something really smelled; it might tame the leather a bit. Since Naughty Alice, I have taken a liking to violet - previously perceived as a bit too dusty/powdery, in 2018 I found it génial!
The longevity is good to very good (6-8 hours) - the sillage, however, only envelops in the first 1-3 hours, then Kelly fades into the background and leaves the other B'tches their hood, without completely disappearing: she keeps blinking back and stays for a few minutes, which is really fun.

To cut a long story short:
Try it out if you are also (slowly) tired of the whole uniformity - it makes fun AND... THE "argument" par excellence (if the beginning doesn't really convince you): I've been wearing it (better SHE!) since January 2, 2018, and have received an enormous number of compliments for my choice, and that without: "Smell this, how do you like my new one?!" :)

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