Comments on: Old Friends or Ode to G by G http://perfumeposse.com/2006/05/16/old-friends-or-ode-to-g-by-g/ Perfume Reviews from Around the World, as long as the Credit Card Holds out. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:33:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: BBliss http://perfumeposse.com/2006/05/16/old-friends-or-ode-to-g-by-g/#comment-2382 BBliss Fri, 19 May 2006 15:28:01 +0000 http://pdawwg.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/16/old-friends-or-ode-to-g-by-g/#comment-2382 Very late to this post - don't remember this Gucci, but will seek it out as am a fan of "florientals." I adore Safari (by Dominique Ropion) - have worn it for 14 years, as have 3 other women in my family - smells unique on all of us and really works with our chemistry (must be some genetic link there!). We put out the stockpiling call when we see it at Marshall's or T.J.'s but I will be sad when it isn't around even through the discounters...haven't yet found its replacement (actually that's what started me into niche perfumes - I was so disappointed by all the insipid new stuff). Wish I could pinpoint that magic ingredient or combo that makes this work so well for me, and find it in another. Any suggestions? Very late to this post – don’t remember this Gucci, but will seek it out as am a fan of “florientals.”

I adore Safari (by Dominique Ropion) – have worn it for 14 years, as have 3 other women in my family – smells unique on all of us and really works with our chemistry (must be some genetic link there!). We put out the stockpiling call when we see it at Marshall’s or T.J.’s but I will be sad when it isn’t around even through the discounters…haven’t yet found its replacement (actually that’s what started me into niche perfumes – I was so disappointed by all the insipid new stuff). Wish I could pinpoint that magic ingredient or combo that makes this work so well for me, and find it in another. Any suggestions?

]]> By: Katie http://perfumeposse.com/2006/05/16/old-friends-or-ode-to-g-by-g/#comment-2344 Katie Thu, 18 May 2006 00:35:42 +0000 http://pdawwg.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/16/old-friends-or-ode-to-g-by-g/#comment-2344 Oh that Gucci was so pretty, very strong on the heliotropic notes on me, with that cozy vanilla always dominating. Not perhaps a groundbreaking scent, but entirely beautiful and certainly easy to find oneself in. Well, for ones to bring back, I am hopelessly wishing someone will one day figure out a way to re-jigger the old Faths for production so they're not too expensive to produce. They are interesting, and challenging scents largely, or they are compared to so many of the ones sold nowadays. Canasta I think would find a nice market nowadays, I cannot help but wonder if many men would not fall under the charms of Fath de Fath (original, not the 90s version.) Ach, now I'm feeling all wistful over it - :(( Oh that Gucci was so pretty, very strong on the heliotropic notes on me, with that cozy vanilla always dominating. Not perhaps a groundbreaking scent, but entirely beautiful and certainly easy to find oneself in.

Well, for ones to bring back, I am hopelessly wishing someone will one day figure out a way to re-jigger the old Faths for production so they’re not too expensive to produce. They are interesting, and challenging scents largely, or they are compared to so many of the ones sold nowadays. Canasta I think would find a nice market nowadays, I cannot help but wonder if many men would not fall under the charms of Fath de Fath (original, not the 90s version.) Ach, now I’m feeling all wistful over it – :((

]]> By: Pam http://perfumeposse.com/2006/05/16/old-friends-or-ode-to-g-by-g/#comment-2343 Pam Thu, 18 May 2006 00:18:08 +0000 http://pdawwg.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/16/old-friends-or-ode-to-g-by-g/#comment-2343 Flora, you are so right about Parfum Sacre being a man magnet. One Sunday last summer I was wearing PS (to church, no less) and thrust my arm under my husband's nose as he was driving us there. He almost ran off the road, it was such a va-va-voom moment. No kidding. Yep, that's some good juice, there. Glad to meet another PS lover.;) Flora, you are so right about Parfum Sacre being a man magnet. One Sunday last summer I was wearing PS (to church, no less) and thrust my arm under my husband’s nose as he was driving us there. He almost ran off the road, it was such a va-va-voom moment. No kidding. Yep, that’s some good juice, there. Glad to meet another PS lover.;)

]]> By: Flora http://perfumeposse.com/2006/05/16/old-friends-or-ode-to-g-by-g/#comment-2342 Flora Wed, 17 May 2006 23:49:23 +0000 http://pdawwg.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/16/old-friends-or-ode-to-g-by-g/#comment-2342 I liked that Gucci too - so grown-up and sophisticated! Too bad it's not around now. My pet peeve is when they stop making Parfum (and sometimes even EDP) versions of fragrances and make us only have EDT. I am thinking of Anais Anais here as one example. The Parfum was stunning, and light-years away from the EDT which I also love, but oh, man that juice was FINE. My favorite discontinued fragrance? From reading perfume blogs I have discovered that some I thought were gone are just rare now, so that's good, but the one I really miss is one where the whole line is gone so there is no hope - the original Jean Laporte line, before it became L'Artisan. There was a perfume made of mango and vanilla - I can't even spell the very French name, but it was remarkable. I am not talking about overly sweet foody vanilla either - it was deep and dark and sexy, the mango was almost supernaturally intense and a bit disturbing (it is , after all, related to poison ivy) and overall it was so different from anything else I had ever smelled that I was hopelessly addicted. I got a lot of compliments on that perfume, and men held doors open for me like never before - and of course it no longer exists! If it came back I would buy a case of it. :(( P.S the other good one for having men hold doors open for you and all that stuff is Caron's Parfum Sacre. I don't know what magic it works, but who am I to question the perfume gods? ;) I liked that Gucci too – so grown-up and sophisticated! Too bad it’s not around now.

My pet peeve is when they stop making Parfum (and sometimes even EDP) versions of fragrances and make us only have EDT. I am thinking of Anais Anais here as one example. The Parfum was stunning, and light-years away from the EDT which I also love, but oh, man that juice was FINE.

My favorite discontinued fragrance? From reading perfume blogs I have discovered that some I thought were gone are just rare now, so that’s good, but the one I really miss is one where the whole line is gone so there is no hope – the original Jean Laporte line, before it became L’Artisan. There was a perfume made of mango and vanilla – I can’t even spell the very French name, but it was remarkable. I am not talking about overly sweet foody vanilla either – it was deep and dark and sexy, the mango was almost supernaturally intense and a bit disturbing (it is , after all, related to poison ivy) and overall it was so different from anything else I had ever smelled that I was hopelessly addicted. I got a lot of compliments on that perfume, and men held doors open for me like never before – and of course it no longer exists! If it came back I would buy a case of it. :((

P.S the other good one for having men hold doors open for you and all that stuff is Caron’s Parfum Sacre. I don’t know what magic it works, but who am I to question the perfume gods? ;)

]]> By: Jenny http://perfumeposse.com/2006/05/16/old-friends-or-ode-to-g-by-g/#comment-2340 Jenny Wed, 17 May 2006 21:51:23 +0000 http://pdawwg.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/16/old-friends-or-ode-to-g-by-g/#comment-2340 Love it, love it, love it! I remembered the first time I smelled it and was so to speak shocked, it's absolutly sublime. Maybe I'm the only one but I realy don't like Rush by Gucci, it's so sweet on a strange way I can't explain. And like Pam I would love to smell the original Chypre from Coty because it was the first Chypre and the mother of all the Chypres to come, I love Chypres. Love it, love it, love it! I remembered the first time I smelled it and was so to speak shocked, it’s absolutly sublime.
Maybe I’m the only one but I realy don’t like Rush by Gucci, it’s so sweet on a strange way I can’t explain.
And like Pam I would love to smell the original Chypre from Coty because it was the first Chypre and the mother of all the Chypres to come, I love Chypres.

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