Woo Hoo Posse. I’m currently cleaning out the perfume room and doing an enormous cull. The dream is that over the next few weeks I’ll divest myself of 500 bottles. Yeah, I know. That should clear out just under 1/4 of the collection, give me some floor and cupboard space and slim my weight of overconsumption guilt. That’s the plan. I’ve put aside or already parted with about 150 bottles. So I’m testing a bunch that are totally forgotten in my mental sniff catalogue and get to Brooklyn by Gallivant. Yeah, I have zero memory of even trying it. I spritz and the smile that comes is like a big dumb goofball. This is no swoon worthy, eye rolling epiphany, nope, but it is something lovely, fun, a happy twist on things we know. Dear reader, read on.
Brooklyn by Gallivant 2017
Gallivant gives these featured accords:
Top: Bergamot, squeezed lemon and orange juice, incense, cardamom, fresh air and ozonic notes
Heart: Magnolia, iris/orris root and transparent flowers
Base: Musks, white woods, benzoin, amber
Firstly, I have an admission. A while ago, one of our Aussie importers and retailers had a sale on their testers and I bought a set of Gallivant. Gave all of them a sniff, wore my two favourites for a while. They all got boxed and cupboarded. Cue complete forgetfulness. So it’s very exciting to be getting things out again and keep/sell sniff them. Brooklyn has quickly risen to the keep pile.
Funnily, it reminds me of another perfume. Not the same but definite correlations and done in a late 20th/21st century way. While wearing Brooklyn my mind often turns to vintage Arpege. They are not the same. This is less funky and animalic and offers an ozonic bright freshness to what is hefty in Arpege. It does have similar aldehydes and that fizzy fruity lift. The florals are similar but way more modern in Brooklyn, less the old fashioned (but beautiful) bouquet and more a dream of flowers. Lastly, on dry down the woodsiness and amber have a very similar feel, a similar personality as it were.
Brooklyn smells like a feminine fragrance done with the gents in mind. My only complaint here is that I become nose blind to it long before everyone else does. So people say I smell nice but I can’t smell it anymore, at all.
I have written about Gallivant’s Amsterdam before here on Perfume Posse.
LuckyScent has samples.
So, does Brooklyn sound like it might tickle your fancy? Have you a favourite Gallivant scent?
Portia xx
You left me gasping! at the sheer volume of your collection!!
Then you left me gasping AGAIN! with the scent reference to Arpege ( which you probably know is one of my HGs!!)
YAY! Making you gasp is one of my life goals Musette.
The collection is both stupendous and stupid. I’ll be glad to slim it down.
Arpege is a wonder, even in its modern, sleeker form. A little swipe of the vintage extrait with lavish spritzing of the modem EdT/P? can make the day shine brighter.
Portia xx
Uhhmmm. One quarter (1/4) and how many bottles? Good lawd! That’s a lot. I don’t think I could do it. Maybe 1/10 is a better starting point (for me). I’m off to get a sample of Gallivant from STC because it sounds like a fun one (but big musks miss my nose, so I’m going to read up on that). I have a strong sniffer in general, but am anosmic to big molecule musks. I also find naturals last better and are more easily discerned to my nose. Good luck there with your destashing… (?).
Yeah, it’s revolting Shiva-woman. Zero self control.
I’m a bit Elizabeth Taylor, can’t just test and enjoy, if I love it then I’m marrying it.
That must mean a lot of missed sniffing in the laundry musk department.
Portia xx