Aromatics Elixir by Clinique Eau de Parfum For Women, 100ml

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I really wanted to like this, as I've always loved Clinique and I tend to enjoy older fragrances (even though I don't often wear them). The oakmoss of the base is in great condition in the current formulation, and is accompanied by a showstopping patchouli. I absolutely adore it but I came into it with the same mentality that I find myself in surrounding vintage fragrances. Going to the loo at work one morning, a voice piped up from the cubicle next door ‘is that you Rache? A cloud of patchouli alongside beautiful oakmoss forms a rich chypre base, a marriage of the modern and traditional.

It starts painfully astringent, which feels like a purge of the excess of sweetness, and niceness of the modern chocolate - vanilla excess in perfume, which is great for hot wheather as it makes you smell clean and truly elegant, in a non- stepford wife manner, but rather, sophisticated, like someone having a coffee at some european assembly from the 1930s. How does a man go from proclaiming a fragrance to be his favorite, his life essence, for years depleting large bottles with alarming frequency, to a total purge and bitter dismissal of it?Le ultime versioni assomigliano poco all'originale,hanno un bouquet scarno,trasparente,verdolino debole,appena frizzantino,uno sviluppo ridicolo che in meno di mezz'ora arriva alla fine appoggiandosi su una nota quasi dolce (che nell'originale non c'era) che assomiglia a salvia e tabacco e poi scompare. But then again, I find myself developing and moving towards several timeless classics that I have never considered before. You can be trivial about the differences in the modern in comparison with the vintage, but at the end of the day the two smell the same. I just found out I'm 2 months pregnant, and I always thought I wouldn't tolerate strong perfumes whenever it happened.

Those wild top notes that dazzle with the aldehydes end up hiding behind the dark shadows of oakmoss. This fragrance has *nothing* in common with modern day scents that smell of cupcakes and cotton candy, this is a full blown green, 1970s earth goddess medicinal salve - a true to form "aromatic elixir. I can only dream of what the 70s smelled like when normal women were walking around wearing this stuff.Like the carpet of pine needles that fringe the lazy river as I float by every summer, so heated by the Florida sun that they’re almost tinder, itching to catch.

In vintage versions the smoky, juicy, resinous base of fresh bark and wood of noble trees is especially attractive.Well, this is pretty much like watching a performance from a Hollywood star look-alike, say Marilyn Monroe.

It's still beautiful, don't get me wrong, but it's rather "sharp" now and it doesn't last nearly as long.

It's been replaced with about six discernible notes, it's light enough to spray 3 or more times onto the hair, body or clothing, and it's a ghost of it's former self. It smelt great on a friend but after an hour of application on myself it just smells revolting, I have tried quite a few times but end up washing it off. Crisp7 Smells unpleasant after wearing a while Bought this as a treat for myself after traumatic time moving home. Wearing both of these Bernard Chant fragrances this past autumn has underscored how my most frequently compliment fragrances are always classics.