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Monday: My new favorite for spring Elie Saab Le Parfum L'Eau Couture reminds me of lily of the valley, some greenery over vanilla. Springlike crispy but in the same time warm.
Tuesday: Miss Dior Edp current version (former Miss Dior Cherie). Don't understand all the compliments about this contemporary chypre, floral, musky and light fruity. I think it's a good representative of the genre and a perfume with it's own characteristics, which are still recognizable after reforumlations, even if the strawberryflowers and the popcornnote seems to be replaced compared to the original 2005 Miss Dior Cherie release. Not many niche fragrances has a personality like this modern classic.
Wednesday: My liking for Boucheron Place Vendôme is growing. An elegant contemporary floral with contrasting notes reminiscent of airy tobaccoleaves in the basenotes. Would be perfect for spring in companion with an ivory colored, elegant, light, wollen suit, worn with a smooth silk top.
Thursday: Chanel Coco Mademoiselle Edp is in the same contemporary chypre floral category (with the typical patchouli in the basenotes) as Miss Dior Edp but darker, more formal and grown up. Just as pleasant as Miss Dior to wear during a working day, but provides a more serious impression.
Friday: Nina Ricci Nina L'Elixir is a candied version of the original Nina, sweeter with less of the uplifitng citrusy sparkle of its forerunner. Strangly, in the dry down, Nina L'Elixir suddenly starts to smell like a much sweeter, crystallized Frapin Speakeasy. Nothing wrong with this perfume but this was the let down during the week, Nina L'Elixir doesn't play in the same leauge as the other tested, or for that matter, the original Nina in in which I perceive the same comfort level as in the fragrances tested Monday-Thursday.
Now I have to plan my next "theme-week", a week in Guerlain could be something....
What can I say? You should stop wearing (and analyzing) pretentious niche fragrances when there are so many genuine ones out there ;)
SvaraRaderaMainstream perfumes mostly bore me so they almost never go as far as a skin test. But somebody has to do it - so kudos to you! :)
Most of them are good but some of them just as well could have been a mainstream, as it's just a choice of how to market a formula. As the nichemarket is the expanding part of the perfumemarket I suspect some perfumebrands recently are started just as investments, and not as an venture of a perfumer who want's to create his/her own pefumes. That's what I will define as pretentious niche.
SvaraRaderaI understood what you meant, I was just pulling your leg.
Radera:-)
SvaraRadera