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Basenotes says...
When the juice was approved and the bottle had been designed, the manufacturers were not able to fill the bottles, as the top of the Peretti bottle is curved at an angle. The manufacturer tried to convince Halston to bottle his fragrance in what the industry calls a "Chanel Flask". The name coming from the square linear bottle Chanel used for Number 5, when a non frilly bottle were considered and oddity. Halston refused to have his bottle change for the sake of the manufacturing problem and in the end invested $50,000 dollars of his own money to create an adapter that met with the angled neck of the bottle. It was a good move, the demand for the fragrance was so strong stores couldn't keep it in stock for almost a year. [Thank you Bryian Davis for this information]
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   |  It says 'Halston Cologne' on the bottle and marketed as a 'unisex' scent. At least that's what the SA told me. Now I'm someone who thinks nothing of wearing women's perfume as long as the notes fit but a spritz on the wrist convinced me that this isn't one of those times. The smell was nevertheless vaguely familiar...like a scent worn by someone I once knew. Then it hit me. Beautiful by Estee Lauder! My ex girlfriend wore it. So did my ex wife. Just by association alone, that's probably enough for me to give it a neutral rating. But objectively I can imagine women wearing Halston and enjoying it.08 September 2009 |
  |  I think something has been changed in this scent. A girlfriend in the seventies wore this and it was wonderful… so totally chypre and sexy. Now I get that chypre feeling only for the first few minutes after application. Then it switches to a floral that I would swear has violet dominating, even though violet is not listed in the official pyramid. That ?violet? ruins it for me: I lose contact with the other florals, the woods, and the entire chypre feeling to the fragrance. I don’t remember the Halston of the ‘70s being like this one. 07 August 2009 |
  | I still look back on this as one of my favorite scents of my childhood. No matter how snobby I get about perfume I'm still down with the old school Halston. 10 July 2009 |
 | I still love the vintage version. I tried the non alcohol version ( oil ) and it smelled like a watered down tweaked version of itself. 28 May 2009 |
  |  I first tried and loved Halston in 1978, and wore it for years. For various reasons, I fell away, and came back this year to discover that the fragrance is absolutely and completely different. It now comes up with a grossly powdery scent straight from the bottle, and cheap and skunky as it dries; the long term base is like some drugstore Coty scent from my youth, which I'm happy not to be able to place. The lovely, woodsy, intimate fragrance I remember and so loved is clearly long gone; in reading, I can see that Halston changed when Elizabeth Arden started distributing it, and their Halston is just nothing like the Halston of Halston's glory days (well, perhaps very slightly -- there is some very, very faint echo of Halston's former wonderful ness in this ghastly odor). Darn. 04 April 2009 |
 | I wear this in the parfum and I just love smelling myself. It's divine! 27 February 2009 |
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