Montana Parfum de Peau (1986)
by Montana

Funnily enough like the previous reviewer of this fragrance I was an art student too in the mid eighties when I fell totally for Montana parfum de peau. I loved everything about it: fragrance, packaging, the advertising campaign and the fact that it was from the Montana design house. To me, then, this was the perfect scent - unique, sophisticated , not at all 'girly', a statement frag for sure which was at its best when worn with leather. I hadn't worn Montana for many years when I recently bought a new bottle to see if I still liked it. The current frag suffers from a distinct lack of the original fruity (most notably peach) and floral notes which lifted this perfume and made it so special. Now there is the barest trace of the original scent which I am pretty sure is down to the fact that some of the original ingredients are missing. Oh well, the bottle still looks wonderful!!! Thumbs up are for the original and the memories!!!

"Launched by the design house of Montana in 1986, MONTANA PERFUME is classified as a refreshing, woody, mossy fragrance. This feminine scent possesses a blend of spicy fruit with lower notes of flowers and base notes of woods."

This is the description of the perfume given by retailers that are still selling the now discontinued scent. My first encounter with Montana happened in the mid-eighties. I had traveled to Paris with my high-school art class. I was at the department store Printemps when I came across a striking bottle displayed at a cosmetic counter. It was a frosted glass bottle stepped and twisted like a helix. The lady at the counter explained it was a new fragrance by the design house of Claude Montana. The Parisian designer was famous at the time for his architectural style. I recall after the first life changing spritz to the wrist the salesgirl asked "jolie, non? quelle sophisication!" I was a sixteen year old girl in Paris and there was nothing I wanted more than to bottle the time. I bought the perfume and was never the same.