Lagerfeld Classic by Lagerfeld, 1978

Powdery. Sweet powdery. Barely scores a neutral IMHO but only because it's presence is vague its notes hard to to determine and that slight ashtray (get it on your clothes it smells like a wet cigarette butt) like scent at the get go. If you don't mind powder its fine though sweet at times. If you want dryer powder you go for something like Royal Copenhagen. I bought some and don't mind it at the least I wear it to work every so often no one has ever spoken a word about it and it doesn't seem to project too awfully much. Not sure what the notes are in this but on the drydown you've got a sharp greenish scent mixed with something sweeter like an amber. It is fairly blended so the end result smells like powder. Update, I was for whatever reason compelled to wear this on a 90+ degree humid day. The heat makes it go more fruity and less powdery. This makes it smell like a weird fresh fruity scent gone wrong. Some might like it, I think it came off as too sweet. Still will turn to that wet ashtray smell if it gets your clothes before your skin. I prefer how it played in the winter. Update... Found a vintage sample circa mid 1980s. More fruity than the modern version and actually sweeter. My inclination is it is just a stronger version of the existing stuff, which has probably been watered down. Otherwise smells virtually identical, if there was any reformulation it was before this point. Otherwise they've just watered it down.

This can be had for next to nothing online or at discount perfume stores. I bought it blind based on the positive reviews on Basenotes, and also because i tend to enjoy "old man" scents. The reviews don't lie. At first it was horrendously nauseating. It smelled like a cheap floral perfume, imagine CK Euphoria mixed with Kenzo Flower and then distilled a hundred times until it becomes overpowering...it really takes some getting used to but once the immediate urge to wash it off wears off, its really not bad and dries down to a very warm comforting powdery base that lasts all day and projects well. In fact, it projects too well. Given that I just described it as "horrendously nauseating" and characterized it as overpowering, I am very careful how I wear this stuff: one spray on the chest, no more no less, and never on exposed skin such as the neck or the wrists, it really will disturb a lot of people if its not muted by a shirt or a sweater-hint hint, this is strictly a winter affair. I wear it simply because I enjoy the scent-the warmth that rises to meet the nose is magic, when I'm sat with a book i often lift my collar away from my chest and up to my nose to get a good deep breath of the stuff. Do i get compliments on it? No Did it repel people before i learned to wear it discretely? Yes Does it occasionally smell like hard candy found at the bottom of an old lady's purse? Yes and No, its not something that would have come to me so obviously had I not read it here, I think more than anything the mid-notes remind me of incense which carries through to the base...but yeah...old lady's bag I guess