Well, as I was at L.S. Ayres... I mean Macy's today, I had to head to the ol' toilet-watering hole known as the Men's Fragrance counter.
There, I spotted the bottle of Davidoff's Silver Shadow in eau de toilette form. As we all know, this scent, while popular in Europe, didn't hit the US and Canada until a few weeks ago, nor has it been talked about much here on Basenotes. But it's here, complete with a gift with purchase of a nice duffel bag, yours with any Silver Shadow purchase of $62.50 or more (sorry, couldn't resist).
So I spritzed it on, smelling the kinda-generic top notes. Then, I browsed around the store and noticed a smell radiating around me that smelled like Dior's Hypnotic Poison. Never mind that Ayres stopped carrying Hypnotic Poison a while back... I thought "where could the aroma be coming from"?
I sniffed my wrist... it was ME! Yes, Silver Shadow's drydown smells awfully similar to one of my fave women's scents. I noticed that both share a heavy dose of amber and benzoin in the drydown. Yummy.
Still, I was awfully surprised by this one. Don't slap it just because it came from the house that gave us that GIT ripoff known as Cool Water... sniff it for yourself.
There, I spotted the bottle of Davidoff's Silver Shadow in eau de toilette form. As we all know, this scent, while popular in Europe, didn't hit the US and Canada until a few weeks ago, nor has it been talked about much here on Basenotes. But it's here, complete with a gift with purchase of a nice duffel bag, yours with any Silver Shadow purchase of $62.50 or more (sorry, couldn't resist).
So I spritzed it on, smelling the kinda-generic top notes. Then, I browsed around the store and noticed a smell radiating around me that smelled like Dior's Hypnotic Poison. Never mind that Ayres stopped carrying Hypnotic Poison a while back... I thought "where could the aroma be coming from"?
I sniffed my wrist... it was ME! Yes, Silver Shadow's drydown smells awfully similar to one of my fave women's scents. I noticed that both share a heavy dose of amber and benzoin in the drydown. Yummy.
Still, I was awfully surprised by this one. Don't slap it just because it came from the house that gave us that GIT ripoff known as Cool Water... sniff it for yourself.
