My mother always talked about this one, and how its scent dominated her girlhood. That's all that she and her sister and her classmates could afford, I gather, maybe aside from Prince Matchabelli or -- shudder -- Tabu. (Maybe an occasional bottle of Arpege or My Sin as they got older.) From what she and my aunt told me, they often gave Evening in Paris to their female lay teachers at Christmas (the male teachers got Old Spice, and the nuns got nothing).
By the time she was having kids, she could afford better, but still stuck to cheapies -- for example, Cachet, her favorite. Ewwww. Where I got my nose for good scents I'll never know -- it certainly wasn't from her. At least her mother wore Youth Dew and Eau de Joy. But I digress.
Evening in Paris had gone the way of the dinosaurs by the time I came around (as far as I know), and I never have smelled the much talked about (and much joked about) dimestore/drugstore original. Tell me: was it wonderful? Vile? Acceptable? Does anyone here know? And what about the 1991 re-formulated Bourjois scent by the same name? Virtually no Bourjois scent had any reviews at all here on Basenotes, hence the incessant questions.
And one more question: is it true that Chanel used to own Bourjois?
By the time she was having kids, she could afford better, but still stuck to cheapies -- for example, Cachet, her favorite. Ewwww. Where I got my nose for good scents I'll never know -- it certainly wasn't from her. At least her mother wore Youth Dew and Eau de Joy. But I digress.
Evening in Paris had gone the way of the dinosaurs by the time I came around (as far as I know), and I never have smelled the much talked about (and much joked about) dimestore/drugstore original. Tell me: was it wonderful? Vile? Acceptable? Does anyone here know? And what about the 1991 re-formulated Bourjois scent by the same name? Virtually no Bourjois scent had any reviews at all here on Basenotes, hence the incessant questions.
And one more question: is it true that Chanel used to own Bourjois?
