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post #1 of 10
2/12/07 at 3:12am
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Which Perfume Is Similar To Jicky Of Guerlain?
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post #2 of 10
2/12/07 at 5:33am
Guerlain's Mouchoir de Monsieur without a doubt
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post #3 of 10
2/12/07 at 7:28am
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Originally Posted by shifts

Guerlain's Mouchoir de Monsieur without a doubt

I've got a decant of Jicky and tried Mouchoir de Monsieur at Harrods on Friday. As the SA got the bottle out I said 'aahh the old 'gentleman's handkerchief''. She looked at me completely blankly. I tried some on my wrist and immediately said that it was very similar to Jicky, that they shared that strong civet note. She looked at me, if possible, even more blankly.

So, to sell Guerlain in a prestigious department store in London you don't have to speak French (surely desirable if not essential) or know the most distinctive notes of the most distinctive fragrances in your line - sigh!

More importantly, shifts is spot on!
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post #4 of 10
2/12/07 at 9:48am
Also Ungaro II
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post #5 of 10
2/12/07 at 9:51am
Very much seconding the Ungaro II.
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post #6 of 10
2/12/07 at 11:03am
Understand that Patricia di Nicolai's "New York" is similar to Jicky.
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post #7 of 10
2/12/07 at 11:40am
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Originally Posted by fraddicted

Understand that Patricia di Nicolai's "New York" is similar to Jicky.

hmmm... I don't think so. Both maybe have a powdery edge to them, but Jicky is heavy on the lavender and I don't get much of that at all in New York. The comparison is often (rightly) made between BdP and NY, but I don't know that I'd put Jicky in that same group.
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post #8 of 10
2/12/07 at 10:18pm
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Originally Posted by rach2jlc

hmmm... I don't think so. Both maybe have a powdery edge to them, but Jicky is heavy on the lavender and I don't get much of that at all in New York. The comparison is often (rightly) made between BdP and NY, but I don't know that I'd put Jicky in that same group.

I have to second this. I can see almost nothing in common between these two. Jicky seems so smooth and streamlined to me. New York, so complex, almost to the point of being "busy."

Ungaro II is more like Jicky, and to a lesser degree, Romeo Gigli per Uomo (after the lavender topnote of Jicky fades).
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post #9 of 10
2/12/07 at 10:46pm
I can see the comparison of New York to Jicky [in the EdT concentration]. Mouchoir de Monsieur
is far closer, but New York does have certain similarities, to my nose.
But yes, New York is far closer to Bois du Portugal.
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post #10 of 10
2/12/07 at 10:54pm
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Originally Posted by michaeld39

I've got a decant of Jicky and tried Mouchoir de Monsieur at Harrods on Friday. As the SA got the bottle out I said 'aahh the old 'gentleman's handkerchief''. She looked at me completely blankly. I tried some on my wrist and immediately said that it was very similar to Jicky, that they shared that strong civet note. She looked at me, if possible, even more blankly.

So, to sell Guerlain in a prestigious department store in London you don't have to speak French (surely desirable if not essential) or know the most distinctive notes of the most distinctive fragrances in your line - sigh!

More importantly, shifts is spot on!

As if written by a screenwriter for Lost pretty much the same thing has happened to me on the other side of the world at roughly the same time. I have never encountered a Guerlain SA who knew anything specific about Guerlain products, including the civet contents of Jicky (or even what civet is). They seem to be limited to how much it costs.

Guerlain are a great company with a great past but if they are not careful they will be tobogganing downhill into their future. Badly trained SA's, thoughtless reformulation of classics not marked as such, cheap knockoffs of their own products. One word, Guerlain: 'Coty'.
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