I'm utterly convinced I picked a stunning good time to get serious about scent, but a wrenching rough one to start falling for chypres. Now, I'm not about to start composing my own. I admire those who do enormously,but to me it would be like touring the Louvre and then asking myself to replicate it all with a box of kindergarten crayons. But, in the cases where we know the house took out the oakmoss, could it be at all repaired with a dab of oakmoss absolute underneath? And how do you find a supplier with a reputation for fine quality? I hope the chypre queens here add their input and I'll trot over and ask at the diy section later.
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4/3/07 at 12:06am
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I m a chypre queen and I m a purist which means chypre is about oakmoss and not substitutes.
my solution? I go for vintage, period.
my favorites:
Mitsouko any concentrations provided it 's a vintage
Givenchy III, green chypre, vintage very hard to find and very expensive
Miss Dior, another green chypre and also hard to find in vintage
Diorella, the most beautiful spring summer chypre
Cristalle EDT, although not as "chypre"as Diorella
my solution? I go for vintage, period.
my favorites:
Mitsouko any concentrations provided it 's a vintage
Givenchy III, green chypre, vintage very hard to find and very expensive
Miss Dior, another green chypre and also hard to find in vintage
Diorella, the most beautiful spring summer chypre
Cristalle EDT, although not as "chypre"as Diorella
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4/3/07 at 7:53am
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Actually, I think the new ones will still use oakmoss...
It may be a synthetic substitute.
Even if you put real oakmoss underneath, the synthetic oakmoss will still be in there.
NOTE: I don't want this to turn into a flame war, so I will not begin the synthetic vs natural debate. Please, everyone, do not start discussing it. I just brought it up to say that oakmoss will still be a note in perfume, but it might be used at a lower concentration or replaced with a "hypoallergenic" artificial substitute.
It may be a synthetic substitute.
Even if you put real oakmoss underneath, the synthetic oakmoss will still be in there.
NOTE: I don't want this to turn into a flame war, so I will not begin the synthetic vs natural debate. Please, everyone, do not start discussing it. I just brought it up to say that oakmoss will still be a note in perfume, but it might be used at a lower concentration or replaced with a "hypoallergenic" artificial substitute.
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