Hi everyone
I just received my second bottle of Le Dix (backup) in the mail today. I used this perfume forty years ago and it never disappoints
Like many others I have always thought I could smell violets in it. However, recently I put that to the test by buying decants of Balenciaga Paris and Violette Precieuse, both unmistakeable violet perfumes, both green and a little peppery.
Side by side, Le Dix and these two couldn't have been more dissimilar.
Now I love violets, but what I could detect in Le Dix was not violets but lilac, lilac singing, lilac uplifting, lilac lasting and lasting.
To me that is perhaps the big difference between the two flowers in these perfumes. The violet is darker, quieter, drier, not terribly sweet. Lilac is, and in a its sweetness, it manages to lift my spirits to the sky. If its cloudy, the sun comes out, if it's sunny the world's colours are sharper, the grass is so much greener, the roses are so much finer.
Now I know that Le Dix is more than just lilac, and there are bergamot, rose, jasmine etc, but I think so many perfumes have those ingredients, that I for one, cannot tease them out of a particular perfume. So I come back to what Le Dix does for me, it envelops me in a veil of a soft floral accord, with that insistent note of lilac singing its song and raising my spirits.
Today I ordered a small collection of Lilac classics from TPC, hoping to see whether it is indeed lilac that does it for me. En Passant, Demeter Lilac, Guerlain Aqua Angelique Lilas, i Profumi firenza di Lilla, and Pacifica French Lilac. I am particularly keen to try En Passant to see if it lives up to my expectations.
My goodness, isn't this perfume stuff addictive? I guess I'll have to go out and get a job just to support my habit.
Cheers for now
LiliB
I just received my second bottle of Le Dix (backup) in the mail today. I used this perfume forty years ago and it never disappoints
Like many others I have always thought I could smell violets in it. However, recently I put that to the test by buying decants of Balenciaga Paris and Violette Precieuse, both unmistakeable violet perfumes, both green and a little peppery.
Side by side, Le Dix and these two couldn't have been more dissimilar.
Now I love violets, but what I could detect in Le Dix was not violets but lilac, lilac singing, lilac uplifting, lilac lasting and lasting.
To me that is perhaps the big difference between the two flowers in these perfumes. The violet is darker, quieter, drier, not terribly sweet. Lilac is, and in a its sweetness, it manages to lift my spirits to the sky. If its cloudy, the sun comes out, if it's sunny the world's colours are sharper, the grass is so much greener, the roses are so much finer.
Now I know that Le Dix is more than just lilac, and there are bergamot, rose, jasmine etc, but I think so many perfumes have those ingredients, that I for one, cannot tease them out of a particular perfume. So I come back to what Le Dix does for me, it envelops me in a veil of a soft floral accord, with that insistent note of lilac singing its song and raising my spirits.
Today I ordered a small collection of Lilac classics from TPC, hoping to see whether it is indeed lilac that does it for me. En Passant, Demeter Lilac, Guerlain Aqua Angelique Lilas, i Profumi firenza di Lilla, and Pacifica French Lilac. I am particularly keen to try En Passant to see if it lives up to my expectations.
My goodness, isn't this perfume stuff addictive? I guess I'll have to go out and get a job just to support my habit.
Cheers for now
LiliB
