I looked for a thread on Miss Dior vintage parfum/extrait and I couldn't find one, so I decided to start one so I can gush about how WONDERFUL this juice is. A very generous Basenoter sent me some vintage EdT and Parfum and I have been testing the parfum for a while now.
Strident and green, the top notes remind me of those wonderfully strong green fragrances I grew up smelling on my parents and in-laws in the 70's and 80's (Private Collection by Estee Lauder; Devin by Aramis; etc) but because this juice is so old the green is a little rounder and smooth...like a fine aged Sauvignon Blanc. Then I smell powder and rich leather.
It is a chypre but it doesn't show it's chypre side easily...well, what I mean is it doesn't smell like a reference chypre (Mitsouko by Guerlain, Chypre by Coty, Tabac Blond by Caron) - I'm not clobbered over the head with that vibrating phantom chypre effect. Rather the bergamot, labdanum and oakmoss interplay in these strange, odd angles to highlight some other sort of chypre. I'm reminded of the tart, ambery Vol de Nuit by Guerlain - an oriental, I know...but the connection (in my mind) is unmistakeable. What's up with that?
And just when you think it's gone off and softened up at the end you get repeated floral whiffs of the top notes (gardenia, a slight wisp of jasmine and crisp sage)...sort of saying to you 'Hey!..I'm still here buddy'. This perfume has balls. Seriously.
And it was created in 1947!? What!??
I think there is no question that I need to get a bottle of this.
Miss Dior Fan Club members, talk to me.
Strident and green, the top notes remind me of those wonderfully strong green fragrances I grew up smelling on my parents and in-laws in the 70's and 80's (Private Collection by Estee Lauder; Devin by Aramis; etc) but because this juice is so old the green is a little rounder and smooth...like a fine aged Sauvignon Blanc. Then I smell powder and rich leather.
It is a chypre but it doesn't show it's chypre side easily...well, what I mean is it doesn't smell like a reference chypre (Mitsouko by Guerlain, Chypre by Coty, Tabac Blond by Caron) - I'm not clobbered over the head with that vibrating phantom chypre effect. Rather the bergamot, labdanum and oakmoss interplay in these strange, odd angles to highlight some other sort of chypre. I'm reminded of the tart, ambery Vol de Nuit by Guerlain - an oriental, I know...but the connection (in my mind) is unmistakeable. What's up with that?
And just when you think it's gone off and softened up at the end you get repeated floral whiffs of the top notes (gardenia, a slight wisp of jasmine and crisp sage)...sort of saying to you 'Hey!..I'm still here buddy'. This perfume has balls. Seriously.
And it was created in 1947!? What!??
I think there is no question that I need to get a bottle of this.
Miss Dior Fan Club members, talk to me.
