Hello everyone,
I just receiced my sample for Balenciaga Le Dix EDT and Apres L'Ondee vintage parfum (which I adore), and I was utterly shocked by the fact that to me, Le Dix very much smells like a more aldehydic (sparklier, brighter) version of Apres. I would very much appreciate it if some of you shared their experience of this, it seems such a strange comparison; yet I tried them three times together and I still feel the two perfumed are similar. For sure, the atmosphere they create is very different (Le Dix is much happier, more energetic, still mysterious but in a sort of powerful, sexy way, while Apres is all softness and haziness and languid beauty in pastel colors), but the actuall smell itself is similar, IMO (even if Apres is stong on Iris and heliotrope, while Le Dix is big on violets, therefore Apres parfum is a far deeper and darker experience than Le Dix). Thanks for your input
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Edit: Now that I waited longer for once, the drydown is more powdery with Le Dix and the little iris note it had at the beginning is just about to fade out, so now Le Dix is less like Apres where the iris stays strong almost all the way, combined with heliotrope (and there is much less violet to begin with, of course). Now Le Dix is almost Chanel No 5-like!
I just receiced my sample for Balenciaga Le Dix EDT and Apres L'Ondee vintage parfum (which I adore), and I was utterly shocked by the fact that to me, Le Dix very much smells like a more aldehydic (sparklier, brighter) version of Apres. I would very much appreciate it if some of you shared their experience of this, it seems such a strange comparison; yet I tried them three times together and I still feel the two perfumed are similar. For sure, the atmosphere they create is very different (Le Dix is much happier, more energetic, still mysterious but in a sort of powerful, sexy way, while Apres is all softness and haziness and languid beauty in pastel colors), but the actuall smell itself is similar, IMO (even if Apres is stong on Iris and heliotrope, while Le Dix is big on violets, therefore Apres parfum is a far deeper and darker experience than Le Dix). Thanks for your input
!Edit: Now that I waited longer for once, the drydown is more powdery with Le Dix and the little iris note it had at the beginning is just about to fade out, so now Le Dix is less like Apres where the iris stays strong almost all the way, combined with heliotrope (and there is much less violet to begin with, of course). Now Le Dix is almost Chanel No 5-like
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. Does it have a candy smell?
