Your Vintage Scent of the Day (SOTD)

[Deleanu]

I'll do ! Have a nice day !

Same for you!

[Marand75]

Marbert Gentleman ('86).

[Deleanu]

Marbert Gentleman ('86).

I am so glad that I own a bottle

is sssooo buttery smmoooth...

[Marand75]

I am so glad that I own a bottle

is sssooo buttery smmoooth...

Exactly, I think it's a damn good fragrance!

[Tristan45]

This one, or the grey bottled "Lapidus Pour Homme"? The latter is definitely beastmode. Haven't tried this "Ted Lapidus", but have always been curious about it.

I'm talking about this one, with the red cap, which is a completely different fragrance from the current Lapidus Pour Homme.

[Marand75]

Discreet?! Something must have happened to your bottle - it's the most potent castoreum-heavy rich glorious hairy-chested leather I've ever smelled. I think of it as leaving Antaeus and Yatagan as feeling rather weak and retiring.

I said "discreet smoke".

This one, or the grey bottled "Lapidus Pour Homme"? The latter is definitely beastmode. Haven't tried this "Ted Lapidus", but have always been curious about it.

Red Lapidus Pour Homme smells really, really good. But, on me, performance is shit. 25 sprays post showering, and it sits close to the skin after an hour. But again, your mileage may vary. Or maybe I'm anosmic to it. But it smells awesome, you'll dig it. Won't buy a backup, though

[Zealot Crusader]

I said "discreet smoke".Red Lapidus Pour Homme smells really, really good. But, on me, performance is shit. 25 sprays post showering, and it sits close to the skin after an hour. But again, your mileage may vary. Or maybe I'm anosmic to it. But it smells awesome, you'll dig it. Won't buy a backup, though

Holy cow. 25 sprays of anything will literally end my life. 6 is overkill of anything outside colognes for me.

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Chevalier d'Orsay by Parfums D'Orsay (1911)

[Jean-Sté]

" Jazz ", YSL. Wonderful.

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[Deleanu]

" Jazz ", YSL. Wonderful.

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I recommend you Jazz Prestige too!

[checkmate]

Azzaro PH

I hope you and your loved ones are well.

[Avecesar]

I said "discreet smoke".Red Lapidus Pour Homme smells really, really good. But, on me, performance is shit. 25 sprays post showering, and it sits close to the skin after an hour. But again, your mileage may vary. Or maybe I'm anosmic to it. But it smells awesome, you'll dig it. Won't buy a backup, though

25 sprays only ? You are a little player !

[aero58]

" Jazz ", YSL. Wonderful.

Nice!

[aero58]

I'm talking about this one, with the red cap, which is a completely different fragrance from the current Lapidus Pour Homme.

Gotchya - just checking.

....Red Lapidus Pour Homme smells really, really good. But, on me, performance is shit. 25 sprays post showering, and it sits close to the skin after an hour....

Interesting.

[aero58]

No vintage today; going with Dunhill Icon. It's been over a year since I last wore it. Goodness.

[grayspoole]

Tocade (1994) by Maurice Roucel for Rochas, in Serge Mansau's Memphis Design bottle

Thinking about those Oleg Cassini 1970s design bottles yesterday led me to thinking about the brief craze that followed that period -- the primary colors and geometric shapes of Memphis Design in the late '80s/early '90s. For a short time it was everywhere, from china patterns to bedsheets to Michael Graves teakettles, but try as I might I could only think of one perfume bottle that employed those motifs: Tocade. If anybody can think of another one, I'd love to be reminded of it.

I think the Tocade bottle is closest, but the Loulou bottles, the EDP spray more than the splash, seem to connect with the aesthetic.

And perhaps Montana’s zippered Just Me, which always topples over!

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[Jean-Sté]

I recommend you Jazz Prestige too!

Ah, I don't know this one ! Which are the differences from Jazz original ?

[badarun]

Lancome Balafre

[cologne connoisseur]

Jacomo de Jacomo

[Jean-Sté]

Jacomo de Jacomo

One of my favourites !

[nosey74]

One day I'll get a bottle and see how close it is to Sybaris!

They both smell amazing but nothing alike in my humble opinion; they smell totally different.

Update: Smelling from the nozzles only they smell different. Initial first spray and they smell different. But, after a few minutes on the test strips I'm starting to smell some similarities!


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Testing...

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My SOTD is Deep Forest by Bogner

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[Marand75]

Ah, I don't know this one ! Which are the differences from Jazz original ?

It's like a fresher version of the original, with some mint, a bit of apple and something that feels like tobacco or something. It smells like original Jazz, but fresher and just as great! Muuuuch to expensive to me, though

[JON RODGERS]

[AlphaFrank75]

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[Deleanu]

Ah, I don't know this one ! Which are the differences from Jazz original ?

For me, Prestige, it is more spicy...and a very interesting green twist...!

[Deleanu]

They both smell amazing but nothing alike in my humble opinion; they smell totally different.

Update: Smelling from the nozzles only they smell different. Initial first spray and they smell different. But, after a few minutes on the test strips I'm starting to smell some similarities!


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Testing...

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My SOTD is Deep Forest by Bogner

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Let me know your final thoughts! :-P

[Deleanu]

Lancome Balafre

Balafre in vintage version it is Autumn bottled by all means...

Here's my poem about it that I wrote when I was 16 or so lol

Autumn.
Wait for dusk...
go in a dense forest,
colours changing
while it rains lightly,
grab some crunchy leaves
exhale freely, inhale deeply
that's Balafre!


Nothing to abstract but a plain and simple view...

[Cook.bot]

I think the Tocade bottle is closest, but the Loulou bottles, the EDP spray more than the splash, seem to connect with the aesthetic.

And perhaps Montana’s zippered Just Me, which always topples over!

I guess I could see LouLou fitting in that style.

I had never heard of the Montana; between this bottle and it being described as like Theorema, it sounds possbly worth a snipe hunt.

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I have a suspicion that history isn't going to be kind to those Michael Graves buildings.

[LiveJazz]

I have a suspicion that history isn't going to be kind to those Michael Graves buildings.

Two large central libraries that I'm intimately familiar with were designed by Michael Graves, Denver's and Topeka's. They are both pretty ridiculous looking. Topeka's is cool inside, though.

Here's Topeka's cyclops. Do not anger the cyclops.

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And Denver's, which looks to me like a whimsical jail.

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SOTD: Moving from Michael Graves buildings to Devil's Tower:

Montana Parfum d'Homme

[Cook.bot]

Two large central libraries that I'm intimately familiar with were designed by Michael Graves, Denver's and Topeka's. They are both pretty ridiculous looking. Topeka's is pretty cool inside, though.

Here's Topeka's cyclops. Do not anger the cyclops.

Good lord. the Topeka one looks like he was trying to channel the adobe architecture of northern New Mexico. And while that one's ridiculous, the Denver one is just plain... hideous. Was he trying to reference Brutalism? Or Soviet-era apartment blocks?

SOTD: Moving from Michael Graves buildings to Devil's Tower:

Montana Parfum d'Homme

My candidate for ugliest perfume bottle ever made. The scent's nice, though.

[epapsiou]

I guess I could see LouLou fitting in that style.

I had never heard of the Montana; between this bottle and it being described as like Theorema, it sounds possbly worth a snipe hunt.




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