Thank you very much——my perfume tastes go way back to the 1950s,Arpege and Chanel#5.
I loved those scents.
I am soooo sick of rules,laws,and regulations——the 50s take a bad rap,but it was a much kinder decade than the one in which we are now living,IMHO.
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The regulatiions have, IMO, pretty much destroyed perfumerie as an art, as oposed to a business. I spent years collecting vintage perfumes from Ebay and other sources, but you have to willing, in almost all cases, to accept at there will be a loss of the unstable top notes. Also, you take a chance (as with everything of this nature) that the perfume won’t have turned to vinegar through improper storage. But I have to say that I’ve been very fortunate with almost all my purchases, especially, thank God, with the big ticket, truly “vintage” discontinued perfumes from the Golden Age of Perfumery. My Guerlain Djedi and and my Nombre Noir will be prised from my cold dead hands, lol. I used to wish that Guerlain would resurrect Djedi, but it’s as well that they haven’t, as it would undoubtedly be a travesty of its former glory.
A good line to check into would be the “Divine” line from France. It was mostly developed after the regulations began to bite, so it was formulated with those regulations taken into account, but the creators managed to work umder those regulations and still create a line of perfume which has the spirit and scent of the grand tradition of classic French perfumery. I love spicy rose scents, so the Divine L’Inspiratrice is my favorite. Thank God for vintage chypres because their like will never be seen (smelled?) again, thanks to oak moss being a main ingredient of chypres.
The reformulated Opium is a shadow of its former self, and that’s a shame because it was always my husband’s favorite scent for me, the first one he ever bought for me. Fortunatel I have a huge stock of the vintage juice in extrait, eau de parfum, and the other strengths.
Now if I could only find a way to purchase “The Garden” line of perfumes in the US. I have a bottle of my favorite, “The Party In Manhattan”, which I hardly dare to use because I haven’t figured out how I’ll replace it, having no acquaintances in Europe.
In case it wasn’t obvious, vintage perfume is my passion:)
You seem to like the aldehyic perfumes, Divine makes a wonderful one simply called “Divine”, as the original perfume in the line. It’s the one in a pale gold flacon.