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A Happy Mix-Up, Actually Two of Them
* I moved this comment here after the "correct" fragrance in the "correct" bottle was kindly added by Sweetsmell75 here on Parfumo. Initially, I had mistaken my bottle for the other Classique from the Airline Edition, namely the one that was already listed here at that time, but I realized my mistake before writing the comment. However, I still posted the comment incorrectly, namely under the Classique Pin Up. I had read somewhere that my bottle was a special edition of Pin Up. But now it turned out that this was also not true.
It's quite confusing with all the Classiques! And I must add in advance, Jasmine Sambac is even so much in the background here that I don't notice it at all. This probably means that hardly anyone else will notice it either. So, enough of the long preamble. Here is the old, unchanged comment in the new, correct place:*
As is well known, I enjoy participating in the various swap games in the forum. There is the opportunity to trade leftover bottles, samples, and decants of fragrances that I have always wanted to test more long-term and extensively than would be possible within the framework of a traveling letter. Sometimes a particularly designed bottle or the pyramid of a previously unknown fragrance piques my interest.
I wouldn't buy such "cats in a bag," but swapping for fragrances that are languishing in my collection fits perfectly.
So, the Classique Airlines Edition caught my eye in the swap game, limited edition, not in the bottle depicted above, but in a bottle with a blue corset.
Both the Classique original and many of its successors had fascinated me, and I had often been on the verge of acquiring them, but with most of them, something slightly piercing ultimately bothered me, which became annoying over time - once again, I suspected the combination of jasmine and orange blossom as the cause.
Nevertheless, most of them had something wonderful, and so, torn between my feelings, I swapped for the unknown Classique from the game. Maybe this Classique could fully convince me? In the pyramid for the blue corset bottle, I found ginger, lemon sorbet, sugar cane, Tiaré, orange blossom, jasmine tea, labdanum, musk, and vanilla.
Maybe the addition of -tea behind the jasmine would alleviate my Classique problem?
When the beautiful blue bottle arrived, I naturally had to test it immediately: Top note - oh, yes, very intense orange blossom of the natural kind! I am immediately reminded of the wonderful freshness kick my grandmother always carried with her when she had just applied her 4711. These are cheerful memories of mild orange blossom without any indolic notes, for me the most beautiful version of orange blossom ever. Lemon and ginger also give my instant good mood a boost. Quickly, a powdery warmth joins in, without the fragrance losing its lightness and freshness. Dry, slightly sweetened vanilla comes into play, but that's not all. Is it the ginger that adds its special aroma? Perhaps a hint of unnamed heliotrope with the beginnings of a fortunately dry and not stuffy musk? I think I also perceive a hint of benzoin. Now the fragrance becomes more and more fascinating, light and floating, and in a transparent way, powdery-fine, like very light, delicate pastries, without fat, without artificial flavors.
Thus, the fragrance lingers for many hours, with the citrus gradually receding a bit, and the benzoin impression also softens over time, especially in projection, until this Classique takes on a more Chanel-like character: mild, noble, reserved, and suitable for any executive floor, without being too joyless.
The next day, my clothes smell heavenly of exquisite, feather-light lemon pastries.
I immediately have to wear the fragrance again. I wore it on Christmas Eve, on the first Christmas day, on the second... and at some point, I realized that I hadn't noticed jasmine at all, really not, nor jasmine tea. Shouldn't Tiaré be in there too? I hadn't noticed that either. That, however, was very surprising. Tiaré is so characteristic that it should be noticeable even in the smallest amounts. And if I, as a jasmine critic, don't notice a jasmine-scented substance, then maybe something is wrong with me?
Something was indeed odd with the pyramid, odder than pyramids sometimes are.
So, I took a closer look at the perfume page with the blue airline bottle again. Mine also had a blue corset, limited edition, airline variant. But mine didn't say Eau Fraîche? And then I saw it: On the blue bottle on the website, it said at the bottom of the packaging: Eau Fraîche. And on mine, it said: Pin-Up Eau de Parfum - Natural Spray.
Upon closer inspection, the bottles also look a bit different: My blue corset has a belt with an airplane on the buckle. The Eau Fraîche bottle has no belt and instead has a white trim at the top of the corset. What is particularly confusing is that there is also a user photo with my bottle on the Eau Fraîche page - obviously another mix-up.
Now everything is clear to me; of course, I don't smell any jasmine (tea) when none is present, nor any nonexistent Tiaré. I can relate much more to marshmallow here, dry, powdery, mildly sweetened, and with a light vanilla without fat, which comes close to my noble pastries.
I am very happy with my swap, including the mix-up, and I sincerely thank Schokololly for the wonderful Gaultier with the airplane belt and Chanel vibe!
*And of course, there must also be a follow-up: My marshmallow is probably tonka with a bit of vanilla, maybe a hint of star anise and papyrus, just an exquisite pastry. It also seems more consistent to me that the now correct pyramid lists even more than the normal Pin Up. I had suspected that not everything was listed in Pin Up, as the fragrance seemed more complex than the pyramid, even though the pyramid of Pin Up already fit much better than that of the other airline. And now I may have completely confused you. Sorry!
Nevertheless, I will leave the comment as it is, as I see it as a lesson for both: that one can indeed notice when a pyramid is incorrect (because one has confused the fragrance), but also that one may not notice when the central fragrance components are present in both fragrances. And now it's really over :-) *
It's quite confusing with all the Classiques! And I must add in advance, Jasmine Sambac is even so much in the background here that I don't notice it at all. This probably means that hardly anyone else will notice it either. So, enough of the long preamble. Here is the old, unchanged comment in the new, correct place:*
As is well known, I enjoy participating in the various swap games in the forum. There is the opportunity to trade leftover bottles, samples, and decants of fragrances that I have always wanted to test more long-term and extensively than would be possible within the framework of a traveling letter. Sometimes a particularly designed bottle or the pyramid of a previously unknown fragrance piques my interest.
I wouldn't buy such "cats in a bag," but swapping for fragrances that are languishing in my collection fits perfectly.
So, the Classique Airlines Edition caught my eye in the swap game, limited edition, not in the bottle depicted above, but in a bottle with a blue corset.
Both the Classique original and many of its successors had fascinated me, and I had often been on the verge of acquiring them, but with most of them, something slightly piercing ultimately bothered me, which became annoying over time - once again, I suspected the combination of jasmine and orange blossom as the cause.
Nevertheless, most of them had something wonderful, and so, torn between my feelings, I swapped for the unknown Classique from the game. Maybe this Classique could fully convince me? In the pyramid for the blue corset bottle, I found ginger, lemon sorbet, sugar cane, Tiaré, orange blossom, jasmine tea, labdanum, musk, and vanilla.
Maybe the addition of -tea behind the jasmine would alleviate my Classique problem?
When the beautiful blue bottle arrived, I naturally had to test it immediately: Top note - oh, yes, very intense orange blossom of the natural kind! I am immediately reminded of the wonderful freshness kick my grandmother always carried with her when she had just applied her 4711. These are cheerful memories of mild orange blossom without any indolic notes, for me the most beautiful version of orange blossom ever. Lemon and ginger also give my instant good mood a boost. Quickly, a powdery warmth joins in, without the fragrance losing its lightness and freshness. Dry, slightly sweetened vanilla comes into play, but that's not all. Is it the ginger that adds its special aroma? Perhaps a hint of unnamed heliotrope with the beginnings of a fortunately dry and not stuffy musk? I think I also perceive a hint of benzoin. Now the fragrance becomes more and more fascinating, light and floating, and in a transparent way, powdery-fine, like very light, delicate pastries, without fat, without artificial flavors.
Thus, the fragrance lingers for many hours, with the citrus gradually receding a bit, and the benzoin impression also softens over time, especially in projection, until this Classique takes on a more Chanel-like character: mild, noble, reserved, and suitable for any executive floor, without being too joyless.
The next day, my clothes smell heavenly of exquisite, feather-light lemon pastries.
I immediately have to wear the fragrance again. I wore it on Christmas Eve, on the first Christmas day, on the second... and at some point, I realized that I hadn't noticed jasmine at all, really not, nor jasmine tea. Shouldn't Tiaré be in there too? I hadn't noticed that either. That, however, was very surprising. Tiaré is so characteristic that it should be noticeable even in the smallest amounts. And if I, as a jasmine critic, don't notice a jasmine-scented substance, then maybe something is wrong with me?
Something was indeed odd with the pyramid, odder than pyramids sometimes are.
So, I took a closer look at the perfume page with the blue airline bottle again. Mine also had a blue corset, limited edition, airline variant. But mine didn't say Eau Fraîche? And then I saw it: On the blue bottle on the website, it said at the bottom of the packaging: Eau Fraîche. And on mine, it said: Pin-Up Eau de Parfum - Natural Spray.
Upon closer inspection, the bottles also look a bit different: My blue corset has a belt with an airplane on the buckle. The Eau Fraîche bottle has no belt and instead has a white trim at the top of the corset. What is particularly confusing is that there is also a user photo with my bottle on the Eau Fraîche page - obviously another mix-up.
Now everything is clear to me; of course, I don't smell any jasmine (tea) when none is present, nor any nonexistent Tiaré. I can relate much more to marshmallow here, dry, powdery, mildly sweetened, and with a light vanilla without fat, which comes close to my noble pastries.
I am very happy with my swap, including the mix-up, and I sincerely thank Schokololly for the wonderful Gaultier with the airplane belt and Chanel vibe!
*And of course, there must also be a follow-up: My marshmallow is probably tonka with a bit of vanilla, maybe a hint of star anise and papyrus, just an exquisite pastry. It also seems more consistent to me that the now correct pyramid lists even more than the normal Pin Up. I had suspected that not everything was listed in Pin Up, as the fragrance seemed more complex than the pyramid, even though the pyramid of Pin Up already fit much better than that of the other airline. And now I may have completely confused you. Sorry!
Nevertheless, I will leave the comment as it is, as I see it as a lesson for both: that one can indeed notice when a pyramid is incorrect (because one has confused the fragrance), but also that one may not notice when the central fragrance components are present in both fragrances. And now it's really over :-) *
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