Chypres - survivors and fallen warriors
Being a lady of...a certain age, I have a soft spot for chypres. In my late teens, as I was beginning my fragrance journey, they were still a big deal in perfumery. Wildly out of fashion today, of course. These days it seems that unless a perfume is diabetes in a bottle it just isn’t considered ‘feminine’. In my opinion that’s just nonsense - many of the great female perfumes of the past weren’t sweet at all so I don’t get why sugary = feminine. *Sigh* I guess I’m just showing my age here. I should just be glad that so many of the old warriors of yesterday are still standing - some still fabulous although others are battle scarred to a greater or lesser degree. I have a few in my collection Aromatics Elixir - quite a polarising one, this. It’s quite surprising that so many people are, apparently, still buying this, as it’s so far from what’s current. Every Clinique counter still sells it though. The first time I tested this I was repulsed for the first few minutes but had no o...
