Love Coco Chanel, the fragrance still takes me back to the 80s

A lot of beautiful smelling perfumes have been reformulated or discontinued. The choices we have now are gaudy chemically vanillas and caramels or insect repellant scents that are nauseating.

If you're old enough to experience parfumes in 70,80,90s, you know that this world has been gone for a long time now😢. Most bottles were  pieces of art, juices were extraordinary, unique, deep. Buying perfume felt like owning a luxury items. Even scents from budget friendly shelves were decent.! Not to mention ingredients, usually 3,4 items, like water,alcohol fragrance and no allergies for most people when applied reasonably. Same fragrance purchased in 80,90s smells nothing like todays versions, lost depth and richness and probably gained lots of useless chemicals

everything Estée Lauder takes over turns to dust, looking at Jo Malone, mac cosmetics, Tom Ford. They just destroy everything that they take over.

I'm almost 64 years old and perfume is one of the most earliest memories I have, from when I was a very young girl, 5, 6 years old. ALL the beautiful classics DO NOT smell the same since 'fixers' from animals like, civet, muskrat, ambergris, etc., are now forbidden from being used, so its all synthetics now. Hence these beautiful, delicious and some of my favourites;
Boucheron
Coco
Opium
Rive Gauche
Joy
Coco Mademoiselle
Fidji
Fendi
Madam Rochas
Byzance
Casmir
...sadly don’t smell smell the same. And, don’t get me started on these divine beauties no longer made; Capricci, Gianfranco Ferre and La Nuit. 💔😭

Ester Lauder also owns Jo Malone. Chanel perfumes are not worth the price. Perfumes nowadays are WAY overpriced.

They used to be better long time ago.
Now, it is all about money.
Sad....
😌

Guerlain's Shalimar and Samsara.
Mugler's Alien and Angel.
Agent Provocateur.
Serge Lutens Fleur D'Orangers.
All long lasting fragrances.

Chanel no. 5 WAS unique. They’ve reformulated at least THREE TIMES. It is not the same as back in the 1950’s.

Just like everything we consume, it's all been cheapend and altered. The all smell the same once they are on you.

I want to know the TRUTH. Modern perfumes are not the same scent profile as before, but more importantly they last on the skin sometimes for minutes. I now buy only vintage perfumes which has led me to be able to prove the above. It is difficult to get something legitimate, but when you do you get what perfume used to be.

Someone must bust the con about modern perfumes.

Wear what YOU love!  Love what YOU wear!!

Though the AI is repulsive, the message is not. It is important. My favorite parfum, my signature for decades, has been Guerlain's Mitsouko. Suddenly the EDP was repackaged in a white rather than the traditional gold box and lo and behold the fragrance is not remotely the same. Who do they think they're kidding? After writing to the company (and enjoying an email discussion with one of the NYC execs),  and stopping by one of their Paris boutiques, I got the latest, carefully memorized propaganda: They had to remove the oak moss. Why? Because the EU now forbids that key element duet to a tiny percentage of people who might be allergic to it. Sure. I have yet to hear of any deaths by Shalimar asphyxiation. I worked for Parfums Caron in the 80s and that too has lost the quality for which it was famous. Not taken over by another corporation, but bought by a Rothschild investment banker who handed it over to her teen-aged children to ruin. Tragic. Next stop for me will be Parfums de Nicolaï -- at least she seems legit and once worked for Guerlain. Thank you, "Perfume Truth" but lose the AI monotone. You're doing to voiceover what some of those companies mentioned have done to perfume.

Each body changes the perfume  fragrance e  . Chemical from your own body.

Corporations have bought out really great perfumns and turned them into crap. Joy was sold to Palmolive in the states. Investers bought Light Blue. One by one, the classical perfume formulas have been changed to computerized chemicals and wiil cause sneezing.  If it doesn't cause sneezing or coughing,  the odds of it being primarily natural oils, those are worth the money.

Jo Malone lasts on skin for 30 minutes

I limit major houses. They destroyed their wonderful originals. I do have a collection of perfumes, but limit big name brands.

L’Oréal should stick to skincare and shampoo they ruin every fragrance they touch

I bought an old version of miss Dior for my mother three years ago, a version looking like 1950...It was perfect.

Find what you like and enjoy your life.