Best Perfume in Paris

[girdhar]

great scientific illustration.
I do think it is necessary increase the doses of the perfume as the time passes .

[joan1]

Hello gridhar, nice to "meet you" . I see you pulled this old thread up, and I am glad as I hadn't seen it before.

I love Chanel #5 for day, and for the summer. For evenings and winter I like Opium.
And , I must admit I just " don't smell it on me" , so perhaps wearing it for the last 30+ years does make me " immune" to it.

I also like L'Air Du Temps, and Shalimar.

The first perfume I was ever given was" L'Heure Bleu ," a rather " old lady scent, but then it was given to me by my french grandmother. I never told her it wasn't really something I liked, so every year she sent another bottle for my birthday, LOL

[rssilverandlight]

Being a guy, I didn't think I would be getting into this thread but
I came upon an ad featuring "from the daring decade of the 1920's,
comes the fragrance Soir de Paris, the most famous fragrance in
the world. By 1950 it was touted the fragrance more women wore than any other in the world.

Anybody know it ? Anybody wore it ? What was it like ?

[Becky (Berkeleytravelers)]

Randy, I'm sure this is the one that in the US was known as "Eveing in Paris" and came in a dark blue bottle - and when I was about 10, I thought it was the height of sophistication and loved it! (Never thought about it, but that's probably part of what put Paris on my radar from a very young age!)

[Jody]

Randy, I'm surre all of us over a certain age wore evening in Paris at one time in our lives. Didn't the little blue bottle have a tassel ?

[luvparee]

I, too, thought Evening in Paris was the most sophisticated perfume (and bottle) when I was very young and that probably was my first step into my Paris addiction! On one of my trips to Paris, I purchased the French advertisement for "Soir de Paris" from the bouquinistes that was done on probably a 6" x 4" soft metal metal piece that proudly hangs in my bathroom!

[rssilverandlight]

Becky, demarais and luvparee -

You've got it. I looked again at the ad and it was called
Evening in Paris and came in a cobalt blue bottle.
Should anyone want to try it, the link is:
www.vermontcountrystore.com

[ladyjicky]

My Mother adores rose perfume and one of her favourites is Rosine. Their shop is in the Palais Royal. Many different scents all on the rose theme. I have never been to this shop but we intend to this visit!
So rose lovers - stop by while in this beautiful spot of Paris.

[susanb]

Demarais, THAT is a gorgeous wedding picture. How beautiful you are.
Susan

[cigalechanta]

I love Opium in the winter. In summer the fragrances of Coté Bastide.
Bridget Bardot wore Jicky.
My fashion icon, Carine Roitfeld, wears the men's Opium.

[framboiseetrose]

Demarais,

Love your wedding picture! Gitte made me laugh when she asks what's the wedding cake doing on top of your head. You are such a lovely bride and now counting to your 47th year. Have many more!

Glad to read that you have used some of the perfumes I like and used - depends on the mood. I still keep a Channel No. 5 and is thinking of trying Shalimar again.

framboise

[Jody]

Gitte obviously does not remember Jackie Kennedy and her "pill box hats".. My wedding cake head dress was the very height of fashion in the early 60"s!!!

[Becky (Berkeleytravelers)]

Jody, it was not just Jackie - think of Audrey Hepburn (actually, there is a resemblance there!)

[phread]

Lovely photo Demarais.

I went out with a gentleman last month and he was wearing the Cartier fragrance. Must have pheremones or something in it, because the smell made me weak in my knees. Nearly swooned!

For myself, it is Diptyche "l'ombre dans l'eau" have the candles, too, so my home and I smell the same. I NEVER wore fragrance and then one day, as I walking through the Bon Marche I smelled something that stopped me in my tracks. The rest is history. It was the ultimate revenge because a month earlier I had been making fun of a friend who bought Diptyche candles, finding it utterly ridiculous to spend that much on a candle. Well, now, I get it. I actually live by it.

[ladyjicky]

Jackie O wore Jicky too and so does Sean Connery - James Bond - the "Best Bond"!!! LOL

[Megan]

Demarais - your headgear is almost identical to my Mums - i think Mums may have had a bit higher ''box''. !!!!!

[GitteK]

Question: has anyone of you ever been to the Shiseido salons in Palais Royal ? I have had it on my list for so long that it is embarrassing....... It should be exqusite.

What are Serge Lutens's fragrances like ? I only know his name, not his perfumes (yet).

www.salons-shiseido.com/

[cigalechanta]

Some of the Hermes fragrances are very nice.

[phread]

Serge Lutens has a variety of fragrances. They are avail at Sephora these days and I like the Gris one, but the rest I find over powering, either REALLY fruity, flowery or musky.

Hermes.. I love their Nile fragrance. It is my choice for the summer. They even make a non-alcool version so that you don't get spots wearing it in the sun. Less strong, though, which means more frequent applications.

[suzanne]

I love my XSL "Paris" fragrance. I use it as an excuse to go to Paris every year. LOL