Identifying unknown scents

[PStoller]

Yeah, that’s Lancetti Monsieur. And it’s good.

 

[nosey74]

Yeah, that’s Lancetti Monsieur. And it’s good.

Thanks for confirming as I know eBay sellers are known to misidentify fragrances from time to time.

 

[PStoller]

Thanks for confirming as I know eBay sellers are known to misidentify fragrances from time to time.

This may help explain why, in this case:

https://basenotes.com/threads/your-vintage-sotd-2020.472643/post-5015384

 

[nosey74]

This may help explain why, in this case:

https://basenotes.com/threads/your-vintage-sotd-2020.472643/post-5015384

Yes very confusing!

 

[badarun]

So I spent some time last night looking through reviews of the ladies Lancetti's and couldn't find what I perceive as a green / dry herbal citrus start in anything. I probably slept trying to put this puzzle together.

Will start looking at the mens today, starting with Monsieur.

 

[Jean-Sté]

Hello all ! Does anybody know those two scents, please ? Year of launch, notes, and so on ? Thank you in advance !

#1 Privata, Leoniero Galleani
#2 Andros, Parera

 

[Redfish365]

I have nothing of substance to add really but I have been close to buying a bottle of Andros and still may.
But I did find this ad for it from the year my son was born - 1987.

 

[Ken_Russell]

The Lancetti brand isn't unknown, but I can't find which men's fragrance this is - is this Monsieur???

Happening to own this one as well, the box as well as the bottle being identical to the one shown-and even though listed as feminine, it is effortlessly unisex or leaning even more effortlessly towards the powerhouse beast mode masculine side (while likely wearable as feminine as well, given the strong heady florals and also the dark spicy resionus incense base).

 

[Jean-Sté]

Hello all !

Has anybody heard about this scent ? Thank you !

 

[nosey74]

Hello all !

Has anybody heard about this scent ? Thank you !

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Not helpful but this fragrance is still being made:

https://www.christian-breton.fr/en/fragrances/9089-jason.html

https://www.parfumo.net/Perfumes/Christian_Breton/Jason

 

[Jean-Sté]

Not helpful but this fragrance is still being made:

https://www.christian-breton.fr/en/fragrances/9089-jason.html

https://www.parfumo.net/Perfumes/Christian_Breton/Jason

Thank you very much, Nosey74 ! Short after having posted, I've seen their website, too; I've sent an e-mail...Wait and see !

 

[PStoller]

Has anybody heard about this scent?

I hadn’t heard of it until you posted about the purchase, but I did look up the company at that point. Primarily a facial skincare company, Christian Breton supposedly launched his company in the late 1990s (inspired by his mother’s work as a geneticist in the 1960s), and started a fragrance division in 2000.

What’s odd to me is the bottle design and “atomiseur” suggest an older product. I have a fanciful suspicion, however unfounded, that Christian Breton launched earlier, flopped, and relaunched in the ’90s.

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…and I’ve now seen a couple of references to CB being founded c. 1979 and issuing at least one fragrance in 1980. So, maybe!

 

[Jean-Sté]

I hadn’t heard of it until you posted about the purchase, but I did look up the company at that point. Primarily a facial skincare company, Christian Breton supposedly launched his company in the late 1990s (inspired by his mother’s work as a geneticist in the 1960s), and started a fragrance division in 2000.

What’s odd to me is the bottle design and “atomiseur” suggest an older product. I have a fanciful suspicion, however unfounded, that Christian Breton launched earlier, flopped, and relaunched in the ’90s.

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…and I’ve now seen a couple of references to CB being founded c. 1979 and issuing at least one fragrance in 1980. So, maybe!

How interesting it is, as always when you're in the party, PStoller ! I'm very grateful, really. To me too, "Atomiseur" and the bottle design suggested an earlier scent than the 90s, but who knows ? Maybe I'll get some answer from their website, even if I'm a bit doubtful about it. Tomorrow, I'll open the other two sealed boxes, in order to smell what the scents smell like.

 

[PStoller]

Maybe I'll get some answer from their website…

The website doesn’t even list descriptions or notes for the fragrances. It’s like the perfumery division is an afterthought.

 

[nosey74]

The website doesn’t even list descriptions or notes for the fragrances. It’s like the perfumery division is an afterthought.

That was my impression too!

 

[Redfish365]

I'm hoping someone knows something about this.
All I could find was a Parfumo entry which shows a 1983 date of origin.
It's Monte Carlo Pour Homme and apparently its company is/was in Monaco...

 

[Jean-Sté]

I'm hoping someone knows something about this.
All I could find was a Parfumo entry which shows a 1983 date of origin.
It's Monte Carlo Pour Homme and apparently it's company is/was in Monaco...
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The website doesn’t even list descriptions or notes for the fragrances. It’s like the perfumery division is an afterthought.

That was my impression too!

@PStoller & @nosey74 : I've sent an e-mail, but I don't have much hope getting an answer. We'll see !

@Redfish365 : I've never heard of this one, nor seen !

 

[furrypine]

Thank you for an interesting thread. I've gone through it and added everything mentioned to the directory. I'm subscribed to the thread so I can follow up if you have more rarities that should be added to the database.

 

[Jean-Sté]

Hello ! Here is another unknown one; all I've found is it's from Elida-Gibbs, and launched in 1985: Storm

 

[Jean-Sté]

Hello I bought those a few months ago; a fellow BNer (whom I can't recall the name, sorry) posted about this scent; if my memory serves me well, I think this scent was related to James Bond. Does anybody have any clue ? Thanks a lot !