Vintage SOTD Thread for April 2023

[Professor Value]

Gotta big Admissions Open House this morning.
#SOTD 💙💛
(Sprayed right; be careful buying that one; there's a version that has oakmoss listed on the box and another one that doesn't.)

NEW WEST

 

[Franco65]

My big Admissions Open House this morning.
#SOTD 💙💛
(Sprayed right; be careful buying that one; there's a version that has Oakmont listed on the box and another one that doesn't.)

NEW WEST

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great choice

 

[Diddy]

Gotta big Admissions Open House this morning.
#SOTD 💙💛
(Sprayed right; be careful buying that one; there's a version that has oakmoss listed on the box and another one that doesn't.)

NEW WEST

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Thanks for that tip!

My SOT-Weekend. is Millesime Imperial by Creed. It’s not vintage because it was ‘launched’ in 1995 but rather because Napoleon 3rd and Empress Eugenie told Creed that Creed should celebrate Creed Paris being established for 150 years by making a fragrance. Uh… ok. Sure.

Regardless of any special history that Creed claims, this is one of my all time favorite scents. Easily in my Top 5, for smell and because it was the first ‘expensive’ fragrance Empress Diddy purchased for me.

 

[primotenore]

Saturday, April 15
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MWF~~TSN X LE (R.I.P. TSN)~~Leresche #51/Wilkinson Chromium~~Vintage Fahrenheit
Both the French Leresche and the Dior Fahrenheit qualify as "vintage".​

 

[cologne connoisseur]

Polo (Cosmair)

 

[speedyrabbit]

BOOM

 

[CookBot]

Ô de Lancôme (1969) by Robert Gonnon

I have two different vintages of this. The oldest, a splash bottle that I got from @RoRo, is marked "eau fraiche" rather than EDT and has a brown center band. I'm pretty sure it's pre-1980. Unsurprisingly for an old citrus eau, it's exhausted enough that when you splash it on there's just a brief moment of bergamot and then it goes directly into a long, deep, bitter episode of oakmoss. The newer one, an EDT with a green center band which might be from the 1990s but it's hard to know because this scent went through so many different bottlings, is a big burst of mixed citrus and then a long middle phase of soap and vetiver, before landing on a sandalwood and moss finish.

Both are marvelous warm weather refreshers, but I sure would like to have smelled that old one when it was still in the bloom of its youth.

Today I layered the newer spray over a coat of the old one to get some of that mossy base. It was a pretty good idea.

 

[Redfish365]

Thanks for that tip!

My SOT-Weekend. is Millesime Imperial by Creed. It’s not vintage because it was ‘launched’ in 1995 but rather because Napoleon 3rd and Empress Eugenie told Creed that Creed should celebrate Creed Paris being established for 150 years by making a fragrance. Uh… ok. Sure.

Regardless of any special history that Creed claims, this is one of my all time favorite scents. Easily in my Top 5, for smell and because it was the first ‘expensive’ fragrance Empress Diddy purchased for me.

Speaking for myself I consider something from 1995 to be vintage.
20 years say I marks a vintage. Some say 25 but even then you're comfortably vintage.

 

[_Nicolas_]

The newer one, an EDT with a green center band which might be from the 1990s but it's hard to know because this scent went through so many different bottlings, is a big burst of mixed citrus and then a long middle phase of soap and vetiver, before landing on a sandalwood and moss finish.

This version sounds a lot like my mini, and I'm struggling to get my head around whether the top notes are mostly gone or it just has a peculiar development. It smells quite mossy at the very start, then goes ultra-citric, then very green and then mossy again in the dry down! Quite odd, but I like it! Have to wonder if already owning Eau de Guerlain might make this one redundant for me, tho..

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[Redfish365]

6-0 by Bjorn Borg (1985)
(Bergamot, lavender, sandalwood and oakmoss. Simple but delightful.
Perfect for a spring day. Won't last super long, its only real negative, but smells great while it's there!)

 

[CookBot]

This version sounds a lot like my mini, and I'm struggling to get my head around whether the top notes are mostly gone or it just has a peculiar development. It smells quite mossy at the very start, then goes ultra-citric, then very green and then mossy again in the dry down! Quite odd, but I like it! Have to wonder if already owning Eau de Guerlain might make this one redundant for me, tho.. .

Yours is post-2000, I believe, identified by its transparent cap. Older versions have a frosted cap that's imprinted with the same abstract spirals as the bottle.

Except for the mossy start, yours does sound like my green band version. And there definitely are many eaux of this type that would make it redundant in many wardrobes. It's just a style I like a lot and can never seem to have too many of, especially in my ultra-humid climate. I wear them six months a year and like to have a wide variety of them.

 

[_Nicolas_]

Yours is post-2000, I believe, identified by its transparent cap. Older versions have a frosted cap that's imprinted with the same abstract spirals as the bottle.

Thank you for dating it for me, @CookBot! So easy when you know how to! Yeah, I certainly share your love of EdCs and doing a major cull of my wardrobe has shown me just how much I do, as the majority of eaux have been kept...

 

[Bavard]

My vintage scent of the day is Escada Pour Homme.

Some of my infatuation has passed, although I would still go for a bottle of the golden edition if I found one at a good price.

 

[Pheusinger]

https://basenotes.com/fragrances/millesime-imperial-by-creed.26121101

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

Chanel Pour Monsieur

 

[hednic]

SOTE: Ignis by Omar Sharif

 

[Diddy]

Speaking for myself I consider something from 1995 to be vintage.
20 years say I marks a vintage. Some say 25 but even then you're comfortably vintage.

20 years in the general mark I use as well. I was just using the opportunity to take a poke at Creed historical claims.

 

[Ken_Russell]

First edition Guerlain Heritage EDT- at least so far cannot get enough of this classic.

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

Balenciga Pour Homme

 

[nosey74]

A slightly sweet, spicy, aromatic, green fougere