Relaunched in 2007
V / Visa fragrance notes
Head
- white vineyard peach, pear, violet leaf, italian bergamot, yellow mandarin
Heart
- ylang ylang, rose, orange flower absolute
Base
- patchouli, sandalwood, vetiver, moss, vanilla, benzoin, leather, civet, musk, castoreum, cistus
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An old cardboard suitcase filled with perfumed clothes and shoes, there's also lipstick and powder, and a balsamic sweetness to the baseline.
It recalls a time when people packed a bag and travelled by train. An era when everything wasn't plastic and still had a 'natural' smell to it.
[Vintage Parfum]

It lives in a space halfway between Hermes Ambre Narguile (fruity, ashy pipe tobacco over pie-spiced gourmand amber) and Chanel's Coromandel (Old fashioned resinous amber with sour greens). I can see how it has its fans - this is a good combination - but I think it has issues. The ashy note and the sour greens team up to smell kind of nasty, like a really amazing gourmand with a blob of unpleasant weirdness on top. It's also oddly minty, which doesn't seem to match up with anything. The whole thing feels like it could be improved by leaving out a few ingredients.
That being said, it pulls itself back together with a truly wonderful brown sugar cinnamon base. In all, I'm going to split the difference and vote neutral.
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Orange blossom & ylang ylang appear.
No rose yet.
Lovely immortelle.
Vanilla present.
Later - patchouli, benzoin, and vetiver.
Still no rose.
Overall, kind of a gentle sweetness like others I own.
Surprise! Way later it resembles cinnamon. Hmm.


Current Vintage:
It is oriental. It is Floral.
A nice feminine leaning fragrance.
Like chicken soup on a cold day - Warm and fulfilling.
Recommended.
