13 reviews for Alliage Sport Spray Estée Lauder

1. 

   cspinel – 2022-06-06:

   4 out of 5

   Green, green ecstasy in a bottle. I wore this in the Summers of my youth when I wanted to smell earthy and athletic on the tennis court. So glad my mother shared her perfume with me, though she wasn’t always aware that she was doing so!
   Oakmoss and cedar were never more friendly and joyful. It’s a delight to wear and an instant mood lifter.
2. 

   таран – 2022-06-06:

   3 out of 5

   Review based in the current formula (the square bottles shared by Estée, Cinnabar and other classic Lauders, now in the House of Lauder Collection -this new bottles have lots of haters, but they are not actually so bad-). I have no idea about what could be the old versions.
   Aliage is some sort of link between Private Collection and Wrappings (or Private Collection is the link in between, since is more recent). However, there is the peculiar herbal greeness of Private Collection and its dry mosiness+ the dry-cool feeling of Wrappings.
   The legend says that, one afternoon, Mrs. Lauder was driving through Palm Beach and a tree leaf fell in the car. She picked it up and sniffed it. “And I knew I had to recreate that scent, because a woman who goes out to do some jogging, or goes to the gym, had not the same experience that one who goes to a concert”, she said.
   Aliage is, therefor, an ally to the women. The emancipated, assertive women of the 70’s. Women who considered that the first beauty features are intelligence, health and self-will, but that don’t renounce to be attractive and feel fine even in the circunstances in which they shoulnd’t be. Women who couldn’t be fit in the traditional, female stereotyps. Because of this, I think this could be perfectly sold as unisex fragance. A previous review of this fragance compares it with the “filthy” fragances of the 70’s. And Aliage indeed is. Think about Eau de Lancaster, Eau de Lancôme, Eau de Courrèges, or even an Aromatics Elixir who did more sport, bathed herself more frequently and who didn’t take more steroids. I barely smell flowers in this: only some bitter lemon, some sort of rustic jasmine, some hint of rose similar of those of the petal-rose rosaries, and overall, moss, moss, moss and cedarwood. It is green, bitter, cold, and yet warm, slightly mouldy and slightly smokey. It makes me to think too – I don’t know really why- in cold champagne and in eye pencils.
   Very long lasting: about 12 on my skin. Sillage, in the other hand, is very soft.
   The limited distribution of the classic Lauders out of the USA is just a drama.
3. 

   xge161Unlogrere – 2022-06-06:

   4 out of 5

   I have so enjoyed this fragrance on a friend, who wore it in the 1990s. Can anyone tell me how the current fragrance in the square bottle compares?
4. 

   WhiteBear – 2022-06-06:

   3 out of 5

   I love the spirit of this perfume. I feel the green notes, the woods and the slight senses of citrus.
   I imagine myself wearing it in autumn or in winter time, I can feel it in my warm clothes while I walk down the cold streets.
   It’s earthy. It’s old. It’s nostalgic.
   I love love love it.
5. 

   Dela – 2022-06-06:

   5 out of 5

   I have an Eau d’Alliage bottle, and it is amazing from start to finish. It is different from the one pictured here, but the colour of the juice is the same. And looking at the notes i guess it is the same fragrance, i just probably have a bit of a later version, still vintage.
   Before i first sprayed the scent i was concerned. Top notes would usually disappear with time. But the fragrance in my bottle shot me down with an unexpected but truly great burst of flowers and citrus, and i am really happy that the jasmine and rose are present and vibrant as they should be (and probably were back in the 70s / 80s) It is a few minutes short pleasure, but it’s worth it, and even the fact it’s there speaks about the quality of the fragrance per se. So when someone romantically and dramatically rolls their eyes and exclaims they don’t make them like this anymore, well, i agree.
   Eau d’Alliage is a fragrance that i almost emptied in just two weeks, yes the spray is pretty loose and i had to move it to my wardrobe, in order to keep the rest of this precious scent.
   Why they call it sport spray is probably because it is a lighter and refreshing take on popular chypre themes, and because as mentioned the spray (at least in my bottle) is pretty loose and acts like a deodorant.
   Warm and fresh, sweet and refreshing Eau d’Alliage is excellent – the vetiver is delicate and feminized by the flowers, while the mossy creamy drydown is magical.
   Stunning.
   *****
6. 

   jinkazama – 2022-06-06:

   5 out of 5

   Like most green perfumes, you´ll either like or loathe Alliage.
   And this is a true green,
   not a bouquet of summer flowers with some discreet foliage
   in the background.
   It´s a hugely uncompromising perfume, and fearless in its nose-thumbing, which extends even to its fellow greenies (the few left!).
   If you prefer to take the safe route, I recommend Estée Lauders superb ‘Private collection’ – a lovely, slightly green, but mostly classic floral scent.
   Alliage isn´t like that. It has character and with the exception of a quick whiff of jasmine it ignores flowers altogether and even goes easy on the woods.
   There´s no sweetness in it, no attempt to soften the blow of strong green harmonies with their audacious quantities of nutmeg and vibrant citrus oils.
   The basic note is galbanum, a strong green sap that is both sharp and pungent.
   A zesty crush of green leaves and citrus blends very well with carefully selected spices that move it in an assertive direction which turns out to be the forest floor of oakmoss and, from far away, some vetyver from Java.
   A soft, almost musty, mossy pervasion – actually very compelling in its ‘unorthodox’ way.
   It may not be madly popular in the Lauder line-up, but has a devoted clientele who understandably prefer its dry honesty to the hotbeds of generic and predictable florals that hold few surprises these days.
   Wonderful in the heat of the day with a casual look,
   but a flop at night.
   This fresh, vegetal and dry composition is now less intensely bitter herbal, less powdery and a touch more floral today than when it was created, but still very good.
   Perhaps not the most romantic choice or a crowd pleaser, but neither will it offend.
   Like a pair of well-designed and tailored cut pants it goes everywhere and is well fitted to an active lifestyle.
   At least it is interesting and has survived for more than 40 years for a reason!
7. 

   hawk4 – 2022-06-06:

   5 out of 5

   I don’t think so dear Fragrantica. Jean Patou made in collaboration with Lacoste the first “eau de sport” in 1968. Was unisex.
   By the way is missing here that frag.
   Double mistake.
8. 

   rembo1994 – 2022-06-06:

   5 out of 5

   This was my first ever perfume that I purchased. My best friends mother always wore it and like the perfume she was young fresh and glamorous. The scent itself is fresh very green and slightly spicy. Definitely one for day time.
9. 

   KLICHKO_82 – 2022-06-06:

   4 out of 5

   Estee Lauder’s Aliage is a determined and admirable attempt to bottle sporting summertime and make it available all year round.
   As orderly and well managed as Centre Court on finals day, this is a fragrance marshalled with ex-military precision.
   The opening is a brisk moss lawn made brilliant by warm sunshine. There are hints of citrus and a slightly malted fruitiness that tries but never succeeds in deposing tart as the chief mood.
   This green persists throughout the heart and is without doubt the main accord, a definite resinous pine becomes apparent and then yields somewhat to vetiver.
   There is a distant spiciness and a definite element of powder, but these seem medicinal, belonging far more to the locker room than the beauty parlour.
   The dry down is more a three set match than five and seems to end quite decisively in a tie break that takes one almost by surprise.
   All in all Aliage is a miraculously summoned up ray of sharp sunshine available on any day.
   In the midst of foul weather we should all be truly grateful that such things exist.
   *************
   This is without doubt a game suitable for mixed doubles.
   Notice
   Aliage has recently regained its missing ‘l’ and once again become ‘Alliage’.
   Sadly in so doing it seems to have lost a deal of its vigour and derring-do.
   Catch the old magic where and while you can.
10. 

    Karambay – 2022-06-06:

    4 out of 5

    I bought this as a blind buy, the greenery of it, intrigued me. This is a very odd scent, its like I don’t love it, but I don’t hate it, it like that bad car crash but you don’t want to look away. This is such a weird scent, the oakmoss and cedar are overbearing at first, very very strong, it can almost turn you off, after 5 minutes, its mixed with the lemon, which makes the scent stranger then, because its like you’re trying to make a pungent bitter scent, fresh. The blending at this stage is a little off putting, but at the same time its like I keep sniffing myself because it also intrigues me. After 1 hr, the scent finally start to blend and settle, its not overbearing now the scent softens, and you can start smelling the vetiver and nutmeg. I do smell the sportiness of it all. Like after a jog in the park when you’re tired and go to sit if off at the bench and you are breathing it all in, this is that scent. After about 3 hrs I start to smell the jasmine. It last about 8 hrs. Its a very interesting scent, very different. I do like it, its a day scent. I must say this is not for everyone. This is for a confident woman.
11. 

    fkk660Bessinepome – 2022-06-06:

    4 out of 5

    When Estee Lauder began marketing perfumes I imagine she and her employees felt a bit like the California vintners who first “dared” to produce wines intended to equal (or surpass) wines produced in France.
    I was there and I remember: there just weren’t that many alternatives to French perfumes if you were an “average” American woman. And if you happened to be a teenager in the early 1970’s and didn’t want to smell like your mom or grandmom, there were even fewer affordable alternatives. Alliage (then spelled with 2 L’s) arrived as a breath of fresh air, AND it was designed with young women in mind — a step up from Revlon’s Charlie, introduced the year before.
    Alliage was one of the first American non-Avon fragrances I bought for myself and I’m telling you, at a time when the minimum wage was $1.60 per hour, finding a wonderful, lasting fragrance for under $20.00 per bottle was like a miracle!
    I’d love to compare wrist-to-wrist original Alliage (spelled with two L’s) with what’s sold now (with one L). 1970’s fragrances were soooo bold, I don’t know that even I could now handle the original anymore.
    Alliage — will remain for me the fragrance of independence.
12. 

    Creefibia – 2022-06-06:

    3 out of 5

    I have been wearing Aliage for about 25 years. Its always kept “under the counter” by Lauder reps. But recently I found it at Ulta, almost hidden. This is my winter/autumn, cold day choice. The cedar and oak moss predominate. I believe Estee was trying to design a “walk in the woods” scent, and she succeeded!
    I only wear it in cold weather, even though its a sport scent, it can intensify with heat. One word of caution: I have never received one compliment on it when I used to wear it at work. It just doesnt appeal to everyone who is used to traditional powdery florals. I reserve it for weekends.
13. 

    Shirin_007 – 2022-06-06:

    3 out of 5

    ALiage Sport is a great scent for women who “hate perfume.” It is a great everyday scent, crisp and resfreshing, especially for summer wear.