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fabula – :
Smells a lot like Arpege but it’s diluted toilet water or eau de toilette. The fragrance has a higher alcohol content than the original Arpege. My mother wore both the EDT and eau de parfum. I still have the EDTs. They look pretty and smell sweet but they’re clearly meant to be kept in the bathroom so you can put it on to scent your skin as a skin freshner after a shower or bath. Everything the reviewers have said here is true. However I do love the scent. It smells like peach, rose, ylang, lilies and vanilla. It’s a sweet scent and makes you feel energized and ready for your day. It’s easy to wear if you don’t want to wear a real perfume or cologne but something in between. The bottles come in black or white boxes and they look exactly like the photo pictured on here with either a gold or black stopper. If you have worn the original Arpege, you’ll probably like this one but don’t blindly buy this one and mistake it for the actual Arpege. The Eau de Parfum Arpege is such an amazing fragrance!
benisch – :
My wife was given a bottle of this fragrance, I think it came in a
free toiletry bag.
I sprayed it on my wrist….yes I”m a guy, but hey, it was a Sunday and I was just hanging around the house. And plus no one else wanted to try it.
My wife, my daughter and I all agreed that on my skin, it smells like a sickly, cheap, floral toilet deodorant.
….so it’s now in the bathroom/toilet room.
Sorry, but I tell it like it is and it’s purely my view.
abakos – :
ARPEGE
LANVIN
GROUP FLORAL ALDEHYDE
NOTES: ALDEHYDES BERGAMOT NEROLI PEACH ROSE HONEYSUCKLE CAMELLIA LILY OF THE VALLEY JASMINE LILY SANDALWOOD AMBER BENZOIN PATCHOULI
SILLAGE: MODERATE RADIATES WITHIN ARM’S LENGTH
LONGEVITY: MODERATE 3 TO 6 HOURS
REMINDS ME OF: CHANEL NO 5 CHANEL NO 22 L’INTERDIT GIVENCHY TOSCA MAURER & WIRTZ
In 1927, Jeanne Lanvin the French fashion designer, was competing with Coco Chanel whose nose Ernest Beaux had already released two beautiful aldehyde perfumes No. 5 and No. 22. Arpege was created not for the public but for Jeanne’s daughter Marie Blanche a musician. This was a mother’s gift to her daughter made with love. The fragrance has come and gone and we can’t enjoy the original fragrance as it has been reformulated and it’s nothing like the original. It has endured through decades, this little perfume, and here it is succeeding in belonging in our time any time. It is as timeless as Chanel No. 5. The fragrance opens with aldehydes but these are very soft powdery soapy aldehydes. I wear it after I take a shower and also use the Arpege Fluff Body Lotion. The scent begins with fresh citrus and neroli. Then it turns very floral. A camellia flower note is in it but this is synthetic as camellias have no fragrance. It is a rose most of all. That rose blooms beautifully and it harmonically joins the scents of lily of the valley and ylang ylang. A sweet succulent peach and honeysuckle provide the scent with absolute charm and deliciousness. The dry down is rather complicated as it seems to be a lot of things: patchouli, benzoin, sandalwood and even something almost like blonde woods and light musk. This is a very soft powder that I find very feminine and sweet. It’s even innocent. It was after all meant for daughters not mothers. And funny how after all these years this scent is one of a mother. It’s a soft whisper in your ear, a caress, a light touch on your shoulder. It’s very sexy to me. It just wants to wrap you up in it’s soft cloud of beauty and elegance. This is a perfumed Audrey Hepburn Julie Andrews and Angela Lansbury women whose sweetness femininity and grace and goodness has touched our hearts for years. A beautiful perfume I wear proudly.
amatteuss – :
ARPEGE DELICIEUSE BY LANVIN OF PARIS
THE EAU DE TOILETTE VERSION OF ARPEGE
Most people are familiar with the classic 1927 perfume Arpege by French couturière Jeanne Lanvin. The story goes that she made the perfume as a gift for her daughter, Marie Blanche, a classical musician, on the occasion of her 30th birthday. She worked with two perfumer/noses André Fraysse and Paul Vacher. The eau de parfum is what most people buy. It’s heady, strong and beautiful as a floral-fruity aldehyde. It’s elegant, youthful and sweet. Most people don’t know about the 2nd Arpege launched the following year of 1928: Eau Delicieuse and Eau Arpege. This is extremely rare and hard to find. It has been discontinued but if you are hunting for haven’t been seen for years vintage perfume on ebay or in older perfumeries in Europe, you’re likely to find it. This is the eau de toilette version. It’s not to be confused with the original eau de parfum Arpege. This is much softer, very diluted, in fact it only serves as an after-shower skin freshner. But you can still smell the same notes as Arpege. It has the peach and the rose. But the projection is very weak and the sillage very poor. You can wear this and no one would know you’re wearing it. It sits very close to the skin. It feels very sedate, very feminine in a classy, old school way. I felt like I was sitting down on a nice table in a rose garden having a peach flavored dessert in the summer, in 1928, with a pretty large brimmed white hat and a pretty summer dress. This is from another time. It really feels like the perfume to be found among the toiletries in the bathroom of a woman who lived in London or France around the years 1900 to 1920. This is much too soft to be appreciated by others so wear it for yourself after a shower and layer it with other fragrances, preferably with floral-fruity notes, with rose perfumes. The real charm of Eau Delicieuse is the bottle. This is an absolutely gorgeous bottle. Frosted glass, a rounded stopper and a gold plated neck. The stopper comes in either black or white colors, but the plated neck is always in gold. It’s like being served a peach dessert on a gold plate. This gold plated version is very very very hard to find. I found it as part of a luxury estate sale which then sold on ebay. There appears to be two lines of this same eau de toilette. Eau Delicieuse has been utterly discontinued. It can be found simply as EAU ARPEGE. I was not disappointed. It’s very lovely and I was pleased with it but it’s really a more subdued very watered down version of Arpege.