Description
The relaunch of the fragrance Azzaro from 1974, known under the name Azzaro Couture, was presented in Paris in 2008, in the Bristol hotel (Rue Faubourg Saint Honoré), accompanied by a fashion show of the Parisian boutique Azzaro.
The original bottle of the Azzaro Couture fragrance was created in the shape of a ring, which was inspired by Salvador Dali painting. The Color scheme was changed from black to white, narrowing towards the bottom. Each bottle is hand-made and therefore unique. The top of each is crowned with 120 Swarovski crystals.
The bottle is available in two versions, Couture Prestige and Couture Cristal, both in the amount of 75 ml. A 100 ml Couture Refill edition with a small funnel is also available.
The original version of the perfume was created in cooperation with perfumer Maurice Thibond, as a chypre floral composition. The relaunch was created thanks to successful cooperation with perfumer Aurelien Guichard (Givaudan), and is described as less heavy and more floral than the original.
This perfume includes absolutes of mimosa, May rose, iris, ambrette seed and galbanum. The difference when compared with the previous edition from 1974 is that some ingredients are exclude and this more modern edition has become more sparkling and glamorous.
Chertionok_13 – :
Azzaro Couture is truly exceptional. Powdery mimosa, iris, ambrette seed and galbanum give this fragrance a luminous quality. It is an example of perfect balance and proportion in perfume composition. This lovely bouquet opens with a fresh green sharpness, but the florals take center stage throughout the development. Azzaro Couture is the embodiment of elegance and refined taste…the bejeweled bottle, not so much.
Sillage is moderate and longevity is excellent–over 12 hours on my skin.! Wearable for any occasion, but especially for romantic evenings out. This one is at the top of my perfume rotation!
Snap07 – :
I get a giant wallop of a gorgeous, woody Iris. The galbanum gives it a nice slightly bitter, green musky note. All this combines nicely with the Mimosa, so the overall smell is woody, sweet, and slightly green and herbaceous. Classy. It’s a little cool this morning, here in South Carolina, and this is perfect for this weather. I plan to rock this extensively in the fall.
wowankos – :
Couture acts on my skin like a light green chypre and a very nice one, for day and night, not too serious and old fashioned, feminine bright and moderately sweet albeit not very original. Sillage and longevity moderate. It reminds “Diane” and it’s the same nose but the ingredients seem better.easy to wear, Nice!!
dmi3ry – :
This is very well made fragrance. You can smell the quality of five absolutes. Not very sweet, silage and longevity is only moderate on me. One of very few scents that I can bath in, it fits me perfectly.
oboronden – :
Up top I get a salty grapefruit that seems like it belongs to one of JC Ellena’s Hermes scents….The heart is a very non-Hermes-like crumbly sweet orris….
And the heart ends fairly quickly in a light powdery thing (mimosa is plausible, but a very airy version), with a hint, once again, of that salty grapefruit. Maybe my salty grapefruit is their ambrette…? Nice, but a bit brief.
hymera326 – :
A further advance on Chandler Burr’s complimentary review on the new Couture would be redundant and a little arrogant, it really hits the mark. Yes, I often bemoan the dearth of elegant perfume releases in a plethora of saccharine concoctions. Saccharine is artificial sugar, a chemical aping of cane sugar just as the sweet monstrosities of the perfume world dull and dumb us down with the olfactory equivalent of high blood sugar. When I heard that Prada had produced ‘Candy’ there was a sharp intake of breath and a very long measured sigh. Small voices say ‘Learn to accept the things you can’t change and be grateful for small mercies,’ then came Nicky Minage. Candy, all is forgiven.
I had never heard of Couture, not even the older version but the new one caught my eye at a ridiculous price on a daily special. Mentally I was rockin’ Austin Powers as I spied the bottle. I really liked it, in the way I liked Thunderbirds (FAB) and the suspended polycarbonate white sound shell chair of the sixties. I found a few references, Chandler’s being one of them and gave it a go. I’m so pleased I did. I can believe that this perfume contains four absolutes, which is to say, I want to believe it because I like it, If you took to ‘Enjoy, Bill Blass (new) Fleur de Cristal, Flora Nymphaea, First, Y (YSL) Belle en Rykiel etc then that’s the general direction but they’re not as good. Obviously regulations have taken their toll on these and Couture has been built from the ground up. It’s a happy spring scent. a feminine scent (sorry guys, I can’t see it on a man) It’s compote sweet, not jammy sweet.(compote only has enough sugar to keep for a few days) and there is a sort of guava or feijoa blossom tang.
The bottle has tiny crystals on the top, Austin Powers’ fembots are grooving the scene. “Hey DaddyO, do I make you smell nice, baby? Oh Austin, behave….and retrieve my bottle of Couture from the fembots, I’m sure there’s state secrets embedded in those little Swarovski crystals. Yes, I can see Liz Hurley as Vanessa wearing this, a top model with a comedic side, classy but fun.
rrrserega – :
This is an interesting floral/fruity chypre. It is largely linear, not a common trait for a chypre, and while it is sweet, the sweetness lies in the floral notes and not the fruity notes. The rose is candied, but the fruit note, somewhere between melon and pear, is tart and sharp. There are many notes listed (rose, bergamot, mimosa, ambrette seed, galbanum, patchouli.) Somehow they create a nose-gestalt that reads as a light chypre, a floral/fruity and a spicy musk. The spiciness reads as a nicely placed pepper note reminiscent of the one in Caron’s Parfum Sacré. It lines up beautifully with the rose and the fruit. It cuts the rose’s sweetness, gives the fruit its green edge and lasts from start to finish.
The linearity tells me that Azzaro Couture might not so much be an ‘actual’ chypre (ie. with oakmoss) as an implied or suggested chypre. Bergamot and the pepperiness give a hint of that rough bitterness that I associate with chypre. The great thing about linearity here is that it stops the clock at an accord that reminds me of the heartnotes of Diorella—almost turned fruit balanced with a dark raspiness.
AC doesn’t have great projection and it lasts better on the strip than on my skin. Although linear for the most part, AC’s constituent elements (flower, fruit, musky spice) remain distinct, and even into the drydown there is no blurring of the lines.
MOM_I – :
The opening is hard to describe it’s
fruity with metallic nuances. I’m not crazy
about the bottle design it’s homely in it’s appearance i think what’s making that
metallic smell is probably the Amberette
seedlings and the Mimosa notes is making it metallic those two just dominate the other notes you barely smell the rose
and iris in it these are one of those
perfumes that are hard the review.