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tdm785Bessinepome – :
I have a dark brown 100ml bottle of this in cologne form. I *think* it’s vintage, but I def don’t get civet as the strongest note. *pout*
This came on my radar because of the civet and comparison to Teatra Alla-Whatever by Krizia. But… aside from being similar Orientals/Spicy 80s scents, they aren’t alike. There isn’t any real sweetness to GHBH.
Gale Hayman Beverly Hills is like the 80s version of Britney Spears Hidden Fantasy. You get Oranges, Cloves/Spices, and then spicy earthy incense-like stuff. It’s a really good perfume for this genre, I just wanted more animalic skank. I’m a huge skank. 😉
I have Royal Secret in the modern “Eau de Royal Secret” and I don’t think they are anything alike. The modern EdRS is so weird and fruity on me… but while wearing GHBH on my chest/body and a drop of EdRS bath oil on my wrist- I totally got a similar vibe! Oh how I wish I had the real vintage Royal Secret.
If you love deep dark potent scents like Youth Dew, Opium, Tabu, etc… try out Beverly Hills. Good stuff. Moderate to high sillage, and good lasting power.
I also understand the Shalimar vibe. It’s like wearing Shalimar for 8 hours and then putting 1 spray of Opium over the Shalimar.
This was a warm summer test, so perhaps climate/weather will change the notes.
Osia3000 – :
This smells of rose for a few minutes, and then cloves. The smell of the cloves keeps changing character but is unmistakably clove for several stages. I would say that rose, clove and civet defines the main character of this perfume. There are floral notes but they are well-blended and difficult for me to identify. This makes me think I ought to re-try this in colder weather to see if I can pick out more notes. Probably the ylang ylang is also discernible. The civet lasts forever and is gorgeous sitting in a sweet background (maybe rose or just floral). This vintage is my main reference for knowing what civet smells like.
GOQOR05 – :
I recieved the vintage parfume with the stopper that you apply this with in a swap. I am totally in love with this fragrance. The civet smells so good! I never thought I would actually get to smell real civet in any perfume I own. I have Shalimar but it’s not vintage so I’m not sure if it’s synthetic or not. So anyway I’ve wanted to smell it. When I swapped for this I had no idea about this perfume but I’m so happy I have it now because I love it! It’s one of the most interesting scents I have ever sniffed. I mostly get Tonka, civet, sandalwood, floral I think Gardenia I don’t notice the tuberose much at all.
This I did not in all honesty think would smell good but I’m a sucker for parfum and I love old school,scents so I wanted this but it turns out I actually love it, it’s so unique. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever sniffed. Even my sig other liked it and I wasn’t expecting him to appreciate this. I don’t get the Shalimar similarity except for the band aid note which I now attribute to the civet. But that’s the only thing I get that’s remotely similar. This is a sexy, animalistic perfume and I finally get what they mean when someone says a perfume is animalistic.:) I adore it and the fact that it’s let me smell things I never thought I could makes me happy. 😉
Maksetonik – :
Update Feb 2018: I have the perfume in cologne Spray – deep super dark liquid. I have heaven on earth! Its sultry smooth and unapologetically present. Now I get the depths of “animalistic” expertly blended in a lush sweaty sexy forest. I am after Animale Animale next which feels like it will be a one note entry in comparison to this delicious richness. If i wore fur – it would be with this.
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Update Oct 5th 2017: Just got the body lotion. OMG, the bottom notes rule like being hugged by a Jaguar – so unusual as there are ingredients that are banned now in this mix which makes it roar for me. Then it calms down for the flowers to filter through – oh my. Its hugging me and won’t let go. Super strong, so its great value and the cream formulation is so so rich and sinks into my skin. I think I might have to lie down when the perfume comes.
Its a special occasions signature one for me. If you love drama and don’t mind asserting your presence in an intriguing confident manner, then check this sophisticated wild Feminine Feline out! Be really mean with application, she is powerful this dame.
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Am a total vintage nut. Just ordered 50 ml of this in Cologne concentration , plus found a 200ml perfumed body cream on ebay – that’s in the post too!!! I feel this could be a signature perfume, just from reading these wonderful reviews.Sounds so so sexy to me!! Thanks for helping ramp up my excitement about this perfume that i have wondered about for a while. I pray the liquid is as dark as can be ha ha. Review to follow for sure.
Cogmootly – :
today I received the vintage flacon (the sixth) of Gale Hayman. “Beverly Hills”
with the post with le parfum des parfums still in this thick, dark, syrupy colour
and the scent, when sniffed again, immediately transponding you to 1990/1, as
then the perfume was produced and stayed in Holland for just four years while
this scent even sended ferventest of poison, giorgio, coco and obsession lovers
in the trees so unbelievably, again “thick”, dense, opaque was its smell mainly
due to what was either used as main ‘fixatif’: civet or castoreum and my guess
is that it is civet as it brings out my inner jaguar. the box, flacon, name, impact
is so deliciously over-the-top and this is a must with such roomclearing scent.
it is high drama in the heavy curvacious flacon with the leopard spotted topper.
it evokes the athmosphere of the film “Sunset Boulevard” with William Holden,
Erich von Stroheim and last but not least, Gloria Swanson. the nightly, ghastly
scene when Erich as the butler in this old Hollywood mansion with his “madam”,
Gloria, bury a dead chimpansee in the garden and you really see a dead waxen
chimpansee on a kind of stretcher driven on a cart through the nightgarden and
who knows this was partly a snuffmovie and they killed the ape for the scene;
for instance a lab chimpansee. but this whole sinister athmosphere is mirrored
in the noiretée of “Gale Hayman. Beverly Hills” with the civet alone reminescing
to animal secreta and human secreta in the sense of the fluids and secrets of
“humans in the nite”. for me this particular perfume evokes that kind of fierce
memories, disturbing like a grande dame with her own toxicologic agenda with
the cloaked couture coat (Adrian, Worth, Mainbocher, Chanel, Edith Head) and
bejewelled richly by her pimps who work for her not she for them. it is THAT
kind of bewitching perfume leaving a vindictive murderous trail through LA and
NY completing the booque of postneofeminism as later picked up by MM and M
Dohlik1109 – :
This reminds me of Shalimar but stronger and muskier. Completely. That kind of odd/different scent with vanilla. I would swear there is citrus in here, too. I am wearing the vintage extrait. In the drydown, it gets that sour note before mellowing. No cinnamon detected at all but that’s probably because it is well blended and part of the spiciness of the scent. STRONG and lasting.
P.S. According to my frag expert friends and all info that we can find, this is the same as Glamour. They are one and the same perfume. Gale Hayman is in Beverly Hills; so, it just says that under the name of the perfumer.
79506522013 – :
A fabulous perfume. Everything you guys below me say is spot on. Beautiful. The cinnamon is stunning I agree!!!
Oh…..and what an amazingly exquisite bottle!! Wow!!! Beautiful!!!
shakespeare58 – :
with Migalex i absolutely agree that this is, in my opinion, the best perfume ever made available. that it is discontinued has certainly to do with the outerworldly strength of the perfume, due to the civet and the amber. it also represents the “old hollywood” athmosphere more, than i could imagine any other perfume would. it is interesting that they omitted the real 80s powerhouses from the list the buyers of “beverly hills” also most certainly would love: giorgio-obsession-poison, the trinity, furthermore knowing, opium, boudoir (1990), coco, no.5, joy [these of course older] but also “red” of giorgio beverly hills fame. also interesting is that in these times i would certainly compare it with dusita’s “oudh infini”, also a presence not to be ignored.
“beverly hills” of gale hayman with its over-the-top styling is for me an exceptionally strong yet also cozy and soothing perfume, perhaps not so much for the social circles and i would like to recommend to Migalex that it still goes round in the ebay and amazon circles and my advise is: the darker the better.
АЮГ – :
Fragrantica added at last this dream fragrance to its database. it was a bombshell in a bottle. It smells exactly of the notes listed above, to me mostly cinnamon, Amber, jasmine, sandalwood, cloves, to ka bean and patchouly. It is not classified above as for its olfactive group, but I would classify it as oriental woody. The flowers are very subdued. The scent of cinnamon here is marvelous, true natural cinnamon, very rare in perfumery, cinnamon always smelling terribly synthetic and nothing to do with its natural scent. I wish I could buy a new bottle of this. I still have a little bit but very little really. With time, because it is a splash bottle, it got more concentrated than perfume. It is intoxicating and although very natural smelling, I do not know of any other fragrance similar to it. Smashing. I wish some brand brought it back. Please!