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relgo – :
2011? Really? Are you *sure* it’s not 1991? I mean this in the best way possible. It has that old-school charm about it that evokes the perfumery of that era. The rose and ylang-ylang intermingle sensually on a soft base of oakmoss, cloves lending a soft spiciness, carnation and sandalwood adding warmth. It’s a love, and I am really quite surprised at that fact.
pepo123 – :
I do agree with this being from almost another era! It started with a wonderful powdery combination of iris and peach, I did get a slight dust and lipstick vibe.
The heart brought out the soapy rose, together with musk making this truly similar to perfumes from the age before. It did resemble Guerlain’s MITSOUKO at some point, it had the same green almost nut like crispyness and hardness.
“Lady Carthusia” is a marvelous scent if you’re into old school chypres. Even though it does appear heavy at the opening, it settles really nicely on the skin and isn’t a power fragrance in any way making this an excellent choice for everyday use. You will get the oldschool classic vibe, but won’t walk around radiating the scent miles away (wich is the case with most of the old school power chypres).
Staying power was around 6 hours, which is a slight downside for this kind of scent, but given the subtle elegance found in it’s silage, I’ll forgive to Carthusia.
Price wise – 92 EUR/50ML – does seem a bit too high.
kostyn4 – :
This is by far one of my favorite Carthusia scents. Hard to decide which I like better between this and Caprissimo. Glad I have both! I get a strong rose in this one and the dry down is oh so musky spicy. Really lovely. Not an easy perfume to find, but I believe it can be special ordered from Lucky Scent.
teqwert – :
What a surprise to see that this perfume was launched in 2011. How can this be? Lady Carthusia struck me immediately as a classic, conservative, British-style floral perfume, if I may invoke such a stereotype. In a blind test, I’d have guessed that this was produced by Floris. Which is not to say that other perfumes in the Carthusia line-up do not also strike me as “classic”–some of them certainly do, including Fiori di Capri, a bright and sharp floral composition, and Aria di Capri, which I recently tested and found also to have a “classic” feel, up to and including the ultimate sign of “classicism” in floral perfumes: soapy iris.
Lots of flowers here! I would not have characterized the composition as a chypre, although there does seem to be something along the lines of oakmoss present, so maybe it is intended to be a classic, not a modern (big patchouli) chypre, despite the late date of its launch. Yes, that must be it. This seems like an effort to re-create a perfume from the past, and if so, it succeeds!
I see that reviewers have compared Lady Carthusia to the discontinued and obscure Deneuve, by the “house” of Catherine Deneuve. I have not smelled that creation, but I could see Catherine Deneuve wearing Lady Carthusia today.