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Joki – :
I wanted this to be dirty. It’s not. On me it is very clear, crystalized florals with a hint of honey. It is light and clear and bright. Pretty but very subdued and elegant. Amazing how fragrances differ! I would consider this a great wedding scent on me. Nothing dirty about it. Test if you want sexy and dirty.
GEGINENetpext – :
Dirty dirty dirty. A bright flower opens on animalistic base.
The civet is no joke here, though as it dries down, the slightly hay-like vegetative notes also stand alongside with animalistic base.
Heavy as the beginning is, the bright white flower is like the light at the end of the tunnel, you can sense it coming your way and suddenly you’ve been pushed into broad daylight. The dazzling white slightly getting creamier and sweeter, finally blend in the muddy base.
ttiimmkkaa – :
What a wonderful feminine sexy scent. It does open particularly floral, almost fruity with honey sweetness and sexy civet. I cant say the rose particularly stands out at all. The angelica keeps it bright and airy.
Once it settles then a little smoke, ambergris and spice surface. The sweetness has eased off a bit. I love this stage. I can imagine this scent giving the impression that it is quite heavy by the list of notes. It is completely to the contrary but it has decent sillage and good longevity.
инаа – :
Brightly beautiful with fresh feminine glamorous floral, yet super animalic and musky. Surprisingly uplifting aroma with hint of intrigue from the cigarette note
Rezar 123 – :
Ella is the kind of scent you want to love, the one you’re sure it’s a safe blind buy. The one I’d use if I was gifted but wouldn’t buy for myself.
And the thing is, no matter how much I like it, there’s something missing. The picture is there, the intention to let go and disco till dawn, but it is all hidden behind a smokescreen. There’s no intensity, no color; it feels diluted and kind of dull.
There’s a very promising start with honeyed jasmine and the touch of civet really makes the perfume shine. Mild aldehydes in the opening, a narcotic floral heart with moss and animalics in the base, that unfortunately doesn’t last and hold on skin. Numerous tries have given me the same result, so maybe it’s just me or maybe it’s the way the formula was created. But I somehow think that if you want the feel of 70’s decadent and glamour packed Acapulco, disco pumping until early morning, when you head to the beach for a skinny dip instead of home, you have to go big and loud. That’s what the era was about. And Ella has the potential but it lacks the power. It’s a very good fragrance, I can see and smell snapshots of its salty, animalic licking husky voice, but I wish Arquiste had pumped it up a bit more. Él on the other hand does feel a bit stronger; he is the tanned, good looking stud that went to Armando’s Le Club drenched in Kouros, and later on went to the pool, got naked, had a quick swim and then got the sexy blonde. I guess that the blonde (Ella) wasn’t really in the mood that day. None the less both are a very good try to revive a genre and era of perfumery made gold, but sadly forgotten.
Edit: just the other day I was wearing Ella from a sample and I was somewhere that got pretty hot. Suddenly I started getting whiffs of a beautiful scent, looking around until I figured out it was me. I guess this blonde needs heat to warm up, and thus I think it will make a great summer perfume!
luchici13 – :
When I read that this perfume have a chypre and cigarette accord and was an hommage to disco I have to have it. I really like ”illicit” notes (cigarette/tobacco, rum, whiskey etc…) in perfume. By the way I’m not a smoker or an alcoholic. For me thoses notes give a little thrill to a perfume. Jasmin et cigarette by Etat libre d’Orange is one of my favorite perfume. In Ella, the cigarette accord is really more discreet compare to Jasmin and cigarette. I adore it.
Dolmat – :
This certainly is a step back in time and is reflective of scents of the late 70s /early 80s. The opening marketing set behind Ella though is somewhat of a miss for me. A disco in Acapulco, lights flashing, champagne-soaked skin — not to my nose.
Ella is definitively a sultry floral fragrance though, opening with lucid jasmine and rose and then smouldering down into a humid skin scent (not one that is close to the skin, but one that smells like it), salty, fleshy, delicately sweet and hotttttt in a very seductive come-hither way without any loud solicitation. Perfectly attenuated civet is really the hallmark here that extends the familiar invitation without words.
It reminds me a little of ELDO’s Jasmin et Cigarette, without the stale ashtray note. There is even a mineral-like element that feels a little metallic (perhaps this is the flash that Arquiste is talking about), but it’s a brushed silver, not polished gold. The post-disco marketing reference however, to stealth panther-like seduction under a silvery moon is on par.
I love the white bottle with its retro font. It’s perfectly ovular and fertile, clean and feminine and contrasts well with the seduce-you-before-you-know-it scent inside. As much as I love dirty jasmine scents, I won’t be adding this to my collection as somehow that metallic note tickles the back of my throat (angelica, carrot seed or a synthetic constituent of civet?). I had this same reaction to the metallic accords in Mugler’s Womanity too.
Ella is an expertly blended fusion of notes that culminate into a feeling of arousement more than a perfume or cosmetic, and is a must have for covert seduction. Just try to resist her.
alex777 – :
wow , as a mexican i am so proud of this juice is pretty awesome i just love it , ella is hot AF and well she is a bombshell an amazonian girl on acapulco tan legs for days and confident.
so good i love it , i don’t think i can pull it off just like tom ford black orchid this is for a strong woman nothing fruity in this fumes pure sexy, awesome, don’t care attitude
anatolijkoval – :
The top notes smell like exquisite, fresh flowers, but there is a sexy, sexy, musky, jasmine drydown. Just the drydown reminds me of Fragonard’s eponymous Fragonard parfum.
OSYITS – :
This a very nice and pleasant modern chypre.The DNA of its predecessors-Aromatics Elixir,Genny,Scherrer,Diorella… is there,only this is their polite, well-mannered younger cousin.
I guess that I was expecting a little more edge to the 70ies Acapulco beach scenery.Ella is pretty and elegant,beautiful just as its shiny white bottle,and gone after 2-3 hours.I have to bury my nose to my arm to smell it , even on my clothes.
I think that it is worth a try for those who love chypres buy find the “oldtimers” too strong and demanding.
However,it is surely great too see that a perfume like this is made today with all the restrictions endangering this category.
likilo90 – :
This is nice, had a good and dirty opening, definitely got a civet and rose feel off this. I hope someone I know will wear it. I wouldn’t like it oversprayed and at a movie, but more intimate maybe after some aerobic exercise that got it cooking a bit on the skin.
dualryDusamum – :
I was pretty young in the mid-late 70’s but I was aware of the differences between women and men and toward the late 70’s I knew what sexy meant.
This juice is a serious throwback to those late 70’s when I learned what sexy women were like–when Saturday Night Fever was hot and Donna Summer rocked the radio. When disco/dancing was popular. I also remember what the beautiful women smelled like–they wore lots of musk and jasmine , sandalwood based fumes/oils and sometimes fancy department store/speciality store perfumes.
This juice was my 1st blind buy and I somewhat regret it…not because it’s not good or interesting but because it’s just not me and while I love opening it up and smelling it in my closet, I don’t think I’ll actually wear it much…and it was $$$$.
I do like that it’s a time machine and can instantly transport me back to the late 70’s but the scent isn’t something that I can now identify with very much or necessarily want to smell like.
I smell–jasmine, other white florals, expensive good quality european cigarette smoke with aqua-net hairspray, pantyhose, some very mild sweat-like body odor mixed with a tad of cat pee (civet) and musk. Is it interesting, definitely! It’s not disgusting or awful, it’s just so bizarre.
It changes a lot too–at first it’s more loud and fresh and jasmine/musk/rose/ambergris/patchouli then it goes kind of civet, cigarette smoke and aqua-net hairspray then a beautiful jasmine/musk/vetiver/rose/ambergris/fresh spicy something which is lovely and finally, the dry down is soft musk, jasmine a tad of vetiver and honey.
It’s wonderfully blended!
It’s really unique and when I’m in total perfumista mood it’s great but I have to be in that really artsy/fartsy creative wild mood to wear it. I did spray it on my daughter who’s in her late teens and it smelled so sophisticated on her and VERY grown up and SULTRY. It’s interesting putting it on her because there’s no more 70’s reference because she’s so new to the world…so I smell it with no historical reference and therefore get a different take on it.
So I say don’t blind buy but definitely SMELL THIS because it’s pretty cool. I’m glad I have it but don’t think I’ll wear it much…so it’s a mixed bag for me. Very trippy juice!
Elli777 – :
Inspired by the glamorous night clubs of Acapulco in the 1970s, Arquiste Ella for Her is not for wallflowers: cannonball tree flower, patchouli, ambergris, and honey are ignited with a hint of musk. Don’t be surprised if it leaves your pulse points fluttering like the music in a disco.
AdobeCS – :
As a recipient of a well preserve bottle of vintage Halston Classic, I’m intrigued by the notes in Ella and must get my hands on a few ml satisfy my yearning to test her!
Zlo1_baNan – :
She’s spectacular. Got a bit from a friend and it blew my mind. This blend of notes is pretty magical. Angelica and carrot seeds produce a sweet sexyinnocent mix with rose. Wow. What a gorgeous blend. I’m actually beside myself with wonder. So ultra femme. All of the above is based on the first five minutes of wear. I suspect I’ll love it start to finish. If that changes I’ll update. But I doubt I’ll change my mind. Getting a bottle asap.