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talex8 – :
I received this interesting triangular bottle along with a group of others but the pyramid sounded so interesting that I wanted to test Genny on a day that I could spend some real time with it. I only tried the tiniest of dabs at pulse points and I’m so grateful because this is a powerhouse in every sense. So powdery, pungent and beautifully constructed it’s amazing to me that this flies so low under the radar. I want to describe it as haunting, or maybe bewitching.
warlok2007 – :
A year ago I asked for a particular perfume for my birthday. With that perfume, came a sample of original Genny in the card.
I tested it and it was incredible. Of course finding a bottle seemed near impossible. That particular sample I stretched with some ethanol.
I do have a sample of Aromatics Elixir. But that does not quite compare to this.
If I had never got that sample, I probably never would have been so focused of getting a bottle. Bottles would come and go on Ebay. Some were not in the best of shape and the price seemed a bit unreasonable. Then finally my bottle showed up. It was still in the shrink wrap!! Squeal!! Perfect. Opening it there seemed to be the air from the perfume production and packaging line in Italy…. so many years ago.
The cap is a bit funky. This is a 75ml bottle of EDT. The cap has to fit down on the sprayer just so to be able to spray the fragrance. Otherwise it can be put into an “off” position.
This particular sample lead me to my interest in Italian perfumes. No regrets.
Redwelll – :
Just received my 5ml triangle tester from the ebay.
This is such a nice vintage scent, really classy, elegant and feminine and it is very similar to Yohji Yamamoto Essential! For me this is an evening scent, I imagine black dress and high heels and champagne and all the movies from 80s, like Moonlighting, Cybill Shepherd must have been wearing that… =)
pupsagent – :
I used this one in late ’80es.
It was the triangular bottle (as Blaiseantoine points out), and the correspondent spray version was identical to the one portrayed here.
I recall it was very similar, almost identical to Aromatics Elixir. Everybody kept asking me if I was wearing AE.
I loved Genny a lot and when I could not find it any longer I switched to Aromatics Elixir.
Yes, the two are very very similar, same concept, same elegance.
Very good, long lasting chypre.
Then reformulation came and it was cheapened and destroyed.
But then it was a
MASTERPIECE
reutsky2012 – :
I had it back in the ’80s and I still have a mini somewhere, almost gone, in the tringle bottle. That was the real stuff and sooo powerful! It smelled similar to Aromatics Elixir, but it was much more into white flowers and much less herbal/aromatic.
A great scent with great lasting power, sillage, nuances and glory.
Just not anyone’s cup of tea.
Back in that time I took these perfumes for granted as if they were going to stay there forever. I had no clue on what would happen later in this era in perfumery.
A few years ago Genny or whoever is Genny now came out with a riedition of this one. I was naive enough to think that they wanted to get rid of old pieces…
I bought a new bottle for very little price in the offer basket, but was so disappointed with the scent. Only a bland resemblance with old glorious Genny.
Vintage or nothing.
Sibland – :
the vintage triangular shaped bottle it’s a masterpiece
durmanchik – :
Lo trovo simile ad Aromatic Elixir di Clinique ma più leggero, appena l’ho provato mi sembrava fastidioso per l’odore acceso del patchouli e del muschio, dopo qualche minuto ho iniziato ad avvertire le note floreali.
Non è niente di eccezionale, tipico profumo anni ottanta portabile ogni giorno, nulla di seducente o estremo.
damir8405 – :
it’s perfect like Aromatic elixir but less persistent
xsvan – :
Witch potion! Whatever she brews in her pot; be it forest mosses, bitter green herbs or nameless flowers, altogether this stuff is magnetic.
Doyle – :
l’ho usato per parecchi anni è simile ad
Aromatics Elixir by Clinique
Zheka(ZK) – :
Great Miss Delicous! Why don’t you sign in here, then you can show us your collection!
Good luck!
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stas.fiher – :
This masterpiece is created by Jean Claude Delville!
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Antonio1584 – :
This is a must have for all you GREEN addicts, that love their green category to be DEEP and intense!!
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