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mivirm12 – :
Lafayette street is amazing! It’s a beautiful oriental gourmand. The tonka bean, vanilla, and amber mix together to create a smooth creamy base that is intoxicating. but for a tonka-based fragrance it’s not dark. The top notes are very bright and sweet, and the combination smells almost edible. It grabs your attention right away and you can’t help but fall in love with it. The projection and performance are fantastic as well. You will have a nice scent bubble for a day at work or a night on the town. It’s also a very versatile fragrance. I feel like you could wear this to almost any occasion and at any time throughout the year. In my opinion, this is one of, if not, the best Bond no. 9. Lafayette street is signature scent worthy!
poiuyt1958 – :
I am not a perfume connoisseur and I rarely write reviews. However, this perfume has won my heart and soul, as well as my nose, so I thought I better let the world know it. I usually have a hard time tolerating fragrance if I spray it on my arms or neck. I usually have to spray it on my stomach so that I get the occasional whiff without being overwhelmed by it; otherwise, I get headaches and feel a little queasy. Lafayette Street is different. I don’t know what it is about this perfume, but it smells so amazing that I just want to spray it on my upper lip so my nostrils can delight in it all day long. I haven’t gone to that extreme yet, but I do spray it on my arm and I stick my nose in my elbow and breathe deeply throughout the day. 🙂 I highly recommend this perfume!
саша1985 – :
Over the weekend, my daughter called me with pure excitement to tell me how she had just discovered this amazing perfume at the Saks counter. She said she was in love with BOND NO.9 LAFAYETTE STREET and that she couldn’t wait for me to smell it. I was VERY intrigued because this daughter of mine is EXTREMELY picky when it comes to perfume! She hates a LOT, likes some, but loves only a few! Her all-time favorite is BOND NO.9 DUBAI AMETHYST, but that one is now tied with LAFAYETTE STREET for the Number 1 spot on her very brief GREATEST HITS list. I was even more surprised to learn, however, that my son-in-law, also an avid perfume critic, loved LAFAYETTE STREET as much as my daughter and encouraged her to buy it!
Since I have been a perfume-obsessed creature my entire life, probably since birth, I couldn’t wait to extend my pleasure of inhaling a newfound masterpiece that might possibly be worthy of becoming a future addition to my own extensive, comprehensive and evergrowing PERFUME HOARD. (That’s how my daughter refers to it, anyway.) :p Fortunately, I had the chance to visit my daughter and son-in-law the very next day and, although I had some doubts, bc of aforementioned perfume hoard, I was also blown away by the first sniff of LAFAYETTE STREET. It truly is AH-MAZING! A pure work of art and that’s hard to pull off in the perfume world. This one is complex, bewitching even. Not easily described.
LAFAYETTE STREET immediately drew me in with its fizzy-fresh, bright beginning. Breezy, citrus, top notes sparkle and dazzle all the way at the top, but without a trace of harsh/screechy, synthetic, citrus-grove notes which I cannot stomach. I was then mesmerized and drawn into an incredible, billowy, creamy cloud of slightly sweet, woodsy notes, dancing with hints of pomme (apple), vanilla and ambroxan, that are absolutely hypnotic! The apple note is really indescribable; it’s so well done, and elusive, that you won’t even recognize it at first. This creamy, woodsy heart with just a touch of sweetness is my favorite part. Pure perfection and so delectable! Thankfully, the sweetness never nears the line that borders Candy/Cupcake Land where much of the perfume market resides today. Just sweet enough to be completely irresistible, leaving you wanting more. The Ambroxan effects quite a magical impact here, lending LAFAYETTE STREET a lovely warmth and smoothness while also amplifying its intoxicating musky-amberiness.
I can’t get enough of LAFAYETTE STREET and longevity is fantastic! I’ve been wearing it for 10 hours now and it hasn’t faded into oblivion or morphed into something boring, or horrible, as many perfumes do today. The transition from opening to drydown has been superb and is still going strong! LAFAYETTE STREET is so completely satisfying and comforting! Yet at the same time, it quickens to some kind of kinetic energy that’s wondrously uplifting. I don’t understand what kind of voodoo is going on inside that gorgeous, textured bottle, but there is some masterful combination of just enough light and darkness to make this completely unisex. This is a winner and has gone to my top shelf here which I haven’t changed in years!
Kudos to Laurice Rahme, the gifted parfumeur at Bond No. 9, for creating such a well-blended, beautiful perfume! I have been, and continue to be, very impressed with the offerings and quality from this house. And thanks to my wonderful, beautiful daughter and her thoughtful husband for sharing their amazing find with me and who are never afraid to explore new scents or allow fragrance advisors to offer their professorial perfume knowledge. Lucky me! I’m definitely addicted and will need my own bottle soon! Like mother like daughter! Or in this case, maybe it’s like daughter like mother? 😛 I don’t know, but I am in love with and need LAFAYETTE STREET!