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nickolai1990 – :
I love the bottle with the plastic white rose. This parfum spray was in the closet of a friend of mine who passed away of AIDS years ago and she always told me that I could have anything I want when she die. This parfum is magical and sad, very beautiful. Is like Phantom of the Opera, melancholy, lonely, and floral like flowers at a funeral. This smell of powdery smoky white flowers of jasmine, tuberose, and also the iris. Ylang and also sandalwood. This is dusty and sweet very flowery and strong. I also smell the vanilla in the base and some musk. This is a very unique parfum. No one else wears this so you will stand out. Is definitely for night time to wear with black dress and or costume for Halloween Party.
artemon – :
You go Mom, armed with a cell phone while shopping at an estate sale.
My mom knows I collect perfumes. I got her an iPhone and explained when shopping how I google when I see something I like to see if the store has a competitive price. She saw this for $2 and snapped it up. I had never heard of it. During the summer, when we made our annual trip to FL, she gave it to me. It smells to me like the florals enveloped in a dark, syrupy haze. Very few perfumes do I place a night/day, seasonal label on but this one, certainly is a night frangrance. And definitely not summer. I can’t wait to try this winter for a walk through our city’s arboretum evening concerts.
I can see this for the Phantom of the Opera *if* Christine would have remained with the phantom in his lair. She would have become a haunting dark beauty. The perfume would have been appropriate for her.
vitek108 – :
1989
I had already seen Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera the Broadway musical in Manhattan NYC and it is still my all time favorite musical. I was a fan of the story and had also seen the silent film version with Lon Cheney and read the novel by Leroux. When I heard there was a fragrance based on the musical, I knew I had to have it! This takes me back. The fragrance is still selling online in sites like Amazon.com and Ebay. It’s the exact same scent. I wore it to dinners and to Church, to funerals and even to my 2nd POTO musical which was playing in a local theater in Tennessee.
This bottle is shaped like a black lamppost and atop of it is a single white rose. I thought it would smell of roses. The Phantom left Christine Daee a rose in her dressing room. But this lacks any notes of roses. This is a floral fragrance but it’s not a rose. This smells like old white flowers resting on the pipe organ of the Phantom of the Opera’s underground lair. As such it’s a bit dusty as opposed to powdery. Not very romantic. A Goth fragrance of decaying white florals.
It’s sweet but the floral kind of sweetness. It has nondescript white floral notes of orange blossom jasmine, heliotrope and lily of the valley. There’s also lavender and ylang ylang. The flowery smells are spicy and where they get that spiciness is anybody’s guess. This fragrance has other things going on but it’s a bit of mystery. There might be some amber and woods, some musk. I would say that the fragrance’s notes should read:
Top Notes
Orange Blossom Jasmine Heliotrope Ylang Ylang
Middle notes
Lavender
Base Notes
Vanilla Musk Amber Sandalwood
The dry down stage is woodsy with that sandalwood and at the same time vanillic. It’s also an amber. It’s spicy and floral, with a touch of musk at the end. It’s not very romantic nor does it really feel like a fragrance which either the Phantom or Christine could wear. All I get out of it is the image of white flowers or funeral flowers and an old dusty organ.
But I love it!
Recommended for fans of the musical and who like mature spicy white floral scents. I still wear this to dinner and to the theater.
appeakemS – :
I love the bottle and for whatever reason I don’t know if it’s just my model of the bottle bu it glows in the dark. I was thinking wow this is like the enchanted rose in Beauty and the Beast. This is a weird perfume. I can’t make out what I’m smelling. It’s a white floral scent so it’s definitely made up of white flowers. I smelled jasmine and gardenia, orange blossom but I don’t know about the ylang-ylang. There is also violet, heliotrope and rose. If some people can’t detect these other scents it’s because the fragrance has other notes that seem to mask the floral scents. I’m pretty sure there’s incense or myrrh. Very sweet perfume. It’s selling at a good price on Amazon.com where I bought it. Highly recommended for lovers of white floral fragrances.
andreewalexandr – :
The Phantom of the Opera Isn’t There Inside My Perfume
I won this perfume in an ebay auction. Only 3 notes in this fragrance: orange blossom, jasmine and ylangylang. The jasmine is very strong. It’s a jasmine bomb. I happen to love jasmine so I’m ok with that. The other scents of the other flowers orange blossom and ylangylang, make it a floral fragrance. No fruits, no musk, no animalic notes, no patchouli, no incense, no amber or wood notes. It’s all about flowers. However, there may also be “hidden” unlisted notes of cinammon and vanilla. I could detect some cinammon and a little vanilla (probably as a base note). I’m a big floral frag fan but oh how I wish they had included a dominant red rose scent. To my sense of smell this doesn’t recreate the feel or the Phantom of the Opera Broadway musical. There should be a rose in this perfume. The Phantom’s signature flower was a red rose, the same rose he gave Christine in her dressing room after her debut. I wish this perfume had been more complex with more of a Gothic romantic flair, something more theatrical, mysterious, and with a sinister feel. I get more of a Phantom of the Opera feel to Krizia’s Teatro Alla Scala than I do with this. So in the end, this isn’t anything to go nuts about. It’s a jasmine perfume with some spicy cinammon and some sweet vanilla. It’s very sweet and girly and definitely not unisex. I would recommend this for casual wear day time wear although it would still be appropriate for evening wear, but not formal evening wear, casual evening wear. I like it but I’m not as impressed with it as I was with Krizia’s Teatro.
snikers000 – :
Oh my God… MAJOR flashback! Not sure if it was me or my mum who had this back in the days, but like, – when I saw it here, without searching for it, I immediately had to have a closer look, and yup – we’ve (as I said, either me or my mum) had it 🙂 Sooo fun to see it again, – I am such a nostalgic person, so when I see a perfume, I had forgotten all about, until I saw the picture of it…. well, what can I say? I love perfumes, I love being nostalgic – and sometimes I wish they would bring back some of the perfumes from the 90’s, when I was a teen, (well, eighties and seventies too, since that time reminds me of my mum <3 🙂 )
cdtc – :
This was my signature fragrance until it went out of production. Many times when wearing this fragrance, men asked me what the fragrance was. One time a man admitted he was following me because he loved the fragrance so much. Unfortunately, all the Phantom of the Opera on the market now have aged and lost that beautiful fresh, soft, green scent. One thing I noticed when this fragrance was young, a slight hint of sweet tobacco smell. I know there was no tobacco in it, but that is the best way I can describe it.
degor – :
Fragrantica, please add Decadece by Parlux! Love this!
dgi_90 – :
I have yet to wear or smell this, but I would in a heartbeat purely because I adore the Phantom. But what would Monsieur le Fantome himself wear, I wonder?
kat8529 – :
EDT review. I honestly only bought this perfume (blind) because it is Phantom of the Opera, and I am a big fan. I really was not fond of the juice. It is too white floral for my taste, and smelled a bit like fabric softener to my nose. However it is growing on me a bit to where I don’t mind the scent once in a while. Best for the cold season, fall and winter. It lasts 8 hours
Eva_fromAF – :
In the day, I used to collect clowns and I thought the bottle was a cute collectible. I still have the bottle. The smell was unique, I liked it then but I would not personally wear this scent nowadays. Not my first choice as an oriental.
nsx149elipseskism – :
First, the bottle is a real cutie. Frosted black glass & a rose topper – very nice. This is one I’ll display without concern that light will alter the juice. Alas, the juice…
At first sniff and for the first 20 minutes I get a nice, dark, classy floral that’s close to Habanita in depth but the next hour is nothing but the smell of dust and old library paste — the kind swabbed out of big jars by elementary school art teachers and eaten by the gross kid who also licked his own sn*t…
If you can make it through the first 90 minutes you’ll enjoy 2-4 hours of a lovely,floral, older/classic drydown that smells much more complicated than the 3 notes listed here. Just don’t expect Joy — there’s a smile here, but definitely no Joy. (This little bottle was a bargain but there won’t be another purchase.)
spiker13 – :
Phantom is a classic, well-crafted floral, best suited for the above 25 crowd. This is one of my husband’s top 5 for me to wear, and when I do wear it, it smells great. I just don’t reach for it as often as I could because I find it to be very formal (not heavy, just formal), and I am not a very formal type of gal. Note: Can be found for a very good price online.
qwetrew – :
Are you serious??? Phantom of the opera!!! as an opera singer i have to say that i will buy this perfume without even sniffing it!!!!! i will love to have this perfume!!