42:16 It was not BALZAC that talked about opium, It was Beaudelaire. Charles Beaudelaire wrote « les paradis artificiels »and was inspired by the orientalism 📖
"We are smelling dreams". I love how you take us on an emotional journey with the perfumes. Fleurissimo is so beautiful and very unique. I'm enjoying a decant at the moment but would love the full bottle when it's gone. Thanks for another interesting vintage perfumes video xx🌹
Hey thank you so much for watching 🙏 yes, some perfumes are really dreams in bottle and fleurissimo is one of them. It is going to be my next purchase.... this is a really elegant perfume and the sillage is pretty strong. I think if someone is smelling you randomly in the streets, he/she will remember you for life. One of these rare perfumes that can transform your day...😘
@@bizzynotes6785 without any hesitation Jean Louis scherrer! I discovered this perfume 6 years ago in San Fransisco at Jacqueline perfumery.. and I used to wear this one when I went out with my ex fiancé. I have such great memories with this perfume.... this one is also rare and very elegant. I am currently looking for an other Chypre with more floral notes because I am moving to an other chapter in my life... if you have any suggestion.... JLS is very green and boisé and I tend to love white flowers...😘
@@Aliceinparisofficial thank you so much for the recommendation! I will definitely try to find some. I really love how perfume captures our memories and important times in our lives. I asked a colleague who's perfume left an incredible chypre sillage and she told me it was Paloma Picasso which I think has a rose note. Cristalle by Chanel is a very fresh chypre that has some white flowers. Very 70's sporty chic I think! I would also like to try Eau du Soir by Sisley 😘🌹
I love all the fragrances you love... and I have many of them. I finally found my reviewer!!! So happy I found you because I can trust that I will love a perfume if you recommend it.
Quelques Fleurs was also Dita Von Teese's signature scent for years. Unsure what she wears now. I bet she still owns this one and if so, I totally understand why. It's a floral for people who normally dislike straight florals. Really gorgeous. The other shockingly wearable white floral for 'people who hate florals' is Sir Galahad by Isabey. Absolutely gorgeous. Love at first sniff.
I am going to try Maison Isabey perfumes! I just ordered a few samples from them! Its such a great and old house! I can't wait to try Sir Gallahad because just from the notes, I already love this one
I'm regaling you with stories of my father in law today - but along with Scherrer's Indian Nights - he also bought me a bottle of YSL Opium, the EDT, decades ago now - and I still wear and treasure it. I prefer Indian Nights as it is to me that is the height of an intoxicating orientale, but I do enjoy Opium. Between you and another you tube reviewer who loves it too, I have put Houbigant's Quelques Fleurs on my 2023 wish list! Thanks for another great iconic perfumes review - it is truly your forte!
Hello again, yeah me too I prefer Indians night over Opium. Although Opium is a great perfume, it’s not my style. It’s very intoxicating and capitous. Indian night has something more delicate, more refined in my opinion. They are both oriental perfumes but with different vibe. Thank you 🙏
@@Aliceinparisofficial Yes, Indian Nights to me is simply smoother and richer, more refined and elegant. Again, I wish Scherrer had made an EDP of Indian Nights and I deeply wish they had not discontinued the line!!! I appreciate your thoughtful responses. Not all TH-cam reviewers take the time...❤
Cuanto se aprecia que una mujer joven como vos rescate clasicos!! a mi encanta ! todo TAN SUPERIOR A TODO LO QUE SE LANZA ESTOS DIAS SIN SENTIDO!! Beso y seguì profundizando en las maravillas vintage, me encanta!💋❤
Agreed. I don’t like the actual perfume collection. They lack complexity, sophistication and taste. Iconic perfumes are so much elegant and they have a lot of history.
I smelled Opium on my both teachers. They were friends with each other and shared the love for this particular parfum. On one of them this fragrance smelled divine and matched her look completely. On the other it. Didn’t do any special. It was mind blowing how the same fragrance can smell so different on different people. Having said that Opium is gorgeous but only for specific people, not all can wear it. It’s a statement perfum
As a historiographer...and someone who is also a master gardener and someone who has a scientific bent...genetic science has revealed that a person's genetics determine what scents they like, and which scents they loathe. First example is cilantro. Some people love cilantro...and a particular gene tells others that they hate cilantro. The same with asparagus. Some people can smell an asparagus chemical excreted in urine. The nose/chemist who was working with Coco Chanel got soooo mad/upset with her that he threw the entire flask of green aldehydes into the vat...thinking it would turn her stomach but not knowing that s-o-m-e people like the smell of the soapy fats in the aldehydes, and only some are repulsed by it. For certain, Chanel #5 is polarizing...but we know now that it is genetic...coded in our DNA makeup. Chanel had the gene that indicated she loved the smell of aldehydes. I have the gene that aldehydes literally turn my stomach and I cannot abide it. Same with Quelques Fleurs. I bought a 2 mil decant, and I smelled the aldehydes first and the other notes secondly. I am NOT a fan, and will not be buying a bottle!!! Thank goodness that there's scientific training for the noses who now create fragrances that many people are repulsed by aldehydes genetically and they have STOPPED using aldehydes in fragrances. Dominique Ropion is my favorite "nose". I don't like his early work, like Ysatis and Amarige, because there are aldehydes in it...but his recent work--like Portrait of A Lady, Vanagloria, and Babycat--I absolutely LOVE...because there are no green aldehydes in the formula.
Houbigant is my all time fave scent and most treasured the creme is awesome as well i have gotten so many compliments on this one i wont live without it . Its amazing !!! I love your videos fleurissimo is great to by creed i smelled it before please do more videos since i love classy scents i miss dk chaos that was so unusual and interesting scent .
Bonjour! Thank you so much for watching my videos! Yes Houbigant is fabulous and was Princess Diana's favorite perfume. She was incredibly classy and beautiful. I love white flowers and Fleurissimo is extremely elegant. It is a silky creamy white flowers. My next luxury purchase for sure. I will spray only this perfume for special occasion.... Chaos is very unique and original. You can find this one only in niche boutique.
So I don’t know if you work in sales but I think you could sell air easily.Though the Murmure mini wasn’t a coup du cœur for me and the mini Delices Cartier has not yet arrived (probably tomorrow), I just ordered a Vent Vert vintage mini. I couldn’t resist after hearing that description. I also got a free Diorissimo decant sample at the shop where I tried it. You’re turning me into a miniature perfume collector… 🙈
I don’t work in sales but in finance 🤣 I am glad you discover all these perfumes. Vent vert is very very iconic. It is one of the first green clean and fresh perfume in the market. It was very new at that time because most perfumes were Chypre or aldehydes ( soapy and yellow flowers notes). So very avant garde. I think from what you describe to me, you are a very Chypre green and clean perfume lady. So you might love Vent Vert which smells like fresh clean grass. It is similar to Cristalle by Chanel but with a more fresh direction. It’s really like a fresh green windy air. I think Vent Vert deserves a review by itself. There is no perfume like that even today and Balmain decided to discontinue this one to replace with insipid, cheap and tacky new perfumes. Very bad!
Bonjour! thank you so much for watching...yes Quelques Fleurs is an expensive perfume.... but Houbigant is one the last "only perfume brand" on the market, meaning that they only focusing on perfumes and do not produce cosmetics. They are extremely good quality...
Thank you so much for your comment and watching my videos! I tried an Oscar de la Renta perfume two years ago but I was a little bit disapointed.... However, I do not now this one "Live in Love" and if you say it is a good dupe of Fleurissimo, which is truly one of the most elegant perfume I ever smell, at least I want to give it a shot! Thank you!!
I don't know Fleurissimo but I have Live in Love by Oscar de la Renta and in my collection of over 100 perfumes, Live in Love is one of my favourites, is such a wonderful, delicate and beautiful perfume, is like walking in a beautiful green garden, full of jazmin flowers, and the weather is fresh and the morning dew is everywhere 💚🤗🥰💚 ahhhhh the perfection 💚🥰💚
Hey! It is so funny but I ordered last week a vintage bottle of C'est la vie. I am thinking to do a review of Christian Lacroix perfumes because there are so special!
I love vintage perfumes can you do on your next video the difference between caleche and soie from Hermes ? Thank you I just don’t use which one is creamier and less sharp .
Thank you for watching 🙏 yes I will do a video about calèche perfume. Just to let you know that calèche and soie are the same perfume: it is called calèche soie de parfum.... this is a good idea btw. Hermès perfume are really sophisticated and between the two mon cœur balance.. 🥰
@@Aliceinparisofficial yes before I buy one of them I like to hear your reviews as we seeim to have the same classic taste ☺️💝 do you also have an Instagram ?
Hello nice lady and interesting perfumes... Would you wear Panthere by Cartier the vintage one? How does this really smell? They told me the vintage is better than the current one...any similar to that perfume? E.g. boucheron pour femme? Cheers...
Yes I would wear the vintage panthère. The vintage one is more smoky and woody than the modern version. The sweet notes are also more liquorous. Closed one are boucheron (more white flowers creamy soapy notes), Rumba balenciaga ( more smoky), diva by ungaro, Nahema by Guerlain (more flowery but ambery), and Must by Cartier it is similar to Panthere but more woody and ambery but closed
Hey thank you for watching! Give me a little bit of time because I want to try even more perfumes so I can tell you my best for life ! Every perfume I recommend I try and take the time to wear them so I can share my story about it.
Thank you for watching 🙏yes they are both timeless and very distinctive. Although opium is opulent and rich, for a dark and intense night while Anais is more an innocent powdery smell 😍
42:16 It was not BALZAC that talked about opium, It was Beaudelaire. Charles Beaudelaire wrote « les paradis artificiels »and was inspired by the orientalism 📖
"We are smelling dreams". I love how you take us on an emotional journey with the perfumes. Fleurissimo is so beautiful and very unique. I'm enjoying a decant at the moment but would love the full bottle when it's gone. Thanks for another interesting vintage perfumes video xx🌹
Hey thank you so much for watching 🙏 yes, some perfumes are really dreams in bottle and fleurissimo is one of them. It is going to be my next purchase.... this is a really elegant perfume and the sillage is pretty strong. I think if someone is smelling you randomly in the streets, he/she will remember you for life. One of these rare perfumes that can transform your day...😘
@@Aliceinparisofficial I love the idea of your scent trail being unforgettable. What is your favourite chypre perfume? X
@@bizzynotes6785 without any hesitation Jean Louis scherrer! I discovered this perfume 6 years ago in San Fransisco at Jacqueline perfumery.. and I used to wear this one when I went out with my ex fiancé. I have such great memories with this perfume.... this one is also rare and very elegant. I am currently looking for an other Chypre with more floral notes because I am moving to an other chapter in my life... if you have any suggestion.... JLS is very green and boisé and I tend to love white flowers...😘
@@Aliceinparisofficial thank you so much for the recommendation! I will definitely try to find some. I really love how perfume captures our memories and important times in our lives. I asked a colleague who's perfume left an incredible chypre sillage and she told me it was Paloma Picasso which I think has a rose note. Cristalle by Chanel is a very fresh chypre that has some white flowers. Very 70's sporty chic I think! I would also like to try Eau du Soir by Sisley 😘🌹
@@bizzynotes6785 i love cristalle by Chanel .... so chic! It was one of my favorite perfumes in Miami ! 😘
I love all the fragrances you love... and I have many of them. I finally found my reviewer!!! So happy I found you because I can trust that I will love a perfume if you recommend it.
Thank you 🥰
Quelques Fleurs was also Dita Von Teese's signature scent for years. Unsure what she wears now. I bet she still owns this one and if so, I totally understand why. It's a floral for people who normally dislike straight florals. Really gorgeous. The other shockingly wearable white floral for 'people who hate florals' is Sir Galahad by Isabey. Absolutely gorgeous. Love at first sniff.
I am going to try Maison Isabey perfumes! I just ordered a few samples from them! Its such a great and old house! I can't wait to try Sir Gallahad because just from the notes, I already love this one
I'm regaling you with stories of my father in law today - but along with Scherrer's Indian Nights - he also bought me a bottle of YSL Opium, the EDT, decades ago now - and I still wear and treasure it. I prefer Indian Nights as it is to me that is the height of an intoxicating orientale, but I do enjoy Opium. Between you and another you tube reviewer who loves it too, I have put Houbigant's Quelques Fleurs on my 2023 wish list! Thanks for another great iconic perfumes review - it is truly your forte!
Hello again, yeah me too I prefer Indians night over Opium. Although Opium is a great perfume, it’s not my style. It’s very intoxicating and capitous. Indian night has something more delicate, more refined in my opinion. They are both oriental perfumes but with different vibe. Thank you 🙏
@@Aliceinparisofficial Yes, Indian Nights to me is simply smoother and richer, more refined and elegant. Again, I wish Scherrer had made an EDP of Indian Nights and I deeply wish they had not discontinued the line!!! I appreciate your thoughtful responses. Not all TH-cam reviewers take the time...❤
Such a beautiful, detailed presentation of lovely perfumes. Adore the vintage ones like Fleurissimo. Merci 🌸🦢
Thank you so much for watching my videos and your nice comment! Yes, Fleurissimo is just incredible....a silky white flower perfume....True luxury!
Cuanto se aprecia que una mujer joven como vos rescate clasicos!! a mi encanta ! todo TAN SUPERIOR A TODO LO QUE SE LANZA ESTOS DIAS SIN SENTIDO!!
Beso y seguì profundizando en las maravillas vintage, me encanta!💋❤
Agreed. I don’t like the actual perfume collection. They lack complexity, sophistication and taste. Iconic perfumes are so much elegant and they have a lot of history.
I smelled Opium on my both teachers. They were friends with each other and shared the love for this particular parfum. On one of them this fragrance smelled divine and matched her look completely. On the other it. Didn’t do any special. It was mind blowing how the same fragrance can smell so different on different people. Having said that Opium is gorgeous but only for specific people, not all can wear it. It’s a statement perfum
Yes Opium is such a statement. it's not my favorite and I would not wear this one but because its just not my style abd favorite notes
As a historiographer...and someone who is also a master gardener and someone who has a scientific bent...genetic science has revealed that a person's genetics determine what scents they like, and which scents they loathe.
First example is cilantro. Some people love cilantro...and a particular gene tells others that they hate cilantro. The same with asparagus. Some people can smell an asparagus chemical excreted in urine.
The nose/chemist who was working with Coco Chanel got soooo mad/upset with her that he threw the entire flask of green aldehydes into the vat...thinking it would turn her stomach but not knowing that s-o-m-e people like the smell of the soapy fats in the aldehydes, and only some are repulsed by it. For certain, Chanel #5 is polarizing...but we know now that it is genetic...coded in our DNA makeup. Chanel had the gene that indicated she loved the smell of aldehydes. I have the gene that aldehydes literally turn my stomach and I cannot abide it. Same with Quelques Fleurs. I bought a 2 mil decant, and I smelled the aldehydes first and the other notes secondly. I am NOT a fan, and will not be buying a bottle!!!
Thank goodness that there's scientific training for the noses who now create fragrances that many people are repulsed by aldehydes genetically and they have STOPPED using aldehydes in fragrances.
Dominique Ropion is my favorite "nose". I don't like his early work, like Ysatis and Amarige, because there are aldehydes in it...but his recent work--like Portrait of A Lady, Vanagloria, and Babycat--I absolutely LOVE...because there are no green aldehydes in the formula.
Wow, really intriguing and fascinating what you've written.
Houbigant is my all time fave scent and most treasured the creme is awesome as well i have gotten so many compliments on this one i wont live without it . Its amazing !!! I love your videos fleurissimo is great to by creed i smelled it before please do more videos since i love classy scents i miss dk chaos that was so unusual and interesting scent .
Bonjour! Thank you so much for watching my videos! Yes Houbigant is fabulous and was Princess Diana's favorite perfume. She was incredibly classy and beautiful. I love white flowers and Fleurissimo is extremely elegant. It is a silky creamy white flowers. My next luxury purchase for sure. I will spray only this perfume for special occasion.... Chaos is very unique and original. You can find this one only in niche boutique.
I had Anais Anais in the late 70's or early 80's when I grew up in Los Angeles. I need to get a bottle!!
Such a nostalgic perfume. Very romantic fleur bleue. I made a review about this one in my videos
So I don’t know if you work in sales but I think you could sell air easily.Though the Murmure mini wasn’t a coup du cœur for me and the mini Delices Cartier has not yet arrived (probably tomorrow), I just ordered a Vent Vert vintage mini. I couldn’t resist after hearing that description. I also got a free Diorissimo decant sample at the shop where I tried it. You’re turning me into a miniature perfume collector… 🙈
I don’t work in sales but in finance 🤣 I am glad you discover all these perfumes. Vent vert is very very iconic. It is one of the first green clean and fresh perfume in the market. It was very new at that time because most perfumes were Chypre or aldehydes ( soapy and yellow flowers notes). So very avant garde. I think from what you describe to me, you are a very Chypre green and clean perfume lady. So you might love Vent Vert which smells like fresh clean grass. It is similar to Cristalle by Chanel but with a more fresh direction. It’s really like a fresh green windy air. I think Vent Vert deserves a review by itself. There is no perfume like that even today and Balmain decided to discontinue this one to replace with insipid, cheap and tacky new perfumes. Very bad!
Quelque Fleurs is expensive but one of my favorites. A 3.3 oz bottle costs $200.00 dollars in California. I buy it at Nordstrom.
Bonjour! thank you so much for watching...yes Quelques Fleurs is an expensive perfume.... but Houbigant is one the last "only perfume brand" on the market, meaning that they only focusing on perfumes and do not produce cosmetics. They are extremely good quality...
I have heard Oscar de la Rentas Live in Love is a decent dupe for Fleurissimo as the cost is so high.
Thank you so much for your comment and watching my videos! I tried an Oscar de la Renta perfume two years ago but I was a little bit disapointed.... However, I do not now this one "Live in Love" and if you say it is a good dupe of Fleurissimo, which is truly one of the most elegant perfume I ever smell, at least I want to give it a shot! Thank you!!
Bonjour, I just ordered Oscar de la Renta perfumes... Live in Love which is not easy to find and Bella Bianca! I will review them!
I don't know Fleurissimo but I have Live in Love by Oscar de la Renta and in my collection of over 100 perfumes, Live in Love is one of my favourites, is such a wonderful, delicate and beautiful perfume, is like walking in a beautiful green garden, full of jazmin flowers, and the weather is fresh and the morning dew is everywhere 💚🤗🥰💚 ahhhhh the perfection 💚🥰💚
Do you own C'est La Vie by Christian Lacroix? It's vintage and discontinued but it was beautiful.
Hey! It is so funny but I ordered last week a vintage bottle of C'est la vie. I am thinking to do a review of Christian Lacroix perfumes because there are so special!
@@Aliceinparisofficial oh that's so cool. 🤩
Hi, I know this post is from 2 years ago (btw I love how you talk about perfume) but can you tell me what lipstick you are wearing? Thank you!
same as now two years later Pussy cat Tom Ford
@@Aliceinparisofficial 💗
Thank you, it looks so great on you, I will try myself. :)
I love vintage perfumes can you do on your next video the difference between caleche and soie from Hermes ? Thank you I just don’t use which one is creamier and less sharp .
Thank you for watching 🙏 yes I will do a video about calèche perfume. Just to let you know that calèche and soie are the same perfume: it is called calèche soie de parfum.... this is a good idea btw. Hermès perfume are really sophisticated and between the two mon cœur balance.. 🥰
@@Aliceinparisofficial yes before I buy one of them I like to hear your reviews as we seeim to have the same classic taste ☺️💝 do you also have an Instagram ?
@@porshasalvi2937 yes! @myfrenchielifestyle you can find the link in the comments below
I just buy Fleurissimo becaus your reaction 🤍
Very nice perfume…very fancy
do u have any aerosol perfumes ? If so maybe you could do a review on all of them in one video!
Hey Chase ! Thank you for watching 🙏 what do you mean by aerosol perfumes ? Like deodorant in French ?
i think what i mean is aerosol body sprays !in French
Or a french ponytail tutorial with a lot of hairspray
Hello nice lady and interesting perfumes... Would you wear Panthere by Cartier the vintage one? How does this really smell? They told me the vintage is better than the current one...any similar to that perfume? E.g. boucheron pour femme? Cheers...
Yes I would wear the vintage panthère. The vintage one is more smoky and woody than the modern version. The sweet notes are also more liquorous. Closed one are boucheron (more white flowers creamy soapy notes), Rumba balenciaga ( more smoky), diva by ungaro, Nahema by Guerlain (more flowery but ambery), and Must by Cartier it is similar to Panthere but more woody and ambery but closed
@@Aliceinparisofficial thank you for the reply ❤️🥰
Hi sweetie,
I am still waiting to see your top 10/5 perfumes for life! 💖
Hey thank you for watching! Give me a little bit of time because I want to try even more perfumes so I can tell you my best for life ! Every perfume I recommend I try and take the time to wear them so I can share my story about it.
Awesome sweetie, 😍
I am impatient to see that. I enjoy your videos and your taste a lot.
Best of luck 💖
You’re wonderful if don’t repeat a word so much
are you coming back soon?
Hey! Yes I am going to make my first video since I went back to Paris! I miss you too! 😘
Thank you! Have a great rest of your week
Tahiti is not a French Island!!!
But still like you and your style, Frenchie 😉😘
I wear Opium and Anais Anais ❤️ beautiful fragrances
Thank you for watching 🙏yes they are both timeless and very distinctive. Although opium is opulent and rich, for a dark and intense night while Anais is more an innocent powdery smell 😍