Review of Eternity Eau de Parfum by aad de gids

this shall be a strange story. but I'll give explanations where I can. I know this perfume well. my perfume career started in 1974 and in 1980 I was 23 years old. so I have lived the 1980s to the fullest. which means, for the queer half of a twin with my straight twinbrother, that he loved gent's scents and I immediately decided they were nothing for me, in 1974 that is. now when the 1980s started this would prove for me the most prominent decade of perfumery (while I wasn't aware of that then). now Calvin Klein offered in 1985 one of the three baddest hookers of the infamous 1980s Obsession. she was accompanied by Chanel Coco, Dior Poison and Giorgio Beverly Hills. these were my kind of perfumes. and my mother loved them too, to the detriment of my poor father with his excellent nose... Eternity then came in 1988, in 1989 'Giorgio Beverly Hills Red'. also in 1988 you had Estée Lauders Knowing. further Moschino parfum de toilette, Chistian Lacroix C'Est la Vie, YSL's Opium (1977) and Paris a sharp rose perfume (lovely). I could go on with name-dropping but this is my purpose: these were not perfumes but chemical warfare. these were code 4 Alarmist Presentist perfumes which took up the space and asphyxiated everyone. and so did Eternity and I loved it. but things can go strange. I smelled it then, but with the overload of perfumes which I actually bought and used, and bought for my mother, Eternity somehow managed to stay out of reach. I loved it but found it also as strong as it was, 'unchangeable'. then Calvin Klein launched Escape while Dior launched Dune, which I both didn't liked so much. I think they anticipated the aquatic, ozonic, clean, fresh 1990s, trends which I loathed. now I must move FFW. a couple of years back, while this Dutch perfumery already didn't caught up on Calvin Klein, there it was: a box between the gleaming new launches and 'fruitchoulis' and Bulgari - Prada - Lancôme - Chloe etc attention grabbers, there stood this old box with Eternity, completely unexpected and out of place, and of an old Edition pre-Reformulation. and I bought it while it wasn't even downprized (I never cared for prices while I just was a nurse with a common salary). but I mean, this artefact, where did it came from and what did it stood there in a bit dirty whitish with grey edge box.... to hell with facts, I had the perfume and it was smashing. now I did move on with the times but measure each perfume to the 1980s hooker perfumes, but in 2003 Montale came with his screechy Rose-Ouds which I all loved. in the aquatic 1990s some of the most vile and heady, floral, wilthed, indolic, Rose Prerogative perfumes were launched. in 1990s Gale Hayman Beverly Hills, a civet bomb which seemed to encompass all the witches of the 1980s together. also in 1990 (or thereabouts) Donna Karan by Donna Karan, Vivienne Westwood's Boudoir, in 2000 Guerlains Mahora (the Maison already in the 1980s offered Nahéma) and vCleef & Arpels Gem and (1970s) First, Oscar de la Renta Oscar (1980s). but the aquatic Air and Sea and Fresh and Clean 1990s decade I could come yet through with what I had gathered. now the strange event of finding a flacon Eternity, an older one, lost on the shelves. I so so love this perfume. but its composition is (not) entirely, but different from what I thought. I thought it is a White Flower perfume with a bunch of Tuberose. only NOW I see what Sophia Grojsman did. Freesia, Carnation, Lily, Lily of the Valley, Rose, Jasmine, Violet, Marigold, Heliotrope, THIS was the flower assault. but it was also ala Giorgio, Giorgio Beverly Hills Red, Estees Beautiful and Knowing, the somewhat other directed Poison and Obsession, like Moschino, Paris and Y (a 1970s Chypre from YSL for WOMEN), these were all ANNEXATIONIST perfumes which assaulted entire restaurants and Airplanes with flowers, Musks, Ambers, Plum and Peach, of course aromachemicals and what a decade that was. I am so glad to have learned to know Eternity, be it a little late to the party but with the original perfume. she is as sure a devils sister as all the other gals of that era. I am riddled by the composition but it is sheer genius. now do I smell the flowers separately and it is bit of mysterious perfume while it also is AS LOUD AS HELL as I then wanted perfumes to be and still wants them to hover around me. all that time, say in 40 years, I bought all kind of perfumes (I love Chanel No5, Coco, No19, Coco Mademoiselle). Lancôme La Vie est Belle two flankers (by Dominique Ropion my favorite perfumer) LVEB Intensément and Iris Absolu, Flowerbomb, but also all kinds of niche perfumes Dusitas Oudh Infini, Terry de Gunzberg's Terryfic Oud and Terryfic Oud Extrême. but now I discovered Eternity has withstand the time and holds its Allure Super Féminin high and on top ! finally we're there.