Review of Obsession Eau de Parfum by aad de gids

not the CHILD Kate Moss is, nor has ever been, the face of this perfume. if you see her beanstalk naked body spread on the couch, this doesn't in anywhich way conjure up images of Obsession. the REAL face of Obsession has been, in the 80s, and nevertheless willalways be, Josie Barain, a woman who could bare this heavy, heady, amberperfume. for me all the nostrilcleaners of the 80s (which I all loved unless too light) were 'da thing'. the Holy Trinity wasn't only Linda, Naomi and Christy but also Giorgio, Obsession and Poison. Calvin Klein made a daring advertisement of Obsession with Josie Barain and TWO men naked in bed. this was all very obscurely and virtuously done, yet left no doubt, just like Marky Mark gabbed his dick in the (in)famous advertisement for underwear. Calvin Klein was the Tom Ford of the 80s. but the perfume proved to be immortal. once I stood in a perfumerie (after 2010) and thought 'what is that gorgious smell ?'. it proved to be Obsession. for me, who had the perfume several times, this is a keeper. along with Poison and Giorgio. yet I do fare wth my times and still love code 4 perfumes. Dusita's Oudh Infini, Terry de Gunsberg'sTerryfic Oudh and ~ extrème, of course Coco, Knowing, Angel, Versace's Blonde, Boudoir, Flowerbomb, etcetera. quite a lot of Montales. J.A.R.'s out of your body smelling Golconda and Diamond Water. Ex Idolo's Thirty Three. all these oudh-rose combinations,along with the Ambers Ambra Nera (NN Annanciata Pharmacia) et Fiori di Ambra (Profumum Roma) are been paved the way by the toxic sisters of the 80s. I found the advertisements with Kate Moss totally out of place for this chic perfume. (other) but the True Face of Obsession (1985) is not the girl Kate Moss in the 1990s. it is Josie Borain in the 1980s in really sexual advertisements. she presented the perfume being in bed with Two men, in a beautiful sepia coloured Advertisement. it was as beautiful as shocking and as provocative as fitting. she advertised the Parfum, that iconic Pebble-like 0.25oz7.5mL or 0.5oz15mL perfume bottle. pebbles that Calvin Klein had in his house. and yes the Edp was also an intoxicating perfume. I really shall have been one of the first ones in the Netherlands who had smelled it from the scentstrips in the Fashion magazines (Vogue Paris [as it then was still called], Vogue US and 'W' and Harpers Bazaar US). this was ca 15 years before Kate Moss posed naked for Obsession whereas she also Modeled for CK-one in 1994 in the infamous Heroin-Chic advertisements of emaciated models in serials of Black & White (and also luckily, the models diversified). (advertisements which I all found striking and arresting, shot by Steven Meisel). Josie Borain looked modern and very 1980s and again, also not so. she was a woman from the future. the perfume was one of the "Satanic Three" of the 1980s: Poison, Giorgio, Obsession. I have used them in copious amounts since I was 23 when the decade begun. of course Obsession is very affiliative with Cartier Le Must (1981) and Estée Lauders Youth Dew (from the 1950s), further KL Karl Lagerfeld, Poison (if they also walk different paths), indeed Moschino but then you had the Parfum de Toilette. (stated as launched in 1987 while I remember it as being earlier launched, also from 1985. as was his Fashion House. He died suddenly which was shocking. [September 18, 1994].) (It is launched in 1987 !, his Fashion House Est. 1982-3.) and also not to forget Chanels Coco (1985). further did Obsession had 'similarities', reminiscences with YSL Opium (1977). but the most striking experience I had with Obsession (which I always had in my house, also had several of the pebbles of perfume) was in the 2000s. I stood in a perfumery and suddenly smelled a perfume and I thought 'Yes that is a Perfume for Me !' when I looked back it was to my amusement Obsession smelling it all over again while I also wore (whore) it to smithereens. it was the full, opulent, amber and civet experience. yet it nevertheless also imposed as new and desirable. then in these days of course I bought new flacons (and was glad to see the brown cap being swished for a darker one) but especially Obsession I found to stay fairly close to the Original. perhaps this is a question of how good someones' nose is. paradoxically my nose isn't thát good. I had a father with a wolves' nose. he smelled everything, as did my mother. well he did suffer in the 1980s bc my mother loved the same perfumes as I did. Coco, Poison, Giorgio and Obsession were her favorites. hahahaha my dad couldn't shelter nowhere... I particularly do not have such good nose bc a sinusitis begun in 1985 (how ironic) and since, had never stopped where I am also 4 times operated 'upon it' and also in 1985 with my straight twinbrother (he loved Giorgio for men but also 'Peau D'Espagne Santa Maria Novella' etc., also all, extemely heavy and present masculine fragrances) I started sniffing whole other substances as perfume.... but I often think that it was my damaged nose that made me so attracted to the very Presentist 1980s perfumes. but even before 1985 I reached for Giorgio, Youth Dew, No5, Opium et cetera. I think you, Miguel, have a far better nose than I have. I suspect you have a 'Nez', a perfumers nose. so in a way, of course you are right. you really can smell the differences. and while I really have lived the 1980s I smelled these notorious perfumes in all their opulence, toxicity and hysteria. yes Poison was far more opulent and Giorgio was more present than in the contemporary iteration. yet with Obsession I was always struck at how tight it still was connected with the original. well these notes from me may help to sketch the perfume history and landscape of the close-by past. I love your review and the extra aromachemical information you wrote about one of the best perfumes ever made.