Review of Allure Eau de Parfum by aad de gids

yes I started with Allure from 1999. the edt already was marvelous. I remember this new launch got a prevalent gift: a booklet (like Gabrielle, but much more substantial) , in which Jacques Polge explained how ingenuous the composition of this perfume was. it didn't followed a scent note pyramid but rather was a 'spectral perfume' with which all the notes at once came free. (like Gabrielle.) this specific feature makes it still mysterious to precisely detect the notes from each other. and it added, once again, at a new 'chanelissime', powdery of course, with rose and jasmin, with not: sandelwood but with cedar and vetiver lending the perfume a dry, solid base. especially peach and vanilla were inseparable. yet I clearly smell the rose whereas others seem to not detect so in the general voting. I remember the chicness this perfume bestowed upon us. now I am wearing it for a few days and the rememberance to that (beatifully concipiated) booklet came above. at night I smell my wrist and it is yes, an 'even' perfume with, if you keep smelling, a reveiling of coming and going ingredients. indeed it makes you think about Coco Mademoiselle. and the Allure Sensuelle added some 'Coconess' to this overall, classic perfume. I also see reminiscences with No 5. but in its own, I am wearing the edp now but also had the perfume. this 'lady' distincts itself for her timeless elegance and her ability to lend chanelissime to every woman. (new) the Alchemy of a Perfume. Allure Eau de Parfum de Chanel 1999 by Jacques Polge. the way this perfume suffuses itself onto the 'User' is magical. all the mentioned notes are discernable, specially in the beginning. there is a quasi-sour Draw towards the Acidity of the Soft Fruits (Peach, which I can always smell but also the Bergamot and Mandarin Orange) and when this juiciness and fruitiness mingles with an upfront Vanilla and already the summoning of Flowers is there it is almost an aching Beauty incorporated in what so volatile is. this is the Sophisticated Chicness of Chanel. while there are either a lot of Flowers blended within this Classic Perfume they are approaching each in their own Floral Majesty. first you smell Peach and Vanilla. I have the feeling Flowers which go forth seamlessly out of that Troposphere are the Magnolia, Jasmine, Rose & Peony, all as lovely as present. the Orange Blossom is here to support the Citruses and a certain Fresh Fruitiness is spiralling in the wave of the beginning. a Lotus is so demure a Flower. it is not the Blue Lotus but the watery, Bambou-like, Reed-like Flower. Woody Support comes from Cedar and Vetiver. this is for this perfume as also for either Chanel Perfume essential. within this perfume so virtuosely blended we find an affirmation of Chanellissime as also a new Classicisme and a rather Clean while also Satiated signature. yet the perfume stays within Ladylike boundaries and within the mannerisms of Good Taste and definitely a Chic and Sure Affectuation. this perfume has proven to be a Classic while retro-actively defining the Decade of the 1990s as it at the same time detracts itself from either Classification and defines the Boundaries herself by overflooding them.