Gabrielle Chanel Essence

the term 'solar perfume' I first encountered in Paris,when Hermès's '24, Rue Feaubourg' came out. there is something from that, in this. with the term 'prismatic perfume' I became known when I bought Chanel's 'Allure' with a nice booklet. it meant that all the notes came in your face not, following the rules of a 'perfume pyramid' but more compartmentalized without borders.... there is something from that,in this. this is without doubt a beautiful perfume and a perfume with that particular 'chanellissime'. it also reminds me of the unending (and lovely) tenure of Calvin Kleins 'Eternity'. that perfume stayed the same, even if WW III would have broken out. now I loved Calvin Klein, for his fashion, and for 'Obsession'. I loved Eternity but the sillage went on, and on, and on.almost ad nauseam. it was a white flower bomb. there is something from that, in this. also reckognizing that these perfumes ('Gabrielle' and 'Gabrielle essence') do good at the Asian Markets. I maintain that this is an excellent perfume. it gives that pillowy, billowing sensation of an almost aching mémoire, while the notes combine in groups and the perfume is so well blended that you can barely tell them apart. the fruits citruses, peach, red fruits, black current and the écorce petitgrain come in a cluster, and not only that, they already foreshadow the coming of the white flowers. for me it is very difficult to distnguish in particular the blackcurrant. which, for me, would have been allowed to give off its pissy note. yet one can sense that the peach-citrus orientation would have been different without it. there is some piquancy there. yet in the Diana Vreelands it flies to the ceiling separate. one must consider the aim of this perfume was, to give 'Gabrielle' more body, more length and boldness and presence. that is succeeded without doubt. already 'Gabrielle' had that 'one flow' floating along. but here it is richer, fuller, not impertinent, not rauckous. but it is a Chanel perfume. then about the comparison with Diors 'Adore' I have the 'Dior. Infinissime'. that is a beautiful perfume. yet somehow in the j'Adores there is something sour. I do not think that it is a sister to Gabrielle. 'Adore Infinissime' puts a Grasse tubereuse in its center. now already that is a detropicalized tubereuse. I love Serge Lutens' 'Tubereuse Criminelle'. it has a strongly and disorienting mentholated whiff. this is unthinkable in Gabrielle. they have Sycomore, Paris-Edimbourg, they have Boy. Chanel Gabrielle Essence is every inch a lady, not a hooker. it could have been a high-end call girl Madison Ave, Boulevard Haussman et cetera. but perhaps we have the original and underrated (or, not) 'Coco' for that, sister of Giorgio, Poison, Obsession, Knowing, Y and no.19 etc. this is your neat woman in the Chanel deux-pièces, who lunches with the ladies who lunch. in Paris, Moscou, London, Tokyo, Sao Paulo and New York. as for the imput of the white flowers and Y-Ylang, with even a note of (indistinguishable) 'white flowers', there is an indolic almost triste, accent in the clouding of the perfume. they have deliberately not chosen for Gabrielle in whichever strength to become a Giorgio or a Vero Kerns 'Rubj' in all its orange flower-civet pungency. this all makes Gabrielle yet a fluff of a perfume, this time more strong and dense. and I love it. the flacon is a work of art. now if you want to drop dead (and I want) by wilthed indoles you must try J.A.R.'s, either 'Diamond Water' or 'Jardenia' or Dusitas 'Mélodie d'Amour'. or Oriza L. Legrands 'Marions-Nous. (second) only now has this perfume gained a full Appreciation and the Specific Luxuriousness it shall always have had, but now more recognizable and verifiable to my nose, where I finally seem to be able to smell Fruits, after fifty years in Perfumery ! [1974-2026] so this means the Tinkling, Juicy Fizzing, Summery Joie de Vivre with Citruses, Peach, Red Fruits, Black Currant and a Tea-like astringency of the Petitgrain. these last months I already noticed a greater capability to smell either hesperidic Fruits as Bergamot, Lemon, Orange, then also all kinds of Berries and Black Currant (leaf) whereas Raspberries and Strawberries no longer seem to fly me by ... I must say I smell them better in Chanel, Creed, the Notorious 1980s-Hooker Perfumes, the Famous Flower Powder Bombs Launched in the 1980s, 1990s, the Chypres of the 1970s and then some. yet this perfume, from which I had one of the first Bottles as launched in Edp (at the Amsterdam Chanel Boutique) in 2017 and which struck me as rather Cold and Bland, is really uplifted in this Rendition making it a more Full and Opulent White Flower- Meteorological Insurgence with a whole characteristic Presentism and Chanellisime Classicisme. Coconut, Musk, Sandelwood and Vanilla serve to fill this Super Elegant Perfume fully outward. (new) a new appreciation for Gabrielle Essence Edp has developed. I have this perfume since 2019 and after 'Chanel Gabrielle Edp' (2017) which I found tame immediately. but with the 'Essence' it yet was neither an abrupt love. now it is. when I lay in bed I could discern all the notes by keeping smelling my wrist. I was however unable to name the Citruses I smelled but THAT I smelled them in the first place was a nouveauté. the Black Currant and Red Fruits came forward and this is already such revelation. I was never able, or only partially, to smell Fruits in perfumes. I think women are much better in this. in Chanel, Versace & Creed I often did smell the Fruits. especially Peaches, Plums and Apricots, but Lemon in Eros Pour Femme, the Bergamots in several (of the older) Creed Feminine perfumes and the Peach here and in Chanel No5, Mitsouko and Plums in Boucheron's Jaipur, in Poison and Citrus in Coco come definitely forward. that is, especially lately. after Fifty Years Perfumes finally these Fruits come towards me. and therefore, a new appeciation for this Gabrielle. all the White Flowers are discernable loose from each other (where that was precisely not what Olivier Polge aimed for). the Coconut ! the Woodiness in the form of Sandelwood and the White Musk of which I now, after those 50 years, suddenly recognise the Machinistics, Mechanistics, Macchiavellian Mannerisms inside the perfume. there is an achingly beautiful drawing out of the notes in Gabrielle, a Drawing of the One note from out of the Other which gives the Solarity, a (and this was what Jacques Polge meant) kind of Abstract Florality and the Acidulity of the Fruits, which gives this perfume it's Classic Chanellissime.