Imperatrice Eugenie

this is an exceptionally elegant perfume which does in regal manner right to the Jasmine flower. I always believed the Creed narrative that it was designed by Henry Creed in 1860 for Empress Eugénie as also the reviewer before me points out. then a date of conception of 1989 will be a re-edition of that original perfume and to be honest, this perfume just smells so rich and historic but also so opulent and exquise that it'll but justify coming out of an other age. and yet it befits its presence in this time also. that is: for those who love the sumptuous Creed perfumes apparently concipiated in earlier times. now I did a lot of research to 'Creed' and I found astonishing things that proved Creed as an ancient Tailoring house already in 1740s. I have read through historic, correspondential, genetic, London planological, militaristic, genealogic, textile theoretic tractatuses and documents and certainly have found the proof which also declares the legitimicy of the Royal Warrants offered to Creed from Victoria, Empress Eugénie, the Spanish Queen, Napoléon, the Austo-Hungarian Emperor. but I have to be honest, never did I found any reference to the earliest Creed perfumes which however doesn't prove their non-existence. the earliest flacons I could find was to a Creed perfume 'Cuirissimo' almost certain stemming from the 1940s. my luck was it to have bought 'my Creed perfumes' almost all in the late 1990s and around 2000. I remember seeing these brightly coloured White (and somewhat wilted) Creed boxes with Alaramistically coloured 'Medaillons', almost like Dior in the 1950-70s, as anachronisms between the more modern perfumes. and upon first sniff all the then known Guerlains, and especially the other English perfume houses as fucking Floris, Penhaligons, Grossmith, Yardley, Atkinson's etc., PALED upon comparison. where THERE I smelled .... nothing, Blennheim's Bouquet, Florissa, Lavender, Limes, Nightscented Jasmin, and purportedly Penhaligon's Fern, Lily of the Valley, Bluebell and Elizabethan Rose. what struck me was that these perfumes were so demure, behaved, inept, diluted and 'civilized' that they quickly vanished into Neverland. whereas Creeds perfumes were Bombastic, Present, Full-Fletched Floral, enriched with Ambergris, Mature and exceedingly beautiful and regal. this perfume has such refinement (as the other English Brands let themselves be Prone for) but then with a real Old Heritage Richesse, hovering in Boudoirs and antichambres des Palais. it simply is a fantastic perfume which Edits its own Biome and the Histoire réèlle Authentique de cet Parfum époustoufflante. (my review was for 'Jasmine Impératrice D'Eugénie'. Fragrantica makes a division between this one and the one I inserted in smell100. if I have energy left, I will insert that 'Jasmine Impératrice Eugénie' apart. the one here Fragrantica calls: "Impératrice Eugénie". )