Review of Knowing Eau de Parfum by aad de gids

knowing ... it is always near me and I still have as well the 1988 flacon as a newer rendition. I can tell a thing or two on how it came into the world. since reading the Vogue US (next to the Vogue [not 'France' but] Paris, Harpers Bazaar US, Vogue Italia & Vogue UK) the chance were, I already smelled these newly launched perfumes before they hit Europe, especially with 'the Americans'. it was totally my decade (and from my mom). I remember for the first time seeing the spectacular advertisement for Knowing, two pages, the left one shiningly black, to the right the Otherworldly Beautiful Paulina Porizkova, with an extraordinary finely chiseled face and from Polish Heritage. she was stunning. you saw the perfume version of this new perfume: 'Knowing', which immediately I found a genial name. to know .. in cases of Love. an advertisement in the Vogue US then costed 40,000 $. two pages were 80,000 $. I remember it all. the perfume flacon had a white cap, the Edp a matte black cap, like the flacon in torsion, a contortionistic perfume. I loved the whole concept. and what a perfume it was. it was a BIG Perfume, she took space. she anticipated Sisley's Eau Du Soir and was an aldehydic Chypre, a Feminine Flower Fougère, a Hyper [quasi-] Floriental 1980s Witch, a Civet, Oakmoss, Rose, Tuberose, Mimosa, Jasmine, Orris but also Amber, Wood and Patchouli complex fragrance. this was a Stately Perfume. I read the narrative of this perfume in 1988. Mme Lauder, Estée herself, vacationed in the Méditerranée and suddenly in the evening smelled a scent of a Flower she couldn't identify. that it was a White Flower was obvious as the scent grew as the evening turned into the night. this flower was Pittosporum. and I have smelled the Pittosporum which is a small Typical Indolic White Flower on an evergreen shrub. I brought my nose to it as that already wasn't a priori necessary and it was as if my nostrils got clawed by fangs. this flowerette gave off such plinking, clear but also at the same time Asphyxiating, Narcotic, Luring, Pissy but above all Creamy White Enfleurage smell off to its environment. now there is another plant (shrub) with White Flowers which made my dad with his WolfNose almost puke: Ligustrum, Privet, Troène (Northern Hemisphere). I had to think about that flower. the Pittosporum stood in the Botanical Garden in Delft, connected with the University. and I had to smell it for Knowing. Knowing has all the characteristics I love in a perfume. her austerity, her haughtiness, her hysterics but very restrained. (her Capriocity.) the Moss and Green Notes, Orris and Bay Leaf, the Cedar and Lily of the Valley give her a Madison Avenue Jet Set kind of tenure. this is my favorite Estée Lauder perfume. the Flower Powder explosion, the almost Chanel-like Crispness, yet the sheer animalcy of her Civet, Plum, Mimosa, Double Orris give her a Wildness yet perfectly poised and bejeweled. it is a sheer Dame of a Perfume with sinister, satanic deep waters of wilt and depth and anciennity.