Review of Youth-Dew Eau de Parfum by aad de gids

the great article of Elena Vosnaki invited me further in what I already intended to do. writing a review for the perfume I have known since 1974, so fifty years ! it was love at first sight. from what I guess is the x-th bottle of Youth Dew but again also a somewhat older one, for that is the result if you have a large collection of perfumes, I am now enveloped in a warm and cozy Clôche of Her Perfume. when I started to wear her again for this review and spritzed the spritz the first thing I smelled was an unmistakable piss smell. I had the feeling but also irrevocable sensation that this was yet civet for what else could have produced such infringing but for me acceptable and even desired component which was very quickly taken over by the irrefutable founding characteristic of Madame Youth Dew: the Spiciness. if there was civet it isn't listed and they also have civetone but it shall be if a central, then also submerged in a great variety of other components, with this furry sensation rounded, perfume. the perfume is rather specific in her Oriental Amber Spiciness. inmidst a lot of other 'co-perfumes' I realised, also with the help of Elena's article, that Youth Dew actually always got to be judged retro-actively, as being one of the girls: Cinnabar, Obsession, Giorgio, Poison, Must, Coco, Opium, Karl Lagerfelds name-perfume from the 1980s. so she has become one of the 1980s unbelievably intoxicating, lush, flowery, dense, presentiste, alarmiste, nuclear hooker perfumes which made the 1980s unsafe for aquiline allergological endeavours. (and lovely and fabulous for me.) but as this is also understandable, it is also a bit unjustified because Youth Dew made her own headlines thirthy years before these witches appeared. so I now try to get her own Character which also Elena did. by inserting Elizabeth Arden's Blue Grass in her text, with even the resemblance of its bottle with the first rendition of the one for Youth Dew, in a misleading Baby Blue Coloured Bathy-Accessoires Flacon, we finally got a glimpse from her beginnings. she also begun as bath oil which bottle I evenly also acquired once. and applied it as perfume. it was scentsational but also the doublure of the perfume. then I have the feeling Blue Grass is something really out of the 1950s, rather more in a catfight with for instance Helena Rubinsteins Apple Blossom (but that was a 1930-er) where Helena after all still had Barynia (1985) but if there ever were two women fighting for world-hegemonia, then these were it. [Rubinstein & Arden] yet Estée was no wallflower. of course all these Madames (Chanel) were Great Personalities and they fought like Alexis and Krystel (if I am not misstaken her name was spelled, or Crystel, Krystelle or Crystal), like Helena and Elizabeth Arden, Chanel and Schiaparelli, finally perhaps Nancy Reagan with Mme Raisa Gorbatchov (had to peek) and it was spelled Krystle who got her own perfume via I guess it was Charles Revson (Revlon) (Forever Krystle Charles of the Ritz) and Alexis as Joan Collins launched Fabulous... ('Spectacular') Mme Estée Lauder was rather the Personality to reckon with. so I have thought in which setting I needed to see the Arrival of Youth Dew in her then (early 1950s) misleading baby Blue coloured softly sculpted flacon and prissy name, while she appeared to be a Lady Leopard with (Chanel Nail Lacquer Vendetta) Vendetta Lacquered Fangs. (although Estée Lauder certainly had her own lacquers to cover Fangs with. (I remember Parallel Red as a Heralding and Scathing Red from the 1980s.) I was thinking the Launch of Youth Dew was unrivalled with as Ms Lauder threw a bottle of Bath Oil to the Entrance Floor of Bloomingdales (if it wasn't Saks). but these histrionics had all been done before and after. yet not so much after the 1980s. Youth Dew came as a Meteor with her Spicy Amber with Ample Flowers, Spices which kept her in the pure feminine, if Boudoir athmosphere. with Flowers to match. Narcissus, Lavender, Ylang-Ylang, Rose, Jasmine, Lily of the Valley, Orchid. these were all smothered in Spices whereas the Spices were smothered in Flowers. this was sort of the opus moderandi for all the Witches Brews that followed.