Review of Giorgio Eau de Toilette by aad de gids

apparently I never reviewed Giorgio, one of my most favorite perfumes of all time! my straight twinbrother would say your no.1. and I guess he is right. once as a nurse in the Academic Hospital in Rotterdam at an ICU he said to a collegue: 'You are wearing Giorgio'. no one had ever noticed nor said anything about it. she asked how he knew... 'well it's the favorite of my gay twinbrother'. they both had to laugh. and I guess it is true. but always in close proximity to Obsession, Poison and Coco. yet if I HAD to choose, then Giorgio. I start the review with another anecdotal event. I FYSICALLY REMEMBER I biked to work in the nightshift as a nurse (also) but never on an ICU: I would holler away screaming. in that time, 1981, I was 23 years old, towards 24, and it was in the evening air. I worked nightshifts one week working, one week off, and so on for 12 years. (we both have been nurses for 45 years). but during that biketrip to work I lifted my pulse up to my nose. I needn't do that gesture however. a 'Clôche' of fabulous perfume accompanied me, as seemingly I never smelled before. in the evening the White Flowers exude their perfume. this was what I smelled but then quadrupled and on steroids. and accompanied by what seemed a thousand other ingredients. (I love hyperbolic language, and what I recently saw here was someone who detested such reviews: he called it 'verbose' language) but you know ? it seems the only language possible to do these perfumes and particularly Giorgio and Poison justice, and in this case Giorgio, it made me happy, then and there and for many years to come. thát I remember evidentially and eventfully. the sheer Cocoon of Perfume around me and indeed, which seemed to foreshadow me as also leave a trail of chemical incidents behind me. the perfume of Giorgio mixed with the flowering shrubs in the Netherlands in the evening. it was only the beginning of the 1980s... Giorgio appeared to be a game changer, and the better I understood this was afterwards, when Obsession, Poison and Coco had arrived, and Knowing, Beautiful, Gem (vCleef&Arpels), Nahéma, First, Moschino Parfum de toilette, C'Est la Vie Christian Lacroix, Opium which predated these evil sisters as from 1977, Karl Lagerfelds parfum, Must de Cartier (also from 1981). but also in hindsight I now understand that there was another perfume, also with a Boy's, a Man's name, Charlie from 1975, which kind of paved the way for Giorgio. also from that perfume I had vivid memories from 1981 (that is when a nurse and me discovered it, in a psychiatric hospital) and we were using it liberally. only now do I understand it was paving the way for even more outspoken sisters. now about the notes of Giorgio. above we see the notes as they now are. there have been reformulations and I wouldn't say they did a bad job. but only to have known the Original Giorgio stems me happy (nevermind the reformulations and 'Produced in Spain' et cetera). and I have a good description of the original notes from Grace Hummel, from her inexhaustable website cleopatrasboudoir. blogspot.com. there she describes the origins of Giorgio and it was an affair for the Super Rich of the United States. let us start with the real, original notes. as she describes it: "the Giorgio Fragrance contained natural perfume oils including jasmine absolute, otto of rose, extract of gardenia, orange blossom, chamomile and patchoul". we ain't finished. "galbanum, green notes, apricot, orange blossom, peach, bergamot, mandarin. lily of the valley, hyacinth, carnation, orris, tuberose, gardenia, orchid, jasmine absolute, ylang-ylang, rose absolute. sandelwood, amber, chamomile, patchouli, musk, oakmoss, vanilla, cedar". so. now that that is out of the way we understand why this perfume is extraordinary. it's full name was Gale and Fred Hayman Giorgio Beverly Hills. Extraordinary Spray Cologne'. 1981. and of this juice I had the 'Cologne' (which already had the strength of perfume) but I also regularly bought the soaps (three Savons Parfumées for 100 guilders). the 90mL Cologne was also 100 guilders. I remember it all. and when it was launched, in 1981, the whole boulevard in Rotterdam was intoxicated and asphyxiated. later I saw a headline: 'Milan Asphyxiée'. and it would be the same with Obsession (1985), Poison (1984), Coco (1984). and all I bought was double. the same for my mother please. she really came from a poor youth from a region of Schiedam (for centuries the genever Capitol of the World). so I wanted to have her that Beverly Hills-Houston- NewYork- Paris and London experience. (not that she gave a crap about thát.) and she had the same gusto as I had. my poor dad with his very good nose as from a Wolf hahahahaha, he didn't knew where to hide. because when you had only the soap from Giorgio, Poison and Coco, and it was still packed and sealed, your whole house was bewitched and drugged. yes these were witches potions. Giorgio was particular in the sense that it predominantly h