Review of L'Interdit (2018) Eau de Parfum by aad de gids

I immediately loved the new ‘l’Interdit’. I still come from the time of these older perfumes which I also love (born 1957). as a homosexual man always wearing womens perfumes from off 1974 I had my fair share of aldehydes, and deftly so. Chanel no.5, Joy, Fidji, Chanel no.19, Miss Dior (original), then (80s) Givenchy’s Ysatis and Amarige (from the 70s I remember Givenchy’s with numbers), being, Amarige and Ysatis, also both formulated by Dominique Ropion. I am his no. 1 fan. he makes strong, lasting perfumes (al Waad, Promise, for Frederic Malle, which I absolutely venerate). compared with Ysatis and Amarige the new Interdit is relatively mild with very pleasant sillage. I feel it is also a ‘beautiful perfume’. yes it may be iconoclastic to Audrey Hepburns perfume. but what if it were a pastiche? the tuberose is circumsurrounded by her softer sisters orangeblossom and jasmine. I think is is an utter feminine perfume. tastes differ, as does skinreception and ‘environmental’, social and personal affinities. vanilla, pear and ambroxan make this perfume round and kind of mellow. with the sophisticated gents’ scents ‘vétiver’ and ‘monsieur’ Givenchy was foremost defined. I loved his couture in the 80s with Karl for Chanel, YSL, Scherrer, Peter Mortensen for Pierre Balmain and the Americans Geoffrey Beene and Bill Blass. but these times are over. this new perfume is smashing !