Review of Charlie Gold by aad de gids

this is a hell of a perfume ! I feel it as a crossing between the (luckily) four times stronger GIORGIO and the exquise CHANEL No 5. but then my story with CHARLIE is still more peculiar, and thus also with CHARLIE GOLD. I love THIS perfume in its own right. it is smashy, flashing, NY, LA and LV together. as a European (Dutch) person I have always loved American perfumes. this isn't either a 'reformulation' of the first, original CHARLIE. yes I have known the original perfume well. I am from 1957 and started ca. 1974 to dabble with perfume (Chanel no 5) and the 1980s were coming. now THAT was my decade. and only the loudest hookers of the lot I loved, along with my mom. Giorgio, Poison, Obsession, Coco, Opium (1977), Knowing, Youth Dew, Bijan, Moschino parfum de toilette. CHARLIE was from the 70s with tons of oakmoss. but that always stayed one of my favorites. if you compare the ingredients lists of both CHARLIE GOLD and CHARLIE, they are totally different. yet they had the same impact. this is a mind lifter. I can (theoretically) imagine someone who hates such perfumes. that is a pity but not my problem. you can clearly smell the peach and apricot, amber, cinnamon and plum. Sandelwood and roses, jasmine and cloves. for me it is a revisiting of the 1980s, but with also a reminiscence to the original which perfume also had an enormous sillage. sultry, bewitching, heady perfumes make me happy. it is as simple as that !