Thank you for sharing the content in English! I was happy to see Boucheron and Jean luis Scherrer in your collection. And you are fabulous! 💖 Also, would like to know your opinion on Sisley Soir de lune and Eau de Soir.
Thank you!Yes JLS was my signature perfume for the last 7 years. I switch to diorrissimo but I still love to wear this one. Boucheron is my night perfume! I love Sisley perfume and I used to wear Izia which is pretty new. Again because of the Lily of the Valley, Rose, Jasmine, and Peony notes. I don't know Soir de Lune, but it is more spicy and mossy. I would love to try and tell you what I think about it!
Hi! I’m not french, I’m asian but I love french perfumes! (affordable ones/ underrated hidden gems!) I love Boucheron PV, Quatre, Repetto EDT, Balmain Extatic! love watching your reviews! Thanks! Mwah!!!
I adore Anais Anais, it’s all I have worn for forty years or more. I discovered it in, surprisingly, in one of those magazine perfume inserts in about 1980, when it was introduced here in the US. (I usually throw those inserts away because they stink). I immediately knew it was The One. It brings back my many years of studying ballet, for some reason. I think I love it because it is a true floral, with no strong spice, musk, fruit, etc., which I really dislike. It makes me smell like flowers, which exactly what I want. I just don’t get how most American women want to smell like vanilla/peach muffins, for example. I only ever considered French fragrances because they use actual flower extracts, not chemical laboratory analogs, as many others do. The French also have many centuries of expertise in formulating the finest perfumes in the world. I thought I liked the top note of Jo Malone Wild Bluebell in a shop, a few years ago, so bought a small bottle. There is no comparison, the Malone smell like flowers for only twenty minutes, then degrades to a disgusting, lingering combination of sugar and musk. What a waste of money! I’ll stick to my favorite Anais Anais. Reading over this for typos, I meant it’s the only fragrance I wear, I do wear clothes! My first sentence can imply otherwise, oops!
I love Lily of the Valley, it’s my favorite flower of all. Sadly, we don’t get them here in California, and even in our woodland habits, they can’t be grown. It’s just too warm and dry for them, apparently. I wanted to try, because I live along a shaded stream that they might suit, but they’re not even imported as young starter plants (called pips, I think) here, probably because past customers complained that they just died right off. When I was a little girl, my Mom bought me a Lily of the Valley cologne, in a darling bottle shaped like a Victorian oil lamp, complete with “Tiffany stained glass” style shade. I just adored that, both the novel package and the fragrance. What months are they available in Paris, Alice? I’ll schedule a trip around that, I don’t care about the weather, so long as it’s not super-hot high summer.
That was a lovely video to watch!! You are absolutely fantastic ❤ new subscriber here. Could you please recommend a nice perfume to wear to bed? In the beginning of this video you mentioned about it, not sure if I missed it but I never heard you mentioning which perfume French women like to wear to bed. Thank you!!
Hello thank you 🥰 yes I like to spray perfumes beforz going to bed... usually Neroli, Fleur d'oranger, eau de lit by Guerlain from their exclusive collection, Chantilly by Houbigant or even L'heure Bleue... I will make a video about it !
Thank you for watching ! This one is « Vent vert » you can still find and Balmain still sell it. If you like the original bottle you might find some on eBay. Anyway, this fragrance is incredible !
Please could you make a suggestion on how to start a collection of classic perfumes? Any suggestions? Also could you make a video with Fragonard ? Thank you. You are unique!
Oh I’m in trouble here. Lol. I love my Chanel n°5 and mademoiselle, Chanel noir, and other darker but less flowery smells like Tom Ford Forger d’argent, F*cking Fabulous, Oud wood and their leather scent and Black Orchid. I know you said that’s not really your thing but is there a French perfume similar to those deeper/heavier scents?
Hi Alice!!! What do you think about Lou Lou from Cacharel? Have you ever tried it? I know it's a vintage french perfume from the 80's. I bought Boucheron after watching your review❤️
Hey I like Loulou, there is a French fleur de tiare with vanilla in the base. It’s a soft dry vanilla perfume. I am going to review Loulou in the next coming weeks. Stay tuned !
I also prefer floral woody scents. Could you please review Chanel chance green? Please suggest a few places to go perfume shopping in Paris! I’d also love to get a few not easily available in usa
Gardenia is DEFINITELY a white flower 😅 White flowers are gardenia, jasmine, magnolia... In general pretty flesh-y flowers. Lily and lily of the valley also are in that family, leaning in a slightly different direction. Lillà or lilac is mostly a purple flower (hence de colour lilac), yet another family. Aldeidhes are in perfumes to give the smell/idea of fresh air, not much to do with yellow flowers 😅
Yes I should have put Gardenia in the white flowers family.Also tuberose or freesia. White flowers have in general a more intense and indolic note for me. But this is really personal.
@@Aliceinparisofficial I agree. About the aldeidhes (spelling?) I think the idea at the time was to take away the more "heavy" and dirty part of some "carnal" flowers (rose, lily, etc) and make it more clean and airy, so I get what you meant by "flower" note.
@@miominipony1276 aldehydes. It is the first artificial flower note created. Chanel broke with the tradition that usually women want to smell like flower. She wanted to create a "soapy" fresh smell. She was obsessed by this idea of fresh clean sheet smell. It is made from an isolate - benzyl acetate - found in jasmine but not a full jasmine scent to enhance the real jasmine. It was synthesized from coal tar back then but it is available as a natural (non-fossil) source today as well as a synthetic. That's why it is still considered as a "floral" note even the smell is closer to the soap powdery vintage smell than jasmine.
@@AliceinparisofficialAlice...she is right and you are wrong. WRONG!!! Chemically, an aldehyde is a soapy fat. S-o-m-e aldehydes have a scent. In high school chemistry class, we created an aldehyde that smelled a little like banana. It is CLEAR that you did NOT take a chemistry class of ANY kind in high school. Aldehydes are a FATTY SOAP that adhere to whatever other scents they are exposed to. ALDEHYDES ARE NOT A FLOWER, REAL OR IMAGINED. The aldehydes in Chanel #5 are GREEN aldehydes...and the nose/chemist was MAD at Chanel for being so picky, so he literally threw the entire vat of the green aldehydes into the formula to make her sick--aldehyde overdose--but instead she loved it. However, in NO way was that green aldehyde overdose meant in ANY POSSIBLE WAY meant to represent a FLOWER of ANY kind in ANY WAY!!! The chemist/nose thought it would turn her stomach. In a way, he succeeded, because Chanel #5 DOES indeed turn my stomach and I cannot abide it...although millions of men and women across the world love it. I do NOT like ANY fragrance with a soapy note. To construe that any type of aldehyde represents a synthetic flower is preposterous . Ask any chemist...or anyone who has taken a basic organic chemistry class.
Arpège came out in 1927 and Chanel 5 in 1921. Chanel 5 was definitely a new perfume and very innovative. Accidentally with too much aldehyde concentration but Chanel loved it at first sniff
You better say «what perfumes French girls liked to wear 40 years ago» or «what perfumes our mothers and grandmothers liked to wear» because nowadays all the ladies in the world tend to like and wear the same fragrances and most women in France don’t wear vintage perfumes 😅
Hello not really It might be a Parisian thing but many parisian tend to wear vintage fragrances. Its just a question of sophistication. Ines de La Fressange likes to detail her vintage bottles in her magazine interviews.
