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[Moonchilde]

Every once in a while, I’ll see an ad (as I did just now) from one of the several companies who either buy up out-of-patent scent recipes and recreate them, or wing it without a formula to get as close as they can. I will be tempted.

My dilemma - as happens to many if not most of us, my body chemistry, and what I like and don’t like as far as scents, has changed over the years. I have gone into stores to smell a scent I used to love that’s still being made, and I don’t like it at all. Also, if I haven’t smelled “the real thing” in 35 years, all I really remember is that I liked it, not exactly what it smelled like. So, if I bought a reproduction and didn’t like it, I’d have no clue whether I wouldn’t have liked the real thing now, or whether they did a lousy job and changed the ingredients - you know they will be cutting cost corners.

Have any of you done this and been happy with the result? What company did you use? Does anyone remember ‘Casaque’ by Jean D’Albret?

[AngelPuppy1]

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@Moonchilde wrote:

Every once in a while, I’ll see an ad (as I did just now) from one of the several companies who either buy up out-of-patent scent recipes and recreate them, or wing it without a formula to get as close as they can. I will be tempted.

My dilemma - as happens to many if not most of us, my body chemistry, and what I like and don’t like as far as scents, has changed over the years. I have gone into stores to smell a scent I used to love that’s still being made, and I don’t like it at all. Also, if I haven’t smelled “the real thing” in 35 years, all I really remember is that I liked it, not exactly what it smelled like. So, if I bought a reproduction and didn’t like it, I’d have no clue whether I wouldn’t have liked the real thing now, or whether they did a lousy job and changed the ingredients - you know they will be cutting cost corners.

Have any of you done this and been happy with the result? What company did you use? Does anyone remember ‘Casaque’ by Jean D’Albret?

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@Moonchilde

I understand completely what you are saying!  I have memories from way back and there are fragrances laced in those memories!  I can remember to a degree some of the scents and how much I loved them.  But now, I doubt that I would like most of them nearly as much as I did then.  I figure, I have changed, matured, gotten old, and had many life experiences and am at a totally different stage in my life, so I am doubtful that the most of the figures I used to be enamored with, that I would feel the same way about.  I think, perhaps, they are best left as part of the memories and experiences I had!

I have to say when you mentioned "Casaque", my face just lit up!  I was probably about 25, when I discovered this perfume.  I was absolutely in love with it!  Then, either I couldn't find it any more or I was smitten by another scent.  I can't remember! DO they make this perfume still?

As for fragrances that are recreated, I did try and purchase a copied one that I loved as a young teen.  It was by Yardley and it was called something like - Oh, de London!  I adored it and loved the packaging and the bottle which I believe had blue and green on it.  It was part of that Carnaby, English, Jean Shrimptin, Twiggy, etc. scene!  The copy I ordered was not great at all.  I was so disappointed.  I really think that if I smelled it, I would know it --- and this was not it!  I cannot remember the name of the company though.

I have purchased a few dupes from drugstores, etc. and they are not bad.  They seem to be weaker but for the most part, pretty good for the price.

[Nataliesgramma]

I have tried them....but they never seem to smell the same on me :-(

[Oznell]

@Moonchilde, i had one bottle of pricey "Casaque" in my life!  Beautiful scent, with that warm, vanilla-y waft.  I associate it with New Orleans and the opera, as I used to wear it whenever we went!

Revived scents can be very tricky, you are right.  I believe they have certainly tampered with my mother's favorite as a young girl, "Quelque Fleurs" by Houbigant.  Many others as well.

Let's see, one counterfeit scent which I thought was ok (but not fantastic) is made by some group called "Perfect Scents", I think.  Their impression of Chanel #5 doesn't repulse me...

[cherry]

@MoonchildeI had terrible results with the place I used. I asked for woodhue by Fabrege, and it smelled nothing like it at all

They  offered a heavier  version of this scent, and all they did was, mix the mess into baby oil. It was nasty. I wouldn't wear it because it stunk, and even if it didn't, that oil would have ruined my clothing

[cherry]

Some of the legit frangrance houses ,have altered the original scents, but it was because of things like oakmoss  being toxic or  causing allergies.

I still use Quelque Fleur, and I think its still is a lovely scent. I like the old fragrances, and haven't found any of the newer stuff to my liking.  The house of Dior still produces lovely smells, like Diorissimo. I love Grace Kellys favorite, Arpege.

 Beware of Scent Matches, they are a rip off

[violann]

My mother loved perfume, and the last scent she added to her list of favorites was called “Maja” by a company called Myrurgia.

She ONLY loved the perfume, not the cologne or other scented products, and some time before she died, the name was sold to a larger company (I think).

The scent is now nothing at all to what my mom loved.

I actually looked at the pretty long list of recreated scents on one of those webseller’s sites, and it wasn’t there, but I doubt that I’d trust it even if they said it was the same as the original.

[cherry]

I wish they still made Tapestry by Mary Chess or Chase, I can't recall the last name for sure

The Dutchess of Winsor used the scent. She had the sachet  of this fragrance , sewn into all of the blanket bindings in her home

Jackie Kennedy wore it on her wedding day.  It was really nice

[Oznell]

@cherry, you made me think of another perfume that Jackie liked, apparently,  "Vent Vert"  (or "Green Wind") by Balmain.  I tried it once, and it is very green and refreshing.  Unusual, but lovely and not too sweet.

[Maudlynn]

About 50 years ago, my great aunt had a bottle of fragrance in her lingerie drawer called Silk Stockings.  I was just a little kid, but I loved that scent. Wish I could find something close. In my 30s I wore a fragrance called Inoui (sp?) by Shiseido and Victoria from Victoria's Secret. Both have been discontinued. Started wearing Miss Dior Cherie and loved it, but guess what? Discontinued.

Call me the perfume killer.