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[Oznell]

@Maudlynn, I think I remember "Inouye" (sp?) by Shiseido, they had hauntingly beautiful commercials for it, and it was a winner.

From your list, you don't look like a "killer", just like a perfume aficionado with good taste.  You may be "ahead of your time", ha.

[zitawins]

@Moonchilde  You hit a nerve with me! Casaque was all I wore for years and years. I have bought the replacement for it, and it's close to what I recall, but it's not exactly the same. Doesn't last as long, for one thing.  I have bought the real thing on Ebay (when it's not too pricey) but I find it's been sitting in a bottle so long it's kind of "turned" if you know what I mean. The real Casaque was a pale color and I miss it!

[Moonchilde]

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@violann wrote:

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.

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@violann They still make Maja - you can find it online. Vermont Country Store sells it for one. I remember it with fondness, but I suspect I wouldn’t like it now, as it was fairly heavy as I recall. 

I know what you mean about loving only the perfume. I LOVED Chanel 19, but only the dab-on perfume, I felt the eau de cologne and the rest smelled very different.

[Moonchilde]

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@zitawins wrote:

@Moonchilde  You hit a nerve with me! Casaque was all I wore for years and years. I have bought the replacement for it, and it's close to what I recall, but it's not exactly the same. Doesn't last as long, for one thing.  I have bought the real thing on Ebay (when it's not too pricey) but I find it's been sitting in a bottle so long it's kind of "turned" if you know what I mean. The real Casaque was a pale color and I miss it!

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@zitawins, I’ve been leery of everything you said above. I have seen bottles of the real thing on Ebay, but they’d have to be so old it has to have turned. And I know the copiers will use cheaper ingredients that won’t last in the wearing. And honestly, since it hasn’t been produced since the very early 80s or late 70s, I wouldn’t know if it smelled “the same” or not - that’s pretty far back to remember!

It was one of my first really nice scents, brought as a gift from a trip to Mexico (lots of quality European duty-free things for sale in Mexico back in the day). I was maybe 16-17 when I discovered it. 

[Moonchilde]

What fascinates me now, when I read the scent ingredients and various notes of the original Casaque, is that they’re nearly all sweet florals, and I’ve never liked sweet florals, even in my 20s! But the base notes are sandalwood and vanilla, which I still love and always will. They must have done a great balancing act for my nose.

A scent I’ve bought myself more recently is Armani Code for women. Just looked it up and the base notes are - sandalwood and vanilla! I also wear Sung by Alfred Sung, and...you guessed it! How interesting!

I used to buy and wear Cabotine. I never could smell it on myself, but every time I wore it, the women (and men!) around me went out of their way to say they loved what I was wearing - so I wore it, even though my nose didn’t “get it.”

I still love Anaïs. For years my “buy for myself & ask for gifts” were Ysatis and Amarige. I don’t know if I’d like them as much now. I loved Pure Grace until they ruined it. Now, I could pour an entire bottle on my head and no one would even be able to tell :-(

[chrystaltree]

No, I have never searched out discontinued perfumes but I know that such sites exist.  There are sites where you can find discontinued lipstick colors too.  I would never do such a thing with scents because memory is a strange thing, it's not exact.  Also the memory is interwoven with our feelings and relationships at the time.  I might have loved a particular fragrance 40 years ago when I was 17 but I was different person back then.   Just as my tastes in clothing and jewelry have changed over the decades, my preferences in perfumes has changed.  

[Moonchilde]

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@chrystaltree wrote:

No, I have never searched out discontinued perfumes but I know that such sites exist.  There are sites where you can find discontinued lipstick colors too.  I would never do such a thing with scents because memory is a strange thing, it's not exact.  Also the memory is interwoven with our feelings and relationships at the time.  I might have loved a particular fragrance 40 years ago when I was 17 but I was different person back then.   Just as my tastes in clothing and jewelry have changed over the decades, my preferences in perfumes has changed.  

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Hence my dilemma, as I feel the same. Torn between wanting to smell it again to see if I still like it, and not wanting to waste the money if I don’t like it. I know that my body chemistry has changed as well, so it’s entirely possible it could smell very different on me now.