La Prairie Life Threads – Silver, Gold, Platinum (2009) – new aroma revie
After a actual adhesive aroma alleged Silver Rain with its antithesis of red fruits, caramel and amoroso beat like a blubbery anti-age face mask, La Prairie has appear a actual analytical set of 3 perfumes called afterwards added corrective ingredients. Silver, Gold and Platinum are actuality not for their actinic backdrop but because of their … declared corrective action. Like caviar and pearls, they are acclimated in big-ticket creams like those awash by la Prairie. Their aroma is a absolute angel of the academic audience of the Swiss brands. They are not avant-garde perfumes and not 100% aboriginal – all are a absorption of the accomplished and of the perfumes that were accepted 2 decades ago. The affluent white annual – tuberose from the Giorgio / Jardins de Bagatelle era, the rose patchouli chypre amber from Diva’s aureate age and the added abstruse (now) Cabochard an added bendable covering floral chypre 3 decades ago. Is La Prairie arena Dr.Freud with their affluent clients?
Silver offers an estimation of the archetypal tuberose affair from Fracas in a actual blooming ambrosial context. The tuberose becomes a archetypal gardenia with a able blooming styralil acetate aftereffect on top. It is beneath lactonic than Fracas and added fiery with a acidity that reminds me Gardenia Absolute from Goutal on a actual bendable musk-sandalwood-vanilla-lactonic base. Amid the 2 floral account there is a able blooming afraid of the valley-white rose-lily (salicylates). The white floral boutonniere is evocative of a appearance actual accepted in the 80’s and addition added contempo archetype with a lot of appearance is 3 Fleurs (Parfums d’Empire). Is Silver the aftereffect of a cantankerous pollination amid Ma Griffe and Fracas?.
Gold is addition avant-garde awakening estimation of an oriental blazon absolutely accepted in the 80’s and now begin in one aroma from Amouage. The rose-sandalwood-cinnamon accordance in a actual candied oriental ambience is archetypal like the floral boutonniere affluent in ylang and actual angled fruity addendum (peach, plum). It reminds me a angle from La Nuit (Paco Rabanne) or Gem (Van Cleef & Arpels) with its chypre rose clip note, but Gold is added oriental with a acceptable dosage of constructed sandalwood (80’s overdose), arenaceous addendum and incense. It is evocative of a aeon if fragrances were actual bizarre and perfumers approved to acquisition the absolute antithesis amid the chypre fruity and the amber ancestors for an balance of animal notes. Now, the rose-oud perfumes (Montale, Amouage) are accomplishing the same. Addition estimation of the agenda but with a greater emphasis on the rose is Lumière noire cascade femme.
Platinum rewrites the floral chypre covering agenda from Cabochard – Diorling with avant-garde capacity in a actual awakening interpretation. It is harder to appraise if this is a new conception or an old blueprint acclimatized to avant-garde needs. It is actual mossy dry with patchouli-vetiver-cedar, quinoleine covering notes, a actual bendable aerial ambery drydown. The affection is bedeviled by the ablaze jasmine and brownish blooming rose with the actual aesthetic methyl ionone amidst by a aerial asset base. The dry agenda of the dupe (almost smoke) is actual able-bodied assorted with the avant-garde jasmine estimation for an ash tray aftereffect (It is not Jasmin et cigarette but has an effect). If you like it, try Diorling even the avant-garde reformulation.
The perfumes are actual able-bodied composed with abundant absorption to data and addendum but are not actual original. For those who had never smelled the abstract or some alcove re-creations added afresh they could be a surprise. For me … it is a actual able-bodied accepted song.
