Where, however, "la Cinque" rises with opulent floridity, Rive Gauche develops reservedly. The strong aldehyde start shows parallels to Chanel No 5. Not a loud fragrance screaming for attention, but a flatterer who knows how to please with understatement. When the fullness and bustle of the day exhaust the measure of the bearable, it draws me to Rive Gauche. Rive Gauche has come back to the future and I think of my ex-husband who died too soon after a long illness. I put on a black sweater, smoke a cigarette and listen to 'Fly like an Eagle' by Tom Petty. Now he's all French YSL, whose fashion and style I used to love so much. It remains cool and transparent, which is what I always like best. The fragrance exudes class, style and elegance. And the base is a dream, softly caressing chypré with beautiful vetiver. Powder covers the flowers gently without suffocating them (or me). Thanks to Mrs Andrier the aldehydes are still there, but detoxified.Ī delicate green tone mixes with clear peach and bergamot. Everything is different and my nose is more trained. The new Rive Gauche is now in my collection. Many years later - at the side of another man - I started to be interested in fragrances. Of course the fragrances were not worn, not even when stoned or on a trip. At the same time I talked my later ex-husband into 'Kouros', which he kindly regarded as a test of courage that he passed bravely. Nevertheless the bottle was bought - youthful exuberance. The first spraying experience overwhelmed me with sharp, pungent and vile poisonous aromas and the absence of any fragrance. To this day I still can't get along with older perfumes and classics. The old Rive Gauche used to be my first perfume and has managed to keep me away from all further fragrance attempts for years. Right now I would have a great desire to resurrect the woman of that time and to exchange her for a uniform mush, a beauty frenzy and an influencer. The bottle? You couldn't have done better for this fragrance. Metallic at the beginning and at the end so wonderfully powdery, without sticking at all, yet very soft and protective. If there was a time machine, I would dare a small excursion into this tempting time.Īnd what should women have worn back then, if not Rive Gauche?Ī classic that I still find very wearable today. The one Rive Gauche was wearing at the time.Īnd secretly, I wish I could have lived through that time. She wears the trouser suit, a touch of black lace and Rive Gauche and nothing else. She smiles, a bit timid and challenging at the same time. Your date arrives and is perplexed again. She is who she is and that makes her irresistible. She doesn't think about breast enlargement or eyebrow tattoos. yes completely different than many women today. It seems a bit unapproachable, beautiful and cool at the same time. When she arrives at the café, she orders a glass of wine and lights a cigarette. In the evening she quickly swaps the cashmere turtleneck she wears at work for a blazer with shoulder pads. She dresses casually and at the same time elegantly and stylishly. She determines what she wears, who she is, what she can do and who she sleeps with. Men are no longer above things and women. Chief physician, head of a corporation, artist. She wears a pantsuit, has her bob tamed with gel and put on red lipstick.ĭuring the day she holds the strings in her hand. A hint of black lace flashes out under the blazer with shoulder pads.
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