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Cher Eau de Couture Eau De Parfum 50 ml

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As this Cher perfume further warms, it teases and shows off a more romantic side with its lovely floral heart notes of jasmine, rose and orange blossom that lurks beneath those fearless powerful notes. You feel its softer beauty taking center stage now dominating your attention, counteracting some of its rebellious nature that gives in better balance. There is probably nothing new you can do with vanilla. We all know it. We love it. But can it be reinterpreted in a way that feels fresh? I don't know. Does this scent do exactly that? I would say no, but I would also say that it finds a way to surprise you with something you already love and serve it to you paired with notes that make it worth smelling again. There's a way women can be powerful, and it's not breaking down the walls. We've got these chips in the wall, and at some point, men are going to move over, and we will be able to take care of things that they've screwed up. At some point, that's going to happen, and it's already happening in many ways in many cities. Yet again Cher and collaborators have chosen to directly descend from a CHANEL perfume. Not the same. No. A very heavily influenced nod though. This time it seems the target is CHANEL No 22. Imagine a 22 where the huge aldehydic overdose is played against clove, instead of nutmeg. Still using rose as the lynchpin with lashings of white florals.The heart has been tamed and modernised and the dry down is far less tapestried, creamier and less chypre-ish. The aldehydes are the star of the show though and continue to pump their magic till the very end.

But then, it shifts. The scent is pitched as a "spicy vanillic oriental," and I don't know if I even agree with this. If anything, it balances being a green, metallic vanilla, settling down to its spicier side when it reaches its half-life. This scent is all vanilla, even if it takes it a minute to get there. An hour or two into wear, you notice a true vanilla note begin to writhe off of your skin as if it was waiting for the right time to show itself. Over time, vanilla becomes the focus of the scent, with all of the other notes singing its fanfare, laying down palm leaves for its arrival. The vanilla is literal enough to be warm and inviting on anyone who wears it, but the other notes prop it up and give it depth in a way that makes you keep coming. Eau de Couture is as big and bold in its appeal as Cher, the legendary performer and music icon that inspired this perfume for this review. This spicy oriental fragrance created by perfumer, Clement Gavarry launched in 2019 is one that captures all sides of this dynamic and timeless star in this second Cher perfume with Eau de Couture. Capturing and bottling the scent of one entire decade—let alone four—is a seemingly impossible task. But Cher? Cher can do anything. The icon's latest perfume collection, Decades, is out now and features four distinct scents that capture the aura of the '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s from her unique perspective. "I think the thing that's the coolest is that I was famous and in all of them," she tells BAZAAR.com. She designed each one in partnership with Scent Beauty to evoke a feeling of those years: a warm floral for the free-love era, an amber woody scent for her disco days, a floral and fruity essence for the punky '80s, and an airy floral to channel '90s pop escapism.Like all fragrances, but perhaps more than most, it really, truly evolves over time. From beginning to end, it shapeshifts. On my skin, this happens at least three times as I wear it. It's positioned as a genderless scent (as all fragrances should be, thank you) and not only does it nail its objective, but it employs notes that are typically thought of as "masculine" or "feminine" and makes them work together for something bigger — something that defies what you know about gendered fragrances altogether. I've never been, like, a rose or flowery kind of girl. I like sexier ones, but I know that not everybody's going to wear my perfume. I don't want perfume that's, like, if you get on an elevator and everybody goes, "What in the eff is that?" I just want something where someone gets on an elevator and everyone goes, "Oh, my God, who is wearing that?" So I tried to split it between the obvious and the seductive and the discreet. Women are the future. We're not going to be taking crumbs anymore; we're going to take over, but not in a mean way. Because I think we're much better than that. I think that if women were in politics, we wouldn't have all this bullshit stuff that's going on. We wouldn't have had Trump and his merry band of criminals, you know? So I think that women are taking over things that they never were allowed to.

It makes me feel really girly. … I used to say if you smell like dessert, a man will never forget you. And I still feel that way. There's a way to be powerful, and not be unattractive, or not be kind of abrasive. And I think that perfume kind of helps you soften up the room.More than anything, Cher Eau de Couture is an adventure that keeps you guessing. It starts off a little standoffish, but then warms up to you, showing a different side of itself completely. It's edgy, then sweet. Chilly, then warm. Cautious, then inviting. Like Cher herself, it's timeless, ever-changing, and a definite crowd-pleaser. Though a celebrity — no, icon — of her status releasing a scent as this stage in her career may seem like a surprise, the scent itself feels like a perfect representation of the woman who created it. After all, Cher has always been known for reinventing herself, and if this scent and the last year of her career tell us anything, she's not slowing down any time soon. Created by the man who brought us Amber Prada, Panorama for Olfactive Studios, Lovely by SJP and Ariana Grande Cloud; Clement Gavarry. I personally feel that the note list is a giant furfy. Sure I bet there are bits of these notes but what I read here is a generic, safe, modern nothing of a fragrance with nothing even slightly challenging. Far from the reality, far far.

I didn't specifically want to create a 'genderless' fragrance. I created it for people who like it." I was inspired by movie stars and by freedom. There's so many things happening around you—and they inspire you. I used to watch old movies in the afternoon with my mother. Audrey Hepburn, and both Hepburn girls, Katharine. All the old movie stars, like Lana Turner. Hedy Lamarr! Oh, my god, I was so crazy about her. For me, she was the deep, dark, seductive—she was the bad-girl perfume. You know, there was, like, the good-girl perfume and the bad-girl perfume. I always kind of gravitated to the bad-girl perfume. It is a powerhouse compared to so much of the modern releases and has extraordinary tenaciousness. Eau de Couture is a glam party scent, it gets noticed and is as sparkly and diva like as you can imagine. A perfect resemblance to Cher.I don't think in terms of genders," Cher says. "I didn't specifically want to create a 'genderless' fragrance. I created it for people who like it. I've worn men's fragrances. Val [Kilmer] used to wear Kouros, which was a men's fragrance, and I liked how it smelled and wore it sometimes. I've also worn Canoe and Taboo, though my mom didn't think Taboo was for 'good' girls." Hey Posse! Cher! One of the queens of style. An icon who has managed to stay relevant and popular through highs, lows and a fair smattering of mediocrity. Her original 1987 fragrance Uninhibited was a direct CHANEL No 5 descendant, all fizzy aldehydes and fruity space flowers over woodsy vanilla. One of my besties is a complete Cher aficionado who follows her concerts around the world and I found him a small bottle of it in the early 2010s, he has loved and cherished it. So, weirdly, in 2019 she decided that the world needed a new Cher fragrance, enter Eau de Couture.

We were really poor when I was little. My mom wore Joy. I know that she saved up for it. I didn't know how expensive it was, but I knew that I better not touch it. My mom was so beautiful. And she was so classic. And also, we wore jeans all the time, we wore 501s all the time. So we were just a contradiction walking around.

Cher: Eau de Couture

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