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Giorgio Beverley Hills Red Eau de Toilette 90ml

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I get the “old fashioned” in some comments. Old fashioned is also what we call all the gourmand fragrances in twenty years. Old fashioned is not the same as dated. It just means “typically from another era”. This...is...absolutely...BEAUTIFUL! This is definitely a woman's perfume, not a girls perfume, at all! This is super sexy and sophisticated! This reminds me of the strong business women of the 80’s. With their designer outfits, shoulder pads, big hair, brightly coloured makeup and a real “I am woman, hear me roar” attitude when they stride down the halls of a workplace, as you hear their high-healed stilettos crash like the sound of glass breaking with each step as a reminder that they can put you in your place, even if you’re a man and fire you on the spot, so watch what you say and do...as they fill the air with RED each time they rush by! Then it develops into a warm, soft, slightly nutty, powdery, ambery dry down. Similar to cloud but not exactly the same either.

It's lasting on my skin for a couple of hours which is a lot longer than Seductive Noir (which I used to own and longevity was very weak, like half an hour). But projection is close to skin even though the scent is pretty strong. I can only smell it well enough if it's right up under my nose. Sillage: past arm's length for around the first 5 hours and then it draws itself closer until about the 7th hour where it becomes a skin scentIt is a rich floral chypre---I don't get the cherry note that some people are talking about. It's a complex fragrance that starts boozy then mellows to a nice mix of dirty mossy roses and woods. It smells best when worn on the skin that is covered by clothing---that way it sort of gets heated and you get varying facets of it. with exposed skin, like the arms or wrists, it goes straight up cigar and fireplace. I experience the same thing with Chanel Cristalle, which after years of study have discovered that the best place to put it is on the nape and at the tummy. Like many reviewers, I'd describe Always Red as smelling fairly dense and jammy, a bit boozy, quite deep and in some ways intense but not to hugely stink bomb levels. I disagree with many though who compare it to Si which I've sniffed a few times in department stores and I don't recall it smelling at all like this! As mentioned above though, it definitely reminds me of Alien in some ways but to me is a lot more likeable and (no pun intended!!) is far less alienating! Another perfume it reminds me of is a Chopard one I blind bought over the internet a few years ago which was in a heart shaped bottle but I can't remember the name of it and it since went AWOL (and it may have since been discontinued). That perfume also had the intense fruity 'jamminess' of Always Red but was less likeable to me. There's nothing extraordinarily special about this fragrance, but for the price, moderate performance, and its versatility, it works. I LOVED it when I first had it but the next two bottles were a disaster. I put it down to a bad reformulation and moved on. Or so I thought. Lately, I started obsessing about it again so I took a risk and blind bought a 30ml.

Plush incense and “cherry sweets” smoke. Not cigarette smoke but sweet pipe tobacco and cigar smoke.

In both the original and current formulations, is Oak Moss really the dominant note, as the votes here indicate? I suppose the bottle I have is not the new Elizabeth Arden's version, since it says Procter and Gamble and is made in the UK. Well, it is one of the strongest fragrances I ever smelled. it is only EdT but smells as strong as if it were pure perfume. Personally, I am not very fond of carnation, and for that reason I do not find the scent marvelous. But I do like it a lot, since there are other things I do appreciate a lot in this fragrance: as well as the strength, it is dense, very complex, one can smell distinctly lots of notes at once, and there is a very good balance amongst the notes so that carnation scent is not really overwhelming. Together with carnation, the notes I feel more intensely are myhrr, sandalwood, amber, tuberose jasmine and hyacinth. It is at the same time dense and sweet from amber and jasmine, harsh from carnation and myrrh, powdery from sandalwood and tuberose, and still has a metalic edge from Hyacinth. I can feel those four textures at once, which is quite unusual. I think it is quite a good fragrance, and also find the bottle very beautiful. Red fruity start and it continues like that too on the skin for 1 hour or so. After, it stays on the skin the light scent of an expensive Italian soap.. soap like from Nesti Dante. This is NOTHING like the first and original Giorgio! So if you have smelt that before and even HATE IT...you will still love this perfume! Think of Charlie and how strong that is and then what it was like to smell the romantic Charlie-Red and you’ll understand the big difference between Giorgio and RED! Unfortunately for me, the strong almond note in this and the Cloud-like drydown are really offensive to my nose. I can see it being really popular among Cloud lovers though, so I would strongly recommend it anyway.

This was a blind buy fail for me. According to the notes listed I should love it. Instead, the praline/wood mixture comes off smelling like patchouli to me. Or maybe they tossed some patchouli in there and didn't tell anyone :) Call me crazy, but it's all I can smell- I am very sensitive to it for some reason. For a moment it started to smell like the ink in those scented pens/markers we had in the 80s/90s. Gross (for perfume), but it's changing again and I am making out the florals, especially the jasmine - but not in an overpowering way. Let me give you an advice: do NOT blind buy this one! The way this perfume expressed itself seems very reliant on skin chemistry. I'm glad I put my prejudices for Giorgio Red aside long enough to discover this lovely classic blast from the past.

I went on a shopping spree lately to cheer myself up, because this year has been a tough year for me and my family..the day I got Always Red I received a piece of great news..I find this fragrance pretty magical.. Whoa, 80's powerhouse indeed! Crimped hair, bright makeup and stone washed jeans! Actually, this is more the bitchin feathered hair, tight fitting dresses with big shoulder pads (think Dynasty, i.e. Joan Collins). I discoveted it in the mid 90's and loved it immediately.Thete is something warm, floral extravagnt all embracing about it. All embracing is the operative word here. My mom used to wear this :) i kept the bottle even thought she finished it and when i sniff its still so strong!!

SweetRoses: I don't think you're allergic or that the bottle has gone bad on you. What you describe was my first impression as well, spot on! Burning (it actually felt like it was singeing my nose from the inside out), peppery, sharp, spikey - that's how Red opens. I hated it at first too. I bought this perfume for my sister, but she found it heavy and rough, so I took it from her, and bought another perfume for her instead, which is why it became one of my perfumes for the winter. Still not a Carolina Herrera Good Girl dupe or an Ariana Grande Cloud dupe (nothing coconutty sweet there), I don't get why people find them similar to Seductive Red or Bella Vita being another cherry perfume from guess often compared to the Good Girl range too... Just think it's close to it, but nothing's exactly reminding you of either Seductive Red or Very Good Girl Glam for instance. VGGG is way better on the lasting power and it is a more strong fruity blend than the fruity-floral subtle blend of Seductive Red. But let's talk about the negative aspects first, it doesn't seems to last more than 3h on the skin even if you overspay it, it rapidly becomes a skin scent to me. when y was 10 years old. y always go in to the perfume shop. look at the beauty of the bottle. i was very poor so it was very cruel to only look. and think that one day a can eable to buy one of them.This smells so familiar. Perfumes from the 80s are very distinct and unforgettable, which is sadly not the case with many of the modern frags. I warn you, this is incredibly sweet, but I love sweet. Even in the humid tropical weather here, you can find me choking people around me with my LVEBs and Intense Cafes. Unless if you're a sweet lover, this will probably not be your jam. Literally. It is a heavy scent, but not overly sweet the way many contemporary scents are, no candy floss here!

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