Giorgio Beverley Hills Red Eau de Toilette 90ml

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This perfume is bold, complex and multi layered. Sometimes I can taste the spices. The silage is at least arm length for me and it lasts a long time. So, you kind of have to practice how much and where you put it. I had been curious since I bought my new bottle of Red how similar the two were or not as my previous review mentions. Thus I put one spritz of the EA relaunch on one wrist and one spritz of the vintage GBH's on the other.

Red, needs time to settle. It becomes smoother, more lady-like. Lychee brightens this floral with its mark of sugar. Iris adds a sprinkle of powder. As I'm pulled deeper into my sunny floral reverie I have a sudden urge to browse The Sweater Shop, to read the latest Just 17, and owning a Body Shop bag for lugging around my worldly possessions is the most pressing issue in my life. My goodness, I can almost taste those in-flight British Airways bread rolls... Is it heavy? Yes. It's it 80's masculine/macho powerhouse? Yes. But is it totally unique in today's world of sweet/fresh dime-a-dozen scents? Totally. In the late 90's my dad give me a used bottle of this stuff, that was getting almost syrupy. I remember loving those leathery/woody notes and the fact that as previous reviewers have stated, this is a 'take no prisoners' scent.Why? Because, in the end, your signature scent isn't really something you can choose. It's something that fits you, a descriptor in scent. It's who you are - not who you want to be. I can smell grassy or citrus-y, or aqueus... but at best they become personas. But Red is me, with the gloves off. 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'm of an age when I remember when this came out. Giorgio was a part of my high school rotation. A monsterously suffocating collection of sweet white florals that made me smell sexy in my mind. The spray was so suffocating, I used to decant this into a dabber bottle (a frightening process requiring airing out my room and much hand scrubbing). The heart is reminiscent of leather in an 80's night club the florals and other ingredients augment the leather which is nether animalic nor very true to actual leather.. yet is, a bit sweet maybe a little soapy think fresh soapy frag.. thankfully the oakmoss is not very prominent since I personally find it hard to enjoy. Edit: It does initially present very strongly, however only lasts on me for about an hour or so, surprisingly. I do have to reapply a few times during the day. My skin is a horrible gobbler of fragrance, it's what I have to deal with. Even with some of the so-called heavy hitters, there's no guarantee with me they will act like that on my skin, it's all trial and error. Sigh. Still love this though.

RED remained with me until 2001, when during a move, she, along with a dozen of other liquid friends, were relegated to the storage unit. A storage unit my Mother had, and a few years later, had forgot to pay the bill for. Yep…where RED and her other friends ended up, I have no idea. But I do know, she still had a lotta life left in her (she was still ¾ full when I last saw her). There's no sweetness in this, either from sweet fruits or gourmand notes or amber. If you like florals at all, or are at least curious as to what everyone raves about, I suggest that you give this a try. I've sampled quite a few scents from the 70's/80's and I don't fully agree with the comparisons between Red and Quorum or Polo Green. From all the recommendations here I *had* to try them, but both Quorum and Polo Green to me have this almost synthetic nauseating quality that extremely cheap toilet-fresheners have, whereas if your bathroom would smell like Giorgio Red, it's probably a very well-cleaned, John Lautner-designed outhouse with a leather seat amidst sequoia trees. ;-)I wore it yesterday, and left my skirt hanging over my bed. Well the window was open a cool breeze was flowing in. So I kept getting whiffs of this really fresh fragrance?! The problem with Giorgio is that it suffers from what many older fragrances suffer; over application to excess, in a time when fragrances where not only applied heavily, but were equally potent as well. Everyone’s view varies, but I would have loved to live that era and live the glamorous life of Giorgio Beverly Hills. Fortunately I can live it today with my 1981 bottle of extraordinary spray cologne. It wears so well and projects just right. The silage is noticeable and garners some comments, always on the positive side. So I leaned a lesion from my trip to Giorgio. Even when you go slumming in Beverly Hills don’t be a snob, take a chance once in a while and try something you never dreamed you would like. You might find that Beverly Hills in a certain light looks a little like Paris! But at the same time, this is very comforting and motherly for a stay at home mum who hugs and kisses her children in the morning as they leave the house for the school bus and before she spends her day caring for her proud home and preparing a heart warming meal for the family she loves more than life! And the first thing her family smell as the walk in the front door is the caring, warming and inviting scent of...RED! G. is a big floral but very wearable unless one takes a shower it in. Overuse of this potent perfume gave G. a bad reputation, which is undeserved. Any frag can be obnoxious when over applied.

And so I was a happy young woman, happy because Giorgio Beverly Hills is, at its heart, a happy, fun-loving fragrance. Happy because my chemistry made this fragrance blossom and sing, and this unique fragrance was "mine" and mine alone, at least for a short while. But soon enough, that all changed. I also have to say my 14 year daughter likes it too!!!! Usually she likes the sweet scents that are out there, but she surprises me now and then: she loves Boucheron (original) and now this :) As a teen when I wore Giorgio it was a theatrical fantasy. I wasn't a little awkward dark haired girl. I was vibrant, I was a hair-sprayed blonde, I had a convertible and a phone shaped like a burger in my bedroom, all the boys at school were in awe of me and looked confusingly like they were in their mid 20's...The Giorgio Beverly Hills fragrance was launched in 1981 by Fred Hayman and then-wife Gale Hayman with a fanfare normally reserved for a major perfume house launch, and never before seen for an independent boutique brand. Love it or hate it, the fragrance captured the public's imagination in the 1980s, and was perfectly suited to the era's glamorous and over-the-top fashions. Giorgio Beverly Hills was one of the first scents to be marketed via the new technology of scent strips, which enabled sales by direct mail. Then when they came out with the reformulation, I snapped up a new 3.4 bottle. And then hoarded away a second one - just in case they scotched it again. This just smells 80s, and for me that's a culmination of things: sadness over lies from a 90s/00s childhood, a vivid, glassy daydream everyone remembers and loves yet feels embarrassed about having. Summer, stripes and synths that echo the remnants of good things long gone and only remembered, savoured in a song or a scent.