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Like many others I used this perfume in my youth. I bought it again before the pandemic stuff started hoping to relive the love of the perfume. I tried it twice in the past year and found it to have a very harsh chemical like smell. I tried it again today. Again, the chemical smell. I thought of scrubbing it off but then decided to wait it out. About 6 hours later it has a soft powdery smell. I'm glad that it changed from the first scent but this probably will not get much use from me. I may donate it to Good Will or something like that. Maybe a women's shelter. Around one hour after application the fragrance changed insofar as single components became more distinguishable. On my skin, it was lily of the valley and white lilies that became the most prominent while I could not detect rose at all. This is where the Anaïs Anaïs remained for hours and hours. After a shower I took between hours 5 and 6, the scent was still well detectable, although the focus now had shifted to a combination of musk and sandalwood. Friendly when doing mist spray in arm distance, nauseated and can be died if over clumping spray in very near distance, it still haunting linger stay on your wrist even after you wash off, be careful!
What followed - on my skin it was about 15 minutes in - were the creamiest floral aldehydes. They smelt sophisticated but approachable and reminded me of the fragrance Dove bodywashes used to have before the experience was marred by this slight citric undercurrent I find they carry now. At this point, Anaïs Anaïs reminded me of impeccably white satin sheets fleeting in the breeze, faintly holding memories of the 1980s and 1990s. I am ashamed to admit, but since this is an anonymous platform I will: The fragrance made me feel so pretty. I felt like a well-groomed, dreamy girl carefully dressing for her first date, reminding herself of being classy, not daring.Anais Anais shares similar DNA with other musky white floral classics deemed as old fashioned such as Nina Ricci’s L’Aire du Temps, which came more than a whole generation ahead, and was at the time considered a fresh and contemporary scent marking the beginning of a whole new era and symbolized freedom in a post-war world (WWII) with endless optimism and opportunity. I passed this over in the 80's and 90's, dazzled by the glam haze of Opium, Balahe, Paris and L'Air du Temps. I must've tried it but never bought it. I was under the impression Anais Anais was for girls; pretty, but forgettable. What I loved at the time were complex, opulent, sexy perfumes. Anyway what was new then was its being so delicate despite its bomb power, the flowers playing strong the same role that spices and balsams played in (the old) Magie Noire and (the old) Opium. The scent is photorealistic flowers (lily and hyacinth) mixed with powder and it does have a mysterious dark side. At the same time, despite the dark side, it is so incredibly innocent. It’s hard to explain that paradox and I think that’s what makes it so mysterious. It is also a sophisticated scent, certainly a vintage feel.
Anais Anais has always had more of a "feeling" than a smell, for me... it gives me an abstract impression of a time and place, rather than a list of notes in my head. I inhale it and instinctively picture a whitewashed wood 1920's farmhouse under a vast blue prairie sky... in a bedroom of that house, a woman has just emerged from her claw-foot tub and has put on her white cotton nightgown for bed... but first, she sits at her dark wood vanity to brush her long hair with a silver brush... there is a white iron bed in the room, white cotton curtains on tall windows ...
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Typical perfume that will never go out of fashion, unlike many from the same era and period, with those very detailed olfactory pyramids and with plenty of notes to give and sell to whoever wants! Anais Anais has perpetuated itself! There are other points of comparison that merit a mention: for instance, the longevity and the sillage, which are equally strong with both versions, or the target group, which makes me think that the vintage version leans even a bit more towards the unisex direction than the L’ Originale.
Incredible. Just so strong. I can still smell it one day later... even thru clothing changes and a shower. Somehow this is still with me. I decanted a bit into a spray, but I'm going to treat this lil treasure as a Parfum. Truthfully, I never quite get a drydown to AA, prob because at some point 12+ hours later I have to change clothes and/or bathe. :P I would love the skank/leather/incense. Refreshing, cooling, soothing, this Anais Anais was wonderful to spray on right after the shower or even spray some on the bed linen because of the really strong image of cleanness and comfort like a cozy bathrobe or a fluffy towel. Anais Anais is a very dreamy fragrance, it paints the image in my mind of a 1920's Parisian garden (I know, it was a 70s release but still) and actually reminds me a little bit of The Royal Victoria Park in Bath and Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh.
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Well, i was wrong...i won't say this smells bad, because i still have to smell this perfume on someone with the right chemistry. How ingenious was to hide "hot stuff" under the layers of innocent flowers, what a great deception!
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