L'Interdit, 2018 is a vivid fragrance, but rather more generous than loud. Despite some serious sillage, there are no truly shrieking notes that could spoil someone's movie night or make one's subway ride home virtually intolerable. L'Interdit, 2018 generously gifts you all of its seductive notes without ever pushing any particular one on you.

Henry Rogers was not particularly keen on the situation, but he could not do anything about it. And yet he simply could not understand that Audrey and Hubert were equally generous with each other: Givenchy created Audrey' style and continued to sew perfect gowns for her, while the actress advertised his fashion house. Speaking of floral notes, the strongest one there is iris, out of the sweet notes sandalwood stands out more than the rest. Their combo makes this aldehyde fragrance so sophisticated and unlike any other.L'Interdit is springtime in Paris. The delicate warmth, the affectionate kisses given by the Sun. A huge springtime bouquet in the hands of a fairy godmother, possibly the very one that helped Cinderella get to the ball and did many other lesser known acts of kindness, because she considers helping to be her main goal in life, especially if that means helping disadvantaged children… And when she walks down the streets of Paris - her very own, magical Paris, that Hepburn so adored! - she gifts not only smiles to strangers, but also individual flowers from her bouquet. That is how generous she is! The woman who could personify L'Interdit 2018 is not some fragile angel nor the pale Goth girl… Our girl is healthy, her cheeks are flushed with color, she is always carrying a basket of fruits, berries and sweets around; she has flowers in her hair and a grape vine for a belt. She reminds you of not so much a fairy but more a deity of fertility that is used to pretending that she is a mere mortal. When she needs to, she can look dazzling: the grape vine, jasmine and orange blossom then turn to a floral-leafy weave of the fine embroidery on her dress, while the wild strawberry turns to the rubies of her jewels. Still, I never bought a bottle of L'Interdit until around 2001 when I bought a bottle of the edt and a bottle of the parfum on line. And reading this article yesterday and reaching for the edt this morning I can say it's still a safe perfume for me. That is to say, boring. Almost everything I have in my now huge collection is more interesting. The first version has never seemed believable to me: It is nothing like the relationship between Hepburn and Givenchy, for she was Hubert's muse, his source of inspiration, and he would never breach an openly expressed forbiddance to do something. Plus Audrey herself had never been egotistical - she demanded no special treatment for herself. It is generous, and what relates it to the first (and the only real!) L'Interdit is the image of Audrey Hepburn, Givenchy's muse.

Some might say that I have just come up with my very own fairy tale (Audrey would not judge me, you know.)

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Look what I found for you,” my coworker said and handed me a Coty L’Aimant perfume ad shrink-wrapped on cardboard. It was all in gold and red, featuring a woman in a 1950s coiffure gazing into a tiny stage peppered with various L’Aimant products, from perfume to compacts to body powder. Each product was adorned with a horseshoe magnet encompassing a heart. “To be a magnet — wear a magnet — always!” the copy said. For me, it is an insult, an act of dishonesty and travestism this new fashion that, sadly, it is already a trend, to give the name of beautiful, venerable perfumes of the past, that should be pampered and enshrined by their mother perfume houses which, rather have became the stepmothers, to modern, mediocre fragances, that have nothing to do with their glorious ancestors, that could only appeal the young customers. L'Interdit, the new Joy, the new Miss Dior, and so on and so goes...