Extatic Intense Gold

This stuff is amazing. Intoxicating. Luxurious. Deep. Rich. Warm. Balsamic. Vanillic. Jasmine heavy. Powdery heliotrope. Extatic Gold by Balmain is a smooth, rich, ambery scent. Feels very balanced, rounded, calm, cozy, enveloping. Why on earth was this discontinued is beyond me??? In my eyes, this fragrance belongs to the Golden Era when designers used to create unbelievable, amazing scents that were strong, didn’t cost an arm and a leg, and smelled unique. Nowadays, everything designer is going towards mediocrity and monotony! Beautiful and attractive perfume that blends jasmine and heliotrope with vanilla, amber and labdanum. Simple structure, simply beautiful, warm scent. Fall season in a bottle! Luxurious bottle and packaging, classic design with golden accents on black background. So happy to have a bottle. If I am not mistaken, it’s a unicorn these days...

Och, my... Balmain Extatic Intense Gold is a true masterpiece!!! ❤️🔥 Vanilla is here so round, creamy, not too sweet, not too prominent. I get very well blended almonds, heliotrope, smoke, tonka, labdanum. Very womanly and sensual, warm, sexy. It is quite linear, as others say - but this is big advantage of this juice in my opinion. World is full of perfumes that open with great zest and then always dry down to vanilla and musk. This one is different. You get ALL ingredients magicaly mixed and blended since the first spray till the drydown. The scent gets activated by warmth of your skin and lingers sweetly around you with approx 1,5 meter silage. Lasts up to 4-6 hours. So sad it has been a short line available only for 2 years. So glad I bought 2 bottles (after a week of waering this beauty and collecting zyllion of compliments) 😉

What a beauty Extatic Intense Gold by Balmain is! This is the most interesting vanilla I've ever smelled, absolutely beautiful smell, very elegant and classy. It was a blind buy for me, but I am so happy with this fragrance. Definitely worth a try, if you like amber and vanilla sweetness, you can't go wrong...

A powdery resinous perfume! This is so good. This perfume is warm, sensual and dense. Amber and labdanum are the most detectable for my nose, powdered by some heliotrope and sweetened by some vanilla. As simple as this. The result is gorgeous! I don't detect the jasmine at all! Simply beautiful!

A lovely, modern floral with a hint of vanilla and a lot more of Labdanum. Charming, with reasonably good longevity and sillage. It has just enough powder to be richer than some florals, and enough creaminess to mollify vanilla lovers. I'd truly enjoying smelling Extatic Intense Gold in the air about me, as the composition is quality and a nice change from kiwi-peony-candy! I'm not as impressed as I would like to be, however, owing to the lack of dark, naughty notes. It IS dark compared to a fruity-floral, but not so dangerous when compared to Rochas Femme, Tabu, or Habanita. *Sigh* Balmain's presentation is gorgeous. I guess black and gold bottles with balsamic accords listed get my hopes up where only Vintages and Arabians ever go.... Update - The base notes are indeed more balsamic and rich. Though not my favorite noire femme, Balmain is a fine fragrance in the newer style.