Chic

I love this perfume, because I love flowery scents and especially rose, allthough in this scent the rose is subtle. For me this is a scent that I wear in spring and summer, when I want to smell fresh, it cools me down. It smells as if I just took a shower and I love to smell that clean, especially when it is warm outside. This scent isn't available in The Netherlands anymore, so on vacation on Curacao in 2009 I bought a bottle of 50 ml. That was long finished, when I went to Aruba in 2013, so then I bought a bottle of 80 ml. Because I own so much scents now, I fortunately still have enough. I find this a fresh elegant floral scent and the name Chic perfectly describes it, I love to wear it on sunny days in spring and summer. It is suitable for daytime, but also at nighttime, when I am all dressed up for a party. This scent does reminds me a bit of Miracle by Lancome, another scent that I do love. They share the freshness, the cleanliness, that gives me the feeling as if I just took a shower all day, so I guess that it is the freesia, that is responsible for that. I just checked out the work of Alberto Morrillas, the nose of both scents, and I am a fan. I also own my second bottle of Pleasures by Estee Lauder, another scent that gives me the feeling of being freshly showered all day. And I owned two bottles of Intuition by Estee Lauder, another scent that made me feel clean all day, and that I would like to own again. This is really very remarkable, I went to Curacao in 2009 and bought three scents: Allure by Chanel and Pleasures and Chic. In 2013 I went to Aruba and bought three scents again, DKNY Be Delicious Fresh Blossom, Chic and Miracle! So on both vacations, two of the three scents that I bought were the creations of Alberto Morrillas! I never owned, but also really do like Omnia Amethyste, Omnia Green Jade and Omnia India Garnet by Bvlgari, CK One, Manifesto by Isabella Rosselini, Scarlet by Cacharel, Flower by Kenzo, and Daisy and Daisy Dream by Marc Jacobs, so I am really an Alberto Morrillas fan:-).

One of those that's not like anything else. I look at the ingredients of these things and get very confused sometimes. I can't smell any of its alledged individual parts, to me it smells like going on holiday. It's a kind of hot smell, the beach is there somehow, the hotel room, clothes after you've worn them to the beach, sea and suncream and sand and a sweaty but not unpleasant hug. I'm not doing this justice. It's unique and sticks in your brain but in a slightly uneasy way like a dream. Wonderful stuff. LT calls this a tawdrey fruity floral. Really can't see that at all I'm afraid. Has he fallen out personally with Carolina Herrera? That's the only way I can account for it.

To clarify, I own the one that came in the white box with the red box logo. I don't think it is exactly the same as the original 2006 version, but to me this is not a huge issue. This perfume has a great first spray (freesia) and a lovely dry down that is rich and cozy. On my skin, the rose comes out quite strongly after about 2 hours. This perfume can be used for work, weekends as well as a night out. It's my preferred fragrance to travel with because of its versatility. This perfume suits its name completely in my opinion, it is chic. At some stage I think this perfume was hard to find, but I've had good luck on the internet.

I Loved the original CHIC back in 2005/6 when I first tried it. I really loved it. It was such a beautiful smell. I ordered it online and it smelled like bug repellent. Nothing like the softness I remembered. I ordered it again a while later thinking I probably got a bad bottle & that one was like the original. Yet, since every time I smell it at perfume shop or store, it's that same awful chemical scent. I keep on seeing it on sale everywhere but it's no longer that beautiful soft scent. I can't believe they would drastically alter the scent of a perfume that much & not change the look or name.

There are 2 versions of this. One is beautiful, the other is horrible. The rectangular vertical bottle is horrible. The one with the red plastic case around it. Then there are 2 similar Chic shaped perfumes with different boxes, yet both are square, slightly wider than taller. I think both of these might be the same but to be sure the white box with the huge red box logo that says within it CHIC is the one I have had success with. That's the beautiful Chic I first smelled back in 2006. Not the box featured on this page. I will stay sway if it's enclosed in that red plastic casing.