No. 1

CLIVE CHRISTIAN ✨ No 1 Feminine ✨ (2001) One of my perfumes which has a very special place in my heart. Something which I was dreaming of but never mentioned it to my husband. And just one day he came home from his trip to Italy and he gave me this as a souvenir. ❤️ I remember when trying this for the first time a long time ago. My first impression was “hell no, what is this”, the blend was so unfamiliar. Later I found myself spraying the little vial and sniffing myself continuously. This is one of those vintage style perfumes which has a successful yet totally unique scent profile. It’s glamorous, rich and very complex. It’s charmingly soapy and it’s powdery but it’s as well woody and even fruity but not in the way than the fruits are mostly performing. There is a rich floral heart of Iris, Osmanthus, Jasmine, Ylang-Ylang, Carnation, Rose and Orchid. The whole mix opens up with fruits including many of my favorites - Plum, Peach, Apricot and Mandarin (+ Mirabelle, Lemon)- with a spicy kick from Pimento and Cardamom. But those fruits are not juicy fresh joyful ones, they are so refined, luxurious and classy fruits, a little bit dusty and melancholy ones (in the nice way). They are like that ancient painting of fruits with dark yet faded colors. All those flowers and fruits are laying in the bed of Vanilla, Sandalwood, Vetiver, Cedar and Tonka beans. And again it’s not how it sounds - not sweet, not Vanilla like. It’s creamy and soft though. This perfume is not only special because of how I got it. It’s very special as a blend and it’s not anything like Chanel No 5 or Samsara (I love those both) or any other vintage scent. Just wanted to mention since some seem to find it similar with those which I absolutely can’t understand. Special is as well the formula which has remained unchanged. I highly recommend this one for everyone who love vintage or vintage style scents. You won’t be disappointed. 💎 Thank you for reading, I hope my review was helpful. I would appreciate a lot if you want to follow me on IG and/or YouTube (English subtitles): @ninamariahperfumes It gives me a lot of motivation to write more. 🤗

Okay Okay so I except the point about the price of Clive Christian juice and the hype surrounding this scent in particular... Just because it's the most expensive doesn't make it the best.(1872 & X are more to my taste) Okay so this isn't and I except that it is similar to many a fruity floral musk which you could get much cheaper. I bought the set for my girlfriend and to me all three smell incredible without really blazing a new trail but I honestly don't know what people expect from these fragrances? I can only comment on what they deliver and I would say trying them once is not enough to appreciate the fine nuance and complexity they bring to the table. No.1 is an energizing spiced, fruity, floral which has some of the milky sweet quality of white florals mixed with exotic ylang ylang, sandalwood and musk. I for one get the complexity of this fragrance and it delivers on quality but maybe not to the degree which would command such a high price. But again...what would? What does a fragrance have to do to qualify for these kind of prices? Gratify you sexually? make you dinner? (It doesn't have to...If you treat your significant other to No.1 you may just get both;) My girlfriend enjoys it for what it is anyway hyped or not and she smells amazing wearing it. She gets unheard of longevity and projection compared to perfume she usually wears. No.1 is pretty good then...sure it's gimmicky but not many will deny the smell is pleasant.

With this covid, I am homed, and have been perfuming a lot :) I brought this out, and yes, I still love it. The price point is mute, if you love it and want it, get it. If not, don't. It is so lovely on me. It does remind me of the older days, which were grand. The music was grand, the aura was grand, everybody tolerated and tried to make friends, and manners were abound. Very floral, and unique like the women I looked up to during those days, they smelled like this. Yes. Having said that. This is really only for when I want it, knowing the $$$. I will use it and hopefully pull the trigger on it again. If I had to choose one fragrance to take with me, it would be Clive Christian No 1 Women. Yep. I hope they spray this on me in my coffin. My last request. CC No1 Women, and the other outrageous $$$ fragrance I would choose next would be BR540. I have others, which I love, but these two are my top 2. However, I would choose to repurchase BR540 over this, because it is more approachable. It is on the top shelf, so you have to pull a chair over to reach it, or a ladder. Up there alongside, is her sister, Amouage Gold, then sits BR540, slightly to the left, being it is more unisex.

The scent depends on you, your mood, your heat, your diet, etc. In a generic way, a generic judgement would be that it is overall beautiful, intoxicating and feminine. However, if I put it on during a day when I am stressed, careless, busy, the scent is busy, somewhat like an Amuage Gold, it totally reflects me and my day. The real alchemy of it is this: if I wear it during a clean, calm, quiet, decongested day, mood and body, a very different, unique scent is revealed - 180 degree difference! Being natural 100%, unlike synthetic scents which are always the same, No. 1 Clive Christian is a mirror of you, wrapped in the most astonishing scented ingredients on earth. So before you judge it, you have to look at yourself, the other 1/2 of the scented story: how and what do you contribuite to it? Then you have the answer.

I have this for 6 months now. But I had never really "worn" it. -just light spritzer due to the price- but today I have used it, after all it is Christmas, it was georgous on me, I had quit a bit of positive comments. I am really pleased, I could smell myself even after 5 hours. I red that some people make a comparison with Chanel n 5, well I don't get that, I don't like n5 at all. This n1 of CC is on my skin and clothes so much better. I also don't experience it as old, neither did the people I was with, they all liked it. Longevity and silage are very good on me. I can only say for me it is class, so thought my companions. I don't feel sorry for the price after all one doesn't smell it continuously on other people. I like it quit a lot and I will use my 50 ml bottle at special occasions.