Prestizs

Got my hands on a small vintage bottle, clear one, so it’s after 1991. It is the sexiest vintage perfume I’ve ever smelled. Sweet tuberose and patchouli mixed with leather and tobacco notes. I immediately see this woman in the early 80s, black leather slingbacks, a suit, walking home after work. She gets into her apartment, sticks something on the VHS, lights a cigarette, kicks her shoes off, gets comfy in an armchair. Curls crunchy with hairspray, red lipstick on...and there’s Billy Idol’s “Eyes Without a Face” playing in the back somewhere The cloves are almost nonexistent, smell rather like carnations, much milder and sweeter, not nauseating at all. Very very potent! Needs one dab after a shower, and you’re gonna smell alll day. The perfume literally merges with your skin and produces some kind of sensual scent. Love it.

This is a very strong pine sap, literally aromatherapy in a bottle. The spirit of sun-warmed pine trees, hot bark against the backdrop of a refreshing wind from the sea, a fragrant chorus of forest flowers. Young smokers of the 80s in Italian hairstyles and wide-shouldered, narrow-hipped silhouette styles are returning from a forest disco. By modern standards it is a unisex perfume, but in those years it perfectly represented that daring, slightly manly fashion.