Aliage

A gorgeous classic green chypre that evokes the green, fresh outdoors. Suitable for any season, but I'm leaning toward warmer weather. The rose and nutmeg add a splash of floral spice to the citrus moss. It definitely has the Estee Lauder DNA. Will definitely add class to your wardrobe. This is a clear "love" for me, but the drydown does suck a lot of the power away. Clearly this fragrance is in the genius category, and makes you appreciate these genius parfumers for creating these gems.

Lovely green chypre. Totally unisex. Could be worn any season

Even though this formulation of Aliage is disappointing, you can still get a whiff of the bitter glory of the OG's galbanum/oakmoss juggernaut. But it fades pretty quickly into a pretty and inoffensive green floral. It cracks me up to think of Aliage as a sports scent (rich lady tennis doubles or golf MAYBE), but I will concede that it is much, much better in hot weather than most of my perfumes. Today the heat index where I live is 106 thanks to the ungodly humidity; I made the mistake of wearing a very lactonic perfume yesterday and felt like the Dumpster behind an elementary school. Aliage, much like Eau de Private Collection and Estée, makes me feel clean, but not in the contemporary clean-girl way. More like some eccentric heiress who likes to go forest-bathing in the Japanese way. I'm still hoping to track down a well-preserved vintage formulation to compare with this version of the juice. I have a feeling that the reissue in the terrible, terrible bottle (my Cinnabar atomizer broke apart in my hands before I could even use it for the first time) will still be better than its "Legacy" version, assuming they bother to continue that fruitless reboot. Update 11/5/2025: Rather than write my third review in a row, I thought I would just tack this on here. I'm liking Aliage, even in its current formulation, een more than I did before. I'm not sure if my tastes are evolving or if the juice is just maturing as intended in my refrigerator, but it was just right for this unseasonably warm day, when I'm longing for a chypre in t-shirt weather. As it dries down and the citrus and green notes are less piercing, the spices come out more, especially the nutmeg and artemisia, and the floral notes are more detectable. It reminds me of white or jasmine tea that has several squirts of fresh lemon in it, along with some fanciful leafy garnishes. It's not exactly like Elizabeth Arden Green Tea, but it has some overlap, just with more citrus zing in place of the earthier, more vegetal rhubarb. I still would like to compare this to a vintage formulation, but something tells me that old bottles of this won't hold up all that nicely, since citrus top notes tend to be the first to degrade.

Much greener and citrussier than I expected it to be--when I smelled the cap, it reminded me of Cabochard, but it's not nearly as mossy or chypresque. I like this, but I think I would need to smell the original formulation to judge it properly as the fragrance created by the estimable Bernard Chant.

Herbaceous, chypre, clean, and a little bit soapy. Vintage Aliage is greener, modern Aliage is more earthy. Completely unisex.