Oblique Play

This was basically my first "real" perfume where my opinion counted! I was probably around 10 or 11 and the funky bottle was impressive as the perfume itself to me: sugary, fruity and delicious. I've had this bottle for over 10 years, stashed away, because I loved it too much. The first refill bottle isn't even finished yet. Now smelling it in 2015, it's still the same. It's a fruity/citrusy sugarbomb alright, very young and girly, but still lovely and super bright. It borders on bitter orange zest (as a reviewer noted before me), but that bitterness dips away as the brightness of the sugary citrus takes over once more. All in all, I still enjoy it even now and I kind of wish that I bought another one back then.

Play is a thrilling citrus powdery scent that made me smile, and had me raise my eyebrows in wonder how good it is and what it actually smelt of. Where was that wonderful powdery aura coming from? I gave up and looked at the notes. Hm, is it the rose-gardenia-sandalwood mix? Mystified, and thrilled, I surrendered myself to this beauty and my smile until my lips went numb. And yes, the hot pepper helped too. Excellent longevity and the more the Play nears its end the likelier it gets to Rewind. ****(*)

Oblique Play and I have a very special relationship - It was my very first designer perfume. My dad gave it to me when I was 11, and, since then, I became passioned for pefumes. If my dad had given me another perfume instead of Oblique Play, maybe I wouldn't love perfumes so much. Thank you, Givenchy.

Lucky me, i own 3 little bottles of this delicious scent. For me much better than fast forward, wich is more musculine. This scent is sweet and a little sour, very crisp and unique. I can't compare it with another scent. Lovely!!! more floral/fruity/cypre.

It hits on the skin in a strange way, resinous, smoky. The sensation I had was of a medicinal and sweet scent. For sure, it comes from the Praline note. It has the same style of Gaultier2 and Fleur du Male, which tends more to the female than the male smell, for a long time. That “medicinal-sweet” phase only gets better after about 1 hour from its application, when it starts to become calm and more appreciable. I liked a lot, but it is a kind of fragrance that possesses few opportunities of being worn, which makes it another “scent on a corner” among the others inside a collection. The quality is huge, like in all Givenchy.