Arpege Eau Delicieuse

ARPEGE DELICIEUSE BY LANVIN OF PARIS THE EAU DE TOILETTE VERSION OF ARPEGE Most people are familiar with the classic 1927 perfume Arpege by French couturière Jeanne Lanvin. The story goes that she made the perfume as a gift for her daughter, Marie Blanche, a classical musician, on the occasion of her 30th birthday. She worked with two perfumer/noses André Fraysse and Paul Vacher. The eau de parfum is what most people buy. It's heady, strong and beautiful as a floral-fruity aldehyde. It's elegant, youthful and sweet. Most people don't know about the 2nd Arpege launched the following year of 1928: Eau Delicieuse and Eau Arpege. This is extremely rare and hard to find. It has been discontinued but if you are hunting for haven't been seen for years vintage perfume on ebay or in older perfumeries in Europe, you're likely to find it. This is the eau de toilette version. It's not to be confused with the original eau de parfum Arpege. This is much softer, very diluted, in fact it only serves as an after-shower skin freshner. But you can still smell the same notes as Arpege. It has the peach and the rose. But the projection is very weak and the sillage very poor. You can wear this and no one would know you're wearing it. It sits very close to the skin. It feels very sedate, very feminine in a classy, old school way. I felt like I was sitting down on a nice table in a rose garden having a peach flavored dessert in the summer, in 1928, with a pretty large brimmed white hat and a pretty summer dress. This is from another time. It really feels like the perfume to be found among the toiletries in the bathroom of a woman who lived in London or France around the years 1900 to 1920. This is much too soft to be appreciated by others so wear it for yourself after a shower and layer it with other fragrances, preferably with floral-fruity notes, with rose perfumes. The real charm of Eau Delicieuse is the bottle. This is an absolutely gorgeous bottle. Frosted glass, a rounded stopper and a gold plated neck. The stopper comes in either black or white colors, but the plated neck is always in gold. It's like being served a peach dessert on a gold plate. This gold plated version is very very very hard to find. I found it as part of a luxury estate sale which then sold on ebay. There appears to be two lines of this same eau de toilette. Eau Delicieuse has been utterly discontinued. It can be found simply as EAU ARPEGE. I was not disappointed. It's very lovely and I was pleased with it but it's really a more subdued very watered down version of Arpege.