Aldehyde 44 Dallas

Aldehyde 44 is the epitome of a “Clean Girl” scent (although I’d personally say that it’s unisex), and I suspect that if it had a lower price point and ease of purchase, it would have a really big following of devoted fans. It opens very bright and sparkling and sweet... almost like a Ramune soda. Then there’s a clean and fresh creamy musk that blends in with white and yellow florals in the background. Once it dries down and warms up to your skin, It’s got a fresh linen vibe to it but is more complex than just a fresh laundry fragrance. Soapy for sure... also has a vanilla note that is similar to Vanille 44, hanging out in the middle. It’s kind of a conundrum to my nose... bright and sharp yet smooth and soft. It does come across sort of synthetic, but I really like it in that regard, - it’s comforting like freshly washed sheets. Projects moderately and has good longevity... 6-8 hours. I’d say that if you like Another 13 or Musc 25 you may enjoy this fragrance as well. Edit: This bottle ended up becoming my city exclusive purchase of the year. I really love it and am getting A LOT of compliments on it. To me it is one of the city exclusive fragrances that is worth buying because it’s an easy reach signature scent for any time of the year. It has such a clean, vibrant, and uplifting aura to it. It’s also quite unique for being a fresh linen type of fragrance. Also I feel like a lot of people would consider this fragrance feminine because of the floral notes in it, however, I’m squarely in the unisex camp on this one... it’s a really pleasant fragrance for anyone to wear, especially when it dries down.

It smells like fancy soap in the best of ways. A very clean scent! I wore Chanel No. 5 for years, but I like this better. The white florals are there, but the soapy aldehyde being the star makes this a more modern take on classic aldehydes. This is a fresh, crisp, and bright aldehyde and not the powdery eau de Mrs Havishram consistent with Chanel dna. Think MFK 724 kinda “clean”brightness and not old money attic dust. I say this as someone who loves Chanel’s iconic powder notes, but appreciates fresh soapy scents without the powder accord, as well. Next September I’m buying the full size. I bought it in my annual August sample haul, but decided on Bigarade and Coriandre as my full sized city exclusives last year. This year I’m getting this and Gaiac 10. I truly do love this and there’s nothing like it! Notice that all the suggestions for similar scents are either 50/50 or *mostly* disagrees? There’s nothing like it!

This fragrance opens very aldehydic, classic and “feminine,” reminiscent of something like Chanel No. 5. Very quickly, however, it dries down into a warm, cozy blend of vanilla, florals, and clean comforting notes. The opening feels traditionally feminine and ‘cool aldehydic’, but the dry down is clearly unisex and incredibly warm and comforting. It wraps you in a soothing, cozy aura, perfectly capturing what they call “cowboys laundry.” A fragrance that feels both familiar and unexpectedly charming. Longevity and sillage are incredible: this scent is truly long lasting and leaves a noticeable, comforting trail.

Luckyscent has samples of all of the fragrances limited to certain cities - and will have full bottles for the month of November! Tried this and love it! It is a lovely transparent floral. Just the right amount of floral and sweetness, not cloyingly so. Soft drydown, but not disappointing, typical and vanillic/powdery. But unfortunately, it doesn't last very long. Sigh! I don't know if I would buy it because of that. Update: 11/11/11 Good lord, it's expensive! After wearing the sample a few more times, I find that it does last a little longer than I thought. Hhmmmm, really want this!!

This is very much a modern take on something like White Linen from Estée Lauder. I get: gorgeous sparkling aldehydes, starched white linen, that mysterious sort of unplaceable soft-chlorinated grey ambrette musk, subdued, abstract impressions of non-specific summertime flowers, a tiny bit of vanilla. Aldehyde 44 is understated, dry, airy, bright, clean. Performance seems very, very good. I think this one is really interesting and well executed. 4/5 PS: Aldehyde 44 <--=--> Strict Machine by Goldfrapp

Agonizing and rolling around in grief right now!!! Where the heck was I when Le Labo was discontinuing this frag last year?!?! Rhetorical yes, but very agonizing to recall...... Does ANYONE IUT THERE STILL have a genuine bottle (NOT DECANT)??? Yup.........., I'm KICKING MYSELF BIG TIME right now!!! I wish I had known this last year...... Now If I COULD only FIND someone with a bottle, I'd pay BIG bucks for it!!!

Elegant, modern, somewhat cold, somewhat abstract. Yann Vasnier is a fan of vintage Chanels and he creatively took their spirit into Aldehyde 44. At the time when Chanel lost its soul, this is the place to go. Wears beautifully and commands compliments while keeping others at a distance but intrigued. There's enough versatility in it not to be tiring over many days of repeated wear.

chanel no 5 if it was actually good 🤷 no but srsly this is PUSSYYYYY. true fresh laundry detergent yet also kinda metallic and uncanny valley excellence in a bottle OUUGHGHG i need to douse myself in this every single day (then again in NO universe should this go for as much as it does like over $1k for a full bottle is insane)

Soft but with a range. Mostly musky and powdery with a sweetness. I don’t get any aldehyde at least in the traditional sense. Reminds me of dryer sheets as it also has a clean airy quality or clean white sheets. Very comforting and cozy but the price is a bit shocking

Right away you get a hit of citrus, which is nice, but it is not so much of a wow factor as I'd like. Like most people say, the price does not justify the scent, or visa versa. It is bright yet subtle. Very work friendly. Not off-putting. Great as a gift!

Smells amazing. One of the best aldehyde centered fragrances I have ever gotten my nose on. Sweet aldehydic bliss, and the dry down is to die for with its woody green tuberose. Scrumptious! Absolutely scrumptious!

Aldehyde 44 is a really pleasant surprise. Initially this smelled like heightened clean skin and nothing more, but in the dry down it changed completely and was very reminiscent of Laura Biagiotti's Venezia.

smells just like original ramune to me - clean, fizzy, citrusy, airy. it smells like something you could wear on a crisp spring morning while sipping on a nice iced drink. so nice, unique, and interesting

i absolutely LOVE this scent but i don’t think i’d want to smell like this. it smells like super high quality cleaning products and ivory soap. very clean and fresh, but i wouldn’t ever wear this.

A squeaky clean white laundry musk scent. It makes you smell like freshly showered with the most luxurious soap! It's not as floral as No.22, rather 'blue' woody amber and vanilla are accentuated.

Update! Yippie Ki Yay!!! I pulled it off and I got a brand new 100ml bottle..... Now if only that could be true of Another 13!!! Sigh....

Open a can of sarsaparilla and you get A44.

strangely enough, considering the name of this fragrance, the aldehydes do not take center stage. those of you with a distaste for screechy harshness take note, the aldehydes are subdued, perhaps vanquished, here. they vaguely hover around all the other components. the most prominent note by far is the vanilla, followed by the musk and ambrette, the woods and then the florals. i don't enjoy big vanilla. fortunately it's not overly sweet or foody, more vanillin, but it's there for the whole duration. i have read a few comparisons to SL's la myrrhe. i kind of sort of get that, but, in addition to the vanilla, there are more differences (significant differences) than there are similarities. la myrrhe is dark, heavy, medicinal, syrupy, dripping with bitter almond and infused with either castoreum or something else that creates the same effect. 44 shares none of these qualities. if anything, it is a distant, somewhat androgynous relation to broadway night. if you took 44's vanilla down a notch and put it in the background, turned up the aldehydes and injected a healthy dose of maurice roucel's violet (a la l'insolence), you would have something strangely akin to the neon femininity of broadway night (which, by the way, in my opinion, is No. 5 on steroids and much better without the peach and ylang-ylang). all in all, i have to say that aldehyde 44 is kind of a weird one. that may sound negative, but i don't mean it to. i think the "weirdness" is what won me over after being on the fence about this perfume longer than usual for me. oddly compelling. the sillage is definitely present, and the longevity is excellent. starts smelling even better (and closer to broadway night) at around the 6 or 7 hour mark. just to add another idiosyncratic musing...i've been wearing 44 more frequently than some others in my collection. people often describe aldehydes as "fizzy". for me the word "fluffy" is more what comes to mind with this. a yellow flowers cotton ball.

Yes, this smells like soap. But that’s merely the overall impression, and all Le Labo fragrances come to life in the details—which is ironic for a house often called “minimalist.” Nasomatto’s Fantomas comes to mind as a comparison. Not that Aldehyde 44 smells nearly as bizarre and astringent as Fantomas, but both are unabashedly synthetic. They don’t try to be anything else, and that is their strength. This sets them apart from the many many fragrances that try to smell natural but end up smelling synthetic. The images that come to mind when smelling this fragrance are: running through sprinklers on a hot summer day, clean fluffy towels, the heat of a newly printed piece of paper, the girl you went to school who you resented for her spoiled upbringing but simultaneously wanted to be like, a tank top and athletic shorts, facial serums, natural blonde hair, tennis, steam, a bedroom so tidy you’re afraid to touch anything, French tips, the palest of pinks, the packaging of an Apple product.

Man, Le Labo makes some strange and wonderful fragrances! Several people have compared Aldehyde 44 to Chanel No. 5, but they are distinctly different. No. 5 is much more feminine and the Ylang and Rose make it very apparent. 44 is dryer, muskier and not so feminine. Even though it contains those happy, bright, wedding flowers, it doesn't come off that way at all. It's quite strange, because it's as if those happy wedding flowers have wilted and are covered with dust, in a cold dark room. What Aldehyde 44 really smells like to me, is a funeral home. Musty & dusty, with some dry wood, old flowers and the faint aroma of incense. I imagine since this fragrance was made for Dallas, funerary flowers was not what they were going for? However, if you are dressed up as a Zombie for Halloween or Costume Ball, or you want a floral fragrance that will hold up in cold weather, this might work? I think it's great, precisely because it is so unique and weird!