Tamango

Upon application, I am immediately hit with an effervescent rose, with aldehydes giving the feel of sparkling wine, a mildly clove-green and bergamot soon following, continuing to tickle my nose as a delightful lemon-meets-phenyl-ethyl-alcohol-meets-hydroxycitronellal takes shape. Like its floral-aldehydic cohorts, Rive Gauche, Calandre, Caleche, White Linen and the like, it is all in the sillage. Sniff Tamango on the skin too close and it's a bit too-too-much, but enjoy it with the nose inches or more away, and it's blissfully breezy and elegant. The rose is light in hue, yet full-bodied within the ether, while the other florals are impressionistic. Then the already delightfully mellow Tamango moves toward an oakmoss and sandalwood, reminding me somewhat of the wonderful Prince Matchabelli Aviance that my Mom wore when I was young. Memories naturally come flooding in, and I begin to realize that wearing this is fast becoming a personal experience: an homage to my Mom. Only the most insatiable of fragrance enthusiasts may leave a space in our bloated collection for these scents that we wear only for ourselves. Tamango belongs in that space for me, hallowed and there to return to whenever I need it.

Aaaaah, my 70s forever and ever. My grandmother loved Léonard dresses, and only wore those. We had to travel to FR (Lille) before the Antwerp and Ghent stores opened to purchase them, if I remember right. As a kid, I reveled in the colors, the flowers, the silks, the mikado jersey. I always got the last catalogues (sadly lost now), and took in the scents in the store which lingered on in the car when driving home and in the house upon arrival. Tamango, along with Fashion and Balahé, were those scents. And Tamango was and is the most powerful: flowery beyond flowery, creamy, powdery, and almost brutally set off by oakmoss and cool greens. So perfect! Out there with originals Y, Rive Gauche, and Chloe. This is, moreover, one of the rarer scents the reformulation of which is still amazing! So yeah, I still have all the Léonard 70s dresses of my bobonne, and there is no way I would wear them without donning Tamango. Bliss.

A bottle of Tamango came along to me in a lot with vintage Ivoire de Balmain, and I'm so glad it did. It must be the original formulation I think. Delectable! It reminds me of the original YSL Champagne. That same slightly fizzy quality, an opening which is quite strongly apricot to me and then a beautiful, slightly aldehydic floral emerges. Can't really improve on the review by Plrowden for this vintage formulation. It sounds as if later versions of Tamango are not the same, sadly. Mine isn't all that old - it has a barcode, though the ingredients are only listed as alcohol, fragrance and water. For those who are interested in the vintage, its packaging is different from the picture above. The box is cream-coloured with a pink flower on the front, outlined in gold. And the bottle is similar in shape to the one above, but with a cream-coloured lid.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!!!! Now really! The first time i have tested it i didn ́t liked it at all, but now i am in love with this one! One of the most feminine (and i mean Feminine) fragrances i have ever tried, without being overly sexy, agressive or on the heavy side. I am using a latest version of this one, but as i read from others reviews the original is bit different, so in the nearest future i am planning to purchase and try the original edition of this scent. The lasting power is very very good for a EDT version. I have bought all the 90ml bottles they were selling in our shops so now i am totally stocked up with this one for a long time :)) I have also purchased a pure parfum concentration in old version and waiting for it to arrive to give a new review. I wonder if it is also as fabulous as the EDT version.

Got it today! Since first sniff, I `m crazy in LOVE with it!!! It is so FEMININE!!! I think it smells like a REAL WOMAN have to smell. To me it is a very beautiful, classy lady, serious but at the same time playful, gentle but sexy, sweet buy not in the girly way, so aristocratically cold, but inviting!!! Spicy, powdery, warmmmmmmmm... I can not stop smelling my wrist! It is so GORGEOUS! Since long time I was not so crazy about any fragrance that I tried. It is a cold weather in Paris today, a little humid, Tamango was perfect on me today, I was catching amazing waffles all the way home. It smells similar to English drag store classic PANACHE which I also like allot, but Tamango it match more intense. I got 100ml eau de toilette version, my guess modern... Oh, I`m so happy I got it!!!