The Phantom of the Opera

This was my signature fragrance until it went out of production. Many times when wearing this fragrance, men asked me what the fragrance was. One time a man admitted he was following me because he loved the fragrance so much. Unfortunately, all the Phantom of the Opera on the market now have aged and lost that beautiful fresh, soft, green scent. One thing I noticed when this fragrance was young, a slight hint of sweet tobacco smell. I know there was no tobacco in it, but that is the best way I can describe it.

This used to be a fantastic cheapie - but looking at the prices above, it's no longer even within reach! Wonderful perfume, outrageous prices today. CrazyRussianChick - if that's a dildo to you, all I can say is OUCH!

Are you serious??? Phantom of the opera!!! as an opera singer i have to say that i will buy this perfume without even sniffing it!!!!! i will love to have this perfume!!

You go Mom, armed with a cell phone while shopping at an estate sale. My mom knows I collect perfumes. I got her an iPhone and explained when shopping how I google when I see something I like to see if the store has a competitive price. She saw this for $2 and snapped it up. I had never heard of it. During the summer, when we made our annual trip to FL, she gave it to me. It smells to me like the florals enveloped in a dark, syrupy haze. Very few perfumes do I place a night/day, seasonal label on but this one, certainly is a night frangrance. And definitely not summer. I can't wait to try this winter for a walk through our city's arboretum evening concerts. I can see this for the Phantom of the Opera *if* Christine would have remained with the phantom in his lair. She would have become a haunting dark beauty. The perfume would have been appropriate for her.

First, the bottle is a real cutie. Frosted black glass & a rose topper - very nice. This is one I'll display without concern that light will alter the juice. Alas, the juice... At first sniff and for the first 20 minutes I get a nice, dark, classy floral that's close to Habanita in depth but the next hour is nothing but the smell of dust and old library paste -- the kind swabbed out of big jars by elementary school art teachers and eaten by the gross kid who also licked his own sn*t... If you can make it through the first 90 minutes you'll enjoy 2-4 hours of a lovely,floral, older/classic drydown that smells much more complicated than the 3 notes listed here. Just don't expect Joy -- there's a smile here, but definitely no Joy. (This little bottle was a bargain but there won't be another purchase.)

Phantom is a classic, well-crafted floral, best suited for the above 25 crowd. This is one of my husband's top 5 for me to wear, and when I do wear it, it smells great. I just don't reach for it as often as I could because I find it to be very formal (not heavy, just formal), and I am not a very formal type of gal. Note: Can be found for a very good price online.

Phantom of the Florals - The Phantom of the Opera by Parlux - Reviewed 10/29/24 As someone with a spectacular interest in this piece of media when it came to my attention that there was a perfume with the same name made in honor of it, I simply needed to have it even if not to wear, mainly to display among my other various Phantom memorabilia that I've acquired. As many comments under this say, this fragrance is for some odd reason rather exorbitantly priced, when browsing listings on secondhand markets used bottles of this could go for a hundred dollars or even more than that. With or without the box. Luckily for me I was able to snag an unused three price gift set for the low-balled price of fifty-five US dollars, straight from 1989 in all of its antique glory with none of the modern price gouging. The Phantom as a musical production was first introduced on the West End in 1986, and had its Broadway debut soon after in 1988. Being the hit that it was with audiences it continued to be produced and went on its first 'tour' in 1989 when this particular fragrance was released, whether it was to celebrate that I do not know, but either way I do think it's an interesting this to mull over. Parlux as a company still manages to exist to this very day much to my surprise. It seems like this particular branch of the company has since been shut down since 2009, but as a whole the company continues to run as a parent to many fragrances that vary greatly. They are the parent company for a number of celebrity endorsed scents such as the Eilish perfumes. Paris Hilton. Anne Klein. And even to Ivanka Trump. So if you happen to own a scent from any of those particular brand names you own a perfume that has some distant relation to this, either way... At the time this was released this particular profile of notes was extremely popular, more often than not one could be reminded of their mothers or grandmothers when they smell the scent of white florals because so many at this time had these similar profiles. Jasmine was an overwhelming favorite. As someone who does not like powdery white florals I knew right away that I would probably become nauseous at the first sniff of this scent and in this assumption I was not wrong at all, it's heavy on the powder and a sickeningly sweet floral profile that made me recoil. It reminded me of opening the tote full of old Avon perfume bottles that my grandmother kept tucked away in her garage, a bombardment of antique musk all swirled together into one grand monster. And it's staying power lingered like the Phantom in the opera house, there for seemingly hours after my one spray of it, its potent! The bottle is very classic, black with twisting leaf motif on the sides and a transparent rose cap. A small charm with a red mask hangs around it from a golden thread. The dusting powder that came with my set was imprinted like a vinyl It certainly does not smell like how I would imagine a scent inspired by this production to smell, but it does remind me of my grandmother in the most charming of ways. For the price tag you usually pay it is not worth really using it everyday, especially since it's a scent that surely will date you by years. As an collector's item though, it is worth it.

EDT review. I honestly only bought this perfume (blind) because it is Phantom of the Opera, and I am a big fan. I really was not fond of the juice. It is too white floral for my taste, and smelled a bit like fabric softener to my nose. However it is growing on me a bit to where I don't mind the scent once in a while. Best for the cold season, fall and winter. It lasts 8 hours

The Phantom of the Opera Isn't There Inside My Perfume I won this perfume in an ebay auction. Only 3 notes in this fragrance: orange blossom, jasmine and ylangylang. The jasmine is very strong. It's a jasmine bomb. I happen to love jasmine so I'm ok with that. The other scents of the other flowers orange blossom and ylangylang, make it a floral fragrance. No fruits, no musk, no animalic notes, no patchouli, no incense, no amber or wood notes. It's all about flowers. However, there may also be "hidden" unlisted notes of cinammon and vanilla. I could detect some cinammon and a little vanilla (probably as a base note). I'm a big floral frag fan but oh how I wish they had included a dominant red rose scent. To my sense of smell this doesn't recreate the feel or the Phantom of the Opera Broadway musical. There should be a rose in this perfume. The Phantom's signature flower was a red rose, the same rose he gave Christine in her dressing room after her debut. I wish this perfume had been more complex with more of a Gothic romantic flair, something more theatrical, mysterious, and with a sinister feel. I get more of a Phantom of the Opera feel to Krizia's Teatro Alla Scala than I do with this. So in the end, this isn't anything to go nuts about. It's a jasmine perfume with some spicy cinammon and some sweet vanilla. It's very sweet and girly and definitely not unisex. I would recommend this for casual wear day time wear although it would still be appropriate for evening wear, but not formal evening wear, casual evening wear. I like it but I'm not as impressed with it as I was with Krizia's Teatro.

A very rare perfume and very outdated and interesting. I bought it at a local vintage fragrance shop. This smells mostly of white jasmine, white orange blossom and heady ylang ylang in a screechy super sweet powder mix. It also has some spice notes and musk. This is a heavy perfume and if you put too much on it's got the same will-make-you-cough nostril beater effect as WHITE DIAMONDS by Elizabeth Taylor, which it reminds me a little bit of. The bottle is to die for! Gorgeous design and packaging. If you're a fan of the Phantom on Broadway this is going to be a special treat. But it's not a complex perfume or especially interesting. It's just a bland white floral but I like it. To each his own. I think it's good for winter and fall months and good for evening wear formal wear to wear to dinner and the theater or Broadway or the opera. When I wear this I feel more like The Phantom than Christine. It is not unisex or masculine but it has the feel of a 'white ghost' and has a romantic mysteriousness to it.

I love the bottle and for whatever reason I don't know if it's just my model of the bottle bu it glows in the dark. I was thinking wow this is like the enchanted rose in Beauty and the Beast. This is a weird perfume. I can't make out what I'm smelling. It's a white floral scent so it's definitely made up of white flowers. I smelled jasmine and gardenia, orange blossom but I don't know about the ylang-ylang. There is also violet, heliotrope and rose. If some people can't detect these other scents it's because the fragrance has other notes that seem to mask the floral scents. I'm pretty sure there's incense or myrrh. Very sweet perfume. It's selling at a good price on Amazon.com where I bought it. Highly recommended for lovers of white floral fragrances.

I love the bottle with the plastic white rose. This parfum spray was in the closet of a friend of mine who passed away of AIDS years ago and she always told me that I could have anything I want when she die. This parfum is magical and sad, very beautiful. Is like Phantom of the Opera, melancholy, lonely, and floral like flowers at a funeral. This smell of powdery smoky white flowers of jasmine, tuberose, and also the iris. Ylang and also sandalwood. This is dusty and sweet very flowery and strong. I also smell the vanilla in the base and some musk. This is a very unique parfum. No one else wears this so you will stand out. Is definitely for night time to wear with black dress and or costume for Halloween Party.

Oh my God... MAJOR flashback! Not sure if it was me or my mum who had this back in the days, but like, - when I saw it here, without searching for it, I immediately had to have a closer look, and yup - we've (as I said, either me or my mum) had it :) Sooo fun to see it again, - I am such a nostalgic person, so when I see a perfume, I had forgotten all about, until I saw the picture of it.... well, what can I say? I love perfumes, I love being nostalgic - and sometimes I wish they would bring back some of the perfumes from the 90's, when I was a teen, (well, eighties and seventies too, since that time reminds me of my mum <3 :) )

Not a review, I bought this from an antique market a few years ago. This is not really a scent profile i am drawn towards nor am i enthralled by the production of the show. I got it because i liked the idea of the scent. My bottle is still sealed and i don't know what it even smells like but my imagination really runs wild! If anyone is interested message me.

In the day, I used to collect clowns and I thought the bottle was a cute collectible. I still have the bottle. The smell was unique, I liked it then but I would not personally wear this scent nowadays. Not my first choice as an oriental.

I have to say this. Every time I scroll through perfumes on eBay and catch a glimpse of this bottle, I have to stop to double check it’s a perfume bottle I see, because I guess my mind is in a gutter and I think I saw a black dildo...

If you like hauntingly beautiful floral you'll like this...

Fragrantica, please add Decadece by Parlux! Love this!

PS: I waaaaaaaaant it now!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3