Sung by Alfred Sung
For: women Designer: Alfred Sung Olfactive Group: Floral
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Yeah, it's dated compared to all the mess they have out today, but I prefer to use the word classic. Sung has been around since '86 for a reason. Won't be able to say that about most of what is out now in 10-20 years.
As for the age thing, well, Sung is for anyone with a sense of class about them. It really gets to me when people think just because something came out in the 80's and back, it must be for the older crowd. That is just ignorant and rude. Just wear what you like, and be done.
All that aside, I recommend giving this classic fragrance a try.

It was Sung!
It has been over a month since I got rid of my bottle, but I could recognize that smell anywhere. A detergent-like fizzy citrus opening settling into a stale floral that I now recognize as greasy dishwasher soap. The extra-strong variety intended to scald oils off pots and pans, mixing with the animal fats on the dishes to create a stale aroma, as heavy as funeral-home flowers.

If I want to be in a rose garden, i would not hesitate to tell you that I love Alfred Sung Flowers.
Sung by Alfred Sung has one of the best floral drydown. Sweet with a Green touch, Flowery and long lasting.

I always think of spring and fresh cut flowers with this fragrance - it is very very very very very very powerful and one spray is perfect more then that you are going to smell like a wilted prom corsage



I'm getting almost dizzy from it.
No, this perfume is just too much and nothing for me.




Therefore, those of you worried about offending whole rooms of people merely by passing through, I have to say this hasn't happened at all for me - nothing but positive comments from the moment I first sprayed it.
This IS addictive - it's somewhere in the drydown, a particular mixture of notes that just grabs me and refuses to let go. I struggled for some time trying to think what the very last stage of the drydown reminded me of - suddenly it came to me: Jean Desprez's Bal a Versailles! It's the illicit naughtiness of the dark vetiver & warm amber infusing the orange blossom & jasmine, I think. A kind of outrageous bawdiness found deep within the pure white blossoms that tremble at the heart of each perfume. Bal remains the dirtier sister, by far, but Sung could easily be a slightly older, perhaps more aloof member of the same family. Love it!

The opening was good: a fresh burst of citrus (no mandarin that I could detect, though, which was a little disappointing) and green aldehydes that sparkle and pop like bubbles in homemade lemonade. This faded incredibly quickly - literally in under a minute - and WHAP! BAM! ZOOM! I was assaulted with a massive dose of jasmine.
Now, this shows how my personal tastes are developing: a couple of years ago I would have crossed the road to avoid the smell of jasmine, but this was really lovely - an incredibly true smelling jasmine that entwines with the ylang-ylang and practically hula-dances its way around you, surrounding you with the sense of a warm, exotic island with white sands and dramatic landscape. This sounds idyllic, yet it's not my idyll - the jasmine is just too overwhelming at this stage for me... yet.
Next, we are whisked away to the moonlit balcony of a five-star hotel. A glamourous woman sips a perfectly chilled white wine, her skin glistening, still warm from the heat of the day, smelling very faintly of suntan lotion but mostly of an extremely expensive yet lightly handled oriental perfume. In the background, the evening air carries the faint smell of a warm breeze shaking the jasmine blossoms.
I love this stage - it's incredibly sensual, quite vintage smelling and very definitely 'grown up'. I cannot stop sniffing myself! I may not be the incredibly glamourous woman on the moonlit terrace, but wearing Sung I can at least pretend to be (and drink her wine).
The bottle is rather naff for such a heady, exotic experience as this: it deserves far better.

It starts out as a rather fresh, green, and white floral. But it quickly develops a hint of spice and deep richness that complements the flowers. It's far more complex than one might think at the initial sniff.
My personal preference is for spicy orientals, and that is how "Sung" develops on me beneath its almost tropical florals.
Additionally, on me "Sung" doesn't change. Within seconds it smells as it will continue, unlike many other fragrances that begin in beauty and end with an unanticipated surprise.
And it has astonishing staying power on me. If i don't wash my inner arms, "Sung" will stay for two days, smelling marvelous.
I think it is probably too intense for most work settings. But it is great for a romantic interlude or an elegant evening.


i wish i will find full bottle of the "Sung" which is better






This fragrance is a forgotten gem and I selfishly admit, I hope it stays that way.

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