Quadrille Cristobal Balenciaga for women

I have had a teensy tiny sample bottle of Quadrill in my jewelry box since my grandmother brought it back from Paris @1961 when I was only 5.I still remember the delicious scent and have grown up the same as I was as a child; intensely sensitive and allergic to heavy perfumes;when I was a kid, i would either literally pass out or get nauesous fromt he heavy perfume the older ladies wore...now they( Poison, Opium,Ciara made me nauseated or as in the case of the infamous Elizabeth Ardens Red Door,I would get 48 hour migraines which would destroy me.
So,not on the financial scale of Quadrille, which I would love to get ,one of my other all time faves has madea comeback;was able in the last few years to buy on line but was shocked to acutally be in a CVS and find Loves Lemon on the actual shelf!!
Yeahhhhhhhhhh for clean ,simpple scents!
And hangin onto a bottle of Nikki De St Phalle for more years than I can remember now!

Same pharmacy has 4 bottles of this stuff. I tested this out for all the great reviews here. Unfortunatly all i got was a hit of chanel no.5. which is exactly what i cant stand ( its my mother's perfume). This one is definatly for chanel no.5 lovers. I'm definatly a coco fan. I definatly get the hollywood 50's glamour vibe .

Feminine, sensual, sexy. I know several women who like that.
And even more men!
(On women!)

It is like the mixture of scents from a L U S H shop. If you had been in one you'd know this rich soap - yum yum - I am going to spend a fortune here I love the feeling so much state of mind /madness/!

too bad that a: quadrille isn't a guy and b: i've sworn off marriage anyway.

if i ever run into a guy whose last name is Quadrille, i may have to take it as a sign from God, and try again.

there are at LEAST 250 perfumes living in my house. tho' fickle, by no means have i loved every single one. i have had my favorites, and i think i have mentioned that x is my favorite on this very blog site.

quadrille moved in just over 2 months ago. they haven't stayed long, and i've had to buy 5 bottles in that short time.

i suffer the curse of favoring the discontinued and hard to find. in the OFFICIAL PERFUME DICTIONARY, when you look up discontinued there is a one word definition: expensive.

as quadrille is not as plentiful as many other discontinueds, it's pricey. naturally smaller bottles are less expensive, but sellers of rare perfumes are, in general, a delusional lot. i've seen 2 oz (it's an edt) listed for 69, and the same amount listed for 299. (i wrote to that seller, suggesting rehab and a reality seminar.)

none the less, i've dropped over 500 dollars on quadrille in just over 2 months. with bottle 5 dwindling at the same rate as my meager bank account, i decided to take action. so i contracted to sell a kidney.

and then, heaven descended from the sky, and landed, of all places, on ebay.

at this very moment i am bidding on a one quart (as in "a quart of milk, please) of quadrille. i can barely count, even using my fingers, but intuition tells my that that's one hell of a lot of ounces.

we are 4 days into the auction. the starting price was 50 something. i bid first. another gal was up for the challenge, but retired from the field in short order. that quart is currently standing at 117. there has been no further activity for 2 days.

unless there are at least 2 people who are crazy for a perfume, huge bottles of perfume never bring in what they are worth. even if you're crazy about a fragrance, there aren't many people out there as eccentric and over the top as i am. even i must admit that saturating my skin and clothing every 2 or so hours is, um, exessive? compulsive? let's get real - i have a serious problem. as life's problems go, it just isn't serious enough to make the fix it list. and face it, kids, pets and brothers are all problems, too. brothers in particular are HUGE problems, so i've been told. but we don't try to get rid of them. mostly.

we maniacs are a small minority. a normal person might love a perfume but figure they won't live long enough to use a whole quart.

so i'll get it, and probably for under 200 dollars - but even if it goes much higher, when you consider my expenditure to date, it's worth my while to pay up.

so, for now, i think i'll have a good week or two of quadrille before i have to think about selling my body parts. i wonder if anyone needs an earlobe transplant.

Recently rediscovered this (vintage parfum)after many years - what a heavenly reunion!

Ah, the rapturous "Quadrille!" Weaving sinuous waves of an almost indescribable, smokey, piquant floral ambience around you. And it lasts, and "wafts" rather than hits you over the head like some of the more recent, modern perfumes. Like someone once said, perfume should be a subtle suggestion, not an open invitation.....

Lovely & deep & boozy, with a pleasant burnt note to start. Very complex and pretty. Another Balenciaga masterpiece!

A fruity-floral perched atop a sturdy base of amber and musk, this scent is the sort I could imagine wafting up from the decolletage of a spunky heroine in a Billy Wilder film. Wear this scent when you are in the mood for witty banter and a dry martini!