Missoni Missoni for women

Ah, what a big sexy giant from the 80s! It more of a chypre than oriental. Its a go "wild in the country" type of aphrodesia on a bottle. It is the obvious inspriration for La Nuit from Rabanne. It had a lot more big flowers and honey amid the civet and oakmoss/patcholi. Pure seductive love potion! One drop last for a good 12 hour!

At times overwhelming, its a little vampy. Like its sister chypres from the 80s Paloma Picasso and La Nuit, it is after dark night club background. Chypre in the 80s went underground, moving away from the "natural look" of the 70s. The green notes were accompanied by civet. Jeans and sandals were replaced by black fishnets and leather skirts. Missoni ushered in this new look.

Sadly, it gone from the market. Perhaps it was a little too X-rated in our PG-13 perfume world.

Thank you for this precious decant, Natalie!

@sarahrice---ebay has quite a selection to chosse from (the original missoni)

I LOVED the original 1982 missoni.
The re launch smells awful...
Is there anywhere that I can get the original 1982 formulation any more?

Where to begin? I'm drowning in this stuff right now, celebrating because I just got a 2 oz bottle and no longer have use my 1.7 oz bottle sparingly! The ORIGINAL, not the plasticky syrup that's on the market today. Blah, I had some sample vials of the new Missoni and couldn't get rid of it fast enough. No resemblance at all to the original.

Original Missoni opens with dry, bittersweet raspberry, a hint of soapiness from the aldehydes, which leads into florals-which I can't seem to distinguish which is which because either my nose isn't trained enough or this stuff is very well blended. I do seem to smell patchouli almost from beginning to end.

Lots of patchouli (a bit on the dirty side or maybe it's the civet giving me the impression of dirty?) and oakmoss on the drydown, which lasts forever. The honey keeps it from smelling too herbal or hippie-ish. Reminds me of La Nuit by Paco Rabanne, and slightly of Paloma Picasso- but Paloma is much sweeter, and I haven't worn either as much as I have Missoni so, it's off the top of my head of what it reminds me of.

Yes, it's heavy and strong, which is a plus for me. Whenever I wear it I feel confident, strong, sexy and thin. Ok, thinner. One of the first times I wore this (in October) I had been dieting (I always am but this time it worked) got into my "skinny jeans" and discovered they fit. I wore those jeans, my favorite shirt, a leather coat (that previously didn't fit), sprayed on the Missoni and went to town. Can't say anything else about that day.....

I LOVED MISSONI OREIENTAL THE ORIGIAL
IT WAS MY FAVOURITE THEN THEY DISCONTINUED IT AND BROUGHT OUT AQUA ONE NOT THE SAME I THEN WENT ON TO HALSTON NOT THE SAME BUT SLIGHTLY HEAVER THEN THEY DISCONTINUED THIS AS WELL NOW I USE BEVERLY HILLS GEORGIO THEY ARE DISCONTINUING THIS ONE AND ALSO PRIVATE COLLEDTION DOES ANYONE NO WHERE I CAN GET MISSONI ORIGINAL

I only realize now - after joining this site - what a complete perfume HOARDER I am :-) I have revisited the dark recesses of my bathroom cupboard for long-forgotten bottles of fragrances... among them I found an almost full vintage bottle of this!

Unfortunately a screw-on rather than vaporizer, so most probably the scent has changed over the years.

Smelling it now, it is very "of that period" - ie. early to mid-80's, when I had my first jobs and started spending money on spoiling myself.

I would not wear this now; it's a little heavy and judging by how full this old bottle still is, it obviously disagreed with me even then.