Gilda Pierre Wulff for women

I used to wear Gilda in the early 90's but when I was about to buy a new bottle it had disappeared from the market. I searched for it everywhere and finally, after many many years I found it on internet abroad and managed to get a couple of bottles with a slightly darkened juice. Thank god for internet!

However, Gilda is actually one of my best vintage smelling fragrance. Eventhough it is created in the mid 80's it actually refers to Rita Hayworths famous role in the 30's. Therefore it has more similarities with Rochas Femme and other early creations than with any 80's fragrance.

Gilda has sweet gourmand notes in the top from the pinapple, but not edible fruitnotes. Just a little bit to create a delicious take off. Quite soon it becomes more dry and woody and I can smell strong tobacco notes in the flowery heart deriving from the mix between woods and peppery carnation.

It is actually here I get most of the "vintage" smell: It strongly resembles the smell from a womans purse: perfume, pastilles and tobacco, and it has a dry powdery quality that reminds me of the aged cloth on the inside of the purse.

In the end Gilda becomes softer, sweeter and more sensual from the basenotes. I adore the bone structure, longevity and sillage of this fragrance and as a Lindy Hop dancer I mostly wear it in special dance evenings, when I want to take the time machine back to the 40's.