Gem by Van Cleef & Arpels
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I couldn't stop sniffing myself, but even at the end of the day when I had to use a sea salt and clay soap to remove the scent, I wasn't sure how I felt about it. At one point about an hour after applying it, I started to get a headache and my lips and face began to tingle...very interesting! But that passed in about an hour, and I just kept sniffing.
Very heavy, fruity and woody, with something kind of rich and filthy underneath (the civet maybe? - sorry I don't know the best descriptive terms yet). Definitely a chprye, and that's probably why it fascinates me so - I adore the chypres even when I don't understand them.
At some points throughout the day it smelled the way I imagine a very high quality courtesan's bedroom would smell after the orgy (excellent!), at other times, it evoked a slightly unwashed old lady who wears diamond brooches over soup stains on her cashmere twin sets, and happened to be in the kitchen of a house with too many male cats, baking gingerbread (not so great). Sigh. I have so much to learn!
I wore it many years ago while at University. It's so complex, warm, refined, very ladylike yet seductive. Not everyone enjoyed, but a girl enjoyed so much that the day after she came around wearing "my" Gem! I felt it like a robbery and stopped wearing it!

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