Envy Perfume For Women, 60Ml

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It's still pretty, but it's very white-flowery on me – I don't get any pineapple or rose or sandalwood or pretty much any of the other notes. The smell may be different - but the spirit is the same; just the materials have changed - for the worse.

If you'd rather not get your wallet eaten by carnivorous cave bunnies you can instead try the rest of what came in the wake of Envy for Men, but the further down the line you go, the less of a resemblance there is as the style is played with more by other perfumers. This sweet, soft green floral is from 1997 but if you changed the '97 to '79, it would totally make sense.

And I think I've figured out why it irritated me – a) the white flowers take over after half an hour or so, b) it barely lasted four hours and c) what was left took on a rather sharp, almost-but-not-quite sour green edge.

I don't find anything particularly sexy about this fragrance, so most of the talk you find from owners of Envy for Men about how much of a sex bomb this is and how many times they got phone numbers wearing it might just be rose-tinted glasses, braggadocio, or a bit of both blurred from the passage of time. The almighty and insurmountable reputation of Gucci Envy for Men (1998), earned from the hype given to it by YouTube and Instagram influencers (the real shakers and movers of the "frag-bro" dominated community), can hardly be parsed from the fragrance itself; and it is such that guys will actually fall in love with the stuff or the idea of wearing it because of the reputation, regardless of how it smells.The loins of Gucci Envy for Men would beget a few scents, with the most notable being Carven Homme (1999), another discontinued masculine literally made famous only after the discontinuation of Envy for Men; and thus is a scent made nauseatingly expensive by scalpers waiting for the gibbering masses stirred up by community hype to come hunting for the "second best" option in their quest for the Holy Grail. The base of Envy for Men goes somewhat into a twist on a green fougère direction with patchouli, oakmoss, tonka, tannery leather, and cedarwood forming the core, but with spices like nutmeg, cardamom, and further oriental notes like amber and sandalwood to make it richer. Before the makeup, before she lights her first cigarette of the evening, before she pours herself a Dubonnet and before she douses herself with Calandre, she smells like this--fresh, floral, clean. Back in 1997, it seems the public had an unhealthy appetite for 'mean and nasty' as well as pink fluff and candyfloss, and we see the same thing happening today with the Spiky Woods. And of course it was a big success, which goes to show that a safe perfume isn't always the most lucrative one.