![]() ![]() ![]() Sure, the eponymous ingredient is unquestionably part of the scenery, but the seams between it and its neighbours are difficult to detect. Here, the idea isn’t to showcase a specific material but to create an aura, a texture, an endless vista of scent. “Perfumery must look to the future,” we tend to say, “there’s no point dwelling on the past, we can’t keep expecting old brands to produce the sort of thing they made decades ago.” But then along comes a retro beauty like this one, and we’re forced to scuttle into a corner like toddlers, waiting to be served a portion of our own high-and-mighty words.Ĭompletely ignoring the current trend for translucency and hyper-legibility, Ylang Ylang is as 1970s in its approach to floral bouquets as every glitter-ball and platform shoe-cliche you can think of. A re-working of the brand’s own Fetiche from 1978, it’s the sort of composition that reduces cynical critics to gibbering wrecks and renders us speechless. Nevertheless, I must bring it to your attention. So for all I know, Coudray‘s glorious Ylang Ylang is now conspicuous by its absence in perfumeries and is doing the rounds of the auction sites and the scent-swap communities. Usually, by the time I get around to writing about a limited edition release, it’s as hard to find as a shred of maturity in a Quentin Tarantino movie. ![]()
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