Chemistry

5 reseñas

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• wilmito

  April 10, 2013

  

  The photo is of a limited edition; the original comes in white. I tried the original version in a perfumery and must say it’s the one that lasts longest on my skin (over 12 hours); I’ve used around 40 fragrances. Note well: it smells clean, but don’t spray it on clothes because on fabric it smells dirty. The notes I notice most are ginger, citrus, oakmoss and coriander. I like Clinique’s Happy more, although that barely lasts two hours on me. Chemistry is dry and fresh; I wouldn’t say green because its freshness doesn’t smell of grass but of ginger, like a kitchen with coriander. It doesn’t seduce, it doesn’t awaken joy or sadness, it’s simply a masculine scent, mature and ideal for everyday life.

• Boy.Capel

  August 11, 2015

  

  Smells like traditional barbershop soap, very clean. I’m surprised it doesn’t have aldehydes in its notes; it seems like a cross between Tabac by Maurer & Wirtz and Eau Sauvage. It has good longevity and sillage. (2015 reformulation)

• Espartaco

  October 8, 2016

  

  Chemistry and Wrappings leave me curious… what scent could be enclosed in such a clean bottle? Discreet and soft? Surely not. Heavy and insolent? No either. With another brand, judging by the packaging, you’d know if it’s a soft floral or a light aquatic… but with Clinique in 1990, certainly not. Called Chemistry, even less so. It confuses me. I imagine something spotless but with many nuances, intense and deep, cold with hot flashes, sharp yet calm, like a fresh river carrying diverse materials. On a day that is neither cloudy nor sunny. Am I off course? I’m dying to try it.

• Espartaco

  October 16, 2016

  

  I’m going to buy it blind; if it fails, at least I’ll have a lovely bottle. On foreign forums, people either hate it or adore it, with no middle ground. Detractors say it smells of aldehydes despite having none, calling it a fetid, strange lady’s bomb. Fans compare it to bar soap, very masculine with an interesting furious calm. I like both viewpoints, especially the critics who say it smells old; that’s usually my sign that I love it. I’m fascinated by the idea of creating nature from a chemical laboratory, a concept very much Comme des Garçons at its inception, when the brand had more sense and better quality.

• Espartaco

  October 19, 2016

  

  I’ve always wanted to smell like Chemistry but never did. I considered buying it blind from international websites, but I’ve been let down so many times… I think I’m too influenced by the cleanliness of its bottle, so beautiful and clean in the sixties Rabanne style, the similarity to the Aromatics Elixir packaging and its grey smoke, and above all by Irving Penn’s campaigns. Minimalist, simple still lifes where the photographer discarded hundreds of shots seeking perfection, even if it was just a glass with a comb. Will Chemistry be a fragrance up to the image I’ve created in my mind?