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Bal a Versailles Mini EDT 7 ml 0.17 fl oz Sealed Jean Desprez
Bal a Versailles Eau de Toilette MINI
by Jean Desprez
Soft, sweet spices and orange flowers with lower notes of musk, civet and ambergris. Truly a lush, romantic, complex feminine fragrance. Introduced in 1962.
Classification - a refined, oriental, gentle, floral fragrance. Recommended use - evening.
* 0.17 fl oz / 7 ml Eau de Toilette MINI.
* in factory sealed box, stored optimally.
* a wonderful way to try this lush fragrance and even better to find a mini in the lighter strength edt concentration.
Note: 2d pic is of my own bottle - your box will be gold.
Bal à Versailles is a marvelous, iconic and perhaps a little underrated chypre rich in civet and grace, a dirty Kouros wrapped into the warm skin of a lady scented with Shalimar – or, except for the leather, the naughty Habanita ready for her début in the high society. Benzoin, vanilla, oak moss, civet, flowers, fruity notes, leather, iris, a slight aldehydic accord, musk... what completely amazes me is that Bal à Versailles is surely skanky and carnally dirty, but there is also this irresistible sense of utter, golden, velvety refinement and elegance, in a really radiant, powdery way, like if you can almost feel the silky scented powder on the dresses of the ladies dancing. Perhaps it is just about that: the smell of dancers in a Belle Epoque ambiance, with all their scents, but also their passions and dirty secrets. As minutes pass - as the ball goes on, one might say... - Bal à Versailles gets increasingly darker and dirtier, with the civet note emerging in its sweaty, irresistibly "urinous" personality, always perfectly blending and hiding in a white fog of talcum and warm floral gracefulness. Great persistence, great scent, great everything.
by Jean Desprez
Soft, sweet spices and orange flowers with lower notes of musk, civet and ambergris. Truly a lush, romantic, complex feminine fragrance. Introduced in 1962.
Classification - a refined, oriental, gentle, floral fragrance. Recommended use - evening.
* 0.17 fl oz / 7 ml Eau de Toilette MINI.
* in factory sealed box, stored optimally.
* a wonderful way to try this lush fragrance and even better to find a mini in the lighter strength edt concentration.
Note: 2d pic is of my own bottle - your box will be gold.
Bal à Versailles is a marvelous, iconic and perhaps a little underrated chypre rich in civet and grace, a dirty Kouros wrapped into the warm skin of a lady scented with Shalimar – or, except for the leather, the naughty Habanita ready for her début in the high society. Benzoin, vanilla, oak moss, civet, flowers, fruity notes, leather, iris, a slight aldehydic accord, musk... what completely amazes me is that Bal à Versailles is surely skanky and carnally dirty, but there is also this irresistible sense of utter, golden, velvety refinement and elegance, in a really radiant, powdery way, like if you can almost feel the silky scented powder on the dresses of the ladies dancing. Perhaps it is just about that: the smell of dancers in a Belle Epoque ambiance, with all their scents, but also their passions and dirty secrets. As minutes pass - as the ball goes on, one might say... - Bal à Versailles gets increasingly darker and dirtier, with the civet note emerging in its sweaty, irresistibly "urinous" personality, always perfectly blending and hiding in a white fog of talcum and warm floral gracefulness. Great persistence, great scent, great everything.
