Distilled Essence of Naughtiness (Agent Provocateur: Agent Provocateur, Eau de Toilette)

Member Name: zusy

Product:	Agent Provocateur: Agent Provocateur, Eau de Toilette
Date:	21/04/04 (1076 review reads)
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Advantages: Naughty, saucy, musky smell, Fab packaging, Lots of matching products in range

Disadvantages: Expensive, Sometimes a bit difficult to find in the High Street , Once you start you want everything in the range!

The bottle is a saucy pink hand grenade-esque shape made of porcelain, just pull the black tag and get ready for fireworks.

This potent, sensual perfume is the distilled essence of naughtiness created to embody the ethos of Agent Provocateur: purveyors of glamourous lacey, silky, sex-kittenish items that continually feature in coffee-table glossy magazines the world over.

Agent Provocateur is closely linked to Vivienne Westwood, being started and run by Joe Corre - her son by Malcom Maclaren. I have always loved Westwood's own 'Boudoir' perfume, but wanted a bit of a change so decided to plump for this delicious little concoction instead.

It seems the apple doesn't fall far from the family tree in the Westwood family, this perfume is equally as decadent and wanton in nature and I shall certainly be stocking up after this bottle has run out. I have the smallest sized bottle of parfum, and honestly you only need one spritz to last the entire day, so it works out as very good value for money.

How to describe the scent? Hmm, well the first thing to hit you is a highly concentrated rose oil smell - not your old lady ultra-flowery kind of rose, but the muskier, softer, Moroccan rose. This is followed by other spicey notes of saffron and corriander and eventually develops through the beautiful heady smell of gardenia flowers before settling into a musky, amber base that lingers for hours and hours.

This is a very complex perfume that changes throughout the day and according to your skin acidity and body temperature, so certain notes will be more noticable on different kinds of people, as with all high quality perfumes.

My tet of a good perfume is, part from me liking it of course, when strangers stop you in the street and ask you what scent you're wearing. I can honestly say this has happened
on several occasions whilst wearing this perfume, and it always pleases me immensely!

The Agent Provacteur range also has matching body products, such as body lotion, a lighter body spray, dusting powder and, I think, a bath oil. I have the body lotion, which is called (delightfully) 'Body Sauce' and is slightly pearlised, so when you have applied it, apart from smelling divine you also have that movie-starlet sheen. This is very subtle, so you wont look like a accident in the glitter factory, unlike other brands of glittery body lotions.

Although it makes a bold statement and isn't for the faint of heart, it isn't totally overpowering, either - NOT like those smell-at-50-paces 1980's power perfumes that cleared lifts and were actually banned in some restaurants! It's strong yet subtle, if that makes any sense at all (which it probably doesn't, and you wont understand until you smell it for yourself).

I adore the funky, retro packaging (everything in the range wouldn't look at all out of place on Marilyn Monroe's dressing table) and the experience of pulling the little black ribbon tag to release the perfume pump; but most of all I am now addicted to smelling saucy and slightly naughty all the time - I swear it makes you walk with an extra wiggle!

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