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Lacoste: Pour Femme, Eau de Parfum |
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25/01/03 (590 review reads) |
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Advantages: Inexpensive, smells nice
Disadvantages: none
Those of you that know me well know that I have a penchant for expensive perfume! It is one of my many vices.
To me, fragrance is a very individual thing, and you may want a few different perfumes to suit different moods and occasions. Unfortunately this can mean having to spend quite a bit of your hard earned cash. It is always a pleasant surprise to find a favourite scent on special offer or to discover a good quality product which is priced to please the bank manager!
Lacoste for women is a very reasonable price for a top quality perfume. I discovered it at Christmas when looking for something for a change. I thought that my significant other might be getting bored with the all too familiar whiff of my usual favourite and thought something else might be nice.
Did he notice? Did he heck! but that's men for you! Mind you, I am a great believer that you should sometimes do things just for yourself and my perfume buying habit is, it must be said, mostly for my own gratification. I am sure most women would agree with that.
Lacoste for women is the first female fragrance produced by Lacoste.They have been in the male fragrance market for some time and finally decided to give the ladies a look-in!
It is rather a good first attempt. It costs £14 for 50mls of Eau de Toilette. I managed to get mine on special offer with a roll on deodorant thrown in. At the time of purchase I had my reservations about the staying power of a perfume which was so reasonably priced. My worries were unfounded as it easily lasts all day and doesn't "turn" as some less expensive fragrances do on me!
You are probably wondering what it smells like?
It is quite an unusual smell, very clean and rather seductive. It is a fresh, natural smell rather than a flowery or heavily musky one. It is a real mixture; there are fruity and spicy tones made up of orange juice, pear, pineapple, pink peppercorns and green apple.
You could b
e forgiven for thinking that you might pong a tad of fruit salad!
Not so! These fruity aromas are tempered by a slightly green and floral note. This comes from white roses,white tulips, green moss, sandalwood and linden blossom.
Surely now you smell of fruit salad next to a vase of flowers?!
No! To make the smell more sexy it has an infusion of iced tea, carrot extract and just a hint of white musk. ( I am not awfully sure why carrots and tea should be considered sexy, but there you are!)
It is a large ingredient list and I would not be at all surprised if you were to think it must be a very heavy smell. Strangely, it isn't.
Lacoste has the balance just right. It is a sensual fragrance and is quite light without giving an air of prissiness or fragility. This is an ideal perfume for a woman who likes to exude strength and yet retain some femininity and sensuality. It would be ideal for a lady with some authority, perhaps!
Over all it is a clean and slightly spicy smell, and could possibly just get away with being unisex for perhaps your less macho man!
The packaging is simple and understated. It comes in a slightly opaque bottle with Lacoste written down the side and a chrome top with integral atomiser. It looks very smart and of high quality- something to be proud of on your dressing table.
It is different from my usual perfumes but I really like it. You can also get shower gel or mousse to match, spray or roll-on deodorant, which I found very effective, and a very nice body lotion.
I took a selection of perfumes to the Bristol meet last weekend for my chums to sample and KarenUK was especially taken with this one. So you get two recommendations for the price of one!
I bought mine from the Perfume Shop, but having looked around have found very little variation in price. This is possibly one of the best value perfumes I have ever bought. It is definitely worth trying! I have had a few posit
ive comments on it, even if somebody else didn't notice it wasa diferent from usual!
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