Estee Lauder Cinnabar Eau de Parfum - 50 ml

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Cinnabar takes a little time to slip the tether of the opening,but its classical seventies construction is certainly no chore to endure. The beginning is puzzling with a blast of cloves, cinnamon and citrus linked with the fruity notes of peach and orange and with a "tornado" of molecular aldehydes. The scent is very complex and rich, which is both a pleasing and disappointing quality in my opinion.

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The similarity to Coco is actually remarkable – Cinnabar is deeper (darker) and the drydown is heavier with notes of patchouli (never one of my no. I hesitated for so long to even so much as imagine owning a bottle, having admired it discreetly for so long, as it was deemed strictly a woman's fragrance. However, as I now wear it, I don't immediately have the association with a matronly type or a 70s femme fatale, even.I expected this fragrance to have a stronger cinnamon note, however I do believe Cinnabar was named after a mercury ore, so perhaps it is not supposed to be primarily cinnamon. The ylang-ylang sweetness, however, stands its ground and is now fortified by a dense but not too heavy tonka impression. Most all the Lauder fragrances get good reviews and I have tried (and liked) Beyond Paradise so it was worth a gamble. I see Cinnabar as a middle ground between Youth Dew and Opium, straining to duplicate the classy sophistication of the latter, but using the former as its starting point.

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I absolutely love this perfume and recommend it to any woman who wants to leave a lasting impression on those she meets. It no longer reminds me of my boss, which is good, but, I don't know if I smell Cinnabar differently now (it is nearly 30 years since I've smelled it), or if it has been reformulated (or both), but I'm afraid it now reminds me of an overly sweet, sickly, and cloying synthetic mixture of Youth Dew and Chanel's Coromandel (I don't dislike Youth Dew, but for me, Coromandel is one of the most horrendous fragrances ever created). On the occasion of its 70th Anniversary, perfume manufacturer, exporter and distributor Shaikh Mohd Saeed Group from the United Arabian Emirates has unveiled its latest masterpiece The Legacy70 fragrance series. I don't think i'd wear it again now as it seems so heavy, I'll keep it and just smell once in a while.Like Opium and Coco it is extremely potent, but of the three it is perhaps the least angular, with more emphasis on floral notes in the heart and a more powdery vanilla, amber, and opoponax drydown.

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Cinnabar may well be the couture wearing executive from the top floor, but she is not averse to being pressed against a filing cabinet and manhandled by some clammy-handed salesman. Aldeyhydic florals were chic as hell and bitter chypres were all the rage, but the voluptuous orientals were the shit. At the time they were all the rage, however these days they've fallen out of fashion and tend to get labelled as 'old lady' scents.

After all, there is Aramis JHL, the less floral counterpart that was geared to men (also marvelous but steering more into pines and woods direction) and there are other spiced orientals such as Jaipur Homme (the EDP is especially similar to Cinnabar). In 2021, the anxieties of gendering don't seem quite entrenched, and I do not feel emasculated in the least by wearing Cinnabar (as if that should be a concern anyhow).

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I was very grateful for the smelling-strip (because I had to share my train home with a man who had probably not had a shower since the Flood) but will remain faithful to Coco after all, however for anyone who finds Coco too light or not oriental-spicy enough Cinnabar is an attractive fragrance and may be worth a try.The segue from citrus to sweet brings out the matte, rubbery side of amber, but it doesn't jibe well with the vanillic undercurrent and the custard doesn't quite settle. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. I sampled the more recent formulation in the newer bottle, and as with performance, I don't endlessly quibble over formulations but I must say the newer formulation is, while still beautiful, a bit more thin and feminine in the dry down (perhaps in a feeble attempt to modernize it).