Blind Sniff Roulette #3: Lalique by Lalique edp

Each edition of the Blind Sniff Roulette has a leitmotif connecting the three mystery fragrances. Whether 2012 was about spices and 2013 was about iris, this time I chose to focus on the olfactory signature of a perfumer so I went for a fragrance creator I never wrote about before: Sophia Grojsman.

Escaped very yong from Belaruss after the WWII, she settled in Poland where she gradueted in chemistry and later moved to US in search of fortune. Knoking at the doors of IFF, she met another woman, a great italo-american fragrance composer, Joe Catapano who mentored her. Since then, the rest is a story made of successes including the 1992 perfume you smelled for the third round, Lalique de Lalique in the current eau de parfum version. It's a joyful floral with '80s echos juxtapposing the puply facets of osmanthus to the freshness of lily of the valley and violets. The base is typically Sophia featuring the musky, powdery sweet trail that's her signature.

Adjiumi

if it would be a colour? It would be a bright, eyecatching colour.

if it'd be an animal? It would live in a pond bathing in flowers and green spots. It would be the charming prince as a frog.

se fosse musica? It's the sound of a trumpet we hear laying in the grass spotted with lilies of the valley here and there.

if it would be a place? It would be quite a noisy and crowded place, a milkshake of fruits and voices, a wall covered in ivy leaves and aldehyde-tinged flowers.

if it'd be a cloth? It would be a must in the wardrobe, an eyecatching paillettes dress.

if it'd be a movie/book? The movie My first forty years: not so young women drenched in hairspray and wearing shocking pink lipstick portrayed in sinful stories.

if it'd be a personality (storical, pubblic,...)? It makes me thing of Annabella's models when they used to appear at Mike Bongiorno's TV shows: furs, backcombed hair... It also reminds me of a personality with such a high pitched voice to give migraines.

Giampaolo
The third fragrance of the Blind Sniff 2015 hasn't been so simple to depict for me. Here we have a delicate, grassy-green composition with floral facets of jasmin, lily of the valley and iris and a drydown with tonka bean and maybe vanilla.
A light, thoughtless spring smell.

if it'd be a colour? If it'd be a colour, it would be the light blue of a clean sky fading to the bright green of grass.

if it'd be an animal? I imagine the sharp green lines of a grasshoper: nimble and thin.

if it'd be music? A serene melody, the sound of a flute.

if it'd be a place? It makes me think of a meadow scattered with flowers and feathered by the wind like the ones portrayed by impressionist painters.

if it'd be a cloth? A thin tie made of silk and cotton.

if it'd be a movie/book? It would be a scene from "The way we were" where Robert Redford talks to a frend about best things in life.

if it'd be a personality (storical, pubblic,...)? Robert Redford in his young years wearing a clean classic suit, casual yet effortlessy elegant.

Lorenzo
This perfumes seems like a sophisticated Hollywood commedy: good plot, well written, good actors but... nothing really emotional, nothing to be hailed as a masterpiece. It looks like an uncomplicated fruity-floral. Of course it works, but it has no depth.

if it'd be a colour? It would be a rather dumb shade of pink.

if it'd be an animal? It would be a poodle.

if it'd be music? A commercial pop song like the ones from Shakira: everything's smooth and glossy yet absolutely soporific to our taste.

if it'd be a place? It would be the ground floor of a department store like Selfridges.

if it'd be a cloth? If it'd be a dress, it would be all about tulle.

if it'd be a movie/book? If it'd be a movie, it would be a well directed playful commedy: When Harry met Sally.

if it'd be a personality (storical, pubblic,...)? Eva Longoria

Marina
The third fragrance exudes a smell of freshly-picked white flowers, lily of the valley and jasmin feathered by a warm spring breeze. The leitmotif of this interesting Blind Sniff Roulette should be the nose Sophia Grojsman who crafted beautiful florals.

if it'd be a colour? If it'd be a colour, it would be the milky white shade of lily of the valley and jasmin flowers.

if it'd be an animal? It would be a white dove flying through cotton-like clouds.

if it'd be music? Pop music, romantic yet harmonic at the same time.

if it'd be a place? A meadow covered in candid flowers swinging in the wind.

if it'd be a cloth? A light gauze dress worn barefoot with a white flowers crown in your hair.

if it'd be a movie/book? The romantic novels by Rosamunde Pilcher always set in the wonderful Cornwall landscapes.

if it'd be a personality (storical, pubblic,...)? It would be like the luminous, effortlessy elegant, unforgotten beauty of Virna Lisi.

Virna Lisi

Sophia Grojsman