Prada Perfume for men and women
The re-encounters with perfumes in a perfume shop can be accidental, like with people. I first tried Prada perfume one year ago, and it didn’t really strike me, all I could remember was an intense vanilla note. I lost sight of it until last week when, after countless visits to many perfume shops I noticed this Prada fragrance again. And guess what, it’s much more interesting that I remembered, and vanilla is not the only note. This is one of the things I like about perfumes: they never change radically, if they change at all, it’s more likely that we do, we refine our taste, or maybe it’s just that we were having a bad day the first time.
However, this Prada perfume is great, both the feminine and the masculine version.
Prada perfume
The notes
Prada for women starts with a vanilla note, but it soon becomes a red fruit, probably mimosa flower mixed with oranges. In the middle notes there is also a floral layer, with rose, masked by spicy notes like pepper and patchouli.
As the perfume evolves towards the heart notes, it becomes more oriental, with again touches of vanilla with tonka bean, a black wrinkled seed of the family of legumes. The addition of pepper and sandalwood make it smell like an aromatherapy oil.
The version pour homme has no similarity at all with the one for women. The opening notes at the first spray are also quite different from other fragrances: it’s a fresh non-oriental resinous perfume, that becomes woody and somehow soapy in the middle notes, like a shampoo or cologne of the thirties, together with floral masculine notes of geranium or vetiver. After two hours on the test paper, the note of classic cologne starts to disappear and a new layer of leather appears, together with vanilla and touches of spice (supposedly saffron, according to the bottle).
After 24 hours, the test paper still has a note of amber on it, but the traditional shaving cream smell is there again. It’s like an old barber shop must have smelt like.
When to use it
Prada perfume for men is fresher than its counterpart (it reminds of the fresh sensation after the shower), which makes it suitable both for a summer and a winter use, better by day than by night.The spicy flower note and the oriental aromas work better in cold days or for an office use when it’s not too hot. Pretty much a winter fragrance.
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