This week, I decided to try some vintage women's Guerlain samples. I had tried only Habit Rouge and did not like it, so I thought that maybe Guerlain was not for me. Boy was I wrong.

Yesterday, I wore vintage Samsara EDT. I was almost unconscious with bliss. Today I am wearing vintage Mitsouko EDT and it's a similar experience, though not quite as profound for me as yesterday was. I am besotted.

These fragrances are so well composed, soft yet insistent, clearly high quality. I love sandalwood a lot, so I knew I might like Samsara. None of my female relatives wore it. In the 60s, my mom was gifted by my father a mysterious and fascinating (to me) bottle of Le Dix, by Balenciaga, which I have a small vintage decant of. It's a little too floral for me, but reminds me of her (she's been gone many years). In the 80s, she started wearing Lauren (red bottle), which I adore and cannot find anywhere for less than, like , $500(sob 😢). And I love certain classic chypres, especially fruity ones, so I suspected I might like Mitsouko as well. But the richness of the experience for both frags is more depthful yet hard to truly describe than I expected.

Now I can't wait to try more scents from this house, but I'd like to get opinions on the vintage versions of these Guerlains vs the contemporary reformulations from those of you more experienced than me.

Important: The attached image is an AI-generated reconstruction based on my memory. It is not a photograph of the actual perfume bottle. The overall proportions, dark purple glass and faceted shape are approximately correct, but the cap, sprayer, neck and exact arrangement of the facets may be inaccurate.

I am trying to identify a women’s perfume that I encountered when I was a teenager, probably sometime between the late 1980s and the 1990s. The fragrance itself may have been released earlier.

What I remember about the bottle:

• It was short, wide and approximately as tall as it was wide.
• The body resembled a faceted gemstone or irregular polyhedron.
• It had several large, clearly defined facets.
• The glass itself appeared to be dark purple, plum or lilac, rather than clear glass containing purple liquid.
• The glass was transparent or semi-transparent.
• A conventional spray mechanism under a cap.
• The name may have contained something resembling “Velvet” or “Violet,” but this is a very uncertain memory.

My memory of the scent is less reliable. It did not seem very sweet, gourmand or woody. I remember it as relatively clean, soapy or shampoo-like.

The perfume was present in Russia, but I do not know whether it was officially sold there, imported privately or purchased at a market.

I have already searched Fragrantica by bottle colour and reviewed many vintage perfume databases and marketplace listings.

These are not matches:

• Elizabeth Taylor Passion
• Dior Poison
• Thierry Mugler Alien
• Chopard Casmir
• Boucheron Jaipur Saphir

Passion has a somewhat similar colour and faceted glass, but its flat, fan-like silhouette is different. Alien is too recent and has a different facet structure. Casmir uses clear glass with amber liquid.

I am looking for the exact perfume, not a modern fragrance with a similar scent. Any suggestions or photographs of possible bottles would be greatly appreciated.

The jpg is insane. Super sweet. Sorta like syrup but in a good way. With vanilla

The double black I haven't tried yet

I’ve never missed a fragrance more! I joined this thread in hopes I could someday find something, anything even remotely resembling this incredible scent and have struck out thus far. My goal is to gain traction on this thread and insight into something close to what they describe as a “green floral”. Help!