Question:
Any guesses why they don't still make this stuff?
When I was a freshman in college the older, attractive woman down the hall commented repeatedly that Versailles Homme was the sexiest and most intoxicating male fragrance in the world.
When, that same year, I went to the Virgin Islands with my family I found a bottle of the hard to find juice. Over many years I used it sparingly and held onto the bottle for years knowing that I would probably never find another bottle of the stuff and the scent still permeated the bottle.
Well, I recently found two unopened bottles in boxed... one is EDT and one is EDC. Somehow, to my memory, it still smells exactly as it did then. How can that be? Is it like rum or cognac and it ages well?
Please explain and if it doesn't last forever when must I use it by

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Dunno -- I really don't. I WOULD, however, keep your remaining stock out of sunlight and away from direct heat sources in your home. Also, I'd keep it in as dark a place as possible -- a cupboard, perhaps?
Magnificent scent, Versailles -- a crying shame they ever, ever discontinued it.
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Everyone has their own experiences, but mine is that the idea of fragrances "turning" with age and sunlight is highly exaggerated.
I have a 20 yr old bottle of Egoiste that's sat in on the same shelf, receving daily filtered sunlight, and it smells EXACTLY like a new bottle I just bought.
In fact, I've NEVER had a bottle "turn" on me, regardless of how I've stored it, although I have read that Creeds are susceptible.
Speaking of Versailles...I spent a lot of money on my new bottle and am decidedly on the fence about it (is that an oxymoron?) People think Korous has a piss note...this one smells like someone took a leak directly into the bottle!

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Originally Posted by Stranger Everyone has their own experiences, but mine is that the idea of fragrances "turning" with age and sunlight is highly exaggerated.
I have a 20 yr old bottle of Egoiste that's sat in on the same shelf, receving daily filtered sunlight, and it smells EXACTLY like a new bottle I just bought.
In fact, I've NEVER had a bottle "turn" on me, regardless of how I've stored it, although I have read that Creeds are susceptible.
Speaking of Versailles...I spent a lot of money on my new bottle and am decidedly on the fence about it (is that an oxymoron?) People think Korous has a piss note...this one smells like someone took a leak directly into the bottle! That's funny. That twenty year old bottle must be a really rare one considering Égoïste was released in 1990 and it has only been around for 17 years, which by my calculations means your twenty year old bottle is, more than likely, a figment of your imagination like the really bad advice you are giving here.
jlros, there are plenty of threads on Basenotes that make it quite clear that the enemies of fragrances are exposure to light, air, and excessive heat, twenty year old bottles of Égoïste notwithstanding. Modern fragrances do contain sunscreens like benzophenone, which protects them from light, but just like human skin that has sunscreen applied to it, it will eventually burn, and so fragrances even with benzophenone added to them will degrade if continually exposed to light.
Keeping bottles away from direct light, air, and heat is not a figment of my imagination nor anyone else's; it's the advice of experts.
Here are some of those threads I spoke of earlier which should make things clear:
/showthread.php?t=168448
/showthread.php?t=170211
/showthread.php?t=183060
/showthread.php?t=172894
/showthread.php?t=185261
I am sure there are more.
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Does that mean my Montale from 1492 may not be genuine?
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