Magnolia

10 reseñas

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• Jandra

  January 24, 2017

  

  I used this fragrance as a teenager. The scent I remember is of white flowers, a fine scent; it reminds me of the Calvin Klein Beauty perfume. It had very good longevity. It’s a shame they no longer commercialize it.

• Santal_dream

  January 14, 2020

  

  I used it in my childhood around age 10. I remember going to different perfumeries to ask for samples in my free time; it was my favorite hobby. Back in the 80s, they gave you the original miniature bottles to collect, but empty, because it was impossible for me not to use the ones I liked. One day, this perfume came into my hands with a very floral but also intense scent. It’s etched in my memory… It’s a shame they no longer manufacture it.

• Santal_dream

  January 20, 2020

  

  I used this when I was a little girl, around ten years old. I absolutely loved going to perfumeries to ask for samples; it was my favorite hobby. In the 80s, they gave you the original bottles in miniature, and I collected them empty, but I just couldn’t go without using the ones I liked. One day this perfume arrived, very floral but intense, and it got burned into my memory. What a shame they don’t make it anymore.

• Ícara

  December 29, 2020

  

  My sister used to gift it to me when I was a teenager. No wonder: she was a bit older than me, and she was obsessed with Anaïs Anaïs; her sense of smell succumbed irremediably to scents of the same style. They weren’t alike, mind you, but they followed the same canons. The first time I said I liked it, not entirely true—back then, I was much less feminine than Magnolia—and at my subsequent birthdays, several small bottles came my way that I used reluctantly just to not hurt her feelings. Once I overcame my tomboyish teenage rebellion, I started appreciating it more, and when it finally convinced me, they stopped manufacturing it. Yves Rocher, like Bourjois, has the great flaw of discontinuing its products too quickly. It happened to me with Mandarine de Calabre (there were more mandarines later, but none like that one) and more recently with My Green Summer. And when they decide to keep maintaining some of their creations, like they did with the wonderful Nature, they leave a watered-down and distorted version that barely represents a caricature of what they used to be. Honestly, I don’t understand it. I would have given them a good whack on the head for their marketing experts!

• Candycandy40

  August 25, 2021

  

  It was one of my first perfumes in my teens. Very feminine and delicate, I loved it and always bought it. I don’t understand why Yves Rocher stops listing perfumes that actually work. I hope they re-release it; it reminded me of Anais Anais.

• Candycandy40

  August 26, 2021

  

  It was one of my first perfumes during my adolescence. Very feminine and delicate, I loved it and always bought it. I don’t understand this Yves Rocher thing of discontinuing perfumes that work. I hope they reissue it; it reminded me of Anaïs Anaïs.

• Amarilisbelladona

  April 14, 2022

  

  My friend Carmen, one of the few who knows about my perfume addiction—because for me, it’s not a hobby, it’s an addiction—just arrived. She gifted me several vintage Yves Rocher miniatures, one of them Magnolia! It’s in perfect condition and smells exactly like I remember. Magnolia was one of my first colognes as a young woman; smelling it suddenly unleashed a flood of memories I had completely forgotten, with so much detail and such clarity it’s almost scary. I can’t explain where they were or how I could revive them with such vividness. I close my eyes, smell Magnolia, and I see my bedroom at the beach house: the typical black wicker headboard, the bed with an old black silk quilt embroidered with flowers and fringe, the nightstand piled with books and Esther comics, the dresser with more books and the complete collection of Bruguera’s Flash Gordon comics that gave me hours of fantasy, a shelf with ‘Mundo Submarino’ magazines by Jacques Cousteau, and my most beloved belongings: at least a dozen perfume miniatures and my favorite colognes Royal Ambre, Estivalia, Eau Jeune, Herbissimo Enebro, Azur de Puig, Lavender Water by Puig; a green bottle with a white cap of special shampoo for beach hair, a Hello Kitty brush, a music box with a ballerina, plastic fruit jewelry, hairpins, a couple of cigarettes with matches hidden in the mechanism, a mother-of-pearl box with duro coins and a folded 100-peseta bill, and an Avon box with concentrated jasmine cream perfume and lip gloss. Those were my most precious treasures. I was a little girl and already crazy about perfumes. I loved the beach house, spending summers with my grandparents and the rest of the northern family who visited every summer, a party of people coming and going, the open-air cinema, almost three months enjoying summer freedom. The siesta, the hours when that huge house would quiet down and I, in my Magnolia-scented room, would dream of being Dale Arden and wearing those exotic outfits traveling through the universe. I smell my tiny perfume again, close my eyes, and see my friends and cousins with their preteen 80s look sitting on the floor, reading comics, swapping clothes, and perfuming ourselves with Magnolia because it was the ‘big girl’ perfume. How much I love this little perfume; maybe I’m idealizing it a bit because it suddenly transports me to a time when I was very happy, had no problems, didn’t know they existed, my friends were the best, the family was always together, I walked barefoot almost all day; I lived great adventures like jumping out the bedroom window at night to walk on the beach or climbing onto a boat pretending to be pirates. What simple and healthy times. But anyway: what power do perfumes have over memory, almost scary. What a beautiful moment I’ve had and how well Magnolia smells. The bottle is so beautiful, pure white, with such tender pink flowers; it’s as sweet and feminine as the fragrance it holds; a creamy magnolia, with jasmine, neroli, sandalwood, lots of oakmoss and woods, but all very harmonious and very vintage. Because even if it’s the same notes as a current perfume, they don’t smell the same; vintage neroli doesn’t smell like the 2000s or 2022 version, I don’t understand why but it is. I’m sure more delicate and trained noses than mine can tell the date of a perfume by how its notes smell. What a great time I’ve had, I’ve gone back in time, and for an instant, I’ve relived moments and sensations I thought were forgotten forever because they’re part of other years when everything was simpler, innocent, and beautiful.

• IlseLluna

  July 17, 2022

  

  A scent of youth. One of the first perfumes I bought myself with my own savings. To me, it smells like freshly washed clothes, fresh and soft soap, a feeling of cleanliness. It seems like a timeless fragrance, although quite youthful. It’s a shame it’s no longer commercially available. Once, I asked at an Yves Rocher store, and the salesperson hadn’t even heard of it. It’s unbelievable, but over the years and with the difficulty of finding it, it has become a small treasure in perfumery.

• whisper_of_love

  November 5, 2022

  

  I just want to say that I absolutely loved Amarilisbelladona’s review, so much so that I’m incredibly curious to smell this beautiful perfume (I love the scent of magnolia). It seems precious to me how a scent can transport us to such specific moments, how it can make us travel to places we’ve never even been. It’s one of the things I love about perfumes ❤️

• Mr. Baskerville

  August 13, 2023

  

  Looks like I’m not the only one this ‘Magnolia’ brings back memories of. It was the cousin of a classmate from my English academy who was a year ahead of me, maybe a year older, and I really liked her. She had black eyes, hair very dark down to her back, soft red lips, and smelled divine. She smiled a lot, and I loved watching her eyelashes flutter as she spoke. She came from a ‘good’ family, upper-middle class, very nice, with kind and polite manners. She probably had flaws, teenage acne, or things I can’t remember, but back then, I didn’t care because I was so smitten I could listen to Roxette’s ‘It Must Have Been Love’ and dream about dating her. A true unrequited love. I asked a friend, a ‘Downtown girl’ as I mentioned in another review, and she told me this girl used this ‘Yves Rocher Magnolia’. It’s no longer available in official stores; I think they only sell it online in vintage shops. I have many vintage fragrances waiting to be tested, but with patience and luck, everything comes around. I managed to try some miniatures from the last century, and honestly, it’s a pretty fragrance, well-structured with its white flowers (I didn’t notice the apple), where magnolia shines, with neroli and lily of the valley in the background. The base is pleasant with woods slightly tinted by sweet spices (maybe vanilla, just imagining it). I can’t talk about projection or longevity given the tiny amount I used. It’s an aroma that fits perfectly for a young girl from the 80s or early 90s. I can’t imagine today’s girls wearing it, or maybe it’s my subconscious projecting qualities onto another generation. Anyway, it’s not a bad product and was very well-received in its time. Worth trying.