Simply Clinique

4 reseñas

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• VANE DG

  November 25, 2013

  

  At first, the fragrance shows a soy milk aroma (at first I confused it with intense anise and almost gave up on buying it). But about half an hour later, on my skin, I felt the white flowers. It’s an interesting fragrance to change my style from such intense perfumes; I don’t know if I’ll repeat it. The soy aroma at the beginning is quite invasive and has moderate longevity.

• VANE DG

  November 26, 2013

  

  At first, it smells like soy milk; I almost confused it with anise and thought about not buying it, but after half an hour, it’s white flowers on my skin. It’s interesting to switch from my very intense perfumes, though I’m not sure if I’ll repurchase. The soy smell at the beginning is invasive and the longevity is moderate.

• Espartaco

  November 27, 2019

  

  Simply was a perfume that passed without glory in Clinique’s catalog. From the success of the floral chypre of the seventies, Aromatics Elixir, until the nineties when they finally created more fragrances, Clinique focused on releasing meditative waters with spa vibes—relaxed, refined, sport, tranquil, and zen. Calyx doesn’t count because, even though it was an EDT sport, it was ultra-acidic and dizzying, very 1990. I can’t speak for Wrappings since I haven’t tried it, but the precedent for Simply, which was Happy, was already a citrus/floral water, bland and insipid, yet very pleasant. Simply follows the same vibe; accepting that it’s a bath mist with a new towel curl, it had a certain exotic and suggestive quality, though it might have lacked the spark to finish it off well. It opened with a melon note that wasn’t as bad as usual, hitting just the right measure of youthfulness, without being one of those repulsive gum-like melons found in teen colognes. The soy was very evident, but not that dark, liquid soy that leaves you poisoned by salt syrup; this was a bean soy that incorporated refined nuances of something strangely salty yet vegetal, like a papyrus or dry hay accord, a very measured salty nuance to be like the whisper of silk on skin. At some point, it had an air that could recall natural and sexual sweat, between musky and salty from the curve of a woman’s chest. Simply was a perfume that smelled of human skin, neither dirty nor clean, the skin of someone you love and don’t mind having a leg thrown over you. Fortunately, the melon flavor faded, the base was a kind of wood with a damp spot and a taste of prairie hay in sophistication, a musky infusion, sienna, and herbaceous, a perfume with the savoring of herbal tea, very intellectual. Simply wasn’t much, but it also can’t be called a disaster. It did leave me wanting more. A perfume with a lactonic, dry, salty, dirty, and ozonic touch that holds more bite than its plain water appearance initially suggests. P.S. In some places I read that some people smell baby’s dirty hair, others breast milk. They’re not far off. P.S. II: I’ve always been attracted to the Lauder group. Clinique, Lauder, Lab Series, Aramis, Prescriptives… good products, well-made, with the exact point of precision and adornment, the epitome of the American, the exact collision of functionality and sophistication. Unfortunately, the Estée Lauder division has been selling knick-knacks in the form of perfume for a few years now, but Clinique itself recently edited the white and black versions of the classic Aromatics. And they’re probably two of the best launches of recent years. Two fabulous perfumes, the first herbal, wooded, and amber, the second leathery, seductive, and diabolical, both unjustly ignored by the general public. They deserve a look and someone to fall for them because both are light years away from the garrulous nonsense everyone is making today.

• Natalia Arenas

  April 12, 2020

  

  A fragrance that’s just… meh. Insignificant and irrelevant. I can’t fathom how a pretty perfume house like Clinique would make something like this. I owned it, but I hated it. I used it up as soon as I started wearing it. Definitely won’t buy it again.