There is still classic Dior and Chanel to run to. Both brands have been good at not cheapening their scents just to attract young girls who like candy-like fad fragrances. They also don't discontinue most of their classic fragrances.
Gucci has been a good fragrance brand, but some of their classics did not last (like Gucci Envy), making me wonder if they will discontinue most of their current fragrances in the next few years.
I love my Gucci but NOT the present fragrances. (How could they discontinue Gucci for Men - sensuality in a black and white box? Crime). Everything that came after Envy Gucci please discontinue - ASAP. One of the four flower fragrances launched last year wasn't bad and the idea was kind of conceptual with layered fragrance (although Hermes did it already and so much better). Fragrance is one area that Gucci have got soooo wrong.
Thank you, I have been putting off my frangrance shopping for a while even though I know it needs to be done before the days grow shorter and the nights longer. I need to find something with a base that combines Russian Patriarchal-church incense with the scent of very expensive Parisian brothel, middle notes of a blue bell wood at dawn and Barenia leather and top notes of something spine-tingling If anyone thinks I have described something they recognise (and available) I would love to know