40 Days and 40 Nights of Fragrance Notes: Aldehydes
1. I am trying to avoid all the Royal Wedding chatter.This means I will be avoiding the television, twitter and all websites.This will be a "Royal Free" zone.
I am not smitten with Kate.
There. I said it.
2. There are notes that we did not get around to dishing about!
Here is the definition straight from wikipedia:
"Aldehyde is an organic compound containing a formyl group. This functional group, with the structure R-CHO, consists of a carbonyl centre bonded to hydrogen and an R group. The group without R is called the aldehyde group or formyl group. Aldehydes differ from ketones in that the carbonyl is placed at the end of a carbon skeleton rather than between two carbon atoms. Aldehydes are common in organic chemistry. Many fragrances are aldehydes."
Science and math are not my strong subjects. My mind is cluttered with powder puffs and marshmallows. Patti's famous line is "We are deep as plates".
I am afraid to say that mind will start some type of "elevator music" when I attempt to comprehend math, science and boys. I understand the language of lip gloss.
I think aldehydes smell like sunlight. They manage to make a dark fragrance come into the light. It is fizzy like champagne and shimmery like a diamond. Think sparkle, neon and brightness.
Chanel fragrances are the masters at harnessing the magic of aldehydes. Chanel No.5 is like oxygen. It smells like the brightest day of your life. The sunlight it replicates is that first fall day. It is crisp, sparkling yet slightly dark. Chanel No.22 is considered "the godfather" of all aldehyde fragrances. It is chock full of light and shimmer.
Great Aldehyde Fragrances:
Chanel No 22
Chanel No 5
Chanel No 19
Chanel Cuir de Russie
Chanel Bois de Iles
Bond 9 Broadway Nite
Lancome Climat
Versace (the original)
Frederic Malle Noir Epices
Frederic Malle Iris Poudre
Frederic Malle Fleur de Cassie
Hermes Caleche
Van Cleef and Arpels First
Balenciaga Le Dix
Madame Rochas
Le Labo Aldehyde 44
Robert Piguet Baghari
Agent Provocateur Maitresse
Ralph Lauren Safari
Estee Lauder White Linen
Lanvin Arpege
Guerlain Vega
Clinique Aromatics Elixir
Etat Libre d'Orange Sex Pistols
Comme des Garcons 2
Please share your favorite aldehyde fragrances in the comments!
Reviewer: Annie
Graphic Credit" Melanie Parker
Disclosure: My current bottle of Chanel No 5 was provided by Chanel. God only knows how many I have purchased in the past!
posted by Annieytown @ 9:01 AM
20 Inspired Comments
20 Inspired Comments:
I don't get the outrageous amount of wedding hype either. It's hard enough to keep up with all the American celebrities, now we're supposed to care about the British ones too??
No. 22 is my favorite aldehyde. It's a real shame that customers don't seem to have a taste for aldehydes anymore. I'm afraid they'll go completely out of style soon.
The only thing I want to see is the dress and who designed it.
Chanel No. 5 is such perfection. I am on my second huge bottle of Eau Premiere, which tones down the aldehydes just enough so it is more wearable right from the first spray. I wore some of the parfum last week. It's bliss.
No. 22 has so much aldehyde that it is almost impossible to wear! But it is almost impossible to find, that's for sure.
I like aldehydes...just not in an overly floral fragrance. The few aldehyde florals that I like are No. 22, No 5 sensual elixir & Agent P. Maitresse.
Usually I have a hard time with aldehydes, but I do love SL La Myrrhe. ELd'O Vraie Blonde was also a nice surprise.
So glad to see you extended the "fragrance notes." When I was nineteen I fell in love with Chanel 19,I felt sophisticated wearing it. I still like it. Estee Lauder White Linen is refreshing and clean,great for summer days. The royal wedding is a positive note after the last months of war,natural catastrophe,etc. I wish the couple well.
AH! THANK God! I appreciate this being a royal wedding free zone. Love Arpege.
Last week's episode of "The Middle" finally helped me understand why people care about the royal wedding. It was touching and sweet, well acted and smartly written. Now that that's out of the way, I couldn't care less what Meredith Viera will be wearing when she attends the royal wedding, or when she goes any where else, for that matter. Thank you for extending your 40 Days...an additional week for us commoners, I am so delighted. I confess I am still somewhat confused by aldehydes, they sound sort of icky, but all the fragrances referenced are beloved to me. I will work hard to understand aldehydes and, of course will report here every day for my daily dose of fragrance education! Thank you again!
Yay, I'm so happy! I could read these forever. How about 80 days and 80 nights! Thank you Annie.
Patti, thanks for answering my questions. Deodorant makes perfect sense, but I never would have thought of it!
Yay, more fragrance! I am drinking in all of this information. It is so helpful! I'm excited for the wedding, but only for wedding ideas and to see the dress - I would be equally as excited for anyone else's wedding! I can appreciate the want to avoid its mention at all costs, though :P
One of my favorites - Amouage Dia!
I love aldehydes! Favorites:
No. 5 parfum (vintage please)
Bois des Iles
Climat
Iris Poudre
Vega
Ferre 20
Vega
SSS Champagne de Bois
Aldehydes 44 is nice, but I was annoyed by the price-vs-smell dichotomy... save your money and buy a big bottle of Vega, I say.
(I do love vintage Arpege, but not because of the aldehydes - it's the stunning sandalwood that gets me.)
To yank your Kate remark around (sorry!), I am not smitten with No. 22 or White Linen... bleah. No. 22 is all sugar crystals on me, and I've long held that White Linen should have been called Mildewed Laundry - something in the Lauder base bugs me.
So as I understand your chemistry report, Aldehyde is a name for a group of organic chemicals, not a single chemical. Is that right?
Because I always misunderstood that there was a single fragrant "aldehyde" scent?
My favorite aldehyde (besides my true love Chanel #5) is my very first fragrance as a young teen:
Guerlain Chant'Aromes...
It still sends my head reeling
with the intoxicating sense of falling in love. Sigh.
What wedding...?
Someone said it best the other day on a news site. Why be a princess when you can be Oprah? I heartily agree.
I love aldehydes, and Chanel No 5 in pure parfum smells divine. Malle's Iris Poudre is another powdery favorite of mine.
Great post!
I have total royal wedding fever but am a royal nut all the time anyway. However, I am quite happy to see the 40 days series continued. and despite my wedding fever, I'm not too into Kate either.
Also explains why you've been Twitabsent. Was waiting to hear your take on Upstairs Downstairs last ep. Remember when we used to get 30 episodes of a show ? Now we get 3. I am on the fence with how good it was, but damn the costumes rocked. And the lipstick.
Where is Stephen Jones for Comme des garcon????
My favorite aldehyde heavy hitter.
I love them.. waiting for next post..
I'm so happy to see Baghari by Robert Piguet mentioned here. I have been wearing it and find it most alluring during its amber, vanilla and musk dry down.
Alway Chanel No. 5!!
Of course, the original - and still the most elegant - aldehyde would be Quelques Fleurs by Houbigant. It was created in 1912, and all aldehydes, powdery florals and multiflorals are in imitation of it. It set a bar for sophistication in the 20th century that was never surpassed. It might have been reformulated over the years, but it's back to as close to the original as possible. My grandmother was sixteen when it was created. Her mother bought it for her...she bought it for my mother...my sister wears it now.
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