Kate Moss will launch Vintage Muse this month. The new perfume for women is a flanker to last year's Vintage by Kate Moss.
Vintage Muse is a floral musk; the notes include plum, rhubarb, blackcurrant cream, peony, violet, tiger orchid, white musk, ambergris and chocolate.
Kate Moss Vintage Muse will be available in 50 ml Eau de Toilette. (via purebeauty.co.uk, very.co.uk)
I’m getting a bit of an Angel vibe from those notes, but since I like Angel, I’ll give it a sniff in the unlikely event it crosses my path. Did anyone ever smell the original?
I have never smelled (or seen) a single KM scent…so no help here.
Vintage muse? Is that a reference to her being an aging model? I’ve never seen any of her perfumes for sale either. But I do like the purple bottle.
Ouch!
I love Vintage, but this is nothing for me. Violet hates me, and vice versa…
Money saved then đ
I’m not a violet fan either – it gets all whiny and annoying on me. And while I love chocolate (eating some right now in fact) I don’t want to smell like it and have never liked the note in perfumes…so far (never say never, i’ve learned!). So not a lemming. Sometimes it’s a relief to read about one I DON’T want!
That is beyond a doubt the most completely arbitrary list of notes I have ever seen, as if the perfumer had just tipped a randomly gathered armload of bottles into a vat. Chocolate? Really?
Who knows what it will smell like. It isn’t the kind of thing I’d go out of my way to try.
I love violet and I think Kate Moss is really cool and one of the best all-time models–despite all her past problems and bad press. However, I am never interested in the fragrances of famous people…not because I have anything against famous people, but because I believe their products are usually only another commercial effort to promote themselves and they could care less about the fragrance.
the blackcurrant cream sounds nice tho….
might be worth a try
i got this for christmas and it is horrible it smells like urine, i was expecting it to be really nice because all of her previous ones but i wouldn’t waste your money đ
I been lurking here, reading this blog for quite a while now. I’m trying to learn more about fragrances, in my ever lasting search for the perfect one(s) for me. I think it’s really difficult to find a frag that would please you all the way, from the top notes till the drydown. This blog has been very helpful, thank you all đ It’s fascinating, learning about the different notes, and how big an impact your nose, body chemistry, even memories have, in how you feel a frag. I been trying to get my hands on different perfumes, and let me tell you, this fragrance fascination does no good for my economy lol. What i’ve learnt is, do NOT buy full bottles after a try or 2, or as a blind buy :P. Sample, sample. Oh and sample. Then, if you really get hooked on a frag, it makes sense to buy a FB. Okay, so let me get back to Kate Moss Vintage Muse. I bought it a couple of days ago after one try, as it was a bargain price. I very rarely buy “celebrity frags”, because i don’t want my perfume to remind me of any person. And ok, maybe i’m a wee bit of a snob what comes to perfumes :). Not that i’ve tried much of the niche stuff or really expensive scents yet, but i want quality. So okay, bought this in temporary insanity, and i actually really like it! It has the same feel to it (on my skin) as Calvin Klein Euphoria, which is one of my favorite perfumes so far. Vintage Muse to me is deep, voluptuous and creamy in the drydown. It does have a bit of a gourmand feel, is it the chocolate notes? Still it’s not overwhelming or cloying. It’s nothing mind blowing, but it’s a casually sexy frag. As it’s edt, it’s lighter than the Euphoria edp, so i would say this is a great office scent. It has a vintage feel to it, but on me it’s no way an “old lady smell”. The lasting power is great for an edt. Even most edp’s don’t last more than 4-5 hours on me, this managed to last as long. Why i wanted to “review” this frag, is because i’ve been reading a lot of negative comments about it. Not sure if it’s because it’s a dept store frag, if it’s Kate’s name, or the affordable price that affects opinions, or just body chemistry. For me this worked great, and i think i found a safe, still not boring, everyday scent for work. My search for the perfect scent still continues đ
Hi and welcome, and glad you’re finding it helpful!
Oh and one more thing. I think it’s a bit silly to think that celebrity frags are bad, because the celebrities just want to promote themselves, and make money. Ofc they do. That’s what every perfume house does. They want to make money, that’s their main priority folks. I think they know, that the best way to make money is to do a good, quality fragrance, that people come back to, and keep buying. I don’t think Kate Moss/ Coty are any different. They don’t wanna spoil their name by releasing crap products. Every perfume house fails now and then though, but most likely not on purpose. They try to make money, and in this case i think they done a good work with the frag.
Thank you Robin, i do, and really appreciate all the info i’m getting đ I been thinking a lot about this âgood frag/ bad fragâ issue. Itâs funny to read fragrance reviews, because peopleâs opinions differs so drastically. Every perfume has itâs lovers and haters. I donât think thereâs many bad fragrances out there actually. It all depends on your body PH/ chemistry. What you drink and eat affects your personal odor too. As well as the time of the month (hormones), time of the year (body temperature), probably even your mood. All of this has an impact on how the perfume comes out on you. Some notes might just not agree with your chemistry, and that doesnât make the frag bad. It can be amazing on someone with a diff chemistry.
One good example for me is Lolita Lempicka. I bought it as a blind buy, based on the great reviews, sounded like my cup of tea. From reviews I got that itâs a complex, deep, different frag, and a lot of reviewers called it fresh too. I decided to order it online. It was the end of the summer, and when I got the frag, I really liked the smell. It was just too loud, too overwhelming, cloying, actually made me nauseous and gave me a headache. I didnât get anything even close to fresh about it. Now, in the colder months, I decided to give it a new try. And voila, now I got the âfreshâ part too. Now there was something clean about the smell (the anise stood out maybe?). It did feel much more subtle now, and I love it. Itâs a cold weather frag.
When I think about a bad fragrance, I would say that itâs something too simple. Thereâs basically just one note that stands out. The perfume doesnât change or develop. It stays the same, smells the same sniffed from the bottle and on everyoneâs skin. It has no depth or complexity to it. I actually have one frag like this, and it numbs your senses very quickly, and makes you bored.
So instead of calling a perfume bad, or saying it smells like piss or whatever, might just be good to remember that itâs most likely not the frag itself, itâs just not compatible with you. If you cut down on coffee, change your diet, stop smoking, try it in a diff time of the month, diff time of the year, it could be totally different. I think this is the beauty of perfumes. They smell unique and different on everyone. That’s why it’s so hard to find the right ones for me. Knowing about the notes does help a lot, when you get to know the ones you like, and the ones that agrees with you. Still, the blends are different, so some note might feel lovely in one perfume, and the same note can smell horrible to you in another. So i learned not to rule things out, just try, explore and enjoy. It’s such a happy feeling when you finally find something that suits you đ