Mackie (new)
Bob Mackie (1991)

On first spray, I smell powdery aldehydic cherry, and probably violets as well. This smells very perfumey as opposed to a modern fruity floral. While it doesn't smell directly like it, this has the same timbre as Poison (loud, perfumey, sweet artificial fruit).

It rather quickly turns floral, as a bubblegummy jasmine joins the violets and the cherry fades from the forefront without ever fully leaving. Eventually, tuberose warms up and makes its way to the front. The mix of candied fruit and tuberose calls to mind Fracas, but this smells much cheaper. Soon, a surprising Red Hot cinnamon candy note joins in, and this mix of tuberose with cinnamon and sweet cherry bubblegum is what carries on for the rest of the day, just sort of fading as the hours pass instead of evolving into a proper base.

Like I'm finding with a lot of the forgotten classic cheapies, this is frustrating with its lack of a proper, luxurious base. I have to give Mackie credit for combining tuberose and cinnamon candy, a mix I would never have thought could work, though, so this isn't a failure by any means. It's got both good and bad aspects, so I'll vote neutral

To be honest, this may be a heavenly fragrance to some, but I associate it with a co-woker who would spray this on at her desk. You would be working, minding your own business, when suddenly the stink bomb would go off. I could actually taste this. Once it caused a co-worker to have an asthma attack, and after witnessing that, I stayed away from this forever.

The opening starts off fruity with tangy
Pineapple and ripe raspberries then dries
in a few minutes to an to an Honeylike sweetness of Tuberose to dry off the tuberose is spicy orange blossom turns
deep with the note of Narcissus with it's
Intoxicating properties sharp semi masculine greenish note of jasmine slowly
steeping though the sweetish narcissus
dries with the velvet texture of Ylang Ylang and the powdery finish of rose

The base is a bit spicy with Vetiver
musk and amber if synthetic is a bit impressive and ends with dry sandalwood.

This is just a dreamy scent with lots of fruity topnotes that moves into a beautiful Jasmine/Orange blossom melange which settles into an Ambery (I don't pick up the Patchouli or Sandalwood in it...) drydown. This is definitely my "Go-To" scent...one I can wear without worry about anyone NOT liking it. This scent always draws compliments...it lasts a long time! I'd recommend it to anyone..if you can find it!

A floral scent with a distinct patchouli and creamy vanilla undertone. As is the norm with most department store quality perfumes, I turn it into a powdery, dank, nauseating smell. What is this ingredient that my skin hates so? The synthetic musk, vanilla, one of the fixatives used in American fragrances???? I don't know, but it makes makes me sick to my stomach. One thing I will say for it, it has staying power, because I can't wash it off!

Even before the scent started stinking, it was uninspiring (at best) on me.

This perfume smells ok, it isn't a bad smell (it is wearable but it's just not my style). It is a warm woodsy scent with some sweetness. On me, I do not smell any of the fruit notes AT ALL. I recieved this as a Christmas gift and I am trying to sell it. If I can't sell it, I would wear this from time to time just to use it up. I would not repurchase this one. Who knows, maybe this on will grow on me if I continue to use it. As of now it is just a boring wearable fragrance, nothing special.