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Halston Z-14 is a leather fragrance launched in 1974. This is a retro/vintage version from the 1990s. Created by Vincent Marcello and Max Gavarry, it has notes of cypress, lemon, bergamot, green, basil, gardenia, cinnamon, vetiver, patchouli, coriander, cedar, geranium, jasmine, leather, oakmoss, benzoin, amber, musk and tonka bean.
The bottle is marked on the bottom, Halston Fragrances, Inc. Distr NY, NY 10036. I believe this is the 1991 version (see Cleopatra's Boudoir for bottle information)
Basenotes - "Oh...my...god I never thought Z-14 could smell this way! Now I know why this is categorized as a Leather.. Forget about current 'big red' or older 'big red', JG era or anything 2000s for that matter (not that they suck, though, but....) THIS! After the initial blast of alcohol, you get kicked in the teeth by a very persistant and powerful trinity of cypress, leather and LEMON which instantly reminds of vtg Eau Sauvage Extreme. From there on it just keeps on giving: lemon, green, cypress, leather, wood, moss, peppery florals and just beautifully aromatic and golden brown."
Basenotes - "Z-14 as it should be experienced opens with a telltale bergamot, lemon, basil, cypress, and gardenia salvo that at once is reminiscent of that furniture polish opening YSL Pour Homme possesses, but also is crisper, rounder, and more pillowy thanks to the herbs and rich heart that backs it up. Vetiver, jasmine, patchouli, coriander, cedarwood, cinnamon, and geranium all represent this heart; it's part barbershop, part floral chypre, and part aromatic fougère, which is a heady amalgam that also runs through the base as well. I smell the waxy citrus, jasmine, cedar, and patchouli most in this phase, until the base comes into play. Halston Z-14's dry down consists of sweet amber, suede-like leather, olibanum, benzoin, buttery oakmoss, musk, and smooth tonka. It's once again an abutment of chypre and fougère designs, but the fougère aspects win out due to the sweet warmth and earthy glow of Z-14 when it reaches skin scent. This final phase of the wear is most indicative of the vintage's quality and current formulation's butchering of the perfumer's vision, since nothing but musk, benzoin, an whatever synthetic standing in for moss remains in the new juice."
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