Etienne Aigner No. 2 (1976)
by Etienne Aigner

Smells "cologney" at first but it blossoms into a wonderful light and minty lavender and a classy clean smell of fern and moss. Very strong though lasts about 5 hours. Good stuff.

One of the best scents ever !, when I smell this I'm a happy man !

One of my all time favourites, first aquired in 1984. A magic enchantement of clary sage and lavender. Whenever I smell it I feel uplifted. A true olfactoric mood enhancer. 14 out of 15 points.

This was the lecture that the Baron de Charlus delivered to the Society of Perfumes in Paris concerning Aigner No. 2: 'Messieurs and mesdames, consider this comportment of mysterious lemon, powder and spices with its distinctly old fashioned feel. Clearly of exquisite breeding and blending, it must surely acknowledge its affinities with Fragonard's Zizanie, D'Orsay's Etiquette Bleue, and, above all, with Rochas' Moustache. You will note that the estimable Monsieur Joshua d'Augustt (like myself an epicure of rare and non-obvious scents) has already given it his approval - a judgement that it would ill afford us to ignore. Let us therefore follow him into this mysterious salon, this masked ball, this lost domain of old world charm, uttering, as with Moustache, our slightly muted felicitations.'

This is a scent that "grew" on me over a period of time. The good news is that it's still being produced AND...it's a wonderful warm, spicy, clean fragrance that has fairly good staying power. This one is really worth a try...or two! Joshaugustt