Alliage Sport Spray Estée Lauder for women

I love the first half hour of this. It's so fresh and green but I like the dry down less. It turns sweeter and more powdery. Is there a perfume that smells like the top notes all the way through?

Aliage is a misty swamp at dawn, earthy, mysterious and archaic. Its moss covered with mugwort and green notes is pure poetry for lovers of fragrances from lost and humid forests where the sun rarely glimpses.
It is a hidden gem, a gem to enjoy the harshness and stubbornness of the true green-vintage perfumes of the 70s.

green, fresh but heavy, dry, mossy-vetivery beast that turns into mild powdery sensual rosy beauty. very classy, but very casual. all time modern even today. totally unisex, maybe even more masculine...
(this is for vintage version from the 70-80's)

Okay this is going to be a terrible review for the current version. There is nothing herbal or 70s chypre about it. To me, it smells like an old bottle of Avon that’s been sitting out in the heat and sun for years, having “turned” to the point of smelling like chemical haze. I would not blind buy this, but actually get to an Ester Lauder counter and smell for yourself. What a shame. :(

I have, and love, a number of “green” perfumes where galbanum is one part of the mix. There’s so much galbanum in Alliage, it’s a galbanum bomb. For me, it’s actually nauseating, which is such a shame. I envy those of you who can enjoy this classic.

Green, green ecstasy in a bottle. I wore this in the Summers of my youth when I wanted to smell earthy and athletic on the tennis court. So glad my mother shared her perfume with me, though she wasn't always aware that she was doing so!

Oakmoss and cedar were never more friendly and joyful. It's a delight to wear and an instant mood lifter.

I have so enjoyed this fragrance on a friend, who wore it in the 1990s. Can anyone tell me how the current fragrance in the square bottle compares?

I love the spirit of this perfume. I feel the green notes, the woods and the slight senses of citrus.
I imagine myself wearing it in autumn or in winter time, I can feel it in my warm clothes while I walk down the cold streets.
It's earthy. It's old. It's nostalgic.
I love love love it.

I have an Eau d'Alliage bottle, and it is amazing from start to finish. It is different from the one pictured here, but the colour of the juice is the same. And looking at the notes i guess it is the same fragrance, i just probably have a bit of a later version, still vintage.
Before i first sprayed the scent i was concerned. Top notes would usually disappear with time. But the fragrance in my bottle shot me down with an unexpected but truly great burst of flowers and citrus, and i am really happy that the jasmine and rose are present and vibrant as they should be (and probably were back in the 70s / 80s) It is a few minutes short pleasure, but it's worth it, and even the fact it's there speaks about the quality of the fragrance per se. So when someone romantically and dramatically rolls their eyes and exclaims they don't make them like this anymore, well, i agree.
Eau d'Alliage is a fragrance that i almost emptied in just two weeks, yes the spray is pretty loose and i had to move it to my wardrobe, in order to keep the rest of this precious scent.
Why they call it sport spray is probably because it is a lighter and refreshing take on popular chypre themes, and because as mentioned the spray (at least in my bottle) is pretty loose and acts like a deodorant.
Warm and fresh, sweet and refreshing Eau d'Alliage is excellent - the vetiver is delicate and feminized by the flowers, while the mossy creamy drydown is magical.
Stunning.
*****

Like most green perfumes, you´ll either like or loathe Alliage.

And this is a true green,
not a bouquet of summer flowers with some discreet foliage
in the background.
It´s a hugely uncompromising perfume, and fearless in its nose-thumbing, which extends even to its fellow greenies (the few left!).
If you prefer to take the safe route, I recommend Estée Lauders superb 'Private collection' - a lovely, slightly green, but mostly classic floral scent.

Alliage isn´t like that. It has character and with the exception of a quick whiff of jasmine it ignores flowers altogether and even goes easy on the woods.
There´s no sweetness in it, no attempt to soften the blow of strong green harmonies with their audacious quantities of nutmeg and vibrant citrus oils.
The basic note is galbanum, a strong green sap that is both sharp and pungent.

A zesty crush of green leaves and citrus blends very well with carefully selected spices that move it in an assertive direction which turns out to be the forest floor of oakmoss and, from far away, some vetyver from Java.
A soft, almost musty, mossy pervasion - actually very compelling in its 'unorthodox' way.
It may not be madly popular in the Lauder line-up, but has a devoted clientele who understandably prefer its dry honesty to the hotbeds of generic and predictable florals that hold few surprises these days.

Wonderful in the heat of the day with a casual look,
but a flop at night.
This fresh, vegetal and dry composition is now less intensely bitter herbal, less powdery and a touch more floral today than when it was created, but still very good.

Perhaps not the most romantic choice or a crowd pleaser, but neither will it offend.
Like a pair of well-designed and tailored cut pants it goes everywhere and is well fitted to an active lifestyle.

At least it is interesting and has survived for more than 40 years for a reason!

I don't think so dear Fragrantica. Jean Patou made in collaboration with Lacoste the first "eau de sport" in 1968. Was unisex.
By the way is missing here that frag.
Double mistake.

This was my first ever perfume that I purchased. My best friends mother always wore it and like the perfume she was young fresh and glamorous. The scent itself is fresh very green and slightly spicy. Definitely one for day time.

Estee Lauder’s Aliage is a determined and admirable attempt to bottle sporting summertime and make it available all year round.

As orderly and well managed as Centre Court on finals day, this is a fragrance marshalled with ex-military precision.

The opening is a brisk moss lawn made brilliant by warm sunshine. There are hints of citrus and a slightly malted fruitiness that tries but never succeeds in deposing tart as the chief mood.

This green persists throughout the heart and is without doubt the main accord, a definite resinous pine becomes apparent and then yields somewhat to vetiver.

There is a distant spiciness and a definite element of powder, but these seem medicinal, belonging far more to the locker room than the beauty parlour.

The dry down is more a three set match than five and seems to end quite decisively in a tie break that takes one almost by surprise.

All in all Aliage is a miraculously summoned up ray of sharp sunshine available on any day.

In the midst of foul weather we should all be truly grateful that such things exist.

*************

This is without doubt a game suitable for mixed doubles.

Notice

Aliage has recently regained its missing ‘l’ and once again become ‘Alliage’.

Sadly in so doing it seems to have lost a deal of its vigour and derring-do.

Catch the old magic where and while you can.

I bought this as a blind buy, the greenery of it, intrigued me. This is a very odd scent, its like I don't love it, but I don't hate it, it like that bad car crash but you don't want to look away. This is such a weird scent, the oakmoss and cedar are overbearing at first, very very strong, it can almost turn you off, after 5 minutes, its mixed with the lemon, which makes the scent stranger then, because its like you're trying to make a pungent bitter scent, fresh. The blending at this stage is a little off putting, but at the same time its like I keep sniffing myself because it also intrigues me. After 1 hr, the scent finally start to blend and settle, its not overbearing now the scent softens, and you can start smelling the vetiver and nutmeg. I do smell the sportiness of it all. Like after a jog in the park when you're tired and go to sit if off at the bench and you are breathing it all in, this is that scent. After about 3 hrs I start to smell the jasmine. It last about 8 hrs. Its a very interesting scent, very different. I do like it, its a day scent. I must say this is not for everyone. This is for a confident woman.

When Estee Lauder began marketing perfumes I imagine she and her employees felt a bit like the California vintners who first "dared" to produce wines intended to equal (or surpass) wines produced in France.

I was there and I remember: there just weren't that many alternatives to French perfumes if you were an "average" American woman. And if you happened to be a teenager in the early 1970's and didn't want to smell like your mom or grandmom, there were even fewer affordable alternatives. Alliage (then spelled with 2 L's) arrived as a breath of fresh air, AND it was designed with young women in mind -- a step up from Revlon's Charlie, introduced the year before.

Alliage was one of the first American non-Avon fragrances I bought for myself and I'm telling you, at a time when the minimum wage was $1.60 per hour, finding a wonderful, lasting fragrance for under $20.00 per bottle was like a miracle!

I'd love to compare wrist-to-wrist original Alliage (spelled with two L's) with what's sold now (with one L). 1970's fragrances were soooo bold, I don't know that even I could now handle the original anymore.

Alliage -- will remain for me the fragrance of independence.

I have been wearing Aliage for about 25 years. Its always kept "under the counter" by Lauder reps. But recently I found it at Ulta, almost hidden. This is my winter/autumn, cold day choice. The cedar and oak moss predominate. I believe Estee was trying to design a "walk in the woods" scent, and she succeeded!
I only wear it in cold weather, even though its a sport scent, it can intensify with heat. One word of caution: I have never received one compliment on it when I used to wear it at work. It just doesnt appeal to everyone who is used to traditional powdery florals. I reserve it for weekends.

ALiage Sport is a great scent for women who "hate perfume." It is a great everyday scent, crisp and resfreshing, especially for summer wear.