ULTRA RARE VINTAGE DANTE ORIGINAL COLOGNE FOR MEN c.1965 70% FULL 6 OZ. SHIELDS

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ULTRA RARE VINTAGE DANTE ORIGINAL COLOGNE FOR MEN c.1965 70% FULL 6 OZ. SHIELDS:
$399.00

PRESENTING ANULTRA RARE VINTAGE DANTE ORIGINAL COLOGNE FOR MEN c.1965 70% FULL 6 OZ. SHIELDS
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Here is a hard to find,ULTRA RARE VINTAGE DANTE ORIGINAL COLOGNE FOR MEN c.1965, about 70% FULL 6 OZ. SHIELDS
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Dante Original Cologne is a fairly obscure vintage scent about which little is known. It was distributed through a company of the same name, based in New York as recently as the 1960s. It is a very lovely cologne which is as still fresh as far as I know. This is also a prime example of unusual and American-made vintage scents. Dante gentlemen\'s cologne, a popular scent amongst men of all ages during the 1950s and into the 1960s. It was produced by Dante NY Distributors, a divison of Shields.
Dante was a line of toiletries which included everything a man needed to smell sexy and enticing. Shields/Dante also supplied cuff links, tie bars,tie tacs, hot brushes and wallets. Dante advertisements said that \"He\'ll tingle to the exhilarating bracing action of Dante. You\'ll love the clean, masculine fragrance.\"

Top notes: bergamot, mint
Middle notes: iris, honeysuckle, patchouli, rose, orris, cedarwood, opoponax
Base notes: benzoin, tonka bean, vanilla, sandalwood, musk, Tobacco, ambergris, oakmoss

From a review by vintage cologne connoisseur Amelia:
Dante Original Cologne is a fairly obscure vintage scent about which little is known. It was distributed through a company of the same name, based in New York as recently as the 1960s. It is a very lovely cologne which I recently reviewed (very briefly) on Basenotes, mostly because there weren\'t any reviews and that seems a shame, but I\'m featuring it here because it is also a prime example of what I love, unusual and American-made vintage scents... it is a surprisingly floral men\'s scent. But somehow, its also a perfectly appropriate smelling scent for a \'man\'s man\'. It has just enough coumarin to let you smell an impossibly blonde Tobacco. The balsams remain extremely transparent, hovering about and throwing out a gentle sillage that encourages nuzzling.

To keep the comparison going, HQF dries down soapy-rosey and pollen-y powdery while the Dante remains brighter, with bergamot, the aforementioned iris and fluffy sweet hay-Tobacco forming an almost holy trilogy accord. At first, I compared Dante to Tabu because of the cola/rootbeer note that they share (which is an iris note I think, that is always very sweet and honeyed and almost watery in the living flowers I\'ve smelled but comes across more fizz and soda like in these perfumes). Tabu doesn\'t share Dante\'s mellow smoothness, and it is sharper, stronger and almost minty compared side by side. Dante is very gentle and soft yet it is also very strong making it a very compelling masculine scent.