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American Dream

American Dream

Inspired by California Dream, Louis Vuitton

50 ml glass bottle (Eau de Parfum)

 

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Inspired by: California Dream, Louis Vuitton
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PRODUCT DETAILS

Eau de parfum, 50 ml, with roughly 20% fragrance oil, at an affordable €25 like every scent we sell. Free shipping kicks in on orders from €49, with delivery in 2 to 5 working days.

Louis Vuitton sells California Dream as an eau de parfum, and American Dream matches that, sitting well above a light eau de toilette but short of a heavy extrait de parfum. That balance is what keeps the pear and ambrette from disappearing too fast, and it makes for a lighter build than some of the more intense fragrances and niche scents we also carry.

Handmade in small batches, vegan and never tested on animals. Not for you? American Dream can be exchanged within 15 days.

NOTES

Top notes

Mandarin, pear

Heart notes

Ambrette

Base notes

Musk, benzoin

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

American Dream is our perfume dupe of Louis Vuitton California Dream, built for anyone who wants that soft, sun-bleached citrus in a bottle they can reach for every morning. Mandarin and pear open it, ambrette carries the middle, and it settles into a musk and benzoin accord that stays soft rather than sweet.

It smells like sun-warmed skin more than a fruit bowl, and that character shows up from the first spray. Longevity runs 5 to 8 hours, staying close to the body the whole time rather than filling a room, so a couple of sprays is usually enough. Of all the fragrances in the range, this is one of the easier ones to wear day after day.

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Perfume concentration

EDT, EDP or EXDP - what you are actually buying

The difference between these labels is not quality but how much perfume oil sits in the bottle. That decides how long the scent stays on your skin and how far it travels.

EDT Eau de Toilette 5 to 15% perfume oil

The lightest of the three. It opens fresh and fast, but fades after three to five hours. Pleasant in heat and at the office, as long as you top it up during the day.

Our choiceEDP Eau de Parfum ~20% perfume oil

The middle ground that became the standard. It lasts six to eight hours, one spray in the morning is enough, and the scent stays recognisable into the evening without filling the room.

EXDP Extrait de Parfum 20 to 40% perfume oil

The densest form, worn in drops, and it can last over ten hours. In return it loses that easy opening, and the price per bottle climbs the most.

Why we chose EDP

Every Chez Pierre perfume is made in Eau de Parfum concentration, with 20% perfume oil. That is not by accident.

An eau de toilette would mean carrying the bottle with you and refreshing the scent after lunch. An extrait would push the price up, and only someone counting hours would notice the gain. EDP sits exactly in between: one spray in the morning carries the whole working day, and the scent opens and develops instead of settling on the skin at once.

So we don't make lighter and pricier versions of the same scent. We make one, in the concentration where that scent works best.

How a perfume is measured

Longevity, projection and sillage

Three things describe every perfume, whatever the price or the name on the bottle. Once you separate them, it is easier to say what you actually want from a scent.

01

Longevity

How many hours the scent stays on skin

Measured from the moment you spray to the moment you can no longer smell it up close. It depends on the concentration, but also on your skin: on dry skin every perfume lasts less, so a dab of unscented cream before spraying helps.

02

Projection

How far it travels around you

Strongest in the first hour, it tells you how much space the scent takes up. Big projection is great for evenings and colder days, while at the office or in a meeting it usually gets in the way more than it helps.

03

Sillage

The trail you leave behind

Pronounced „see-yazh“, it means the trail a scent leaves behind you. It is the reason someone turns around as you pass. A perfume can last a long time and still leave a small trail, and the other way round.

Strong is not the same as good. A perfume with huge projection quickly tires both you and the people around you, while one without any trail stays your own private thing.

That is why every one of our perfume descriptions says how it wears, not only how it smells.

CHOOSE YOUR LIFESYLE

American Dream

Inspired by: California Dream, Louis Vuitton

American Dream suits spring and summer best, when the citrus and pear have warm skin to sit on. It stays wearable into early autumn, and even on a cold winter day it does not feel out of place, though a light hand is the trick on a hot summer afternoon.

It reads unisex rather than particularly masculine or feminine, and men and women tend to wear it much the same way. Office wear is easy, since the projection never gets loud, and it carries into the evening without needing a top-up.

Choose our Inspiration

Louis Vuitton is the French luxury house behind California Dream, part of a designer fragrance line built around West Coast memories rather than French tradition. It is one of the brand's easier, more approachable releases, sitting next to heavier ambers and woods in the same collection, closer to a mainstream luxury scent than a hard-to-find niche one.

Most people just say California Dream, without the house in front of it. That original, soft and citrus-led, is the reference American Dream is built to sit close to, and it is one of the more requested originals behind our range of fragrances.

Why choose us?

American Dream is our alternative to Louis Vuitton California Dream, an independent blend made with French oils and filled by hand in small batches, with no connection to the original house. It is a dupe rather than a clone, built to sit close to the reference instead of imitating the bottle or the label, and a straightforward alternative for anyone who simply likes the way the original smells.

We keep it to a single concentration, eau de parfum, since that is where this kind of soft citrus and musk accord holds together best, and the top, middle notes and base follow the same shape as the original fragrance. If it does not feel similar to what you remember, you have 15 days to send it back for an exchange, the same policy that covers every one of our perfumes.