Deneuve

Love Deneuve by Catherine Deneuve she was so ahead of her time when she created this it won a FiFi award 1987 This perfume was the epitome of the 80s' Absolutely gorgeous juice in a bottle, the galbanum oakmoss with the green notes, hyacinth and civet gives it an animalistic green floral that is to die for. This is a classic vintage CHYPRE in all its glory its absolutely stunning memorable and nostalgic! Thank goodness I was able to get a bottle of this beaut. P. S for some reason this reminds me of CLASSIC PERRY ELLIS COLOGNE 1985' actually it's so close, Perry Ellis which strangely looking at came out the same year 1985 so many great memories. She should bring back this beautiful fragrance it'll probably do great in this era its a shame that it's no longer in production I read that it was very expensive and complicated to keep making in the US. It originally was supposed to be or was under Avon when it was released very interesting story behind it anyhow if you find for all those Chypre fans you will be happy!

All I can say is, I wish they’d bring it back. It’ll be such a delight to escape oudh and today’s esoteric perfume notes. Fragrance Innovation is not a mish mash of disparate notes- it’s rather a studied seamless journey into unexplored regions of olfactory delight, on a vehicle of deep knowledge. Modernity, to me, does not necessitate departure from wisdom. Having said my philosophical bit, I came across an ounce of pure Deneuve perfume I’d ferreted away decades ago. I’d forgotten how transportive it is! For a bit I stopped grieving for loss of innocence and global stability. Ah, the florals and ancient notes cleansed me. I’d agree it slots in nicely with rive gauche and climat. Two of my favorites. Hope all you afficiandos of Deneuve continue your search for this treasure. Frederick Malle is her nephew I think, if my belabored grey cells serve me...hmmm...

Deneuve is maximum oakmoss in effect, civet pitter-pat all over greeneries, spring yellow stems, fizzy florals where you can't quite pick any one bloom apart from the other, but they all smell glorious together. All elements whirling about, weaving in and out, big cedar and slightly sweet violet swell forward in an almost hallucinatory manner during wear, but get washed over by yet more oakmoss. This is a chypre for chypre die-hards, it's heady but it does not scream, it hums steadily and for a good while. It wears like a veil of earthy splendor, and it's a sad, sad world today if one can wear this and not turn heads approvingly. I must reiterate though: you must love, absolutely love mossiness, woodiness, and a chypre sealed with some smutty civet to appreciate this sybaritic delight.

I have had the same reaction as many others here - whenever I wore it, people always asked me what I was wearing, because it was SO beautiful. It was terribly marketed in the US - as some kind of independent, free-spirited, spunky woman's fragrance (like Charlie, or some other classless, cheap scent), rather than the deep, warm, sophisticated, intensely feminine scent that it was. Such a pity. I have never found anything to match it. My favourite fagrance now is Montale's Aoud Velvet, but it is simply not the same.

Deneuve was a wonderful, complex rich floral perfume, with many green notes in it and a woody cedary drydown. Had it had a bit less cedar, I would have stockpiled it! For those of you disconsolate over its unavailability, you might like to try Balmain's Ivoire, assuming that one is available. Ivoire isn't quite as richly floral, but in other ways it is very similar.