Biche Dans L’Absinthe

[Review originally posted on MakeUpAlley in 2005]: A lovely and festive scent, a bit "Renaissance Festival" or somehow Middle Ages, dark woods, velvets, something deep and all knowing. Definitely forests, not so much the smell (maybe of the barks) but the FEEL. My husband said it reminds him of the sweets eaten in December here in Holland, which are a peppery sweet sort of cookie or cake called "speculaas"...the taste is sort of a peppery cinnamon which must be the cumin smell mentioned by others (immortelle flower, artemesia / absinthe and tobacco leaf...?). One thing I like so much about Gobin Daudé perfumes is that the poetic descriptions she's created for her perfumes really do fit the image literally created by smelling them. The perfumes paint a picture, actually materialize something IMO, even something three dimensional that could be entered and experienced, instead of merely a smell that brought back memories or perhaps exploded the olfactory senses into heaven. Her perfumes could do this, but the added component of the image creation gives them a depth where other perfumes may fall short of such a kaleidoscopic experience and range...such a huge pity that these will soon be discontinued due to lack of sales...

I just got a bottle from eBay. It’s pretty amazing. It’s a green fragrance, but it’s a warm green, a yellow green, alive and animated. You can smell the hay a immortelle mixed in with the green notes. It is not a cold, aldehyde fragrance that many green perfumes are. The silage is good and it lasts a pretty long time.

I have this for sale on eBay. It is absolutely lovely and very hard to get.