Chypre

I find this to be such a lovely masterpiece. I bought this blindly when I went on a blind-buy rampage and this is my favourite of my 5 buys. It opened with deadly cold rose, which slightly reminded me of old fashioned bulgarian rose oils my grandma used to use. When the patchoully hit in the scent became bitter. This is very classy, very rich and very expensive smelling chypre suitable for cold "femme fatale", it's seductive and alluring, but not inviting. As I said - on my skin it feels extremely cold and distant and I can easily imagine myself wearing it on those days I don't want anyone come near me, on fancy evenings when I want to be an ice queen. Longelivity is a killer, 12+ hours on my skin.

got my bottle today and wow! this is a true gem !!! very creamy, powdery, warm, sensual, flowery. i love all the notes in it, but almost the rose and peony are soooo beautiful - let me feel so classy and feminine, soooo nice well done perfume indeed. the patchouli is not strong, just the right amounth to be sensual and mysterious. i m in love ! even after hours and a shower i can easely detect it on me without being a loud perfume. sitts perfect near on skin. i think it s very sexy ! guess this would be also perfect as base layering with another fume.

For me, this perfume represents the perfect chypre. I'll say it rightaway that the combination of rose and patchouli can sometimes be quite earthy (think of DSH's Dirty Rose), but this is not the case here. This perfume has clarity and even lightness that I have never experienced in other perfumes of the same type. (The manufacturers have compared this to Lauder's Knowing, which is soapier and mossier, and to Soir de Lune, which is richer and more stand-offish). It is to be sure a strong scent, I use only one spray and it is enough to last me a day. The certain 'coolness' that this perfume can project (from the reviewer below) is probably what appeals to me, I connect it to the dry ambery, musky notes of the drydown. Chypre retains its surprisingly fresh character right to the end.

Dear Sherihan, Chypre is the name o this perfume and the name of the entire olfactive group as well. You can read more about the house in the article French house of Jovoy/Codray (find it in the house description, click above)

I like it most of all, it's feminine and sensual, I like the drydown notes. This chypre is the classical chypre, subtle and sexy.