Chyprissime

LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!! Which is a complete and utter shame because I’ll never buy a full bottle of it at the cost it is. I’m completely mystified as to how Mugler could put his name on such a beautiful modern chypre and then give it the longevity of a wink ( yes....a wink!). So, so disappointing and at this price, I’m in complete agreement with Andy the Frenchy & others when I say I’ve got to pass on it because I so desperately want a full bottle; a tanker full, so I can bathe in it but it just cannot be justifiable at the price. A masterful work of the perfumers art, certainly with Olivier Polge involved, yet the longevity, projection and sillage seem to have been dismissed as unimportant here obviously and I’m so disappointed. Every time I order from Mugler, this is the only sample I request. Whenever I’m in Harrods, I desperately try and beg more samples because I simply won’t pay the price for the bottle. Now, don’t get me wrong...... I’ve even gone to the lengths of going from London to Paris, just for the day so I can buy Dior Privèe Vetiver & Mitzah from the one store in the world that does still stock them but I just simply will not do this.... I won’t pay it! Oh, that patchouli...... and the oakmoss...... and that pear that creeps up on you. Beautiful! In order for me to get a days wear from this, I have to reapply at least three times & heavily too. I keep hoping that it will do a Molecule 01 on me and magically reappear...... but no....no, it doesn’t. Shame shame shame!!!

Anyone expecting a current-day perfume called a "chypre" to have the oakmoss hit of a classic chypre is doomed to disappointment. However if one ignores the "chypre" label and smells the perfume on its merits, there are many a good "new chypre" around. To my nose, Chyprissime falls in this category. The first day I wore it I got a compliment: "What is that wonderful perfume--spicy, patchouli--it's fabulous!" It has good longevity; put it on in the morning from a sample, with a little refresh in the store at 1pm when I went to buy it, and I could still smell it at bedtime. Something I noticed with this perfume and another Mugler Exception I tested, Oriental Express: upon sniffing or application they didn't seem that special but as they unfold, the notes develop and bloom beautifully. Very different from a lot of perfumes today that disappear somewhere in what should be the middle. I am really enjoying the dry sophistication of Chyprissime.

Honestly, the entire range of this collection "Les Exceptions" is truly fantastic and I wish I could just afford them all. In this day and age of market saturation (of pretty much everything) to be able to produce and launch a product that is THAT GOOD is simply fantastic. Love the gently hinted pear note and that sharp, tangy, hesperidic-chypre burst in the beginning until the floral heart note kicks in. N/B there is no single floral ingredient listed but it feels and smells that there is one! Omittance or art of abstract modern perfumery? You'll be the judge, but I think it is genuinely a very good new modern chypre. Love the various stages and the mossy, green patchouli dry down. A wet, fruity, slightly medicinal modern chypre of the very best. Verdict; 9/10! Super classy and dynamically different for a male. On my late spring/ summer WANT LIST!

This fragrance has been in my rotation all summer. I find it refreshing, elegant, versatile and very solid performance-wise. I reckon it smells very natural and is extremely well blended. I am not a fan of citrus - at all - but in this particular composition, it really brings freshness to the earthy and damp oakmoss/patchouli duet, which dominates the scene after the more citrusy opening, thus making the fragrance wearable even in hot weather. The pear balances the composition with its delicate sweetness, and smoothens all the sharp edges of the more pungent notes. Since the beginning of the summer, I’ve been reaching for it a few days a week for any non-special occasion imaginable and definitely find it signature worthy for chypre lovers looking for something casually elegant.

Wearing this today On paper smells amazing. On me, it is very watery, within 5 minutes you won't remember what you're wearing. I sooooo wanted to love this one... EDIT: Now that L'Oreal is getting its hands on Mugler many online sites have/had this for a very good discount. So I finally got it. I am not sorry. It does smell amazing and with a few extra sprays it lasts long enough. I am even tempted to get a second bottle. So yeah... VERY soft, not much projection or lasting power, but an amazing experience and skin scent

Could someone please get the new re-releases of Les Exceptions, decant them, and sell them? I can't justify $300 for a whole bottle of this unless I have tested it first 🥲❤️🩹 Edit 1.8.26 I am back to say that I got my free sample of this with the Alien Pulp release!! It's a beautiful, sweet, powdery rose and creamy patchouli, I don't usually describe patchouli as creamy because I don't usually encounter it that way but there ya go.

Maybe I got a good batch... but I quite like this. It reminds me a lot of Zegna Patchouli. Well blended, bit of a woody/oakmoss patchouli base. I indeed don't get bergamot as others mention. Last reasonably well. It feels more masculine to me. I am hard pressed to decide between this and Zegna Patchouli which I love. At the very least it is worth getting a sample and trying it.

Ingredients List; sourced from the official press book. Oriental Express; Bergamot, sandalwood, vanilla, carrot core and carrot seeds. Chyprissime; Bergamot, oak moss, cistus labdanum, patchouli and pear Fougere Furieuse; Geranium, oak moss, bergamot, coumarin, amber and neroli Supra Floral; Hyacinth, amber and oud. Over the Musk; Musk and hibiscus seeds (ambrette seeds)

I love this one. Finally a scent with verdure, without being aquatic, or "clean". This is a mossy forest in the spring, at the afternoon when the morning dew have gone and the coldness of the night is creeping closer. It green, but not in a harsh way. I am in love, I need to start saving up for both a full bottle and a back-up bottle <3

This is very similar to 1985 Fendi. But at the same time it has the wonderful TM signature right through it. It layers well with most othe TM creations. It very spicy and opulent. I really hope L'Oreal do not discontinue it.

This scent smells like a chique, sophisticated, fresh forest. I'd say it's a unisex scent. It's a bit manly but it does have a soft side, which is why I enjoy it so much! It's definitely diverse.

@ Myran "Finally a scent with verdure, without being aquatic, or "clean" <-- THIS I love green (I mean real green), I intensely dislike ''clean office-safe aquatics'' so, yes. This.

I’m hearing word from several sources that all of Les Exceptions, Womanity and Innocent have been axed by L’Oréal and are now discontinued. Just an FYI.

At Hudson's Bay in downtown Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.

Best of the les exceptions series no doubt.

On skin, I'm getting a blast of bergamot-y, spicy, patchouli. After 10 minutes or so, the notes meld into a woody, masculine rose (cistus labdanum) with peaks of sweetness (presumably pear, though I would never have guessed pear). Sometimes rose scents go a little ginger to my nose, and this definitely leans ginger to me - it's got that "zing" to it. Kind of reminds me of Marni, just a hint sweeter and less green. I think I like Marni better, but these are different enough that, if you're a rose patchouli lover, you could find use occasions for both. That being said, I'm not totally sold that Thierry Mugler is using such unique/quality ingredients that you couldn't find a suitable substitute for less money elsewhere - I don't find this scent to be unique, in either composition or quality. A rose is a rose is a rose?? Maybe. Personally, I enjoy a fragrance house that has a common personality in their fragrances - Chanel and Guerlain are good examples - and I'm not sure that TM has managed to do that with Exceptions line. To be fair though, if this was a $30 scent, I'd be going crazy about how great it is... I just have higher expectations with higher priced frags.

'Chyprissime' is clean, sharp and cedar-like, with hints of warm, spiced orange peel and a tinge of leathery bitterness that verges on aquatic, without quite going there. The opening feels sparkly and glossy, with lots of cool ISO-E, menthol-y eugenol and patchouli. There's a playful sweet-fruitiness that feels quite androgynous at first, but then retreats as the oakmoss moves forward. From then on, it starts to smell more typical of a middling men's designer fragrance. The more I sniff my hand an hour later, the more I'm put off by a bitter, chemical aroma that catches the back of my tongue, so definitely not for me. My personal taste aside, if I judge it against other men's designer frags in a similar category, 'Chyprissime' is a perfectly adequate, wearable scent for young guys who like that sporty, spiced wood thing. However, there's just nothing about the composition which warrants the price tag! I'm getting quite fed up of these designer perfumers 'playing niche' with fancy bottles and fussy presentation boxes and charging double price for a perfume you might just as easily find at your local chemist.

At the first spray I have vague memories of the first Versus Versace. Tons of bergamot combined with as many tons of oakmoss, with fresh whiffs of toiletry. Toiletries made such by the note of pear that usually reminds me of shampoos, but here it is balanced and blends well with the other notes. Simple, fresh, listened to. Bitter orange and a hint of a slightly earthy, clearer, green patch that remains in the background. As the skin warms up, I get a slight sweetness of labdanum. Definitely not a novelty, but very balanced, pleasant and certainly for many too sure and already heard. However, it has a sober, bright and stimulating air. It has few notes but well placed. This is the case where less is more. Refreshing, pleasant, more suitable in summer. The drydown is drastically harmless. The price is high and here I don't think it's made from ingredients but from the hand. Or rather, from the noses...and the price is double:-| ... Safe.

After trying quite a few of this line (most, I think), I must conclude that this line is really a museum display. The line is an effective and beautiful illustration of each of a wide range of classic scent families. Unfortunately, they are not standouts and they don't last well. This is a lovely bright and happy chypre that I quite enjoy. In fact, I would very much like to have something like this in my wardrobe for those hot days when a girl needs to slay. But I feel like I have several scents that fall on one side or another effectively enough that this would be overkill. There's also the performance issues. The sad reality is, these lovely scents should have been priced at half what they went for (or not), and then it would have been a solid. As is, it's far too safe. If safe is your game, this might be a home run for you.

Chyprissime is an esclusive (oh, this term is becoming irritant) fragrance from that evil genius of Thierry Mugler (other him or whoever work for the brand) sold at 170 euro for 80ml like all other EdP in the line Exceptions. I was never a fan of any TM's perfume, but this line smells better and somehow simple, like fewer ingredients but better quality. They smell very different from the mainstream concoction. That said I don't especially like Chyprissime, because it smells too bergamot-y or lemon-y something to my nose and it smells so all along its evolution. Too much of a bergamot. I get the Marni similarity, not its best feature. I wish I could smell more oakmoss. It's interesting, longlasting, simple and somehow elegant, but not worthy its pricetag.