DjHenne 22

Oh, it's a strange one. Well, PG made quite a few of those... At first I have an impression of very nice suntan oil, there is something tropical in the air. No, no, cocoa butter or good dark chocolate. No, no, it's too creamy for that. Let's settle on cocoa butter then. Well, it is creamy and delicious, but not in the edible kind of way. Or just a little. Then it is also aromatic on the outskirts, lavender and mint. Definitely fresh. And warm. Comforting. And english. Like After Eight-eating and lavender-smelling on the tropical holiday english. And neurotic. Sillage and longevity are not good. And I do not care. The stuff is adorable.

I received a sample from luckyscent and wow, what an experience! It is a deminsional fragrance - both spicy and clean, leather and powdery floral. It's a warm, enveloping scent...like slipping into a beloved leather jacket. I do wish the lavender notes had been more present. If I purchase a full bottle I would like to see how it performs layered with L`Occitane Lavender. Either way, I keep finding myself turning my head to catch another whiff.

when i first smelled it, it was a dead ringer for chergui but that quickly morphed into a minted light suede/leather, hay (wheat?), very dry lavender and a faint boozy wood. it goes through three distinct phases, the second getting deeper - myrrhe? - ending with a honeyed resinous denouement that lasts a long time. finally met a PG i was willing to buy & wear rather than simply admire from a distance. excellent frag!

I really like this!! Wow! I don't always like mint as a note, but mixed with cocoa, Lavender and myrrh, it is fascinating and quite lovely. I would consider this an evening Scent.

Another unique or even odd scent from PG, and another one that's impossible to wrap my head around based on just my little sample: I've been wearing Djhenné for a couple of days, and I'm still not even sure whether I like it or not. One thing that's for sure is that the opening isn't really for me: it's a pure blast of lavender, very natural and very cold - nice, but clasically masculine, which means it's not what I personally look for in a perfume for myself. Luckily it settles down soon enough, softening as the hay/wheat accord comes in, and in fact it keeps evolving all through the day; focusing now more on the balsamic aspects of the note pyramid, then on the sweet or woody ones, and I even get whiffs of a lovely white floral accord from time to time, which I guess must be the syringa. This shapeshifting makes it interesting for sure, but also hard to pin down - and combined with the soft sillage, even a little vague. So this actually is more of a non-review: I haven't really been able to form an opinion, not even to decide whether I want to explore this one any further: am I intrigued by Djhenné, or just puzzled by it? Time will have to tell...

This surprised me as I expected less than it delivered. It opened with a lovely note of wheat, almost mouthwatering, very natural smelling and enjoyable for me. Also a very shy undertone of cacao and syringa leaves a trace on my skin. At the heart part lavender joins in making this more masculine than feminine. I usually don't like lavender as it reminds me of some laundry products and it tends to get too sharp and "in your face", but here it is very calm, comforting and gentle. Unfortunately it sits extremely close to skin on me, so I do not justify getting a full bottle, but I must say - this is lovely and much more than one could expect from the notes. "Djhenn" is indeed very unique and worth the price tag for those who enjoy shy scents.

It's nothing out of this world - somehow incoherent, like a smell equivalent of garbled speech. Some OK notes in there (the cacao is nice and rich and not at all sickly/like a chocolate bar, the myrrh is clear and present) but it just doesn't hang together properly. Longevity and projection also both weak. Never guessed there was mint in this (and, by the way - WHY?) and perhaps that's the culprit for making this one less memorable than it could or should be. The myrrh drydown has some really lovely moments, but overall this somehow doesn't get all the way to being warm or seductive. It's wearable, sure, but to me it doesn't create a convincing picture overall - it just doesn't know what it really is, and so can't convince me either.

Got a free sample of this from luckyscent. For me, it is soapy on the opening and through most of the ride. I do not care for soapy notes. So, this is a no-go for me. I can barely detect leather, and assume the soapy is coming from whatever those opening notes are... even if this dried down to the most wonderful base... I would not buy it due to the soapy. My scent journey needs to be 100% awesome for me to spring for a full bottle. Oh well. Can swap this with someone who is interested. PM me.

Official list: Lavender, Seringa, Myrrh, Mint, Cocoa beans, Fig leaves, Leather. PG goes as far as describing this as a Fougere. It also adds that the base contains: “blond leather” note composed of Blue Cedar, Myrrh Essence, Cocoa Bean and Wheat Absolute. To my nose: Chergui meets Vetiver Oriental, then add lavender. It's beautiful, but I wish it lasted longer. Cocoa note takes over at drydown.

This is a fun one. It's pretty youthful, especially with the strong cocoa note. Not a lot of cedar on me. The floral and edible notes work very nicely together - turns out mint and lavender can be a really nice pairing, which I wouldn't have expected. I don't think I'd go for a full bottle, but I'd pay silly money for this as a hand lotion.

Opens like Chergui - hay meadow on a dry, late-summer day - but richer, with just a touch of lavender. In this phase it's very gentle and comforting. In the drydown, the myrrh comes to the fore and it becomes much more intense, reminiscent of Goutal Myrrhe Ardente, but drier and more masculine, with a hint of incense smoke.

I really like this scent, reminds me of those oldschool soaps to wash the clothes. It's clean and elegant. Overall very pleasant and smooth.

I gave this a few tries, but it's incoherent with poor longevity. Sorry Pierre, I like some of the PG scents but this is a bust :(

cannot quite put my finger on it. a bit tropical a bit fouger-esque. it’s not absolutely unpleasant, just reminds me of an old shower gel that’s turned a bit. i wanted sand but i am not getting it. update: it has some clay-like quality to it. I have a facial soap from Lush that has similar smell. I think I will give it a couple more wears to fully grasp its character. according to PG brochure it has their signature “salty-and-dirty kiss” quality. yeah, i definitely can see it here

#1806 in my “Tour de Fragrance” So this is a lower-rated scent and a decant from scentsplit.com. For a long time I ignored scents rated below 4.00, but I ran into some gems by making exceptions and learned to take a chance on lower-rated scents where the reviews were very sharply polarized. Scents that evoke passionate love and hate, that are not generic and mass appealing, are more interesting to me. I’ve got tons of generic smelling scents that no one will ever take notice of. And since I’m doing more tests of decants and fewer blind buys there’s less risk involved. But this scent isn’t polarizing. It’s yawn provoking. All notes that I enjoy, but I get the reason for the lower rating right away. It’s unusually indifferent EDT level performance, not the norm for a Pierre Guillaume scent. Often when that’s the case you see adjectives like “mild”, “pleasant”, in the reviews, which I’ve learned inevitably means, “isn’t even a skin scent by lunch.” That’s the case here. Certainly not worth $175 a bottle. Bummer because myrrh and cocoa can be a great combination when it performs better than this. Good Luck and Good Hunting!

I cannot find a Parfumerie Generale fragrance that I like! Theyre all high quality but the notes just do not work for me. The mix of lavender, myrrh, and spearmint with powdery chocolate cake mix makes me queasy. The opening is strange. Minty chocolate rendered entirely inedible by slightly bitter, balsamic myrrh, lavender, and something bright and fruity that curdles the cocoa.. I have a complicated relationship with lavender, for some reason it can either smell like heavenly purple blossoms, or like dried urine on me. And not a pleasant, civety urine, just a weird pissy floral twang. So on me this basically opens like a half baked grasshopper girl scout cookie coated in old ash, powdered soap, and urinated on. Not pleasant in the least. The dry down is much friendlier but Its nothing to write home about, just a soft cocoa myrrh thing thats unobtrusive enough. This is not as bad as I'm making it out to be. I'm sure it will work great for all sorts of people. The longevity and sillage are great so it's obviously well made. But scent wise, this is a big big pass.

DjHenne starts out smelling like a citrusy men’s cologne mixed with chocolate. Very unusual and not what I would describe as harmonious. The heart phase was even more unexpected as it smelled literally like spiked eggnog with an astringent woody note. While I enjoyed this part, it reminded me of Fou d’Absinthe by L’Artisan, my favorite eggnog to wear. The drydown smells again like woods combined with Swiss Miss hot chocolate or maybe these fake chocolates called Sixlets that I liked when I was a child, made of partially-hydrogenated stuff and corn syrup. What a wild ride with distinct top/middle/base notes. I never smell mint or lavender at any point. Doesn’t project much on my chemistry. I like it after the top notes settle. Update: It has been a couple of years, and now all I smell when I wear this is tons of IsoESuper, which I don't enjoy whatsoever. I no longer get chocolate, but more of a synthetic vanilla. I am not a fan of this one.

First Impressions: Raw chocolate cookie dough & mint cake sprayed with Lynx (Axe). Very peculiar and disjointed. As it dries down the raw dough morphs into light creamy vanilla and there's a note of 80's masculine aftershave with it. I look forward to wearing it a few times to see if I can get my head around it. For reference, PG10 is my favourite scent at the moment.

I think Djhennè is good. Really good. However, I believe that as with most PGs it is going to get a mixed reception and create a little controversy. The presentation image is very true to the description and the scent itself: it is about the desert. More so, an oasis in the desert. There is a juxtaposition of hot and cool, sweet and salty, dry and fresh effects through the interplay of notes. There is a feeling of both sand and nearby water. Lavender is very brief and mild in the opening, so those who love it may be left craving more, and those who don't will not be offended. It doesn't seem like lavender meant to be a big character here, more of a behind-the-scenes player. Spearmint is listed but my nose does not register any. There is, however, a very fresh and zingy fig note in the opening. After a short while the scent becomes smoother and softer and rounds up nicely with cedar and cocoa. It is not exactly chocolate or chocolate-sweet, and the leather accord keeps it from becoming too pretty. And here things start getting a little dirtier, which to me is a good thing, as I love cumin and most spices. There is definitely a nice doze of cumin in Djhennè. At times it seems like you have just been through a very nice roll in the desert. The musky aspect is very prevalent, as with a lot of recent offerings from niche perfumery. The drydown is about vanilla and spices but vanilla and cocoa keep them from being too prominent. I saw 'wheat' listed in the notes but what my nose registers is warmth, as in warm bread and warm skin. Sillage is soft and mild, lasting power 6 to 8 hours. Djhennè will definitely appeal to lovers of Musc Ravageur, Muscs Koublai Khan, Femme, Kingdom and most Lutens.

This is a quite original powdery cocoa perfume. For me it has just the right sweetness and is in a perfect halfway between masculine and feminine. At first it smells mainly of lavender but soon a cocoa powder appears along with the balsamic touch of cedar and a soft and refreshing mint. The myrrh gives it a resinous/incense aspect, which increases in the drydown, and the wheat, although it is not too present, is there increasing the powdery aspects of the cocoa. In general, although at first I though that all this notes together would not fit, I found it surprisingly pleasant. Perhaps it is also because to my nose the mint note, which has sometimes made it difficult for me to appreciate some perfumes in which is too strong, is this time very subtle and gives the perfume a certain reminiscence of After Eight chocolates. It has a subtle sillage and lasts 3-4 hours on my skin. I found it to be a quite unique scent and the only thing that makes me sad is that it is so soft on me, which is why I would not include it in my collection. Scent 6.5/10 Duration 3.5/10 Sillage 4/10 Quality/price 4/10 Versatility 5/10 Packaging 5/10 Would I buy again? I did not buy it