Enchanted Forest

I did not want to make a review of this fragrance for a while because I did not want to create any prejudice about it. Now after three hundred reviews here and all over the the Internet, all I can say is thank you! It was a challenging task to make our own fragrance brand and first fragrance. I had black currant bushes in front of my parents' home and I grew up with that amazing berry. It is part of my universe and the universe of many people around the world. Elena shares the same passion for that smell and we found the perfumer who is also close to it and understands this scent. We were aware that not everybody is close and understands this smell but we did not stop. Most of the people who gave a negative review are those who do not know the smell of this berry. I cannot recall the moment when, as a small kid, I was standing in front of the bush and tried that dark, tart and very aromatic berry. I don't know if I like it or not but I learned something. Later I learned to love it when it became a regular part of every festivity we had. Creating things is all about making statements. We decided to make a statement and it happened that people who are close to our universe embraced it and love the scent so much. Some people learned about it and were conquered by the fragrance and some people did not like it or understand it. We did not want to please everybody... and it is impossible to do so, but we fulfilled our dream and created something unique and dear to our hearts. I love to wear Enchanted Forest. It became my signature scent in Paris almost year ago when I smelled it for the first time in the Cafe Cojean-Louvre, where Bertrand Duchaufour showed us his first draft of the fragrance. Since then Enchanted Forest was developing but that very original scent was preserved through the voyage to the final and perfect state where Bertrand, Elena and I were fully satisfied. The design of the bottle and the box also went through stages but since the beginning we followed Elena's vision and she did an amazing job. I helped her with the technical side to transfer the drawings to the final product. Design is an important and integral part of the fragrance experience. Enchanted Forest works differently on different people. It also communicates with my mood and I have a different experience every time I wear it. It can be capricious like a kid but I have noticed that every time I spray it my mood goes up. It's like joining a party... Kupala night. When you join, the fairies give you a black currant leaf crown. It starts with wine and rum and oranges... once you relax it starts the journey through the forest... a real one with moist, green and even earthy notes but also something warm and seductive takes me over. I love Enchanted Forest. It is an addictive scent for me. I love to feel it when I pick up my jacket or on the breeze when the wind plays with it. I love it on Elena, too. It is a different Enchanted Forest on her. My skin emphasizes those green notes but on Elena it is much more soft and warm. Thank you all who reviewed Enchanted Forest. I appreciate all of your reviews and it warms our hearts to see people love it or those who are eager to learn about it. That's Enchanted Forest: a special place full of memories and surprises.

This is Art not just a fragrance. Nearby my house there's a dense forest. Every morning and evening comes a beautiful scented air from there. This is the first thing that came to my mind when I smelt it for the first time. It was a love from first sniff and this is the only niche that I've bought two bottles. Nature in a bottle. It has everything, greens, woods, light florals, earthy vibe, pine trees, herbs, fir trees, resins, forest fruits, wet soil, cassis, a faint smell of fallen decaying leaves, a little boozy vibe, cedar with a delicate swetness. This is not overly sweet scent or a gourmand. It feels natural. This is the best black currant and fir balsam note I've ever experienced. Absolutely intoxicating and mesmerizing, calming like a forest and a little melacholic. Its name, the bottle (so heavy, I love it), the decorative elements and the scent speak to me. That being said, Enchanted Forest is a totally unisex and realistic scent, so it's not for all. Not a safe scent or crowd pleasing one and definitely not for blind buy. Labyrinth of essences. Enchanted Forest is a strong, dense, complex and multilayered scent with two main parts. It is simplier than the note pyramide though. It feels like a majestic symphonic orchestra without any dissonanse. Masterfully blended to the point of perfection with a natural outcome. It's difficult to pull apart all those individual notes. You just feel things when your mind emerges memories. Unique. I've never experienced such a realistic scent in my jurney to perfumes. Original and natural. One of a kind IMO. Performance. This is all year round scent but it feels better and it performs better in mild cold weather. Fall and spring have the best weather conditions for Enchanted Forest. The longevity is great, I got 14-15 hours from it before it dies but the projection is limited. The sillage is moderate. This is not a strong scent but it has nice longevity. With overly warm weather feels uncomfortable and its performance becomes limited overall. I still have to try it in freezing temperatures to see how it feels. A fairy tail scent. Mysterious and deep it transfers you into the ancient world of fairies, elves, green spiruts, gnomes and forest nymphs. It takes me to an eerie dark world of strange beauty. The awaking of the Old World.. If it was a movie, it would be Narnia or The Fellowship of the Ring. If it was a song it would be May It Be by Enya. If it was a feast, it would be Yule celebrations in a northern dense evergreen forest. This is what ancient deities in northern countries would wear. The epitome of russian fairytail.. this could be a magic potion of Baba Yaga.. This is the smell of our ancient natural inhabitant, the Sacred Forest, the source of Life. Behold my holy grail in perfumery.

I was fortunate to try my first sprays of Enchanted Forest at the Javoy perfume boutique in Paris just a few days ago. When a bottle is as beautiful as this, the mind wonders, 'What's going to be inside?' While so many perfumers go to extreme lengths to make the most minimal and understated bottles, Enchanted Forest promises something far more complex, Eastern, and exotic. With the first spray it was like a hand grabbed hold of me and we flew over the tops of the pine trees and then landed deep, deep into the forest. The scent of pine needles and bursting ripe black currants fills the nose with an immense vaporous cloud. The projection is vast - the scent envelops the skin and then lingers in an almost smoky puff of frost on a cold day. What a complex and earthy scent -at one turn fruity like berries in wine and sugar, and then darker and deeper like the thick underbrush of scurrying animals' homes, old wooden cabins hidden behind the trees complete with musk, cedar and castorm. As a Russian friend described to me, fairy tales of the East are not nearly as cut-and-dried as they are in the west. Characters are never all good or all evil - they are far more human than heroes or villains. As I let Enchanted Forest develop on my skin, you can clearly see how this scent was inspired by the forest of fairy tales. Like the complicated characters of Baba Yaga or Father Frost, the scent moves and jumps from sweetness to resin, then deep greens and aldehydes to chilled air. It never settles into one single scent: it is a myriad of notes from the landscape that moves forward but alighting on the branches of the trees like cuckoo birds. Enchanted Forest is a concept perfume - it's about history, adventure and discovery, and it uses elements that bring this journey alive in new ways - the C02 extractions add a particularly pungent and delicious reality of scent experience that is not quite like any perfumeI've come across. It offers something to both men and women due to the carefully selected elements like artemis and carnation. In an age of over-simplicity and a race toward the sleekest of design in all things, Enchanted Forest offers us the mysterious world of ancient folklore in a perfume that can bewitch and entrance the wearer.

Enchanted Forest smells exactly like I imagine the painting 'Ivan Tsarevich riding the Gray Wolf' by Viktor Vasnetsov to smell. This is so complex and fascinating and every time I spray it I notice something I haven't noticed before and everytime it takes me to a different place. Sometimes it makes me weep because it's so beautiful and other times the smell of it makes me feel nauseous. This scent can be both alluring and disturbing depending on the skin's chemistry and the mood it's wearer's in. My first reaction was similar to @dsty's. I literally laughed out loud because it was so completely different from anything else I've ever smelled. My very first impression was a lush blackcurrant bush in a dark unkempt garden. The smell captured the whole bush, not only the berries, but also the leaves, the branches, the buds, the roots and the earth underneath it. It felt like magic. The scent was so perfectly natural and deep and it evoked such strong mental images. My partner said that it smelled exactly like their grandmother's backyard. At first I found the blackcurrant so overwhelming that I didn't pay attention to anything else. But now every time I spray this on me I found something new! The first spray took me to an unkempt dark garden and with the second spray I stepped out of the garden and in to the forest. With every wearing I get deeper in that dark enchanted forest and it gets more voluminous all the time. Now I'm totally lost in it. Sometimes it's scary and unpleasant but usually it's exactly where I want to be. This scent is not something to spray on when you want to smell 'nice'. This is not a 'beauty product' or just an add-on to your outfit. In my opinion, this fragrance is art. An experience. And you should spray this with care, because it's quite strong and too many sprays can make you feel unwell. Too bad my sample is getting empty and I can never afford to buy a full bottle of this masterpiece (the flacon is also a gorgeous piece of art). It's not easy to be addicted to fragrances and broke. 10/10 (but definitely not for everyone)

I received my bottle today thank you to Fragrantica!! I love it! This is a realistic pine and blackcurrent scent. I don't find it to smell like Olympic Orchids blackbird. Blackbird turned into a pine scented car airfreshner mixed with very medicinal kids cough syrup with a base of laundry detergent. But Enchanted Forest is Enchanting! Me and my family sat around smelling it and reminiscing! It brought back memories for all of us. To me it opens with a blast of tart juicy, realistic boozy blackcurrent! A few minutes later the pine comes out and this pine smells fresh and cold, like it's dusted with snow. At this point it smells like Christmas trees and a boozy berry wine! Next the memory's start to emerge. I swear i smell Pine cones, Acorns and sap; the sap that runs down the pine trees and gets sticky on your hands. It smells like when i was a child when we used to go to the Fraiser Township park every weekend. The park was filled with pine trees and pine cones covered the ground, sap ran down the trees. Me and my brother and sisters would run around playing hide and seek. We hid behind the pine trees and would get sap all over our hands and it even got in my hair once. We would gather pine cones and make crafts out of them with mom once we got home and occasionally throw pine cones at eachother:) It was so fun and the fact that this perfume smells exactly like that time in my life makes this very special. The innocence and carefree frolicking, laughing, playing, and imaginations running wild. This is a very well made perfume. Sillage is an arms length for the first 30 minutes and then is close to the skin but still noticeable to others. Longevity was about 4 hours, it could be more, it's possible that i became nose blind after a while. Very beautiful scent. If you love the smell of pine cones, pine trees, sap and boozy blackcurrent than im sure you will love this.

I have waited for half a year to write this review. Just wanted to let the seasons change and to fully experience this AMAZING scent. And the wait wasn‘t for nothing. Enchanted Forest is truly a blissful scent. First time when I sprayed it on my wrist it just blew my mind. It is THIS kind of scent that makes you go WOW. So deep, juicy, fresh, ripe, earthy... I wore it during my wedding. Yes, this scent. There‘s no huge sillage, it just wraps around you. However, it all depends on the amount of sprays. Anything over two will keep everyone asking „wow, who smells this good?“. However, you will be feeling it the whole day and it‘s quite a challenge. That said, two sprays are the top for me. Summer or winter? For me it‘s definitely a cold season scent. There are two main parts that come up on me: the animalistic side of the perfume and the black currant side. During hot summer days, it‘s all about animals in that enchanted forest. Mysterious and mythological creatures. During colder days, black currant takes the leading role leaving all the forest life somewhere in the background. Lovely lovely lovely. Lasting power is very long on me. 8 hours on skin, up to 10 hours on hair. While spraying the perfume on my wrist I accidently sprayed some on my watch leather bracelet. It‘s been a week and I can still feel it. And I love it. Amazing. The scent is nothing else but magic. I love how well balanced it is. It‘s neither feminine, nor masculine. It‘s an experience. A journey. Coming from northern Europe, we had black currant growing in our backyard. The accuracy is amazing. For me it‘s like taking a walk on a hot and damp summer day in a pine forest. All the resins come out of the trees and give of this amazing sweet smell... and then it‘s berries and the earth itself. All moist and sweet and deep. Amazing.

Beautiful gourmand scent. Gourmand for me are novelties so I would rarely wear them on a night out or professionally. So, clarifying that for perspective I blind bought this as a treat to get my black currant fix. It worked. Simply gorgeous syrupy fresh crushed black currant - a bright smidge floral at first drying down quick smart to the currant boosted by a red wine tanin note with a touch of syrup. Unfortunately this morphs after 30 - 60 min - fading to the back ground and the darker base starts to overide with a touch patchouli, and light resinous amber with a mint riding over the top. Warm as a scent at this point almost slightly urinic or like a dried out empty wine glass. An hour in and I get wafts of this which I like but I am afraid others around me may look strangely at me feeling like I have to offer an explanation that it is a perfume of fruit that they smell to which then I would get an “oh yeah OK but you do know that you smell like you pee'd...”. So yeah I get some people's reference to the 'cat pee' smell or for some whom are positive the wine smell... realistically on the longer dry down I would suggest you would have to be confident (or questionable) to wear this in public. For me this is a personal scent as I do like gourmand and this is above average and unusual, and if you like natural unisex scents this is a goer but it is one on my personal scent shelf that I would wear at night at home... Only Humiecki and Graef Multiple Rouge for raspberry and Piotr Czarneki Blue Bijou for Blue Berry, Lost Cherry and Qom Chilom for Cherry, Xerjoff Cruz del Sur II for Mango give such lush fruit fruit representations. As far as Blackcurrant this is the only product that does it for me...

A true fairytale experience is captured in this bottle of Enchanted Forest by Vagabond Prince ✨ The note of honor in this fragrance is black currant, and it truly does shine throughout the composition, as it is paired with a red wine that accentuates the berry-like facets of the black currant note. The rest of the scent is constructed with a heavy emphasis on a crisp balsam fir that smells fresh and aromatic, and really conjures the image of this mystical forest the perfumer was trying to portray. This fragrance is one of the most unique and cherished additions to my collection. As a gourmand junky my nose has been groomed to link sweetness with dessert-like perfumes, but the very distinct sweetness found in this bottle is not gourmand in the slightest. It’s the natural sweetness of woody notes, aromatic notes, and fruity notes, coming together to create the experience of walking through a fragrant forest, but in such a concentrated way that it feels like your senses during this trek have been heightened. This perfume is special to me because when I smell it I am transported to this quiet and magical forest. The floor of this forest is matted with pine needles and fresh snowfall. The air is fresh and brisk, and I’m kind of just standing there, taking in the serenity and magnanimity of the scene before me. While standing there I take big breaths so that on every inhale I suck in as much of this pure unadultered forest air as I can. That is the sensation this perfume provides and it helps calm my nerves when I feel overwhelmed by this highly-manufactured life surrounding me. Perfume Realm 💙

It was an unusually gloomy day today in LA, threatening to rain but never actually raining...so the morning was perfect for L'Eau Bleue d'Issey Pour Homme, a green scent with a blue mood. But that only lasts a few hours and was gone by early afternoon. Just before sunset I took a hot shower and looked over my collection for something that would fit the weather but also improve my mood, and I decided to wear this for the first time in a long while. I sprayed on quite a lot and it really hit the spot! As Narcissa said below, all the black currant notes do give off a kind of blackberry jam vibe which feels friendly and kind of fun for me without being juvenile. It's on the sweet side of the aisle, but it isn't cloyingly sweet like so many sweet frags of the last decade were. I love greens and Enchanted Forest definitely has some green to it, but it isn't a powerhouse fougere like my vintage Quorum, which can be a bit much sometimes. This is more delicate, but has a deep base. It's definitely got some woodsiness going on. I'm not much on picking out the notes, but it smells a bit addictive and I can see how it could be transportive. I tend to find fragrances feel masculine or feminine -- most unisex frags lean feminine to me and therefore I usually don't want to wear them. But this one feels like it's either mildly masculine or a unisex frag I'm very happy to wear. This would make a great gift because it comes in a beautiful box and the bottle sits in white silky cloth inside. And the bottle and the cap both have a good satisfying solid weight to them.

I read an amazing review for this fragrance by a Fragrantica reviewer named GRAF. I really felt like I could smell the fragrance he was describing, a black currant and fir balsam earthy magical forest. This lured me to read a few more reviews, and it really seemed to be a love or hate type of fragrance. So I decided to order a sample, instead of taking the blind plunge. It arrived today. Five milliliters of a fragrant enchanted forest. Perfectly named. This is what I wished every black currant fragrance to be. There is a tiny hint of this in Gucci Guilty Absolu, and I loved that tiny hint enough to buy a full bottle...but the lasting wasn't great, the cypress not strong enough, and compared to THIS! This is the scent! I wish I had smelled this one first. I really have not worn this long enough to do a review of it justice, but I don't really need to, because GRAF has already done that. All I need to do is confirm, and tell you how happy this fragrance makes me. It is warm dark berries, in a deep enchanted forrest, with beautiful projection, and great lasting. I grew up surrounded by the forrest, but moved to the city, married a Texan, had Texan children, divorced a Texan...an amazing father, so here I stay. Dreaming of home. This fragrance smells like how home smelled to me as a child, searching for fairies, and the mushroom rings my mother warned me about. Snacking on berries, deep in the woods, my happy place full of wonderful adventures, my... enchanted forest. It is magnificent. Thank you.

Once in a while...dreams come true. The first time I smelled this, I was sorry I ever purchased any other perfume. It's very expensive and well...I just have too many perfumes already! I couldn't justify the cost. I simply wrote this off, just as owning my own island, never having to work again and looking like my favorite super model. I had hoped SO much to win a giveaway of this perfume that my heart was just too broken to even give it another thought. I did have thoughts, but it just wasn't meant to be and I accepted my fate. This community is lovely people...friendly, giving, just SO many giving, and NICE. I mean, these people GIVE of themselves like no other. I'm not "sucking up". I already ordered my, mine...MINE, my very own bottle of this so soooo pretty perfume? No! It's not "pretty" OR a "perfume". It's an experience to me. This magical bottle will give every day I wear it and every Christmas just THAT much more meaning and feeling. It will turn any given day I choose to wear this into that special feeling and memory, like the first time you watched It's a Wonderful Life! Who doesn't want that joy inside of themselves!? This is too lengthy, sorry. I just would like to thank all who conjured up this "potion", all who made it possible..NO! ALL who were giving and sincerely thoughtful enough to offer this at such a special discount! I am thank ful sure...but most of all, you made MY dream come true!

This scent is for trained noses only. If you have more designer than niche in your collection, you will be writing a review like "I don't know what the hype is about"... First, the name IMO should have been Enchanted Garden as this fruity, green, floral, spicy-woody and slightly resinous mix really reminds me of my grandma's beautiful garden in the bloom. The front runner is the black currant plant (you could say this scent does the same to black currant plant as Philosykos to fig tree). Second, the blend is impeccable and the black currant plant theme starts dying deep in the dry down. Longevity and projection are average, not a beast nor a slouch. It reminds me of Bleecker Street by Bond N9 (another berry-fruity green scent) and a bit of Green Valley by Creed (as it is going for similar imagery though the notes are different). The bottle is gorgeous!!! This scent is a true art but still rather wearable, which is a plus. Overall, I was mesmerized by the scent the first time I smelled it and I knew I had to get a bottle. Once again, this is a purchase when you have 10-15 niche fragrances in your collection since this is for a seasoned nose. Versatility is the only weakness here: this is to me a casual scent for spring-summer. If you like Bleecker Street, this is a safe blind buy. Otherwise, test it. Chances are you will be buying a bottle since this scent is like no other!

I'm enchanted all right! Strong, nuanced, mystical... This is better than I'd hoped. I already knew it was quality. That was a given, by wearing the simpler but excellent Swan Princess, also long lasting. But these are completely different styles of scent from one another. The opening of Enchanted Forest smells as I expected. Somewhat coniferous and decidedly green. But as the fragrance develops it becomes less expectedly masculine and far more unisex, warm, inviting, and sensuous. The coriander is a win-win for me, always a chypre and animalic siren call. The spiciness that then develops is charming - like that of Christmas day or some fancy-dress occasion, mingled with vintage fragrance... If this doesn't sound trite, there were moments when Enchanted Forest reminded me vaguely of Fancy Nights - the same tonality of green and patchouli and florals. Not that they are in any way alike; it's more the color and aura that are conveyed. There is nothing intentionally sweet, but the perfection of blended notes is gently, naturally sweet on dry down. To me there is even a touch of fuzzy powder (the musk?) which softens the powerful notes like a charming filter. Highly recommended. If you are in the market for a luxury scent, look no further. The packaging and bottle, it must be said, are ultimately deluxe, hefty, and impressively handsome. <3

This one grew on me the more i wore it. Initially it was only a mere like, as I found that other fragrances from Bertrand Duchafour were more intriguing - maybe sniffing EF with his other perfumes in mind was a bit unfair though. If you love blackcurrant (hint - I do), this is where your journey ends. I get none of the cat-pee vibe others mentioned, I get no medicinal facets, I only get a beautiful, boozy, warm and enveloping blackcurrant note, surrounded by mild spices, fir, and a woody aspect in the far drydown. It really evokes the image of standing in Russian forest, breathing in deeply and finding peace. I can see both guys and girls wearing this one, it does have a more youthful vibe to me, maybe it ́s not one for an older gentleman. If you like fruity/woody scents though, this one is simply sublime. Scent 9/10 Longevity 7/10 Projection 6/10 Sillage 6/10 Performance with this gem is only average, that does not deter from the overall experience though. I ́ll happily reapply EF throughout the day if I feel like I have to. As I mentioned, it took three to four wearings for me to fall in love with it, but now I feel like this is one the best fragrances to transport you to a kind of fantasy world. Maybe not the worst feature in a year like 2020...

Hands down one of the most memorable perfumes I’ve had the pleasure of coming across. Enchanted Forest is very currant-forward, but surprisingly rich and complex in its layers, which will leave others guessing. While its longevity is only a bit shortcoming, the scent alone is honestly still worth it. A foggy memory of a moonlit forest, where the air is crisp and greenery muddled with berry shrubs lining the dirt path. The mulled spice notes are some trickery that tugs at you, like a mysterious spirit caught in the corner of your eye. A simple distraction-- and just like that, your next step has led you back to the beginning of the forest trail, where the greenery is traced with the warmth and sweetness of a new morning. You've realized you will have to start the journey all over again, when you feel it had only started. The spirit knows if you found their secret, however, that the game would be over, and they would lose you forever. So it remains in an otherworld that will captivate you with its presence, and will continue to haunt you every time you depart. If it’s not in your collection and you’ve been graced with enjoying it, Enchanted Forest will have you wistfully wishing it was on your shelf.

Enchanted Forest by The Vagabond Prince is a beast in the fragrance game, and it's a damn shame they haven't kept this rainy forest masterpiece on the shelves. The blend of black currant leaf, black currant blossom, red wine, rosemary, rum, pink pepper, sweet orange, artemisia, hawthorn, and aldehydes in the top notes sets the stage for an olfactory journey that's nothing short of enchanting. As it unfolds, the middle notes kick in with black currant, vetiver, coriander, honeysuckle, carnation, and rose, weaving a story of a forest drenched in rain, the scent of wet earth and flourishing foliage. And let's talk about the base – balsam fir, cedar, oakmoss, opoponax, Siam benzoin, patchouli, vanilla, amber, and musk. It's not just a fragrance; it's a symphony of woodiness and aromatic beauty that lingers like the aftermath of a refreshing rain. This scent deserves a comeback – a rerelease that brings back the magic of the enchanted forest. It's a fragrance for both men and women who appreciate the raw power and mystique of nature. The Vagabond Prince, if you're listening, the world needs this rainy forest gem back on the shelves. Don't deny us the pleasure of being enchanted once again.

I've coveted this scent for many years without having been able to smell it, just from the story surrounding it. In my imagination it was a rich dark blackcurrant liqueuor. Heady and enveloping. So in the end came the time where I blind bought it. I was hoping for a sexy currant, something like Lalique's Amethyst combined with a leathery boozy currant like the much loved and discontinued Ralph Lauren's Notorious, but with stellar power. Unfortunately it was neither. Just a green blackcurrant leaf very reminiscent of cat pee (yes I know, I have it in my garden) combined with pine and the clean watery smell of aldehydes. Doesn't go boozy or sexy or dark. The pee smell is just something I can't power through . The one time I wore it to work I was afraid people would think I smelled of funk. It stays pretty linear thoughout the wearing time, and being the particular smell that it is, it cannot be worn every day. So today with a sigh because I couldn't appreciate it, I am bidding farewell to it, sending to people who can see in it all the things I could not. If you're looking for a blackcurrant scent go with something more mainstream and far less expensive like Amethyst or Notorious.

A generous friend offered me to sample Enchanted Forest. It's a very interesting, original scent. The first notes that I can detect are those of alcoholic beverages: to me it smells like mulled wine, with sugar and spice and all things nice. Then the blackcurrant note breaks through: it's quite realistic and to me it smells like freshly cooked blackcurrant jam, which combines beautifully with mulled wine. The final layer is that of green, woody and leafy notes: I can detect fir resin, cedar and oakmoss. This fragrance strongly evokes the images, scents and aromas of late autumn and winter, which is exactly what the perfumer B. Duchafour wanted to achieve. Beware that this is by no means a crowd-pleasing, everyday fragrance: instead, this one should be treasured and worn on special occasions, preferably when it's very cold outside - practically, you'll only need one bottle in a lifetime. As to gender tags, it's unisex, perhaps leaning masculine, but as a woman I find this to be totally wearable (but, as I've said, only on special occasions). Projection is moderate, and it lasts around 7-8 hours on my skin.

This is magical!really enchanted!It starts with a blast of berries, namely blueberries and black current with a touch of citrus and balmy notes. To me smells like the best quality red wine out there without any bitter aroma of alcoholic drinks. I find it pretty fruity and that's good news for me as a fruity fan. but it never approaches the mainstream of common fruity perfumes. Actually it reminds me somehow of pomgranate noir by Jo Malone, but it's much more delicate and less harsh. As the time passed berry magic fades away by the woody and balmy notes. It's just like walking from berry bushes to a deeper black forest. I like the way it remains sweet without exaggeration. It's like having a glass of wine in an enchanted forest under pinon trees. Even though the smell would be different, I can compare enchanted forest with elixir des merveille, because of the same impression of the forest I get from both. Everything about this perfume is extraordinary, not only my favorite between the other perfumes of the line, but also one my favorites among thousands of other ones I've tried.

I had previously used the sample I ordered, but for Christmas, my sweetie bought me a bottle - score! I find this fragrance absolutely delicious! I found it fruity and woody on spraying. The drydown has a darkness to it that lingered all day. As the day progressed, I noticed more wood and wine, and little pops of leafy green. But a dark leafy green, like walking through cool, very shaded woods, a day or two after a good soaking rain. I am not good at picking out certain wood or floral notes. I adore orange, but I have yet to pick it out in this fragrance. I do catch the rum notes, the coriander, the pepper and the patchouli on occasion. Mostly though, it's the woodsy scent. There is a sweetness to it, underlined by something dark and just a little spicy, which is good, because it keeps this scent from being sickly sweet or cloying. What I particularly notice about this fragrance: when I wear it, men really lean in to talk to me when I wear it, and seem to want to stand close - but no one ever comments on the scent. Ahem. Love that.