Diamella

24. december 2013 There is no snow outside this yrar for christmas, so i am sad.. That's why i have put on something classy to get into right mood, something i wood wear during very lateautumn - a good quality chypre. Because it is almost a bed time already, i wanted something quiet, so a have chosen a few fabs of Diamella behind my ears in EDP concentration. I have smelled it many times from the bottle ( i have a regular one with brown plastic lid and also crystsl clear glass lid, just beautiful). I always judged by sniff test that this is a shy woody-floral fragrance. Well, i must agree with those ones who say it is a strong and bold chypre! It starts indeed quiet and at first i couldn't detect almost no scent, but i guess as my skin warmed the scent it started to bloom and develope. It has a very strong and beautiful oak moss in it, the kind of i love in vintage "Madame Rochas", but this one is even more beautiful! It has a real good vintage mossy vibe in the most good way! Adore it! Say whatever you want but vintage Yves Rocher fragrances were of a very good quality! There is very little of floral notes in here, they are detectable kn the middle stage, beautifully mixed with moss and wood. But moss is the .ost central part of the whole composition! Aldehydes are very shy and appear closer to the drydown, but i don't get anything powdery from here. Superb and a gem, just like the crystal lid n shape of the gem on my bottle of EDT. I will not sell the otver bottle of EDP and EDT spray i have, i'll keep my precious for my pleasure :) P.s. i don' t have vintage "tamango", only the parfum/extrait and modern edt which i love both an to me they don't smell anything like "Diamella". I also have vintage "anais anais" in every concentratiln ( parfum/extrait, edp and edt, parfum de toilette concentree) and they do not smell like "diamella" as well. Maybe "diamella" EDT has less oakmoss, but EDP is a bold chypre, nothing oriental, nothing spicy in here. Just a simple good quality chypre. The review was for vintage EDP splash bottle. I need to check my EDT as well.

I waited for years to be able to purchase Diamella, an old Yves Rocher discontinued scent described as a Fresh Floral perfume by the H & R Fragrance Guide, a category which includes Diorella, Diorissimo, Eau de Rochas, Estivalia by Puig, Avon's Imari, Factor's Le Jardin, Rocher's Magnolia, Metal by Paco Rabanne, Anais Anais, Cristalle, Lanvin's Clair de Jour, Euforia by Atkinsons, the first Laura Biagiotti, Sergio Soldano, Valentino, Poesie by 4711 Muelhens, Muguet des Bois by Coty, Suzuro by Shiseido, and O de Lancome for women. The H & R Fragrance Guide describes Diamella like this: Top Notes: Green Note, supported by bergamot, rosewood, fruit note, aldehyde, violet creating an aldehydic green fruity accord Mid Notes: floral, composed of Rose and Tuberose, supported by orris, jasmine, lily of the valley, and ylangx2 Base Notes: Cedarwood and Moss, supported by sandal, olibanum, musk, benzoin, and amber making a powdery base. I'm guessing that the wood & moss of the base combined with a top green note may be creating the feeling of a chypre, but Diamella is not strong enough to describe as a chypre, and my guess is that it is Rocher's response to Anais Anais, Cristalle, and Diorella, all of which were trend setters and popular in their day. I love scents with green top notes but to compare some of these fragrances with Diamella, I'd say that Anais Anais is much more cedary, so much so that I've never warmed to it. I get an ashy pencil-shaving effect from certain types of cedary bases. Cristalle is a sharper colder scent. Where Diorella & Anais Anais have a stronger jasmine aspect to their heart notes, Diamella leans instead toward rose-tuberose. Diamella does not have as much of the oakmoss as Diorella. I can't help but think the name was supposed to evoke Diorella? Having finally found this scent, I'm trying hard not to use it up to quickly - this is a hardship! Hope this info is helpful.

The most beautiful chypre perfume. Glorious. Such exquisite oakmoss, and it's delicately woody, with the most beautiful dry-down. It's incredibly elegant and heavenly. It's so uplifting! I feel refined, beautiful, and super classy in it, very sophisticated and glorious. Diamella is so very complex; it has far more notes in it than is listed here; definitely more like the list therealpaloma54 has given. Many, many gorgeous things! And all superbly blended; it is a glorious mixture. It's very deep and mysterious. It's heavenly. It's superb; sublime. I simply absolutely adore it. It is (yet another) Yves Rocher gem, that has been, tragically, discontinued. So sad. It has always been one of my very favourite perfumes, and I will continue to look for it, forever, and get another beautiful bottle, whenever I find one!!!!!

This is one gem of a scent!! I always wanted to have one, and now I am the proud owner of this! I remember seeing it in an YR brochure and showing it to a much older neighbour friend and convincing her to order it for herself, since I had smelled it in a sachet, a scented tissue. It smelled like heaven to me, I so wanted to have one but was only 8-9 years old. My mom did not let me have this because it was expensive and I was too young. Now I am so happy, I am going to use this very sparingly since its a splash bottle, but so simple and beautiful, just like a diamond. I will pour the scent in a purse spray. Just like Action described, the scent is indeed very complex. In the beginning its a bit piercing,probably oak moss,but oh my... the drydown is soft, beautiful and alluring. A true gem by Yves Rocher!!!

The bitter, inky beauty of oakmoss; it is a cool, green mist, a will-o'-the-wisp, a caress from a brocade of forest lichen harvested from age old trees. Diamella is one of the most elegantly earthy chypres I've smelled, and its abundance of oakmoss that enfolds damp woodland flowers has me ranking it among Magie Noire, Mystere, Jean-Louis Scherrer. Its sillage is so beguiling. This is from Yves Rocher? A greyish violet accord, a bioluminescent muguet, and a chilly orris in Diamella has it complementing the unseasonably cold late May days we are experiencing where I live in Massachusetts as I write this. Imagine a spring nor'easter, saturating all the spring flowers and shadowy forests, as if Jack Frost makes a haunting return with a downpour of icy rain. This is the resulting scent in its wake. Rapturous.