Description
Chevalier Vert began as a bespoke perfume for a customer who was kind enough to allow Olympic Orchids to release it in their fragrance line. Inspired by the “Green Knight” of Arthurian legend, a sort of ambivalently magical chivalrous hero, intermixed with the ancient Celtic god known as the “Green Man,” Chevalier Vert contains the green, slightly melancholy notes of a spring garden.
Chevalier Vert by Olympic Orchids Artisan Perfumes is a Floral Green fragrance for women and men. This is a new fragrance. Chevalier Vert was launched in 2017. The nose behind this fragrance is Ellen Covey. The fragrance features citruses, rhubarb, tomato leaf, wormwood, violet leaf, violet, orris root, peony, sichuan pepper and woody notes.
elina – :
I agree with TheFragrantPrince. “Painfully beautiful”. I am getting obsessed with this perfume and i have to get a whole bottle. I seriously feel it is going to be my signature scent. Green , sharp, deep, dangerous, odd, sexy, intoxicating. It reminds me of my childhood garden – now destroyed. Full of weeds, wet soil, rhubarb. For me this scent is the essence of Spring, the essence of vegetal life. Green blood. For anyone who loved to climb trees, to get one’s hands dirty, who used to eat flower heads (violets in my case). It is so touching I want to cry when i smell it. Like overwhelming power of Nature. Uncompromising, powerful, dangerous, soothing, full of hope and thrills.
Loperad – :
Woah there. Deep green is one thing but olfactory eco-terrorism is something else. This is *serious* green – so aggressively vegetal that the notes listed here make sense now, but smelling it blind I just had the following thoughts, in this order:
– OMG who managed to distil a kilo of highly stinky resinous fresh weed into half a drop of clear liquid?
– No wait, it’s the other sort of grass. Two lawnmowers’ worth of just-mown lawn clippings in a great pillowy heap.
– which someone’s just doused in petrol.
– and drenched in really really bitter galbanum.
Wrong on all counts then – the bitterness (really prominent) was obviously wormwood, the ‘weediness’ some kind of collision of orris +tomato leaf +florals and the petrol effect from the rhubarb. Sadly none of the sweeter or more moderating influence of the citrus or orris or violets came through on me, the ranker notes were trampling them into the mud. Somehow I don’t think the overall effect on me was what its creator(s) had in mind.
BUT even still … it may not read like it, but I do admire this – it’s skilful, it’s complex and (like all the astonishing Olympic Orchids range I’m trying so far) it absolutely reeks of real nature. It has knockout performance and total integrity. It is what it is, no apologies. I’m a bit of a a jungle lover myself and really like many ‘fumes which make you smell of forest and camping and plants. And the more green scents I try the more I realise I can deal with some of them, if carefully handled. This one’s straight out of the woods and and a total organic powerhouse. But in this case it’s just too rough a forest floor for comfort. It is just *TOO* GREEN for me dammit!
Unisex to masculine imho (but any serious green-lover will rate it), projection and longevity both respectable-to-strong.
Shame my chemistry does not work well with it, but if hyper-real crushed leaves and peppery, aromatic, rugged sap are your thing, go run into these woods with this Green Man / Knight guy – you won’t be disappointed.
vlc159Bessinepome – :
Have to preface my positive review with the fact after I applied this fragrance that my DH asked me if I had just colored my hair! (He said swap it.) 😉
I, on the other hand, enjoy Chevalier Vert very much. It is truly the most realistic Tomato plant note I’ve ever found. I’m a tomato loving gal, and this scent makes me think of being out in the garden, tending my plants on a sunny morning.
I pick up the rhubarb and citrus, as well. Almost no floral here, to me. I really like it, and it lasts well. If you enjoy herbal scents, give it a try!
Think I’m going to use Chevalier Vert as a base, and spray a bit of “Yves Saint Laurent In Love Again” over it to up the “pretty” factor… maybe DH will change his mind about it. 🙂
scb123 – :
Green gasoline on tomato leaf,both floating on a base of stale almond oil.. hmmm…and then,Citrus. Yes it’s as bad as it sounds.
MarinoDrag – :
This starts harsh with tomato leaf, rhubarb, violet leaf, and a good amount of citrus. I sprayed this while my boyfriend was out and when he came home he thought the house smelled like motor oil until I started listing ingredients and he recognized the rhubarb.
The scent does mellow some as it settles and the other notes play peek a boo– at times blending in and at times being identifiable. Despite the intensity it’s actually a pretty pleasant garden scent that has impressive realness and longevity.
Blusplaushipt – :
This is the first scent that I found truly repugnant. I dont get it, I love green scents but this one seemed foul. All I got was very strong Yarrow. A very bitter medicinal smell mixed with burning rubber.
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voda – :
You have to know how to recognize a masterpiece when you meet one. A unique and never smelled blend, a magnificent opening, an enchanting evolution, a perfect sillage and finally the irresistible urge to return in the perfume every hour and every day.
Ellen Covey opened the doors of an enchanted garden in a forgotten monastery. A garden now becoming wild where grew rhubarb, citrus fruits, tomatoes but also flowers such as iris, violet, … the general effect is encompassing, we plunge into an intense green but relaxing light with a very nostalgic side. A memory of childhood that is likely to escape at any time and that must be kept preciously.
To discover absolutely!
khelsing – :
Painfully beautiful. I can’t describe it any other way. I love it.
north – :
Well this one is certainly out of left field, but not in an unpleasant way. Chevalier Vert will definitely push a few boundaries for many, its rhubarb laden, but not in a sugary dessert or even remotely gourmand edible way. Its green, sweet, and crisp while still retaining the tartness you’d expect from freshly picked rhubarb. Its presented beautifully with an array of other green vegetal notes, like a crisp green salad, tomato leaf and violet leaf well at the fore, with the wormwood strongly supporting. Its a very green fragrance, but its light and clean. The rhubarb is ever present in this, playing the lead role from start to ever end, its a note that has been beautifully showcased here and this is what sets this fragrance aside from other green fragrances and anything that has even the slightest hint of rhubarb. It settles later to a slightly powdery and noticeably light woody and slightly musky accord. It’s a beautifully constructed fragrance and I’m sure it will certainly appeal to many green and rhubarb lovers out there!