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1amax – :
A real shapeshifter, like George herself. Starts out as a very flowery/citrusy cologne type thing before the tobacco really kicks in and darkens over its life to become much more fullbodied and weighty. The honey’s not overly sweet, the resins are discreet. The coffee is (thankfully, to me) so well blended you’d have to sniff out very precisely to get any of it. So, absolutely a classy and complex composition, sophisticated and disciplined and subtle, like the best sort of literary French.
However, for me – and me only … it’s just not as utterly gorgeous as some simpler, sweeter scents on the same theme, and longevity is poor – really hardly there by 4h in. HOWEVER – with a re-application it blooms once more and even strengthens again to become a more assertive and ‘manly’ version of tobacco than it seems at first spray. Sillage is tastefully restrained throughout.
I wouldn’t buy an FB (at least not until I’d bought and exhausted every drop of a bottle of Phaedon Tabac Rouge first), but I would very very happily wear this any time. It might be a bit too earthy for steaming hot days/climates though.
irina-valera – :
George Jardins d’Ecrivains … A love letter to Polo by Ralph Lauren
George opens very strong green grassy smoky leathery tobacco smell almost exactly like Polo Ralph Lauren.
George is very classy very unusual very rare, however George share the same vibe as Polo in terms of muscularity and classical power.
The dry down is also similar to Polo but George is very natural and has soft nots in the back ground, it appears to be done by mixing Musk and Heliotrope.
Green check
Masculine check
Mannish check
Golf club check
Cuban cigars check
Any fan of Polo by Ralph Lauren will love George
Scent 9.5/10
Longevity 10/10
George Jardins d’Ecrivains … The Polo horse
msdorikbrand – :
I have to read the book by Georges Sand. It should be done in an old library, not on a train. It is a perfume that makes you want to be elegant.
andos000 – :
Actually I didn’t know George Sand before sampling this. I read the blurbs and have a somewhat vague idea of Sand’s androgynous characteristics–and I think it performs just like that–androgynous.
In the markets there are fragrances for men, for women, unisex–but what do these labels mean? Specifically here what I want to ask is “what does unisex mean?” Does it mean it fits both women and men (as fragrantica shows) or just androgynous–or even a-sexual?
I have sampled the whole Jardins D’Ecrivains on the same day, and this is my favorite in the whole like–and is the first full bottle. For me the combination of neroli and tobacco is quite pleasant and strikes me so much that I nearly consider it my signature scent. And it doesn’t have any vanilla (I am always left confused by the raves of vanilla-creamy-sweet fragrances)!
All in all, beautiful and androgynous. Love it. Sometimes I would like to be like this, but other days I may wear Fahrenheit. It’s just different moods.
PS. the letdown: on me the longevity and projection is not satisfying–especially for an EDP. (And actually the whole Jardins D’Ecrivains have the same problem…just weak and not-so-weak)
EdudgeFeava – :
George Jardins d’Ecrivains
I can image George Sand smoking her Gauloises while wearing her masculine jacket with the tails and a cane.
I looked for a sample of this for the longest time. I love George Sand and tobacco so I had to try this out. It is a great sensual and unique fragrance, I don’t think that fragrance has a gender, George feels befitting as a tribute to George Sand to me, it has nice balance between the masculinity and the femininity through the use of the tobacco and neroli notes…
I blind bought this and it was a great decision! The neroli after a time on my skin goes from clean to dirty-carnal and I do love that!
A bright opening of bergamot and neroli, it has a bitter citrus feel to it. It smells like an expensive cologne at first, it is masculine at first, I quickly notice the beginning of tobacco. Smoky, sweet myrrh makes it presence known, causing the scent to be warmer, richer, neroli is noticeable but allowing the myrrh, peru balsam resins be felt, I feel a little bit of the dirty musk.
After a time on my skin, tobacco deepens, it is rich and gorgeous with the honey and neroli/orange blossom with its animalic nuances and the smoky myrrh is subtle.
Heliotrope and coffee are too well-blended on my skin for me to notice. It is a high-quality and complex fragrance that I am happy to have in my collection.
shark1974 – :
The pairing of neroli with more tannic notes like coffee and bits of leather are giving me the overall impression of soap. Somewhere between Dial and the Ayurvedic soaps from the Indian grocery store, so agreeing with those who are getting a headshop vibe. It fits the androgyny billing and perhaps captures that duality in George Sands, maybe more accurately than Histoires des Parfums, who seemed to think the pineapple captured her essence best. I didn’t like the HdP and I don’t really like this one either. But if we’re going to go along with the back story, I think this one does a better job.
Tokun1111111 – :
This opens with a fresh neroli/orange blossom note that gave me high hopes that I had finally found my masculine orange blossom fragrance. However, shortly after the opening, I get the same headshop vibe that Jrmcquill does. It devolves very quickly on my skin to pure incense and doesn’t move from there for the duration. Brings back some memories but ultimately not a smell I am fond of nor do I want to smell like.
kohkuh – :
This goes on very “nag champa/head shop”, which had me worried. I took a leap trusting this would be an office scent, but it is not. I like it…kind of boozy incense, amber, spicy (tobacco?), semi-sweet (coffee?) and somewhat heavy, but it does lay large and therefore suited for active winter night out? I don’t get much florals, even in the beginning, which came across more as sweet Neroli to me. I see George as a contradiction…looks and constructed as something stately and classy, but in the end it’s youthful and proud…and that’s not a bad thing. Nice, but I will pass. Thumb neutral.
kros2014 – :
As soon as I spray some on, I can imagine Madame Sand, in her top hat and cutaway, smoking her cigarillo in someone’s music or literary salon, determining which poor sap will become her next conquest…
This perfume, with its lush tobacco and sweet citrus, is pretty much a tool of seduction for either sex. Fantastic scent for a very specific purpose. Another excellent blind buy.
vich – :
One of the most truly unisex fragrance I’ve smelled in a while !
The opening notes have a very cologne-like feel with the neroli and citrus, but once it settles down…
The neroli becomes real orange blossom, sweet, sensual, but still balanced by the dry tobacco, soft leather and mastic (lentisque). I just keep smelling it, it’s so fascinating !
760874 – :
yes, this is a very luring fragrance, creamy neroli tobacco with lime and a hint of coffee. i liked it and it shows the quality of the notes, i can even smell a slight essence of bitter almonds a bit.
i just hope the lime won’t turn metallic and stays slightly sharp.
idu810Bessinepome – :
George opens with a neroli/bergamot combo that immediately brings to mind of an amped-up Eau De Cologne type of accord. Since the very early stages of the opening though, you realize there’s something special about George, in fact, the initial effect dissipates within seconds to leave space to a darker and fascinating tobacco / resins accord that represents the real nature of this composition. Warm and enveloping with a certain *je ne sais quoi* provided by slightly skanky facets. It feels honeyed and sort of musky while white floral patterns provide interesting refinements.
Probably not groundbreaking but so well done and smartly twisted to absolutely deserve attention. A real pleasure to wear.
Nice job.
Rating: 7-7.5/10
dup75 – :
Oh dear I made the mistake of wearing this on Friday evening. It was among a quite a large batch of samples that I tried a while ago and thought George was one I had liked but was yet to review conclusively.
I try not to make the mistake of just wearing a fragrance wtihout trying it properly and knowing for certain I like it.
I’m sorry…but George is awful! Truly awful.
Reminds me of Vetiver dance by Tauer but not quite as awful to be fair to George.
If anyone has seen the way Thierry Mugler made their A*Men les parfums de cuir by soaking off cut strips of leather in a barrel full of A*Men and leaving it to infuse. Well imagine the same process but with beeswax, root beer, plasters and bandages!
Medicinal is not even the word it smells anticeptic! I don’t even think that’s fair really because there’s something nice about the smell of germolene or detol and this just has other weird facets which make it utterly reprehensible to my nose, namely….white florals!
Neroli is massive in here also and adds to the waxy awful general body of the rest of the fragrance.
Needless to say I was not happy when I applied it to my skin and realised I would smell that way for several hours and I like to think I’m pretty open minded olfactory wise.
There’s a honey/beeswax element to this fragrance, an aloof coffee vibe which if it was more pronounced might have redeemed George somewhat and awful white florals & heliotrope!
What a mess!
Some people might regard this as perfume as genius, I’m not convinced as it just goes against my tastes like trying to force feed me squid and mushrooms.
I will say this for it… It’s a complex scent and my girlfriend liked it. Oddly enough she had a similar reaction to me in that George has this car crash effect of not being able to stop sniffing at it. Obviously for different reasons mine just in pure disgust, trying to work out why anyone would make this perfume or want to wear it?
And hers in awe of a complicated and strange alluring fragrance.
Luckily for me the longevity wasn’t brilliant, neither was sillage but I did realise it was bad as I was applying so maybe I didn’t put enough on?
plaxovivan – :
Very high class. I can smell the coffee, tobacco and neroli. Love this notes so obviously I’m gonna enjoy it. Also, the price is very good. Definitely check it out. More on the masculine side of things. If you want a good feminine one, try Gigi.
Peyton_fromAC – :
This fragrance for me is just a heavy dose of neroli. I have little experience with white florals, but after owning Fleur Du Male, I can 100% say this is white floral-based.
I got a sample of this hoping for an intro into heliotrope-based fragrances, but I can’t seem to see it here. I was expecting a more sweet almond-like vanille scent about this, with it being so strong, but for me the neroli is everything.
If you’re looking for a neroli-based fragrance with the slightest dirty tinge in the background, then check this out. Otherwise, if you don’t like white florals, just look another direction then.
sergeyr89 – :
@dancinleroy
@juansanchezcanales
In Madrid you can buy it in Le Secrait du Marais in Calle Hortaleza 75,they have an excellent collection of niche scents, plus they treat you very personally and make sure you are happy with your selection.
Спиноза – :
I just have to say in rebuttal to the previous review that I, as female as they come, wore this today for the 3rd time in as many months… and now that fall is here I felt that George was adequately feminine – and certainly very, very sexy. Although the heliotrope isn’t the most obvious note, it’s at the center; I feel like George is built around it.
Recently, I’ve been wearing Archives 69 by Etat Libre which is predominantly a tobacco scent, and it’s also unisex. It warmed me up for George. Today, I wore George with pink lipstick, pink leggings and a lace top, lol! I’m a huge admirer of George Sand. Please stop whatever you’re doing right this moment and look up the movie ‘Impromptu’ from 1991, find it and watch it! This perfume *is* the scent of Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, who became famous for taking a man’s name, wearing trousers, and smoking cigars in public. Oh yes, this is unisex. Only it takes a special type of lover to pull it off.
gercavlad – :
122) Olala Georges, GEOrges! you’re GorGEOUS!
Are you sure this is a fragrance for women too? This is really for women living alone in the middle of the forest, cutting wood, have not shaved since … what year is it anyway?, Smoking a pipe in one hand and playing arm iron of the other.
But where were they get their musk? it is either a bottle forgotten since 1902 in the basement of Guerlain or else some extract juice from Canadian lumberjack pants in beaver leather . It requires a lot to like dirty underwear.
You’ve always dreamed of spending a wild and sweating night under or on top of a bearskin picked up in a lost bar in the wild North-East? Well, you’re going to get a taste!
I love 🙂
Vous êtes sûr que c’est un parfum pour femme aussi? C’est vraiment pour celles qui vivent seules au milieu de la forêt, coupent du bois, ne se sont pas rasées depuis…on est en quelle année au fait?, qui fument la pipe d’une main et jouent au bras de fer de l’autre.
Mais ou ont-ils été cherché leur musc? c’est soit une bouteille oubliée depuis 1902 chez Guerlain ou alors du jus de pentalon de bucheron canadien en peau de castor. Il faut beaucoup aimé les sous-vêtements sales.
Vous avez toujours rêvé de passer une nuit sauvage transpirant sous et sur une peau d’ours draguée dans un bar perdu dans le Nord-Est sauvage? Et bien vous allez en avoir un avant-goût!
J’adore 🙂
Dovahkiin – :
Like entering an ancient herbalist’s shop. Wondrous sillage.
I find it particularly enthralling.
dgony – :
@dancinleroy
Check the Jardins d’Ecrivains’ website or write an e-mail to them and ask about us-based stores.
For those who happen to visit Krakow in Poland, there is a perfumery named Lu’Lua where you can find this brand.
LULUA
ul. Józefa 22,
31-057 Kraków
evgen.bem – :
@dancinleroy: if you live in the UK, you can find it in the Bloom perfumery in Spitafields market. It costs 75£.
stas_shem – :
Un départ rapide et furtif sur des notes bergamotes et hop on s’intalle vite dans le coeur et le fond où l’héliotrope puissante et présente est poussée par le néroli présent également mais juste pour appuyer cet héliotrope dominant! les notes de café et de tabac lui apporte son côté sec et masculin !
Je le trouve très féminin a cause de l’héliotrope et du néroli qui sont deux odeurs qui en soliflore sont associées aux femmes dans ma mémoir eolfactives !!
les Hommes (et les femmes) qui adorent l’héliotrope, foncé dessus !!!!
English :
A fast and furtive departure on notes(marks) bergamot oranges and hup we intalle fast in the heart and the bottom where the heliotrope powerful and present is pushed by the present néroli also but just to rest(support) this dominant heliotrope! The notes(marks) of coffee(café) and tobacco he bring his dry and male side!
I find him(it) very feminine has cause of the heliotrope and the néroli which are two smells which in soliflore are associated with the women in my mémoir eolfactives!!
The Men(People) (and the women) who adore the heliotrope, darkened above!!!!