Description
Swan Princess is a moment of lavish delicacy, a soft and very feminine fragrance, like the caress
of a gorgeous magical white swan’s feathers,
followed by a loving glance from a beautiful woman emerging from the water onto the shore.
A sophisticated musk accord composed of six musks,
including muscenone, evokes a silky cocoon-like
effect. This magical veil enfolds an armful of flowers
(jasmine, a touch of gardenia, lily of the valley,
mimosa, iris, rose and peony) which release their
creamy, delicately sweet aroma amidst a sprinkling
of pink pepper.
top: pink pepper, aldehydes, fresh citrus accord around bergamot;
heart: jasmine, a touch of gardenia, lily of the valley, mimosa, iris, rose, peony;
base: six different musks including muscenone, sandalwood, vetiver.
Swan Princess was launched in 2014. The nose behind this fragrance is Bertrand Duchaufour.
arizona – :
A little bit softer and more delicate version od Guerlain L’Instant eau de toilette. Loving this! Such a romantic and angelic scent.
ractBroargy – :
Dasty overpriced iris. Close to skin. Enchanting forest was the best.
sved100 – :
I was happily gifted a sample of this along with a few others from Fragrantica. I just adore the name, as it conjures up such romantic imagery in my mind.
Initially this hits hard in the floral’s, almost shrill, I think due to the aldehyde lift. Sometimes those can give me headaches and I was honestly a bit worried, as I applied quite a bit. My first thought associated this with Marchesa Perfume-d-Extase in that respect,(the strong violet note and intensity) even though there are no aldehydes in Marchesa, it just felt quite similar.But Swan became much different as it progressed on my skin, the pink pepper and rose and musk made their majestic presence known in a hauntingly beautiful fashion. This scent really does becomes more gorgeous as it develops, is addictive to my nose and also is impressively strong and long lasting. I thoroughly enjoy this creation and am grateful to have even the little bit I do have for now.
This is the perfume fit for a princess (or a prince).
Deroxgpmlb – :
Swan Princess is special to my nose as it brings me back to Italy, about 8 years ago. It smells nice, flowers with sweet powdery notes. Normally I would associate it with a grandma smell, but this fragrance is balanced really well, I do like it. Otherwise, if I didn’t associate it with Italy, I would say it is quite average, especially because it feels like I smelled it 8 years ago, this came out 3 years ago. Added to that, the price tag is way too high as well, for what you’re getting. I think it’s worth trying out, but I would not get a bottle of this.
MiaS – :
I read half a dozen positive reviews of this fragrance and I’m not sure what everyone is smelling here. A few weak top notes quickly give way to a muguet accord and ionones, which are already heavily lain with a linear, characterless musk note, possibly cosmone , and some ISO E Super. I love violet / orris fragrances but unlike some others here my ‘search’ is far from ‘over’. I loved Bertrand’s Enchanted Forest but this ‘swan princess’ is more of a goose.
Evimaseva – :
Aldehydes, lilies, and musk with hints of gardenias, slight vetiver, and sandalwood powder.
This is very sythetic, and very commercial! i really had very high hopes since it is made by “Bertrand Duchaufour” but i guess he is going down the hill with his current creations, and good that he created his own brand with his friends so he can make his own blends cause it might be the costumers who asks for such chaos blends although his new brands screams “what the hell am i doing?”.
too overpriced, 100ml for 180 Euro!
Again, Thank you “Vagabond Prince” for the givaway.
kol712 – :
Silky, creamy, powdery perfection. I am in love!! it blossoms in cold air and the longevity is outstanding.
A bouquet of frosted spring flowers wrapped in creamy musk with a touch of warm woods. Feels like the most expensive, glittery, white magic dust and the beautiful bottle matches the perfume perfectly. Very elegant, feminine, unique creation. Classically timeless yet modern. People around me seem to love it too judging by the number of compliments I got in the past few days of wearing.
I warmely recommend it if you’re looking for this type of perfume. Simply gorgeous!
dilitant007 – :
I thought my search for the perfect powder was over when I found Yardley April Violets, but I was wrong. NOW, it might be over for real. The reason this is possibly better than any other powdery floral musk scent I’ve smelled is because it’s not too sweet (looking at YOU, Lipstick Rose!), heavy (Kenzo Flower), or musty (Teint d’ Neige). It’s actually not sweet at all.
To those making comparisons to Kenzo Flower, I see where you’re coming from but I don’t agree. Flower has a tangy, non-gourmand sugary VANILLA element which when combined with the powder makes the perfume heavy and stuffy, like floral volcanic ash. Swan Princess on the other hand is fluffy, delicate, and fortunately vanilla-free. It also smells like cool, high end face cream.
The far dry down contains something heavily woody represented as vetiver (identical to the vetiver in Elie Saab edt) but not enough to agitate the senses. I have to smash my nose to my wrist to detect the woody notes at all, and my nose was only there because I was huffing my wrist. Longevity is quite good with all Vagabond Prince perfumes I’ve sampled thus far.
TLDR:
A frozen winter cloud made from the lightest, silkiest creamy cold makeup powder fit to dust the skin of angel. Gentle, pristine, and one of the best modern powder perfumes I’ve known. Contains some intensity of wood in base notes.
Vladimir117 – :
lovely. musky, icy, but not completely cold. floral, i can smell the pink pepper as well. lightly sweet, like a softly candied violet in an ice cube. this is what i imagine when i smell this fragrance:
winter going into spring. you see a flash of purple in feathery snow on the ground. brush away the powder, inhale the crisp soft clear scent. see an icy iris, hard, austere, beautiful. as the fragrance warms on your skin, the ice along the iris petals fades away and the iris comes alive, clings to your skin. becomes creamy makeup smell, a smell of a warm living being. love it.
– thank you to fragrantica for the sample! i have twice received a sample of this wonderful fragrance, truly grateful to test this creation.
carpinteyroaar – :
I recently won a sample pack of Vagabond Prince perfumes, including Swan Princess.
It does smell a great deal like Chanel, except that Swan Princess actually works on my skin, instead of turning to full-on aldehydes.
This is a soft scent, feminine but not sweet. It is old-fashioned in a wonderful way, powdery and mysterious with a slightly dirty animalic side that surprised me (although, since we are dealing with the legend of a swan who can transform into a lovely lady, I suppose it makes sense!).
Sillage and longevity are both good but not overpowering.
I love Swan Princess. It is a very romantic fragrance.
DIMOH – :
I won this sample few weeks a go. I can see similarity this perfume with Kenzo Flower as some people noted. Btw, this is my wife’s favorite scent among the four samples I won. She said this Swan Princess reminds her to a baby powder called “Cuddle”. It is smooth and smell so good.
loks3456 – :
I was very fortunate to win a bottle of this in the recent Fragrantica competition. Im still reeling with the shock of my good fortune. Many thanks Fragrantica.
Well, its all that I was hoping for and more.
Yes, the cool notes of iris and mimosa are very evident on the opening. Im very sensitive to musk and thankfully this remains low key. I can understand the comments regarding a similarity with Chanel No5 which actually has more kick from the aldehydes whilst this is warmer and creamier. If you cant get on with the Chanel classic then this could be a much more accessible version of it.
I definitely pick out the rose to provide sweetness along with the notes of lily of the valley and gardenia which add a brightness. It really does smell cool, soft and downy like a swans plummage. A vision of the swan ballerinas gracefully prancing across the stage in the latest production of Swan Lake pops up in my minds eye. Its easy to tell that good quality materials have been used here. This is no pedestrian sugary celeb fragrance but a beauty befitting an exquisite principal ballerina.
katolik – :
Received my samples today, thanks again!..Ok so I spritzed this on my wrist first beings I already knew what the others smelled like.. *HUGE BLAST OF FLORAL & MUSK* kinda sharp to my nose, as it settled I deff. got the Kenzo ‘Flower’ comparison.. sadly I’m not a huge fan of flower so can’t say I really cared too much for this either.. :/ It’s a shame b/c I actually really do like Iris and Musks in scents but I just can’t get past the Kenzo vibe now..no doubt the quality is there I’m sure this would last for hours on end..but this was a bit of a scrubber for me..haven’t had the chance to sample Bass Solo yet..(not sure if I was suppose to receive one with the other samples??) but thus far Enchanted Forest still remains my fav. from the line..perhaps my mom will like the sample of this..
berkut022 – :
I would suggest very cold weather and spray. We did not have spray samples before, now we have them ;o) It is easy to overdose with spray though…
HedInheseFers – :
Hmm…still trying to figure out what I think of this one. Upon first application it made me think very much “this is what I wish Chanel No. 5 smelled like on me.” After a few hours, it smells a bit more powdery and the iris really comes out, making it smell a bit more old fashioned on my skin. Plus, of course, musk. It’s been about 4 1/2 hours and the tiny dab out of my sample vial is still going strong, no sandalwood or oakmoss in sight yet. Very strong, clearly high quality ingredients. At first it smelled very romantic, but more powdery and vintage as time goes on. Its rare for me to be this on the fence about a scent. I think I need to try it a few more times before I can really make up my mind whether I love it enough for a bottle or not…
valen08 – :
I love a big floral with personality and sensuality, hence my long history with the original Poison, Flowerbomb, and other well-done, thick scents, so I thought I would try this one. It is long-lasting, which is important to me. It is pure enough that I had no allergic reaction at all, which is so great. It definitely has an enveloping quality, which I really like. I don’t enjoy it when by mid-day, a perfume has vanished, and Swan Princess does not disappoint in the longevity department! The scent itself is feminine without being old-fashioned, and such a mixture that I hesitate to point out any particular notes. It reminds me of something I smelled somewhere else, but that’s not uncommon, having sniffed hundreds if not thousands of perfumes over time, right? I like to put it on and go out into the day, knowing my allergies will NOT act up at all throughout the day from it, and knowing it will still be there when I come home at night. It never got cloying or sickly, the way some lesser florals can do, and it has nothing synthetic about it. It feels like really purified, real, and powerful perfume notes strung together to have personality, staying power and an interplay of the notes among themselves that is hard to identify but adds to the beauty of the day. This is one that needs to be on your skin, not on clothes. It needs the warmth of your skin to get more powerful.
TiffanyMap80 – :
Fragrance Review For Swan Princess
By The Vagabond Prince
Top Notes
Aldehydes Pink Pepper Bergamot
Middle Notes
Gardenia Iris Lily of the Valley Mimosa Rose Peony Jasmine
Base Notes
Musk Sandalwood Vetiver
This is a perfume for Odette the ballet heroine in Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. One of my ballerina friends here in NYC wears this and she got me into this perfume. I am a huge fan of The Enchanted Forest but if you liked that one you’ll also enjoy this one. Both are the kind of creatively composed fragrances with complexity, poetry and romance. They whisk you away to a fairy tale and you feel like a princess, but not a Disney princess, a real one LOL The bottle is pretty similar to Enchanted Forest except in white. The scent is pretty strong so it’s best that one applies with a gentle touch. It’s also a musk perfume at the end. Everything else fades away and turns into animalic skin/musk. Wearing this perfume is like a magic potion and like you have been transformed into a swan animal. It’s the wizard Rothbart casting his dark spell on you.
The opening is a fresh citrus: bergamot orange. I would have gotten sick and tired of bergamot top notes but this is lovely. It’s not sour or too overwhelming. It’s sweet and refreshing. Aldehydes are also detectable so you have to be ok with aldehydes. The citrusy smell is like the dawn, like smelling sunlight on orange trees. It also has an outdoorsy feel and as it progresses into the heart you go into a forest.
On me the lily of the valley stands out and it’s a forest lily scent. There is also gardenia, jasmine and mimosa, flowers typically found in nature, in Europe. The mimosa is particularly impressive. It’s like heliotrope and like orange blossom. The flowers are gorgeous. An iris and little peony/rose also create the “princess” effect. Smells like the most beautiful daintiest little flower princess. It also makes me imagine flower petals floating on water.
As I said the dry down is musk, and more musk than wood. This is a gorgeous musk which can be pretty strong if you spray too much. A small spritz and you’re smelling of powdery musk. It’s elegant and feminine, mature and romantic. It has a Russian and East European air. It smells expensive, niche and vintage. There’s a lot to love about this perfume. It can be worn out on romantic dates/dinners, weddings and Church.
If you like florals and musk, this is going to be a ravishing perfume for you. I bought this for myself and for my mother who loves white flowers and musk.
Highly recommended and perfect for spring and summer. It also matches up with a long white sundress or gown. Smells more like a day time perfume than an evening cologne.
Vitalizm – :
This is my favorite Valentine’s Day perfume…It was a very special gift from last Feb 14th. For me this is one of those ‘perfect perfumes’ where the scent perfectly matches the packaging, which is stunning, by the way, and has decent longevity and sillage.
Not to forget the beautiful name…
The Swan Princess.
One spray on your wrist, close your eyes and she blossoms into a powdery dream in a cloud of mist and fog, high up in a castle in a mystical forest. She is dripping in silver shimmering musky iris blooms with violet accords. Sandalwood adorns her vanity, pure and simple. This floral concoction lingers as she dances on the icy pond, irises frosty silver sparkling…yes this is right out of a Winter romantic fairytale…beautiful
eliasnia – :
So at first I was just going to just give a review based on the scent, but now that I’m looking at the notes above I can pick them out. At first application I get the greenish peppery note, it is blended really well with the aldehydes though, so it come across as a powdery-spicy note on my skin, Almost like the pepperiness of nasturtium. As the Swan princess develops though the pepperiness fades off and I can really smell the floral notes, with a stronger emphasis on the iris. the powdery notes in the middle I think can be accounted to both the iris and mimosa, they are really lovely together. to me this is a warm comforting fragrance, elegant and like wearing a vintage off white or pale violet satin dress. The base is the icing on the cake it is slightly woody and sweet- not cloying at all, I think the sandalwood tempers the sweetness of the musk and just gives it a vibe of sitting on a picnic blanket in late spring reading a book under a tree.
Vov3163 – :
I received a sample as well and was pleasantly surprised by how much I like this. It’s beautiful.
lohushkam – :
This fragrance smells in one word – Romantic. I am not talking about sexy. I am talking about the courtship and falling in love part of a relationship. It is delicate, yet warm and musky. Very well blended, yet I can pick up all the ingredients at some point. It is like that deep breath you take once you know you have given your heart to someone and they have given you theirs in return. It is neither female nor male, but both. Doesn’t slap you in the face, but you know it is there. Makes me think of taking a sleigh ride, under the moonlight on snow, covered in furs and blankets, snuggling with my true love. And love my friends is not for just female or male, but both.
ddt304elipseskism – :
This scent is like catnip. It’s impossible to stop smelling your wrists after putting it on. It feels like white magic.
Picture a frosty, cold morning in December. Gentle streaks of sunlight swimming on the surface of the snow. There’s nowhere to be and your mind is free from pressure. Everything is still and the air suddenly feels so cold it’s almost getting heavy to breathe. The luminous beauty of this fragrance brings warmth to that feeling of frozen tranquility, and the smell is so exquisite it leaves a trace of melancholy in your mind. The Swan Princess is the perfect name for this perfume.
I am generally more fond of heavy perfumes with smoke and leather, but smelling like this makes me feel like I am delicate, approachable and safe to be around, and yet at the same time, it feels alluring and sensual. It is such a pleasant combination of emotions, and no other perfume has made me feel this way in a long while. The Director’s Cut version of This Woman’s Work by Kate Bush suits the ethereal nature of this fragrance like the missing piece of a puzzle.
MobyDik – :
Musk, musk, flowers and more musk. The dry down is beautiful and silky. This is a high quality musky and powdery fragrance and I appreciate it, but it’s not for me. Swan Princess smells very vintage, not a modern scent. I’d love to smell this on some older elegant lady.
Tetfleste – :
A very elegant meditation on musk, opening as a bright, light, powdery white musk, volatile and fleeting. Following this, a clean, sweet floral musk appears, featuring iris and creamy violet notes, not metallic or dry, with no coppery or blood note.
Eventually a heavy, deep musk begins to emerge that will last until drydown—and beyond. I wore this perfume fairly consistently for over a week, night and day, office and play. I discovered that it has an incredibly persistent musky drydown that leaves an impressive trail. This profound woody musk accord is heavy, sinking down, pooling at your feet, and leaving a fine wake. Despite this sense of molecular weight, it retains a powdery, soft, fluffy and enveloping vibe.
Warm and sensual, on me this is a natural skin scent with a sweet, slightly smoky rose; It is interesting to follow the rosy notes as they morph from powdery to syrupy, a warm tupelo honey tinged rose. It seems to me that this too is created in part by the musk, a creamy, buttery, sweet musk with a rosy incense vibe. I get more iris than violet, and a completely non-indolic jasmine. A classically pretty floral accord builds, starting with a powdery violet, then iris, jasmine and finally settling on rose. I get no peony, which is a blessing as I am not always fond of peony. Very little mimosa to me, and not classic old school mimosa, more a modern mimosa, with a little sparkle.
The Swan Princess clings to fabric, hair and skin, staying warm and slightly damp, and never turning dry or dusty. The first time I wore this I got a dose of powdery violet with just a touch of rose, but as I continued to wear it, day after day, I found that the violet receded while the rose became more dominant. I also applied less each day, finding that as time went by I became more sensitive to the musk accord, rather than fatigued.
Deceptively complex, this is the ideal perfume for anyone wanting to explore musk, as it is built around musk but manages to feature all the other facets of musk: the honeyed rose, the powdery violet, with a little incense and a lot of wood on dry down. I have grown extremely fond of this fragrance, especially considering how rarely I wear any perfume for a week. I never tired of it, and frankly, I never completely understood the fragrance. I think I would need to wear it in different seasons to understand it fully, but for now I think it is easily my favorite musky perfume.
юлия виттек – :
There is an episode of Frasier in which Roz tells Frasier she doesn’t like caviar. He says, “Well,Roz, a lot of things can affect caviar. Where did you have it?” She says “On a mini-bagel at the Tucson Doubletree”. Then Frasier gives Roz high quality caviar smuggled in from Russia, and she loves it and becomes addicted.
Now I have always thought I don’t like musk. I regularly accuse fragrances of having “too much musk”. I was very curious to see what my nose would make of Swan Princess, a fragrance featuring six musks.
Yesterday I tried Swan Princess and was thrilled to learn that musk doesn’t have to be crude, sour,too “intimate” or choking like it often is on my skin. The musk in Swan Princess is so beautiful and different that I realize I have previously only had musk “On a mini-bagel at the Tucson Doubletree”.
Swan Princess is the high end caviar.
In addition to the feathery musk, florals are present throughout nearly the whole wear. I recognize a natural violet note at first and then a perfect mimosa-it hits at the arch of my palate like my favorite malbec. Then violet steps into the background to make room for a creamy bouquet of the other flowers with the mimosa.I feel the rose in here is white, like the white rose in my favorite perfume Enfleurage. There is a lovely touch- just a touch- of dry, authentic woods in the background. Wonderful perfume! A unique, musky beauty. Gentle but never shy.
tyd854elipseskism – :
Beautiful peppery mimosa, iris and rose that grows deeper and richer as the hours pass. I smell violet in the mix as well. The pepper and woods keep this from being too sweet or light and jasmine rounds it out. Another well balanced Duchaufour fragrance. I like the scent but there is just a bit too much powdery musk and mimosa for my taste.
Namormaks – :
Call me crazy, but I don’t dislike this perfume! It’s a nicely rounded floral scent. I find the pink pepper to be a little off-putting, however. This is a cool, crisp floral. I don’t know that it’s worth the $200 for 100 ml bottle, but I’ve enjoyed my free sample.
TutExoxybub – :
Swan Princess is an aptly named perfume. Last night I wore it for the third time and found myself enrobed in a shimmering, delicate cloud of powdery florals and musk. The quality of the ingredients is immediately obvious, if you’re looking for a standout iris and mimosa blend this is it. Aldehydes and pink pepper lift the fragrance and help the composition feel transparent and modern rather than melancholy, leaden and gray as so many iris centric perfumes seem to feel. The drydown has a distinctly Duchaufour base of hazy woods surrounded by the same soft white accords of the opening. The overall effect is delicate but strong: like a beautiful dress with an immaculately boned corset and a skirt made from many layers of ethereal, shimmering tulle. Gorgeous.
diabbankeviveesn – :
Pretty, powdery and clean. It reminds me of Kenzo Flower and of Swiss Unlimited Snowflower. It was peppery at first and then dried down to a clean, pretty iris.
Тоболовец – :
The hideously named Swan Princess is a soft, sweet chemical violet with a slight soapy nuance. It smells adequately composed, but there’s nothing to it other than a chemical violet. It’s strung over a polite synthetic base that’s perfectly serviceable, but the result is a scent that you’ve smelled many, many times before, and not in the best of circumstances. Although the quality is ramped up a notch, this could pass for a decent drug store perfume. Polite, but largely pointless and kind of half-assed, it reflects what we’ve come to expect from the far-too-prolific Duchaufour as of late. The first release from this line remains the best, and that’s not saying much.
Trane26 – :
I will say that so far, the quality of this scent is obvious. The scent is still on my skin, even after about five hours after applying it. Usually by this time a sample scent is no where to be smelled. It is a very gentle scent, appropriately named.
linh7621107 – :
Thank you for the sample. I am enjoying wearing this pretty, wearable scent. Unfortunately, I will never be able to afford a full bottle.
v-iv69 – :
I am also a recipient of the (generously sized) sample of Swan Princess. I concur with other comments—the packaging and artwork is gorgeous, and there is a lovely synergy and synthesis between the colors and style of the artwork and the actual scent.
Swan Princess is a powdery, soft, sweet fragrance. It opened with the transparent veil of aldehydes and a brief sneeze of pepperiness, but then transitioned quickly. The powdery sweetness has vaguely similar vibe to Ex’clamation, the peachy-powdery scent from the 90’s; Swan Princess has no peach, but the round, smooth, sweet powder is similar. I think this may be the musky-rose element that is present, as it is also vaguely similar to Marshmallow MOR (but much more complex). The sweetness has a tiny bit of booziness (not quite what I mean, but close; like booziness and indoles) that I associate with mimosa and gardenia both; it’s a richer white floral scent, not piercing or green.
The drydown retains this powdery essence, and becomes even more powdery—I would say very “Johnson’s Baby Powder-ish”, even. It is fresh and cool, simple and sweet. I buy that there are diverse white musks represented here, and even a light sandalwood note, but altogether the drydown is distinctly clean, white baby powder.
If you like powder, especially a sweet powdery rose, or round white florals; or you are looking for a rosy-powdery white musk, I think you will enjoy this. If you dislike powder, you will be disappointed.
Longevity is >4 hours so far, and sillage was fair to modest.
GaRik83 – :
Russian ballet is often associated with a certain degree of elegance, and excellence. This powdery representation of one of the country’s most famous composites of that tradition holds the softness and lightness of a dancer, and the gracefulness of Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky’s beloved daydream. Similar to Penhaligon’s Iris Prima (another ballet inspired fragrance) Swan Princess lacks the note of leather that grounds the former, instead soft notes of sandlewood and musk humanize the scent lacing together the sweet powdery accords that make the fragrance light on its feet. Just as fairy tales are told and retold through the ages, Swan Princess holds vague echoes of incarnations past rendering a sort of timeless quality to this delicate creation.
Smilioveala – :
Unfortunately, this one is not for me. When I first smelled this perfume I was almost knocked out of my seat by how strong it was. I thought I was smelling an impression of Balenciaga Paris (but way more intense), you know, those impression perfumes you can get for quite cheap at pharmacies?. Despite this being very similar to one of my favorite perfumes, it was just way too generic smelling, definitely one of those perfumes that will greet everyone before you do. I’ll have to pass.
Ury – :
It is a shame that the money spent on their amazing bottles doesn’t translate to their perfumes. I have not found anything outstanding in this perfume, and found it so unmemorable that I forgot what it smelled like an hour after I put it on. This was also the same amount of time the scent disappeared.
The bottles are spectacular, their scents, not so much.
GJIeBaNiNo – :
I took a sample from a famous web shop. Swan princess is a fragrance of a great quality. From every corner of that cloud of cotton and powder rises thoughtfulness and expertise of its makers. Congratulations!
Nevertheless one must love soapy aldehydes, powdery lily of the valley, sparks that sting the nose to wear it that few hours that it lasts. The most beautiful is the drydown that is completely different from the rest of the fragrance: beautiful musk in sandalwood – almost ambery, although amber not listed here. Yet, i’m not ready to pay great deal of money to wait for that fabulous drydown… I’ll wait for the next creation of this talented team.
Looking forward!!
hedel79 – :
Back in the 80’s I was a 20 year old girl who lived in Cuba, my country of origin. Almost all perfumes that were sold there, came from Russia; some incredibly good as Red Moscow, and others passed without pains or glory. From all this invasion of Russian culture in the middle of the Caribbean, I also had some favorites: the painter Mikhail Vrubel, composers Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, the great writers Tolstoy and Chekhov, Bolshoi Ballet and Catherine the Great. One day a friend gave me a magazine page where appeared the picture of the painting “The Swan Princess” by Vrubel; I liked it so much that I put into a frame and hung up in my bedroom, along with other reproductions of famous paintings and my collection of photos of horses.
Now in my 50’s,I returned to find this painting, as part of the marketing campaign of the perfume that bears its name, but now the paint has a wonderful smell, which pays tribute to Tchaikovsky, to Vrubel and the prestigious Russian Ballet. It is also a gift to the corner of my heart where I keep all those sweet memories of childhood and adolescence.
When through the generosity of Fragrantica I received the sample of Swan Princess, I rushed to try it and stayed delighted with this fragrance, soft and delicate, almost like a silk scarf… still mysterious. I think it’s made with love using different flowers of the Russian spring, and the smell of each flower blends perfectly with the rest like in a bridal bouquet; is also a mixture of purity and seduction; is also sweet but not fruity… I’m still intrigued.
Swan Princes is for the girl all of you have inside, that still loves fairy tales and cries in every wedding, that likes chocolates and cotton candy; just because it’s extremely feminine (sorry gentlemen, for me is not unisex).
The thing is Swan Princess captured my curiosity from the very beginning, but now I tried it, it conquered me forever.
skwoz1 – :
Thank you so much for the generous sample! This is a delicate and indeed very feminine fragrance. In the opening I smell violet…it might be the iris; a lovely but all too fugitive note. There is also a timid rose that quickly fades away. Pretty soon the musks take over, and they stay until the end. I’d wish I could smell more sandalwood. There is a hint of vetiver, but the musks overpower the middle notes as well as the dry down. For musk lovers this is perfection. Thank you again.
vivalt – :
Powdery, delicate, feminine soft and luscious. I adore it. All iris and musk and softness. It smells modern, yet classic, and somehow timeless, like a fairy tale itself.
KipOffLine – :
This is very nice soft and feminine! It makes me think of a princess !!it is a bit powdery but overall the scent remains delicate and the vibe is romantic and feminine
I detect some aldehydes but not so many that the scent gets harsh
I would wear it , but longevity isn’t strong ,
Pretty bottle pretty scent maybe expensive for what it is!!
madmax – :
Such a great fragrance! Ive tried out quite a few powdery scents and though I love the smell, none have been as balanced as this one. Its not only delicate and powdery, but also sweet (I get a bit of fruit on my skin) and musk. I wore this the other day and recieved many compliments. Even from people that are sensitive to ftagrance.
Creessedyewor – :
Thanks for the opportunity to sample this! This is a very sweet, feminine, pepper and musk fragrance on my skin. And you have to take into consideration that this review is coming from someone who does not like sweet gourmand fragrances and whose skin really tends to magnify musk.
Very sweet and strong for about the first hour. The citric top notes and the pink pepper are there, and then the pepper begins to magnify as the perfume wears on. I get jasmine and iris as the two dominant florals, but on my skin the musk and the pepper end up being the two biggest notes after awhile.
Not for me, but I could see it for someone who likes sweet musk perfumes.
rue309bedyWelty – :
First, thank you dear Fragrantica for the generous sample! Second, after wearing the sample a few times, I want you to know that I collapsed into a smiling, sighing, mound of fluff. White feather boa fluff (usually made of ostrich feathers rather than swan, but you get the idea). Soft, sweet, musky white feather boa fluff with a hint of powder (but NOT baby powder). In short, I just had to get one, as I cannot resist the call and the power of the fluff. I think of young ballerinas when I wear this. I think of pink ballet shoes, and Swan Lake. I agree with Drugstore Classi