Description
“After the first rainfall in September nature exude scents of humus, peat and wetland. This is the time for a promenade in the woods to enjoy the freshness after the heat of summer. Autumn encourages us to contemplate, to observate nature that gently prepares us for the coming winter and its frostbite. The mossy paths, precious jewels of the undergrowth, are brightened by the last rays of sun.
Cyprus-Moss evokes in us our surrounding nature which soon will be covered by the first fall of snow. Smell of damp undergrowth of scorched leaves and the scent of moss before picking mushrooms and chestnuts. Chypre-Mousse, a Fragrance of the House Oriza L. Legrand launched in 1914 for the dandies of this world!” – a note from the brand.
Chypre Mousse by Oriza L. Legrand is a Chypre fragrance for women and men. Chypre Mousse was launched in 1914. Top notes are mint, clary sage, fennel and green notes; middle notes are oakmoss, galbanum, angelica, fern, clover, mastic or lentisque and violet leaf; base notes are oakmoss, vetiver, pine tree needles, boletus edulis, soil tincture, leather, labdanum, resins and chestnut.
gosha-alex – :
Lord, this is some amazing, beautiful stuff: a handful of subtly spicy and aromatic herbs, fresh from a moist, shady garden– spearmint, fennel, sage, clover, angelica, fern, hay, mushrooms, green galbanum, loamy humus– all seated on an intoxicating oldschool chypre base (bergamot, patchouly, tonka, cistus labdanum, oakmoss). The ultimate nature lover’s green/herbal fragrance. Yet it’s not sharp and piercing… it’s warm, friendly, autumnal, kitchen-y, soft. So “reassuring”, one might say. Such an old recipe– from WWI — yet perfectly wearable and dreamy today. Inspiring and soothing. Buy a small sample from Luckyscent, why don’tcha.
One of those scents that grows on you, maddeningly: the first time you smell, you’re not sure if you like it at all; five days later and you can’t live without it.
Night_Hunter1 – :
The grand dame of chypre fragrances continues to seductively cast its witchy spell over 100 years after it was first introduced. It’s raw earthy beauty remains undefinable, mysterious and evocative. It starts off with a fresh herbal whiff of mint, sage, and fennel. As it begins to settle, the prominent oakmoss, galbanum, angelica, fern, clover, and hint of violet are revealed. Finally on complete settling, one can detect notes of oakmoss, vetiver, pine, soil, leather, labdanum, and chestnuts. Herbal, earthy, addictively strange, and yet mesmerizingly haunting, this is not one that will please many. Unisex leaning slightly feminine with moderate sillage/projection and very good longevity. This one is for those folks who don’t think beauty comes only from heavy florals or traditional sweet gourmand notes used in perfumery. One for the ages and that has withstood the test of time. Enjoy!
predatorbuilder – :
When I sampled chypre mousse some time ago it was all fennel and mushroom and very little of anything else. I sampled it again a few days ago and something has been done to this perfume, or maybe my nose changed, but now I get a lot of mint and wet soil smell in the first 10 minutes in addition to the fennel and mushroom mix. It actually works much better for me. Performance is still big
Безкоментариев – :
As a consummate chypre lover, I was most excited to try a generous sample sent my a lovely swapper. At first it is lovely, much like the most vintage, oakmoss laden elixir on earth but in a very short time it evolves into a harsh and oddly earthy concoction that is almost repulsive!
If you are fortunate enough to love it and it works with your chemistry, the upside is that it has the longevity of a Galapagos tortoise!
allo – :
I don’t really understand or connect with this fragrance. Being a huge Chanel 19 fan, I wanted to be able to finally identify the Chypre accord. But this particular one is not for me. I find it too dry, too earthy, and way too oakmossy with no sharp notes. It’s not pleasant or unpleasant.. just doesn’t really blend with me.
Edit: Turns out this fragrance is perfect for layering with a sweeter scent – seems to have a nice grounding or stabalizing effect to some of the more flighty fragrances. I am starting to really enjoy the blend!!
DotSootte – :
sweet flowers with cocao in the top; gets drier as it dries down green and fernlike; so complex; soil and mushrooms in the base; I hate chypres but wouldn’t classify this as one until the base. The top and middle are lovely. This is earthy to the max. Like digging up growing things and smelling their roots. I put it on at night. In the morning, eight hours later, it was just oakmoss on the skin.
shmelstar – :
After reading so many positive reviews of this, I have to wonder if I got a bad batch, if my body chemistry is off, or if something is amiss with my sense of smell. This smells straight up bad to me–old ladyish, headache-inducing (and I’m not at all prone to headaches from even the strongest scents,) overwhelmingly herbal bordering on medicinal. All of these qualities were at their worst for the first 2-3 hours after applying. After that, they mellowed into something that could possibly be considered sexy and mysterious by some, but also like rotting vegetation mixed with men’s drugstore colognes (kinda neat how it goes from old lady to old man, though!) This scent makes me think of “Grey Gardens” and abandoned houses and desolate fields and crumbling graveyards. Not my thing, not a fan.
royal5 – :
YES! This is an earthy, oakmoss, fennel, mushroom dream…very sophisticated…in a gorgeous bottle and box that you’ll want to keep on your nightstand…
serg111 – :
There isn’t much for me to add to the discussion around this one except to say that I would gladly meet my demise drowning in it. It’s a mossy, earthy, ever so slightly mildewed, living and breathing landscape blanketed by a violet and clover flower liqueur, with heroic sillage and longevity. Try it. Try it now. Try it yesterday.
Alyssa_fromAF – :
The disgusted review by the redoubtable odysseusm of Basenotes predisposed me to dislike this fragrance. The words synthetic and plasticine stuck in my mind in particular.
When I sampled it, I could sort of see what he was talking about. However, Chypre Mousse robbed me of my chance to be a forest scent snob. The complexity is really intriguing. For those wondering how much this could be like the 1914 scent, well, to my surprise, I do see a certain relationship to the inaccessibility and multifacetedness of old world perfumes here.
(Oh, and that is another important point to make — this does smell like a perfume, not like a special effect. That is to say, it is artful and clearly meant, at the end of the day, to delight, although not appeal in a mindless, easily-marketable way. Thus, while foresty, it does NOT smell exactly like a forest. No, I did not find it had a niche vibe — it has, rather, a classic, vintage vibe.)
This might be a perverse comment to make, but having sampled them side by side, Chypre Mousse bears significant resemblance to Vikt by Slumberhouse. However, it is softer, sweeter, and altogether more refined. Vikt is the goblin springing up at you on the forest path, whereas Chypre Mousse is the fairy beneath the mushroom.
Therefore, for those of you who would like to wear Vikt but cannot for reasons of availability and price, or whose partners are on the verge of murdering them for smelling like a straight up alcoholic gremlin roadside murderer (and I love that about Vikt, just to be clear), I advise testing Chypre Mousse.
Shamycacth – :
This is the most intriguing and fabulous perfume I know of. Humus, mushrooms, decaying logs, ferns, a little mint and fennel. It evokes memories of cool forested areas of the American Northwest or the Japanese countryside.
It changes over time, beautifully. It is collegiate, odd, unforgettable.
Longevity and sillage are both strong. It is unlike anything else–try it!
IWdenna – :
One very hot and humid summer I had a migraine attack due to the intensive smells from the soli and plants in the forest which is located near where I live. This perfume manages to capture that incident perfectly. Scrubber.
Needle – – :
WOW. I’ve sampled a LOT of perfumes and this one stands out by a mile from the rest. Earthy, real, complex, like walking around barefoot in a forest. Just wow.
Baimudlin97 – :
Chypre Mousse is one of the outstanding perfumes I’ve ever owned. I’m about to order my second bottle and I can’t believe I’ve not written a review here. I first tried it after reading Kafkaesque’s glorious review, so I sent off for a sample set. Fell in love with CM and continued sampling reviewing and buying other perfume. But I always come back to this. So many fragrances out there today are sweet repeats of each other. I’m on overload of cashmeran woody synthetic vanilla! Gakk!! Hideous! Chypre Mousse is not for everyone…..thank the Lord……but for me it opens with a huge herbal medicinal forest floor of smells. There are few words to describe it but it’s very different. It evokes new growth in a woodland, clean whole earthy smells. Ahh that’s it! It’s our precious EARTH. soil and loam and peate. BUT then it changes and settles and it’s as if an exotic flower blooms and fills the earthy air with a scent so rare so beautiful…..like violets but don’t expect a sweet sugary violet this is on another level. It’s ethereal and powerful all at the same time. It’s huge as well so for me on my perfume gobbling skin it’s ideal. It last for hours and stays on clothes for days. Glory be!! This perfume is like a journey to a place you never knew existed. Second bottle on its way……….
sliva_chempion – :
It’s all about that drydown. Damn, it’s good!
The opening is a bit like a walk through someone great-aunt’s house that is enormous and full of pleasures for the eyes, mouth, and nose, but overwhelms at the same time. The problem is, you have NO idea from which the source of the weird scent comes! You can’t escape it…but then…
You find you are trying to breathe it in deeper…and deeper. It’s really odd. I get something unpleasant, but then, towards the end of my inhalation, I find something alluring, almost magical. That’s just the opening.
The middle notes are traffic-jam of sharp greens – but they are fairly short lived in their fullness and willingness to cut you if you give them any side-eye.
But DAMN! I’ve been wearing this since 8:30 am, and it’s 6:45 pm, and this is the part I LOVE! It’s perfectly elegant without announcing itself as such. It’s the scent of beauty with edge and a rawness that allows for the wearer to feel real – not as though this is a scent trying to make them pretend at playing a role. It’s truly FBW, but only if you have grown bored of “well-blended” and perfect. This is not that bottle. This is an edgier elegance. This is really cool.
cherep1771 – :
I adore this scent – it is a cold weather star!! I couldn’t imagine trying it at any other time of the year.
My guy says that it smells like honey on me – not my own perception, but everybody to their own.
LOVE
waw177 – :
Scent – oak moss, vetiver & pine.
Season/Time of Day – I prefer to use this one in the colder months, day or night.
Projection – I did get noticed, I didn’t get a compliment.
Longevity – I get 12hrs consistently.
акцент – :
Oh dear. Someone mixed strong dish soap with a bad copy of Vent Vert, and left it to rot somewhere. It stays like that for 5 hrs, before becoming pleasant…ish. This is one of only 3 samples I’ve binned, ever. Sorry I was headachy and nauseated 🙁
G4EVER – :
This is the weirdest perfume I’ve ever smelled. I expected to love it, but when my sample arrived I was very disappointed. It smelled like rotting mushrooms! So I put it aside for a few months. I tried it again in the summer and found out the drydown was really lovely, with the oakmoss coming out. But still, it wasn’t worth the wait. Now autumn has arrived and I thought Chypre Mousse could finally fit in. And so it was. After the weird opening, which I’m getting used to, I started smelling something so clean and mesmerizing that I couldn’t believe it was the same perfume! It seems that Oriza perfumes take me a while to begin to love them, but when it happens it’s a big love!
Shermi – :
Picture, if you will,a deeply shaded forest. Rotting logs covered with the softest, springiest moss imaginable, the distant sound of a slow running brook. The canopy is so thick, shafts of sunlight pinprick their way through, like the beams of a PAR36 disco light trained on a mirrorball. In these shafts of light, tiny winged insects dart like motes of dust. The forest floor is ripe and fertile with dark composted things which smell at once of geosmin, pine needles and cones, tobacco leaves and a pot of hot black tea. On a bed of angelica, clover leaves and ferns lie two entwined naked bodies in the aftermath of serious bliss, their skin grubby and damp, their eyelids fluttering lanuidly as they try and fail to resist the narcotic scents and brain chemicals of a hot summer’s day well done in the undergrowth. This is not a subtle fragrance. This is how chypres are supposed to smell. This is the base of every sexy perfume pre-1975. This is what is missing in today’s slew of antiseptically clean candies, fruit salads and OTT blasts of calone. This is what it’s all about. To a barefoot in the grass type nature girl like me, this is, if used sparingly, heaven on earth, lasts 4 days on a spill, and is the best thing ever for keeping the cat off my duvet.
dr_doz – :
Unique and yet simple.
Dizill32 – :
such a beauty is this scent. it’s one of our favorites. classic and modern chypre perfume together. we love wearing this one…
karloson13 – :
A very harsh, dark green, foresty chypre, far away from any sweetness. Makes no compomises and in that way – only in that way – similar to the fantastic XPEC Original and No. 88. Very well composed, excellent longevity, radiation as a nuclear drive. Beloved by the tarts, by the way.
Skynile – :
Over 40 male reviewer:
My first frag from this house, apparently I picked their strangest.
After reading the reviews below, I have a perspective that no one else has offered; that of spiced tea. This is a very nostalgic spiced tea somehow. One of those scents that you know you’ve smelled before, but can’t exactly place. Homey, a cabin out in the woods.
Problem: There is a note/accord in there that has a sort of putrid gig going on; but it’s only at the beginning.
The dry-down: Is really. really. great.
I can completely understand people not liking this…
BUT…
…it is also very intriguing, and I can completely understand people LIKING it, and even LOVING it.
IMO, leans masculine but def unisex.
Sillage/Projection/Longevity is all moderate to moderately strong (but not beastly). Certainly is not in the weak category in any of those areas.
The biggest plus: The nostalgic “something” and the “naturalness” of it. I am extremely fussy with frags, and most all designers give me miserable headaches without hardly any effort. I was surprised to see a reviewer below get a headache from this, but I suppose that could happen with virtually any frag.
I PERSONALLY DO NOT GET HARDLY ANY MINT. Yes, I’m yelling. It’s there, but it’s way in the back, and a very natural plant-type mint which is a huge bonus.
I DO get many of the other notes that can best be summed up as mossy and spicy wet forest.
I will likely never wear it, but am happy to have a 10ml decant that I may use as a spray for certain specific occasions. With frags like these, I will often add them to a discreet location at an outdoor gathering event to add a little wafting surprise for the visitors. This would be the type of frag I would do that with.
It’s neat-o.
Since I can’t stand about 90% of frags out there, I have to give this an 8 out of 10 (Dior Sauvage for example doesn’t even get a “1”), even tho I still will not wear it.
Serq575 – :
Again, I hate to confess that I haven’t a lot of trouble picking out individual notes in ANY PERFUME – let alone one so well blended as this one. But I am in love with this scent!!
A note that wasn’t listed was chrysanthemum….. yet, I am strongly reminded of them. They are one of my very favorite scents of fall.
And the longevity of this juice is amazing on me, with my older woman dry skin-eats-perfume. Applied @ 9 PM and still there at 2 PM the next day. So I shall get my money’s worth frm the FB I just ordered.
Don’t we all need at least one scent that isn’t too awfully sweet in our PERFUME cabinets?
tfj122intitytek – :
Interesting. Its smells like garden herbs. Mint is most prominent. Fresh and green. It smells very old world. It smells good but it dries down smelling like antique pillow and cat lady. Must be the fennel and sage.
kux344elipseskism – :
I totally agree with all previous reviews. I also love to garden, and this scent reminds me of freshly cut green foliage, mixed with everything else that grows in the soil. The mushroom note is truly prominent; I’ve stepped on plenty of those thru the years to recognize it. I’m enjoying it, in winter. I wouldn’t dare go near it during the summer months. That’s when I’m playing in the dirt again, and smell like that anyway ;*)
datuna74 – :
This is said to date back to 1914, but I highly doubt that whatever was sold under this name back then smelled like the current version. This is a very up to date niche scent to my nose. It’s a lot of fun while it lasts, but for me, it is not the intense and strange experience suggested by some reviewers. (Sometimes I think my nose is so used to potent vintage animalics, oakmoss, and musks that modern scents that are said to be STRANGE! WEIRD! STRONG! can seem thin, tame, and pale in comparison.)
As it opens, Chypre Mousse truly suggests moist moss exhalating in a dark forest garden. This is a modern moss note–I don’t think it is the same stuff as vintage oakmoss. There’s a very unusual. interesting, and slightly acrid note of freshly turned dirt, some soft green notes–vetiver, a little mint, perhaps some artemisia–blended with an aqueous and sweet aromachemical familiar to me from modern men’s colognes. I do not perceive a lot of the notes listed–no galbanum, no leather, no labdanum, no pine. As Chypre Mousse dries down, in about an hour, the darker, mossy notes fade away and one is left with a slightly sweet, greenish, aquatic fume. If you reapply Chypre Mousse, it’s possible to wallow pleasurably in the damp, dank moss a little longer. If you want more potent oakmoss, you will probably need to switch to something with much more depth, soul, and passion; in other words, a vintage little O.ld L.ady perfume such as Replique, Tweed, or Audace.
csy531Diobtetty – :
Well, I am impressed. Its obviously a savoury mousse from Cyprus and a very tasty one at that. I really love it! Ive been looking for a “green” fragrance and I think Ive found it at last. On the opening its fennel, mint, angelica and clary Sage in that order. There is a little bit of earthiness but nothing off putting. There is sweetness from the honeyed clover that bees love. Its fresh and spring like with the galbanum and clary sage keeping it bright and stimulating.
Im a keen gardener and a very experienced one at that and this is a perfume that any gardener would love. I feel I am transported to my herb garden.
A large sillage and good longevity
dkc218JeomiWogkig – :
I’m on the verge to say I hate Chypre Mousse but don’t really want to go that far. However, this is not a perfume that is very easy to like (and it doesn’t has to be but I could understand those who strongly dislike it).
Chypre Mousse is very dry. It is very earthy. It is also very insistent. It is like being buried with dry, thick, dark, compact soil, topped with a little bit of hay and tobacco. At the same time, there is something rather moisty and wet going on under there. Maybe some moss or herbs. The green things makes it almost bearable. I think the troubble I have with it is that it makes me feel like I’m laying on a bed of soil that is going to swallow me alive. It is OVERWHELMING and not the way I like it.
It is just too dark and earthy and wet and dry at the same time.
With that said I would still like to smell it on someone else, maybe someone who smell better in it than I do.
Chypre Mousse is after all something I will not forget in the first place and that makes it at least interesting.
HomaVasul – :
This is a little bit of an anti-perfume in the tradition of some of the ELDO, CdG, Slumberhouse or Andy Tauer creations. It has a dark, evocative power to bring to life forests, damp green underground, a bit claustrophobic and deliberately difficult. Everyday on my way to work I walk through a park next to a lake (in the North of England) and depending on the season, I get variations of this from the damp, rotting vegetation, the soil after the rain and the shrubs and trees next to the lake.
It is not a crowd-pleaser and it is quite assertive. I have been rethinking this a few times and this wasn’t helped by a couple of reviews by respectable reviewers who don’t seem to like it. However, I decided I like it and it is firmly on the shopping list (currently no 8, so won’t have by Xmas:-).
Meupi002intitytek – :
My review is very simple. This fragrance smells exactly like cocktail sauce. The stuff you eat shrimp with. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love cocktail sauce, and I do think this fragrance smells good. But it’s not something I want to walk around smelling like. Fascinating concept, but unwearable for me.
dmitridad – :
This is a joke, right? I swear to god I tried to warm up to Chypre Mousse but I really couldn’t. It smells like a mediterranean salad with a chypre-dressing instead of olive oil. I’m all for bizarre, over-the-top fragrances and olfactive experiments but this one smells plain gross, weird and completely unpleasant….and it lasts forever.
Nope.
Rating: 4/10
vqf747Bessinepome – :
Oriza’s creations seem to harken to the religious experience. I would say that this one makes you suffer for a bit of heaven. The opening note is a bit alarming. Are we being poisoned?
I’ve noticed that some of the most loved scents make you suffer through some notes that are first difficult to bear. Perhaps that’s a part of the appreciation? With time the perfume does relax into something nice.
SLAVA-86 – :
I don’t like to be negative, but this absolutely did not work on my skin. It opened with an overwhelming bitter herbal concoction, and developed with an overlay of a bizarre chemical note. I developed a whopping headache within about 10 minutes of putting it on. Definitely glad it was only a sample!
mattnewer372 – :
Mint, earth, sage, fennel, everything. This perfume is incredible and I could simply smell like this forever. Drop dead gorgeous. Aura of an excellent forest green and smells remarkably natural, and it’s definitely unusual; I can’t put my finger on it, but this (right behind Marescialla, Santa Maria Novella) is one of the creepiest perfumes ever; there’s something about it.
Upon putting it on, I get a lot of fennel-anise sort greens. The dry down is WAY different from when I first put it on my wrist. The potency is good. I went to load the laundry into the wash and the entire stack of clothes smelled gracefully like Chypre Mousse, and I used a few drops on my wrist only once a couple days before that. It’s subtle yet heavy, and long lasting. It’s a strangely addictive, and it’s difficult to describe it because it reveals new notes every time I wear it. I’ll have to wear it several more times. It’s a real shape-shifter.
And based on other reviews, it seems this perfume unfolds differently on everyone.
10/10
Edit 4/15/15: I just got Coven by Andrea Maack, and it’s definitely a replication of Chypre Mousse, but it’s significantly more pricey. That said, just stick with the original.
Leonid_0160 – :
This is such an odd perfume, but from the moment I put it on, I felt that I had worn it before . . .and, in one way I had. It reminds me exactly of my herb garden where I let mint and sage grow everywhere. Growing herbs is one of my hobbies, and when they need pruning, I let my Blue & Gold Macaw help. He loves to pick and chop with his enormous beak. He is indiscriminate, and attends to all the plants and even the dirt. There are pine trees around, clover growing in the yard, and all sorts of interesting plants including fennel, chives and ferns. After weeding and cleaning my macaw’s beak, I have the loveliest aroma on my hands and clothes. It smells just like Chypre Mousse! In fact the first spray has a potency similar to crushing the leaves under your nose.
The mint and sage are the strongest notes on my skin, and the dry down has its’ own peculiar accord. Sillage is moderate, and longevity 3 – 4 hours for me. All of it smells fresh, and as much as I love my garden, this is not a perfume I would wear as a regular selection. However, as I love odd and strange perfumes, I feel that there are times when this would be perfect to wear.
kds_itspec – :
Opening a velvet curtain of rose, vetiver, and mossy woods, without being (too) musty. Somewhere the scent of bread crust. Methinks I’m in a 17th century stone kitchen, with the garden just outside. A masterpiece of olfactory art! Amazing longevity. The drydown becomes quite masculine, so would recommend for men.
wowanw – :
Chypre Mousse opens with an unbelievably full, green bouquet. It’s like savoring the most complex red wine on the back of the tongue. With each gentle inhalation, my brain tried desperately to grasp the notes, but there were far too many of them tumbling around to pinpoint any one in particular. My thought process went out the window as my eyes closed. All I could think was, “Mmmmm!! Aaahhhhh!!”
The perfume changed so much in the coming moments. Images of my favorite hiking trail flooded vividly through my mind–a cold and clear stream of water that runs alongside a damp trail beneath a canopy of redwoods. Ferns color the shaded slopes bright green. There are definitely mushrooms here and there, but they don’t dominate the fragrance. The first phase contains a robust mint note, fungi, leather, ferns, and wet soil. Frodo, have we made it to the shire?
Within minutes I am transported to another part of the trail–the meadow. It can be very dry during summer months with intense sunshine beating down on the golden grasses. Sumptuous notes of hay, tobacco, and honey overtake anything green. Based on the pyramid, these notes aren’t supposed to be there, but I do smell them. It was all somehow very familiar. Where had I smelled this before? Clinique’s Aromatics Elixir, that very complex and beautiful perfume with its honeyed dryness. But something about AE is jarring. I could never truly love it the way I wanted to. And it smells a bit too stuffy; perhaps outdated. In this phase of Chypre Mousse, it’s as though everything wrong with AE was made magically, perfectly RIGHT.
Thirty minutes along, the perfume is more resinous as lentisque presents itself. Although it is certainly unisex, this phase reminds me of 1800’s aristocratic London gentlemen with top hats and tails. It’s not the forest perfume that it was earlier, and although beautiful, I found myself missing the trees, mushrooms, and soil.
The final drydown, 3-4 hours later smells of lentisque and a hint of cinnamon, and that surprising mushroom note seems to rear its head on occasion, making for an odd scent. Wearing Chypre Mousse is truly an experience.
Heavenly! Captivating! It might not be my signature scent, but there is no doubt that it’s a masterpiece and one of the best, most complex perfumes I have ever smelled in my life.
vil_bk – :
I had my first test of this today. The opening is truly enormous. An almost eye-stinging blast of astringent mint and earth.
This is truly unique, there are notes here that I have no way of identifying; so unusual and unknown to my nose.
It is, however, beautiful in its individuality. Even if I don’t know what I’m smelling, it does smell good.
There is a lot of development. As the mint subsides (but doesn’t disappear until much later), I sense an anisic or licorice-like tone, and increasing green and brown earthiness. There is a lot more going on that I wish I had the know-how to describe.
A few hours in, the mossiness takes centre stage, and this is bliss.
I know I’ll have to try this several times before I really make my mind up about it. I’m sure that I admire it, and has all the hallmarks of my actually craving it, but I’m not sure I’d really wear this. What occasion in this modern world could I even pull this off? I may have to start dancing in forests in the moonlight for just this reason.
Alex611005 – :
I received this yesterday, from Swedish company Fragrance and Art. I don´t usually venture to make blind buys when the perfume is rather costly. But Kafkaesque´s raving review persuaded me.
I´m very glad I took the plunge, so to speak. It opens up cool and minty, and gradually morphes into something with lots of mosses, wetness and mushrooms. I would have liked to smell the violets described by Kafkaesque as well, but never mind, they might show up after I used the fragrance a few times.
I very much appreciate it being a non-linear fragrance. Linear fragrances bore me.
The sillage is – according to my nearest of kin – moderate. The longevity is outstanding. I was very happy to find a lot of Chypre Mousse still lingering about after a full nights sleep. This is unusual for my skin, which tend to “devour” fragrances.
maxmyd164 – :
As a seasoned gardener I experienced a very realistic impression of the perfume notes; they were wild fennel, penny royal, asparagus fern and clary sage, but it is the mushroom that is dominant at the outset, the star of the show. It’s drenched in a balsamic glaze and cooked in an earth pit, in my country that is a hangi. I imagine the dark caves of France where cheese and truffles are kept and think that Chypre Mousse should have its own vat, it’s own region, similar to a wine appellation. Kafkaesque’s review (on his/her blog) mentions a chrysanthemum note, a genteel way of identifying the dung note, for it is surely there, just as it is in Tom Ford’s Urban Musk, I kid you not.
What is disconcerting to me is that I cannot get past the Lifebuoy soap. (apparently it’s violet, but not as we know it) It’s as if the thoroughly composted leaf mould, dark and friable, met the truffly mushroom goodness and went, by mistake, into the soap vat instead of the oak barrels reserved for the best Syrah. So, I can’t live with the Protex (soap) loitering around the edges of the oak forest where the mycelia of Chypre Mousse call to the distant trampling of the pigs. At full dry down the perfume is full bodied and voluptuous. It’s not for me, but a perfume highlight all the same. Unbelievably different and memorable, a wonderful experience.
My sample of Chypre Mousse came in the sample pack efficiently desptached from France to the bottom of the world in a package with a faultlessly handwritten address.
4d4i47 – :
Oh no I cannot be the first reviewer here ! This is unbelievably drop dead stunning. It is like ,dark navy blue chilled night under the glittering stars. Superb quality and persistence – I say this because so much modern fume is just a flash and it’s gone,like the zip less @@
Hell this is in the pantheon of beauty that we cannot ignore…
Please excuse the autocorrect I will leave it up to,babel to interpret. This has a stunning unique cold minty open instead,of,the usual,blast,of orange. Presumably they are using the same aromachems as everybody else but hell this is amazing. Absolutely haunting and beautiful…next time I am in Paris I am going there…another Mitsouko…
The ethereal almost medicinal open is extraordinary and never quite leaves. Although not noted this seems to have a blast of patchouli like the blast in Angel that thing that happened all those years ago and upon reflection made me think,that Tuberuese Criminelle,was a pun on Angel.this is a strange and lovely thing.just extraordinary and how rare is that!! I have never smelled anything like this; it is more like aromatherapy than perfume … Don’t worry about making a splash on the opposite sex, this is conquer the universe stuff…futuristic…