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Waimapyawaids – :
This masterpiece is what dreams are made of! The crown jewel in my collection! Blend is genuis blending timeless Chypre with modernity and luxurious touch that make every sense of my olfactory light up with personal joy.
Toxa_2030 – :
10/10 Masterpiece, plain and simple. The composition changes with different notes coming into the lime light every time I wear it which is fairly often. It is always easily recognizable but at the same time not a 100% clone of itself every time. Soft, smooth and semi-cream soda like vibe that wraps the wearer and anyone nearby to a desert island like scent bubble where ultimate peace reigns.
Killer_93_ – :
a true gentleman’s fragrance! it was a love at first sniff for me! what a masterpiece!!
in my top 3
10/10
soortlorneync – :
Masterpiece… This is one of the most complex fragrance I have ever come across, development and transition of this perfume is amazing. I don’t know how to describe, it has everything, it’s sweet yet bitter, it’s dark and mysterious yet fresh and charming. To me the best part is the opening. It start with bitter green galbanum, oakmoss, fresh aldehydes and sweetened fruity notes together with touch of animatic vibe. I believe sweetness come from tolu balsam. Opening is truly mind blowing. After first few hours fresh aldehydes and fruity notes start to fade away and some white floral notes start to pop up. And the dry down leave you an addictive sweetness of tolu balsam together with fading galbanum and animalic notes. These are the main notes I managed to detect, but I sure get a sniff of some other notes also times to time, not sure which one is which.
Bertrand Duchaufour is my one of favorite perfumers. His creations are very unique and always challenging, it will take few wearing to love his perfumes, but this one is love at first sniff for me.
Performance is quite good, last around 8 to 9 hours, first 4 hours the projection is pretty strong and then become a skin scent. This is classified as Chypre Fruity, but to me it’s more like Chypre Oriental/Gourmand. And what a beautiful name, “Chypre Palatin”. Presentation is also stunning with the bust, but I bought without bust as it’s more cheaper.
Bifeobece – :
Scent – an appealing farrago of notes that end up smelling sweet & noticeably animalic.
Season/Time of Day – I prefer to use this one in the colder months, during the day.
Projection – I didn’t get noticed, I didn’t get a compliment.
Longevity – I get 14hrs consistently.
Sennaclelty – :
A refreshingly modern floral gourmand chypre composition, this fragrance is a beautiful blend of the old and new, with achingly beautiful results. The perfume opens in a whiff of aldehydes with other notes of lavender, hyacinth, sage,labdanum, immortelle and clementine. As it begins settling one detects notes of plum, jasmine, rose, gardenia and iris. Finally, upon settling a mossy powdery base of benzoin, vanilla, tolu and oakmoss is revealed which is enhanced by addition of leathery notes (castoreum), styrax, and costus. This is chypre only in name and although it does follow the traditional chypre flow of notes, the final composition is a beautifully blended, unisex, shape shifting beauty that defies any traditional classification. Moderate in sillage, constantly evolving on the skin in pleasantly mysterious way with moderate sillage and good longevity. This is a truly entrancing and bona fide wonder of modern perfumery!
Cvyatt – :
Unbelievably complex and impressive fragrance. A true masterpiece, as others have stated.It almost feels like one needs to take extensive practice to be able to appreciate this beauty at its full potential, there is no way I could do it from the first wear. I had to prepare my nose for it, gradually, and each time I wore it sang to me in a more beautiful manner than the previous time.
The pyramid notes change drastically, in a surprising, yet natural way, unveiling a complexity that, to my untrained nose, it almost feels difficult to comprehend.
It is the embodiment of perfumery at its finest. A true work of art.
Merzo – :
It’s strange that I’ve never reviewed this despite it being a top five fragrance of mine for years. Maybe that’s because I lack the words to describe it.
The first thing I will say is this isn’t a chypre the way I usually think of chypres. It’s soft, sweet and animalic rather than sharp, green and fresh. I would agree with those voting the tolu balsam and castoreum as prominent. It’s well rounded and completely unisex, lasts forever and is a gorgeous, classic French style perfume that smells only like itself.
GordiS – :
This juice is artwork. Brilliant blended. Monster logevity. Dynamic. This fragrance have many masks. Sometimes autum, sometimes summer. Sometimes plum. Sometimes yellow flowers in the wind. Sample it to smell good or to join the journey!
sergio290177 – :
Noooooo! Say it ain’t so emjayen84??? I’ve delayed buying it for too long and it’s been reformulated. I’ll have to try it again and see if what it has lost.
nik_-nik – :
Well, it only took 5 years. Chypre Palatin has been noticeably reformulated. I now get a sheer, lavender, almost bubblegummy accord on top, and there has seemingly been a significant cut to bodily weight and richness in the later stages. I don’t get as much mossy plushness anymore. Sad!
элли – :
Tam bir başyapıt diyebileceğim tek şey her koleksiyonerin bulundurması gereken bir koku değerini sonuna kadar hak ediyor.
artemlikancev – :
Chypre Palatin was my Scent of the day yesterday and I love this scent. To me it represents the art of parfumery in a bottle.It is a masterpiece that will stand the test of time.This is the kind of fragrance that when you smell it you will reawaken your eyes will open up wide and you will smile and you will feel the love in the world.
Dassytubfat – :
CHYPRE PALATIN
WOW its a beautiful golden/yellowish scent,it is warm and animalistic in opening with some sweet notes, in dry down still sweet and warm plus some creamy gourmand notes,defenitly for colder days
CP MDCI is balsamic/animalistic/sweet perfume
9.5/10
pancer – :
@javamdnss It could be a mixture of aldehydes and oak moss. Bertrand managed to isolate the banned molecule from oak moss for this fragrance so real oak moss is used in it, which is a big difference from many of today’s fragrances.
xci183Unlogrere – :
I wanted to like this scent, and I did…….for the hour it stayed on my skin. I’ve yet to find an MDCI fragrance that has decent longevity.
hunter435 – :
Parfums MDCI Chypre Palatin is a heavy chypre with a strong mix of lavender and labdanum in the opening, giving it a sharp edge from the onset, the dry down giving way to a floral heart of iris, rose, and gardenia, and finally a hodgepodge of base notes, most of which I don’t detect at all, the standouts of which for me are the oakmoss and castoreum, fostering a woody and animalic combination. I barely detect any sweetness at all that one might expect from vanilla or benzoin.
Chypre Palatin leans masculine, as one might expect, but it’s unisex enough that women could enjoy it too—it has a classic-enough appeal for both genders.
It’s a good performer, ideal for cold weather, as it might simply be too cloying in the summer heat. It projects very strongly for about an hour and then has modest projection for several hours thereafter.
A nice entry but one that doesn’t quite fit in with my ideal type of chypre, so not one I’ll be pursuing further.
7 out of 10
azlobin47 – :
Tried it last month. The bottles are renewed and they seemed to come with new formulation. Because performance wise it was weak. I was planning to review its morphing through th e10th-12th hour, but that was short lived so does my review.
RenShaman – :
Wow I fall in love with this cologne.It is so rich,complex and very classic scent.
I love this cologne and it’s perfumer Mr Bertrand Duchaufour.
Bravo
9/10
TDK52 – :
This stunner is just WOW! I agree with the general consensus of notes detected. It is a sweet, aromatic and resinous chypre. I love the herbal aspect to this but then I love Oriza L Legrands Chypre Mousse. The sweetness does ease off quite a bit in the first hour allowing the galbanum and animal note to be more evident. It smells so rich and opulent but it never gets cloying which is probably down to the aldehydes and hyacinth cutting through. Impressive sillage and longevity. You can’t help feeling like a million dollars when you wear this. I can’t imagine any other fragrance purchase topping this. It’s blown me away.
1975ADB – :
What an absolutely glorious intoxicating masterpiece Chypre Palatin is!!! Wow!!!! Extraordinarily beautiful!!!! I love it!!! I adore it, and so does my husband!!!! It’s my favourite perfume. It’s heavenly!!!! Beautifully strong and sweet!!!! Lasts forever!!! It’s BRILLIANT!!!!!
bagrv1984 – :
Oh my goodness! How glorious is this perfume?! I haven’t written a review for a while but this one certainly compels me to sing praises whilst standing on the highest mountain. Just wow!
I can smell some similarity to Amouage Beloved, especially at the beginning. The words desert me when trying to describe it but it has that classic fabulous vibe. I feel I should wear a long fur coat and have my hair styled high, dangly art deco earrings and smart kitten heels.
I do not feel this is every day affair but when I do wear it I simply feel fabulous.
Hurray for my large decant.
Nupalm – :
Absolutely incredible. Singular chypre fragrance. If you like non-linear scents, this won’t disappoint. The progression is symphonic, separated in no less than four movements, sometimes more – depending on the temperature and amount of body heat the wearer creates.
I get a blast of aldehydes and hyacinth and citrus (clementine) in the opening- gorgeous. The floral heart notes are less dominant, and they give way to an ethereal resinous base that smells like it was made in heaven. The hyacinth and clementine is always present, and is so beautiful in the dry down. To top it all off, there is a deceptively strong animalic undertone that permeates through the life of the fragrance in all but the initial 5 minutes, which are dominated by the aforementioned aldehydes, citrus, and hyacinth.
There is an elegance to this fragrance that makes it tower over almost my entire collection. I believe it is an all season scent. It is my signature and I cannot get enough of it. The opening is just down right addictive. The shape-shifting, symphonic progression is so complex that subtle environmental changes let the user experience a seemingly infinite number of permutations of the smell.
Masterpiece. Performance is perfect. Heavy sillage for the first two hours, then an arm’s length scent bubble for another 8-10 hours. Skin scent for the next 12 hours.
Stunning
troshka – :
what a lovely beauty…this is a master…truly a beauty…we love it…
Skiquemem – :
I bought this because it was made by Bertrand Duchafour. I was expecting something full bodied and that which would make me swoon as others have exclaimed. I have no idea what I were thinking following people’s opinions. I am sorry but I have no idea what there is to like here apart from a very faint vanilla coke smell which I also got in Bertrand’s Mon Numero 10. What on Earth is wrong with people?
pirist – :
The dry down reminds me of the resinous myrhh in Dior’s Eau Sauvage Parfum.
proXAZA – :
“A majestic Old-World European palace, secluded from the world and almost forgotten in time.”
Chypre Palatin is a 2012 fragrance from MDCI Parfums, a French niche perfume house by Claude Marchal. The house is conceived with a specific philosophy in mind: create great perfumes hiring the world’s best perfumers without any cost restraint. Among the perfumers on board is Bertrand Duchaufour, one of the most foremost noses in the perfume industry, and he introduced to the world a fragrance that smells of the Old World from a modernist’s approach.
Like its name, Chypre Palatin is a classic chypre perfume and pays tribute to the family made by François Coty. A chypre perfume usually have citrus top notes, followed floral heart notes and base notes that typically include oakmoss and some animalics. On my skin, it opens with blasts of citrus and light floral notes such as clementine and water hyacinth. Clementine and water hyacinth each has unique scent: the former smells similar to most citrus notes but without the tangy undertone, while the latter invokes a light, cool “watery” property.
After some time, notes of green galbanum and balsamic tolu balsam began to reveal themselves. These are two key notes that render Chypre Palatin a perfume that belongs to the Old World. Galbanum is what renders Chypre Palatin’s scent one that is reminiscent of perfumes from yesteryear, and is present in many legendary fragrances such as Guerlain’s L’Heure Bleue and Vol de Nuit, and Dior’s vintage Miss Dior. Tolu balsam is a velvety, balsamic note that can be found in legendary perfumes such as Yves Saint Laurent’s vintage Opium, Jean Desprez’s Bal a Versailles, and Guerlain’s Vol de Nuit.
After an hour or two, the heart notes reveal themselves as a lush bouquet of flowers. There is also a tinge of plum in there, which is another note prominent in vintage perfumes. But the true beauty of Chypre Palatin, in my opinion, is the drydown: on top of tolu balsam are smooth and creamy vanilla, leathery castoreum and oakmoss. Oakmoss is particularly special because its use is heavily controlled by tight IFRA regulations and is one of the key notes in the chypre family and vintage perfumes. Oakmoss is terribly difficult to process, yet Chypre Palatin is utterly rich with this realistically wet, damp-earthy note (whether or not real oakmoss is present is very debatable).
I vividly remember buying a decant of Chypre Palatin with very little amounts left from a friend. Upon first sniff, the scent struck with me and many of those around me. I emptied the decant for a single use while in New York City last December and it was MAGICAL! This perfume is born to be used in cold climates, where its full magic works wonders for the wearer and everyone around him.
Many have claimed that it smells like “a (rich) old lady”, and I don’t disagree. Indeed, it smells like a vintage perfume and understandably it appeals even to older females. Yet, its leathery-animalic tones render this practically unisex. The only thing I would say is that the wearer must be mature enough to pull this fragrance off. I cannot ever imagine it being used and appreciated by adolescents; at least the average adolescent would find the smell of this perfume “old”.
But in this age where perfumes smells cheap, skews acutely to smelling fresh and clean, Chypre Palatin is a respectable tribute to perfumes of days gone by. The scent is complex and kaleidoscopic, where each use reveals different facets that first-time users wouldn’t realise at first. Although pricey, it’s one of those fragrances that is fundamentally love at first sight, and the price is worth every cent. Moreover, it is a testament to Duchaufour’s mastery in perfume and how he is simply one of my favourite perfumers.
A big merci beaucoup to Monsieur Duchaufour and MDCI Parfums; Chypre Palatin is simply glorious.
Andre4251 – :
Chypre Patatin is a love at first sniff to me. I tried it on skin one afternoon about a year or so ago from a fragrance loving friend and ordered myself a bottle that same evening.
The Clementine note(s) in this fragrance are really outstanding giving the typical Chypre structure of this fragrance a fantastic twist. The Clementine here to me consists of different phases linking the warm fruity aromatic top to the sweet floral slightly powdery heart and lasts till the balsamic woody leathery base.
I have made a tincture with crushed whole freeze dried and aged Clementines together with their leaves and stems a while back and the scent from it is exactly the same as the Clementine notes in this fragrance. It is sweet, aromatic, warm, slightly spicy, powdery and woody and somewhat mossy. That tincture made me understand Chypre Palatine a lot more and appreciate how special it is. It is really an easy to wear fragrance and works well even during the warmer months of the year.
woland5045 – :
This is such a masterpiece! It smells different every time I wear it and changes during each wearing. Yet, it always smells dramatic and serious. It’s one of the rare fragrances I’ve smelled that reminded me of ancient Rome, the empire in its heydays. Decadence and opulence. Dancing on a volcano. That feeling.
doctor_com – :
Chypre Palatin is a very complex frag and thats no surprise as its created by Mr Bertrand Duchaufour . Iniitally when i sampled the frag i absolutely did not like it and thinking abot it now it happened becuase my nose was not ready for this master peice. I Have grown to love this frag and if i had acess to best perfumer in the world i would prohably ask perfumer to make me chypre palatin.
This is quite modern take on Classic fragrance style and Its quite versatile as well as it last around 6-8 Hours .This is the sort of fragrance that rewards the nose you’ve developed through all the years you’ve sniffed through piles of samples. I would say this belongs to above 30 gentleman who likes to have best of the world.
This is best from MDCI line and i would say must try for any fragheads.10/10
adam3000 – :
An absolute favorite, and currently in my top 5! I haven’t been smelling my wrists long enough to know exactly what a true chypre is, and for me, Duchaufour’s creations are usually bigger and sweeter than I like, but this is sheer pleasure! I can wear this anywhere, at any time. It’s classy, with a few nuances that keep it interesting throughout it’s life. Opening with effervescent greens, then showing creamy florals, oakmoss,balsam, sandalwood, vanilla and leather! Two thumbs way up!!
tarasplan – :
I’ve sampled a few times now and gushed out a review (see below) already so I’ll keep this short. I got another sample to make sure that I’m definitely in love with this fragrance as its a big commitment (because you’ve got to get the bust one) from a financial point of view.
Anyway, I neglected to mention how much of that clementine note comes through in the opening its splendid, then the Labdanum and an almost ginger beer sharpness and fullness of tolu balm/benzoin and styrax. This fragrance is a knockout…so so good.
Karin26 – :
I’m always surprised by the attention this one gets; I simply don’t find it to be that impressive for its genre. It’s fine enough, don’t get me wrong, but it really is just a textbook old-fashioned chypre that I’ve smelled many times before. It’s extremely rich and opulent with a nice mossy hum and some airy bergamot up top. A hefty amount of aldehydes make it fizz, dragging it away from the traditional structure a little, but it’s still a phoned-in chypre to me overall — pleasant enough, but not doing anything relevant. It morphs a little over time into something that smells a tad more resinous, but it still doesn’t escape the cliched throwback impression I get. Decent, but I’d tell someone to check out the likes of Gold Woman or Au Dela first as they’re at least mixing things up a notch.
karija – :
CLASSIC MODERN CHYPRE
This perfumer has once again captured a classic fragrance and given it a modern day appeal.
(I felt the same with Invasion Barbare)
On opening, the bitter/sour was unpleasant, but it quickly softened to allow the citrus, floral, leather, musk and other well blended notes to emerge and dance around for quite a number of hours. I did not put too much on, and even with my limited dabs on my skin, I could tell that one needs to be frugal with how much to apply. In this case, less is more.
Although I appreciate the high level of mastery of this perfumer, Chypre is not something that appeals to me. Perhaps a bit challenging for my nose.
But certainly sample this fine fragrance. If you want the same high level but something a bit more safe, then I suggest Invasion Barbare.
marav11 – :
International Fragrance Association (IFRA) restrictions on materials have made the chypre the bellwether in the reformulation debate. Limiting the quantity of oakmoss that may be used and the type of bergamot allowed, the IFRA have knocked out two legs of the chypre tripod. The limitations have pushed perfumers to reconsider composition and materials-producers to search for novel chemicals and botanicals.
The question remains: is it possible to make a true chypre perfume today? And if so, how? I don’t know the engineering of perfume composition enough to say what’s under the hood of the current lineup of chypre perfumes, but there seem to be a few strategies. Chanel go the route of re-creating the geometry of the composition so as to suggest the chypre. Thierry Wasser has apparently fiddled with the forces of the nature and reconfigured the chemical structure of oakmoss (Mitsouko) and reanimated the chypre. Vero Kern, god knows how, simply makes a chypre with Onda.
The wonder of the chypre is that you smell bergamot, oakmoss and amber at the same time that the totality of the perfume rises above the materials. Chypre Palatin has some of the characteristic elements of the chypre. It has great sillage in the headnotes, a raspy heart and a warm, leathery drydown. Like a chypre its evolution is gradual but substantive. Overall, though, it’s simply smells like the sum of its parts.
Chypre Palatin lacks this synergy and therefore lacks soul. In a go-big-or-go-home attempt to deceive, Parfums MDCI would have us believe that Chypre Palatin is not simply a chypre, but a ‘palatial’ one and they charge accordingly. ($250/75 ml) Despite Parfums MDCI’s goal of high art in perfume, a big-name perfumer and an emphasis on the finest materials, Chypre Palatin swings and misses. It is a chypre in the way a tofu steak is meat and carob-chip cookies are satisfying. It doesn’t appear like an attempt to reinvent the chypre so much as a ploy to fool the buyer.
from scenthurdle.com
Mackenzie_fromAF – :
This scent is a wonderful luxurious hybrid chypre oriental fragrance that smells classy and opulent. Only the finest ingredients have been used and it shows.
On the opening we have a bitter green floral accord from the Galbanum coupled with a sparkling fuzzy champagne scent coming from the aldehydes. A tinge of citrus and the symphony is now in full swing.
Underneath this opening is a gorgeous slightly sweet vanilla toffee like balsam adding a contrast to the bitter green accord.
After a while the Hycinth takes over which is a green and slightly rooty floral note, like the stem of a potted plant. At this stage the gorgeous musky vanilla toffee balsam note becomes stronger. And we have a lovely balance of the green floral and sweet notes.
Many hours later the floral notes of jasmine and rose and can be smelled all blended in harmony like a symphony.
This scent is so complex and every time I wear it I can pick different notes, it almost shimmers on the skin showing you different aspects. Sometimes a fruity note appears and other times a slight animalic accord rears it’s head.
The fragrance lasts five hours before it reigns itself in but I can still detect it on my skin and clothes for many hours after. The projection is average but the scent is soft and very refined making it versatile to be sprayed on your neck without choking you out.
A perfect ten out of ten fragrance in my book and a scent I would class as a masterpiece in the art of perfumery!
К. Женя – :
I haven’t done a gushing review for a while so it’s long over due but this is a sublime fragrance.
I haven’t had the pleasure of seeing the MDCI bottles complete with their bust stoppers in the flesh before. I’d always got little sample vial of the ones I’ve tried so far so actually spraying one from the bottle was nice.
I’d avoided this one for testing purposes due to the name ‘Chypre’ not that I have anything against that classification but I’ve far more olfactory priorities like ‘orientals’ ‘balsamics’ etc…
Woah was I wrong?
This is a masterpiece from Duchaufour opens with a wonderful warm but sharp floral, balsamic, slightly green aroma which then gets sweeter and is joined by a sweetness of vanilla and animal notes of musk.
It’s an absolute knockout!
The drydown has a lovely quality of resin with my favourite labdanum in there and a complex woody floral base.
I Can’t really say much about the composition because it is so complex that it becomes simplistic and all I would say is try it for yourself.
I had almost written of MDCI as a niche house which under delivered, although I like Invasion barbare and adored Cuir Garamande I couldn’t justify the price. This one however is magic! I’m mystified as to why I didn’t buy it? I think I was so stunned and over whelmed by it and it wasn’t until I let it drydown and release more secrets hours later when I got home that I was fully convinced.
slisarmoriurf – :
*Sigh*…. Why did I have to fall in love with something this expensive?
“Chypre Palatin” is a superbly blended fragrance that exudes warm, subtle elegance from beginning to end.
Lush, hazy, soft, sweet, smoky, waxy, inky. It conjures up an image of a lacquered Chinese powder box sitting in a warm, lamp-lit room draped with heavy velvet curtains.
You can smell the craftsmanship here. When you inhale deeply, it doesn’t hit you with everything at once like most transparent designer scents, but rather it keeps going, revealing layer after layer:
First the powdery meld of iris and leather, which for me creates the illusion of velvet, softening the dry soap-like tang of the castorem and aldehydes. Then the romantic rose, plum and barbershop lavender. Finally, the balmy, chewy sweetness of the tolu balsam, vanilla and benzoin -which has an almost chocolaty nuance at times- all wrapped in a soft haze of smoky earthiness.
Perhaps not the most typically masculine of scents, but I see this befitting an artistic young man who’s not afraid to show his romantic, softer side. A bit like me! 😀
Someday I may be rich enough to by thee, Palatin. Until then…
*UPDATE*
I finally succumbed to fate and purchased a bottle of this beautiful creation. I cannot disagree with Colin Malliard’s review enough. This scent is absolutely worth the money. If you want over-priced pretentiousness, go smell Creed ‘Aventus’ – practically the same price as MDCI, nowhere near as complex or interesting. MDCI’s ethos is to give the perfumer free reign over the design and create what they truly want to make without restrictions, using the best possible ingredients. It shows in Chypre Palatin. The textures are so rich and the persistence is fantastic; It lasts up to 8 hours on my skin, and several days on clothes.
Don’t let your opinion of the price inform your opinion of the quality.
ebulfez – :
A gorgeous classical chypre. But too feminine for me.
nikam – :
as Colonel Potter in MASH once said “there ain’t enough o’s in smooth to describe this”. what a fantastic, quite masculine take on the chypre structure. fizzy aldehydes compliment rather than compete with, a strident green floral vanilla (!) backbone. smells surprisingly classic with a modern twist that duchaufour is so very good at. this is one of his very best efforts, which is saying something. absolutely worth the cash
after22islam – :
Really pretty floral chypre with very little oak moss. Starts off with a vibrant blast but loses steam too fast IMO. I love the old world classic vibe that this has and it is leagues better than what is available today.
However being that I’ve smelled this sort of thing in way better formulations during the 70’s and 80’s I can’t give this uber high marks. It just wouldn’t feel right. In today’s market however it is fantastic.
Marked as unisex and I say YES but this one takes a certain type. I see this as a dandified gentleman (metro) or muscle head / alpha male type that wants to “tone it down” a little to show his softer side.
Not for the average joe…specific indeed.
Sorry but I don’t feel this has monster performance. Average at best according to my sample from Luckscent 2014.
By the way I prefer this better than ONDA.
flashh – :
MASTERPIECE!
I just found my holy CHYPRE grail for the warmer time of year and daytime, whereas “Unspoken” by Roja Dove is the cosier, warmer, more autumnal and/or springtime Chypre.
This so extremely sophisticated that it is almost arrogant. Think of a really well-spoken and incredibly resourceful art dealer who only deals with the most expensive of pieces. This is a head-turner in a board meeting. I can also imagine a 6-star hotel director to smell like this.
It conjures up an image of cleanliness, wealth, intellect paired with sublime superiority and regal confidence. It has the original sharpness of CHANEL’s #19 and the aldehydic burst of #5 minus the flowers that except of the dominant hyacinths are rather submissive and demure.
Coco CHANEL could have created that as a male version of #19 or #5, but she has resisted. Thanks to her, Bertrand Duchaufour has been given the chance to put his mark on the eternal CHANEL classics and he did more than justice with this formidable creation.
I consider Duchafour an absolute master in his craft and he counts arguably to the most talented of noses of today.
10/10 from start to finish.
domaha – :
Perfectly Unisex.
Starts a little strong but smoothes out and has a luxurious feel to it.
Please wear this at least 3 times before making up your mind. Initially it was a 7.5/10 and after 2-3 wearings it was a 8.5/10, and now it is a 9/10.
qwer1 – :
Beautiful scent, great “old school” power juice, but extremely feminine! Great longevity & sillage, goes on forever.
kosty56 – :
The best masculine chypre since Chanel Pour Monsieur. Very complex yet perfectly blended for the right balance between sweet, leather, and aromatic facets. It’s modern but looks back at the archives for structure and form. Think of it like a beautiful 17th century European palace built with steel reinforced concrete, electricity, and wi-fi. It pairs well with MDCI’s other offering, Invasion Barbare, for year-round olfactory bliss. A coup de foudre indeed.
impaiffdripsy – :
I Picked up a 5 mil atomizer of this to try as I love chypre fragrances, and I really enjoyed invasion barbare.. slowly getting around to trying a few of their scents. this one is lovely on the opening and it has a classic smell to me. reminds me of something older that I have smelled. there was or is a cologne by jean nate..a cheapy but it smelled great I thought and many years ago I tried some of it even though it was classified as a woman’s perfume, I always thought it smelled masculine to me and I really love the jean nate after shower body splash. this rememinds me a little of that but on a grander scale. I could see myself wearing this often. it smells clean, refreshing and has a cologne smell for me that I really like. thumbs up on this. not sure what else I can compare it to.i just know I like it, seems to have good staying power and the fragrance does change on me. I loved the opening and am enjoying the dry down. now I am really wanting to try others from them. great house. I will probably just try to build a decent sized atomizer before springing for a bottle…need to try it some more before I decide if it is bottle worthy. but as the eternal optimist said after he jumped off a twenty story building, half way down..”so far so good”.
becas – :
It starts out a little rough. Nice, but with a tilt toward “naughty grandma.” After about an hour I really start to love it though. It’s one of those where the longer I wear it the better I like it, perhaps because it ultimately leaves a lovely vanilla as it dries down. I love this sort of scent as the cool weather starts to set in…
alex_orb – :
Hey guys. Really nice frag but, alas, not for me. I have a full bottle if anyone would like to trade or yada yada. Send me an email here or at csjg1ce at g mail.
zoha1 – :
Smelled absolutely lovely when I opened t