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akokolak – :
Perhaps unusually, I knew this was my Malle from the first sniff. It is weird and I’m not sure any review can do it justice – it must be worn to be fallen in love with as it takes a bit of getting used to! I don’t get any overly fungal or mushroom notes. On me the opening is a sparkly burst of pine and violets that settles into a woody cashmere blanket. Longevity is amazing and the violets re-emerge throughout the day. The notes play hide and seek – much like other reviews I definitely get transported into a fairytale wearing this. I’m in Wonderland and I never want to leave!
Edit: this is also the only perfume I wear that regularly gets compliments from strangers. Unlike some reviews this isn’t too soft on me, and is quite tenacious.
Often when I put it on I wonder why I bother wearing anything else. Signature worthy – divine!
Orencerog – :
Its lovely and quite unusual, but also probably one of the most wearable in the line up – you can feel it away from your flesh, but it doesn’t present itself as anything overly strange. You’re wearing a pine body lotion and on top of that is the dry down of a slightly woody violet scent. Its something that could be considered a skin scent, but I wouldn’t. Feels too floral.
xamlo99 – :
The opening 60 seconds of Dans Tes Bras has to be the most thrilling olfactory experience of my life. My mind stands still to appreciate the richness of what just happened.
After that, I begin to ponder the implications of the name Dans Tes Bras or ‘In Your Arms’ in relation to the skin scent of a lover vs the pervasive mushroom odour which puzzles my nose. What manner of skin disease does my lover have? Ach, putting that conundrum out of my mind for a moment I am again arrested & thrilled by a sweet, dirty violet.
It wasn’t until my third testing that the saltiness begins to manifest to my nose and I start to understand the skin scent, although that exciting organic vegetal earthiness with the gorgeous sweet undertones is still very apparent.
The drydown in comparison is disappointing, being a simple (in comparison) musky, woody trace upon the skin.
I find it eminently wearable, although it is more of a lonesome scent than that of a lover’s touch. The conversation between human nature and the fertile dark earth underfoot. And a mushroom or two.
170355555 – :
How does something that smells so synthetic blend so naturally with my skin? Strange but not edgy. Sexy but it’s not at all trying to seduce you. Not for the basic, the macho, the girly, or the devil’s advocate. Don’t count on the jasmine to femme it up, the votes don’t lie. I liked Dans Tes Bras from first sniff, and with regular use have fallen in love with it. It’s not the strongest scent I own, but I get whiffs of it for hours and hours.
EDIT: I finally know what this reminds me of! Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka. There’s nothing gourmand or chocolatey, but the violet smells like the violet pastilles by a little Italian candy company named Leon. All the other notes seem like chemicals Wonka could have invented as well. There’s a corner of the chocolate room, away from the chocolate waterfall, where his candy pines and violets smell like this. It has that pensive, internal vibe of a romantic who has become a hermit in his factory.
plastilin174 – :
Extract from a Frederic Malle interview with “The Cut”:
-What product in your domain is misunderstood and should be a best seller?
“Dans Tes Bras by Maurice Roucel. It’s one of our most beautiful perfumes, but you have to wear it and live with it. You don’t necessarily get it when you smell it the first time. One must have the patience to try it, though.”
Enemyr – :
This is olfactory reflection of “Wicked Game by Chris Isaak” Mervelous!
zubitskyi – :
It starts off with a phenomenal blast of sandalwood, violete, jasmine and freshly cut pine. I love the opening and the first 20 minutes but at some point the pine starts to lose its initial freshness and heliotrope comes up to shine and the whole thing starts becoming nauseating. Very unfortunate as i actually like the opening part a lot.
sasha33 – :
To me this smells like an old woman’s dusty very heavy smothering perfume. I hate it on myself and on other people (male and female) as well. This is a genuine stinker.
jaja777 – :
Mother and Child by a Fountain Pablo Picasso 1901
vormiks – :
it reminds me of the hair lace that my aunt was wearing.
but I like it on a woman.
projection and infinite duration.
hard and raw.
use with caution.:-)
kolya89 – :
Violet powder on a moss and wood background, a romantic scent that remembers a fallen autumn day after a rain … it is a strong scent but slowly softens, very floral but also muscled … a nice Scent on the whole!
Sillage: 8/10
Longevity: 8.5/10
Scent: 8.5/10
Overall: 8.5/10
drobik1963 – :
Clean, soapy violets, musky, smooth and cool. This is a refreshing blend of soft florals and woods with some clean mountain air; a mineral sparkle.
Quite unisex, an easy wear for women, a softer floral musk scent for men. Fresh, romantic, cool, yet inviting, uplifting and comfortable.
Dans Tes Bras is a lucidly dreamy perfume with a contrasting sweet antiseptic detachment. Most certainly one to experience for men who love florals and for women who want a cerebral break from loud whites. A solid contender for a unique signature worthy floral. Divine.
Teimuraz60 – :
Fragrance quite curious and why not to say also strange, rare and original.
The opening is quite charged with aldehydes, something citrus, with metallic facets, also quite woody, the pine is detected from the beginning, it is astringent, resinous, remaining this note of pine in the background next to the musks that from this beginning, already They feel very clear. The agreement is of a rather peculiar smell, this beginning gives me an appearance like when you open a boat of paint to the enamel and assails you.
Then it becomes blanched and creamy with dry, floral facets and an ethereal note, steamy and smoky, something more pleasant, but always with that mattress that gives the point of musks so strange, synthetic, particularly dense that neither do I Just liked much less with that feeling of “in your arms” that wants to reflect the author with that result so unconvincing.
Rating: 3
Satine – :
Finally its in my hands. ….or more so on my hands
It’s starting a little harsh , but I wouldn’t call it synthetic, rather animalic. After five minuters it is turning to a little bit sour pine and musc, almost as if there were a large dose of carnation thrown in…The rest is a flat heaven, fluffy soft in some of my most beloved notes.Violet, musc, heliotrope and pine. Where pine still keeps the lead, but without turning maleish. If you are a softie like me , go for it ! Through the years I’ve read so many different reviews of this perfume, one stranger than the other. This is not plain , nor is it very complex. I really like it so far !
Igissut – :
I’ve got a friend whose signature scent is DTB. I liked it on him, it looked beautiful and complex. It smells like real perfume. And then I decided to test it myself. In a couple of hours I became nauseated. Next day I tried again. And it happened again. Now I get nauseated just from writing about it. There is something in this perfume, deep in its core. Maybe this synthetic musk.
Айбатыр – :
Not sure what exactly it is that makes this scent quite powerful or chemical. Ultra clean and slightly wet and iron like. I love all the notes in this. And I do love the smell now that I let it take its course , in fact the middle and the drydown is what’s beautiful about this scent to me. It needs time to open up. To develop on your skin. The first ten minutes I would call harsh , cleaning solution like , chemicals floating in the air , a spoon of liquid iron in front of my nose to cure my anemia , ,,,but wait and it develops into something very good ,airy and fresh , clean and beautiful. Yes like hugging a person after a shower , or wait ,did they have a shower or did they just roll in the sheets ? Salty skin ? A little sweat , some soap ? Well all in all it’s really what the name says , in your arms ! And it’s fresh but sexy , musky and quite a work of art ! Unfortunately I only have a sample. Once I am finished with it I may have to order a bottle , or at least a 10 ml travel.
April 2018
This perfume is now my signature and I have a big bottle and a travel set , phantastisch!!!!
skurenko – :
A sweet, almost medicinal, violet opening. A soft, misty cloud of a perfume with a faint, peppery note behind the cool powder. I also definitely get the baby butt wipe note that other’s have commented on. Salty, but in a mineral, not skin-like, way. Reminds me a bit of Teint de Neige but cooler, saltier, and less edible. Interesting, but not something I want to buy I think.
joker5552299 – :
I’ve just tried a sample of this perfume on my skin and what I’m getting is a very soft and almost-there version of Marni. I think this is a clean and harmless fragrance but not something I would buy, especially at that price.
abc1972 – :
Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle launched in 2000 with a rock-star lineup of perfumers, including Maurice Roucel, who composed the culty Musc Ravageur for the brand. Art direction and commissioning independent perfumers was nothing new in 2000. In fact, it was the founding model of niche perfumery. Early examples Diptyques (1961), l’Artisan Parfumeurs (1976), Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier (1988) were still going strong. The Serge Lutens brand (1992) had attained permanent revolution and were the leader in experimentation.
Hip and trendy were taken, so Frédéric Malle took a different approach with his line. The strategy of the initial roster of FM perfumes was to emphasize quality and distinction. Perfumers were apparently given the edict and the budget to create perfumes of impeccable caliber and taste. Same principle as Amouage, different sensibility. The nine perfumes in the initial launch wore their perfumers on the label, reflecting Malle’s belief in the artist as well as his line’s concept of authorship and publishing. The art direction focussed on the perfumers’ signature styles. Olivia Giacobetti’s En Passant had her characteristic water-color dynamics. Angelique Sous la Pluie demonstrated Jean-Claude Ellena’s expertise with transparent tones. Edouard Flechier’s Lys Méditerranée fits his history of oversized narcotic florals. And so on.
Malle and Roucel were an ideal pair. Malle directed perfumers to work within their sweet spots and Roucel had a history of exploring a compositional motif over the course of years. Musc Ravageur was a tailored version of Alain Delon Lyra, a Roucel fragrance from 1996. Roucel would go on to create le Labo Labdanum 18, Helmut Lang EDP/EDC and Missoni by Missoni, variations on the same aromatic/musk/vanilla-chocolate theme.
Roucel and Malle collaborated again with Dans Tes Bras. Roucel had made violet the principle note of his hairspray-fantasy, Guerlain Insolence in 2006. He punched up the violet and the volume in the 2008 Insolence EDP. Dans Tes Bras, a violet perfume of a very different cut, was released the same year. If Insolence candied violet, Dans tes Bras fermented it. If you can imagine scent-scape of violets and toadstools growing out of vinegar-soaked concrete you’ll catch the shape of the perfume. It’s a doughy floral musk with notes of soil, salt, spice and sour skin. Our nose/brains are conditioned to try to sort scents. Materials that emulate botanicals are assessed for how ‘natural’ they smell while identifiably synthetic qualities aren’t expected to feign realism. Dans tes Bras flips the expected and uses floral notes like heliotrope and violet that smell for lack of a better word, unnatural. With an apparent overdose of cashmeran, the synthetic side of the perfume smells remarkably like something you know, namely concrete sidewalk drying after a rain .
Most Malle perfumes land in identifiable categories, the result of deliberately chasing the ‘best in class’ distinction that the Malle line aspires to. The risk is that many of the line’s perfumes can be seen as simply extra-fine versions of department store perfumes. Dans tes Bras, not so much. In a line that leans heavily towards florals it is the least conventional of the lot.
The Malle line seemed like it was headed for a soft landing even before Estée Lauder purchased the brand in 2014. Eau de Magnolia, Cologne Indelible and Monsieur were a citric floral-chypre, a concentrated eau de cologne and a Soli-patch. Finished and tony but a bit dull. I assume that each perfume in the Malle line will be looked at very closely by the Lauder accountants. If there is a thinning of the line, florals in particular, will Dans tes Bras make the cut?
Diger – :
What an utter disappointment! I bought 10 ml and regret it. I love it in the bottle, but on me, it is barely there; went on a lovely spice then immediately smelled like the antiseptic they use at an IV site or for surgery. No projection. No strength. Not even as good as a good soap after a shower.
bachuss – :
this is stunning. who would have thought pine, musk, violet and woody notes would create something this lovely…it has an innocent feel to it, and yet slightly the slightly masculine notes still make a completely feminine fragrance.
7_maks_6 – :
Fresh, soapy and piney. Makes me think of the color white. There’s not much warmth in this. Unpleasantly synthetic smelling. This could definitely be a smell of a washing powder.
kakdu2009 – :
I thought this was okay at best. Longevity and projection were pretty good. The scent doesn’t change much on me. My wife said I smelled like an old lady. I enjoy the makle releases but I think I will pass on this one.
6/10
morfei.ua – :
I can hardly post a review, I’m so embarrassed. I’m thinking I’m anosmic to this scent, because after the violet and heliotrope opening, and the synthetic musk, I get nothing. Nada. No arms, no skin, nothing much at all. This is either the Emperor’s New Clothes or my nose has had a major malfunction. I’m not a negative person, and we’re all subjective about scent, so I’ll just say try before you buy, I gave it two day-trials, and all I can smell is my own soap, which is Nesti Dante Broom, and that seems to have completely overwhelmed it. xx
alex491189 – :
First impression was evident mix of contradictions, but nevertheless pleasant, bright and cozy – quite original approach on heliotrope and violet here, I liked this very much.
Next is downhill; just incomprehensible, weird, sterile, cold and plain synthetic. Cashmeran? Synthetic musk?
Not for me.
Perhaps better on a man.
anianka – :
This is bizarre and hard to describe. It flows from soft green to bright yellow (maybe). It feels very soft while being loud enough to hear it. It doesn’t scream out, but is perfect to sense for the wearer. I can honestly say I sense zero of the notes listed. It did not really remind me of anything or any other Malle. Smells great, but not necessarily spectacular. May expectations in waiting a year to get a sample may be clouding my judgment.
super_woman – :
Not bad, but not for me
bsw536speagoessenda – :
I can’t really say it smells “good” or pretty. I can only describe it as oddly alluring and addictive in an almost morbidly curious kind of way. I think Malle describes it as warm skin with a touch of sunscreen. I find it a stretch to think of it as a floral. To me it smells of some sort if lotion, maybe lanolin, slightly tangy,and unwashed hair or scalp which can be both alluring and repulsive simultaneously. Like when you hug someone with thick hair and you can smell lingering shampoo fragrance and that sebaceous oil smell. I find the effect to be what I believe was intended: the smell of skin in an intimate experience such as a hug. Not freshly showered clean but not dirty either. I actually like it. I say that because I’m compelled to keep sniffing my wrist in a way that doesn’t happen with other perfumes. Not sure I would buy it but I’d want to keep a small sample around just for the experience once in a while.
piton-baron – :
Dans Tes Bras is one of the most orginal perfume on the world, in my opion. The dark, smooth and enigmatic in the line, the equivalent of contemporary art. I can understand excatly why some people don’t like it. It is totally unusal and extraordinary. I LOVE İT!
Hoooooligannnnn – :
Thats how I want my male friends or colleagues to smell like! Its crispy-clean but not sterile, its like washed by cold water face-fresh-ready-to-go scent. Alluring, positive, reassuring in way – “I know I look good” and gives clear thinking vibe
its on cold side, on airy side, yet the projection is very good over here, we dont have snow, but I feel, wearing it, like wearing crispy white shirt and walking on crispy white snow. Woodiness of pine absorbed by musk and nice heliotrope with sandal at the drydown.
Recommended for friendly tailored look.
Biesamaz – :
A soft, thinking person’s type of fragrance..
With this fragrance, Frédéric Malle brought back Maurice Roucel (creator of Musc Ravageur) to make a scent which captured the smell of warm skin… salty, warm and sensual. To do this, Roucel used a lot of Cashmeran®, a synthetic compound which smells like soft wood, sweet almonds, warm spices and light musk. What you get is a very intimate creation (entirely synthetic), but very sensual.
It works on two levels I think. One as a powdery, purple floral type (violet flowers, heliotrope, hints of jasmine), the other as a darker woody, musky, almost mineral-like fragrance (with Cashmeran®, White Musk, Incense, Patchoulli and Pine needles). I think the combination of these two levels (sweet & powdery vs dark, earthy & woody) is what confuses people when experiencing it.
To my nose this comes across mainly as a sweet, musky, earthy, violet & heliotrope type of perfume. It basically has a warm, musky powdery vibe which could work on either a man or a woman. I would say this reminds me a lot of a cashmere sweater, worn in winter by the fire. I see this as a perfect cold weather fragrance. Also, like many of Frédéric Malle perfumes, a little goes a long way. This would certainly last for a very long time if sprayed on a scarf or a sweater or any other material… and I think it would definitely compliment autumn and winter clothing very well.
I’ll be honest, Dans Tes Bras is not a perfume to be fully understood at first sniff. It took me a long time to understand and warm up to it. This is why I call it an “intellectual” perfume, because once you realise how cleverly this is made, you really start to appreciate it even more. Nearly all the notes are synthetic, but they are very expensive and the perfume as a whole is extremely well made, but can be complex to a lot of people who don’t have too much experience with a wide variety of perfumes. Synthetic notes, when used in the hands of a master perfumer like Maurice Roucel or Jean-Claude Ellena can influence incredible perfumes and make them works of art. Therefore there is no shame in buying a perfume that has a high concentration of synthetic notes (like in Dans Tes Bras) but especially when used so cleverly and inventively by the perfumer as to give you something really amazing to wear.
Even though I refer to Dans Tes Bras as an “intellectual” type of fragrance, I don’t think you really need to have an incredibly advanced range of smell to appreciate this one. I think most people would see this as a sweet, musky, powdery scent (which is warm and sensual and expensive smelling). Another group of people may find it too dark and earthy and “weird” if they are not used to it. From my own experience, I’ve found that you actually need to give this one time on your skin, and a few wearings in the right amounts, that’s when you can really start to appreciate it… and if you research how cleverly this has been created, you will perhaps understand and maybe appreciate it even more.
Get a small sample, wear it sparingly over a few days in the right weather, and see if you like it. Upon wearing this, you may get the impression of being in a deep, warm hug with someone you love. After all… it’s name, Dans Tes Bras means In Your Arms.
henry159 – :
My advise is to apply this spray and walk through. If I do it like that I get a wonderful close to skin soft soapy smell. Soapy without flowers. Clean. Piney. If I spray it directly on skin f.ex. In décolletage I get a nasty sharp eye-watering strong thing. Completely different. I love it in spray and walk-through and dislike it applied directly on skin.
alexandr62 – :
I love, love, love Maurice Roucel but when I first tried DTB, I was very underwhelmed. I found it cold, tinny and synthetic and immediately put my sample away. Today, 1 year later I tried it again and oh my . . . . I still get that faintly metallic opening but it quickly transforms into musky powdery skin scent that is faintly sweaty, not in a cuminy way. Rather it’s like you just got out of the shower on a hot humid day and you’re hot and sweaty again. This has an intimacy about it that is hard to describe. It isn’t strong and isn’t a sillage monster but it is persistent and as you move about you get lovely wafts of it for many hours. I suspect it is better sprayed on skin as I works with our individual chemistry. I’ve never smelled anything like it and my credit card fears I must have it. Truly a unique beauty from a uniquely talented perfumer.
NSPR – :
I’m with the people getting an odd, metallic sort of smell here. For me it’s mingled with what I can only describe as a failed attempt at leather. A saddle in a hospital bed.
I just don’t understand this one at all. Definitely not for me. It’s original, I’ll give it that, but there’s something that’s just so deeply unpleasant about this that I could never wear it again.
I think this is one of those perfumes you can either wear or you can’t. There’s no middle ground. If it works with your skin, you’ve probably found yourself something very interesting and maybe even your signature. But if it doesn’t, it’s just awful. Sadly for me, it doesn’t.
zasranec76 – :
There’s a synthetic musk in this which I forget the name of (Cashmeran maybe?) I’m guessing this is the reason why it’s either love or hate. When I first tried Dans Tes Bras I thought there was something very wrong with it, then read reviews and realised why.
Definitely try before you buy. I agree with the reviewer below who describes a metallic ‘bloody’ note. If you’ve ever tried iron-rich water (very good for you!) then it’s just like that.
But I can see that for others there’s a soft, lovely quality to this. I have to say I’m not a huge fan of Roucell’s other work, and it does always seem to go that way – if you like one ‘nose’s’ perfume you usually like all the others (For me Roudnitska and Olivia Giacobetti are favourites)
danka 17 – :
Perhaps I need more time with this fragrance but for right now…
I don’t like it…
I don’t like it at all.
It’s a soapy-woodsy-piney scent thats difficult to understand beyond something that I would use to clean my wood floors or bathroom.
When I initially applied it…I thought “wow this is amazing!”
But after it settled down (60 mins later) I found it to be offensive and headache inducing.
Sadly, not my cup of fragrance tea.
roman123321 – :
A remarkable achievement. Powdery softness takes a nice turn after a few hours on my skin but fades far too fast. Roucel is a genius.
wulikdj – :
What a beautiful name and such an uninviting scent! I did read the reviews before testing it, but I did not trust them totally. I mean these reviews that were describing it as something sterile, medicinal, because I love the listed notes – heliotrope, musk, violet, pine… But I would have to trust them. The way these notes are mixed is unique. There is nothing fresh, nothing cozy, nothing protective… All I smell is some metallic, bloody, uncomfortable waft. The name should mean “In Your Arms” ,right? But, I’m asking, who is this You?? There is something cruel in this perfume. Somehow it remembers me Bernt Notke “Dance of Death”(the painting from 1463) – maybe also the Dans Tes Bras wants to remind us about our fragilities and the fact that all of us will be embraced by the Death at once… I do not know.
Being able to evoke these kind of emotions, I consider it certainly a masterpiece – when you feel that your soul has been touched, even if the emotions are negative, you met the Art.
But it ends there– I would never wear Dans Tes Bras.
JoelWB – :
*Mind blown*
I put Dans Tes Bras on me and immediately think; This is not a clean scent in the traditional sense.. not at all, this is VERY unique.
Every spring I help my father collecting and cutting firewood for the upcoming winter.
Most of the trees were taken down the previous fall and have since been laying on the ground through the winter months, making them wet from all the snow and rain.
Dans Tes Bras has the exact same smell of those wet, moss covered trees with an undercurrent of salty, human skin and a metallic note that makes me think of fresh, warm blood.
Dans Tes Bras is quite creepy and unsettling at this stage.
It does have an element of something clean too though, like industrial strenght detergent spilled over a mushroom, or mushrooms growing through a field of “alien” violets.
If this is the smell of an embrace it would be that of a person doing physical labour outside in the forest all day.
I can almost picture my fathers wet, soggy work clothes drying up near the fireplace, still covered with pieces of moss, pine needles and flower petals.
I love Dans Tes Bras for it’s ability to powerfully evoke those familiar images in my mind.
Doesen’t smell “sweaty” at all though, only “moist” and “musk like”.
Dans Tes Bras is ultra dirty and hyper clean simultaneously.
It feels a bit like a contradiction really, a paradox.
Unfortunately I can’t really seem to shake the feeling of a fungus infested house cleaned with bleach.
It also feels more alien like rather than human to me, what human naturally smells like this?!
Very interesting and unconventional fragrance for sure, NOT one you wear to smell “fresh” or “pretty”!
It feels very mysterious to me.
If you want to stand out in a crowd, then wear this.
Although I don’t wiew Dans Tes Bras as a wearable scent for me personally, I still have great respect for it.
I’m almost tempted to buy it just so that I can smell it from time to time and have it blow my mind all over again!
This would fit wonderfully in both spring as well as autumn.
The lasting power is pretty good, easily between 8-10 hours on me.
sillage seems overpowering at first, but it does soften down nicely as time goes by.
It does have a good throw to it however, and putting too much on could get truly nauseating.
Maurice Roucel is a genius!
Enubrevambnub – :
Unfortunately this doesnt work for me and doubly disappointing as I am an admirer of Frederic Malle’s innovative fragrances.
There is waaay too much doing on and there is no structure to my way of thinking.It comes across as loud,unnerving and in my case almost headache inducing.
I really like jasmine but I cant detect it at all here,its completely drowned out my everything else going on.Much the pity really 🙁
Frosty and metallic and not for me.
alex1200 – :
My initial impression of this scent “This smells puzzling”… As many notes are competing here and are equally present. In a few minutes it smells like a clean shaven man’s face and shampoo literally. Very clean, unisex, better for men’s wear, that emanates freshness “just got out of the shower and made myself look nice for you”:) It softens and becomes closer to skin with time. Pleasantly clean fragrance.
This would be a nice expensive present that both of you can enjoy or share 🙂
yumaker – :
Intrigued by the love-or-hate sentiments here, as well as a mention an an article in Allure magazine recently I tried and bought it. To me this is the perfect “your skin but better” scent, just like finding the perfect nude makeup which makes you look like you, but better, or like wearing his sweater when you’re feeling lonely. Very pretty scent composition, not perfume-perfumy at all. Very well done. Thank you Mr Roucel.
Edit: depending on the time of month, this turns into bad body odour onto me. Naughty frag.
lancaster671 – :
A weird combination of violet and synthetic musks, coupled with waxy and soapy floral aldehydes a dry and dusty note and an earthy note that does indeed culminate into the smell of… mushrooms.
Skin? Well sure; soapy hands handling lab grown mushrooms under harsh artificial lighting.
The synthetics are left very bare in this (fairly common to Roucel creations) and overall, it just is not a pleasant experience.
(Smells like a huge dose of aldehyde-c12 in this one, which also evokes, in addition to soap, the smell of that liquid bubble formula.)
Manvel55555 – :
Clean musk, this is rare example how one can make synthetic scent that smells really interesting and attractive, transparent, but not empty, it starts reallysoar- weird, unpleasant but soon develops into second skin, ideal for summer heats, one of those musks that don’t smell familiar-fresh but not laundry smell, and almost woody
Mitia25 – :
you know that scene from jurassic park with the goat being the bait
RhifeFedsRofe – :
This smells just like breaking open a birch twig used for making birch beer, or what some people call sasparilla.
It is woodsy, sweet, and warm. It smells very natural and outdoorsy. It eventually fades into a somewhat boring but comforting skin scent. “Dans tes Bras” is a suitable name, as it feels like being hugged by someone in the woods.
Not sure I’d wear this, but it would make a great candle or room scent. Lasts for about 4 hours.
seregamen – :
Dans tes Bras
does have this feeling to be born out of a romantic
dreamers art studio
with peeling walls and candles lit
Imagine parisian revolutionaries
painting and creating love poems
inside while its raining
always a little intoxicated
in underwear
impressionistic
sensational
sexy
unfortunately it makes me sneezy
and i can hardly wear it 🙁
but i love it just the same
KirgiZZ – :
I bought a sample of this as I love any perfume from the house of Federic Malle.Unfortunately, on first spray it was waay too overwhelmingly masculine for me and I threw it in to my basket of “mistake purchases “. Some time later I was going through one of my (now) regular periods of penury and revisted said basket, came across the sample and decided to give it another chance. Well, what a dfference a few months (and straitened financial circumstances) make!! This is exactly the smell that I imagine would have exuded from my French lover if I had been lucky enough to nab one during my year spent in a Parisian garrett. Instead, my only companion during those cold nights were a bunch of Dick Francis books kindly donated by a fellow Irish exile. Anyway, I digress…. this is a warm sexy very French embrace and I only wore it for myself, feeling in the process that I was being slightly unfaithful to the love of my life but hey, a girl has to have her secrets…….
hatewhat666 – :
I usually stick to celebrity scents – that way, if somebody says, “It stinks!” I can just answer, “But it’s JLo or Alain Delon,” and they back right off. However, the first time I wore DANS TES BRAS, I sprayed a bunch of it in a movie theater… I had gone to see the 3D reissue of AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER on my birthday, and was feeling particularly festive, so I doused myself when the lights went down. Well, the people around me started asking, “What is it?” and I passed them the bottle. They sprayed it too, and by the time the movie ended, the bottle was half gone… a good thing it was a birthday gift? Now, owing to these circumstances, I can only imagine Deborah Kerr wearing DANS TES BRAS as she listens to Grandmother Janou adding those tender grace notes to her piano version of A LOVE AFFAIR…