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Niya2009 – :
Ophelia John Everett Millais 1852
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Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D minor
deathless64947 – :
I have to say I am deeply disappointed. I had a sample of an old Bell jar-version with actually made me cry, it was so beautiful. This is just pleasant. I blind bought this thinking it was a much better way to store and use the scent. How ever I find i really lacks something of the old version. To me it lacks something… wet and damp. There was a note in my sample that made it less poudery and more.. like a cloud. I guess it must have been the soil. Because that is missing to.
This is nice and a very good everyday frag but not to special. Not like the scent i have ben missing and craving like mad for so long.
jeka5060 – :
A lighter, more powdery green version of the original De Profundis and sadly missing the incense note that brought it up from the cool shadows.
royargigVof – :
Wow, this is fabulous. Clean, soft, elegant.
The opening is floral, crisp and clean; the violet-green notes dominate the first hour or so on my skin, and then the tone gradually shifts to a warm, toasty and complex smoky musk. This is accompanied by a subtle but comforting chrysanthemum, which really makes this stage damn good.
The drydown is quite nice; the ash and incense notes really emerge on my skin, and overall it’s a lovely, subtle unisex scent; I think anyone can wear this well, although it does have a very formal air.
Really, one of my favorites!
misterinkits – :
A lovely green and bitter floral, gimlet-eyed and unforgiving. The chrysanthemum accord is like no other scent in my wardrobe (mums are funeral flowers in France, where I live, and so are absent from perfumery). Very melancholy. I handed this round friends for a perfume evening and one woman said it smelled ‘like fear’. There is apparently a trace of cadaverine, the smell of dead bodies, in this fragrance, hence perhaps the strong reaction. I have the original De Profundis but a friend has the vap. tout noir version and says it goes off rapidly – he has to keep it in the fridge. Mine, in contrast, is about seven years old and still going strong.
mr.jaka – :
Fragrance Review For De Profundis
Serge Lutens
Top Notes
Green Notes Floral Notes
Middle Notes
Violet Spices Chrysanthemum
Base Notes
Incense Woods Ash
2015 (last year) Reformulation Of DE PROFUNDIS
De Profundis (“From The Depths I Cried”) is based upon the existential philosophical book written by Oscar Wilde when he was in prison.
The first release of De Profundis contains much of the same notes as this fragrance but there was a tincture of soil and lacked the spicy note of this scent, not to mention the additional note of ash.
For me this is not a radical departure from the 1st fragrance, but it has a much lighter texture, while not powdery, is more of a mist. This is like London fog at night, and even fog and mist to me has always had a smell. Cool, a bit sweet, and lightly steamy, this is more of an Eau de Toilette version of the first De Profundis.
This one opens with a passing green note accord, herbal, tea leaves, and they are followed by nondescript floral notes. To my nasal detection, they appear to be white jasmines or white lilies, perhaps even a gladiola.
They are funeral parlor flowers, you know, those white funeral floral arrangements you see in funeral services with the open lid casket/coffin.
The main floral note is chrysanthemum. This is the exact same chrysanthemum in the 1st De Profundis fragrance, with it’s old Victorian charm. Smells like chrysanthemums, actual chrysanthemums, so the recreation is near perfect in it’s verisimilitude to the flower.
A violet is joining her and she is also very true-to-violets. This is a sweet and soapy floral mélange but it never feels like a bath product. Instead it maintains a funeral parlor home air.
The dry down is incense and ash, which is light, and misty, a bit warm and it also has a sort of wooden base, light woods, not heavy, nothing like sandalwood or oak or cedar, probably a light blonde wood scent.
This wood scent is not as big as the incense and ash. The ash smells like soot. Smelling this ash note was like when you make time to actually smell a fireplace without the fire. It’s like the smell of ashes after a fire has been put out.
For the macabre in us, one might dare say that it smells like ashes in an urn, that is the ashes of an individual who has been cremated.
Not nearly as melancholic or mysterious or brooding/Gothic as the first De Profundis, but very pleasant, and still within the realm of Victorian Gothic, suitable to Halloween or a séance night.
It’s not too dark, it’s not sinister, it’s more floral than the first De Profundis. I would say that while the first De Profundis was unisex/masculine this one is decidedly feminine and more womanly.
It is a mature scent and would be appreciated by a veteran perfumista. However if you wear fragrances like Agent Provocateur L’Anget with that famous incense note, or lighter powdery floral incense like Galliano, then this would make a welcome addition to your collection.
Beautiful.
pmk238speagoessenda – :
I find this bewitching. Not sad or melancholy to me, it changes almost as you breathe it in…so multi faceted it could be a bouquet.An ‘unearthly’ green, undercut by the softness of Violet & enhanced by well blended spices. Almost a metallic edge, the Chrysanthemum, comes & goes…as I said, bewitching.
Orifsdriert – :
A dear friend from paris had the kindness to sent me a bottle of this magnificent creation!!!!!
A version that has two little 30ml bottles and a vaporisateur!!! Classy black bottle!!!! I had the chance to smell and instantly fall in love with this unique fume two years ago when I received the well known black envelope full of solid samples from the company of serge lutens!!! I waited and waited imagining how it would smell!!! And now it’s hear!!!! I LOVE IT!!!! I could cry!!!!!!!! The scent is amazing the best thing that I own it’s so precious and fragile like a fresh bouquet of wild flowers collected under the moonlight!!! I get the smell of night the smell of kindness nothing sad!!!! It is an absolute floral but the secret blend of some unknown to me base notes and the quality of ingredients makes it so unique unlike everything i know!!!!! Trust me iff you’re lucky enough to find one you will be amazed of this greatness!!!!!! It’s my first lutens and from now on I only hope to find a way to get some more!!!!!
Thanks
G.
BoneCrusheR – :
De Profundis brings me more joy than grief. Chrysanthemums are a permanent fixture in my parents’ home as part of the Lunar New Year decorations for the two week long celebration with loads to eat and drink. Chrysanthemum tea is also my favourite of teas and a must have with my lengthy and boisterous dim sum Sunday lunches with family or friends. De Profundis has that familiar green yet floral scent that is characteristic of chrysanthemums. This smell is forward and centre throughout the moderate longevity of the perfume on my skin. Other than the sweet mums, I smell a quiet and clean almost cold incense and a faint powdery note over it all. This calming scent stays quite close to the skin throughout and brings about peace and tranquility of the mind and mood. Melancholic probably not but introspective yes.