Description
“A promenade in Nature, awakening after a long winter sleep. Beads of morning dew glisten on clovers and wild grass, which exhale fresh and green scents. The sun rises on the horizon and beats down wet flowers and new born fig leaves. Fresh foliage scrunches under the wind, buds bloom at last and the soil smells of turf and twisted roots. Daisies in the prairie and lily of the valley blossoming on moss fill the air with the perfumes of nature’s revival. At last spring has come” – a note from the brand.
Deja Le Printemps is a Floral Green fragrance for women. Deja Le Printemps was launched in 2012. The nose behind this fragrance is Hugo Lambert. Top notes: mint, orange blossom, chamomile; middle notes: fig leaves, clover, mown grass, lily of the valley, galbanum; base notes: musk, vetiver, cedar, moss.
Radiy226 – :
I feel like this is the scent equivalent of an optical illusion or magic eye poster. If I focus, there is beautiful grass and clover and green, but if I come back to it without thought, I get that whiff of that menthol that was mentioned by OTA Mom, and I can’t unsmell it.
romedon – :
If I didn’t smell APSU by Ulrich Lang, I’d say this is a good grass perfume.
However, when comparing these two hand by hand, I realize Deja is not a cut-grass note, but definitely something else, very fresh and realistic:
This is a photo-realistic fresh SOY-BEAN MILK note! Non-sweetened!
Kudos to Oriza, this scent truly is one of the kind: where else can I find $200 a bottle of soybean milk, right?
Kg – :
*update* testing this a second time and yeah, it’s still hay! Take it from a kid who grew up in a rural farm area… this is barnyard fresh (as opposed to barnyard funk).
There are worse things than a clean spring barn but my search for grass continues.
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Interesting that others are finding fresh cut grass in this when to me it is straight-up HAY, like the petting zoo when it’s clean in the morning before goats have pooped all over it.
The first sniff really did take me to that excitement of being a little kid at the petting zoo and filling up an ice cream cone with all kinds of seeds to feed the baby goats. And I don’t mean it in a bad way. This is super outdoorsy but more barn-like to me (sans the animals) than freshly-mown fields.
I’ll update more when I get over the overwhelming nostalgia of that first whiff.
olo20120 – :
Bitter grassy notes to open — certainly mown hay and clover, a little aromatic and tangy like fennel. This is the smell of hot, crushed wild grass that is still green, full of acerbic poisonous sap. There is a lovely mild sweetness to this too, lively and evocative of tender green shoots, young and virile.
This is where rattlesnakes find respite in the shade on a hot day.
Deja Le Printemps is strong in character. Delicately applied to layer, this would bring a beautiful green balance to any soliflor.
Misha11 – :
This is the GREENEST GRASSIEST fragrance I’ve ever smelled by far. This is literally rolling around on a hot humid summer day on a field of grass. You then literally rip up a handful of grass from the lawn, mixed with (as others have mentioned), the weeds, as well as some soil clinging to the roots of the grass. There’s clover all right, but it’s not the clover flower you’re imagining, rather it’s the actual leaves of the clover itself (they got caught too it your handful of field).
Often times, we describe “greenness” in perfumes, but I think we’re imagining either pine, or a non-descript perfumey wateriness, like in CdG Amazingreen or CK Truth for Men. This, however, is true plantlife crushed in your hands, then bottled up in alcohol spray essence. It’s incredibly realistic.
The only other scents I’ve come across to do this so realistically is To See a Flower by CB I hate perfume, but that is really more cut and crushed flower stems mixed with flower leaves, with a healthy dose of the flowers themselves. Another scent which comes to mind is Coven by Andrea Maack, with a very realistic soil accord. However Coven focuses more on soil, with the plantlife taking a back seat. In Deja le Printemps, it’s the other way around. Also Coven has a boozy oaked scotch whisky background. For a fresher more floral take on this scent with a hint of citrus check out Mykonos 12 by Maria Cristofilis.
What’s truly tragic for me is that my wife doesn’t enjoy it. It’s too bitter for her, she says she feels like she’s just caught a mouthful of grass! Unfortunately I’ll be putting my bottle up on The Bay.
atticstib – :
A freshly cut lawn, weeds included. A menthol-like, not minty, note that turned me completely against this fragrance.
nekromorfer – :
WOW! So very fresh and green. Im lying down on newly mown lawn on a cool spring day. Its spot on. Its lovely to smell in the middle of winter. The mint is low key but present and I definitely get the chamomile softness and the sweetness from the clover. I have no idea what fig leaves smell like so I cant comment. The musk, cedar and moss hold the fort to the end. As an experienced gardener I guess I am very tuned into the fragrances of plants and this smells so natural. No BO or bug spray here!
Im so glad the musk is never strong in Oriza fragrances. It is sad for me that the longevity is not good but I guess that is mostly down to the type of notes in this. Fresh and invigorating whilst it lasted.
lhy634speagoessenda – :
I should have loved this one. Grass and green notes, I love ’em… however, I was trampled by the fig leaf. Figfigfigfig, bitter and poisonous.
I always have trouble with fig leaf (I adore the fruit, to smell and to eat) in perfumes, so it’s me. If you get along fine with fig, you won’t have the same problem.
anertilla – :
Received my tiny sample of this today along with a slew of other tiny niche brand samples. It’s a very green scent, opening is very grassy, with tones of fig and mint. The mint starts to fade, and galbanum joins the fig and grass notes, drying down to a woody vetiver and light mossy finish. It gives an image of grassy, slightly vegetal spring meadows with fig trees close by. Unfortunately longevity and sillage are poor on me – 2 hours, and the last 30 minutes I have to sniff hard to smell it at all. Much as I like it, this will probably prevent me buying a FB.
AlexEster63 – :
My instant favorite for a spring scent. First a staccato into your nose with fifty shades of green: fig leaf, freshly cut grass, cedre, moss, etc. In a few minutes, this turns into a softer note perfectly blending into your skin’s fragrance. What a beauty!
rusy – :
Sweet-pea vines come to mind. The extremely delicate, grassy, springtime smell is largely due to the clover flower. The fig brings more dimension to the green notes.
KemHergeBeamp – :
This is somewhat similar to Chypre Mousse, without the strong fennel/anise, softer, grassier, and not as sweet. It’s soft, and the silage is moderate-soft and the longevity is moderate.
Edit, Nov. 2014: I originally liked it, It smells grassy and had a very yellow-green facet, but then it started to remind me of bug spray or pesticide . . . or something like that; slightly nauseating. There’s something about it that isn’t right. So I got a second opinion from my dad. . and he said it smelled like BO.
This fragrance is not bad, but it started to get unappealing after a while which is disappointing. I can’t disconnect the pesticide sort of aspect from it. I don’t know. 🙁
6.5/10
vorobenko – :
This is the ultimate green fig scent, from the start to finish it surprised me with a very natural feeling of freshly cut grass, the first hours were filled with very natural smelling green fig leaf, the heart brings more accords of freshly cut grass, a bit sour + a very healthy amount of clover giving this an almost watery feel. Oh and there is an overload of mint which together with other notes smells very refreshing, usually mint tends to get a bit masculine on me, but in “Deja Le Printemps” the whole composition felt very feminine on me.
Lasting power was excellent – 8 hours, for such a scent really good job, silage was very prominent. Worth a try and price tag for sure.
GrierceLonden – :
Sexy! Earthy green mossy play. Could definitely be worn by a woman or man, slight lean to masculine. A little minty, a little astringen woodsy, a little herby. Great for summer.
abudail – :
Most realistic fresh-cut grass note I have ever encountered. Truth be told it reminds me more of a lawn in summer than spring. But it is nice.
Within an hour it seemed like all the green grass was gone and that the perfume was close to fading into oblivian. I went about my day and figured I would go without perfume once this disappeared. Soon enough I started smelling the perfume wafting up to my nose, but I really needed to put it close to my nose to be able to describe it. There was no green grass left at all, and it smelled woody instead. The dryness of it seemed like cedar. This phase went on for a couple more hours before it became more of a vetyver scent. After a couple more hours, I swear I smelled sweet fig leaf.
The perfume was a skin scent for most of its wear. In total it lasted about 10 hours on me. While it is much too weak for my taste and also not my idea of spring, I really enjoyed its complexity and evolution. I would still recommend it because a green perfume like this is typically not a sillage monster anyway, and it is also more complex and interesting than most perfumes of this genre.
lavremik – :
A delicate, slightly sweet, fresh green scent. I would put Deja Le Printemps together with other zen-like scents such as Calvin Klein’s Truth, Bond No. 9’s High Line and Nuit Etoilee by Annick Goutal. The grass is truly green in this scent, slightly sweetened in a natural manner by the clover note. The galbanum brings to mind an association with Chanel’s No. 19 but not as strong as in No. 19. The camomile, mint and fig are present as well but there is nothing loud about this scent. Truth would be far more aquatic than Deja Le Printemps, Nuit Etoilee has a wonderful strong mint note that is muted here and High Line has the hyacinth note that makes it different from Deja Le Printemps and the others. It’s not predominantly any single note but a nicely crafted, very natural smelling, calming as camomile tea, green scent. Sadly the lasting power is pretty abysmal on my skin, lasting about 2 hours and slightly better on clothes. It is a pity as I found sniffing this scent very soothing, totally unlike my usual desires of heady flowers and rich spices but in my opinion would have been a worthy buy if not for the poor staying power which is unfortunately worse than my experiences with L’Artisan. For those who have better fortune with the longevity, lucky you and enjoy!
engangeak – :
at first you get the freshness of spring blossoming garden after opening the window. and you hardly can describe what you see outside but the green freshness of everything. and then you take few breathe of air full of busy spring you close this window and make few steps back. because you understand that this garden is not yours, everithing sound to be artificial. no my nose this combination of notes is not brilliant. may be too oldfashioned. peut-être.
Abramow62 – :
181) Forever green
un floral vert délicat assez rétro. On peut voir une veine un peu chypré comme dans le récent Perle de Mousse d’Ann Gérard.
Le nom est parfaitement choisi, l’effet général est celui d’un vaste jardin au printemps lorsqu’on vient de couper le gazon entre deux averses.
A mon goût le meilleur parfum “purement vert” naturaliste que l’on puisse trouver, je veux dire par naturaliste très éloigné des parfums verts abstraits comme Pentachord Verde de Tauer et plutôt basé sur le rendu d’une expérience. Le souvenir d’une ballade dans un parc Parisien ou la première fois qu’on se rend compte que l’herbe coupée ça peut sentir délicieusement bon?
A delicatequite retro green floral. You can smell a chypré vein as in the recent Perle de Mousse d’Ann Gerard.
The name is well chosen, the overall effect is that of a large garden in the spring when the grass is cut between two showers.
To my taste the best Naturalist “pure green” perfume that we can find, by naturalist I mean very distant from abstract green scents like Pentachord Verde by Tauer and rather based on the rendering of an experiment. The memory of a walk in a Parisian park, or the first time you realize that cut grass can smell deliciously good?
frarmatooke – :
I have to admit I pay as much attention to the descriptions of perfumes as to the notes. This got my attention immediately! Probably because I’m in a phase of my life when I really enjoy green scents, and I love Nature. All the perfumes from this house sound and smell great, but I’m so glad I decided to buy this one, as I fell in love with it after the first sniff. 🙂
The opening is very green and very fresh. I can smell grass, (fig) leaves, and clover. I don’t get much of mint. And I get no lily of the valley at all, but I really don’t mind. It’s probably somewhere there with the orange blossom making sure this green scent isn’t too green or sharp. But it doesn’t smell flowery or sweet at all.
I can get all the base notes when I try to smell them out, but I prefer to perceive them all together, because to me they smell almost like pine nuts. The base notes become more vivid after some time.
This perfume is indeed like a walk through the countryside that’s awakening after a long winter. It’s very green, almost herbal, slightly woody, and actually quite subtle, yet very powerful. I adore it.