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Jazzmaster – :
Maria Callas’ perfume …enough to imagine what beauty it is …
Киллер – :
Big improvement over tannis root!
Ян – :
I’m wearing Detchema right now from a vintage miniature pure parfum. This is a crisp aldehydic scent melded with bright citrus. It is *very* similar to old Caline by Jean Patou, and it’s also reminding me of Fleurs de Rocaille by Caron, a comparison which blogger Perfume Shrine notes as well. I do not think it smells like Antilope. I like it a lot.
Sergey1406 – :
Thank you Angelica 000 for the dear little bottle! This is within the realms of L’air du Temps, Joy and Antilope (vintages) and is a true delight. The woods are present but somewhat understated, and there is a fleeting blast of ginger and a vague soapiness first up. It then melds into an elegant and sophisticated floral. I would be happy to have this little beauty in my collection.
Eragreehest – :
This is a rare gem, a complex scent that doesn’t smell quite like anything else.
It is quite lovely. If you do get a vintage bottle, upturn it before spraying or splashing, and after applying give it a few moments for the alcohol to fade before smelling, to get the best of it.
I find it powdery and warm, slightly spicy, feminine and sophisticated. I feel like a lady when I wear it.
maxssimmuss – :
Detchema was in a collection of French perfumes I received for my 16th birthday. Have worn it for special occasions ever since, for over 40 years. So many compliments and questions from virtually everyone who is near enough to get a whiff! After all these years, it still makes my heart sing. It’s not right for everyone, but glad that it isn’t.
llatoevace – :
I was watching “Rosemary’s baby”. The pregnant Rosemary was at the doctor´s and the nurse asked: What perfume are you wearing? It smells nice! Rosemary responded: Detchema. It made me curious and I had to check on Fragrantica. Never heard of the perfume before. It seems nice but very special. 🙂 🙂
Helenic – :
Yes it is a classic. Yes Maria Callas wore it. But she was a diva. It takes a diva to wear this. It lasts quite a while. People have complimented me on it. More winter than summer for wear. I would put this in the group with Youth Dew (not for the smell), but for the “hit you in the face, oh my goodness she’s wearing perfume!” recognition. Sample before you buy the bottle.
vce – :
I found Detchema on “JOVOYPARIS.COM”.
If anyone is interested in knowing that Detchema is back…..
Вадимис – :
For me this is mostly about carnations. My bottle is a vintage Eau de COLOGNE, and still it´s very powerful… Not for the faint of heart, no definitely not.
Reminds me a little of Houbigant Quelques Fleurs.
I do like it. A lot.
vlas_hz – :
The scent of eccentricity.
tendg – :
I’ve worn Detchema since the early-70s and still reach for it nearly every day. Hard to find though!
neumbOneque – :
Now i also have this fragrance in a pure parfum concentration and it is much better than the EDT version since due to fragrance concentration it is more full bodied. I thought about this one quite a lot and i bought it for the future since i think i might begin to wear it in a 10 years from now and enjoy it. It is really a statemnet fragance for a woman that know s what she wants. Yes, it is a soapy smell, reminds me in some way of the original formula of “Ysatis” by Givenchy but more sudden and harsh. Try to wear this one when you need to feel really confident and a little bit agressive even.
reaprocknrolla – :
My Mother wore this when it was first released in 1953 – I was born the year after. That’s some perfume!
Tasha20090 – :
I have tried an EDT version of this and my overall opinion is that it is nice but it is not for me. This is definitly a perfume for a older lady, who dressed up in her couture gown, with her hair made up and making a statement. When i look at the year of production, i see that at that time it must have been popular scent, but today it is really out of fashion. Reminds me something of a Ysatis maybe, but not that strong, more soft. To be honest it really reminds me of a soap i used to use many years ago. I think it was “Camay” by Procter&Gamble, but in different countries it might have been under different name. The more i sniff it the more i get the resemblance to it. EDT version DOES smell like pure soap! I don´t want to smell like a soap.
after the drydown it smells more like a hairspray, but becomes very pleasant after many hours.
I am sure that because this was an EDT version it is quite sharp because of it´s concentration, and EDP or pure parfum might have been bit different. But still after all this is a mature woman scent, which is not really for me yet.
Please do not remove this comment, since others might find it useful. Not every rewiev should be positive, so people like me wanted to make a blind buy might find it very informative. Thanks.
bam6889 – :
My first impression was ‘Caron’s Muguet du Bonheur!’ because lily of the valley is so prominant. But I’m distrustful of my memory and grabbed my Caron sample to confirm.
Almost.. Muguet is a buttery green and Detchema is a dirty, dusty green. Now that I’m comparing I really notice the leather and aldehydes. This scent isn’t exactly light on its feet, but there is something irresistible about it.
It’s edgy, unconventional and the colors bleed outside the lines. It’s not a favorite, but it is what I will reach for when I want to shake things up a bit!
stason.tso – :
This is a masterpiece. For the highly developed nose, a true classic must have.
I adore and treasure my bottle. Thank you friend of Mahanta!!
viktory1 – :
I was excited to try this one, but I’m glad now that I purchased only a micro-mini of the scent to try. This one’s a bit of disappointment for me.
Detchema comes across as a floral green, and does not strike me as especially original or impressive. The “green” aspects remind me of Carven’s Ma Griffe. It’s a bit sour, with a bit of that unusual “hair spray” note that I find in a lot of 1950’s perfumes. That hair spray note works well in Ma Griffe, but is less harmonious in Detchema.
The green notes are the first to disappear, after which the flowers appear. They are soft, a bit powdery and not at all sweet, tempered as they are by those animalic base notes. The leather stands out the most.
Actually, that’s the overall effect right there: a leather jacket doused with flowery perfume and a bit of the wearer’s hair spray, too.
It’s not bad, but Detchema seems hopelessly out of fashion without being “classic,” which gives it limited appeal. I can recommend it only for vintage fragrance fans, and I still suggest you start with a sample before commiting to a whole bottle.
Argonaut – :
Detchema is a very strong, powerful and not very friendly fragrance I happened to stumble in a perfumery store, maybe one of the few where you can still find it. I noticed it because a friend of mine told me that she read somewhere that Maria Callas loved it. She was actually obsessed with it according to that gossip and made it her signature fragrance for many many years.
Because of this I just could’t skip trying it! Well, what can I say? Maria Callas was an absolutely eccentric, very strong and almost violent personality but also a very passional, deep and complicated one. An opera queen like no other and a inequalled voice.
This perfume is probably like her: intense, not well understood, feminine in a totally different way, a little bit masculin, not “pretty” in a common way and quite unfriendly. They say she ate like a monster and this scent could also eat you, with a certain elegance and a big hunger. It also smells very “old”, but not in a granny way. It smells of old perfumes for rich ladies that are totally out of fashion and weird now. Then vip ladies’ style was more about extravagant elegance and luxury rather than showing up fake boobs and long thights to the whole world.
It smells very scaring in the beginning, like a horrible mess of 500 notes put together in a random way: leather and aldehydes, something strongly animalic, rose and carantion thrown into the mess for good measure.
Then all the different notes start to find their own place and to set to something with more sense, still very strong and daring. Not for the faint at heart. I have no idea if it is deluxe or cheap. As far as Ican remember the price was not too high.
They say maria Callas’ ghost still wander in the downstairs galleries of the famous theatre La Scala in Milan. I wonder if she appears smelling like a cloud of Detchema. Quite scaring.