Description
Enchanted Forest is inspired by the endless sea of Russian forests and fairytales, as well as the most sensual ancient Slavic celebration named Kupala, rooted in the times of darkness, when all on the Earth knew its soul and its name (often too powerful to be uttered in vain or at all). French perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour, the famous creator of fragrances for L’Artisan Parfumeur, Comme des Garçons and Penhaligon’s, built Enchanted Forest around black currant, the smell and taste of which are so beloved in Russia and many other countries where it grows.
TOP: pink pepper, aldehydes, sweet orange (traces), flower cassis, blackcurrant leaf, hawthorn, effects of rum and wine, rosemary, davana.
HEART: blackcurrant buds absolute (by LMR from Grasse), CO2 blackcurrant (by Floral Concept from Grasse), Russian coriander seed, honeysuckle, rose, carnation, vetiver.
BASE: opoponax resinoid, Siam benzoin, amber, oakmoss, fir balsam absolute, Patchouli Purecoeur®, castoreum absolute, cedar notes, vanilla, musk.
Enchanted Forest was launched in 2012.
andivol – :
A Christmas tree farm enclosed in a jam-making factory. Syrupy sweet berries with pine. I can’t do it—the dissonance is just too massive for my olfactory nerves. I sooo wanted to love this, too, due to the glowing reviews!!! Sadly, it is not to be. A big shout-out to Starcadia for the little sample—thanks!
Foefeseep – :
Enchanted forest falls onto my wrists like icy, cold, greenery assaulted by early snow. Bright aldehydes sparkle like snow crystals. Do you remember an early frost? When the late fall berry bushes were still clinging to the last, fertile, formidable, few of the bumper crop that graced the canes earlier in the fall? These hearty, deep purple berries, now entombed by an early snow, give up their essence, along with the leaves, and the precious buds which will now, never flower, never come to fruition. This is a bracing, and serene moment, somber, and reflective. Cold wind sharpens the senses, magnifies perception. The wine, drunk before my walk out alone, smells heavily on my breath. Warm, sweet & slightly bitter, it mixes with the crystalline beauty of the landscape and adds an echo of berries sweetened & fermented to the frozen perfection around me. Then, the sun unexpectedly appears, brilliantly in a flash of Aldehydes, & a hint of sweet orange. My body heat rises with exertion as I trek though familiar paths, enjoying the sight of old evergreen trees, souls I’ve known for years. Their sun warmed essence fills my senses, as the wine finally warms my cheeks and my heart. The warm, wet scent of soil, and wood surrounds me, along with an oily, rich animal aroma, a scent carried on the errant breeze from some furry family’s cozy nesting place. This must be the castoreum, buttery, oily & smooth, like burying yourself in a fur pelt back at the cottage, with a cup of spiced black currant tea, by the remains of the nights former fire. Cozying up, with my favorite book, I stoke the fire, and the scents of my earlier adventure still cling to my skin. Foliage, crushed frozen berries, forgotten flowers, pine needles underfoot, wet earth, musky, animal warmth..the nights imnibed spirits.. Softly they whisper, to me that the forest will always be the place where my soul is at peace.
combiwu – :
A masterpiece here
You get a jammy and highest quality possible black currant note that lasts throughout the entirety of the fragrance.The lingering full and rich sweetness is met with some vanilla and woods in the base. It is quite rich, full and fruity
I would say this is unisex, but maybe the slightest bit masculine, but would be slain by a confidant women wearing this in purple.
10 hours plus longevity, very good projection and great sillage.
This might seem linear, but if it didn’t enchant you from the start it will get you in the end.
Naccamsmelp – :
This is Art not just a fragrance.
Nearby my house there’s a dense forest. Every morning and evening comes a beautiful scented air from there. This is the first thing that came to my mind when I smelt it for the first time. It was a love from first sniff and this is the only niche that I’ve bought two bottles.
Nature in a bottle. It has everything, greens, woods, light florals, earthy vibe, pine trees, herbs, fir trees, resins, forest fruits, wet soil, cassis, a faint smell of fallen decaying leaves, a little boozy vibe, cedar with a delicate swetness. This is not overly sweet scent or a gourmand. It feels natural. This is the best black currant and fir balsam note I’ve ever experienced. Absolutely intoxicating and mesmerizing, calming like a forest and a little melacholic. Its name, the bottle (so heavy, I love it), the decorative elements and the scent speak to me. That being said, Enchanted Forest is a totally unisex and realistic scent, so it’s not for all. Not a safe scent or crowd pleasing one and definitely not for blind buy.
Labyrinth of essences. Enchanted Forest is a strong, dense, complex and multilayered scent with two main parts. It is simplier than the note pyramide though. It feels like a majestic symphonic orchestra without any dissonanse. Masterfully blended to the point of perfection with a natural outcome. It’s difficult to pull apart all those individual notes. You just feel things when your mind emerges memories.
Unique. I’ve never experienced such a realistic scent in my jurney to perfumes. Original and natural. One of a kind IMO.
Performance. This is all year round scent but it feels better and it performs better in mild cold weather. Fall and spring have the best weather conditions for Enchanted Forest. The longevity is great, I got 14-15 hours from it before it dies but the projection is limited. The sillage is moderate. This is not a strong scent but it has nice longevity. With overly warm weather feels uncomfortable and its performance becomes limited overall. I still have to try it in freezing temperatures to see how it feels.
A fairy tail scent. Mysterious and deep it transfers you into the ancient world of fairies, elves, green spiruts, gnomes and forest nymphs. It takes me to an eerie dark world of strange beauty. The awaking of the Old World..
If it was a movie, it would be Narnia or The Fellowship of the Ring. If it was a song it would be May It Be by Enya. If it was a feast, it would be Yule celebrations in a northern dense evergreen forest. This is what ancient deities in northern countries would wear. The epitome of russian fairytail.. this could be a magic potion of Baba Yaga..
This is the smell of our ancient natural inhabitant, the Sacred Forest, the source of Life. Behold my holy grail in perfumery.
Iteseestehask – :
walking through a dark foggy woods, in my black dress. black berries everywhere! I find a table deep within the forest some wine on it.
This is really lovely. I smell some black berries, woody notes, greens, and can smell a little wine somewhere in there that is noticeable in the dry down
kain_ – :
The faeries are having a revel! sweet red wine, cypress/pine in the top, light floral with a butteriness like orris in the middle, serious ass musk and amber in the base
evp706Unlogrere – :
Juicy, black currant deliciousness.
Definitely not something that fits on the department store counter. Nothing else smells like out there. My wife doesn’t really like the opening, but LOVES it after a few hours.
Lasts all day as long as you do the usual shower/lotion routine.
Overall 9/10
порнушка – :
This one is probably not for the faint of heart nor those who love sugary candy bombs or overly feminine or fruity or fruitcholis (making generalizations, as anyone can enjoy any scent, really!).
This to my nose is ever so slightly unisex, in the best way possible! But the big picture for me is, Vagabond Prince is an experience, not just a scent or a fragrance.
It takes me back to Christmases and winters past, when I was a child, and mom was getting the (real) tree ready, us kids helping her, dad lounging on the couch, his cologne slightly wafting in the air in the background, gingerbread or molasses cookies fresh from the oven. A crisp chill in the air. And yet an total undeniable warmth in the heart, surrounded by those we love(d).
Yep. Vagabond Prince to me is an experience…A transformation. A joyful one from years gone by. Would I say this smells vintage? Perhaps. So many of the notes hit my nose at different times. Mainly the balsam fir, the cedar, the oakmoss, the pink pepper, the coriander, the vetiver, the patchouli, the amber, they all hit my nose at different times..a total experience!!!
I love wearing this on occasion in the Winter and around the holidays. Brings back sweet, warm, wonderful memories. I may only wear this a handful of times out of the year, and it is perfectly magical….takes me back to a special moment in time. To wear this often would take away from that specialness, imho. So, I love it for that reason.❤️ Moderate sillage & longevity.
fikuspikus – :
I keep thinking about this one. Love the dark berry with the sweet summer clean sweat accord. It’s a hike in the summer Northern primeval forest, where the sun doesn’t get to the ground but the warmth is heating up all that the woods contain. Strong, but there are certain elements here that are addictive, the black currant especially.
ra3wa – :
Unfortunately, I find this fragrance to be very disagreeable. I’m not getting anything jammy or resinous – just sour blackcurrant, sour pine, and sour wine. The overall effect is just very sour and on its way to the dreaded cat pee effect. I love the smell of fresh, juicy blackcurrant, but this is not it for me, sadly.
witcher91 – :
Mmmm I like current, and trees, and herbs. This has a nice bit of oakmoss and a sweet touch of florals. The rum is really interesting. I like the way it starts sharp and green with wafts of fruitiness and it becomes sweeter as the rum and resins move the the foreground.
Three hours in coriander makes it’s presence known. Five hours in it is heavenly! A blend of resins with a floral undercurrent and just enough pine and cedar and greenness to remind you of the opening. Ten hours in it is warm and resinous and blissful. This may be one of the best things I’ve ever smelled.
I am enjoying this immensely.
Andrey512 – :
You are standing on the edge of a beautiful overgrown forest and then you take your first sniff – instantly you are hit over the head and dragged through the wet soil, shrubs and berries left to wake up with a mouth full of the forest ground.
Within minutes though you are standing straight up, your mouth clear of debris and magically no pain on the back of your head. You inhale and take in the beautiful enchanted fruits, fir trees and delicate sweetness and spiciness around you. It’s magic.
As you walk through the woods the smell changes slightly, but maintains a strong pull on you. You are mesmerized. You could wander this enchanted forest for days.
That is the scent. It’s powerful and yet inviting to others. My husband who doesn’t always appreciate all my niche tastes loves this one. A winter wonderland of a scent that I definitely will be getting a full bottle of. Lotions, candles, room sprays – please make all of these and more, I can’t get enough of this luxurious fairytale scent.
Budar – :
Black Currant can be one of the most tricky and difficult notes to work with. If not mixed in proper amounts with the right formulas, it can be an off-putting scent, and unfortunately, very similar to cat urine.
The Vagabond Prince has absolutely mastered this note and perfectly blended it into an exquisite, dreamy parfum that is indeed uni-sex.
It opens quite sharply and green, with the mighty black currant announcing that he is the ring leader and King of Berry. About 15 minutes later, he allows his back-ups to shine, and boy do they ever, but they wisely never attempt to out shine the ring leader.
Enchanted Forest is truly the perfect name for this fragrance for it is a magical trip into a forest of delights. The balsam fir and cedar here are extraordinary and compliment the black currant so well.
Although I like and love many fragrances, there have only been a very few that actually triggers my senses and transport me to another place when I smell them.
Enchanted Forest does this more thoroughly than any of the few that have accomplished this.
Where does it transport me, you ask ?
To the most enchanted winter-time forest my imagination has ever conjured up.
I enjoy this experience every time I wear this heavenly fragrance, or even if I just sniff the gorgeous bottle.
I absolutely love this stuff and will purchase it as long as they make it.
Scent – 10
Sillage – 7
Longevity – 7
Donghost – :
At first I thought I had opened a bag of Haribo. (You know, one of the bags where you’re really happy because there are mainly red ones inside but then you feel sick afterwards because you couldn’t control your greed and ate the whole bag!) Got a comment on how to lure young children into the forest – after mentioning the name of the scent.
Then…, as the mocking continued the woody layers of this come out and slowly mix with the detonation of berries from the opening. As the berries fade away and get replaced by a mystical evergreen Tundra my nose is feeling more and more comfortable wearing this and I loose myself in endless mossy forest.
Over time this perfume journeys from childish Prince to mature, wise and handsome Czar. Both are very rich, well-mannered, intriguing and make you want to stick around and talk to them.
bocmanis – :
This is magical!really enchanted!It starts with a blast of berries, namely blueberries and black current with a touch of citrus and balmy notes. To me smells like the best quality red wine out there without any bitter aroma of alcoholic drinks. I find it pretty fruity and that’s good news for me as a fruity fan. but it never approaches the mainstream of common fruity perfumes. Actually it reminds me somehow of pomgranate noir by Jo Malone, but it’s much more delicate and less harsh.
As the time passed berry magic fades away by the woody and balmy notes. It’s just like walking from berry bushes to a deeper black forest. I like the way it remains sweet without exaggeration. It’s like having a glass of wine in an enchanted forest under pinon trees.
Even though the smell would be different, I can compare enchanted forest with elixir des merveille, because of the same impression of the forest I get from both. Everything about this perfume is extraordinary, not only my favorite between the other perfumes of the line, but also one my favorites among thousands of other ones I’ve tried.
Accorsseibedo – :
bubble gum at first then it remindes me of JS Fancy love!
psm653JeomiWogkig – :
So yes, I was one of the very lucky 100 subscribers who received a sample of Enchanted Forest from fragrantica.com when it was first launched in 2012. I was around 17 years old at that time.
When I received the sample, I was thrilled. The black currant and rum were so tart and yummy, while the oak moss, cedar, and amber added the perfect amount of warmth in there. It was the perfect scent in the humid weather of Florida. I treasured the sample for years, until I graduated high school at the age of 19. I didn’t have the courage to spend $200 on a perfume back then, but the scent has always stayed in my mind.
Now I’m turning 23, have moved to LA and got a much fuller wallet. I finally ordered the full size bottle of this beauty, and received it today. It smells exactly like the memories, like so many of the humid night I had spent in Florida. It’s still tart but warm, sophisticatedly yummy. I can see myself using it a lot for the summer night dates here in LA too.
My collection has grown so much since then, but this is still one of the very unique ones, and will always hold the sentimental values in my heart.
ChoibePoell – :
Enchanted Forest is indeed a good take on blackcurrent frag but I’m not sure if I want to pay big bucks to smell like a Ribeena drink or my dad’s homemade blackcurrent jam! Ha ha!
It’s amazing to see this as 15 people’s signature scent!.
Personally, I think there are many, many better choices for gorgeous perfumes.
Especially in this price range.
vorobey06 – :
Enchanted Forest smells like a blackcurrant pie with some bitter cassis leaves put on the side of a plate. Further into the drydown I sense some pink pepper, red wine, and some edible spicy, fruity notes (it has a bubblegum vibe as well). It is a definite like, however I do not find it to be extremely interesting. It’s makes me feel like, ok this smells nice, but nothing beyond that. It is a nice piece of art and very wearable, versatile, yet not groundbreaking at all and highly overpriced. If it was a designer fragrance at a designer price, I would recommend it, sadly in this case I do not.
pritvorshik – :
This perfume is constructed around the idea of a big, juicy black currant and the bracing scent of a dark evergreen forest that is seemingly enchanted. I think it’s safe to say Bertrand is a talented perfumer, having embodied the character of the currant without the catty/pissy tonalities of the absolute, and exalted it in several raw materials all differently derived from the plant. The juxtaposition of this against the dark green backdrop is intoxicating and mesmerising, while deceptively simple. The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
Greshkov – :
Sweet blackcurrant being tempered by whiffs of pine needles, dewy undergrowth, some red wine and good old fashioned magic. Unlike anything I’ve experienced so far, a combination of notes that works amazingly well, and to me is at the same time nostalgic (there were blackcurrants being grown at my home farm next to a lake and a forest) and wearable. Spring-summer-early autumn would work the best, although the blackcurrant might be interesting in cold air 😛
My next FB for sure, and speaking of the bottle, TVP nailed the design, fits perfectly.
Love love love.
ра4хфк – :
Black currant,Black currant,Black currant,Black currant,Black currant,Black currant and again Black currant.Black Currant tree juice!
Black currant bubblegum!That’s it!
So much hype about this one too.
Linear IMO.More Simpler than it’s mentioned notes
Sillage and Longevity are both modetare and also overpriced!
Not suitable for men over 35yo.
Test before buy
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7/10
dacyZoosy – :
Man oh man, this stuff is amazing and intoxicating!
My husband would never be able to wear this, and I am a faithful woman, but were I to have a torrid affair with a beautiful Russian grad student half my age, he would have auburn ringlets like a fairy prince, big blue eyes as deep as Lake Baikal, pale skin, rosy cheeks and smell of this magical elixir.
It open strange and medicinally astringent from the cassis leaf and dries down jammy and woody and mysterious. I’ve smelled some of these notes in other compositions, true, but this combination is a dark art of blending.
Enchanting and dangerous!
lena19 – :
I first encountered this one at a store with a sizeable perfume collection. My friend and I had gone there to shamelessly smell all their fragrances and this was recommended to me because I love Dasein Winter. Well, let me tell you this one is otherworldly. I am in love. It’s stunningly complex, there is so much going on! It also lasts forever (and stays on your clothes too). It’s more luxurious than Dasein Winter, with more currant and sweetness. It definitely conjures the Russian Forest imagery they are going for, rather than the singular tree that many similar scents go for. But alas it’s super expensive and I probably will only buy decants.
vik_kas – :
Received my samples through the Fragrantica draw and this is my favorite. Thanks soooooooo much!!!
pwu082speagoessenda – :
A really gorgeous fragrance. I also have Olympic Orchids Blackbird which is a bit similar but sweeter and much more fruity. I love both of these fragrances.
It really does conjure up images of a deciduous and conifer forest. Fairies dancing amongst the brambles and dock leaves. I get lots of blackcurrant and balsam fir. The blackcurrant leaf note is a tricky one but it’s handled perfectly here. Its very easy for it to smell like cat pee if not used lightly. I don’t get any wine note.
This is not a very sweet fragrance but more fresh, a touch fruity and slightly tart. I also can’t help thinking of Jo Malones BlackBerry and Bay.
Moderate sillage and longevity
Keencemooks – :
I received my bottle today thank you to Fragrantica!! I love it! This is a realistic pine and blackcurrent scent. I don’t find it to smell like Olympic Orchids blackbird. Blackbird turned into a pine scented car airfreshner mixed with very medicinal kids cough syrup with a base of laundry detergent. But Enchanted Forest is Enchanting! Me and my family sat around smelling it and reminiscing! It brought back memories for all of us. To me it opens with a blast of tart juicy, realistic boozy blackcurrent! A few minutes later the pine comes out and this pine smells fresh and cold, like it’s dusted with snow. At this point it smells like Christmas trees and a boozy berry wine! Next the memory’s start to emerge. I swear i smell Pine cones, Acorns and sap; the sap that runs down the pine trees and gets sticky on your hands. It smells like when i was a child when we used to go to the Fraiser Township park every weekend. The park was filled with pine trees and pine cones covered the ground, sap ran down the trees. Me and my brother and sisters would run around playing hide and seek. We hid behind the pine trees and would get sap all over our hands and it even got in my hair once. We would gather pine cones and make crafts out of them with mom once we got home and occasionally throw pine cones at eachother:) It was so fun and the fact that this perfume smells exactly like that time in my life makes this very special. The innocence and carefree frolicking, laughing, playing, and imaginations running wild. This is a very well made perfume. Sillage is an arms length for the first 30 minutes and then is close to the skin but still noticeable to others. Longevity was about 4 hours, it could be more, it’s possible that i became nose blind after a while. Very beautiful scent. If you love the smell of pine cones, pine trees, sap and boozy blackcurrent than im sure you will love this.
qweasd – :
Enchanted Forest is pretty cool and unique. Admittedly I don’t feel it smells as complex as the orchestra of its notes suggest, and it’s pretty linear, but its high quality is apparent. Most of the time the strongly dominating notes are black currant leaves and blossom which give it very edible/juicy and aromatic quality but also, unlike the sweeter berries, quite tart, almost strident edge (more typical of red currant berries). This can make wearing it an effort of considerable audacity, though women could possibly find it much easier. However it offers monstrous staying power, especially on clothes, and that’s how its complexity and softer edge reveal themselves with powdery vanilla smoothness and some aldehydes – waiting until the next day and sniffing the shirt is the sure way to enjoy its beauty and get to the warm sunny spots in this shady green forest. A very remarkable creation.
Meksf398JeomiWogkig – :
Wow guys….this is one of the only niche and unique perfumes my girlfriend enjoys, we will be buying and sharing it! This fragrance was exactly what i wanted it to be, i payed over 5 pounds for a sample and it was so worth it. Its a fruit dominant forest, slightly feminine maybe, but it wont stop me from loving this masterpiece… if you are looking for a sweet foresty scent, give this a sample.
Update: longevity is about 5-6 hours max, tried it on the back of my hand and was a bit dissapointed, however this could be because my sample is dab on and not a spray so i probably didnt use that much, ill try it again and update a second time
yurask87 – :
This scent is named perfectly: enchanted forest. It smells like a northern evergreen forest dusted with snow, the scent of late berries in the air. Maybe too prosaic, but that’s really what it smells like to me, and its utterly bewitching. This is one of my 3 all-time favorite winter scents (along with Maison Margiela By the Fireplace, and Armani Si Intense – which goes on beautifully after enchanted forest, with the complimentary blackcurrant.) This is strong – sillage and longevity – a little goes a loooong way, so that expensive bottle in its beautiful box is going to last me a long, long time. One of the best perfume purchases I have ever made!!
ghjnrby – :
I do not know anybody who wants to smell like blackcurrant, believe me. Yes, it smells this berry, no more. What was the pont? I do not know.
sergei.kholod – :
very interesting smell, indeed. i can not say i smell blackcurrant AT ALL, but at the same time i would not mind having it in my collection, but honestly- i will find so many more perfumes for which i would eagerly pay 200 $. Sorry, EF does not cost that much, waaaay overpriced.
айчик – :
It shows great magic, it simply envelops you in an enchanted aura…complex and alluring.
Best blackcurrant on the market.
джони – :
I have waited for half a year to write this review. Just wanted to let the seasons change and to fully experience this AMAZING scent. And the wait wasn‘t for nothing. Enchanted Forest is truly a blissful scent. First time when I sprayed it on my wrist it just blew my mind. It is THIS kind of scent that makes you go WOW. So deep, juicy, fresh, ripe, earthy…
I wore it during my wedding. Yes, this scent. There‘s no huge sillage, it just wraps around you. However, it all depends on the amount of sprays. Anything over two will keep everyone asking „wow, who smells this good?“. However, you will be feeling it the whole day and it‘s quite a challenge. That said, two sprays are the top for me.
Summer or winter? For me it‘s definitely a cold season scent. There are two main parts that come up on me: the animalistic side of the perfume and the black currant side. During hot summer days, it‘s all about animals in that enchanted forest. Mysterious and mythological creatures. During colder days, black currant takes the leading role leaving all the forest life somewhere in the background. Lovely lovely lovely.
Lasting power is very long on me. 8 hours on skin, up to 10 hours on hair. While spraying the perfume on my wrist I accidently sprayed some on my watch leather bracelet. It‘s been a week and I can still feel it. And I love it. Amazing.
The scent is nothing else but magic. I love how well balanced it is. It‘s neither feminine, nor masculine. It‘s an experience. A journey. Coming from northern Europe, we had black currant growing in our backyard. The accuracy is amazing. For me it‘s like taking a walk on a hot and damp summer day in a pine forest. All the resins come out of the trees and give of this amazing sweet smell… and then it‘s berries and the earth itself. All moist and sweet and deep.
Amazing.
Разиэль – :
To start with it only has a slight resemblance to OO Blackbird which I also love. Blackbird is a much darker smokey berry fragrance. EFTVB has much more balsam fir and wood notes. EFTVB is also not as sweet, dense and as rich a fragrance as Blackbird. I love them both for different reasons.
EVTVB is a lovely fragrance which for me immediately conjures up an autumn sunlit conifer forest. Aromatic first and then berry fruitiness. Its autumn in the woodland and a time of mellow light and fruitfulness. I do think it is unisex but I think its sweetness makes it edge a tad more over to the feminine. I was a bit disappointed that both sillage and longevity were moderate but its forgiven as it is so gorgeous.
MigSiliPino – :
LOST IN A RUSSIAN FOREST
It’s the first day of spring and I’m wearing this. Enchanted Forest is a masterpiece. To me this represents Russia as an epic movie from the 50s, think War and Peace only it would be more of a fantasy children’s version but it has some content which can be appreciated by adults as well, like a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. I get the same kind of Russian cultural thing as I did with Maroussia. This fragrance evokes Medieval Russia, the deep forests, peasants, Gypsies, tsars and princesses. I’m reminded of my favorite Russian fairy tale Vasilisa a Cinderella type of poor girl who owns a doll, outsmarts an old witch, becomes a beautiful make of dresses and clothes and wins the heart of a prince. It’s a fragrance that matches up with Tchaikovsky ballets like Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty. It’s a fragrance of Rothbart and Odette, an evil wizard and a princess under a dark spell. It also really does match up perfectly with the end of Act 2 of Sleeping Beauty the part when Prince Desiree is entering the castle struggling to find Aurora through entangled vines, climbing plants and thorns, cutting away at the greenery with his sword, defeating the evil witch Carabosse (Maleficent) and finally awakening the princess with his kiss. The forest theme is dead-on. I do smell a forest but it smells like the vision of a forest, only fragmented images come to my mind. I see berries, poison ivy, and hallucinations of dancing fairies, deer running through the forest and little gnomes hiding behind mushrooms. It wears more like you’ve taken some poisonous flower or plant and now you’re lost in the forest and lost in your hallucinations. It also makes me think of the Schubert Lieder “Elfkoning” The Elf King which is a very sad song about a dying boy who is hallucinating about an evil elf king in the forest who is trying to kidnap him, using sweet kind words and promising him a life of pleasures in the forest, while the boy’s father, carrying him in his arms and riding a horse, gallops away to the nearest doctor’s house but the boy dies. I have never smelled anything more beautiful since Lancôme’s Magie Noire. I would like to say that although this scent is not exactly like Magie Noire I get the same kind of feeling and vibe from it. Magie Noire affected me deeply and I will always love it but I have room in my heart and my life and my perfume wardrobe for this beauty too.
Notes in The Enchanted Forest By The Vagabond Prince
TOP Notes: Pink pepper, aldehydes, orange, cassis, blackcurrant, hawthorn, rum red wine, rosemary
HEART NOTES: Black currant, coriander, honeysuckle, rose, carnation, vetiver.
BASE NOTES: Opoponax, benzoin, amber, oakmoss, fir balsam Patchouli castoreum cedar notes, vanilla, musk
This is a very heavy complex fragrance and it throws up so many of the notes as it wears for over 9 hours on your skin. Powerful stuff. I smelled the aldehydes at the first spritz a bit vintage and old fashioned. Then I got a lot of the grape scents in this frag: black currant and cassis, a hint of orange. Then there is the boozy intoxicating scents of rum and red wine. It smells like a celebration in a village near the forest. A young boy ends up drinking too much wine and gets lost in the forest and never returns. He enters a magical world of fantasy: fairies, elves, gnomes. The heart is spicy with coriander and rich with honeysuckle which really blend well with the booze. It’s like honey wine. I would not call this a floral fragrance although it does contain some flowers. I smell mostly the rose and carnation. Beautiful and a tad on the melancholy side like these flowers are only a part of the forest mirage and I can’t actually pick them up to smell them. The rosemary provides a floral aromatic touch. The fragrance becomes dry and then smells of woods. I smelled lots of woods: cedar and oak moss. Naturally there would be woods in the forest. Ah and there’s patchouli wonderful patchouli doing it’s thing, it’s magical aromatic thing and harmonizes with the incense note which is here in the form of benzoin and opoponax. The castoreum and musk are the animalic scents that are clearly there at the last part of the fragrance and conjure up images of animals in the forest: deer. The muskiness gets pretty strong and becomes a bit like civet but because of the booze and the honeysuckle the vanilla and other notes that are usually sweet it’s not too bad a musk or odorous. The amber note at the very end is absolutely lovely. Every part of this fragrance is to die for. I love love love love this perfume so much. Totally unisex so both guys and gals can enjoy this trip into the forest. It’s still got a bit of a winter touch, and really it’s better suited to winter and autumn and smells better in cold weather but it’s still chilly here in New York. I’m in the Enchanted Forest and it will be a long time before I get out of it.
oba945bedyWelty – :
Fragrance that wants to represent the beautiful forests Russians, their stories and the Slavic tradition of one of its most important holidays called Kupala right on the summer solstice at night of San Juan.
The fragrance opens fresh with aldehydes and orange also feels a well-mixed and herbs with the effect of a powerful fruity note of somewhat boozy blackcurrant due to the effect of rum and wine and then move to spicy note of pink pepper a feeling of currants with a soft green floral background point is the best part of the tour.
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