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volvogp – :
Powdery, woody…I find some similarity with eau de Charlotte, specially in the dry down minus the vanilla.
A pretty fragrance, humble, vintage, romantic…
Zeklylype – :
Hi girls,
Does anybody know the difference between the packages?
Some packages have a brouwnish color and some a red color. Is there a difference between the two? On both of the packages is written EdP.
Thank you for answering.
Greetz Elizabeth
alahakbar1978 – :
This is a genuinely nice older-style scent. It’s not a modern fume, nor something I would personally wear, but I’d have no trouble at all cuddling up to a mum or nanna in her 70s or 80s who smelled like this. It’s quite a comforting powdery, classy, yet cuddly scent.
By contrast, I have many other vintage samples that smell stale or just ‘old’ and harsh. Farouche is rather like that for the first 40mins, but then settles into something softer. I’m especially surprised, as an aldehydes-hater, that these notes are not objectionable to me. My nasopharyngeal lining remains intact :).
Farouche seems to have retained its freshness over the years, or is just a more delicate and wearable traditional fragrance.
zlo – :
Farouche is a soft floral aldehyde that evokes memories of a forgotten time, when perfumeurs really made mysterious masterpices. Very beautifull creation.
Anyone who know who made this masterpiece.?
Memrx586InsuffBooni – :
just bought a vintage miniature (ebay) of this perfume based purely on the reviews in the brilliant group. Totally delightful
vff257Unlogrere – :
I did own some of this a few years ago, but alas, it was so light on me I could hardly smell it.
rolexreplica78029 – :
Summer morning, cloudless sky, fresh breeze, white crisp tank top, pale jeans, walking downtown with my husband and kids for coffee and croissants wearing Farouche. Casual but very elegant.
They don’t make such a scents these days. Just tutti frutti candy stuff which is so forgetable and has no statement at all. We definitely need some “perfume revolution” to come very soon.
alexanr9999 – :
Farouche is a gorgeous green floral aldehydic woody fragrance. One part Madame, one part Mademoiselle, this scent is a sleeper- it comes on exactly as the name suggests… Shy and difficult to know at first, yet given some time, you will find her to be full of grace, charm and intelligence.
The open is green with a rush of aldehydes and sharpish florals. At first impression such a tactiturn beauty might not be worth the effort to get to know better. But as the green and bitter notes are joined by jasmine, rose, carnation, sandalwood, amber and musk, a very appealing, fully feminine heart is revealed.
Farouche fits me well, fleshed out as it is with a medley of other favorite notes: cardamom, peach, clary sage, oakmoss, and vetiver. The fruit, herb and spice provide necessary verve and lift; the root and moss ground it.
If you are looking to explore scents with similar feeling to Farouche, another wild 1970s French scent that falls along the same lines is Hermes Caleche- though Farouche represents the cleaned up, tidy-ish version, while Caleche is rather less refined, or at least less into showers!
Xeroxopbqq – :
I love this perfume! Maybe I’m a sucker for galbanum, or maybe it’s the oakmoss/vetiver that does it, layered so beautifully with so many lovely flowers, maybe it’s just I’m delighted with any perfume that has LOV and iris. This one is a true classic and worthy of a try.
And Anomie et Ivoire – I LOVED your review!
ALEX101286 – :
delightful perfume, sweet and warm…as indeed is Fleur de Fleur by the same perfumier…plenty of both around and not expensive either…
Monager – :
I loved this perfume and have tried for many years to either find it again or one almost the same. It a warm and sensual fragrance. And amazingly I have found Jesus del Pozo’s Ambar, which in it’s own right is a wonderful scent and amazingly is very similar in construction and smell. Wonderful!!!
arcandDrorret – :
I’ve had a pure perfume of Farouche for a few months, already in love with it; it’s a go-to lowkey but strong kind of perfume. They really don’t make ’em like this anymore, and why? “Farouche,” meaning ‘shy but wild’ isn’t a desirable personality these days. Nina Ricci cranks out cartoon apples, sugar, and gift wrapped girliness now, and why not? It’s what people want. But Farouche captures a post-1969 pre-80s excess time when being a woman meant being (super)natural, untamed, and far above the performativity of buttons and bows. Post-Feminine Mystique, pre-infantilization.
An anecdote: today I found a large vintage Farouche edt in a so-precious-it’s-subversive ceramic atomizer for a few dollars at Goodwill. The lady at the counter wrinkled her nose and said (after only barely sniffing the likely caked-up and aged spritzer head) “What a horrible old perfume. That smells so nasty. Eww!” She demanded to know why I would want to wear something so ugly and tried to get me to buy the sealed (and marked twenty dollars) Heidi Klum Shine someone had donated unsniffed. Shine is not that bad for a celeb-u-scent, but it’s play-doh compared to Farouche’s fertility sculpture. What kind of perfume paradigm do we live in that the unsniffed, sealed celeb scent supposedly beats the strong but subtle feminine classic? The lady was certainly no perfumista, but she was so shocked that I wanted to buy Farouche that I had to claim to be ‘In It for the Bottle’ in order for her to let me buy this piece of refuse, this expired narcotic. She balked as if I were paying to wear poison ivy as a scarf.
Oh and now for the actual perfume: The “Ricci-ade” base is very evident in Farouche; comforting and soft-focus. Aldehydes, oakmoss, and jasmine are the main events, so an almost scholarly and prim perfume is the first impression. But then the drydown is a bit more earthy; protest singer with a cigarette sexy. Even though leather isn’t in the pyramid, I get an impression of suede.
This wasn’t made for candy girls or femmes fatales. The floral bouquet in this Ricci is more restrained than in her others, more like dried flowers pressed in the pages of a dusty book of poetry. Farouche is a classic French perfume in the old style, but something in its restraint is more natural than demure. I think of walks in the woods, playing guitar in the hammock, and maybe the post-commune refugee who knows a little more about the world and is more beautiful for having lived–reverting to some of the civilization and pleasure of her drug-free days. In visual style, Audrey Hepburn in Green Mansions comes to mind. A wood nymph in a crisp white shirt.
verbalnaya – :
One of those fragrances that my mom used to put on me when I was a young child. Makes me think of a time of innocence. I still have what’s left in the old vintage bottle (not the heart-shaped one). It had been a gift from my mom’s brother in France many years ago. It smells light and carefree. Definitely aldehydic, very green, with a touch of florals.
Love it.
illena1972 – :
It’s over two hours later and suddenly Farouche has let it’s long seventies hair down. It actually has gone a bit wilder. Take my hand, walk through the long grass, into the trees near the river.
Oops, now its something like a fougere and I’m not sure again. Interesting though. Worth hanging around after.
Yarik99 – :
Farouche means sullen and shy in company but with a wild cranky charm.
It smells generically like the 1970’s to me. It’s not horrible, just very dated, cranky like it’s wearing polyester and shy because it’s older than everyone else at the party and it wants to go home, put comfy shoes on and be wild in the only way it knows how; dancing alone to Neil Diamond.
jp66 – :
Why, oh why won’t they bring this one back? Warm, classy, sophisticated and feminine but completely unpretentious – it was my signature fragrance many moons ago and oh, how I wish it still could be. And the beautiful heart-shaped bottles complemented it so beautifully.
Many perfumes come and go but some touch you in a way that makes you LONG to bathe yourself in them again – Farouche is and, I suspect, always will be THAT perfume for me.
Юрий Руднев – :
I would buy again in a minute if I could find this fragrance for nostalgic reasons. However when I look at the notes – they are among my favorites today,.
With Oakmoss, vetiver, geranium, carnation it is no wonder I loved Farouche
I wore it daily as a young high school teacher in the 1970’s. The kids used to tell me they loved it.
Now I would hesitate to be guided by the tastes of teenages – perhaps my loss ?
Barton – :
This and Je Reviens were first perfumes I bought for myself, with my own money. Wore them both all through high school and college. Lovely. I miss Farouche.
zin632speagoessenda – :
My wild, beautiful Farouche…
A tomboy fragrance of the long lost era.
A child lost in the woods…
The old house with high beams, harboring ghosts.
The bitter plants that grew on ruins.
I don`t see it as an old fashioned scent, though everything screams about it – aldehydes, complex ingredients, 1973. It is a scent of a woman who smokes cigars, rides wild horses and has no fear of the future, because she left all the fears in the past.She is down to earth and her hands are not manicured.Children run to her and animals trust her…
That`s what is Farouche to me.