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bigtorrentpack – :
This is the scent of a kidnapping and subsequent Stockholm Syndrome.
First Stage: the burn of the chloroform rag.
Second: You wake up in a disused root cellar. The walls are sweating. Several feet below ground, you’re a hostage to the Earth itself.
Final: After several days spent in the dark, befriending only spiders,the ancient door swings open on its rusty hinges. The cellar is suddenly flooded with forest fresh air and sunlight. Your merciful captor presents you with a platter of shortbread cookies. They are delicious.
DISCOUNTVIAGRA – :
I have worn it for a couple of hours now (first time) and my impression is scaringly close to what Lipglossjunkie has already mentioned in her excellent review – see below. An interesting scent which keep telling new stories – quite unisex.
As to the resemblance with Années Folles I can get a hint of that – Grimoire (to my nose) might be A.F.dressed up for halloween in a witch costume..
pako862008 – :
A spiced herbal/lavender hay fragrance that gave me alternating shades of Annees Folles by Parfumerie Modern, Maharadjah by Nicolai, and just a touch of Spezie by Lorenzo Villoresi. If any of those are in your wheelhouse this is one to try.
Zeniatage – :
So much cumin and basil, you’d think you were cooking something!! I love the imagination in this. On cold sniff (from the nozzle) you definitely get the dusty book essence, but when you spray it on skin it warms up into something else. Dusty spellbooks? Sure. Unwashed musky skin, but a hint of clean soapy candles? Yep, that’s there. Smoky incense and a hint of campfire wood. There’s also a goatlike odor that sits there, underlying. Not offensive, but also not pretty. Telling a story. You can close your eyes and you are transported to the French countryside, an ancient monastery. Dark monks, dark goats, dark secrets. This grimoire is not for the faint of heart–full of dark spells with just a hint of fresh air, redolent with lavender and a spark of citrus. I can imagine I won’t reach for this all the time, but it’s certainly a niche worth experiencing.
felixblyha – :
Tried it at Esxence and fell in love with it!
It smells like a cloister filled with incense, of antique books, of wax… If Cardinal is clean, crisp, mystic, Grimoire is “earth bound”: there is something distinctly animalic about it.
I was told at Esxence that cumin was used to give Grimoire a slightly”dirty” note, because personal hygiene was not the top priority of Medieval monks…a stroke of genius! 🙂
Maksim-NN – :
Smells like the middle ages. Cire Trudon should’ve purchased this composition from Anatole because it fits perfectly into their aesthetic universe and IMHO it is far better than any of the perfumes they released. Love it more with each wear.
I love frankincense and this is a fantastic spin on that beloved note with an amazing opening that twists incense with bergamot and lavender.
SO GOOD. Definitely buying a full bottle of this.
It’s a spiffy clean incense meets herbal lavender masculine with my favorite kind of musky cumin-cigar-smoke note lurking underneath in the drydown. One of my faves.
airrat82 – :
Sublime fresh herbal opening that slowly warms up into a horsey and incensy scent. The contrast between the aromatic notes and the dirty cumin lightened by the incense is fascinating, perfectly balanced and executed. This perfume literally blooms on my skin in cold weather and stays with me all day long. The more I wear it the more I enjoy it. I’m in love
Monager – :
Usually cumin gets way to prominent on my skin and I smell like a packed subway without AC. And this is a cumin bomb, but it’s soo pleasurable, smooth and creamy with the resins and oakmoss. I love it!
Something to try if cumin or oud gets too much like BO on you, like for me with Salome and Songe d’un Bois d’Ete.
On the other hand, my partner that loves Salome (on himself) was not impressed by this one.
dimmaz – :
Finally got around to wearing my sample of Grimoire. This is right up my alley. The opening has a citrus smell that reminds me more of petit grain than it does of the listed bergamot. This citrus aspect is short lived, and is only on the fringes of the opening, as the lavender and basil are also present. In fact, I’m wondering if the basil mixed with the bergamot is what’s making me think petit grain. As it dries down, it becomes more and more the tome of spells pages that the name implies. It actually smells very much like the pages of a book that has been stored with some nice incense. I actually like this fragrance a lot so far, based on my first wear. This is definitely bottle worthy in my “book.” 🙂
romakivorot – :
This is the ugliest, moldiest, dirtiest, funkiest, most pleasurable, delightful and gratifying fragrance you will encounter this year. This is very O’driu-like. Unapologetically quirky. This unconventional fragrance is impressively rich and structured. This has some firm mossyness that’s balanced by dense olibanum and cedar. This dusty cobbler shows a character of power, strength and security. The elimi and moss complement an undeniably present flirtation of mucky cumin rough like gravel that persists and pleases, as medium-bodied weight gives in to a breadth of spicy complexity. Old Books, antiques are correct adjectives when describing this. Way deep in the dry down there’s a pissy combination of moss and elemi that’s unpleasant. Smells like an abandoned gas station bathroom. If you are fond of the following fragrances then Grimoire is not for you: Prada Candy/Paco Rabanne 1 million/Acqua Di Gio/Flowerbomb/Chanel no 5/La Nuit de l’homme. You must graduate from designer fragrances to like this one.
micrsofism – :
I get the bergamot right away…but it gets softened by sweet incense/woody/musky notes…it gets musty?…yes there’s a sense of oldness mixed in with the fruit…very interesting and very wearable…
Mnemanik – :
Rarely you find a fragrance that seriously shock your mind.
Yes this fragrance really deserve more attention. I give to it 5 star.
A Grimoire is a book of magic spells and invocations. Every single witch has to have one where to write her personal sorceries.
Here the goal has perfecly been reached.
When you smell this fragrance you are immediatly transported into a magic obsure realm.
Harry Potter? Lord of the Rings? Could be. Maybe it is so for the youngest generations. I was a child in the 80s so with Grimoire I see pictures of Conan the Barbare, Excalibur, Labyrinth. It is somenthing that connect with your unconscious probably.
Personally I also see the house of the mother of a friend of mine, she was passionate in astrology and tarot, and when we were teen we use to go to her house to discover the secrets of our future. The house, full of ebony wood furnitures, indian carpets, burning incenses, had that smell. Is the first think I have thought when I first smelled this creation. I add than the vial of Grimoire it was in a little bag with about other 15 vials I received. The sachet fall on the floor. The only vial which breaks is Grimoire. What a curse!
I imagine this fragrance floating inside the studio of the Count of Cagliostro, Nostradamus, Leonardo da Vinci, even Merlin.
Open an ampoule with a green liquid slowly boil inside and Grimoire is the scent that you expect to smell.
To simplify this is mainly a woody spicy dark green incense fragrance, one incense really gothic without be churchy or waxy neither common.
Disquieting cold sulfuric flowers sleeps inside the bottle.
If you want to feel 100% Maleficent for one night this is your perfume.
A real little masterpiece, simple, artisanal, but finely orchestred.
An experience you must have.
paulburner231 – :
It’s a combination of spices, milky, & creamy blend with hints of sweets from the anise. It’s a harsh antique room full of old books of darkness and some bottles that contains mummified animals and that what just came on my mind once I sniffed it, And when I search for it’s meaning I just realize that it has something to do with magic.
It’s quite dusky and dusty as explaining the smell of the movie “from dusk till dawn”.
Anatole liberton is one of the artists who really impresses me by his techniques of blending, besides his amusing imagination that fills up every bottle and creation he creates. Well done Anatole.
wbw568Bessinepome – :
The name made me expect something much more dark, opaque and grim, yet it is well justified – Grimoire is a kind of magic, sparkly yet mistical. The reviewer below said it – it’s a spell cast, but it also has a healing, purifying quality – olibanum and a pack of herbs, spice and moss. The spell is here not to deceive, enchant, but to reveal, to unfold.
Another powerful dimension I get from Grimoire is a remarkable perfume history reference; to my nose, it’s an aromatic fougere of an old-school fragrance that feels almost like a hommage to Roudnitska’s Eau d’Hermes (minus leather). Perhaps less casual than Roudnitska’s masterpiece, but still very similar – cumin seems to have this dissolute effect on different noses, here it perfectly unites sweet, mellow notes (lavender, elemi, musk) with more masculine side (olibanum, woody, moss).
Despite of everything, Grimoire is not a difficult fragrance to wear; it balances nicely with balmy, spicy, subtly sweet, a bit green, a bit dirty, mossy – impression is uncommon but calming. On moments it’s almost refreshing with lots of character. Another time it’s deeply reflective, melancholic, solitary..
Gosh-x – :
This is a real Spell.
Adallevally – :
This fragrance “Was lunched in 2017”? Really? it’s 10th Dec 2016!