Description
Each fragrance in the Dame Perfumery Scottsdale eau de toilette collection consists of three elements neatly balanced for simple, clean and pure beauty: a bright top note, a pretty floral heart and a warm sensual dry down, all matched together and blended to perfection.
Mate, Heliotrope & Patchouli by Dame Perfumery Scottsdale is a Oriental Floral fragrance for women. This is a new fragrance. Mate, Heliotrope & Patchouli was launched in 2014. Top notes are mate, lime peel and aldehydes; middle notes are heliotrope, iris, rose and tiare flower; base notes are patchouli and amber.
Sensual and sheer Mate, Heliotrope & Patchouli is available as a 100 ml eau de toilette.
The nose behind this fragrance is Jeffrey Dame.
makc0502 – :
There’s something very nostalgic about this fragrance. It’s clean, soft, comforting, sweet. Def leaning a bit more feminine…but very beautiful juice for a GREAT price. Would make a safe, wonderful, budget-friendly gift. This was a blind buy for me and I am soooo glad that I did!
suimimugh – :
This is fabulous! This is one of the freshest patchouli fragrances I’ve ever smelled. The mate and lime in the opening is fresh and herbal and I get a hint of aldehydes. The powdery and vanilla-toned heliotrope is heavenly and there is sweetness that may be from the tiare flower. Love this!
nastasy-sweet – :
I’ve spent many a summer in Santa Fe, NM and that’s exactly what this smells like. It’s a sweet, non-sugary floral and very dry. I can feel both the chill of the morning and the heat of the day in it. I don’t want to wear it so much as I want to spray it all around the house. It’s so relaxing, I feel like I could take a nap in the sun with the door open, listening to the birds, wind chimes, and linens in the breeze.
All of the Dame perfumes I’ve smelled are beautiful, and many of them remind me of some aspect of the southwest desert. There’s nothing “perfumey” about them. They manage to be both real and intriguing at the same time.
grif5to – :
Mate, Heliotrope & Patchouli is like a powdery and slightly sweet rose on me at first, with a background of patchouli. Patchouli can sometimes be overly musty on me, but not here. Then a gorgeous floral aroma develops while the rose takes a back seat, and my it is gorgeous! I love tiare flower, so this might be why this perfume appeals to me so much. The sillage is moderate, and the longevity is excellent.
Mariah_fromAF – :
Other reviewers are spot-on about the sweetness: this fragrance is sweet! Not in a sugary-head-rush kind of way, though. This is sweet yet deep. There are no rough edges in this perfume, no stark transitions. This is what you’d want a blanket to smell like if you’d just come home from a bad day and wanted to wrap yourself up in something comforting. A very “there-there, everything is going to be all right,” sort of smell… but not at all boring or stodgy. Just beautiful and sweet.
The heliotrope is apparent first, with a loud hello. As the fragrance dries down and warms up with skin, the heliotrope relaxes and patchouli weaves its way in. They play very well together!
As I go through my Dame testers, I’m realizing Jeffrey Dame is a masterful blender. These notes hug each other rather than jostling for attention. No notes are hiding; just supporting.
Though this fragrance isn’t for me, as I generally don’t wear sweet scents, I would be friends with the person who wore it. Actually I know someone I’ll give my tester to…
Sultan2394 – :
This scent surprised me with its sweetness. It’s very sweet on my skin, but kind of a woody sweet rather than a gourmand sweet. It isn’t too almond-like or foody, as heliotrope can sometimes get. I don’t actually smell patchouli. I’m not sure about the mate. I expected a tea scent but it isn’t that at all. It’s very beautiful and wearable, but I think I will reach for it more in cooler months. My summer love is definitely Pear, Waterlily, and Amber.
Edit: Yep, it’s absolutely beautiful in cooler weather! I love it! All of the Dames have surprised me with being nice and strong, and they stay that way for a good few hours. Great stuff, and among the very few that I can actually wear and love.
adv_adv1969 – :
Charming! This is one of those fragrances that is so utterly likable, I cannot imagine it getting anything but complements. It’s hard NOT to like. It’s a clean, lightly sweet floral with far more interesting aspects than your average white musk or clean linen scent.
Interestingly, I don’t smell tea or heliotrope or patchouli specifically. No. I realize they must be there, to create the powder ( heliotrope ), the depth ( patchouli ), and the freshness ( mate ). But what I primarily smell is this lovely goodness that says,
” Hug me. I’m wonderful!”
So don’t be surprised if you receive a hug – or more – while wearing this lovely little fragrance.
Note: There is a faint resemblance to Sweet Honesty about Mate, Heliotrope, & Patchouli that makes me better understand the initial unisex marketing of Avon’s release. Both are fresh, floral, and powdery. Dame Perfumery wins hands down, however, with better depth, complexity, and blended goodness. I would call this ‘Innocent Sophistication’.
Hyligan – :
This scent reminds me of fresh laundry. Like a spring day with some flowers blooming and laundry on the line. A casual white tshirt and jeans fragrance. a hanging out with friends on the patio drinking a beer fragrance. It really reminds me of just like a good fragrance that you wouldn’t notice as “perfumy”. a very down to earth everyday scent. I would say definitely for anyone 20+ and an everyday fragrance. that scent when you dont want to smell too perfumy and just fresh. I really like it. maybe too casual for business, but a really great weekend fragrance or vacation fragrance.
Keterina – :
I am simply blown away by this understated yet fantastic perfume. It is soft, sweet, and delicate, yet it has great sillage and lasts 12 hours on my skin. I can’t honestly say I have ever smelled anything like it. I smell heliotrope, for sure, a green-almond type of scent blended with delicate iris flower. There is something sugary-sweet that I can’t put my finger on, but I like it! Now the surprise is that I smell an undercurrent of something like stale cigarettes. It’s very subtle to the point where I don’t notice it unless I put my nose directly onto my wrist. And the funny thing is that as yucky as that sounds, it smells good. Kind of like civet or musk. Why would someone want to smell like musk or urine or stale cigarettes? Well, they don’t, but they might want to smell like a nicer version of those things. If they are done right, those kinds of scents can be very appealing. So ya, I like the stale cigarette vibe I get here.
I view this perfume as a wearable, enjoyable cologne. Very casual in feel yet an obviously sophisticated piece of art. So you are not sacrificing beauty and quality to find something you can wear every day, for any occasion.
What I love as much as the scent is the fact that I don’t detect a synthetic, chemical base. Not saying it isn’t there, but I don’t notice it. The notes are crystal clear, not muddled. It is a generous amount of quality juice at an affordable price, and it doesn’t smell a little cheap or synthetic. How does he do it?! Very much looking forward to exploring this house more.
andranik66666 – :
MHP is a shirt. And, Im guessing that most people will probably wear a shirt or want to at some point in their life.
The fact of the matter is that Jeffrey Dame is a man of the desert and this is his ode to it. Sure he cans slip in and out of New York and San Francisco and Chicago and Europe and Canada and the big cities. But when he gets to choose, somehow he knows that he belongs in the desert. People that walk trails with dirt on their shoes know when they belong to the desert and there might be many that just dont understand. But those of us that do, understand the wave towards another, and when we see those rare travelers of life, we know to nod. And its comfort to find a fragrance with a moving chin. And it seems ok to thumb ones nose at the boraginaceae.
There are women in this world that can best be described as handsome. These arent the foofy little women that get out of limousines, walk the red carpet, and flash perfect teeth at banks of photographers while wearing a dress that could fund a soup kitchen with their hair in a do that their pardners would need a chainsaw to hack up should they want to run their hands through it. These are women that can sit a horse, run a trail, contribute to a business meeting, mop up some blood in an ER and fill a movie house with laughter. MHP is the type of fragrance to appeal to such a woman. It would chase down children at a school, or throw hints to a lover at dinner, or relax alone with a cup of joe.
Still, I dont think this is a fragrance just for women. I despise the term unisex and I think there are clear differences between us and those we pedestal and call the fair sex. But the desert does not discriminate between those it accepts and those it wants to kill and neither does Mate, Heliotrope and Patchouli. Natural beauty lives in a world of art and becomes timeless and this fragrance does not embrace the clock. MHP is a rope the post type of scent and you can bet the mossy bull notices the noose.
Being a dirt dog, I wanted to review a masterpiece for my first review and this little puppy is one that can put its feet down, chest up and look at you with interest. It is hard to imagine and comprehend but in 2015, I have worn this more and used more of it than any other fragrance. My bottle is half empty, and usually my hand goes right past the niche shelf to those more “sanctioned”. I find that when I don’t wear MHP that often I want to and would rather that I did, and for some reason, I want to wear this often and more than I do. Additionally, I like to wear it to bed and I usually dream and rest better when I do.
At some point we should accept the nitty gritty and rate the thing so lets get to it. For scent, I rate this as excellent. Its a floral but one that walks its own trail. Dame didnt hug the traditional Jasmine, Lavender, Violets to pull this off. It has a big Heliotrope note and he blends it down to make it wearable and interesting. There is little journey here but its a mild complaint when step one is glorious. Sillage and performance are moderate and just a bit too nermal. You don’t need a bloodhound to notice it and a corgi would do. Nothing too daring or bold but it holds on long enough for the wearer to enjoy and perhaps a few close friends, with just enough projection to be able to find a mapless trail. Dame says that he misses sillage but he designs scents to be worn. And this accomplishes his goal and hits the right flight patterns of serviceability. The bottle is nice with a sprayer thats weak enough to miss the spitoon. And the service from the perfumery is perfect. A rare benefit and bonus that I appreciate so very much is that Dame fragrances for some reason make my skin feel softer and better than many if not most other fragrance houses and I like happy, little softy, nice feeling skin when I eat the punches of daily grind.
For extra credit, we must examine price and value. I get so tired of people claiming their $100,000 fragrance collections dont matter to them and are par for the course. Dirt Dogs will leave golf to the doctors and go run some trails and chase rabbits and watch our wallets. Dame says that he prices his scents to be worn, and in this he succeeds fabulously. Most niche, starts at $35 an ounce, and runs up to $100 or more. Dame prices his at about $20 an ounce and being niche it still competes on a price basis with something mainstream or at least in the ravine like L’homme from Yves Saint Laurent. His fragrances are far cheaper than Chanel. And lets take a moment to put them up side by side with Dior.
Now Charlize Therion is a babe and Natalie Portmann has a doll face and these are beautiful good looking women that sadly make more money than those that bring us pizza pies in our chow houses. But in my life, I just havent seen many women walking through a palace with ultra high heels, a slit dress, and perfectly coiffed hair wif my eyes blinded by gold filters on the panes of my glass. And then climb their gold curtains like a cirqus acrobats, rip off their pearls half way up the curtain and then reach the top standing alone on top of a building overlooking Paris and whisper J’adore like they accomplished sumptin or made it. Likewise, I just do not imagine going to Natalee Portmans wedding, watching her whisper sorry Daddy, run away from the wedding, rip off her white dress with a black gown underneath, and get rescued by rope ladder to a helicopter and then fly off and overlook Paris as if the copter would never run out of gas. Its absolutely ridiculous to charge customers an extra $25 per bottle so that Charlize Therion can fill out an extra deposit form. I even like the fact that I’m not having to go through the mall so some young thing in a too tight skirt can stroke my ego and pretend to like me with smiles and flattery to get me to buy more big glass paperweights. Jeffrey Dame prices his product not only to sell but to be worn. I can pull MHP and wear it whenever I want to and I don’t even have to worry about using it up and then needing $350 for a backup bottle or replacement. Dame sends out personal thank you notes for all purchases and I appreciate it so much but Id buy from him even if like many of his competitors that I also buy from, served their fragrance with a sneer. He almost feels a friend but that’s not why I buy his products. As a dirt dog, I don’t really care about being ego petting and sniffing snobbery. I want to make certain that the squirrels don’t get too comfortable. And Dame fragrances, let me chase some sticks. I don’t just buy these things. I wear em. Anywho, Dame gets maximum extra credit brownie points for value. Heck its grandmother cheesecake, it don’t get none better and its almost free; cept sometimes she tells you to mow the lawn.
Scent, wearability, versatility, function, approachability, and overall quality would easily grade this fragrance out as an A but with value added in as a bonus it gets 100 out of 100. I dont have to admire it from afar based on price and availability. And its my most worn fragrance and the only reason that I dont wear it more is because I own lots of em. Which is kind of too bad … really. But we like some diversity in this community. And there are different smells to track down and get lost to.
At the end of the day, it is my strongly considered opinion that this Mate, Heliotrope, and Patchouli is a fragrance for people that live their lives. There are other fragrances for people that want to walk through palaces and climb curtains and throw pearls around like they dont matter or get rescued from their weddings by copters. Jeffrey Dame however, is a man of the desert. And the desert would find such things absurd. The deserts beauty is fragrant and harsh and so builds this trail into the reality of scent. Those that know the desert after a rain, understand where beauty lives.
This long review began by saying that this fragrance was a shirt and if you are the type of person that wants to wake up, put on a shirt, and enjoy your day then this might be one to consider. Its for handsome people rather than the beautiful ones of fashion. Its for people that live. Its for men with shirts and the women that steal those shirts. And those that know beauty without too much ease.
MHP, is a work of art but one for the people like you’d find on a magazine cover like a Norman Rockwell rather than one that needs a visit to a museum with parking fees. In short, Mate Heliotrope Patchouli, is a viable hello people masterpiece.
fh – :
Lately I have been wearing scents by Dame Perfumery Scottsdale, and I am struck by the artistry of their perfumes. Each is an example of aesthetically graceful perfumes with a kind of powdery signature woven into the accord. They have a chic, innovative style that channels the feeling of visiting Taos or Carmel, taking in the spirit of a colony of gifted artists.
MATE, HELIOTROPE & PATCHOULI is a delightful blend of finespun notes with that powdery undercurrent I have begun to associate with Dame Perfumery. It starts with a beautiful zest of lime and aldehydes, tempered by a sweet floral fusion. A patchouli note is blended into the background , so delicate, transforming the whole into a piece of artwork. MH&P coalesces into a cutting edge fragrance that is recognizable as being artisan made. Lasts all afternoon. It reminds me of being at a gallery for the exclusive show of the season.
Unisex. Not just for women IMHO.
Enharlnab – :
I despise patchouli, but absolutely love this!
Xeroxddsfk – :
I adore this! I love the idea of a tea fragrance, but green tea has never worked for me. MH&P is herbal, floral & sweet(I almost smell a tad of honey) all perfectly balanced. Now THIS is how I like my tea!
reiski – :
Wow, such a fresh clean scent for something that has the word “patchouli” in the name! It’s transparent, a little bit sweet, a little bit floral, and a lot green. This is indeed a modern, cool fragrance suitable for either gender even though it’s marketed towards women. There is a tiny dash of earthiness that suggests patchouli, but the name is rather misleading as this is predominantly a mate-aldehyde-floral concoction.
ktt869elipseskism – :
I obtained a 5ml decant of Mate, Heliotrope and Patchouli from Dame Perfumery. On a perfume blog I follow, the author describes MH&P as “urban cool”. MH&P is more sheer than one might suppose (with Patchouli in the name) and no one need fear that lovely patchouli. MH&P lingers beautifully on skin and, as such, is a terrific perfume to wear to work– where it got me comments like “gosh, you smell niiiiice”– but nobody thought it was too “perfume-y”. It is not a perfume that is pushy. It has a classic vibe which I think is sophisticated and elegant,perfect for dress-up occasions but it is perfectly appropriate with a white T and jeans. Well Done!
geoneo – :
I do not care for this one. The reasons that Cddimauro listed for why she likes this one are essentially the reasons I don’t like it. (Personal opinion, no harm meant Cddimauro!) It is a powdery, light scent that carries only a smattering of patchouli and not nearly enough amber for me to be interested. Those that enjoy light scents would enjoy this one. It is a pretty concoction but not one I will have in my collection.
sanya. – :
Let me first say that I am extremely PICKY when it comes to perfumes with patchouli. Strong patchouli scents are an absolute no for me because it instantly gives me a headache, so I was not very excited when I saw that this scent would be featured in my August Olfactif collection. However, exactly one spritz later I was in love! For me, this is heliotrope done right, with just a hint of patchouli and amber to ground the fragrance. The overall effect is sultry warmth, with just the right amount powder make the scent as cozy as it is sexy. It reminds me of a cleaner version of My Queen or What We Do In Paris Is Secret, both of which are in my top 15. I adore this scent and am so glad that I tried it despite my aversion to patchouli. It’s definitely full bottle worth for me!