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tedas – :
I just received in the mail my 5ml vintage Mystere ( Eau Parfum ) I got it from Ebay. When I first applied I was bit disappointed with the strong smell…but few minutes after I was taken back 30 years ago…Fabulous..intense….so happy now.
LarVdo – :
Mystere was my first beloved fragrance I used to wear in teens’ age. It developed my taste and desire for perfumes. For many years after, looking for similar fragrance, captivating, complex, luxurious, feminine, just simply amazing, came across many great fragrances but could not find anything else even close. Recently bought two vintage Mystere pure perfumes (5 ml one is identical to what I owned a few decades ago!!!) and one vintage ou’de perfume… all three of the gems smell almost identical…. and different from what I remember!!!.. The notes from memory come alive and are not heavily overlapped by “heavy” ingredients when warmed up either on skin or just in warmth.. The perfumes are original vintage have darkened so could the “heavy” “additions” be a result of time?.. Still beautiful and intriguing, the smell perfectly matches descriptions of other reviewers. I just wonder if the original fragrance is lost in translation in time…… One of reviewers said “goodby old friend”, I would like to say, welcome back my friend, I still love you.
neursiori – :
I have such memories of Mystere. She was my first perfume and conjures up images of decaying grandeur, mist and autumn leaves. Seductive, mysterious, old World Mystere.
Hauntingly beautiful, sorely missed, endlessly adored.
Albert – :
Just bought a parfum..hadn’t smelled it for years…it is hard to find.
Great, unique fragrance, very 70’s. I love it for being so different from the “top 40”, of what is out today. Most new fragrances are variations on one or two themes, and people end up smelling the same.
This is different.
Long wearing, feminine, sophisticated, floral, but not sweet.
Personally, I prefer this type of fragrance in the cooler weather…and for special occasions, or at least not work. And at the price it’s at, definitely not a daily work fragrance. But perhaps I say this because i have the parfum…the edt may come across different.
I get a lot of carnation and tuberose..at least that’s what I think it is mostly…
Would recommend.
Hobobes – :
To me, my dear little pittance of vintage is a beautiful treat. When I wear it, the styrax, tuberose, coriander and ylang ylang merge together to form a honey accord that is lightly spiced with nuances of green clover and herbs, only just sweet enough to create an aura that is feminine but confident, never needing to be cloying.
The vintage tends to age well, likely due to an excellent original crafting.
shaman1984 – :
This one is so good!
Old-style perfume, difficult to classify. A soapy, floral, green. animalic chypre. Somehow, it works. It works wonderfully, deliciously!
Complex, beautiful and very well-blended. Soapy and lady-ish with so many flowers, while at the same time clearly animalic and sexy underneath. Strong oakmoss, and sometimes the cedar comes through as well.
I feel it to be office-appropriate as it is not a beast of sillage and its animalic character is rounded by the floral part, but if you get close enough it becomes sexier, just like it should.
I own a sample. If I find a nice inexpensive bottle, I am sure I will enjoy buying and wearing it. It’s not a must-buy for me (as Opium or Niki, or Noa, were for me), it is a “would be nice to have”.
dimon 200879 – :
Green and woody and yet glamorous, this is one of my vintage favorites. For those who love old time, real oak moss, this is a must. I think the parfum version has much more depth and richness than the light EDT. I don’t get any more projection in the EDT, and it seems to be much more floral. I get more of the jasmine and hyacinth in the EDT, while the tuberose and carnation and musk notes seem to come out more in the parfum. Either version is beautiful, though. The EDT is more of a spring-like fragrance, while the parfum is best for evening wear. One of those delicious fragrances you put on when you’re slipping on a sexy little black dress. I don’t think of chypres usually in that vein, but in Mystere parfum I do. One of the all time chypre classics.
Note: This is a review of the original 1978 version.
skaisfunone – :
Mystére is a very well fitted name for this creation.
It keeps me wondering what the most convincing part of this perfume is.
Still puzzled, – I fell completely in love with this overwhelmingly beautifull creation.
Every time I wear this, though i use it spareingly, I thinkk that it is a fantastic scent.
The language spoken by the spices, is bilingual, and at the same time the softness and alluring femininity corrupts me an takes me prisoner.
Mystére.is seducing me.
xrumerae – :
I always thought that this mysterious scent is like PURPLE in a bottle.
KAV – :
Wow, they don’t make them like this anymore, do they? Or maybe they can’t…restrictions on oakmoss and all. I recently discovered this, almost full bottle, stashed away in my mothers cellar. Still potent and powerful. I don’t have anything like it. My mom bought this when I was in highschool back in the late 80’s. I used to borrow it for special occasions, like the yearly highschool dance. I was 15 and it made me feel classy. Still was a wallflower, though. I feel classy wearing Mystere at 41 too (it has mysteriously moved to my place). And now I no longer wait around to be asked, I just go ahead and dance 🙂
kww1968 – :
Nicholas Mamounas, you are the ******** MAN. This is one of my oldest, love – no adoration – at first sniff, the top of all my collection. In an airport duty-free shop I once smelled a whole bunch of perfumes, then THIS – which was so different and unique, and I was struck for life. It is my number one signature perfume, since the late 1970s when it came out. It is now discontinued. The formula ran to over 200 ingredients and there is no way it could survive IFRA, is my guess. I have a too small stockpile, and I only break it out for special occasions. A dark forest. An animalic chypre. Mystery. That is correct sir. And the bottle is the *best ever* bottle design I have ever come across.
amosha – :
Mystere è un altro grande profumo ormai interrotto dal carattere muschiato,verde e profondo,che andrebbe benissimo su un uomo data la aromaticità del bouquet.
Fresco, balsamico,apre con un aroma non facile da definire,vellutato e resinoso,che poi lascia esplodere fiori ipnotici dagli aromi inusuali,quali la cascarilla,frangipani, magnolia,e il soffio di galbano piu tutte le note elencate nelle piramidi che gia conosciamo.
Mi piace molto anche nella stagione calda, di sera, quando viene buio e sulla pelle ancora calda dopo il sole,questo magico elisir diffonde un odore mistico,notturno,stregato.
rolexreplica43197 – :
Everything I love about chypres is in this fragrance. The opening is a distinct green galbanum which always smells so good to me and like perfumed night air. The scent’s top notes tell you right from the start that this is a chypre and as much about woods as it is about flowers. The rosemary is very aromatic in the beginning too. Spicy, and exotic, very powerful. The heart is floral with carnation, tuberose, violet, jasmine, ylang-ylang, narcissus and lily of the valley. I can smell mostly the carnation narcissus and violet. They’re like flowers that are blooming under the moonlight rather than the sun though normally they’re doing that in the day. The poor things are confused. The jasmine is also a night blooming jasmine and combined with the patchouli in the base it becomes an Oriental type of scent. It’s so beautiful to experience this fragrance. It does everything I wanted it to. It’s like watching a ballet or opera and everything is going so well, all the performances are rocking and you want to stand up and applause. The patchouli and galbanum in the same fragrance always always impresses me. The styrax is providing another aromatic touch and it’s quite nice. There are animalic accords of musk and also woods including cypress. This is a fragrance that you wear very seriously with formal clothing, your best most expensive clothing. It’s luxurious and elegant and indeed as the name suggests mysterious. It’s a mysterious woman in black that walks very slowly into a forest and disappears. The scent is very strong so one spritz is enough. It smells so good in the air while walking under it or next to the person wearing it. It’s a very rare fragrance today and hardly anyone I know wears it. It’s still big in Europe. I’m usually the only woman wearing this and I feel very exotic mysterious and amazing wearing it.
starant – :
This is an interesting phenomenon to me to observe my own reactions and summarize them into one remarkable for me conclusion: along with so popular and so much loved perfumes such as Rochas Femme, Givenchy Ysatis, Yves Saint Laurent Y, Guy Laroche Fidji (all are collected and kept into my collection)this another chypre creation of Mystere does not touch my senses … With all my respect and with so many efforts to find that one I will fell in love with I failed and now giving up with all these mentioned chypres. Something in them disturbing my emotions, that lack of all-roundness and inner harmony as per my senses..
almizat – :
All secrets of seduction are kept in Mystère. On unleashing its trail the journey towards the mysterious, intriguing, magical places begins. A constantly tempting magic of its earthy-musky-animalic (read dirty) notes playing an enticing song on sounds of wind chimes in a gentle breeze…. inviting, sensual and erotic. A silent tide of its dangerous facet arouses mesmerizing everyone within her reach of great projection. Her controversial character makes it difficult to grasp her essence. She’s elusive which makes her irresistible. Green curtains open the stage for civet, carnation, oakmoss, hycinth….in a seductive, sensual, coquettish dance….resulting, well, in a complete Mystère….
One of those real perfumes, with a power of seduction, talking softly yet with extreme passion mesmerizing you along the way and whose absence in the end is felt. The funny part is that while I’m writing this review, I’m listening to „A Victory of Love“ by Alphaville and lyrics caught my attention just when I was about to say:
„I’m waiting for a shift in the air
Hoping for your return, hoping for your sweet, sweet
Return….“
Vasulij2007 – :
What on earth can we do to reclaim our ‘MYSTERE’? That it might come back – by popular demand? All existing bottles of it are decades old . . . I loved it so much – it had been introduced to me by a very good friend, a Japanese woman co-worker, who had forsaken L’aire du Tempes for it – which she had worn exclusively for as long as I’d known her.
Deroxihuwx – :
This review is for the reformulation:
The name says it all. This is a winter fragrance for a mature woman. It reminds me of Bandit although I think it’s easier to wear. It has serious deep, dirty woods and it will be the fragrance I’ll be wearing to my first ever opera next month. Sophistication in a bottle with good silage and lasting power.
andreypush – :
Nothing today smells like Mystere. I was called The Rochas Queen, and still now 30 years later…so so sad that this fragrance no longer exists….
insindDak – :
I’m so thrilled to finally have found a micro mini that stands time! All the bottles I found were turned. It was about time, I was so intrigued. This is a unicorn finally come true!
Its mid-piquant character immediately reminded me of Ivoire by Balmain (much more spicy IMO). Coriandre note is not my forte, and this is quite obvious in a resinous (galbanum) base in the drydown. The opening is hyacinth (a love for me!), and the famous woody dry-down shows also a strong pachouli base,not only oakmoss, in my opinion. I don’t feel a strong noir civet in this one, and I’m pretty sensible to it.
Yes, a mixture of Magie Noire, Ivoire, K de Krizie also comes to mind, even Silences by Jacomo, …Rochas Mystere is finally revealed to me, a product of its time, a glorious time of chypres, wiht a masculine, green resinous feel.
I won’t feel orphan when I use up this micro mini. Those similar sibling scents I own in FB will accompany me in the next years. Just glad I could finally get the chance to own a fresh sample of this much cherished discontinued scent.
bck249elipseskism – :
Frankly speaking, about such perfumes as Mystere, J’ai Ose, Expression, Magie Noire we should write from all capitals.
Poignant intriguing Mystere, piguant in softly bitter galbanum, velvety moss and dipped in resinous cypress, it is Medieval Paris– musky, erotic, silent, dangerous, controversial. It has lots of brains and lots of undertones – coriandre, civet, carnation.
In our times I imagine Mystere on women who like to wear hats with black veils on formal occasions.
I wear it in micro doses as it makes the whole world spinning around, the power of Mystere is truly magical, – I am not myself wearing it, but when I need to act – to be an actress – perfect choice.
astefeani – :
Men followed me around like lovesick little puppies when I wore this. Civet, oakmoss, fresh carnations and hyacinth, biblical resins. Green, metallic, but also soft… words can not accurately describe this. That’s why it is called Mystere! It’s quite the magic potion. And it’s been discontinued because life can be so unfair. Eventually I’m going to have to spend my hard earned dollars on a decant. That’s all there is to it. I give up. Take my money. You win, vintage Rochas. You win.
jack_zpp – :
This one smells like expensive soap. The Eau de Parfum Intense version is like today parfum extrait, very high concentrated. But today the gender have changed. Similar notes can be found in Prada Infusion D`Homme.
Mystere de Rochas is still a very popular perfume.
Deservedly.
Eva3800 – :
Oh happy day….my eBay purchase arrived. A half bottle of eau de parfum, but not the classic bottle I knew 25 years ago.a round Byzance shape rather than the clean simplicity of the bottle reflected on this site. Initially I thought …this is all wrong, this is not how I remember her. Granted I was 25 then rather than 50 and I wore this amazing fragrance as I played out a bohemian adventure with a Paris love affair..( Hahaha, if he could see me now…3 stone heavier, tights not stockings, no interest in imported whisky and a life of work family and gardening) BUT… After half an hour, the cheap odd odour subsided to be replaced by that wonderful, warm, elusive scent…close to the skin inviting a explorative mouth and the removal of shoulder straps. Well that won’t happen but I don’t care, I am loving the sensual pleasures of this unique scent, grounding me in reminiscence from the comfort of my happy now. If you can get your hands on this lovely and sadly lost gem, go for it.
De_dus – :
Such a lovely vintage sample of Mystere de Rochas I had! What a day it was! The phone company technician who came to my house, the men at work, clerks at the stores….they were super attentive. I felt so beautiful in this oakmoss/civet/carnation combo.
Later in the evening I had drinks with a friend and Mystere continued to linger on the back of my neck and cleavage. We talked for a long time in his car when he dropped me off and he told me the next day that when he went out to his car again, it still smelled a bit like me and he loved it.
Maybe one day I will spend real money on a nice decant of this.
Piskarik1 – :
Ah, Mystere! Men fell in love with me when I wore this….
Now gone the way of all beautiful perfumes with ingredients which are now probably banned and so cannot ever be recreated.
RIP Mystere. I did love you.
proxa – :
This is one of the most beautiful fragrances I’ve ever experienced. It has all of the mystery, depth and sultry overtones of vintage Magie Noire without the dark heavy aspects of that heady brew.
Mystere is woody,spicy and musky with beautifully soft florals. It is the most interesting animalic chypre which invites hours of arm sniffing. This is a very warm, cedar laden mossy fragrance that beguiles and enchants.
My bottle is vintage EDP and disappearing way too quickly. The longevity of this beauty is more than 12 hours and the sillage is moderately heavy.
There are vintage bottles of this fragrance for sale on Ebay, but they are few and command high prices. Oh,what I wouldn’t give for a bottle of the vintage parfum!!
SaN9 – :
Absolutely love this fragrance. Cannot understand why it has been discontinued.
fr199 – :
Vintage. Fresh (the dewy kind of freshness), spicy, and full of wonderful, fresh flowers. And I also feel something… very carnal and warm in it. I like this scent a lot.
Smirko – :
Just seen a bottle of this for sale in my local charity shop (in UK). Don’t know what year this particular bottle is from, but it looks like the bottle in the Fragratica picture at the top of this page. I thought they were charging quite a bit for it, seeing as it’s a charity shop, but the bottle was completely full and came with the box.
RePeRoK – :
I used to buy the REAL Mystere De Rochas in Europe and in Trump Plaza in New York until It was discontinued. I then bought 2 bottles at Fragrance X on line. They sent me rubbish, I wouldn’t even use it as a bathroom spray. I was completely ripped off. I also miss this fragrance terribly. It was my one and only. Does anyone know where I can buy the genuine bottle? I don’t mind spending money on the real deal. I will also contact P&G but it won’t do any good. Sheila
Blin 123 – :
My father in low has this perfume thinking that it’s masculine perfume 🙂 .I have tried only once this perfume on me and I felt all way some awful note of goat cheese cos of animal note may be.
Afficstiz – :
I have a thing for witchy-woo type ‘brews’I would very much love to smell this! I’m willing to pay for a decant if there’s any UK members(sorry new postal restrictions)??
tanusha221 – :
Visiting friends in Europe, every so often I’d catch a perfumey whiff of something elusive and enchanting in a crowd of people with no possibility of finding out who was wearing what. Back in Texas, I trawled fragrance counters at the more posh department stores looking for a perfume that had the element I’d found so charming overseas. This came closest and I purchased it. Loved it.
svetlana_ssv – :
I’m almost tempted to say ‘they don’t make them like this any more.’ My mother wore this and we bought it for her every xmas and birthday for years. With the result I have bottles and bottles of it – including a pure Parfum unopened. I love it. It’s heady, warm, spicy, woody and distinctive. I love the way it enters the room before I do! It commands a presence, but not in a Poison way. it’s much more mysterious. I will always love this perfume as it reminds me of my mother. It is just as she was – beautiful, smart, elegant, sexy and utterly charming, Men loved her, women respected her. There were aspects of my mother that I never knew – and this fragrance is just like that. A true classic
FernandoXZzz – :
and the came Mystere…One of the greatest moment of my little perfume world. It helped to define my character. If you have ever encountered it, then you know what I am talking about-dark smouldering sexiness that is somewhat like a spring thunderstorm. You need to avoid the lightning strikes and better hope a tornado doesnt develop!
That was the turbulent power of Mystere in my life. This and Magie Noire were the most important parts of my youth. Love, life and separation all were such a mystery. Mystere helped clear these trivial things up. WHY is this no longer on the market? It should be required wearing for all women exploring life.
marus.ka – :
This is my mums signature fragrance and in my opinion it suits someone middle aged or older as it seems to be quite a vintage scent. It is a very warm and heavy, best for a night out!
I think overall it is a very special scent, it is quite unique and doesnt smell like other generic chanel-smelling perfumes!
Valeratv – :
It is gorgeous and distinctive but not for every woman. It needs nerve and confidence and the right moment to wear it. For example this perfume is not for romantic or seductive nights. The smell is bitter sour and as someone mentioned, is like an old cognac. Very true! It reminded me of an expensive old cognac at once. Although I like it I find its masculine character similar to Balmain de Balmain (this is also mentioned by a member and I agree for the second time). Cedar woody notes and coriander with hyacinth maybe? is what I smell mostly rather than moss, civet and carnation with jasmine. It is an untamed wild beauty though, worth having it to your collection if you like woody spiced chypres.
Ariana_fromAD – :
This is one of the nicest scents I ever smelled and it is really unique – I cannot think of any other scent, even natural, which reminds me of it. What I smell most is the oakmoss, hyacinth and civet, but in a quite elaborate state. I can relate it a little bit to Paloma Picaso, probably the scent I feel closest to this one, but they are not really alike, and with Diva, but less. I can also see some similarities with Cabaret, but even less, very faint, more to do with the scent texture. This is really really special. The only thing to me is that sillage was not great. It is a pity to have been discontinued a longtinme ago.
kost9n2011 – :
Mystere de Rochas reminds me of a Slutty Little Wood Nymph; strategically swathed in sheer golden lace, barely leaving anything to the imagination, with translucent vermillion wings; dusted in a diamond luster and of course with flaming red, curly tresses.
She flutters through a heavily wooded and mossy Sylvanian land; like something out of a fairy tale, she rides, and glides atop it’s lush canopies, perfuming the air with her “Mysterious” scent. She’s worked up quite a musky perspiration under those wings and elsewhere and it drops from points on her small, delicate frame onto leaves, branches, the mossy undergrowth below and animals; as thick as drops of parfum extrait.
She goes zipping past beehives, confusing it’s drones, making their queen work overtime in egg production, whilst also tinging the honey with a heavy resinous nectar. She flutters past nesting birds and mesmerizing them as well; causing one groom bird to do his court dance only to find that he’s fluffing up pollen from neighboring jasmine vines, that swirl like eddy’s in the air. She dances over a river while bears ensnare the most unlucky fish in their hungry mouths, and stirring a musky territorial ruckus amoungst them too.
Upon the edge of night, she softly and stealthily glides through a nearby village, where simple folks began to illuminate the interior of their homes with pure animal fat candles. Chimney’s huff and puff spicy meals with bitter herbs into the night air, mingling with her essence, that is able to penetrate walls and subdue the competitive bouquet of rosemary bushes, narcissi, carnations and hyacinths, which line their cobble walk ways and stoops. Her ripe pungence bewitches both men and women; eliciting carnal desires within the village elders, and confusion withing it’s budding adolescent youths, who too are on the verge of discovering their own sexual awareness.
Mystere de Rochas is all this and much more…too bad one has to pay an arm and leg on ebay, just to dress that arm and leg in it’s perfect vintage elixir. This review is for the Vintage EDP.
aad89 – :
This review is of vintage Mystere.
Mystere’s first notes are fresh: I smell galbanum and hyacinth. At the back of my tester bottle reads – among other top notes – cascarilla, which is the plant that gives the bitter flavour to Campari. Well, I don’t recognize that very note, but it is interesting to know (not listed above).
Then the perfume softens, but this second phase lasts on my skin only half an hour or so. It is not very flowery in a traditional way, more on a green and dry side.
And then the beautiful, deliciously rich and soft musky base, with just a perfect amount of civet and other elements, is slowly exposed. Little bit of sweetness rounds everything.
This is a seductive, warm and inviting entirety. Also cosy, somehow. Perhaps for the sake of civet Mystere seems to me very “natural” smelling – like the skin but much better, if it makes any sense. Earthy and animalic in a wonderful way. It is a mere pleasure to inhale this deep blend!
egikst – :
I received a mini of Mystere parfum today. I believe this is an older version, the bottle says Mystere de Rochas rather than just Mystere.
What a civet bomb! I could smell nothing but civet for the first hour or more, then started to catch glimpses of the woods and some floral. I couldn’t pick out the individual floral notes until a few hours after applying. I had a small sample of ‘vintage’ from one of the decant places a few weeks ago, and the juice from this mini is much stronger than that sample was.
I will have to spend some time getting to know this one. I was hoping for a more woodsy smelling perfume, this one is all about the civet. It’s quite obviously from the same era as Magie Noire, Opium, etc. 🙂
eta 12/13/12 I’ve come back to Mystere and I’m getting almost a completely different perfume on my skin than I did when I first got the bottle earlier this year. A strong hit of civet early that very quickly faded and turned into into a gorgeous woody scent with just a hint of green and spring flowers. I’ve been wondering what to wear to the company Christmas party in two days that will be completely different form what anyone else is wearing. This may be it.
ramin911 – :
I love this one! Warm, woodsy and sensual. My first grown up perfume. I love the old classic ones, like Shalimar, Vol de nuit from Guerlain and YSl´s Opium. Mystere is a great companion in my perfume “wardrobe”
diksand – :
Sad day for me when I could no longer find this scent. Woody fairy scent totally me in a way that no other perfume has ever been. Le sigh.
va912 – :
Death by oakmoss, women were tangled in deep forest while nymphets were sirening.A real standout of all Rochas.
fraurtumn – :
P&G was both evil and stupid to buy the Rochas line and then abandon this classic scent, Mystere, with all its power and animalism, that long-enduring musk. P&G was supposedly known for its marketing acumen–they sure dropped the ball on this one. Case in point, all the previous buyers who have scavenged the internet looking for more. It was the scent everyone knew you for.
HoowsHoksaump – :
indeed mysterious, very elegant, can’t be described easily. it is “ahhh….” perfume. My mom holds a tiny bottle of it for 30 years, and it still smells “ahh”
it’s recent edition smelled a bit different..
Nikoly – :
Mystere was discontinued a few years ago. Perhaps the last few reviewers bought old perfume from these websites which would never reveal THAT THEY ARE SELLING OLD PRODUCT! Shame on them!! Perfume changes and can become rancid over time. I first found Mystere de Rochas while working at my first job in NYC. I was sprayed by a woman in Bloomingdales and fell in love with the fragrance. Rochas was bought by Proctor and Gamble so you can e mail them, as I have and ask them to bring it back!!!
Wobbirlinette2005 – :
I have just received my order of Mystere (post takes a long time to reach me) and need to confirm Moyra’s comments. This is not even a reformulation of the original; it’s a nasty, cheap, cynical attempt to deprive people of their money – and in my case, fond memories of the real Mystere. I am so sad and annoyed that I didn’t curb my impulsive nature, too. I bought quite a few bottles in the hope I could see out my days on Earth swathed in Mystere, but I wouldn’t use this trash for anything. It’s tinny, weak, chemically, sour….
Perhaps now is a good time to explain just how important the real Mystere is for me. It is THE perfume that got me into perfume. My mother wore it; she died when I was a kid, and I never knew its name until I smelled it years later on a customer. She took one look at me and said, “You look like you’ve seen a ghost.” Essentially, I had smelled a ghost.
What I now have smells like an insult.
scoummormo – :
I wore Mystere way back when, and I remember it was very intense and unusual, so when VKW pointed out its availability on a certain etailer site, I ran to purchase one.
I wish I could restrain my impulsive nature sometimes, because the “new” Mystere is not a perfume, its a crime – not even a real, bloody, nasty, evil crime, but an insignificant and stupid crime, like jaywalking or urinating in public.
The “new” Mystere comes in a vile little round bottle with a pathetically flimsy plastic top. The bottle itself looks like someone stuck transparent red contact paper on it.
The Mystere juice is something else – it dispenses only the vaguest trace of something sort of perfumish which then proceeds to vanish without a trace in half an hour.
The greatest crime of all, truly blood curdling to this perfume lover, is what some eejut over at Rochas did by reformulating the intense, gorgeous, sexy Mystere into the insipid doodoo that is the “new” Mystere.
My advice: avoid at all costs, there’s better bathroom sprays.
wain – :
Mystere lovers….it is currently available in 0.88 oz Eau De Parfum Spray at a certain site that starts with “F” and ends in “X” – not sure what the rules are here about advertising, but I am sure the administrators will unerstand on this one!!! (Oh, just read the bit – no, I am not a shareholder in that company…)
cnfcz88 – :
Try fragrancenet.com. That’s where I bought mine. They ship everywhere. Good Luck! This is a mature scent, and I’m not talking about a 50 year old woman, but even on a young professional woman its enticing and alluring.
hispa – :
Love this have tried to find a replacement but with no luck refuse to pay the absurd prices on internet auction sites.
andreyhost – :
I bought this fragrance when it first came out. What drew me to it was its animalic intensity. It was so potent and musky back then. Used every drop. Got the reformulated version not long ago, not the same. With so many restrictions on ingredients many fragrances have gone to the slaughterhouse of fame. I hate that.
viczont – :
I have tried it and to me it smells very much like a man´s cologne. That´s what a lot of reviewers say also. I really like the top notes and the beginning of middle notes but i do not like a drydown. To me it smells like a bonfire with a rubber tyre thrown into it. A bit distracting. Usually i like woody/pine notes but this time it is something that still bothers me. Maybe it´s not the rigt weather? I think i might give it a chance later when fall comes, cause to me this is a warm early autumn fragrance. Until then i do not like it.
aberlin – :
You are right Sarah Bas! It has real similarities with:
– Aliage
– Private Collection
– Jean Louis Scherrer original
And the explianing factor is the ‘stinky’ pine!!!
Just joking…:-)
I love pine!
BOPOH59 – :
I simply adore that perfume. Is very feminine and delicate.
sanek79 – :
I own a vintage bottle from the 1980s, and this is a real treasure. Rich, opulent, old – like old cognac, or rather century old honey infused with 200 herbs. It speaks of time and tradition. It’s a pity this gem has been discontinued. But, on the other hand, who knows what IFRA would have made of it with its restrictions. Anyway, I am happy that I’ve had a chance to get to know this milestone of perfume history (to me this is one indeed).
VINZAO – :
mystere is/was feminine yet masculine i loved it, there were times when it was rather loud, mystere turned on me too after 3 or 4 hours, so what i do when cologne changes on me is not put it on any part of my skin, i use a Q-tip, to dab a little on the buttons of my clothing in various areas- i would like to be fair and add that i am a smoker and heavy coffee drinker- believe my chemistry may have had a clash –
iivan297 – :
I purchased a pure perfume bottle of this, untested, from eBay and am happy I did – it’s really lovely (and my husband likes it, too – always a plus!) – spicy, flowery and woody all bound up together. The perfume obviously lasts nicely – I definitely want to try to get my hands on some more befo