Description
This spring Neela Vermeire will increase her collection of fragrance with a new edition arriving after successful compositions Trayee, Mohur, Bombay Bling and Ashoka created in collaboration with prominent perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour. The latest fragrance announced by Neela is inspired by Lake Pichola which is situated in Udaipur, Rajasthan and “contributes to the new twist of the existing assortment of French luxurious fragrances inspired by India”.
Work on the composition lasted for months, in order to accompany the existing style of Neele Vermeire’s collection in the right way and with appropriate sensibility. The new fragrant story takes us for an olfactive journey which will illustrate landscapes and ideas of the author. Composition of the fragrance PICHOLA opens with notes of cardamom, cinnamon, saffron, juniper, magnolia, neroli oil, clementine and bergamot. The heart develops aromas of orange blossom absolute, rose absolute, tuberose absolute, sambac jasmine and ylang-ylang, while the base is softened and warmed with benzoin absolute, sandalwood , driftwood and Haiti vetiver.
As Neela Vermeire announces, the latest fragrance, Pichola, will be presented exclusively at fragrances expo Esxence 2015 in Milan. NEELA VERMEIRE PICHOLA will be available as eau de parfum.
trygl – :
The most beautiful tuberose imaginable, and I’m comparing this with Fracas and Carnal Flower. It’s so graceful. The jasmine sambac paired with the clementine is LUSCIOUS and it’s dripping with sensuality. But much less in your face than Fracas and Carnal Flower. For people that don’t like white florals: try this and see if you’re not converted.
All of Neela’s fragrances are evocative and sophisticated-the magic of them is you go on a full journey every time you wear one of her compositions. They’re some of the best niche fragrances around and well-worth the extra money.
G252008 – :
A gorgeous white floral enhanced by wood and spice to perfectly capture the spirit of the region in India it is named after, this is yet another triumph for Neela Vermiere and Bertrand Duchaufour. Not quite as evocative as Trayee or Ashoka, but reflecting a profound spiritual beauty, Pichola contains central notes of tuberose, jasmine sambac, rose and magnolia which are enhanced by the addition of cardamom, cinnamon, saffron, juniper, neroli, ylang-ylang, benzoin, sandalwood, and vetiver. Leaning a bit on the feminine side but can be worn by patient eclectic men willing to wait till the drydown softens the floral notes, and brings out the wood and spice notes. Moderate in sillage/projection and lingers beautifully on skin unobtrusively for hours. Not a big fan of florals but like creations like this which combine floral notes expertly with wood, spice or musk and create more subtle experiences.
ydav888 – :
Dirty Floral, Sinful lime, & filthy jasmines. That Ylang splattered and slaughtered the purity of this floral with the help of cardamom & sandalwood as you can sense the floral quite tender and soft but there is something sinful, dirty, and filthy in. After the dry down you can still smell that amazing sinful floral for a little while, while your eyes are fully closed enjoying the essence… one in a sudden you will feel a wood board smashed into your face out of nowhere. It is contradicted with a very high quality.
This house surprises me with their superb quality and amazing creation.
fio1980 – :
Pichola Neela Vermeire Creations for women and men
لكم تأسرني تصميمات الزجاجات العطرية
خاصة إذا كانت معبرة عما بداخلها من رائحة عطرية
وهذه الزجاجة هي أول ما لفت انتباهي لهذه الدار الفرنسية
Neela Vermeire Creations perfumes and colognes
التي تأتي جميع زجاجاتها العطرية بنفس التصميم الكلاسيكي
عطرنا بيكولا المستوحى من بحيرة بيكولا وهي إحدى البحيرات الاصطناعية العذبة في ولاية راجستان الهندية
لن أتحدث عنه كالمعتاد بالطريقة التحليلية
ولكني سأتناوله كحالة نفسية تأثيرية
بداية من تصميم زجاجته ونهاية بعبيره العطري
مهما قرأت عن العطر أو تخيلت فهو لن يعدو حالة من الانتشاء
اللاعبون الرئيسون في هذا العطر هم الثلاثي الأبيض الزهري
زهرة البرتقال – التيوب روز – الماجنوليا
لأول مرة أرى التيوب روز يروض بهذه القوة من الثنائي
زهرة البرتقال التي أظهرت بأسا وعنفوانا لا مثيل له
والماجنوليا التي أظهرت أن فوحانها قد يطغى على الكثير من الروائح التي تبدو أقوى منها
ياله من افتراس ناعم سيصيب من يستنشق عطر بيكولا
افتراس بأناقة وعذوبة لا مثيل لها
العطر للجنسين لكنني اراه يميل للجانب الأنثوي
فبرأيي الشخصي أن الحالة المثالية للعطر
مناسبة خاصة لسيدة أرستقراطية في العقد الرابع من العمر
ربما يستخدمه بعض الرجال لعصريته
لكنه “للأسف” قد لا يتماشي مع طبيعتي أو هيئتي
لكنني لن أمل من استنشاق عبيره فيما بيني وبينه
سنة الاصدار 2015م
العطر شديد النقاء والحرفية
الفوحان رائع جدا لأول 20 دقيقة
الثبات جيد ربما ساعتان
السعر مرتفع 185 يورو للحجم الوحيد 60مل
قد يرى البعض أن السعر مبالغ فيه نظرا للحجم القليل نسبيا وأيضا فيما يخص الثبات والفوحان
أعود وأذكر أن هذه هي السمة الواقعية للعطور المرتكزة على المستخلصات الزهرية الطبيعية
Zelya – :
What a disappointment! It’s a weak and non-descript composition that barely smells of anything and disappears in 20 minutes.
Immugwhow – :
A pleasant but hackneyed lemony floral with some buttery musk notes underneath. It opens green and bright, with a touch of tang to counter any overt sweetness, and then it kicks up into a milky almost hay-like tuberose. Over time, it fizzles out into a vanillic, blond woody base with a slight marine nuance, and that’s really all there is to it. Although it’s a little on the chemical side, it sidesteps harshness and never threatens to cloy. Articulate, Duchaufourian, but ultimately, it’s just a basic white floral sans any flare or personality to make it stand out. I wish I had more to say about it, but just doesn’t move me at all.
andrgan62 – :
The beauty of Neela Vermeire Creations is their ability to be smart, stylish, and modern, while at the same time conveying the principals of classic French perfumery. Pichola is NVC’s fifth release and it is a knockout, unsurprisingly from a house that has already delivered major hits with its earlier four scents.
Pichola is Bertrand Duchaufour’s modern white floral masterpiece, which seeks to reinvent the often heavy-handed mid-century white floral genre into something that is spectacularly wearable, never heavy, and eminently chic. Tuberose and orange blossom, two hallmark materials of the white floral school that have in this millennium become accused by association of floral assassination (Fracas), are as smooth as porcelain in Pichola. There’s a bite of neroli’s greenery when first applied, and then Pichola slides onto the skin with an ease and intelligence and outright simple beauty that makes one question whether the rest of modern perfumery has lost its mind. Here, in Pichola, is not only a rational interpretation of a white floral, but a brilliant one.
Pichola is delicately wrought without being faint; lovers of tuberose (and I am one) will find the note astonishingly sublime here, when married to both the orange blossom and the magnolia. Spice notes are non-invasive and are mere accents that are hard to call out by name; they serve to temper any sweetness that might otherwise occur and nothing more.
I enjoy the early-to-mid-development of Pichola so much that I don’t notice the drydown and then there it is–a somewhat dry and restrained vetiver, driftwood, and benzoin beautifully done and just enough–in this Southern heat, to leave but a welcome trace on the skin.
The tuberose in Pichola is smashingly good; you think you know the note and then you realize that you don’t when you smell Pichola’s smooth, creamy version. Bertrand Duchaufour has charmed tuberose past a period piece into something that ought to be a celebrated modern artwork. Whatever complaint tuberose was subject to in the past should now be completely forgotten and the note enjoyed anew. Pichola is the intelligent tuberose, the resolutely gorgeous tuberose, the emerging truth of the note reinterpreted beyond the period piece. At the moment and with some worthy competition it is at the top of the Neela Vermeire Creations oeuvre, which is a bold statement since I love all of them nearly equally. NVC has yet to take a wrong turn with me and to my delight has only kept on getting better, and how many times do we say that?
podosi – :
Bright, lemony magnolia petals dancing playfully on a bed of creamy, candied tuberose and sandalwood. I detect hints of a dry coconut somewhere too. I confess I can’t really smell much else that is listed here.
It’s very flirty and totally feminine; Reminds me of a vivacious blonde flicking her hair back and wafting the scent of fresh shampoo in my face with a knowing smile. Perhaps the subtle hints of saffron add to that image; This is not the first Neela Vermeire creation that reminds me of hair products (see my review for “Trayee”).
To be honest, I was expecting a bit more from the composition. At least I’d hoped I would smell more of the clementine, the cardamom and the cinnamon, but mostly I just get a sweet, frothy shampoo scent. I wouldn’t want to dissuade people with that comparison however, as it doesn’t smell cheap. The ingredients are high grade for sure and quite potent, it almost leapt off the tester strip.
There is a nice balance observed between soft and sharp textures here and the sweetness of the tuberose and orange blossom are restrained enough that it doesn’t turn into a cloying bubble-gum bath like in MDCI’s “Peché Cardinal”.
Women will love this, it’s definitely a cute, fluffy ‘girl’s night out’ type of scent, without being garish or immature.
brandberg13 – :
Pichola by Neela Vermeire Creations just released in March of 2015 is a lush fleurs blanches rush of romanticism as well as a homage to the beautiful lake in Rajasthan for which it is named. It is a splendid perfume that I find to be intoxicating and perhaps the most beautiful perfume yet from the impeccably brilliant house of Vermeire. It is a fragrance of love, and spring beginning, it is a wedding fragrance that promises a honeymoon of carnal delights that with a holy blessing may never end. It is glorious.
The nose behind this creation of Neela’s is the wonderful Bertrand Duchaufour who is responsible for the entire canon of the house. A brilliant nose who has created many modern masterworks for L’Artisan Parfumeur, Dior, Acqua di Parma, Aedes de Venustas …the list is longer than the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. The idea for this house is to blend and marry two worlds. The exotic rich beauty and history of India with the equally rich tradition of classical French perfumes. We are not disappointed in the least by this attempt to bring the two worlds together. Bertrand Duchaufour once again has met the challenge and succeeded brilliantly.
As an oriental floral Pichola sings in accords of spices and white florals, of woods and the aromatic splendors of the East. It is undulating and sensuous. A sublime seduction of the senses.
It opens with notes of spices and citrus, bergamot, clementine, neroli oil, sparkle like early morning sun on the lake…the magnolia smooths and sooths the citric notes down and lays its fleshy white carpet over them to make way for the spices of saffron, cardamom, cinnamon with a twist of juniper that are spilled like jewels before a monarch on unfurled bolts of red, purple and gold silk.
The middle notes take us to the heart of this perfume, the palace where passion dwells on her throne of love. Orange blossom absolute, Rose absolute, Tuberose absolute come in waves designed to weave into a marriage made in heaven with yellow blossomed ylang-ylang and a slyly beautiful midnight Jasmine Sambac. It shimmers on the skin more beautifully than gold dust in the light of a full moon.
This is all supported by a fine if not in fact very glamourous dry down of vetiver, benzoin absolute, bone dry driftwood and a creamed almost caramelized sandalwood. A brilliant armature of notes that is almost architectural, an armature if you will from which all that came before it hangs in perfect harmonious balance. But the notes do much more than hang from this support, they dance.
The longevity of this perfume is epic but never overwhelming. The silage is full and lush and you will be noticed. This is a perfume for both sexes but keep in mind that this sexy perfume demands a bold personality to wear it well. Pichola embodies all the glamour and youth, the romance and beauty, the fluttery butterflies one feels with the realization that you are falling in love with India though the eyes of Paris. This is no shrinking wall flower…this is the belle of the ball at the dawn of a new Belle Epoch in perfume.
(For more on my take on Pichola and the story I found in the bottle visit my blog Scents Memory)
den-717 – :
Yes, the sample I have elicits the OMG reaction, even from those who are not normally fans of perfume, so not only is it easy to love, it’s also satisfying for those who have a lot of perfume experience. It is what I call a Perfume with a capital P. Lush, ornate, brilliant composition.
ateist5 – :
This is really spectacular: I’ve been holding onto my sample for a month !