Description
Small French perfume house of MDCI Parfums, founded by Claude Marchal, launches exclusive perfumes in exclusive flacons. The flacons with a cap shaped like figure of a man or a woman are hand-made and inspired by Renaissance epoch. Customers can choose flacons and fragrances independently.
Vepres Siciliennes takes us to Italy. Vepres Siciliennes denote Sicilian masses (a painting by Francesco Hayez, rebellion of Sicily against France). Its composition is quite complex and composed of numerous ingredients and notes.
The composition starts with tangerine, grapefruit, orange, pepper, green notes, cardamom, lily-of-the-valley and carribbean magnolia; middle notes are jasmine, ylang-ylang, rose, tuberose, heliotrope, oak moss, virginia cedar, amber and African orange blossom; base notes are osmanthus, raspberry, clove, plum, coconut, peach, caramel, musk and vanilla. The fragrance was created by Jeanne-Marie Faugier in February 2009.
Ant0n3 – :
Vepres Siciliennes opens with mixed fresh fruits, creating a pink smelling, tangy-sweet, girly aura. Not my usual style, but I find myself really liking this stage. There’s a faint faint touch of spice (cardamom?), but it fades after the opening. A waxy white floral takes over, and the tangy fruit is replaced by a muted version, with a backdrop of musky sweetness. The scent is very soft, with low projection. Overall, it becomes a mish-mash of floral and fruity, like the smell of shampoo in someone’s hair or a 90’s waxy fruity floral perfume. Boring.
Chuchmeg – :
This is simple but lovely: a peachy and jasminey blend, mostly peach.
I find that I get tired of it the more I smell it, but that’s a common problem for me. It smells like a body wash to me, and body washes aren’t usually complex enough to keep my attention.
Fagot6 – :
Only a banal composition.A fruity concoction of tangerine and rose.Smell like plastic.Overrated,like the whole line.
lertalikka – :
Now this one is very nice, peaches & osmanthus with slightly dusty effect and some citrus, no cloying caramel or caramel in general which i dislike but something floral, tiny fruitti and powdery captivation. I can sense the magnolia, the slight orange, and the plums. This one is balanced and very good to try.
pups481ss5 – :
A polite, but generic-smelling fruity floral that reads more as a white floral than anything. Relative sheer citrus notes hover above an expected soft vanilla base, and there’s a soapy feel that builds on the freshness. It’s a tad spicy and warm at first, but then it strikes a pleasing balance between fresh and comforting. Generic and dated-smelling, it’s pretty much dead after about 20 minutes.
Baxamedia – :
A quirky little composition, MDCI Parfums Vêpres Siciliennes is classified by the house as a green fruity chypre but actually rolls just about everything up to and including the kitchen sink together to produce a somewhat confusing and intergeneric perfume in defiance of all of the standard categories.
I certainly would never have guessed that this is a chypre, not even in the sense meant by the latest crop, the so-called “modern chypres”. Maybe this is the next generation? Neither oak moss nor patchouli???? Well, oak moss is listed among the notes for this creation, but it really is undetectable to my nose amidst all of the fruit, the sweets (especially caramel), and the coconut.
Hardly anyone else seems to smell the coconut in this creation, but to me it is quite marked–to the point almost of imparting somewhat a tropical vibe. Fruity coconut. A lot of sweetness, not so much light. I recommend this perfume for testing by people who like sweet and fruity perfumes, and especially coconut and caramel notes.
OSIKOVNDRY – :
Very disappointed with this. Thought it would be love at first sniff, but no. Too powdery. At first opening it smells of very dry ginger ale to me but as it dries, it becomes somewhat sweeter. I believe that’s the clove speaking. I do get a somewhat “fruity” vide but they’re all indecipherable to my nose, which I think is the point of a chypre? Well blended so that one note is not really supposed to stand out. Well, I read that somewhere at any rate… I should have realized that most of the time that I order a chypre, I don’t like it. Thank goodness it was only a sample.
20 minutes post application/sniff commencing:
It is starting to warm up with the caramel and amber coming thru but it is also fading VERY VERY quickly. Fragrance is almost non-existent. Not recommended. Definitely a VERY mature smelling perfume. But this being my first MDCI, I will not rate the rest of the house solely in this one. This has gotten the worst of all the reviews and I will be testing other samples…
va912 – :
MDCI is my favorite house and I’ve wanted to go through and start posting reviews of the fragrances. This one is easily my least favorite alongside rose de siwa. If you blind bought Tocade by Rochas because of Luca Turin and hated it–don’t buy this! It has that same chemical runoff smell for the first 3 or 4 hours of the fragrance.
Scent: 0/10
Overall: 0/10
expepekitty – :
What I can’t get past if the name of this perfume. “Vepres Siciliennes” is the name of the rebellion against the French rulers of Sicily 1282. At the sound of the Vesper bells on Easter Monday, March 30th 1282, the population of Sicily (aided and abetted by the King of Aragon) rose up against the French and massacred them all. I just find it very strange that anyone would a perfume after that.
cri162speagoessenda – :
My first impression of this fragrance was “SOAP!”. Thankfully it melts into something much more complex on the skin. White, green freshness. Magnolia, Heliotrope, Rose. On dry-down, it becomes sugary and bitter, woody, with a soft spiciness. It ends in a quiet perfection of vanilla and musk. It makes me think of a young woman with freckles in a strappy sundress, on a candlelit terrace at twilight. It says, ‘I’m nice”, friendly, simple and politely sweet.
naskool – :
This one did not work for me at all- overbearingly spicy, too much amber or caramel- all in all, it made me feel a little nauseous-
I saw lots of floral notes listed, but smelled none of them!
konfetka20 – :
Pretty, warm, cozy, complex, but one word describes it best: rich.
I have no idea what I am smelling, it just melds with my skin, and somersaults-the scent of the composition takes little voyages through cardomom and flower oil touched sweet citruses, toasted sweetness with a hint of green (coconut and plum smelling perfumier than ever stirred into a torpedo with white flowers)…There is an serious sepia warmth, reserved amber and a touch of melted caramel. Vepres Siciliennes is a strong composition that doesn’t become too strong on my skin. It lasts and lasts, and unfolds and unfolds….It’s great, and worthy of wearing to a rebellion-strong composure and self-contained beauty…certainly as grand as the painting which inspired it. For me-wearable, and nice, but complexity doesn’t mean the smell excites me-the caramel is a bit irritating for me too-and the opening didn’t wow me like Kterhark-BUT! Vepres Siciliennes IS a fragrant work of art perfect for somebody’s skin!