Rochas Secret de Oud Mystere Eau De Parfum Spray 100 ml

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P&G seems to have decided to wipe the Rochas brand off the map despite the limited hype in-house perfumer Duriez’s mini launches make at times. No more presence in US department stores for sure. As if it was a decision from the board to kill the Rochas name. So long Marcel Rochas and your couture legacy. Goodbye Helene Rochas and your elegance and creativity. Soon Femme will probably follow and Luca Turin will have to live without Tocade… Versace Pour Homme Dylan Blue is the perfect scent for men who want to feel confident, attractive, and irresistible. It is a versatile fragrance that can be worn for any occasion, from a night out on the town to a special event. With its luxurious blend of notes, Versace Pour Homme Dylan Blue is sure to turn heads wherever you go.

In perfumery oakmoss has been prized for its aroma, heavy and oriental-like at first, becoming very refined when dried, reminiscent of bark, seashore and foliage. It imparts a wet forest floor aroma in compositions resulting in a naturalness and rich earthy, damp and creamy undercurrent when used with restraint. Its remarkable quality is its ability to render a velvety softness to floral bouquets, green fragrances and heavy orientals alike, also possessing fixative properties imparting longevity in the perfumes that contain it and anchoring the more volatile notes. Here are the notes. I'm surprised they don't have more notes in common, but they do share several in the middle. Don't worry, it's not going to be another "Everything used to be better" tirade. It gets boring when the same record is played over and over again.

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Don't talk nonsense. He likes playing with you. And he's nothing against the power of the old forest." The company changed hands several times during the late 20th century. Helene Rochas even returned as a consultant from 1984 to 1989. Proctor and Gamble acquired the company in 2003, and re-launched the fashion division, under the direction of Olivier Theyskens from 2003 to 2006. A two-year hiatus followed, with the fashion company launching yet again in 2008 under its current creative director, Marco Zanini. What makes me especially happy is the fact that the fragrance is still completely intact and nothing seems to be tilted. Chanel No. 19, with its bitter green accord and iris, has been called sharp, cold, and intimidating, but it's got nothing on Mystère. This fragrance doesn't beat around the bush for an instant. It s opening salvo is all bitter green notes, galbanum, and aldehydes, and these stay in place as dark leather, patchouli, and an enormous load of oakmoss establish a sepulchral chypre accord that yields no quarter even to Piguet's Bandit in its brooding, craggy physiognomy. A powdery amber and a cold, venomous iris worthy of Lutens's Iris Silver Mist eventually soften Mystère's texture, but they render the scent not a jot more affable or cozy. Indeed, Mystère remains stubbornly true to its name from start to finish: always rather stern, veiled, and glacially aloof, eventually yielding, but never, ever warm.

The Rochas fragrance and cosmetics division was an enormous success, and Marcel Rochas closed the haute couture division in 1953, before passing away in 1955. With fragrances now the main focus, Rochas' young wife Helene, who was just 30 years old at the time of his death, took the helm and turned the house of Rochas into a multi-million-dollar company before selling it in 1971. P.S. I did a little research and asked to other perfume collectors: some shared my same experience with mossy vintages. I'm curious to know if any Basenoters did. But when I get hold of such full-bodied vintage treasures from time to time, I realize that in the past there was more tinsel, from a fragrance point of view Because everything is still in them that is outlawed, regulated, frowned upon and anyway no longer politically correct. But I don't want to start a discussion that will lead nowhere. The opinions are too different Mystère is a thoroughly seductive, attractive and erotic fragrance. But here the perfumer doesn't fall into the house with superficial or even vulgar lechery, so to speak, no he manages to keep this erotic attraction subtle, subtle and profound. Never does the fragrance whine around loudly, never does the fragrance appear cute and playful somewhere. Here a certain seriousness is quite noticeable. It opens with a familiar hiss of aldehydes and galbanum. This sets the stage for the greening of things to come. Narcissus forms the core of the floral accord. M. Mamounas unfurls an assertive version of this which would be too sharp if left on its own. He expertly weaves in a bouquet of other florals to form an ameliorating wreath of mostly white flowers. We then come to the base where the classic chypre accord is present in patchouli, oakmoss, and a woody accord of cypress and cascarilla wood. Usually the wood is sandalwood, but this choice is much lighter in effect. I think it is so the oakmoss can just coat everything in a velvety soft green blanket. The patchouli modulates the earthiness present in the oakmoss. Whenever I need a reminder of why I miss oakmoss Mystere is a good reminder. It flows in a gorgeously textural way as it sweeps up the narcissus in its embrace.Your description of the Mystere mood is very accurate. Late seventies at its best. A bit of a wilting Studio 54 after party ambiance and an awakening from the Champagne, cigarettes and drugs of the era.

I hope you enjoy your bottle of Mystere. I was sure I had a vintage mini of Mystere around here somewhere, but alas, I cannot find it. Perhaps I imagined it. In response to a post a few weeks ago, a commenter lamented Mystère’s disappearance. I didn’t have a lot of confidence in my decant, a bonus in a swap years ago, shoddily labeled with scotch tape and a sharpie. As fate would have it, I stumbled over a bottle of Mystère Eau de Parfum at Goodwill just a few days later. Someone holds out a full champagne flute to me from a velvet seating area. I take the glass and drink it. Far away glittering and booming.

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Fragrances remain the most important product of the Rochas brand, and Rochas has employed its own in-house perfumer, Jean-Michel Duriez, since 2008. That I have developed a great affection for chypre scents is certainly already quite well known. I am also aware that this scent is rather rejected by some inclined sniffers. I understand that only too well Chypres can appear very creaky, rugged and repellent or even old-fashioned. Compré una botella con la tapa dañada hace 6 meses y es lo que recuerdo! También compré una botella muy cara de Mystere de otro vendedor en mejores condiciones de botella, y ambas botellas son similares en olor. Yo personalmente recomendaría la botella con la tapa dañada. it's fine, I'm glad you took part to this thread and offered a different point of view, I appreciate the way you investigate the often hard to explain fragrance world As I look around the Dead Letter Office considering what to write about there is a shelf which seems overpopulated. The label there reads “Rochas”. It has some of my favorite perfumes on it. I always look as I wonder how it can be the perfume is grand while they missed the consumer. Ever since the post-war release of Femme the brand has flailed about trying to find something which would share the popularity of that. It has led to a few eras over the past eighty years. One of them occurred in the late 1970’s early 80’s. It started with Mystere de Rochas.

But I also wonder if you are reacting to a different ingredient or a different combination of ingredients. Here's why. There's a lot of talk of oakmoss on the perfume forums these days, often with great approbation, as in "YEAH!!! this is the biggest oakmoss bomb of all" but I have to say that I have never, ever found oakmoss to be a loud or obtrusive note. It's subtle, earthy, not at all sharp or heavy and even has a slight, haunting sweetness to me. I'm sniffing my sample of Evernia prunastri absolute from Eden as I write this, and it smells just like the oakmoss in my vintages. It smells absolutely beautiful to me. I think Elena Vosnaki describes oakmoss well here: I would categorize them both as animalic chypres, but as Hillaire mentions, they tend to wear like orientals. The only discernable difference to my nose is that Mystere seems a bit more civet-y and animalic while Gianni Versace is more leathery and dry... but in all honesty, they smell almost exactly alike. I have actually done the wrist-to-wrist comparison and the differences become more obvious that way, but even then they are more alike than not (and my fiance can't tell them apart at all.) They're so similar, in fact, that I believe it had to have been deliberate (Mystere's from 1978.) A small puddle of sparkling wine on green overgrown ground. I greedily slurp the dew, which according to its sour note can only be an old, noble drop. Somehow expired, but deliberately. Like a Norne today, but instead of the sweet-etheric, fermented woody, like nothing known in nature. Real oakmoss. I'm thinking Success, Paco Rabanne, Lauder for Men. It's hard to know where to start and where to stop having sex. Then I pause. It's all right. It's an '80s chypre jungle I got into. Super dense, with lots of shades. Disco lights, terrycloth covers and hygienically excessive things worked into a complex natural growth. Little ironed out, without the urge to dismantle everything into its sterile individual parts. And with a latent herbaceousness that is sultry and vegetable. Sparkling tiger eyes. Survivor. Middle notes - rosemary, carnation, tuberose, violet, orris root, jasmine, ylang-ylang, l.o.v., narcissusI'd like to follow up on your observation that the oakmoss note grows and engulfs the composition in your vintage chypres. I hope you don't mind. Like Cook.bot, this has not been my experience, so I am very curious about the phenomenon you are describing. It is very possible that you are acutely sensitive to oakmoss, or that your vintage bottles have gone through different transformations than mine (I sometimes think, if only this 50 year old bottle could talk! Where has it been?" Acqua di Gio by Giorgio Armani is a classic luxury perfume for men that has been loved by millions for over 25 years. It is a fresh, aquatic fragrance that is perfect for any occasion. The top notes of bergamot, lemon, and grapefruit are invigorating and refreshing, while the middle notes of jasmine, rose, and oakmoss are sensual and inviting. The base notes of amber, musk, and cedarwood are warm and inviting.