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Parfums de Nicolai Les Magnifiques ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 7 April 2008 25 Comments

Parfums de Nicolai Les Magnifiques perfumesParfums de Nicolaï has launched Les Magnifiques, a collection of 4 intense fragrances featuring "more natural essential oils in each bottle for a more intense pleasure and long lasting effect". The collection includes:

Rose Intense is a soliflore rose with red fruits, rose oil and absolute, geranium, chamomile, and woody/musky notes.

Maharanih Intense is a floral woody amber featuring sweet orange, bitter orange zest, rose oil, carnation, cinnamon, patchouli oil and absolute, sandalwood and synthetic civet.

Sacrebleu Intense is a floral spicy amber. The notes include mandarin, red fruits, carnation, tuberose, jasmine, cinnamon, frankincense, patchouli, sandalwood, peru balm and tonka bean absolute.

Cédrat Intense is "A lovely work around the cedrat, a note between lemon and bergamot. Spicy and woody notes for more tenacity and long listing [sic]."

The Les Magnifiques fragrances are available in 30 or 100 ml. (via pnicolai)

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  1. Anonymous says:
    7 April 2008 at 11:08 am

    I really like this line, despite the extreme price hike on beautyhabit (why I was surprised, I don't know, since everything is going up). Should be pretty good; I like the *longer lasting* aspect.

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  2. Anonymous says:
    7 April 2008 at 11:22 am

    Given how the $ is falling, I suppose we're lucky that any fragrances are exported to the US at all anymore 🙁

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  3. Anonymous says:
    7 April 2008 at 11:34 am

    Is it me, or does their description sound a little … porny? Like something you'd read for KY Extreme Pleasure Lube. Ack, wonder if this will wind up on your spam filter, I'd deserve it. In any case, I think they sound delicious and would like to try them.

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  4. Anonymous says:
    7 April 2008 at 11:58 am

    Would love to try them. Will try to get some samples then.

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  5. Anonymous says:
    7 April 2008 at 12:04 pm

    March, PdN has snazzed up their website, but they don't seem to be spending much on English translation, do they? I do think that is at least part of the problem.

    And I don't have a spam filter — that is the glory of making people sign up for reader accounts 🙂

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  6. Anonymous says:
    7 April 2008 at 12:09 pm

    Let us know how they are 🙂

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  7. Anonymous says:
    7 April 2008 at 12:59 pm

    Patricia is also the new director of the Osmotheque. I saw it on osmoz.com.

    I like her latest fragrances, particularly Cedrat.

    Marahanih is pretty, a bit 'electric' for me on the top note, but you can really smell the natural raw materials in the formula.

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  8. Anonymous says:
    7 April 2008 at 1:13 pm

    Yes she is, and hope it will not mean fewer new releases from PdN. But I am terribly behind — have not tried any of her newest scents.

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  9. Anonymous says:
    7 April 2008 at 1:31 pm

    First see if I can get some..;)

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  10. Anonymous says:
    7 April 2008 at 1:44 pm

    Apparently no… She has another new scent coming in april.

    I saw it today, it's called Eau Turquoise

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  11. Anonymous says:
    7 April 2008 at 1:49 pm

    Yes, saw that at osmoz…but presumably she came up with that before taking the new position? Then again, don't know how time-consuming it is to run the Osmotheque.

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  12. Anonymous says:
    7 April 2008 at 2:16 pm

    I agree with March on the porn effect of the copy. Hehe. I am a fan of PdN, though Sacrebleu came off as a candle to me so I never wore it even though I was a dupe for anything Catherine Deneuve was reputed to wear, eat, or do. I was a Cologne Sologne kind of gal. Number One was a stunner. Also love New York, and others. Curious about the natural essences angle. Is it true or just another way of saying that they used more of the concentrate of the 'juice' even if that is laced with synthetics extraordinaire?

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  13. Anonymous says:
    7 April 2008 at 4:27 pm

    When Sniffapalooza visited Osmoteque last Summer, we had the extreme pleasure of spending several hours with Patricia de Nicolai. Besides the tour of ISIPCA & Osmoteque, she gave us a three-hour seminar and we got to smell many of the discontiued perfumes from their vault. She is a truly amazing woman! Osmoteque actually has quite a nice-sized staff, headed

    by the charming Isabel Dufour, who also helped us plan other parts of our visit to Paris. Patricia & The Osmoteque/ISIPCA crew really love meeting fragrance enthusiasts, & if you are in Paris, it is definitely worth the trip!

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  14. Anonymous says:
    7 April 2008 at 5:10 pm

    I don't know — suspect you're right — but in general PdN strikes me as using much better quality materials than many niche brands.

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  15. Anonymous says:
    7 April 2008 at 5:26 pm

    Maharanih is already pretty darn intense – I simply cannot imagine it any more potent. Maybe, like many of the classic French houses, the “intense” (parfum?) version will be very different than the EdP? Love this house beyond all reason – love Maharanih as is, and that Rose Intense sounds rockin' – but have to say that I wasn't wowed by the Cedrat. I hear this cologne is one of de Nicolai's personal faves, but it reminded me a lot of one of her other perfumes (Eau D'Ete, maybe?) Not bad by any means – but I am much prefering my newly-discovered Guerlain Eau de Fleurs de Cedrat.

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  16. Anonymous says:
    7 April 2008 at 7:33 pm

    E, I would have said the same of Sacrebleu. Perhaps you're right & they're quite different.

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  17. Anonymous says:
    7 April 2008 at 9:07 pm

    Mm, Maharanih & Cédrat sound especially nice. Perhaps Sacrebleu also. I see these are priced higher than the regular line (30ml costs about what 100ml of the scents in their standard line); probably due to the raw materials.

    Adding more samples to the must-try list. These seem more suited to Fall launches though.

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  18. Anonymous says:
    8 April 2008 at 2:07 am

    Erin, you are so right on this. Maharanih is quite spikey and intense. It was the only scent I took on a business trip in August of last year, and after two days of it, it clung to me like the spines of a cholla cactus, and about as sharp, too. Still love it mind, you, but I'm not sure it needed amping up. Maybe soothing it with one of the others. . . .

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  19. Anonymous says:
    8 April 2008 at 8:47 am

    Agree on the fall launch…but might be fall before these get to the US anyway…assuming they get here at all.

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  20. Anonymous says:
    9 April 2008 at 4:28 am

    I sampled some of her perfumes in Paris and am kicking myself for not purchasing some there, especially since you can buy small reasonably priced bottles there. Truly wonderful perfume. Can't wait to try these new ones – especially the rose and cedrat.

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  21. Anonymous says:
    9 April 2008 at 9:34 am

    I am afraid of Sacrebleu being made Intense. Like it needed any more intensity 🙂

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  22. Anonymous says:
    9 April 2008 at 11:44 am

    My feelings exactly, but wonder how much it is tweaked…might be worth smelling.

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  23. Anonymous says:
    9 April 2008 at 11:45 am

    I love that she does 30 ml bottles, and wish they'd bring the light versions to the US as well.

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  24. Anonymous says:
    23 April 2008 at 2:29 am

    Hi, any chance of reading reviews of these in the near fiture and also of the new Nicolai Eau Tourquoise? Would love to hear what Now Smell This has to say about them!

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  25. Anonymous says:
    23 April 2008 at 8:54 am

    I doubt soon, sadly — no way for me to get samples until they hit the US, and don't even know if the Magnifiques are coming here. But if they do, I'll certainly try them!

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