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Heeley Ophelia ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 14 May 2009 44 Comments

Heeley Ophelia perfume

Heeley has launched Ophélia, a new fragrance inspired by Shakespeare's tragic heroine.

Ophélia was developed by perfumer Marion Fabre, and the notes feature orange, green stems, jasmine, ylang ylang, tuberose, moss and white musk.

Heeley Ophélia is available in 100 ml Eau de Parfum. (via firstluxe, osmoz)

Filed Under: new fragrances
Tagged With: heeley, marion fabre

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  1. Daisy says:
    14 May 2009 at 8:27 am

    shouldn’t they be including a water accord in there somewhere?

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    • AnnE says:
      14 May 2009 at 8:33 am

      or rosemary and rue?

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      • Daisy says:
        14 May 2009 at 8:54 am

        oh yeah, lots of rue……is there an accord for crazy? or whining perhaps?

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        • dewey eyed says:
          14 May 2009 at 9:44 am

          I was just wondering “seaweed?”.

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          • Daisy says:
            14 May 2009 at 9:47 am

            LOL !

          • Suzanne941 says:
            14 May 2009 at 10:28 am

            Now c’mon, guys…she was just a kid and really pushed around by her bossy old father, her uptight brother & that goofy prince. If they’d let her be a little maybe she wouldn’t have gone swimming.

        • Daisy says:
          14 May 2009 at 10:36 am

          or at least learned to swim first!

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    • amityglass says:
      14 May 2009 at 10:31 pm

      Bahahahahaha the first comment!

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  2. Giustino says:
    14 May 2009 at 8:43 am

    looks and sounds amazing

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    • Daisy says:
      14 May 2009 at 8:55 am

      actually, yes it does sound like it’ll smell lovely, I just can’t resist taking a quick swipe at a Shakespeare character.

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    • Robin says:
      14 May 2009 at 9:21 am

      It does sound nice…I love jasmine.

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      • Daisy says:
        14 May 2009 at 9:26 am

        …and orange….blossoms or juice? both have a-peel for me these days.

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        • mals86 says:
          14 May 2009 at 9:58 am

          Sounds very nice, but not Very Me. Which is bad news for the nose, good news for the wallet!

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          • Daisy says:
            14 May 2009 at 10:38 am

            my wallet is in a body cast, in intensive care WITH an oxygen tent…….the good news: with all those medical apparati, I can BARELY HEAR IT complaining…..

  3. Zazie says:
    14 May 2009 at 9:17 am

    I had the chance to try it last saturday.
    On paper it was a very nice summery-floral.
    Something in the line of la chasse aux papillons, if it makes sense.
    But I haven’t tried it on skin: my arms had been testing fragrances all that day and couldn’t provide any free skin!!!

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    • Robin says:
      14 May 2009 at 9:21 am

      Hey, that could be really nice! Thanks.

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    • Daisy says:
      14 May 2009 at 9:31 am

      zazie, that sounds like a good shopping trip! My arms love to visit the perfume counters!

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      • Zazie says:
        14 May 2009 at 9:51 am

        Mine too!
        🙂
        but I hate when I use up my “free skin” and then find something that smells great on the strip and don’t have any space any more!
        It happens to me all the time…
        (well, to be honest, this gives me an excuse to plan other perfume-smelling expeditions!!)

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        • mals86 says:
          14 May 2009 at 9:57 am

          Wish I lived where there were opportunities to go a-sniffing… the closest ‘fumes are at Belk, half an hour away. Next closest: Macy’s, an hour’s drive. Nothing else.

          Actually, that’s probably good for my budget.

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          • Daisy says:
            14 May 2009 at 10:40 am

            Well, I bet it’s good for TPC’s budget…..

          • mals86 says:
            14 May 2009 at 10:53 am

            You know me…

  4. Nina says:
    14 May 2009 at 10:19 am

    There isn’t a Heeley I wouldn’t happily wear, so I look forward to this. I think it’s an underestimed line.

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    • Robin says:
      14 May 2009 at 10:41 am

      I really like a few of them & in general I think the line is well done, but I would have said the opposite — as a rule I think they’re overrated. Regardless, looking forward to trying this one, & would love to know what perfumer(s) they’ve been using.

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  5. Kess says:
    14 May 2009 at 11:31 am

    could they have picked up a name less suggestive of suicide? just asking…

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    • Robin says:
      14 May 2009 at 11:40 am

      Doubt it suggests suicide to most people though…in fact, most people will probably just think of it as a pretty girl’s name, right?

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      • Daisy says:
        14 May 2009 at 12:00 pm

        Robin, I suspect that is what they were going for….because Ophelia was beautiful, and the flowery fragrance possible from the scene where she dances around with a basket of flowers tossing them about…..although it supposedly is alluding to her tossing away her, ahem, virtue…..

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        • Robin says:
          14 May 2009 at 12:13 pm

          Can’t really agree — I mean, one thing to use Ophelia as an inspiration, another to expect your customers to be familiar with even the story line of Hamlet. Just saying I seriously doubt that people won’t buy it because it will suggest suicide, or insanity, or the loss of virtue — most people don’t worry for even a second about what inspired a perfume. If the name is pretty and it smells good…for heaven’s sakes, think of that Givenchy perfume that was inspired by a modern day Lolita, whatever it was…I’m sure it sold despite the fact that most girls probably would not *literally* wish to be a modern day Lolita.

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          • Daisy says:
            14 May 2009 at 1:12 pm

            You are 100% correct—I would love to sniff on this stuff and if I liked it, I would not care a fig what the name or reference was/is. Just like I don’t care which celebrity lounges/smirks/dances or romances across the ads.
            We’re just an exceptionally literate and erudite group around here…..we know our shakespeare references and we’re not afraid to use them! Although we appear to be taking our knowledge of Monty Python references out for a breath of fresh air as well today. 🙂

          • Robin says:
            14 May 2009 at 1:59 pm

            Monty Python needs a perfume, don’t they?

          • Daisy says:
            14 May 2009 at 2:06 pm

            that’s scary idea! lol

          • ggperfume says:
            14 May 2009 at 5:04 pm

            Crunch Frog Eau Legere, anyone?

          • ggperfume says:
            14 May 2009 at 5:05 pm

            That’s CrunchY Frog! Crunchy crunchy crunchy!

  6. monstabunny says:
    14 May 2009 at 12:01 pm

    Like, shouldn’t there be water-lilies in there somewhere? All tangled up in poor Ophelia’s hair? And maybe the basenote should be corpse absolute.

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    • Daisy says:
      14 May 2009 at 3:30 pm

      oh, absolutely!

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  7. ggperfume says:
    14 May 2009 at 12:03 pm

    “I would give thee violets, but they wither”. . .

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    • Daisy says:
      14 May 2009 at 3:29 pm

      get thy violets to a nunnery!

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  8. annunziata says:
    14 May 2009 at 2:09 pm

    I understand their next scent will be ‘Lear’, which will smell of mortality . **scuttles away and hides behind the arras **

    The notes actually sound very appealing to me, I certainly want to try it. Don’t know the Heeleys, but being very fond of orange, jasmine, and ylang ylang, I’m always interested in different combinations of them. I suppose the name was chosen for its suggestion of springlike innocence. I think I would rather invoke Portia or Beatrice, though. They’d probably be leather or chypre babes, though.

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    • Robin says:
      14 May 2009 at 3:02 pm

      Heeley does a good job, very worth trying I think.

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    • Daisy says:
      14 May 2009 at 3:28 pm

      LOLOL “hides behind the arras” —let me know if you find any murderous kings back there as well…..

      maybe the next fragrance could be “Lady McBeth” it would smell vaguely like schizophrenia and guilt! ( and murrrderrrr)

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      • boojum says:
        15 May 2009 at 11:27 am

        Now, if they come out with a MacBeth scent, it will have to be an unsniffed purchase for me. English lit nerd here…I bought the house I did in part (yes, I admit it) because it was on a street called MacBeth. Surrounding streets: Hamlet, Romeo, Juliet, Stratford, Avon.. you get the idea. I’d snap up Ophelia, except for that dreaded tuberose. Who knows, though…I’ll probably end up grabbing a sample in case it’s not too noticeable.

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        • boojum says:
          15 May 2009 at 11:29 am

          Oh, and yes…I’ve told my children that any and all pets we may acquire must be named Spot, just so I (the animal-hater) can yell “out, out damned spot!” at random intervals.

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      • annunziata says:
        16 May 2009 at 10:51 am

        Robin, thanks for the suggestion, I do like the sound of this and will check out all the Heeleys.

        Daisy — nothing so interesting back there. Just dust kittens and lots of empty sample vials rolling around!

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    • ggperfume says:
      14 May 2009 at 5:08 pm

      I definitely see Beatrice as a chypre.

      Is this a lazy-day poll: “what fragrances suit which of Shakespeare’s characters?”

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      • Daisy says:
        14 May 2009 at 5:54 pm

        That’d be too funny because after about 38.7 seconds we’d all be making up fragrances and listing the notes ….poor Robin would throw her hands up in the air and declare us all lunatics….

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