French niche line Parfums MDCI has launched Chypre Palatin, a new green oriental chypre developed by perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour.
It’s been a long time since we’ve found a fragrance that gives off such vintage-style lushness, and no wonder: Chypre Palatin is overflowing with lush natural essences, absolutes and resins. Once more, Parfums MDCI demonstrates that the spirit of golden-era French perfumery is still thriving. Treat yourself to a scented palace!
The notes feature hyacinth, clementine, aldehydes, cistus essence, galbanum, thyme, lavender, rose, jasmine, iris concrète, prune, gardenia, benzoin, styrax, leather, vanilla, tolu, castoreum, costus, oakmoss and immortelle.
Parfums MDCI Chypre Palatin can be found now at Luckyscent, in 60 ml Eau de Parfum for $250. The bust edition (above left) is $375.
(quote via luckyscent, additional information via parfumsmdci.free.fr)
Update: see a review of Parfums MDCI Chypre Palatin.
OH THANK GOODNESS. Finally, a new, quality-sounding niche offering that I have absolutely no interest in, “green oriental chypre” and Duchaufour being generally Not Ma Thang.
That said, I can hear the stampede coming already.
Ha, lucky you!
This is way out of my price comfort zone, but otherwise sounds fabulous to me.
How how gorgeous ! I’m excited. So far, I’ve ‘liked’ the MDCI perfumes but I have not loved them enough to fork over hundreds of dollars. The bust is a man – does this mean it’s leaning towards men ?
Oh, I must be the ONLY one who dislike Invasion Barbare so much – I thought it was very strident.
The press materials say “The surprise comes from the discovery that “Chypre Palatin” is utterly masculine, but could also be one of the most sensuous, voluptuous feminine fragrance !” — I have no idea what that means!
Perhaps it is for those men who have an utterly voluptuous female quality. Admittedly, I can only think of two who qualify. Rupaul, when he is not in drag, and David Hwang, in his breakthrough M. Butterfly role.
A scent for two individuals, now that’s niche!
🙂
Must try this. I am among the unfortunate souls doomed to love not just one but several of MDCI’s offerings. The MDCI sampler set bottles are ~12 mL each, and that is the perfect amount for me…which leads me to find a silver lining in the onerous TSA restrictions on liquids: more small sizes!
Did not remember they did sample bottles, must investigate!
Green oriental chypre, mmm. Loved the list of notes, except for aldehydes. Ack. I guess I don’t have to worry about lemming this one.
I’m obviously missing something, but green + oriental just confuses me.
I love traditional chypre fragrances I can’t wait to smell this new interpretation !
I get the sense that the “bust edition” bottles from MDCI are supposed to be covetable/luxurious, but I just find them completely fugly.
Oh! I don’t think I can take this. My heart is going bumpety-bump!
xo
Maybe the press releases should only mention when a new perfume is NOT by Bertrand Duchaufour. 😉
*spews tea*
That would be simpler, wouldn’t it?
Yeah, used to be that focusing one’s sampling on a nose that one liked would narrow things down… I have to devote serious skin real estate and concentration to keep up with BD!
I for one am not the least bit tired of Duchaufour launches! I really liked Duchaufour’s MDCI Belle Helene. I keep telling myself that it is too similar to Traversee du Bosphore for me to “need” a bottle, and intending to get a large decant, as I have for the beautiful Enlevement au Serail. Must try this one!
This is one scent that I would love to try… anyone have any good ideas for making samples magically materialize on one’s dresser? 😉
NP
Yay for Luckyscent offering samples. I think I might have to try this, even though there’s pretty much no way I could afford it if I were to fall madly in love. I have a good track record with the chypres I’ve tried so far, and I’m kind of a sucker for galbanum, so this could be dangerous. I kind of almost hope it will be more animalic than I can take so the price tag won’t matter to me. 😛
I just ordered a sample from Luckyscent.com.! I’ll let you all know what I think when I get it!!:)
I just received a sample of this, and I’m so glad I didn’t buy it without trying first… It’s nothing speciall, and actually very boring. Definitely not worth the money. The dry down reminds me a little bit of Old Spice for men…yuck!
I just got my sample today, and I have been so excited about this one that I decided to try it first.. and it’s gorgeous. It opens with green galbanum over clementine and flowers (I think I get a bit of rose and lavender, but there are other notes there that I’m not familiar with). It’s very well blended, so nothing really dominates, and it’s hard to pick out notes distinctly. The citrus and green fade pretty quickly, and the jasmine and gardenia blends with cistus (labdanum), benzoin and vanilla. After the floral notes fade, the vanilla hangs on with the resins. It kind of reminds me of Mitsouko a bit in this stage, though I think this is somewhat less spicy. A hint of leather peeks out in the drydown on occasion, but it is slight. When I saw costus and castoreum in the list of notes I was expecting this to be more animalic (though I admit I don’t have much experience with either note and am only going by what I’ve read about them). But it’s actually not that animalic on me. The resinous notes dominate at the end, which I like. Too bad it’s so expensive. If it weren’t so much I would probably consider buying it.
For anybody who likes Chypre Palatin but can’t shell out the $$$ for a full bottle, The Perfumed Court has decants now. I was just on TPC’s site yesterday and came across it. It’s still not cheap by any means (Luckyscent is cheaper for samples, but decants over 1ml here range from $18 for 1.5ml to about $75 for 8ml), A little goes a long way with this one, though, so even 5ml would probably last a while. I’ve been kind of conserving my sample, so this is pretty tempting.
I have never tried anything in this line, but the raves are really coming in for this one. Everything about it says “me” but you never know….