Parfums MDCI has launched La Belle Helene, a new fragrance named for the French dessert Poires Belle-Hélène:
Osmanthus is one of the most unusual floral essences in the perfumer’s palette…
Parfums MDCI Un Coeur en Mai ~ perfume review
Un Coeur en Mai is one of the more recent launches from Parfums MDCI, the French niche brand that packages its perfumes in limited edition, numbered bottles featuring Limoges bisque stoppers. They’re $610 a pop, and anyone who reads here regularly knows that this is precisely the sort of “luxury” that is bound to irritate me beyond measure, and the price of the refills, $235 for 60 ml, hardly helps matters. So it was with great satisfaction that I tested the first 5 MDCI perfumes, found them beautifully done but neither outrageously wonderful nor outrageously interesting1, and moved on to other matters.
As always, I should have left well enough alone, but I dutifully tried the next 4 releases: Péché Cardinal, Le Rivage des Syrtes & Vêpres Siciliennes, and lastly, Un Coeur en Mai. I know Péché Cardinal has found fans, but it was very nearly a scrubber on me (ghastly fruit roll ups), and Le Rivage des Syrtes and Vêpres Siciliennes both left me cold. The last one to go on skin, Un Coeur en Mai, was the one that did me in…
Parfums MDCI Un Coeur en Mai, DS & Durga Resin ~ new fragrances
Parfums MDCI has launched Un Coeur en Mai. Like their recently introduced Le Rivage des Syrtes, Un Coeur en Mai was developed by perfumer Patricia de Nicolaï of Parfums de Nicolaï.
The other route taken by Patricia de Nicolaï opens up for us a different imaginary world; this is a green floral which instantly evokes a fresh spring day, a walk through woods perfumed with hyacinths and lily-of-the-valley…
Parfums MDCI Enlevement au Serail ~ fragrance review
It’s easy for me to bemoan the destruction of such legendary perfumes as Worth Je Reviens and Carven Ma Griffe, and to be suspicious of the reformulations of other perfume darlings, like Guerlain Mitsouko. Everywhere I turn, I hear something else alarming: that the Caron reformulations are a travesty and my beloved Tabac Blond will never be the same, or that Jean Patou 1000 may be discontinued. (I can’t speak to either of these, by the way.)
Then along comes a fragrance like Parfums MDCI Enlèvement au Sérail to remind me to chill out…
Parfums MDCI Le Rivage des Syrtes & Vepres Siciliennes ~ new perfumes
Parfums MDCI has launched two new fragrances for women:
Le Rivage des Syrtes (shown) ~ developed by perfumer Patricia de Nicolaï; “…an oriental floral with a name taken from a famous French novel by Julien Gracq, [it] uses fragrance to tell the tale of a lonely sailor who travels far from home– from island to island…