Comments on: Parfums MDCI Le Rivage des Syrtes & Vepres Siciliennes ~ new perfumes http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/ a blog about perfume Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: geranium girl http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-253636 geranium girl Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:29:32 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-253636 I have just fallen in love with Le Rivage des Syrtes, which was bought for me as a Christmas present yesterday in a fabulous perfume shop called Sens Unique in Le Marais district in Paris. This is a haunting, gorgeous fruity oriental that starts with a burst of orange and pineapple and then quietly morphs into a stunningly original fragrance with the warmth of incense, ambergris, musk and vanilla in the dry-down. I'm definitely not usually a pineapple kind of girl, but this just works and it really is unlike any other perfume in this category - we are definitely not talking beach-side cocktails here. The fruit is warm, fuzzy and sensual and the orange blossom is sweet and delicious but not overly sickly. The tuberose is unlike any other tuberose note I've smelt - my day-to-day perfume is Frangipani by Ormonde Jayne, which has far more tuberose in it than this - but here it's neither as 'green' as the one in L'Artisan Parfumeur's Nuit de Tubereuse, nor as creamy and dramatic as the one you find in the great tuberose fragrances - such as Fracas and Carnal Flower. It's just there as a lingering floral note working in collaboration with the ylang ylang to balance the fruit-galbanum elements. The bottle is lovely too - hand-blown glass (without the statue on the top - that's just several hundred euros too far!) - and it's very elegant, classic and yet still modern. Each bottle is filled by hand. BTW, If you're in Paris you just have to go to this shop. The two women who run it are more knowledgeable about perfume than virtually anyone I've ever encountered in a perfume shop - plus they are really keen to get to know you to find the perfect scent for you and time just stands still when you're in there. I nearly made us miss our plane because I got so carried away sniffing to my heart's content...! I'm now counting down the days until I can drench myself in this again... (Twenty, as from today,, and that's twenty too many!) I have just fallen in love with Le Rivage des Syrtes, which was bought for me as a Christmas present yesterday in a fabulous perfume shop called Sens Unique in Le Marais district in Paris. This is a haunting, gorgeous fruity oriental that starts with a burst of orange and pineapple and then quietly morphs into a stunningly original fragrance with the warmth of incense, ambergris, musk and vanilla in the dry-down. I’m definitely not usually a pineapple kind of girl, but this just works and it really is unlike any other perfume in this category – we are definitely not talking beach-side cocktails here. The fruit is warm, fuzzy and sensual and the orange blossom is sweet and delicious but not overly sickly. The tuberose is unlike any other tuberose note I’ve smelt – my day-to-day perfume is Frangipani by Ormonde Jayne, which has far more tuberose in it than this – but here it’s neither as ‘green’ as the one in L’Artisan Parfumeur’s Nuit de Tubereuse, nor as creamy and dramatic as the one you find in the great tuberose fragrances – such as Fracas and Carnal Flower. It’s just there as a lingering floral note working in collaboration with the ylang ylang to balance the fruit-galbanum elements. The bottle is lovely too – hand-blown glass (without the statue on the top – that’s just several hundred euros too far!) – and it’s very elegant, classic and yet still modern. Each bottle is filled by hand.

BTW, If you’re in Paris you just have to go to this shop. The two women who run it are more knowledgeable about perfume than virtually anyone I’ve ever encountered in a perfume shop – plus they are really keen to get to know you to find the perfect scent for you and time just stands still when you’re in there. I nearly made us miss our plane because I got so carried away sniffing to my heart’s content…! I’m now counting down the days until I can drench myself in this again… (Twenty, as from today,, and that’s twenty too many!)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63347 Anonymous Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:35:23 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63347 I'll Take the $235.00 Version! Don't need Sculpture to make me happy, can't wear or smell the top to the bottle! just give me that fragrance and i'll be Ecstatic! :-) I'll Take the $235.00 Version! Don't need Sculpture to make me happy, can't wear or smell the top to the bottle! just give me that fragrance and i'll be Ecstatic! :-)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63344 Anonymous Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:16:07 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63344 atsa lotta pennies.....by the time I've saved enough pennies I'd be too old and feeble to work the spray pump on the bottle....would have to have my nurse spray it on me! atsa lotta pennies…..by the time I've saved enough pennies I'd be too old and feeble to work the spray pump on the bottle….would have to have my nurse spray it on me!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63346 Anonymous Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:46:18 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63346 LOL...yes, it is. LOL…yes, it is.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63343 Anonymous Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:46:04 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63343 Save those pennies... Save those pennies…

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63345 Anonymous Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:54:43 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63345 It is SAVAGELY pricey as well :-) Thats the worst part of it. I may love perfume but dont see myself buying it for 610 USD :-) It is SAVAGELY pricey as well :-) Thats the worst part of it. I may love perfume but dont see myself buying it for 610 USD :-)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63342 Anonymous Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:42:04 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63342 OH DEARY MY! these sound SAVAGELY Wonderful! am looking forward to the Vespres Sicillienes with BAITED Breath, it sounds absolutley STUNNING! OH DEARY MY! these sound SAVAGELY Wonderful! am looking forward to the Vespres Sicillienes with BAITED Breath, it sounds absolutley STUNNING!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63341 Anonymous Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:06:13 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63341 So do I :-) So do I :-)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63332 Anonymous Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:13:54 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63332 lol yup---I'm loving the Guide!! What would the fun be if I agreed with everything they said? It'd be like sitting there talking to myself. Which isn't an entertaining as one might think. lol yup—I'm loving the Guide!! What would the fun be if I agreed with everything they said? It'd be like sitting there talking to myself. Which isn't an entertaining as one might think.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63340 Anonymous Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:44:17 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2009/03/18/parfums-mdci-le-rivage-des-syrtes-vepres-siciliennes-new-perfumes/#comment-63340 I would love to try Le Rivage des Syrtes. I admire Patricia de Nicolai perfumes. I would love to try Le Rivage des Syrtes. I admire Patricia de Nicolai perfumes.

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