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)
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shouldn’t they be including a water accord in there somewhere?
or rosemary and rue?
oh yeah, lots of rue……is there an accord for crazy? or whining perhaps?
I was just wondering “seaweed?”.
LOL !
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.
or at least learned to swim first!
Bahahahahaha the first comment!
looks and sounds amazing
actually, yes it does sound like it’ll smell lovely, I just can’t resist taking a quick swipe at a Shakespeare character.
It does sound nice…I love jasmine.
…and orange….blossoms or juice? both have a-peel for me these days.
Sounds very nice, but not Very Me. Which is bad news for the nose, good news for the wallet!
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…..
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!!!
Hey, that could be really nice! Thanks.
zazie, that sounds like a good shopping trip! My arms love to visit the perfume counters!
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!!)
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.
Well, I bet it’s good for TPC’s budget…..
You know me…
There isn’t a Heeley I wouldn’t happily wear, so I look forward to this. I think it’s an underestimed line.
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.
could they have picked up a name less suggestive of suicide? just asking…
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?
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…..
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.
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.
Monty Python needs a perfume, don’t they?
that’s scary idea! lol
Crunch Frog Eau Legere, anyone?
That’s CrunchY Frog! Crunchy crunchy crunchy!
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.
oh, absolutely!
“I would give thee violets, but they wither”. . .
get thy violets to a nunnery!
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.
Heeley does a good job, very worth trying I think.
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)
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.
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.
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!
I definitely see Beatrice as a chypre.
Is this a lazy-day poll: “what fragrances suit which of Shakespeare’s characters?”
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….