Can't wait to try this. Patchouli Intense is one of those rare fragrances that feels like company — less a scent than a person you spend the whole day with. If Patchouli Spirit belongs to that same family, I'm already in trouble :)
Twice I have walked into Nicolai Parfumeur Createur in Paris (Champs-Elysées) to see Patricia quietly working on something behind the glass counter. It’s a bit like a celebrity encounter for perfume nerds. I have always admired the integrity and tasteful simplicity of the brand. Néroli Intense and Ambre Cashmere Extreme are my favorites.
Guerlain (LVMH) by that time was so meretricious that a person with PdN’s integrity and low-key profile would not have sufficed. Same at Chanel: Sheldrake should have got the job.
Oh, wow, it's fun to imagine what he would have done at Chanel. I wonder if they would have afforded him the same level of batshit creativity that Lutens/Shiseido did.
If Sheldrake should have had the job, the consolation is that half the good stuff smells like he took it anyway, e.g. Coromandel being Borneo 1834 with better tailoring. Do you have the inside version of which Exclusifs are really his, and whether Le Lion's amber is his hand or Olivier's?
Color me intrigued as well! I don't know what it is about summer, but patchouli feels so right in humid heat. Maybe it's some primordial nostalgia in my DNA, but nothing says lazing around mostly naked with a young love or fraternizing with aging hippies on the stoops and front porches of the college town where I grew up. Like many of us, my first patchouli was a little dirty. I appreciate its purer, prettier profile in perfumery as well. My latest favorite straddles both sides, with swirl of coconut and sweaty skin. Byredo's Velvet Haze. Ever tried it?
I have my eye on Byredo’s velvet haze, but my discipline tells me to wait until my next paycheck. I grew up with patchouli in the late 60’s with my college age, hippie friends back then and it was incense form. Back then it was all dirty which was necessary to cover up the smell. Lol.
Love swinging by the tiny but perfectly formed PdN space near South Ken tube. The proportions of the magical space as well as all the delights contained therein offer a few moments' fantastical escape from the real world.
NYI is just a masterpiece, classic hyper-sophisticated and joyful, wish some many others in the niche perfumery were as magnificent as this is. And indeed when sprayed on clothing or fabric is just a marvel. Ah and do not forget Odalisque another beauty though so different and apparently a bit forgotten in the "sea" of new niche houses and perfumes.
I am so glad you approve of Patchouli Spirit! My daughter was in London last March. I asked her to go to Herrods and try it and report back (equivalent to buying it unsniffed, cause she is not a fraghead). She said it was "very good" and swiped my credit card :)). I must say it is challenging for Florida weather - one spray will envelope you for 24 hours with a good projection - but it is beautiful!
As a longtime fan I'm rather disappointed with their more recent releases (eg. the gourmand ones and the Arab-oriented ones), still I look forward to new releases from them. I would have loved to discover Patchouli Spirit if it weren't an exclusive one.
I have never fallen in love with New York. I tried several times, the last one on Thursday at Esxence at De Nicolas’s booth. It’s really good, but it doesn’t surprise me, it’s not really melancholic, I don’t think it’s sophisticated enough. I’ll try again, anyway, I know.
Can't wait to try this. Patchouli Intense is one of those rare fragrances that feels like company — less a scent than a person you spend the whole day with. If Patchouli Spirit belongs to that same family, I'm already in trouble :)
Yes, you are and that is some really good stuff.
I LOVE hearing the war stories! 🤣🤣🤣
Twice I have walked into Nicolai Parfumeur Createur in Paris (Champs-Elysées) to see Patricia quietly working on something behind the glass counter. It’s a bit like a celebrity encounter for perfume nerds. I have always admired the integrity and tasteful simplicity of the brand. Néroli Intense and Ambre Cashmere Extreme are my favorites.
I must try this, I love, love, love patchouli.
I still think Guerlain missed the boat/point entirely by passing her over but I'm so glad she's done her own thing quite well.
Guerlain (LVMH) by that time was so meretricious that a person with PdN’s integrity and low-key profile would not have sufficed. Same at Chanel: Sheldrake should have got the job.
Oh, wow, it's fun to imagine what he would have done at Chanel. I wonder if they would have afforded him the same level of batshit creativity that Lutens/Shiseido did.
A firm that names a perfume "Beige" has its limitations.
Too true. But perhaps he could have ushered Coco Mademoiselle off this mortal coil.
:-D
I like your captive, Perfume ingredient Batshit. Lol
If Sheldrake should have had the job, the consolation is that half the good stuff smells like he took it anyway, e.g. Coromandel being Borneo 1834 with better tailoring. Do you have the inside version of which Exclusifs are really his, and whether Le Lion's amber is his hand or Olivier's?
No, unfortunately…
You really have your finger on the pulse. Thanks for sharing that. I can’t imagine the pressure that they’re under though.
I still have to try PS but I love both Patchouli Intense and Incense Oud, which I find is a cousin of PI.
Color me intrigued as well! I don't know what it is about summer, but patchouli feels so right in humid heat. Maybe it's some primordial nostalgia in my DNA, but nothing says lazing around mostly naked with a young love or fraternizing with aging hippies on the stoops and front porches of the college town where I grew up. Like many of us, my first patchouli was a little dirty. I appreciate its purer, prettier profile in perfumery as well. My latest favorite straddles both sides, with swirl of coconut and sweaty skin. Byredo's Velvet Haze. Ever tried it?
I have my eye on Byredo’s velvet haze, but my discipline tells me to wait until my next paycheck. I grew up with patchouli in the late 60’s with my college age, hippie friends back then and it was incense form. Back then it was all dirty which was necessary to cover up the smell. Lol.
Love swinging by the tiny but perfectly formed PdN space near South Ken tube. The proportions of the magical space as well as all the delights contained therein offer a few moments' fantastical escape from the real world.
Очень люблю Нью Йорк и ароматы в таком стиле. Надо найти Patchouli Spirit.
В последнее время ношу Gentlemen Original, Heritage edp, Knowing Legacy, Bel Ami и Equipage Hermès ) все они не громкие и комфортные
Я согласен!
NYI is just a masterpiece, classic hyper-sophisticated and joyful, wish some many others in the niche perfumery were as magnificent as this is. And indeed when sprayed on clothing or fabric is just a marvel. Ah and do not forget Odalisque another beauty though so different and apparently a bit forgotten in the "sea" of new niche houses and perfumes.
I am so glad you approve of Patchouli Spirit! My daughter was in London last March. I asked her to go to Herrods and try it and report back (equivalent to buying it unsniffed, cause she is not a fraghead). She said it was "very good" and swiped my credit card :)). I must say it is challenging for Florida weather - one spray will envelope you for 24 hours with a good projection - but it is beautiful!
As a longtime fan I'm rather disappointed with their more recent releases (eg. the gourmand ones and the Arab-oriented ones), still I look forward to new releases from them. I would have loved to discover Patchouli Spirit if it weren't an exclusive one.
I have never fallen in love with New York. I tried several times, the last one on Thursday at Esxence at De Nicolas’s booth. It’s really good, but it doesn’t surprise me, it’s not really melancholic, I don’t think it’s sophisticated enough. I’ll try again, anyway, I know.