Vent Vert (1947) (Eau de Toilette) by Balmain

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Vent Vert Balmain 1947 Eau de Toilette

Version from 1947

8.6 / 10 117 Ratings

A popular perfume by Balmain for women, released in 1947. The scent is green-floral. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Green

Floral

Fresh

Chypre

Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Galbanum

Gardenia

Lemon

Peach

Heart Notes

Lily of the valley

Hyacinth

Iris

Jasmine

Rose

Base Notes

Oakmoss

Vetiver

Musk

Styrax

Perfumer

Germaine Cellier

Ratings

Scent

8.6117 Ratings

Longevity

7.689 Ratings

Sillage

6.989 Ratings

Bottle

7.588 Ratings

Value for money

7.720 Ratings

Submitted by TVC15, last update on 06/15/2025.

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Reviews

12 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/14/2013

10Scent

Belledusud
2 Reviews

Belledusud

Helpful Review 6

Vent Vert - Springtime in a Bottle

Balmain's lovely Vent Vert is my signature perfume. It is a fresh, sharp, sweet composition that smells of new greenery in the springtime, blue skies and daffodils. Longevity is good to very good, and projection is medium. Anyone who longs for the feeling of an early spring day will love VV. Very green, lots of galbanum in the opening. A favorite of Brigitte Bardot as well!

06/15/2025

10Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

MrsGuerlain
539 Reviews

MrsGuerlain

1

Evergreen

According to Cambridge University Dictionary ‘evergreen’ means something ‘always seeming fresh and popular’.
Vent vert is one of the best green fragrances I have met. I love Chanel No 19, a beautiful green with a lot of sharpness and good floral heart. I adore Tendre Poison, a favourite for many years with its sweet, floral take on the green. I admire Isabella Rossellini’s Manifesto, a blast of green on a spring day. And I sometimes crave SJP’s Covet, a mix of green and chocolate. All three wonderful and appreciated in my collection. But Vent Vert… well, that is a totally different story.
Vent Vert is a fragrance with many faces. At first spray it has the chalky note that I love so much (galbanum). It boosts the whole fragrance - wonderful lift off. Another thing I notice is that whenever I wear it, I experience moments when the flowers become dominant. In whiffs. Suddenly I think that I am wearing a different fragrance. It surprises me every time. Even though this is not the most long lasting fragrance it still makes me pay attention due to the complexity. Always. Now that’s a good perfume!
Wonderful bottle! I love the top detail with the grass-like shape. Not feminine - not masculine. This, in my opinion, could be unisex. The bottle tells you what you are about to experience.
If I had to choose between my greens - I would choose Vent Vert.
Year 2, 32/365

05/02/2025

videecco
9 Reviews

videecco

1

Ceiling breaker

The war is over, I've worked in pants in an arms factory and cleared rubble in my town. My girlies and I did it all without the help of men. Now society wants us to go back to the kitchen. But I keep a spirit of freedom and joy in my soul in this spring of our lives. Some of my friends wear l'Air du Temps, which came out a year apart. We are young and the new era is full of promises. A new wind, tenderly green like a young shoot, is sweeping up the past.

If I were a young woman in 1947, this would be my perfume. It bears an air of kinship with Hermès Iris Ukiyoé (Ellena, 2010) while not being the same.

I'm testing the vintage and the current side to side. Difference wise, the vintage has a more proeminent galbanum in the opening. This use of galbanum at such a high concentration was a first with Cellier being a ceiling breaker in the world of perfumery. Without being flippant, yes, the vintage is better.

My favorite vintage so far in testing some of Les Cent Onze Parfums Qu'il Faut Sentir Avant de Mourir.

Smells like the colors: green and orange. Vibe: light, young, and cheerful.

05/02/2025

10Scent 5Longevity 6Sillage

Noturfave
91 Reviews

Noturfave

1

New life.

Unforgettable Vent Vert, the most carefree of the green florals. The blast of bitter galbanum is strong and swift, but the freshness of lemon and the powdery sweetness of muguet and rose make this fragrance far from stiff upper lip. Not a Miss Dior or a Bandit - a L’Air du Temps type, signaling a springtime and a new feeling of hope after the war.

04/26/2023

10Scent 10Longevity 8Sillage

Medusa00
839 Reviews

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Medusa00

Top Review 35

The little, very big green one!

Or should I rather say: the little magnificent green one?
Balmain was an apprentice to Lucien Lelong and later wanted to start his own business with his friend Christian Dior. He couldn't make up his mind, so Balmain launched on his own in 1945 and founded his own fashion company. He shaped a style full of charm and sober elegance. He had no interest in experiments when it came to fashion.
As early as 1946, alongside the couture house, the Balmain Parfums company was established. Balmain's statement about perfumes was that they are much more important for elegance than accessories, jewelry, and shoes.
With Germaine Cellier, he brought one of the few female perfumers of that time into the house. She was the one who, with taste and boldness, created some of his most famous fragrances, including the elegant leather chypre "Jolie Madame".
The post-war years were anyway the era of great chypres of all kinds, whether floral, leathery, fruity, animalic, or green. They pushed aside the very floral, rose-dominated perfumes of the time.
Balmain commissioned the daring Germaine Cellier to create a young, free, cheeky, and unreasonable perfume that fit into the new freedom of the post-war years and emphasized the emancipation of the wearers.
Colette is said to have remarked that this new green scent should appeal to the devils of today.
Cellier got to work and already used a lot of galbanum in the top note. Some of you might be wondering what galbanum actually smells like. Galbanum has a green, spicy-leaf-like scent with woody, coniferous, and balsamic notes. Already upon application, you feel as if you've showered with green soap that has just slipped past flowers. Oh, I love such green-clean scents that signal to the environment, stay away or I’ll feed you grass or tie you to a green meadow with a ring through your nose.
Cellier made sure that the green impression remained in the heart and also incorporated basil, which is not listed here, but still tempers the sweetness of the flowers so that even the lily of the valley cannot enchant with its tinkling.
Iris, in itself, is not very sweet anyway, doesn't powder here, and spares itself its carroty "cohabitation".
No moss, no fun. That could still be said in 1947, and generously incorporating oak moss. Moss? That’s the green, damp stuff that supports chypres and makes them what they are. To enhance it, vetiver flexes its muscles and adds another layer of green. Forget about musk, and I don’t even know why that or resinous styrax is in the pyramid? Cellier refined the base with sandalwood.
When "Vent Vert" was launched in 1947, "Ma Griffe" by Carven was also released. When I compare them, "Vent Vert" is almost softer and more light green than the rough, emerald green "Ma Griffe".
"Vent Vert" was meant to be free like a spring breeze, and it was.
Thanks to AnneSuse for the fragrance memory.

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DRKSHDW

1 year ago

2

1

Today I smell like Marlon Brando. His favorite perfume. Bitter citrus start. Soapy heart with lily of the valley. Vetiver galbanum base.

videecco

6 months ago

1

Testing the vintage and the current side to side. The vintage has a green galbanum bite that's more pronounced than the current edition.

Noturfave

9 months ago

10Scent 5Longevity 6Sillage

1

Bitter-green galbanum and tart, fresh lemon that opens up and blossoms into sweet rose and powdery muguet on my skin. Perfect contrast.

JonasP1

4 years ago

10Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

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Basking in bright green moss
Flying in the sky with citrus sprinkles
Delicate galbanum fields
Green gold flows in the wooden fountain
Summer stillness

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