Eden Cacharel 1994

Bottle Design Annegret Beier

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6.9 / 10 448 Ratings

A perfume by Cacharel for women, released in 1994. The scent is floral-green. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Green

Fruity

Fresh

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Mandarin orange

Lemon

Peach

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Tuberose

Lotus

Mimosa

Jasmine

Lily of the valley

Melon

Orange blossom

Pineapple

Water lily

Rose

Base Notes

Common elder

Patchouli

Sandalwood

Cedar

Tonka bean

Perfumer

Jean Guichard

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Ratings

Scent

6.9448 Ratings

Longevity

8.5341 Ratings

Sillage

8.1333 Ratings

Bottle

6.5339 Ratings

Value for money

8.187 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 22.04.2024.

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16 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/28/2020

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Calypso
8 Reviews

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Calypso

Top Review 29

More Tarzan Jane than Adam's Eve or: The other side of paradise....

This is not a lovely scent of paradise that describes a delicate landscape where you can walk carefree and smell innocent flowers.

No, Eden is rather the other side of paradise, a mysterious jungle full of tropical climbing plants, poisonous perennials with psychedelically colorful flowers and carnivorous plants that attract the visitor with their beguiling scent and then never let them out of their spell.

At first Eden appears harmless, citric, almost playful and lures you olfactorically into the depths of the green. There you suddenly find yourself surrounded by heavy, tuberose notes that will not let you go. Every now and then the orange blossom flashes like a will-o'-the-wisp between the trees, but whoever tries to follow it quickly loses himself in the patchouli abysses of the jungle.

For me, a surprising new discovery on the bottom shelf of the drugstore today (even if it has been around for ages), a fragrance like a tropical revelation in the dreary November frost.
A nice change to all the standard designer fragrances that are currently flooding the market!

And who doesn't need a little jungle feeling every now and then?

01/03/2020

8
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Eukalyptia
15 Reviews

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Eukalyptia

Top Review 19

Polarizing Green Hulk

I liked Eden from the beginning. The really only Cacharel I like for me. Granted, he is something special. You can recognize him immediately, there's nothing like him.
He doesn't look that green to me. Rather powdery, warm and spicy.
One of my favorites, if only for its endurance and sillage. Scarves and shawls still smell in the cupboard after months of use. Anyone who is flirting with such "scent gozillas" and can handle them should definitely give the "Great Green" a chance. I wouldn't want to miss him any more.

12/27/2018

6
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Minigolf
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Minigolf

Top Review 17

Greenhouse fantasies

Somewhere in a secluded part of the country a woman Professor Liane Buchsbaum experiments with the most diverse plants. And she owns some greenhouses for this purpose.
Her endeavor is to cross plants with each other to create never-before-seen botanically almost impossible specimens that also smell!
And rarely has anyone got to see them. So many, however, already smelled.
What she grows there in her greenhouses, is already very daring.
There are pineapple oranges on thick-branched bushes, whose bark smells of patchouli. Likewise, a cedar can be admired, which carries lily of the valley flowers between the needle tufts.
Special attention should be paid to the pond that houses lotus plants, which at the same time grow floating watermelons.
There is the jasmine bush as a "double bloomer" with rose blossoms over the whole year yet nothing against it.
Or the sandalwood bush with elderberry fruits.....
And Mrs. Professor researches still further... at sweet grasses with Tonkafrüchten or tuberoses with citrus fragrance....
Because her imagination knows no bounds.
At the culmination of her research studies, she has released a fragrance, the quintessence of her work:
A perfume of her hothouse fantasies:EDEN.......
Addendum: Now I got hold of a vintage returner, which comes along much more coherent than it was the newer version. The "nose focus" here is clearly on the green scents, rather tart than sweet. No "neon green", rather a rich melange of all sorts of green tones from "May green" to "fir green", from grass green to juniper green. And tart ivy foliage appears as well as long tendrils of lianas and giant leaves of philodendron! Flowers well recognizable, but less sweet than the "new"!

11/04/2021

9
Pricing 7
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 9.5
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Mamile
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Mamile

Very helpful Review 15

He has it in him

This fragrance has undoubtedly triggered contradictory feelings in me and showed me once again how important it is in a perfume not to judge the scent on the paper strip.

A few weeks ago I sprayed the fragrance on a paper strip in the perfumery, I was seduced by the low price and the box alone.
The first sniff blew me away. I was totally grossed out by the compost, licorice smell and wondered when I got home and read through the different posts here.

Throughout the evening I kept smelling the paper strip and smelled nothing but licorice. The licorice smell got duller but the scent didn't change at all.
I had associations with a cemetery compost and my bio bin.

Two days ago I was again in the perfumery and sprayed it on my hand. I was concerned because I still had to go to work afterwards.

At first I perceived only lemon! Fresh citrus giving off a full scent in the afternoon sun. Then immediately licorice and something floral. As if a bouquet of many flowers completely takes over a small room.

After a while, the scent kept wavering between citrus, licorice, citrus and licorice as if it couldn't make up its mind. I haven't experienced anything like this before. The licorice holds back, but is subliminally always there.

The bouquet comes back, the lemons disappear and there it is, the wood that is as if rasped and finely interwoven with the flowers.
I am thrilled!

The durability is enormous, a spray is completely enough.

This scent is one of the best I've tried in a long time and I'm happy to have it as part of my collection. It is definitely not a pleasing fragrance but I like me with it!

10/05/2012

2.5
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 10
Longevity 9
Scent

LadyRogue
166 Reviews

LadyRogue

Top Review 11

A Classic That Needs Your Attention. Now!

I used and loved Eden in the 90s, but like most people you move on and explore other scents, sometimes new beauties become favourites, sometimes you return to an old love, the latter has happened to me yet again. Today I sampled Cacharel's Eden for the first time in almost two decades, initially I wanted to remind my nose what it exactly smelled like again.

Oh my! The magic of Eden struck me all over again! After spraying it on my wrist it became clear to me why I loved this beauty so much in the 90s. It's like walking into a love-grotto of sumptuous and intoxicating notes that bombarded me from a single spray on my wrist. Mimosa, tuberose, lily, patchouli, jasmine, cedar, tonka bean and I could swear some kind of magical moss and herbs that are not listed (perhaps they're secret magical ingredients made by wood nymphs?) and a deep forest ivy are somewhere in there too! Hmmm!

It's a magical, strong, unusual and seductive smell and I wouldn't be surprised if the Lempicka House got inspired by Eden for their range of otherworldly scents. For Eden is just that: otherworldly! Needless to say I had simply no choice but to pick up the biggest bottle I could find. It wasn't me, it was magic! ; )

Silage is: "magical beauty is all around you" -- Longevity is (as one would expect from a child of the 90s) a wonderful 9+ hours.
If you have never sniffed this one do yourself a favour and experience this beauty! Even if it's just once, it's a magical classic that should be owned and/or known by every Perfumista. Enjoy!

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