Le Messager 2023

Le Messager by Courrèges
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7.3 / 10 41 Ratings
A perfume by Courrèges for women and men, released in 2023. The scent is sweet-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Sweet
Spicy
Leathery
Synthetic
Powdery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
BergamotBergamot
Heart Notes Heart Notes
InkInk
Base Notes Base Notes
White muskWhite musk VanillaVanilla

Perfumer

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Scent
7.341 Ratings
Longevity
7.434 Ratings
Sillage
6.832 Ratings
Bottle
7.338 Ratings
Value for money
7.521 Ratings
Submitted by Annecy81, last update on 05/06/2025.

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Design disaster with fascinating content
Well! Not exactly a bottle for the display case! The bottles of this house are nothing less than creative impertinence. What are they supposed to be? Figures from some dull seventies board game?! After all, as a miniature, at least this dark blue bottle is reminiscent of an inkwell and, shall I say something, ink is d r i n . That's not just where it's listed! Nope, nope!

Regardless of the fact that I hadn't googled the ingredients for a long time, regardless of the fact that I didn't even think of "inkwell" by association when I saw the blue bottle (but only thought, 'Oh, what a ugly bottle'), I immediately (!) smelled the first ink in the store.
The 'first' ink?! Yes! - The crazy thing about this stuff is that you get to know ink from several sides, that there is actually a real gradient in it: first classic ink, then sweet ink, and finally - creamy ink. It's amazing! What it can do.

Really, that was new to me. That ink can also be sweet, or even creamy...! What, now. Sounds disgusting! But not at all. The Messager is portable, beautiful and entertaining. The best thing: you can't just smell the ink..... It is the perfume. - The fact that she takes the said course is like, say, a rapper or a writer getting the lead role in a movie, and then doing the stunts herself, and, what do I know - - juggling too?!

It just occurred to me. Actually, I hate juggling. Anyway, I mean, hey. Give me that. Ink that manages to take a fall...XD !
As I said, it first becomes sweet, then creamy, never forgets what it is - - and what it is doesn't interfere with the fragrance experience at all.

On the contrary, Th Messager is a wonderful perfume in every phase. At the same time, a journey through time, surfing along the red thread of life: Trying out fresh writing skills with the calligraphy set, with a real wooden pen and nibs of different widths ... depending on how you wield the nib, the line becomes broad or narrow, the uncle shows you how. Then it's time to enter the fascinating institution of school, where you can even see and smell blue, green and red ink. And to taste. The villains bite open cartridges, make nonsense of them, blue mouths, green tongues. Blotting sheets, refill mishaps, colorful fingers - spill accidents, stains on the wooden tables ... n o c h from ink, Eddings we didn't have until sooo much later.

We enthusiastically collected the wonderfully differently colored cartridge sealing beads, these, um, d i n g s that are pressed into the cartridge when it is activated to give the ink free rein. Just the thought of it still awakens a hunting fever and collecting mania in me, but the euphoria about it has unfortunately subsided in today's SuS XD

It's unpleasant to think that they'll just be thrown away this year. Maybe I should go back to... ? What are they actually made of? Glass? Yes, yes. Sooo fascinating. In my environment it was customary to keep empty cartridges like sheep - every now and then one was slaughtered and the pellets and the cut-off "heads" kept separately. Wealth, abundance, outdoing each other with possessions, whoever writes a lot can slaughter many cartridges... In general, the pride of having your first own fountain pen (it was from Geha, in black and yellow)...!
In the meantime, I see the same pride in those who are children TODAY, every time they get their first fountain pen: "XYZ XYZ, look m a a a l! I've got a pen!!!" - "XYZXYZ, can we write with the fountain pen?"
Ink, yes. Such an important commodity!
As a nasal creature, I found the typical smell highly interesting even in my own childhood days, and certainly thought at one time or another that it had perfume potential: Yes, I think that's exactly how we imagined the year 2000 - - you spray yourself with ink scent, and have a car that talks to you.

The name of this very harmonious year-round fragrance, which I find to be a complete success, refers less to the substance than to the words written with it: each one becomes the messenger of our thoughts, insights, pamphlets, theories, drafts and shopping lists that scurry out into the world, and the letters are its organs. Or something like that ^^! Anyway! If you don't smell ink in The Messager, you should smell ink in the first place so as not to miss out on the amazing effect.

...Yup, so far so good. I'll say more about the durability soon, and the sillage is definitely good; I'm bursting with excitement to see what the environment has to say.
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Wanted, found
My fragrance collection is actually quite summery and citrusy, a little green, sometimes tart. I like classic colognes and anything that conveys a dignified freshness. Lyn Harris seems to appeal to me, rugged cliffs in Portugal with a view of the sea, clear air.

Finding a fragrance for the colder months of the year has therefore proved to be a bit of an undertaking. Companions who ultimately had to move on included Dior Homme Intense (2011), almost classic, but somehow too tiring for me in the end, Vanagloria, love at first sight, but only for a few months and Iris Malikhân. The latter was quite similar to Dior, a little less rough, but after a while almost as tiring due to its syrupy persistence.

I also need air to breathe at some point. Subtlety is more important to me in perfumes than mega longevity and sillage. Especially as I wouldn't necessarily describe sprayed-on lips with bold make-up and huge eyelashes as timelessly beautiful or aesthetic.

As the majority of common winter fragrances are too strong for me, my enjoyment of fragrances has been severely stunted recently, apart from a few splashes of Neroli to remind me of warmer days. Until I came across this fragrance in a small perfumery in a small town. At first, a leather accord that is completely unisex and neither particularly pithy nor overly creamy. And it fades quite quickly, which I think is a good thing, because otherwise it would probably get on my nerves. Instead, a pleasantly restrained vanilla emerges more and more, which is not as sweet as some others. Everything is framed by a citrusy veil that is reminiscent of Opsis in its silkiness.

For me, this is an ideal winter fragrance. Warming, never too sweet, with a longevity that lasts throughout the day, becomes very skin-deep at the end and never overwhelms me or others. The combination of leather and vanilla with bergamot does not create an inky accord for me, but it is an interesting twist that rounds off the perfume and ends my search for the time being. Until a new winter fragrance introduces itself to me.
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A few metal shavings in the rum barrel
This is the first perfume with the fragrance ink that I have tested and must say I am pleasantly surprised. Could not quite imagine how that probably smells in a perfume water, but I imagined it in any case "difficult" and did not think that something like that appeals to me. But it does. At least in this fragrance. I wouldn't have recognized ink as such if I hadn't read it. To me it smells kind of woody and a tiny bit metallic, which doesn't bother me. Also, the scent has a pleasant light sweetness to it. An interesting scent for my nose, since I had never smelled similar before. Actually, the fragrance remains after 10min as it is then, only that it becomes a little softer later. That makes certainly the musk, which comes here quite "fragrance-neutral" therefore. Le Messager has for me also boozy vibes, so in the direction of Pirates` Grand Reserve by Atkinson, only that the latter smells much more spiritual and sweet. I can not say much more about the EdP. I find the fragrance to be medium strong. It is quite simple, but has something unusual and attractive about it. Yes, I like it.
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CeesieCeesie 5 months ago
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Smoky floral creamy goodness.
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