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L'Inspiratrice Divine 2006

7.7 / 10 180 Ratings

A popular perfume by Divine for women, released in 2006. The scent is floral-spicy. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Floral

Spicy

Sweet

Oriental

Powdery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Freesia

Calabrian bergamot

Comorian ylang-ylang

Heart Notes

Anatolian rose Peony

Peony

Base Notes

Indonesian patchouli

White musk

Haitian vetiver

Tonka bean Vanilla

Vanilla

Perfumer

Richard Ibanez

Ratings

Scent

7.7180 Ratings

Longevity

7.7137 Ratings

Sillage

6.7128 Ratings

Bottle

6.9109 Ratings

Value for money

6.316 Ratings

Submitted by Apicius, last update on 07/30/2024.

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Reviews

13 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/11/2013

8Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Dalmajen
50 Reviews

Dalmajen

Helpful Review 7

The Perfect Match!

Having tried all my Divine samples, this is the one that made my eyes widen, and I just can't get enough of this fabulous fragrance! What a beautiful Rose! One of those dewy, perfectly formed, and original English Garden type rose. And the Patchouli! It's soft, but rich, and these two together..what a perfect match! I have tried several Rose/patchouli fragrances, and it always seems that either note is trying to outdo each other. But not this blend...they are complimenting each other throughout the whole journey! The opening is just like a grand entrance of the two notes, walking hand in hand through the heart, greeting the other notes with a wave and a smile. The white musk is playing his part well, and I get the occasional whiff of the bergamot and peony. The dry down is so well tuned with the whole fragrance. Even the vetiver blends in beautifully...unlike L'Etre Aime..which in my review of that fragrance defined the vetiver as putting the fragrance of balance. I am very impressed with this perfume, and I will purchase a FB of this! The notes blend so well together, and the Rose, and Patchouli are indeed..a perfect match!

10/14/2015

10Scent 10Sillage

Dulcemio
35 Reviews

Dulcemio

Cheerful, elegant, full-bodied ROSE oriental!

For anyone who loves rose in general and orientals in general, I think this is a must-sample.

My sample is long ago used up, but I can still smell it in my mind.

02/08/2012

7Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Sherapop
1240 Reviews

Sherapop

Amberesque Floriental

Divine L'INSPIRATRICE is a rich, smooth, and viscous oriental perfume whose primary appeal to me lies in the drydown, at the culmination of a journey through a couple of oriental twists and turns, beginning with a rather boozy opening stage. There are a lot of rose-patchouli perfumes to choose from these days, and those notes number among the components of L'INSPIRATRICE, but to my nose, this is much more of an amber-esque oriental than either a rose or a sweet patchouli composition.

After a rather boozy opening, this perfume eventually arrives at a gorgeously golden, slightly sweet amberish drydown with a touch of patchouli. As is generally the case with hefty orientals, this one has both fairly big sillage and excellent longevity. I find the opening of L'INSPIRATRICE slightly less inspiring, though it's certainly not bad, but the drydown if not quite divine, is certainly very nice.

12/30/2011

7Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Florblanca
1168 Reviews

Florblanca

A rose: inspirational or conspirative?

L'Inspiratrice is the first Divine fragrance that I get to know, thanks to Igraines generous filling. Thank you again!

This floral fragrance is different from many others of that type, but also diffrent from what I would have expected. An explicit fragrance pyramid is not named here, nevertheless, I think it has one!

The prelude of the first minutes is lavishly fruity, fresh and flowery. It has a richness that is astonishing. It has the fruitiness of red berries that are not mentioned above but nevertheless dominate the head note. The passage to the heart note is the bergamot with its citric green, slightly bitter fruitiness.

From the heart note onwards blossoms dominate the development, and most of all, the rose. It is a dark and noble strong-scented rose in its full splendour. It is accompnied by Ylang-Ylang which brings in a sweet softness. Not too much, so the fragrance does not drift away into the gourmand style, but just as much as to bear the beauty of the rose. The fragrance keeps this accord for a really long time.

It is not a fragrance for nice and neat little females. It is a fragrance for „La Donna“, for a vamp, for the woman in itself. I love it.

The sillage is perfect because the fragrance cloaks its wearer in luxuriant garments. The longevity is tremendous and consoderably prolongs the enjoyment of the base notes.

Slowly, the sweetness of the base note becomes less, the fragrance gets softer and more round, with a few green notes twinkling in between. It is simply the perfect fragrance for me and I' sure it will become part of my collection one day.

(Translation: Apicius & Florblanca)

11/30/2021

10Scent 10Longevity 7.5Sillage

Medusa00
843 Reviews

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Medusa00

Top Review 23

Today Maleficent arrives!

Yes, it's about Sleeping Beauty, because here we have the most beautiful rose scent I have ever had under my nose. I have always been skeptical about rose fragrances. On one hand, it was because my aunt used to bombard me with her Bulgarian rose oil, in which she seemed to bathe, or because of Uncle Särsche's killer roses. That made me a bit shy of roses.
But oh yes, here we have Sleeping Beauty. The beautiful baby that was born to the royal couple and for whose baptism they wanted to invite 12 fairies. However, since they only had eleven plates, no invitation was sent to Fairy No. 12. She was so furious about it that she stormed into the hall, cursing, and condemned Sleeping Beauty to prick her finger on a spindle at 16 and die. She later softened it and turned it into an eternal sleep until a prince would come and kiss her awake.
Well, she grew up, climbed into a tower out of curiosity, and met an old spinning woman (the fairy) at the top, pricked her finger, fell down, passed out, and took everyone in the castle with her. Then a thorn hedge grew, climbing roses, up the castle, and after 100 years, a handsome prince arrived. He got the creeps when he saw the many skeletons hanging in the thorns. Remnants of failed kiss attempts. He climbed up anyway, and what do you think he found there? The beautiful, rosy Sleeping Beauty? After 100 years? There lay a dried-up old box of 116 years, and he certainly did not kiss her. Even Botox wouldn't have helped her. The Brothers Grimm just made that up to make little girls believe that if they go to bed beautifully and nicely, they will wake up beautifully again. Some wait until they are 16, others until they are 86 for the prince.

No, it was quite different. There were only 3 flower fairies who provided Sleeping Beauty with beauty, wisdom, and charm, and because the dark fairy Maleficent had been deceived and lied to by Sleeping Beauty's father, she placed the same curse on Sleeping Beauty. See above. However, the girl did not live in the castle but was raised by the flower fairies in a little house in a clearing in the woods. And now we have the crux of the matter. The fairies wore little hats made of ylang-ylang, freesias, and citrus blossoms. They prevented the little rose from becoming too rosy. The girl grew up very connected to nature. She played in the woods and on the heath. She hopped with rabbits over vetiver-green meadows, picked peonies, and kissed the velvety mouth of the musk creature. She also sometimes plopped into a puddle, and when she smelled a bit muddy and mushy like patchouli, there was always trouble with the 3 flower ladies. They worked all day in the kitchen baking vanilla and tonka cookies. Since the 3 did their job very poorly, Maleficent watched over Sleeping Beauty, whom she secretly loved like her own child. There was also a prince, but he was just a buddy who happened to be running around in the woods. The girl stomped into the castle the day before her 16th birthday, pricked herself on the spindle...... Her father started a huge ruckus against Maleficent. (Watch the grand film with Angelina Jolie!)
And do you know who ultimately kissed Sleeping Beauty awake with the true love's real kiss?
IT WAS NOT THE PRINCE.

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Statements

19 short views on the fragrance

Renata

4 years ago

8.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Peony, a hint of ylang-ylang, vanilla, and tonka bean surrounded by dry, powdery-fluffy patchouli. Elegant, harmonious scent.

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SchatzSucher

5 years ago

9Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

A beautiful rendezvous of velvety dark red rose and patchouli with fine spicy notes. Hardly sweet despite the tonka and vanilla.

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Gold

1 year ago

8.5Scent 10Longevity 8Sillage

Very distinctive, spicy-patchouli rose with vetiver. Intense and different. No sweetness, but very long-lasting and striking. Floral épicé.

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Parma

5 years ago

7.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Sweet floral, gentle, powdery-spicy patchouli with a hint of clove. Very elegant, flattering vanilla-tonka-musk base. Subtle. Classic.

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Yatagan

7 years ago

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Winterrose: Patchouli and a dark red rose come together to create a rather dark floral that never feels overwhelming: exciting!

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Rieke2021

2 years ago

8Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Elegant, dark patchouli/rose scent. A velvety red sofa in front of the fireplace. The little black dress lies in front. Candles flicker. Warm + sensual.

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