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Elie Tahari 1993

6.7 / 10 87 Ratings

A perfume by Elie Tahari for women and men, released in 1993. The scent is green-powdery. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Green

Powdery

Woody

Spicy

Floral

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Violet

Fern

Geranium

Obstructed Tinfoil

Heart Notes

Frankincense Iris

Iris

White truffle

Base Notes

Hay

Labdanum

Gaiac wood

Perfumer

Bertrand Duchaufour

Ratings

Scent

6.787 Ratings

Longevity

6.561 Ratings

Sillage

5.348 Ratings

Bottle

6.451 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 06/26/2024.

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Reviews

12 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/26/2013

3Scent 7.5Longevity 10Sillage

Tar
261 Reviews

Tar

Very helpful Review 5

Real Hungarian Fragrance

I am really sorry for my terribly biased opinion, I know it is not normal, even here, where different opinions are so warmly welcomed. Everything depends on personal chemistry.

I had two preconceptions:
1. SIENNE L'HIVER comes from Eau d'Italie, so it will not be too loud or extreme, rather historical.
2. SIENNE L'HIVER comes from Bertrand Duchaufour, so it will change a lot, and I can not even imagine, what nonsense monster is closed in the vial.

1. false 2. true.
I made other people to check: does my skin really emit that odor, what I think it emits? And they confirmed. This is a totally gourmand fragrance, but on the worst way. Steps:
- salty red paprika (spice, not vegetable)
- paprika with seeds (the vegetable, not spice)
- paprika stew
- a small onion basic mood under the paprika (I was quite obstinate to not scrub it down)
- goulash (thinking about a new job as living restaurant advertiser)
- paprika + tomato stem.
I exposed other people to smelling this creepy gourmand fragrance, and they agreed with nearly the whole list. They were less and less enthusiastic to come near to me, so it must be the rough truth.

Please sample SIENNE L'HIVER before you buy. In the bottle it is so incredibly beautiful! Even my family members can wear it naturally as a deep and dark green, fern-centered fragrance, persistent and potent.

12/08/2012

7Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

Helpful Review 6

Redundancy and twilight are sometimes good things...

I feel as though I've smelled the opening of Eau d'Italie SIENNE L'HIVER many times before. Something about the slightly sweet, violet-scented finely powdered cedar? Yes, the opening moments of this composition smell very familiar indeed. It's cedar, not iso-E-super, so I'm happy to be in the presence of this scent, no matter how many times I've smelled it before. (Creed LOVE IN BLACK, anyone?)

Somehow I managed yet again to select for testing a creation by Bertrand Duchaufour. I am actually starting to wonder whether I might be a Duchaufour magnet. My hand seems naturally to reach for the Duchaufour hiding in any cache of samples! Fortunately, I like his work, so with rare exceptions, I have been happy with the new discoveries I have hit upon.

SIENNE L'HIVER joins the winners, in my book. After a few minutes, this creation begins to reveal its distinctness--this is not a clone or a knock-off or even an unintentional copy of anything else because the drydown is very different from the opening. Once the cedar and violet have faded, then more of a ferny quality emerges, making me begin to see what Rebella is referring to, below.

I love the opening, however redundant it may seem, but I also like the drydown, which is more of a savory grayish green than a sweet purplish cedar scent. It's as though the perfume has started out its day full of vim and verve and then winds down for a nap. Or perhaps a better comparison would be the short days which we are now experiencing in Boston, with the sun setting by 4pm. Brightness cedes to twilight over the course of a short period of time. For some this may be a source of seasonal affective disorder. For others, it could represent a felicitous extension of the night.

01/11/2012

6Scent 7.5Longevity

Rebella
16 Reviews

Rebella

6

Medieval and melancholy.

Some perfumes smells good and others smell bad. Some perfumes are bottled stories, fairy tale trips and travels through space and time. Sienne L'Hiver is one of those magic potions.

It leads me through a somewhat slow and wintery town, yes it could be Sienna, but also any other old town with sleepy old buildings and narrow alleys. Maybe I´m not -only- visiting Sienna in winter, but Sienna as it was hundred of years ago before cars and air poisoning factories... It is a strange creature. Murky and gloomy as the forgotten backyard of a closed grocery store. Damp and dark woods and resolving bricks. Yet with little streaks of something warm and foody, roasted, aromatic and not anything like the everyday food I use to eat. Some softer notes bringing a little sweetness to it, there must be a floral shop somewhere or do I sense the fragrance of a winter funeral from distant?

Yes, Sienne L'Hiver is on the verge to melancholia for me. No, I don´t "like" like it, it´s seldom I feel the need to smell like this. It´s more a state of mind then a scent to have in my usual "routine".

12/22/2017

6Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Smora
155 Reviews

Smora

Helpful Review 5

Sadness

Scentrack:
B.B. King - Thrill is Gone

Cloudy, sad Sunday in monotone Siena. Chilly day and cold unpleasant wind. No one's on the street, except a few passersby in the hurry to get to their warm homes. Everyone wants to be saved. This is the impression given me by this scent. No roasted chestnuts, no human warmth, no gluckwein. Just coldness and loneliness.
This scent started with violet leaf, some more green notes and geranium. Soon the cold heart gives me pale iris and powdery olibanum. There is some woodiness also, very similar to one observed in Bois d'Ombrie but much paler. Clearly Bertrand's olfactive signature.
Wearing this my skin is cold, my heart is cold. No reason to try this again.

Rating: 6/10

02/13/2015

LicoriceRain
57 Reviews

LicoriceRain

Helpful Review 5

Olives in powder, but not too girly.

Sienne l'Hiver opens with geranium leaf, violet petals, and fern, but I can only describe what my nose smells: Dry olives in powder. Ever since I smelled the drugstore body mist Olive and Aloe from Healing Gardens, I realized how much I love the smell of olives, although I hate the taste! The olive note is obvious, but not overpowering because it is softened by the powder (or the blend that smells like powder to my nose). I would like to say Sienne l'Hiver is a well-balanced fragrance, but that awesome olive note simply drowns in all that powder. I suspect Eau d’Italie tries too hard to be like Serge Lutens because their frags, the ones I have tried, all have that same powdery drydown. Overall, Sienne l'Hiver is unique, and definitely worth sampling.

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Statements

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Ergoproxy

7 years ago

8Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

14

4

A quirky powdery scent with a cool gray-green statement and a slightly bitter-woody base note. More of a serious fragrance. Nice!

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Parma

6 years ago

7Scent 6Longevity 7Sillage

10

4

Fresh-spicy floral scent. Lightly green, quite soapy, and subtly powdery. Has a hint of Chypre character. Elegant and somewhat retro.

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Taurus

7 years ago

7Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

8

Well composed & pleasant with violet + fern and soft powdery-moist-earthy nuances, yet close to the skin with shy incense.

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Unisexlover

5 years ago

9Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

4

3

Incredibly natural, captivating, and yet highly sophisticated. Unfortunately, the drydown is too masculine on this skin. People whose scent this is: PM

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