Miss Fenjal / Miss Fenjala (Crème de Parfum) by Fenjal

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Miss Fenjala (Crème de Parfum)a
Fenjal 1962

6.7 / 10 71 Ratings

A perfume by Fenjal for women, released in 1962. The scent is floral-powdery. It was last marketed by Doetsch Grether.
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Main accords

Floral

Powdery

Fresh

Sweet

Woody

Fragrance Notes

Patchouli

Cedar

Bergamot

Orange

Jasmine

Rose

Perfumer

Eduard Altenburger

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Ratings

Scent

6.771 Ratings

Longevity

6.555 Ratings

Sillage

4.953 Ratings

Bottle

4.856 Ratings

Submitted by Eternity · last update on 07/24/2025.

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Reviews

11 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/01/2015

6Scent 2.5Longevity 2.5Sillage

Gold
726 Reviews

Gold

1

Major tamperings with the original formula

"Fenjala" was one of the very first fragrances I ever owned as a teenager, because my grandmother used to give me beautiful gift-packs containing Fenjala soap, bath-oil and Eau de Cologne for birthdays and X-Mas. The scent of Fenjala wasn't too sweet, but gently cosmetic and beautifully composed with classical chypre-elements, jasmine, bergamot, rose, patchouli. It has an aura of elegant and timeless soapiness mixed with a certain woody-aromatic touch. I'm a bit sad to report that "Fenjala" has undergone some major tamperings and is now marketed as "Miss Fenjal". The original formula can still be felt in the background, but the depth and richness of the scent are gone. What you get today is no longer the small inexpensive masterpiece of 1960's-Swiss perfumery, but an average drugstore scent. At least it's no fruity-floral.

07/02/2014

5Scent 7.5Longevity 2.5Sillage

Magena
11 Reviews

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Magena

Top Review 21

Devote Unexcitedness

While I eagerly wait for my perfume samples (which a lovely perfumer sends me) and my own two BlindDate orders, I felt the need for a quick satisfaction of my - after a simply DIFFERENT scent - panting senses. I don’t know if you know the feeling when you need something NEW in your life right away. RIGHT NOW! (DHL, can you hear me? NOW!)

Please something that doesn’t brush past my nose every 100 meters, whether it’s grandma, aunt, or funeral feast, as long as it’s somehow DIFFERENT, a nice cheap thrill for in between.

Today, I sniffed around at Rossmann. Nope, just nothing there. Or wait, what’s this: Fenjal cream perfume tester.
Surely no one touches it, so let’s give it a sniff.

Oh yes ... Retro ... Bergamot always works for me. It always comes along on tour, no matter where it is at the moment. Here now residing in the scent journey of a bath session, turn on the tap and ... hmm.

Well, I like it, just the right scent for in between. Not for falling in love, nothing fruity-sweet, nothing sporty, because I simply can’t stand that anymore.
So this old-fashioned wallflower came just in time for me. Price-wise, it’s what I expected, as I’ve already spent quite a bit this month.

If I wanted to tear it apart, I would describe it as “smells like grandma from someone, 1970 in the hospital,” but I wasn’t in any hospital in 1970, just 2 years on earth, so I wonder where this association comes from. Maybe the midwife smelled something like this ...
But I don’t want to tear it apart, because I got exactly what I wanted:
wonderfully banal
an anti-statement
a "licky head"
neither noble nor bad
neither loud nor quiet
a meaningless, yet cozy bedtime scent
just out of the shower with damp hair and so what in flip-flops for a nightcap at the ** AllInc pool bar
in a bathrobe with a turban in the hotel bed watching an old black-and-white movie ...

A slightly bitter component actually smells really good when quiet, but loud would be too extreme Irish moss green-white soapy for me.

It simply says:
“Nothing is to be expected from me today (anymore), where is the TV I can huddle in front of” or “Feel free to overlook me, I’m not really here.”

It comes to my mind how I could describe it in one word: submissive!
And that’s what you should be, because you’re just my little filler! :)

04/19/2012

7Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Florblanca
1168 Reviews

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Florblanca

Helpful Review 23

When miss fenjal was not fenjal, but still fenjala!

It was around the end of the sixties and the beginning of the seventies when the fenjala cream bath hit the market. I loved pouring a generous amount into the bathtub and taking a nice hot bath. The bathtub did look like S.. afterwards, but I smelled divine! Only some time later was there also the fragrance available as Eau de Cologne in addition to the cream bath and soap.

fenjala was a wonderful, powdery, soft scent that wrapped you warmly and cozily in a pleasant, clean, and slightly sweet, yet absolutely unobtrusive cloud of fragrance.

I find it extremely difficult to describe the scent direction well. It was indeed a bit floral, but it was more gourmand, cozy, and homely, and yet it smelled clean without being soapy.

A few days ago, I managed to acquire an old fenjala bottle online, and all the memories suddenly came rushing back. Yes, I admit I am a fenjala fan and since I got the bottle, I can’t stop singing:

""It's been a long time since I almost knew everything
it's been a long time since I believed in anything
and then the shock of how different it all turned out
strangely how some hares run around
not resigned, just quite disillusioned
a little something I have understood

Whoever runs behind you when it works out
claps their shoulders if they don’t treat you well
calls themselves friends without a root
and simply ignores you day after day

It's been a long time since I stood clueless in front of the subject
and really couldn't take any more disappointment

I still remember how I just rummaged through it
when I didn’t know what to look for
due to all the searching I let my fingers miss out
and overall what I wanted to find

A head full of nothing, just a few instinctive tricks
it took a long time to see through it

That was the time when I hadn’t even had bad luck
not even that I wasn’t even satisfied
there stood John Steinbeck, Joseph Conrad
in between I was just relatively checkmated

A few years ago, but the memory isn’t hard
today it comes back as if it were yesterday

It's been a long time, a long time, a long time
it's been a long time, a long time, a long time..."

No, the memory isn’t hard, dear Wolfgang Niedecken. Neither of fenjala nor of BAP. That was the time...

03/15/2013

7Scent

Mickimicki
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Mickimicki

Very helpful Review 25

Bad in Memories

Fenjala bath oil, Mom's bathroom scent from the 70s. For Sundays. My mother naturally had a bottle in the bathroom as well. As an old-school feminist, she wore neither perfume nor makeup, and the bath oil was probably a gift, likely the "feminine" product in our bathroom. (In our house, we had 8x4/Nivea soap, Nivea, Nivea bubble bath, Schauma shampoo, some kind of deodorant stick, probably 8x4, Dad's aftershave, a bottle of cologne, and that was pretty much it in the bathroom. And otherwise gifts from people who didn’t know my mother very well, I would say, otherwise they would have bought chocolates or a book ;)

I hardly ever used the bath oil anyway, it was the "fine" thing. But I did sniff it. And the memory runs deep, because years later, I find that whenever I think of Shalimar, I first have to think of Fenjala. Fenjala, the Shalimar for little people. Recently, I spritzed myself with Shalimar again in a perfume shop, and as usual, I first thought, ah, Fenjala, and during my last visit to the drugstore, I also sniffed the Fenjal bath oil again. And this time I went for it! And I didn’t regret it. I definitely belong to those people who love scent memories, at least in certain moments.

Yesterday, I was feeling quite gloomy, downcast, all sorts of solvable and unsolvable problems wouldn’t leave my mind. A bath could help, but the various wellness bath products that have accumulated here only reminded me of my fairly newly ex-boyfriend, who was a fan of such things. Even sadder! Away with that stuff! Instead, I took a nice Fenjala bath, and it lifted and comforted me more than "soul comforter," "joy of life," and "happy time" combined. For me, it’s the olfactory equivalent of Mom's potato pancakes with vanilla ice cream!

07/27/2011

6Scent 10Longevity

Eternity
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Eternity

Top Review 14

Village Chic

This is the scent of the tidy housewife from Mustermannstraße in Mustermannshausen. Here, the beds are aired daily, visible to all neighbors, hung over the windowsills. At 7:30 AM, fresh rolls from the village baker are on the table along with butter, jam, and good German filter coffee. Cakes are baked on Sundays. There is not only a fixed daily routine, but there is even a weekly plan, a yearly plan, and a life plan. Everything is done as it should be. Conservative, simple, clean, tidy.
Miss Fenjal is not a fragrance for a modern, sophisticated woman. This scent does not seduce, poses no riddles, and does not make you dream. The fragrance is totally reality-pleasing, a scent with a lot of grounding. It scents without wanting to be a perfume.
The scent reminds one of sweet and floral talcum powder. Many mothers and their mothers from my childhood in a small suburb with a long-established village community smelled like this. The women were not made up, many had short hair, and they ran a perfect household. They did not stand out, as one resembled the other. A perfume per se would have attracted too much attention and emphasized the individuality in them, which would not have been particularly beneficial in the Catholic context of a small place.
Miss Fenjal is a care fragrance for the small wallet. The major downside is its artificiality, a lot of synthetics! If one does not know better scents, one may not be aware of this and might find pleasure in it. However, those who are already familiar with better care and cleanliness scents will find Miss Fenjal unbearable.
I initially liked it. I was surprised by the perfume spray for just under €7 from the spray can, as the longevity and intensity are enormous. By the way, the perfume gel is depicted above, but the spray variant is more widespread. It is definitely not a deodorant spray, as it is far too strong for that. But after the third use, the scent was already getting on my nerves. I feel outdated because of my associations. The synthetics become increasingly dominant in my own scent perception with repeated use.
However, it remains noteworthy that it is pleasant that there is a care fragrance matching the (original) Fenjal products. To this day, I am still waiting for a perfume from Nivea and am sure it would be a bestseller, but it will probably never exist, as the Nivea scent is meant to remain a well-guarded secret. So, Miss Fenjal remains a small consolation. A good care fragrance for women with no high expectations. A scent that makes one smell quickly clean and well-groomed. However, it all comes across in a very simple way - elegant smells different!

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Gandix

2 years ago

10Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

42

38

When patchouli dissolves into creamy veils
Flowers grow in nirvana
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TIA1971

9 years ago

10Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

9

3

The Saturday night-before-going-out cozy-bath scent! Always good for a lovely memory!

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Fabistinkt

5 years ago

8

2

Contrary to the pyramid, I smell woody vetiver, combined with a powdery-spicy darkness. The base is softly warm and slightly vanillic.

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Astraea

8 years ago

6.5Scent

7

3

It could have been so lovely...but no, that’s not how the bath additive smelled...similar yes, but it’s missing the best part...a special, creamy freshness.

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