Cabochard (1959) (Eau de Toilette) by Grès

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Cabochard Grès 1959 Eau de Toilette

Version from 1959

8.5 / 10 91 Ratings

A popular perfume by Grès for women, released in 1959. The scent is chypreartig-leathery. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Chypre

Leathery

Spicy

Floral

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Aldehydes

Sage

Spices

Tarragon

Asafoetida

Citrus fruits Fruits

Fruits

Heart Notes

Geranium

Orris root Jasmine

Jasmine

Rose

Ylang-ylang

Base Notes

Oakmoss

Leather

Musk

Vetiver

Amber

Patchouli

Sandalwood Tobacco

Tobacco

Coconut

Perfumer

Bernard Chant

Ratings

Scent

8.591 Ratings

Longevity

7.883 Ratings

Sillage

7.286 Ratings

Bottle

7.285 Ratings

Value for money

7.812 Ratings

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Variant of the fragrance concentration

This is a variant of the perfume Cabochard (1959) (Parfum) by Grès, which differs in concentration.

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Cabochard (1959) Parfum

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/02/2025

9Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

MrsGuerlain
664 Reviews

MrsGuerlain

2

T, T, T & T

Oh, this is tricky. This transforms. This travels. This treats.
I have the EdP from 1995 - review in the making. I have loved it from the very beginning. So white, so chalky dry, so lady-like. But this EdT from 1959 is also worth it all. It is amazing how it is possible for all the notes to come in play. This shifts way more than the EdP from 1995. With so much going on note wise it has to be quick, since the presentation will take some time.
First we have the aldehydes, citrus and sage. This is a fragrance in which I can actually catch this note! Not easy for me normally. Then the heart opens, which is very much about orris root and rose - really delightful. And then… the real magic happens. What an end to a magnificent journey! The mix of the base notes is just… out of this world.
I wish they would make this kind of perfume today.
Year 2, 141/365

04/17/2025

4.5Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

shengnu
94 Reviews

shengnu

1

If someone hid a nice leather boot in a keg of sour wine.

Opens with notes of rotten fruit, urine, and sour white wine. Aka: nothing new, I hate aldehydes. Then after far too long, it calms down into a decent something: a green herbal leather with a cooling effect. Maybe: Labdanum, birch tar, castoreum.
Dark, bitter, standard chypre base of oakmoss.
If only the opening weren't so long. I genuinely can't stand it, it makes me upset.

I prefer Bandit.

Updated on 05/05/2025

11/15/2020

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Serenissima
1247 Reviews

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Serenissima

Top Review 24

self-determined

"So she is called 'stubborn', this lady, whom my mother wore as one of the few fragrances in her later years.
Well, she surely didn't know that, being so inconspicuous and conforming:
This shows that opposites always attract each other.

I was maybe 13 or 14 years old when I found two small glass flacons, the size of my fingernail, in a box at my friend's house, which smelled very interesting even to my underdeveloped nose.
Today I know that it was this leather-floral note that gives "Cabochard" its personality.
Like girls often do (and we were just girls at that age), I swapped these two small flacons, and they lived for decades in my mother's jewelry box, where they developed into a unique fragrance world with leather and velvet, until they came to me and were allowed to pose for one of the perfume photos here.

I would describe this wonderful scent today as quirky and self-determined, as a mature woman. Not conforming and cuddly, but stubbornly holding on to what makes a personality:
"'Cabochard' always does what it wants!" was one of the first advertising slogans in 1959 when Madame Grès introduced this very different fragrance.
With this, she dared to challenge the dominance of the floral-aldehydic perfumes that were prevalent at the time.
Because actually, "Cabochard" is a leather-like Chypre.
At the beginning, spicy and strong notes dominate: southern fruits and herbs and other Mediterranean spices; I wouldn't exclude black pepper either.
I almost want to say that this top note could be a fine marinade for fish or meat; if it weren't for the lively, fluttering and jumping aldehydes with their extraordinary brightness.
A slightly resinous note (Galbanum?) builds the bridge to the very classic, floral heart note.
Rose geranium lifts its head a bit more robustly and herbaceous before the goddesses Rose and Jasmine, coming from Grasse, drop by and decide to make themselves comfortable and stay.
Ylang-Ylang is already there, often with a cheerful smile on the yellow flower faces; warmly embracing all who have gathered here.
This radiant floral splendor, resting on the bitter herbal mixture, is lightly dusted by orris root.
Cleverly done, as this allows the mysterious, warm notes of patchouli (Hello, darling!) and vetiver oil to sneak in.
They are joined by the bitter-scented beauties leather and tobacco, before the treasures of Venus sandalwood oil and musk contribute their flattering and seductive touch.
Round, warm, and enticing, this stubborn, quirky fragrance being becomes, but it cannot hide small thorns and edges. It probably doesn't want to!
Amber in its well-known golden beauty manages to smooth some of these fragrant barbs, covering them with a fine veil.
But "Cabochard" remains what its creators intended back then:
A somewhat unconventional personality that reveals itself only to those who fit into its prey pattern.
So "Cabochard" is probably a very personal fragrance.

That we do not harmonize is clear: "Cabochard" does not need a fish-floral, slightly cool woman as a "launching pad": warm and wild and a bit stubborn should be the self-assured woman who wears "Cabochard".
With the multitude of self-determined women in this era, "Cabochard" should actually hold a top position: it embodies so much of what personal freedom means.
Has this fragrance simply been forgotten?

Updated on 05/31/2024

11/19/2016

8.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

TIA1971
35 Reviews

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TIA1971

Top Review 22

The "little" stubborn one...

“Bang!”

The door to the drawing room is flung open loudly, only to be slammed shut again immediately.
Furious, the young lady of the manor storms into the room and throws her leather gloves onto the smoking table next to the armchair where her father sits. The cool gust of wind, a hint of leather that escapes from the gloves just like from the freshly polished riding boots, and the rough scent of her only daughter’s other clothing mix with the pleasantly warm atmosphere of the heated room.

The lord of the manor looks at his daughter with raised eyebrows, then shortly after with a mild smile. How tempestuous she can be, only to then be as meek as a lamb.

“Well, well,” he speaks soothingly to her, “what’s got you so worked up?” He already knows she won’t say anything and will just breathe deeply for a while, until she hardly remembers why she was so upset.

The scent of leather “fades” just as quickly as the anger of the young landlady.

She sits down with a “Oh Dad…” like a stubborn little child next to him and slowly calms down. He notices the scent of her riding clothes as she leans against him, mixed with a hint of her floral favorite perfume, which she carefully dabs on every morning as a reminder of her mother…

They sit like this for a while, and upon his renewed inquiry about what has happened and why she is so upset, she gives the usual quiet response: “Oh, actually nothing, it’s fine…”

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The EdT from Cabochard is in no way inferior to its “brother,” the EdP, when it comes to the refined and well-composed scent. Only the longevity and sillage might suggest that it is an EdT, if one knows both. The “strong” presence of leather accords at the beginning calms down very quickly and makes way for the really well-arranged and very balanced floral bouquet, without completely disappearing into the background. All the other listed fragrance notes blend harmoniously into the overall scent concept without being pushy or loud, rounding off the entire experience.

A very wearable fragrance, a Chypre, but not a “colorful” Chypre, like those known from the 70s or 80s, but “black-and-white” and yet without being immediately outdated. In my opinion, this scent could also be appreciated by younger ladies precisely because it is so different - as a contrast or alternative to the artificial sweetness that usually flows from mainstream perfumeries today.

Like so many beautiful scents from “the past,” it is now very affordably available and should therefore - if curiosity has been piqued - definitely be tested ;-D - lest this wonderful fragrance also disappears into oblivion due to lack of attention, like so many before it, which would be truly a shame.

12/28/2016

9.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Minigolf
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Top Review 12

The Whisper of Oaks and Birches

Trees as far as the eye can see. Occasionally a clearing, overgrown with wild roses, geraniums, and-- in damper spots---with irises, blue and violet.
A gentle wind carries sounds to me. The rustling of leaves from huge old oaks, which are covered with moss at their "feet," and from whose branches long tendrils of oak moss hang.
Birches cast their delicate shadows and the silvery leaves shimmer.
I have just settled down in the grass and can smell a wonderful fragrance.
It is spicy and floral, mossy and leathery.
The trees and their surroundings are its source. (Birches have a special sap within them, and when this is "cooked," the result smells leathery-tarry.)
A fairy-tale forest aroma, when sunbeams hit the bark and moss after it has rained.
And "Cabochard eau de Toilette" is such a scent. A herb-floral, "leathery"-mossy legendary beauty.
Dark, mysterious, and somewhat "edgy"
It does what it wants and does not always listen to others.
It is its own mistress, the mistress of its forest. Morgaine of Avalon??
Not "tame," but sometimes quite stubborn, and it whispers in a secret language, that of the wind, with the birches, oaks, grasses, and flowers.

It always remains true to itself, yet is adaptable. Anyone who encounters it even briefly would recognize it again and again.

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