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Desiderium Hiddenfolk 1999

7.3 / 10 197 Ratings

A perfume by Hiddenfolk for women, released in 1999. The scent is fruity-floral. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Fruity

Floral

Fresh

Sweet

Synthetic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lily of the valley

Pink pepper Rhubarb

Rhubarb

Logarithmic Drywall

Heart Notes

Patchouli

Rose

Base Notes

Raspberry

Amber

Hydraulic Eraser

Perfumer

Michel Almairac

Ratings

Scent

7.3197 Ratings

Longevity

7.8160 Ratings

Sillage

6.6126 Ratings

Bottle

6.5141 Ratings

Value for money

5.836 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 09/21/2025.

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24 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/21/2012

8Scent 5Longevity

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

Helpful Review 4

Fills the Deci-Dela Discontinuation Void

Speaking of raspberries, there are a couple of very good fruity chypres with raspberry at their center. One is the now-discontinued Nina Ricci DECI DELA, which is a fruity chypre in the style of Guerlain MITSOUKO but with a strange and somewhat forbidding opening, which probably explains why it was discontinued. The drydown, for those with the patience to wait, is a completely gorgeous textured modern chypre.

Happily, Bond no 9 has produced three perfumes in this general style, with important distinctions, but still capturing the same texture which I love so much in fruity chypres such as (unreformulated) MITSOUKO, Rochas FEMME, and DECI DELA. The three Bond perfumes are: LEXINGTON AVENUE, CHINATOWN, and BRYANT PARK.

Lots of people seem to love CHINATOWN, which is more oriental in character and packs a load of peach blossom along with its spice bundle (with cardamom prominent, to my nose). Lots of people seem to loathe LEXINGTON AVENUE, for reasons which continue to elude me, given the manifest similarities between it and CHINATOWN, above all the patchouli and cardamom. I have not heard too much talk about BRYANT PARK, which offers the same contemporary fruity chypre structure but with far less orientalia and far more fruit, in particular: raspberry.

This is a very fruity perfume, but the fruit does not smell artificial and sickening as it does in many designer fruity-florals and even in some of the tsunami of fruit-choulis. In BRYANT PARK, the raspberries are half way between jam and fresh, but they are not too sweet and definitely not dripping with sugar syrup. The rhubarb may be helping to moderate the sugar content somewhat. The raspberries here are, however, still sweeter than the raspberries of DECI DELA, so that's a bit of a caveat: it's not a guarantee that you'll like BRYANT PARK if you like DECI DELA, but there is a good chance that you will, it seems to me.

In a side-by-side comparison of BRYANT PARK and DECI DELA, I find that the openings are quite different with a big blast of raspberry in the former and an almost plasticky strangeness in the latter case. DECI DELA passes through a manifestly MITSOUKO-like stage which BRYANT PARK does not, but the two begin to converge toward the drydown, with the same fruity chypre texture in each. I love both of these perfumes, which really means something given that raspberry is quite far from being one of my favorite notes.

Based on the negative reviews which I seen of BRYANT PARK, this composition may play out differently on different wearers and to different noses--I mean more than the usual. Therefore, I definitely advise that even someone who loves/loved DECI DELA try before they buy BRYANT PARK.

To my nose, this is a high-quality raspberry-rhubarb-rose-chypre perfume. Yum.

01/31/2013

5Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

Missk
1357 Reviews

Missk

Helpful Review 3

Not my favourite Bond

Bond No.9's Bryant Park is a fragrance I am neither impressed with nor repulsed by. To my nose, it falls into a fruity floral category rather than a floral chypre, and for that reason, seeing that fruity scents aren't really my thing, I'm left feeling rather under-whelmed.

The scent opened rather sweet and fruity on my skin, which I found both irritating and somewhat fascinating at the same time. The raspberries smell slightly candied, and I seem to detect a green melon note peeking through in the top notes. I usually enjoy rhubarb in fragrances, however I felt as if the note helped unbalance the overall blend. The initial stages of Bryant Park left me feeling a tad disappointed.

The pink rose in the heart, although present, is not what I consider the 'perfect rose accord'. The sweet fruits tend to overshadow the florals on my skin, making this fragrance smell slightly juvenile instead of mature like I hoped it would be. Perhaps the pink, glitzy bottle could act as a pre-warning for those searching for some depth.

Unfortunately I find Bryant Park synthetic and unoriginal. I hate to say that because it has so many fans, some of which are people whose tastes I greatly admire. I think for the price, it's really not worth it, even if the bottle is adorable.

The longevity is another downside to this fragrance, lasting a measly two hours on my skin. I was really shocked to discover that this was the result of an expensive EDP. Even more disappointing for me was its tame patchouli accord and lack of complexity. It's a thumbs down from me I'm afraid.

01/20/2021

10Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

First
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...Bring it back, bring it back, don't take it away from me, because you don't know, what it means to me... (Queen)

The older you get, the more past you automatically accumulate. That may sound trivial, and often the past is indeed trivial, but since it is your own past, it still touches you. Some fragrances remind you of moments and phases of life. Depending on which events and life phases they are, the fragrance then has good or less good chances with us.
I received Bryant Park from KingLui in the niche swap game. I bid on it blindly, even though I wasn't at all sure that I would like it. After all, among the Bonds, there are wonderful ones for me as well as abominable ones.
This one was a hit. It seems to me that the expression is still too weak: In Bryant Park, my past, my life so far, condenses. I am tempted to say: Bryant Park - that IS me.
When I took the first spray, it shot through my mind: I know this! I even had it once! I had it for a longer time! And then I thought for days about which fragrance Bryant Park reminded me of, because I definitely knew I had never owned this fragrance. Nevertheless, it still felt as if I had worn it regularly before.

Just yesterday, when I suddenly realized that it reminded me of Tom Ford's White Patchouli, the Aha moments came like a series of toppling dominoes: Bryant Park is a fragrance condensation of my past from puberty to today, and each domino is a remembered scene.

Starting with the first domino: Patchouli. The patchouli in my nose is exactly the patchouli from White Patchouli by Tom Ford. I really have this fragrance, but not for very long. What fascinates me about this patchouli is that it is at the heavenly end of the earthiness scale: Blindingly bright. I know blindingly bright patchouli from other fragrances I have, like Outrageously Vibrant, and I love it there too, but nowhere is it as bright and simultaneously natural as in Tom Ford and now Bryant Park. So I associate many memories from the recent past with this bright patchouli, as I have only recently discovered the Tom Ford with the perfect patchouli. I know patchouli, a bit earthier, but also since puberty. So many dominoes...

In another of my comments, the one on Rosa Nectar by Dua Fragrances, I had already described the tea shop in Hamburg by J. Bryant Park also reminds me of this shop and its atmosphere, as well as Rosa Nectar. The notes of the two fragrances are very similar: Patchouli, raspberry, rose, and amber they have in common. I had written about the soft, natural, and lush rose used in rose teas in my tea shop comment. And it is just as it is in Bryant Park: It reminds me of all the different occasions when I bought and drank this tea with my first serious boyfriend, of our later shared apartment, of our student days. I still buy this tea, now in another shop, to this day. I am still friends with this boyfriend, even though we now each have different partners.
What beautiful memories!

In the Rosa Nectar comment, I wrote that the musk, which reminded me of my Wild-Love-Nerval oil from back then, ultimately became too much for me because it was too overwhelming and overpowering. The same note of Wild-Love musk can also be found in Bryant Park, but much more subtle. Here it is obviously hidden under "amber." In hindsight, Wild-Love musk was my first signature scent. The memories go back to school days, classrooms, break halls, schoolmates, long breaks, forbidden leaving of the school grounds to go to the ice cream parlor....

Raspberry. I must say that what is meant here as raspberry does not appear as raspberry in my nose. I also know this from some other fragrances. Fortunately, I perceive the fragrance material used here as naturally fruity and not as sharply artificial as I have smelled elsewhere. The bright and slightly tart fruit note gives the fragrance a slight edge, which is really necessary so that it does not become too pleasing and perhaps boring - for others. In my nose, my condensed past with its rattling dominoes is of course never boring.
The raspberry takes on the role that jasmine plays in Tom Ford's White Patchouli: the wake-up call. I must say that the raspberry in Bryant Park accomplishes this much more gently than the jasmine in White Patchouli. It is roughly the difference between an alarm clock with a beeping sound and an alarm clock with a favorite song.

The whole is known to be more than the sum of its parts, and so I would like to add another note here, probably created by the lily of the valley: soap.
I love soap. Of course, I have known soap my whole life. In Bryant Park, it is mild and pleasantly scented. I like to be freshly washed and then layer J.'s tea shop with rose tea, blindingly bright patchouli, a few edgy, non-raspberry-like raspberries, and a hint of Wild Love.
That is me. Just as I am. Just as I have always been.

The last domino: Bryant Park. I once went to New York on a student exchange. I remember Central Park. Was I also in Bryant Park back then? I don't know. It was all a lot back then, and I don't remember every name of the places I visited. And already more dominoes fall... I imagine I would have been there....

I will keep Bryant Park. I even did something I almost never do: I ordered a bunker bottle.

"Love of my life, don't leave me...."

08/03/2019

8.5Scent 9Longevity 7Sillage

Pollita
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Unexpected Love

When I just got the info that there’s a new post about this fragrance, I thought, why not give it a try right away :)

I would have never tested Bryant Park. There are notes in it that generally do not appeal to me at all. Lily of the valley? No! Pepper? No! Rose? Usually doesn’t work for me either. But whatever. The fragrance was in a swap package as a sample, and I thought, since it’s already here, I might as well test it. I was not only positively surprised but actually blown away that I like a fragrance with these notes so incredibly much. I find it rounded, delicate, and beautiful from start to finish. It is light but still has a decent presence. I’ve even been asked what smells so pleasant here. Sure, the price is steep, but I liked the little Bond so much back then that I didn’t care and went for it. Today, I wouldn’t want to miss it in my collection. Bryant Park works for any occasion. Whether in business or private, morning or evening, and I think it’s a fragrance that fits perfectly for vacation. That’s why I love taking it on holiday again and again :)

05/14/2011

8Scent 7.5Longevity

Medusa00
620 Reviews

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Greetings to Lolita...

.... and many thanks for the sample ;-) After your note on the card, I thought something terribly shocking awaited me. Something like "The devil hunts atheists." So I cautiously applied Bryant Park, extended my right arm out to 2.50 m, and held it out the window. Then I carefully pulled my arm back in and brought it millimeter by millimeter to my nose. IMMEDIATELY, I made a time leap back to the 1960s when I was still a child and spent my holidays at my grandparents' house in the countryside (the same place where we live now). I saw myself in my grandma's kitchen during her canning marathons and how she never managed to cook rhubarb so that it wouldn't turn into a fibrous mush. I don't want to say that Bryant smells like fibrous rhubarb mush, because the start is relatively pleasant and the expected shock didn't happen. It's rhubarb with a lot of sugar and a few lily of the valley. You can't eat rhubarb any other way, otherwise your teeth will become dull.
Back in grandma's kitchen. Where everything that grew in the ground, on the ground, on bushes or trees, or was not on the tree by 3 was canned. There were wafts of sugary fruit scents that wafted through the house every year starting in May. These wafts also envelop me in Bryant Park.
I don't get dull teeth from it; I actually quite like it. The devil doesn't hunt atheists either; he doesn't know any.
Bryant Park is definitely grandma's rhubarb-raspberry jam. With a lot of sugar, without flavor enhancers or preservatives. I just opened a jar of it...

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