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Field Notes From Paris Ineke 2009

7.2 / 10 139 Ratings

A perfume by Ineke for women and men, released in 2009. The scent is spicy-woody. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Sweet

Fresh

Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Coriander seed

Orange blossom

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Patchouli

Cedarwood

Tobacco

Tobacco flower

Base Notes

Beeswax

Tonka bean Vanilla

Vanilla

Leather

Perfumer

Ineke Rühland

Ratings

Scent

7.2139 Ratings

Longevity

7.4110 Ratings

Sillage

6.8107 Ratings

Bottle

7.3106 Ratings

Value for money

7.319 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 11/12/2025.

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Reviews

12 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/06/2022

Mlleghoul
461 Reviews

Mlleghoul

Helpful Review 2

Delightfully unclassifiable

Ineke’s Field Notes From Paris opens with a sort of bitter orange incense and powdery orange blossom vintage bubble bath vibe, with a rich, ambery tobacco note lurking underneath, and balanced with both earthy, herbal coriander and creamy, honeyed beeswax. It’s a fragrance that tickles the nose in a way that suggests spiciness, but maybe it just skirts the edge, I am not sure. I also wouldn’t quite lump it in with the gourmands. However you might categorize it, it’s nothing at all like what I expected, but it’s certainly got an incredibly unique appeal.

02/05/2012

6Scent

Sherapop
1240 Reviews

Sherapop

Helpful Review 3

Natural-Smelling Masculine Cologne

Ineke FIELD NOTES FROM PARIS is a rather masculine composition, with a lot of bergamot and coriander and a decidedly cologne-y feeling especially in the opening before becoming more woody in the drydown. This is a nicer one to my nose than some masculine colognes (including some of the others from this house), as it is natural smelling and appears to have some depth hiding within.

Looking at the notes indicated on the house's card, I must confess that I don't detect many of them at all—at least not consciously. There is nothing very sweet (vanilla) or oriental/chypric (patchouli) or leathery or tobacco-y about this composition to my nose. Those are all notes that I love, so I'd like to be able to say that they are present here, but I really cannot tease them out as individual components. I will say that this is a rare case of a decidedly masculine perfume that I might consider wearing now and then, if I somehow happened upon a bottle lying about my house. I do think that I might enjoy smelling FIELD NOTES FROM PARIS on somebody else. Excellent longevity and pretty big sillage.

Hmmm... I see that this has been designated as unisex? Now that's a surprise.

01/17/2012

3Scent

Pansylady
27 Reviews

Pansylady

Helpful Review 3

smoking or non-smoking?

You know how it is- Nobody hates the odor of cigarette smoke more than an ex-smoker does- and us ex-smokers will pick up the smell from a thousand paces-

And it seems that is what happened to me when I smelled Field Notes- the stale smell of tobacco smoke drowned out everything else-

I suppose if you like Serge Lutens' Chergui, you might like this one as well- but it's definitely not for me, because I kicked the habit!

10/28/2022

8.5Scent 9Longevity 5Sillage

LouBe
14 Reviews

LouBe

3

Something about this soft note

Thanks to the earlier reviewers for sharing their experience. I am not as skilled as they are, but here is my comment.
I really like this perfume. I don't find it especially masculine but I may be an unaware male wearer of masculine-leaning scents that thinks it's unisex :-)

I got a 8 ml decant from a subscription service and I really wish I could find a full bottle in Europe for a reasonable price.

The opening is very strong, but then there is this mellow, soft note that lingers for hours. I find it very calm and romantic. I pick this note also in The Dreamer Eau de Toilette, so I guess it's tobacco flower.

Now my 8 ml are nearly out. It's no more available in the subscription scheme.
I guess I have to find an other perfume with this enticing note.

01/31/2012

5Scent 5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Lola82
361 Reviews

Lola82

2

Springtime in Paris

Field Notes from Paris evokes an inner wistfulness
of late spring in May opens with zesty orange blossom
and crisp lemon slice steeps in the evening air, in a
minute it dries to a sweet scent of violet a symbol
of lost love and nostalgia and grass green and lush
from the gentile spring rain dries Elegantly in acute
melancholy. Coriander with it's spicy nuance opens the
middle note with grounded underpinning Patchouli is diluted and elusive which i can't detect either ceder
those two note are a hidden mystery, the Finishing drydown is sweet with Vanilla then dries with an resinous Benzoin then ends with a soft and milky texture or Heliotrope.

Like a Parisian Girl looking for her American G.I
lover during the Liberation of Paris of WWII and
finally Reunited under the Champs Élysées bridge
Field Notes brings the yearning of two lovers
together with just one spray Old love regenerates
into new.

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