Désarmant La Parfumerie Moderne 2013

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7.7 / 10 40 Ratings

A popular perfume by La Parfumerie Moderne for women and men, released in 2013. The scent is floral-green. It is still in production.

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Green

Powdery

Spicy

Fresh

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Lilac Coppice

Moss

Nectar

Perfumer

Marc-Antoine Corticchiato

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Scent

7.740 Ratings

Longevity

7.332 Ratings

Sillage

6.632 Ratings

Bottle

7.233 Ratings

Submitted by Apicius, last update on 14.04.2024.

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3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/30/2021

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Susan
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Susan

Top Review 17

Lilac experience number 2

After I had a few days ago with OSE (Simone Cosac) my first lilac scent under the nose, now follows herewith the number 2.....

And lo and behold: it goes also differently...!

While in the OSE the lilac hits very authentically but just also nuclear weapon-like, it is in DÉSARMANT very filigree and fine.......restrained and charming.....but still completely authentic......

It does not pounce loudly on the wearer in a raspy manner, but rather delicately exudes its wonderful fragrance into the surrounding landscape, merging with its aromas to create something entirely its own.....

The landscape mentioned above is primarily green.....partly mossy and damp, then again reminiscent of a meadow dried by the sun on which isolated bushes exhale the scent of their warm wood .....

Now, as the fragrance unfolds in all its fullness on my skin, I also understand what is meant by "nectar".......it is the sweet scent that springs from the stigma and stamens of a flower......the part where busy little bees gather the ingredients for their honey......

Therefore, despite the lilac, I don't necessarily perceive DÉSARMANT as a thoroughly "floral" fragrance......it's a scent reminiscent of an early summer countryside.....with everything that grows and thrives in it.....

The fragrance name says it all here: DÉSARMANT is indeed "disarmingly" beautiful......

05/06/2021

Intersport
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Intersport

À la nuit, désarmant!

Désarmant - a great name as already the previous speaker commented; they have definitely out at La Parfumerie Moderne (except for Cuir X, sounds at leather like already heard x times).

Back story: from a couple of years ago we moved from latitude 55° 57' to latitude 32° 40'. From Scottish climate to subtropical. Not the first move to other countries, but the first to such a strikingly different climate. Any perception of perfume has been properly recalibrated. High humidity always brings new facets to light even in the most familiar, the climate has realigned my ranking, collection, flacon family lineup. Apart from that, of course, many shifts in day-to-day smelling, and that brings me back to Désarmant.

While lilac was still the plant that kept running into me in many other places (you don't like to see lilac blossoms for all the foliage, but smell them long before that: you're in a lilac cloud but the source is still invisible), now it's jasmine, which likes to fill entire garden hedges and smells massive and diffuse to itself, especially at night when the temperature is lower. No lilacs grow here, and I make do with two perfumes in my collection: the technical as well as wonderfully holographic En Passant, and Désarmant, which is lusher, dirtier and also more scrubby. A lilac, sporadically with wilted inflorescences, and lots of hide-boring green stuff.

Certainly indebted to this personal replacement of lilac by jasmine, I see Désarmant in close proximity to Lutens' À la nuit. Everything that frames or surrounds lilac or jasmine, respectively, coincides almost entirely in my perception. Nectar here, honey there, cinnamon here, spices there, scrub here, green notes there, etc., benzoin is shared. Some of Corticchiato's works are readily associated with Lutens, perhaps because of the respective references to Morocco, but certainly because of the idiosyncratic handwriting in each case, in some releases I too can interpret overlapping traces, but differentiated in detail, which are profoundly different in all interpretation, and precisely for that reason so fascinating.

Désarmant is a very unique lilac that I like to wear now and then, sparingly dosed - the accessory does it for me. Désarmant oscillates between a product with roots in times of the first edition of 'The modern perfumery' and current botanical framing. Only the lid, I must complain again: much too heavy and sits like a threatening ballast on the bottle - not at all modern.

02/26/2020

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FvSpee
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FvSpee

Top Review 33

Charmingly disarming

I hesitate if I want to smell this scent on a lady (because it is a pure lady scent, hold by grace), but in any case I think it is great that this scent was invented. It's a lot of fun to test it: that much is absolutely certain.

It starts with the name. Again, I'm not sure if this one really fits to the scent, but at least it's a great teaser to make you curious. "Désarmant", disarming, which makes you think of a "disarming smile" or a "disarming openness", but maybe also of disarmament, désarmement, that's a very somehow very funny, short, but also incredibly rooty title for a perfume. Why hasn't a Dufthaus been on it yet? That disarms, so the name is probably not bad.

As for the scent itself, I find it to be the most brutally green possible. "Undergrowth" and "Moss" are already very good, but I would add "Meadow", "Pasture", "Alluvial area", "Mats" and "Grassland". There are both dry aspects of today, as well as really fat wet meadows with thick flowers inside and buzzing insects above ("horny" meadows, so to speak, the word was formerly used a lot in the sense of agricultural fertility, before it was then at some point only about the one and the term then to the common phrase verbanalized, but I come off ...) represented.

And in addition, despite the purple (lilac = English lilac, French lilas) and not green broth playing the second fiddle, lilac, in my opinion. An awesome, disarmingly honest, cracking lilac. To be honest, the first time I smelled it I only thought "totally funny old-fashioned feminine heavy flowery note" and more like hyacinth. I'm just not an analysis champ. But lilac and hyacinth are in more or less the same league: powerful floral scents that were still signature scents in grandmother's time, but which are now considered somewhat old-fashioned, especially when they are used on a massive scale.

Otherwise I really don't smell much, a few aldehydes and/or other chemical stuff maybe. Nectar? Whatever they mean by that, it's more of a joke. Nectar in the sense of the EU regulations on fruit juice and lemonade is probably not addressed.

Like the name: You have to think about that (especially today): To build a fragrance of massive greenery and almost as massive lilac. Ingeniously simple.

The trick that the creators have succeeded in doing is to keep "Désarmant" light and loose, almost transparent; it is a rather distinctive fragrance, but it only shows the idea of "heavy", "sultry", "opulent" and "suffocating" rather than really embodying it. He thus remains sympathetically suspended between light and heavy, and incidentally also between very, very old-fashioned (lilac!) and very, very modern (La Parfumerie Moderne).

Charm goblet and kissing hand for sweetening my day with this fragrance by Marc-Antoine, and if after reading it you have the impression that it could also be practically wearable and not just a mischievously mischievous scent experiment in between, then test it! I find him so sympathetic that I would definitely grant him porters.

Désarmant La Parfumerie Moderne 2013

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