N°. VII - Petits Papiers Nobile / Petits Papiers by Mad et Len

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N°. VII - Petits Papiers Nobile
Petits Papiers
Mad et Len 2011

7.8 / 10 30 Ratings

A popular perfume by Mad et Len for women and men, released in 2011. The scent is woody-smoky. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody

Smoky

Spicy

Sweet

Resinous

Fragrance Notes

Benzoin

Copaiba balsam

Gaiac wood

Patchouli

Ratings

Scent

7.830 Ratings

Longevity

7.826 Ratings

Sillage

7.327 Ratings

Bottle

6.826 Ratings

Submitted by Apicius, last update on 05/21/2023.

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What the fragrance is similar to

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Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/20/2020

8Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

PBullFriend
310 Reviews

PBullFriend

1

woody vanilla with a twist

This starts with a gentle vanilla and dry smoked wood (the copaiva?) but immediately turns to take on a sweet cereal grain note that reminded me of Parfumerie Generale’s Une Crime Exotique. (UCE, while beautiful, grew to smell sweeter and sweeter to me, until I couldn’t wear it any more. Mercifully, Petits Papiers is less sweet.) At 6 hours, it is back to a soft woody vanilla, a real comfort scent. It’s a good choice for those of us who like our comfort scents unsugared.

05/30/2017

5.5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Ergreifend
529 Reviews

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Ergreifend

Very helpful Review 8

Writing History

The name and the bottle immediately brought to mind ancient scripts and stories.
The scent wants to show me that it is timeless and distant, yet it whispers beautiful stories in my ear. I really like this simplicity, and with black, I can certainly not say no.

However, the fragrance disappoints me. I expected a very demanding, smoky scent. But what came out was a flop and absolutely unusable for my skin and my feelings.

Petits Papiers Nobile, let's call it PPN for short, descends upon me like a sea of plastic. It gives me an artificial impression - as if the sun were beating down on empty plastic bottles and everything around is pressing down on it. Unpleasant! On top of that, a very bright, almost pale wood note sneaks in, slightly overshadowed by patchouli. A mixture that is simply not successful here. It has a subtly balsamic edge, somewhat flat and smoky at the base. The heart beats indecisively - no spark ignites here, and I feel bored.

Over time, it becomes a bit sweeter, and benzoin spits a little fire into the mix. That’s about it. What remains is just a bit of light wood, this strange scent of artificiality, and a bit of patch. Everything is very light and by no means dark. The smoke is completely disappointing here. Nothing feels dense. Nothing deep and unpredictable. It is a flat smoke that lingers at the bottom and occupies no one and nothing.

Longevity is not bad, sillage is the same. But still, it is not a masterpiece for such a scent coming from such an exciting house.

PPN wanted to write history with its first impression.
With all that is written on it, with all that it visually presents.

What has come out is rather a burning papyrus sheet where nothing is written!