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Garrigue Maître Parfumeur et Gantier 1988

6.9 / 10 43 Ratings

A perfume by Maître Parfumeur et Gantier for women and men, released in 1988. The scent is spicy-fresh. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Fresh

Green

Citrus

Woody

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Top Notes

Bergamot

Juniper

Lemon

Heart Notes

Lavender

Sage

Rosemary

Base Notes

Musk

Sandalwood

Perfumer

Jean Laporte

Ratings

Scent

6.943 Ratings

Longevity

6.637 Ratings

Sillage

6.234 Ratings

Bottle

7.238 Ratings

Submitted by DirkDS, last update on 09/09/2025.

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3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/23/2014

5
Bottle 5
Sillage 5
Longevity 6
Scent

Miaw2
339 Reviews

Miaw2

1

Niche or designer?

Garrigue is synonymous of the approach of Jean-Paul Millet Lage to the designer world.

It is the closest of the designers that MPG house could reach.

As a consequence, we have an excellent scent, which probably pleases all tastes.

Striking with a citrus herbal tones, especially juniper and sage.

In the drydown a base slightly woody with tones of musk.

I feel a great resemblance to the Green Irish Tweed, launched three years earlier.

However, Garrigue differs from the GIT because its more complex, more herbal and darker.

Excellent fragrance but a bit disappointing when it comes to MPG.

06/03/2025

5
Pricing 8
Bottle 5
Sillage 4
Longevity 8.5
Scent

KawaRider94
6 Reviews

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KawaRider94

1

From refreshing Mediterranean herbs and lemons to the whispering echo of...

Garrigue is a beautiful fragrance, please don't get me wrong. Unfortunately, however, it has major weaknesses. More on that later. First the positive part.

In the center of Rome, in a small perfumery, I was allowed to try out various "fresh" fragrances. The advice was excellent and not too intrusive, as is so often the case in niche perfumeries. Almost everything was represented, from Aventus to Xerjoff. Then this perfume was recommended to me. Highly praised and beautifully presented, the fragrance was sprayed onto a test strip. I wish I had done the test once on my skin and taken my time afterwards...

The fresh and natural radiance of the fragrance is immediately convincing, without having to think about the consequences. The combination of green herbs, delicate citrus notes and light woody accents
reflect the Mediterranean flair of the Garrigue region very well. This becomes even clearer when sprayed onto the skin. It reveals a light, almost airy freshness that makes you forget for a moment that you are in the here and now and not on vacation
Now for the big "BUT".
As charming as the olfactory idea is, the technical implementation of the fragrance leaves a lot to be desired. The durability is extremely weak. After just two hours, there is hardly anything left of the fragrance. The sillage is also rather restrained. The fragrance is hardly noticed by the environment and remains very close to the skin. You would have to overspray the fragrance to leave the desired impression. However, it is also questionable whether this will have the desired effect. Furthermore, it is simply too expensive for this. For such an expensive fragrance, in my opinion, the H/S should actually be above average. Unfortunately, this is not the case and you only enjoy the fragrance for a short time.

Conclusion:
Garrigue is an exciting fragrance with a great basic idea, but it loses its impact with its subterranean and weak projection. If you are looking for a fresh, Mediterranean fragrance for short moments, you will definitely enjoy it. However, if you are expecting a long-lasting fragrance performance, you will be disappointed by this fragrance. You would have to carry the bottle with you all the time and spray it every few hours. And that, in my opinion, is not what you want from a €240 perfume.

Too bad, but you learn from your mistakes.

06/13/2018

7
Sillage 7
Longevity 8
Scent

FvSpee
249 Reviews

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FvSpee

Top Review 13

Urban bushland

The previous reviews of this perfume didn't exactly cry out to get me to test it. Yatagan, Ergoproxy, Mefunx, and, in the replicas, Kovex find the elixir arbitrary, "ok", unsuccessful, mainstream, short, boring. Apicius, in his somewhat older commentary, denies the boredom and mainstream only because of a swimming pool chloride and suede note that has been added over time. Hmmmm.... But now a sample of this fragrance has come to me by a friendly and generous Mitparfumo, I will hardly be able to throw it away untested
First I try to approach the fragrance by its name. At first I only remember the long-time (1918-1935) Czechoslovak President Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (a.k.a. TGM) as "Garrigue", but although he was a cool guy, the perfume will hardly be named after him. Strictly speaking, his name was only Tomas Masaryk, the middle name was inserted as a kind of stage name after the family name of his American wife Charlotte Garrigue.

An internet research on the term garrigue not only teaches me (Parfumo bildet) that Charlotte had Huguenot and thus French ancestors, but also that garrigue is originally the proper name of the southern part of the French Karst Mountains of the Cevennes. Derived from this and much more widespread is the meaning of the word garrigue (also in the spelling with an R) for a certain kind of Mediterranean landscape and vegetation formation, as it is found among others in Corsica and Sardinia, namely for a rather barren and flat, herbaceous, thorny and shaggy, very resistant flora on hilly Mediterranean heathlands due to deforestation, karstification, sunshine, bush fires and intensive (sheep) grazing. Thyme, rosemary, sage and lavender are typical plants.

If the landscape has even lusher and greener bushes and not only occasional tree growth, if it is not quite as barren and degenerate as the garrigue, it is called macchia; a term that I already knew differently from garrigue.

MPG's Absud, in order to reward the readers who have fought their way through the dense and thorny undergrowth of education to this point, is now slowly getting to the scent impressions, but for me it doesn't have much to do with the expectations the name arouses in me, even though some of the typical garrigue herbs are present in the scent pyramid
With a fragrance of this name I expect a warm, even hot, dense and intense, sometimes sweetish and very robust, lively and swarming fragrance with an animal touch. If you walk through the garrigue, you might step into sheep shit every now and then, rummage through loudly buzzing swarms of mosquitoes, almost stunned by the intense smell of herbs, but perhaps also by resins or rotting wild fruits or decaying bird carcasses. Such a heath landscape is not an aseptic event. An excellent matching fragrance for me is "Valeria" by Harry Lehmann, who only has in common with this MPG that I like him well and that I think he is underrated on Parfumo.

Garrigue by MPG is neither loud and intense nor dirty, not at all naturalistic. I encounter it as a clean, artfully smoothed, supple, clearly urban elaborate. I perceive a distinctly beautiful lavender powderiness, which has nothing herbaceous or anything else close to nature, but is refined (also in the literal sense of "denatured, processed"), in addition to clearly synthetic-aquatic and green herbaceous (not herbaceous) notes. Together with the citric notes, which I do not perceive as dominating, but which are certainly present, the whole thing gives me a very uniform, compact, as already mentioned, smooth, yes, elegant, light-blue impression of scent: Friendly and balanced, clear, clear and radiant, no great scent, but still a very beautiful one.

Garrigue is an olfactory that doesn't let me run into the next perfumery in a trance, but that really appeals to me. The scent is certainly not unheard-of (or unbroken), but it is special enough not to be regarded (by me in any case) as ordinary, but as noble and full of character.

The Sillage is moderate, the durability seems at first of medium quality. However, when the aroma seems to have long since died out in the evening, Garrigue shows with sweaty physical activity that its beautiful scent has survived the day like a tenacious heather plant and once again does not release such scarce reserves.

Garrigue Maître Parfumeur et Gantier 1988

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