Iris Bleu Gris by Maître Parfumeur et Gantier

See Prices

More

We may earn a commission when you buy from links on our site, including the eBay Partner Network and Amazon.

Iris Bleu Gris Maître Parfumeur et Gantier 1988

7.7 / 10 85 Ratings

A popular perfume by Maître Parfumeur et Gantier for women and men, released in 1988. The scent is green-floral. It is still in production.
Compare

More

We may earn a commission when you buy from links on our site, including the eBay Partner Network and Amazon.

Main accords

Green

Floral

Powdery

Spicy

Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bergamot

Green leaves Lemon

Lemon

Heart Notes

Orris absolute Jasmine

Jasmine

Vanilla

Base Notes

Musk

Tree moss

Vetiver

Perfumer

Jean Laporte

Ratings

Scent

7.785 Ratings

Longevity

7.673 Ratings

Sillage

6.771 Ratings

Bottle

7.659 Ratings

Value for money

7.312 Ratings

Submitted by DirkDS, last update on 11/17/2025.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/02/2013

8Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Sherapop
1240 Reviews

Sherapop

Helpful Review 5

Ideal for True Iris Lovers

Maître Parfumeur et Gantier is a natural-smelling, grounded iris perfume, which I consider to be fully unisex, despite its masculine classification. I was drawn to this creation by a variety of factors which conspired to impel me eventually to buy a bottle blind, going against my current policy.

First, I love iris, and having some familiarity with the house, I knew that I'd encounter the real deal in any perfume bearing that name. Second, the name itself is quite evocative to me. I love the connotations and associations of blue gray, and an iris thus tinged sounded irresistible. The final factor was jtd's review, basically confirming what I had suspected, that this composition would indeed feature iris in all its glory.

No buyer's remorse here, to say the least. This stuff is gorgeous. Is it masculine? No, not to me. It is not at all sweet, but it also lacks all of the usual suspect notes which mark masculine colognes. To me, IRIS BLEU GRIS toes the line between masculine and unisex, but it never crosses it. There are days when a scent like this is perfect for me. It has a green, almost vegetal quality, as though the iris has been cut and the stems are freshly wafting of the wet inside of an iris plant. There is also a lovely woody aspect to this fragrance, which reminds a lot of the Miller Harris woody perfumes. I'd say that the quality of the perfumes of Maître Parfumeur et Gantier and those of Miller Harris is very similar, especially as regards the dominant use of natural materials.

IRIS BLEU GRIS is only for iris lovers, but any true iris lover should not pass this contemplative beauty by. Vetiver shines through clearly in the drydown, but the iris is there, too.

12/21/2012

10Scent 10Longevity 7.5Sillage

MemoryOScent
37 Reviews

MemoryOScent

Helpful Review 5

Dirty green iris

n my iris quest I had to try what my favourite house had to offer. The masculine iris of Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier is Iris Bleu Gris. Being new to the game my first reaction to this was: “where is the iris?”. I was expecting something powdery, austere, sombre, much like the name implies. What I got was a humid, green, almost dirty scent that left me puzzled. Humid but not haunting. Green but not earthy. With a disturbing animalic note that reminded me of… sweat. Sweet sweat but still.. sweat.

Now that I have grown I can tell there is iris in this and lots of it for that matter. It is just that the notes that support iris in this potion are so much different from what one expects. First of all it is a green fragrance. Boldly, bitterly green. Have you ever crushed the stem of an iris between your fingers? Have you smelled the green juice that oozes from the stem? Well that’s the opening sequence of this scent. It goes hand in hand with a candied iris note, soft, pinkish and sweet and you can tell once you get past the shock of the green opening. But what lingers after the green opening has been tamed by the softness of the iris is the feeling of an organic smell. And I don’t mean that in the sense of “natural” but rather in the sense of something that lies rotting in nature.

The base has a lovely suede leather feeling. The most well known leather fragrance from the same line is Parfum d’ Habit and most certainly Iris Bleu Gris shares a lot of its base notes with this one. Not a tarry leather but rather a beautiful, soft aristocratic suede. The deep drydown is a soft, enveloping, soapy leather scent with traces of its vegetal origins.

Now, if any perfumista is given the keywords “iris, green, leather” the result they would come up faster than Google is: “Chanel No19”. So is Iris Bleu Gris a masculine version of Chanel No19? Is it similar? They certainly share the same box in the perfume systemic tree. No19 is a bit more bitter, more civilized, more composed. Iris Bleu Gris is happier, quirkier, naughtier. It is the only iris prominent scent that I have come across that doesn’t capitalize on the austerity of this note but treats it like what it really is: the smell of a macerated plant root. Needless to say that the name of this is totally misleading. Nothing blue or grey to this one. A more appropriate name would be Iris Vert Tanné (Green Leathery Iris).

Note: my impressions are from the current version. The vintage versions is surprisingly a little more powdery and hence conventional. This is one reformulation that had a happy ending.

07/15/2012

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Helpful Review 5

Green/grey iris root for a masculine. Bravo!

Great treatment of iris root. It's there at all times; in the green soapy topnotes; in the rootlike yet powery heart; in the dry double root base of iris and vetiver.

We tend to compare iris fragrances. The scent of iris root and the aromachemicals used to recreate it comprise such a particular yet complex set of notes that comparison is almost inevitable. Dior Homme, Chanel 19, Iris Silver Mist, Ferre by Gianfranco Ferre. Yup. The most directly comparable perfume, though is the wonderful and underestimated Bas de Soie from Serge Lutens. Iris Bleu Gris doesn't have Bas de Soie's metal cum hyacynth notes, but otherwise the heart and base, and the trajectories they follow are very close.

We speak as if Dior Homme created the first masculine iris. Jean Laporte thought to release an iris-centered fragrance in the mid 1980s and it's still with us 30 years later.

08/26/2024

9.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Mistersiri
7 Reviews

Mistersiri

1

Olympic Iris

I was in Paris for the Olympics and I wanted to buy a fragrance to Remember the amazing time I spent in the city. I was looking, of course, for a french niche house (I love french perfumery) that was more underrated compared to household names like Diptyque, Frederic Malle or Serge Lutens.
I know that Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier is a very respectable brand with lots of history, so I opted to go to their boutique near Place Vendome to see if I could get my hands onto something. It was a great choice, because I fell in love with Iris Bleu Gris.
I am a iris lover but I find most contemporary offer too much heavy and poudrée: Iris Bleu Gris is far from this, focusing instead of the more green and balsamic undertone of the flower.
The opening is leafy and citrusy, but soon an earthy iris enters the game and becomes the main player alongside musk: these are the two main notes I can smell in the drydown, alongside some hints of Jasmine and vetiver.
It's green, earthy and floral, but in a cloying way; I don't think it's necessarily a people pleaser but I found it addictive these past few weeks.
Decent performance on skin (around 8 hours) with moderate sillage, more masculine in my opinion; it is suitable in all seasons but I think that especially in spring It could be perfect.
One of my favorite fragrances I've ever tried, it could easily become my signature in the next few months: definitely a keeper.

06/17/2018

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Meggi
1018 Reviews

Translated · Show original

Meggi

Top Review 26

The Assignment Gets Blurred

This guy doesn’t make it easy. The opening smells downright like glue, possibly due to the leaf green of blackcurrant. Iris does flash up quickly, including a fleeting homage to carrots, but is soon overtaken by rough, warm scratching, alternatively mossy-green scraping, and struggles to resist.

It may be that the antagonist is a bit too hefty here, but such an iris requires a worthy counterpart. Bitter and sweet aspects wrestle endlessly. If an occasional thought of lipstick does flicker, it is, so to speak, a very muscular or masculine specimen. Alongside that, spotty glue ambitions keep surfacing for hours.

Within this mixture, an effect regarding iris emerges that I have experienced similarly in Bois d’Iris by TDC (not a twin!) and is most comparable to a sip of tap water after a swim in the sea. It tastes almost sweet, and today it feels that way too. The overly bitter iris in interplay with a latent carrot-like sweetness, which is olfactorily inseparable from the lipstick-powdery aspect and yet touches the unpleasant more than just lightly, demands quite a bit from the wearer. Or indeed from the wearer - the format required for this fragrance blurs any clear assignment in my opinion.

From noon onwards, I additionally smell a distinctly soapy note directly on the skin. Aromatic and rustic, in a robust, striking old-fashioned way. None of the mentioned ingredients can fully break this down for me.

In the course of the afternoon, calm returns via vanilla. However, the lady does not smother the fragrance, merely rounding off the corners gradually as a connecting element. Iris Bleu Gris certainly never denies its strong core, and all the colleagues involved so far remain on board until the evening. Nevertheless, this softening is now welcome; the journey has indeed been a bit exhausting.

Conclusion: It has character, edges, and corners. A test recommendation.

I thank Bartholomeo for the sample.

More reviews