Pichola by Neela Vermeire Créations
Bottle Design:
Pierre Dinand
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7.4 / 10 60 Ratings
A perfume by Neela Vermeire Créations for women and men, released in 2015. The scent is floral-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral
Spicy
Sweet
Woody
Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
MagnoliaMagnolia CinnamonCinnamon ClementineClementine NeroliNeroli CardamomCardamom JuniperJuniper SaffronSaffron BergamotBergamot
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Jasmine sambacJasmine sambac Tuberose absoluteTuberose absolute Rose absoluteRose absolute Orange blossom absoluteOrange blossom absolute Ylang-ylangYlang-ylang
Base Notes Base Notes
SandalwoodSandalwood Benzoin absoluteBenzoin absolute Haitian vetiverHaitian vetiver DriftwoodDriftwood

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.460 Ratings
Longevity
7.041 Ratings
Sillage
6.640 Ratings
Bottle
8.040 Ratings
Value for money
6.110 Ratings
Submitted by Kirthi, last update on 05/10/2025.

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2 in-depth fragrance descriptions
Tinctureall

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The princess might dance or she might not
'Dance', said the fairy maids, let us amuse the princess. So they danced for her, carrying gifts of citrus fruits, and armfuls of orange blossoms. The softness of their tiny feet and the billowing orangeflower petals all enveloping, and surrounding the princesses ornate embroidered bed, with it's sumptuous hanging folds of embroidered gold brocade, almost patchouli-like infused fabrics and tassels.

The corpulent tuberose princess just lay there idly with a large smile. 'No', said she. 'I'm resting'.

One by one, these little maids did their best to amuse her. They danced and swirled around the huge soft floral tuberose princess. Each one taking their turn to whirl their own scent around her. The linalool type wafts of clean and light airy scents trailed in complete contrast around the heady, soft, enveloping floral, real tuberose absolute centre, like little rays of bright swirling light.

'Go away', she said. 'I'm eating some turkish delight'. Proof of such emerged, the slightly sweet light rose type mixed with cardamom. The scent trails wafting gently through the saffron impregnated curtains.

The maids each tugged playfully at her heavy languishing body until she at last relented. Her huge floral presence emerged from the bed and danced lazily for a small while, enveloping all their more gentle sparkling natures. But she was huge, and she got tired easily. 'That's enough' she snapped. 'I'm going back to bed to sleep now, so please leave me'.

The light floral maids disobeyed at first, and sat disconsolately around the bed, but after a while, each smiled. and left gently and quietly, one by one. The curtains stayed still, and the wood of the bed became more apparent. The still warm, sweet, floral air lingered until, all too soon, the evening night came and there wasn't another peep. No-one came back, so the sweet scent gently faded away rather fast.

A very pretty, soft floral with an indian influence of saffron robes and sweet, heavy type woody sandalwood, with a vetiver or patchouli style base. Just as it seems heavy, it is also strangely light. I'm not fond of tuberose but it has a light hand here and doesn't go towards wet vase water at all.

The strangest part of this scent is that although it seems very well blended, there is a place in the centre where all the notes seem separate as if they were all sitting next to each other instead of mixed with each other. Most curious an effect, but I would wear this again. Nice, classic soft floral start, if a little short lived.
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CoViD Comments, Fourteenth Piece: Cheesecake.
This is my second attempt at approaching the brand of Neela Vermeire (I have already written something about the brand in my comment on "Niral"). Here, too, my impression continues that while I don't find this indiscreet Duchaufour series bad, I also won't really get along with it (and not just because of the terrible bottles, the overpriced price of over 200 euros for 60 ml, and the low longevity).

According to my pre-test notes made before looking at the fragrance pyramid, Pichola opens for me with a vanilla-gourmand scent, very bright and somewhat sharp. Once the initial chaos settles a bit, I envision an exceptionally delicious cheesecake baked not only with biodynamic ingredients but also with vanilla sugar from Lidl and a really rich, thick, extra-strong lemon aroma oil from the bottle of Dr. Oetker.

After about thirty minutes, floral and eventually slightly bitter notes (perhaps the somewhat silly "driftwood" indicated in the fragrance pyramid) join this sweet-citrusy and always somewhat exaggeratedly synthetic gourmand scent, and it continues like this in this not overly strong but somehow full radiance of floral, citrusy, and cheesecake-sweet notes (garnished with colorful driftwood shavings) until after about three hours there's little left and after five hours (despite two and a half sprays on the same spot) there's nothing going on anymore.

The scent is undoubtedly more feminine, and Frau von Spee found it pleasant enough to consume the remaining sample from her small collection, so it didn't make it into my giveaway sample box.

Similar to the scent, I give the name seven points; perhaps it would be more if I were more familiar with the references. The names of the series are all somehow Indian, and Pichola is not a small bottle of sparkling wine but a rather famous lake in India, where one can probably enjoy cheesecake very well while looking at the driftwood floating in the lake.

Over the thin thematic bridge of cheesecake, I arrive, feeling a bit like J.P. Hebel, at my lockdown suggestion of the day, in case your apartment is now completely cleaned and tidied up and the photos from the last 40 years have been viewed and sorted.

We still have exactly 54 cookbooks after we have already dissolved all loose-leaf collections and some books. Maybe you have a bit fewer, depending on your age and the gift preferences of your friends, but I bet most of you have at least fifteen. We now do it this way: we always tackle one to three cookbooks, specifically starting with those we intuitively (or because we have already cooked a few recipes from them that were not great) don't like as much. Then we make ourselves comfortable and go through this little selection of books recipe by recipe, which can be quite amusing. And we agree on which recipes are even worth considering and which get the stamp "dumb." Usually, only about ten recipes remain per cookbook that we agree we want to try again in this life. These ten then get a mark and are cooked one by one, which is somehow win-win since restaurant evenings are currently out of the question and due to the cancellation of many appointments and routines, more free time is lingering around than usual. In the end, from the 100 recipes in the book and the 10 on the shortlist, perhaps only 3 remain that have really proven to be delicious. And exactly these three go into a "best-of collection" (folder or digital), and the entire remaining cookbook goes into recycling (if there are sauce stains on it) or (after Corona) to Oxfam (if clean). And a lot of free space is created on the bookshelf. Only exclusively here on Parfumo, not mentioned by Marie Kondo!

And now I'm going to buy the ingredients for the next round. Stay healthy!
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Floats around magnolia, jasmin sambac and tuberose. Tiny bits of tangerine fruit. Floriental with good quality/clarity but common profile
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Mix Poison and 4711 and you get this Upper Class cologne at a hefty price. Nothing special...
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10 years ago
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Take Poison EDT (1985) and bring it - modernized and refreshed - to the year 2015. If you like Poison, you must definitely try Pichola.
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Morning mist over Lake Pichola in Udaipur - transience, coolness, spices, overripe fruit, and mountains of trash. Typical India. Longing!
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Reportedly her new fragrance will be introduced at the upcoming Esxence: "Niral | Neela Vermeire Créations", again Duchaufour. :)See

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