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Collection Black

Still Life Olfactive Studio 2011

7.3 / 10 358 Ratings

A perfume by Olfactive Studio for women and men, released in 2011. The scent is citrusy-fresh. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Citrus

Fresh

Spicy

Fruity

Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Yuzu

Pink pepper

Sichuan pepper

Black pepper

Elemi resin

Heart Notes

Galbanum

Star anise

Base Notes

Ambrox

Cedarwood

Rum

Perfumers

Dora Baghriche-Arnaud, DSM-Firmenich

Ratings

Scent

7.3358 Ratings

Longevity

6.3255 Ratings

Sillage

5.7253 Ratings

Bottle

7.3224 Ratings

Value for money

6.554 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 08/09/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Collection Black collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Cactus Garden

Still Life in Rio

Knowledge

Navegar

Almost Transparent Blue

Citrus Batikanga

Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/19/2013

7.5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 7
Scent

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

Helpful Review 5

Bright and Inviting Green Citrus

Olfactive Studio STILL LIFE opens white and bright and as a matter of fact LUMIERE BLANCHE would have been an excellent name for this composition! Once it settles a bit, the green citrus presents itself front and center. I was attempting to guess the notes and decided that it must be petit grain. According to the hierarchy, what I'm "really" detecting is yuzu and galbanum. That's okay: the important point is: green citrus.

STILL LIFE smells very nice for what it is and I believe that it is stronger than the other members of this series, an impression which is confirmed by the 77% alcohol content as opposed to 80% listed for all of the others. The overall effect is similar to my nose to compositions such as Banana Republic W or Bond no 9 EAU DE NEW YORK, although this particular green citrus appears not to contain any flowers whatsoever. In the drydown I am able to detect the elemi and pepper as well, which sets this creation further apart from the floral citrus crowd.

Overall, STILL LIFE is a fine and refreshing unisex scent. Probably best for spring and summer, though it could certainly be worn in cold weather to lift one's spirits!

04/17/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

1

Half-baked...

Still Life by Olfactive Studio opens with a catchy citrus-fizzy note, a bit plain but lively and zesty, with silky and slightly creamy neroli/orange nuances, then an odd sort of greenish-mossy “warm” accord, a bit metallic and a bit salty (calone?) with a sort of sweaty-shady substance but at the same time fruity, which I can not really identify (I read the scent shall contain notes of galbanum, elemi, spices, perhaps the way the three of them are elaborated creates this weird soup-ish accord - especially because of galbanum). Finally, sandalwood and resinous notes on the base. I don’t get the boozy note, at least not that clear. Overall, despite the peculiar opening, the scent quickly turns into a quite conventional and mono-dimensional fragrance with no particular interest whatsoever, basically a fizzy citrus-green scent with spices, floral nuances, resinous-ambery-woody notes and overall sweet-creamy texture – a sweet Oriental, in short. The only variation which may still keep your attention alive is “that” odd accord, which won’t go away for quite a while, providing a (to me) fairly unpleasant metallic-sweaty-salty nuance, halfway spicy and rotten with an odd, warm fruity feel. Not that far from some 1990’s masculine scents, the spicy-sweet ones, almost smelling like a sort of half-creative, half-insulting cut & paste collage of some key notes like citrus, woods, spices, resins. Intriguing at first (just to see “where it is going”), then (once you realise it’s basically going nowhere) a bit boring and unsubstantial, yet overall not that bad. Fun to try if you have the chance to.

6-6,5/10

06/18/2024

Ebichuunee
98 Reviews

Ebichuunee

1

Summer cocktail

After sampling the fresh collection from Olfactive Studio, I was initially drawn to purchase Still Life due to a great deal and the joy it brings me. This woody citrus fragrance reminds me of a boozy lemon gelato, which is delightful. Is it groundbreaking? No. But it's an easy and pleasant wear. If the weather in France were better, I would be drenching (moderately) myself in it because it smells like a well-deserved holiday, sipping cocktails in the cool afternoon.

It's completely unisex, and both my boyfriend and I use it equally. By the end of the day, I can still catch whiffs of this lemon ice cream on my skin, so the longevity is quite good with my skin chemistry.

08/25/2021

7
Sillage 7
Longevity 8
Scent

Modesty
9 Reviews

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Modesty

Helpful Review 7

Jiu-Yuzu

So if that's yuzu, then there was some other ingredient in the sample bottlings before.
In a bottling of Acqua di Parma it had made me not grad mood.
But here it is clearly the increase of fresh. It is also the first fragrance in which I can actually understand the association to the fizzy. But that is meant here postively.
On a warm day like today comes there a neat freshness kick from the wrist angeweht.
All other citrus fragrances that I have, I see rather fruity, be it Arancia di Sicilia or Zagara or Mandarino di Amalfi Eau de Parfum .
In the color spectrum, these aforementioned fragrances are yellow to orange, but Still-Life is yellow, almost white.
Then comes some calm with the heart notes, light creaminess or a touch of spice, but the fragrance remains straightforward.
I would wear the scent on really really warm days, where a hint of that yuzu keeps popping into your nose with every step or body movement.
A real alcoholic rum base I have not directly warmer, of course, a slightly sweet base. The fragrance has crept out with me rather slowly.
But still with a touch of the "effervescent effect"
No green , no herbs.
So he has definitely still earned a place on my shelf.
He moves in any case on the watch list.

01/08/2025

10
Pricing 8
Bottle 8
Sillage 7
Longevity 10
Scent

NieschenNase
2 Reviews

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NieschenNase

Helpful Review 8

Lemon in winter?!

Brief history

I still remember well when I bought my first perfume with my father.

He is a niche lover himself and dragged me along to a small basement perfumery in Berlin Mitte (I'm sure some of you know it) With an open mind, I answered the question of what scent I was looking for "citrusy...and um fresh"
And that's when I smelled it for the first time: Still life! A fragrance that I liked so much that it became my Christmas present...(thanks dad).

But now to the actual review:

After 2 years of proper perfume experience and testing several fragrances, I realize how almost impossible it is for many houses to create a citrus fragrance that fits into every season and fulfills its task: Citrus.

Houses like Aqua di Parma with Bergamotto di Calabria

or

Chanel with Allure Homme Sport Eau Extrême lead the way.
However, many of you are going blind because of this citrus basic idea out there.

THERE IS SO MUCH MORE!!!

Still Life is like the ray of warming sunlight on a Sunday noon in the cold winter.
It smells like the feeling of biting into a lemon cake with icing at a children's birthday party when you were 5 years old.
The scent makes the body loll like a cat after its afternoon nap.

This scent is the lemon you imagine when you scroll around Parfumo looking for a new blind buy.

No iron, no stinging, no menthol, no suffocating sweetness and, most importantly, no unnecessary spices.

I can only recommend everyone to spray this fragrance on in winter. Dr gives a completely different direction.
It's a really nice change from all the heavy fragrances.

It's like when you slowly realize on December 15th that all the speculoos and the constant lying are starting to put you in a bad mood, so you put on warm clothes and go for a walk in the cold.
Just like a vitamin D tablet, the Still Life awakens the endorphins in you.

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