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Dryad Papillon Artisan Perfumes 2017

8.0 / 10 206 Ratings

A popular perfume by Papillon Artisan Perfumes for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is chypreartig-green. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Chypre

Green

Floral

Woody

Spicy

Fragrance Notes

Galbanum

Oakmoss

Citron

Costus

Jonquil

Narcissus

Vetiver

Apricot

Bergamot

Benzoin

Perfumer

Liz Moores

Ratings

Scent

8.0206 Ratings

Longevity

7.9163 Ratings

Sillage

7.3165 Ratings

Bottle

7.5128 Ratings

Value for money

6.874 Ratings

Submitted by Cassandra · last update on 12/24/2025.

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Reviews

20 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/21/2022

DGouveia
32 Reviews

DGouveia

Helpful Review 4

Mythical Creature

This immediately felt like i was in a Millais painting, in the middle of nature with the all the nymphs. Green grandure, dense earthyness with a sweet resin/balsamic quality. It's beautifull and complex in a vintage way (i thought of poetic chaos, like a british style garden), not an easy fragrance or not for an easy person, only when you are feeling like a mythical creature.

02/27/2022

8.5Scent 8Longevity 5Sillage

Kurai
388 Reviews

Kurai

5

Do not disturb

This is "do not disturb" material. The kind of perfume to wear at home on a quiet evening. It demands attention from the wearer and takes him/her on an adventure. A long-lasting trip with strong vivid images and a constantly changing plot; a novel to fully indulge in and to read over and over again.

Be prepared for a big foggy swamp full of green and brown notes. And that's just the opening. Then there is a much brighter floral phase, with a somewhat dry and dusty feel to it. Eventually, things start to warm up as tobacco, balsams and musks appear, besides the lovely moss that is present from beginning to end.

This may be a perfectly wearable perfume, but the trail it leaves is pretty common green. From a distance, I get mostly narcissus and galbanum. Faint wafts of this perfume are not going to mesmerize anyone. But up close it is an absolute mind boggler.

06/25/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

Helpful Review 3

Very Vol de Nuit-esque but drier and sparer

Basically a reworking of vintage Vol de Nuit parfum for modern times, and yes, I understand the impact of my comparison here. To many, Vol de Nuit is the zenith of the art of Guerlain, but to me, it speaks of home. The heart of Dryad reproduces almost exactly the same damp, green narcissus and jonquil accord found in Vol de Nuit (and actually, come to think of it, also the original Miss Dior), and there is a similar support in the form of oakmoss, tarragon, galbanum, and vetiver.

But the sage note spins it in a slightly naughty, 'witchy' direction. It smells like dark green velvet, with a bluebottle anisic sheen from the tarragon to keep things lively. Liz Moores calls this a green chypre-oriental, which of course is the same category to which Vol de Nuit belongs. But it diverges in the base. Dryad features none of the sweet, ambery notes found in Vol de Nuit, switching instead to a dry, rubbery galbanum resin that gives off the feel of sage and hay thrown on a bonfire and left to smoke out. It is also not powdery, but it does exhibit the kind of 'cut grass' and 'lime peel' dustiness that galbanum has.

Supposedly, there's quite a lot of costus root in this, but thankfully, I can't smell it. (I've never smelled a treatment of costus that didn't end up smelling like unwashed hair). In fact, I don't pick up on anything animalic here at all, which is fine with me, because all the focus is kept on those burningly pure green notes. It's all resin and grass and sage, no soft landing in the form of amber or vanilla. There is something crystalline and focused about it.

Green perfumes are not overly represented in my wardrobe, but I would buy this in a hot second. Dryad has joined the small but exclusive group of green perfumes I truly love, which include Vol de Nuit (Guerlain), Mito (Vero Kern), Romanza (Masque), Vie de Chateau Intense (De Nicolai), Ormonde Jayne Woman, and Sycomore (Chanel).

04/25/2021

8Scent 10Longevity 5Sillage

Drseid
828 Reviews

Drseid

Helpful Review 3

Resurrecting The Green Chypre...

Dryad opens with a slightly sweet, fruity floral orange blossom and apricot focal tandem with underlying smooth orange fruit support before transitioning to its heart. As the composition enters its early heart woody green cedrat melds into the orange lingering from the open, as hay-like herbal deertongue joins green spicy, woody galbanum and mild woody vetiver in support. During the late dry-down the composition completely shifts to a mossy (likely oakmoss and tree moss derived) green late dry-down with little remaining of the previous notes through the finish. Projection is average and longevity outstanding at well over 15 hours on skin.

Dryad smells fantastic. As soon as one applies the perfume on skin a gorgeous orange blossom emerges that quickly morphs into an equally appealing vetiver and galbanum enhanced spicy-woody heart. Quite frankly, this profile I expected to continue through the late dry-down, but the perfume rather surprisingly shifts gears completely, morphing into an equally appealing but all together different mossy-green focal late dry-down that lingers for hours and hours. The mossy-green dry-down definitely contains some oakmoss within, but its smooth facet and seemingly endless duration leads this writer to believe the oakmoss is heavily infused by tree moss. Another possibility is this is a tremendous implementation of the IFRA compliant low atranol oakmoss that has proved unimpressive in so many other compositions. However the perfumer achieved the highly appealing mossy-green base, it is it be commended. The bottom line is the $186 per 50ml bottle Dryad is a fine example of a modern day green chypre that gets just about everything right, earning it an "excellent" 4 stars out of 5 rating, and a strong recommendation to all.

10/30/2021

9.5Scent 9Longevity 6Sillage

JackHunter33
91 Reviews

JackHunter33

3

A Walk Through A Enchanted Forest

Now this is a gorgeous 10 out of 10 green chypre fragrance that lasts over ten hours on my skin. It is one of the most complex scents I have experienced as there is so much going on.

On the opening I'm getting green hay, galbanum, oakmoss and then these floral parma violets take over. If you remember those parma violet candies as a kid well it smells like that but it's really beautiful. Lot's of earthy forestry smells with floral elements. It's very mossy just how I like my Chypre fragrance's. It really keeps your nose on it's toes so to speak.lol........ Big wow for me with this one, the quality just shines through. Did not think they made them like this anymore but here we are.

After about three hours or so I could pick up more of notes tobacco, iris, furry musk, vetiver and the oakmoss is to die for if you love the accord. Such a mossy warmth infused with the spirit of the forest. lol....... don't mean to get poetic there but if you smell this scent you will know what I mean. It's glorious!

What is very interesting is the constant shifting of the notes upon the skin. Every time you smell the fragrance you can pick up different notes and it constantly changes as time goes by. A example of this is I sprayed my chest and wrist and several hours into the drydown both areas smelled different. The scent from my chest area smelled like fresh iris and on my wrist I was picking up smoky green vetiver. And then nine to ten hours into the drydown it changed again smelling like the drydown of Knize Ten. Giving you sweet powdery floral accord, really heavenly.

All in all this is a fantastic perfume taking you on quite the journey through a enchanted forest as it constantly shifts and evolves on your skin. This fragrance is like a tribute to the old greats like the Guerlains of yesteryear. A massive thumbs up and then some from me. Love it!

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