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Le Cirque Bleu 2017

8.6 / 10 38 Ratings
A popular limited perfume by Parfum Prissana for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is spicy-leathery. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Spicy
Leathery
Woody
Green
Animal

Fragrance Notes

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8.638 Ratings
Longevity
7.933 Ratings
Sillage
7.133 Ratings
Bottle
7.328 Ratings
Submitted by Achilles, last update on 03/13/2025.

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Skydiver19

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Applause! Applause...!
An aura of yellowed skin and fur scents hangs heavily over everything. Mixed with the sweat smell of performers who risked everything for a brief applause. Now empty is the small ring of a forgotten traveling circus, merely filled with the scent of stale life. The slanting, pale cool light of a gray winter day plays with dancing dust particles in the air, the remnants of past performances and vibrant life in the small circus arena.

Does this illusionary world under the circus tent still exist? An illusionary world that can awaken a deep longing in people, those who have been bitterly neglected by fate? In whose hearts a deep yearning for colorful exuberance pulses, for bright and cheerful radiance on the faces of the ring artists, which may reflect onto their own existence. A tiny glimmer at least, that makes their dark daily routine a bit more bearable for a short time. One that has the power to overshadow the sad reality behind the eternally cheerful performances, the rehearsed jokes of clumsy clowns, who make themselves small and ugly and cause their souls to weep for the amusement of their audience.
Yes, this world of cheerful illusion still exists. In our imagination, it has always been there, and it will always be there. For imagination is long-lasting, even longer-lasting than hope - it seems to exist outside of ourselves. -

After my first impressions of LCB, I had to rein in my impatiently judgmental thoughts so they wouldn’t gallop off with hasty conclusions about the scent. So I slow down my flow of thoughts and stay with my feelings. And those follow the now beginning performances on the stage of the forgotten jugglers.

The dusty stale air condenses into a curtain that unpretentiously takes a citrusy side. As if on cue, invisible illuminators send soft bright beams into the sky of the circus tent, in whose shadows dense, fir-green veils develop. Fueled by unknown buoyancy forces, they rise calmly but steadily, becoming greener, spicier, more aromatic, and balsamically denser, almost tangible. They seem to rise beyond the tent and reach in a larger sky softly shining and sensually alluring leather stars. They sparkle with green-gold-brown iridescent balsam drops that have dissolved like mist from a resinous vapor.
And this resinous vapor is a heart vapor, at the latest when lavender-blue powderiness joins it. This heart resin establishes an intimate closeness to the human feeling organ and does not want to give it up soon. An ascending feeling of primal trust ignites a primal warmth throughout the body and in the soul space. A primal warmth that opens me, that allows me to be at peace with my life, my being. This being I may never understand, but I can sense it a little, can feel it - as a boundary dissolution, an expansion of my everyday existence. And this does not approach the surroundings but rather engages with them, receives, absorbs, without judgment - open perception, pure feeling...

As the experience progresses, the radiance becomes close to the body, intimate. Yet it still has the power to invitingly penetrate clothing. The resin notes shed their edges, becoming viscous with a fine floral touch and green melt. This is yieldingly demanding, erotic, and androgynous. The roles remain open, the moment decides their attributions. An above-average longevity provides ample room for this.

Applause, applause...!
And I bow before this heart-pulling, yearning fragrance performance, which can still refine itself further in the encores!!

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ElAttarine

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Wings of Desire
And all the unspoken love-lemon words of longing flew into this leathery-dark sky. Where they brightened the darkness a little with their bittersweet hope. They came from the cool cypress and pine needles and became greener and spicier until they turned so green from all the herbs and moss that they resembled love, like the green head of the horse. And leathery like its bridle and its coat. And bright like the moon with its violin-civet sounds. And in the illuminated, empty center of the darkness, the promise of happiness, a resinous and delicately floral hope, so fragile on the trapeze. Up there, that should be the place, the place of presence amidst all the chaos, where our hearts may once unite, sweating with joy and glowing-dark at the same time? The rest of the sky and the earth remained in mossy-earthy darkness, the tears sheltered under the blanket of night.
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Marc Chagall was deeply fascinated and influenced by the circus, even as a boy in Russia, where traveling acrobats performed at village festivals, and later in Paris, where he was repeatedly drawn to the circus. His painting "Le Cirque Bleu" was the inspiration and name for this fragrance. The scent itself is not blue at all, but it captures the painting very finely. It is almost quiet and introverted for a prince, but a lot is happening in the depth, and everything is wonderfully intertwined. It begins with very beautiful citrus notes, completely free of any cleaner-like danger, combined with the citrus aspects of the cypress. Immediately it becomes leathery, and it remains leathery throughout. Later, green herbal, bitter-leathery, resinous-animalic, and a tiny hint of sweet notes come and go.
I can identify several layers of scent that overlap each other throughout: The greenish citrus, which, conveyed through the cypress, mixes with slightly ethereal pine needles - here I also include the almost glowing civet; then the leathery-animalic-bitter leather-tobacco-castoreum theme; something very lightly sweet (probably from orange blossom and styrax, which I cannot pinpoint individually); the herbal-mossy-earthy aspect, whose color shifts between green and dark brown. Everything is very complex, very beautiful, very wearable.
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Chagall's oil painting "Le Cirque Bleu" dates from 1953. The brilliant composition creates an empty space right in the middle of the painting, illuminated by the spotlight, bordered by the graceful movement of the artist, the green horse's head, and the moon, which sends delicate rays of light into it. After Chagall's first wife Bella died in 1944, he experienced a creative crisis; in 1952, he married again, the Russian Valentina Brodsky. Persecution, exile, loss, and death are present everywhere in his work as darkness, but the longed-for love always hovers above all the dark and heavy.

I always associate the scent with the circus scene from Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire," where the immortal angel Damiel (Bruno Ganz) follows his wish to become a mortal man after seeing the trapeze artist Marion (Solveig Dommartin) in the circus and falling in love with her.
Laurent Petitgand: Wings of Desire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkgsNpG09U4

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Can777

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Les yeux d'un enfant…!/Die Augen eines Kindes…!
Every evening he stood there,..every single one! Hidden behind the heavy curtains of the circus ring, he watched her. He looked up into the circus dome where she flew like a black hummingbird. He loved her. Infinitely! But she never saw him! He,…the white clown. So radiantly beautiful, elegant, aristocratic, intelligent, and wise. High on the trapeze, she flew like a black bird. Full of grace and perfection. Longing filled Bianco's heart. If only he could fly like her. With her? And as he thought about this, he smelled the leather harnesses of the horses and the wild animals. Dark, smoky, and as familiar as his fenced-in soul. He smelled the cypress trees and the earth. On which the circus tent stood. The pines and fir needles. He felt them pierce his heart. Every single needle! And as he slowly closed the heavy curtain and his white face disappeared like the full moon behind dark clouds, dark green feathers fell at his feet. Slightly sweaty and mossy-green tinged. He picked them up and smelled them. And at that very moment, the painted tear on his cheek,..became reality. And so it dissolved like black-blue ink on blotting paper. It ran over his lips. And thus he tasted for the first time how salty longing tastes and hurts…!

Conclusion
Le Cirque Bleu is a tribute to the painting of the same name by Marc Chagall. A tribute to art and longing itself. Painted in the darkest colors of black leather, animalistically quiet sighs, and mossy-green tones. Everything lacquered in dull earthy varnish. If you know Prin, you understand and feel how he has strived to capture the art of Marc Chagall in notes. I would say he has succeeded. Humility can be smelled, and even admiration. Le Cirque Bleu is perhaps one of Prin's quietest works. But also one of the most profound creations ever. Here beats a lonely heart beneath the makeup. Lonely, quiet, and longing! And here it swings,…like a bird beneath the trapeze of dreams. And so happy is he who catches a feather. However, flying,…one will never do with it!

Have a wonderful Easter, my dear ones!
Can

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRTdQMJ_iXU
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Chizza

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Subtle Leather-Fougere
I would have never attributed Le Cirque Bleu to Prin Lomros. No bitter green, no muddy animalic notes, no typical spiciness for him, and overall rather discreet than striking. He can also do gourmand or citrus, see Tom Yum, but overall, nearly all of his fragrances are not introverted. Le Cirque Bleu, on the other hand, is relatively so. This perfume is inspired, according to Prin, by the painting of the same name by Marc Chagall, or rather the story behind its creation. I am not an art historian, but Chagall moved back from the USA to France in 1948, where he was drawn during World War II as a Jew. France had become foreign to him, and so this painting can be seen as a counterpoint to the bitter reality of that time. To what extent Prin has processed this exactly, I do not know; in any case, Le Cirque Bleu is indeed classified as "casual" by Prin, yet the fragrance possesses depth, just as Chagall repeatedly used certain symbols to point to specific themes.

For me, the fragrance starts with a colorful mix, namely a distinctly perceivable leather, which is, however, marked by clear citrus notes. This is rather dry and immediately reminds me of Royal Vintage. Thus, it is clear where this citrus comes from; cypress is included, and it exudes a lemony scent. Compared to Royal Vintage, the cypress in Le Cirque Bleu is more restrained, less flashy and intense, allowing the leather more space.

This is partly because other hesperidic notes strongly support the fragrance, especially at the beginning, making the intense element of the cypress less noticeable. On the other hand, Prin works with significantly more green/woody ingredients than Micallef did. This means that, for example, a spruce contributes to greater forest diversity, and thus no solo of the cypress is intended in the later stages. Of course, the noticeable lavender should not be forgotten, even though it is more of an accompaniment.

In the "pyramid," Russian leather is indicated, which is essentially a leather substitute derived from birch, and that is exactly what you smell. You can olfactorily capture the smoky, rough birch. The smoky element is subtle but perceptible; the leather evoked by the birch is not classic Russian leather but contemporarily interpreted, a comparative work I have already mentioned.

Le Cirque Bleu is long sold out. This creation is balanced; everything has been merged into units, and the outstanding composition is only recognized when you have had something similar under your nose. I had sprayed Royal Vintage in the morning on the same day, which I truly appreciate. Le Cirque Bleu is, for me personally, the evolution. Unfortunately - and that is the only drawback - it is quiet and thus fades away more quickly. In hindsight, I am glad to own Royal Vintage. This work smells excellent, does not quite reach the elegance of Le Cirque Bleu, but for my nose, there is only a marginal difference.
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Ethereal green-herb air
on a citrus-bright day
But at night
the beaver forester arrives
in rugged leather
& heats the sauna
for the senses
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Earth/Citrus
Bitter herbs
Skin/Hair
Leathery dark green
Warm animal skin
Veil of smoke
Sweet sprinkles
Needles/Foliage
Wax...
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Delicate smoky spruces
Breathe citrus mosses
Through dry earthy roots
Leather sheaths fall
Archaic herb stained
Through Prince's spice tincture...
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flying unspoken love lemons
from cypress trees
into smoky dark skies
green-spicy
animalistically bright-dark
life is a circus
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The opening is a bit harsh at first, then the scent becomes citrusy, but also floral with leathery, animalistic facets. Very complex, demanding....
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Leads classically from citrus notes through conifer resins to animalistic accents and a leathery woody base, close to perfection.
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So beautiful when immortelle and angelica join hands. My nose also thinks it detects chamomile. Fine, bitter iris powder, with the***
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Here, Prin shows that he can do more than the often similar animalic notes in the bog. Citrusy with ancient echoes, sublimely already dirty-leathery...
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Some smoke rises into the cold blue winter sky, the needle forest is completely still, the leather jacket stuffed with warming herbs. Archaic.
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forgotten life
breathes me in
tree arms lift me
to green leather stars
lavender resin caresses
primordial warmth opens
body loves
soul smiles
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