L'Elégant Parfums MDCI 2021

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8.0 / 10 46 Ratings

L'Elégant is a popular perfume by Parfums MDCI for men and was released in 2021. The scent is spicy-woody. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Resinous

Oriental

Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Cardamom

Black pepper

Frankincense

Saffron

Heart Notes

Honey

Cinnamon

Cumin

Davana

Iris

Nutmeg

Sandalwood

Base Notes

Musk

Tonka bean

Cashmeran

Cistus

Labdanum

Oud

Perfumer

Irène Farmachidi

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Ratings

Scent

8.046 Ratings

Longevity

7.741 Ratings

Sillage

7.041 Ratings

Bottle

8.636 Ratings

Value for money

6.626 Ratings

Submitted by ExUser, last update on 02.03.2024.

Interesting Facts

The scent is part of the "Painters & Perfumers" collection and inspired by the Portrait of Pierre Sériziat, a 1795 oil canvas by French artist Jacques-Louis David.

Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/02/2024

7
Pricing 10
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 8
Scent

PerfumeAl
8 Reviews

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PerfumeAl

Elegant but fleeting

3rd place of the MDCI perfumes for me after the 2 Fougeres.

Very nice light incense mixed with herbs and spices - but everything kept very light and wearable.

I can imagine it for almost any occasion and season.

The problem for me is H/S. I can hardly smell it after one hour and after 4.

Too bad - I really like it - but price-performance not ok.

06/26/2023

5
Pricing 8
Bottle 1
Sillage 6
Longevity 7
Scent

Mercer
78 Reviews

Mercer

2

Very dry wood, with spice and resin

The Portrait of Pierre Seriziat, which this perfume is based on, is an oil painting of a wealthy Frenchman who lived just outside of Paris. The painting was done in 1795.

I can't imagine anything about that painting, or Paris in the late 1700's that this scent would represent. If I had to create an image based on the scent it would be a wooden ship that has crashed on the sandy shore that was willed with casks of rum. The casks have all broken and the liquid spilled out and the wood has become very dry. Take that wood, and smell it and you get a very spicy, resinous, extremely dry fragrance.

Takes spices incense, cadamom, cumin, frankincense and add a heavy dose of sandalwood for the first hour or two, after that more musk appears in the base and that is L'Elégant.

It's a scent that hits the back of your throat when you smell it, and it's so dry it feels like you've just licked that piece of wood I described earlier.

This has virtually no projection throughout and very quickly (within an hour) is already in the dry down stage. It's close to skin, but the resinous base makes it last.