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Collection Classique

Equistrius Parfum d'Empire 2007

7.4 / 10 156 Ratings

A perfume by Parfum d'Empire for women and men, released in 2007. The scent is floral-powdery. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Powdery

Woody

Sweet

Spicy

Fragrance Notes

Violet

Ambrette

Florentine orris butter

Rice powder Suede

Suede

Chocolate

Sandalwood

Ambergris

Perfumer

Marc-Antoine Corticchiato

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Ratings

Scent

7.4156 Ratings

Longevity

6.9123 Ratings

Sillage

5.8115 Ratings

Bottle

7.0106 Ratings

Value for money

7.030 Ratings

Submitted by DeGe53, last update on 10/14/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Collection Classique collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Cèdre

Iris Ganache

Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/27/2012

8Scent 10Longevity 7.5Sillage

MemoryOScent
37 Reviews

MemoryOScent

3

butter and suede

Equistrius is a sweet but not gourmand, leathery iris. The topnotes hit you with a good dose of syrupy floral sweetness, maybe a lychee syrup. I am not a big fan of sweet fragrances but Marc-Antoine Corticchiato knows very well how to balance on the edge of the impossible, like he did with Cuir Ottoman where he coupled the powderiest of irises with the shiniest black leather. The sweetness seems overwhelming at first but why do I find myself sniffing again and again my “test site”? A hint of hazelnut starts dusting the shiny syrup adding some saltiness. In the heart a good scoop of buttery iris melts on top of the syrup making everything soft, warm, comforting. The official site lists dark chocolate in the notes and I wish I could pick this up but I can’t. What I do get though is how the iris produces a beautiful effect of soft, warn suede leather. In a way this leather note is very close to the suede of Daim Blond. In the drydown a champagne like accord brings sparkles to composition.

Equistrius is a proud fragrance. It wears loud and clear and if you are a man you better watch your finger because the spray delivers a hefty dose. I don’t know if you ever get a visual impact from the way a fragrance develops. Equistrius seems like melting on the skin. I get the feeling that it flows on the skin like melting butter, spreading further and further than where I spray it. It radiates and glows and never fails to put a smile on my face.

Notes from my nose: hot syrup, lychee, hazelnut, salted butter, suede,champagne

05/06/2014

5Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

WRoth
154 Reviews

WRoth

1

Equistrius

This fragrance opens with the delicate aroma of orris enhanced by citrus and sheer flowers (violet and green notes). These notes eventually merge into a very pretty fruity-floral accord (chocolate is responsible for the fruit aroma) whose delicate nature makes it perfect for a crisp summer morning. The iris root adds a glossy, sophisticated polish to the main notes. The scent loses its fruity-floral top accord after an hour or so and gradually reveals a fine powdery note (sandalwood). Woodsy notes and amber characterise this scent from the heart accord to the dry down. Always pretty and rather long-lasting for its kind, this scent lasts six hours on my skin.

07/31/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

1

Soft, irisy face powder with a hint of cocoa

Equistrius is a soft, musky delight - an iris perfume that allows its normally recalcitrant, aloof self to be cajoled into a supine position on a chaise longue and be fed chocolate bon bons all day. The violet note is dewy and sweet and oh my God, right there, up top, with the rice powder note, ready to force the pleasure receptors in your brain wide open. Time and time again, I'm reminded why Marc-Antoine Corticchiato is one of the best perfumers around. Equistrius is iris made into supple pleasure.

Almost immediately, the violet and the iris and the rice powder become wrapped up in a baby blanket of rich, perfumey musk from the ambrette seed, with tiny hints of bread-cumin, hay, and apple peel flitting around the edges. But mostly, the ambrette musk is a textural thing, causing a fuzzy wool-like aura to grow around the iris and violet. The individual notes become less and less distinct in the heart as they get subsumed completely by the musk, and if there's one complaint I have about this fragrance, it's that the perfumey character it assumes has a tendency to obscure the beauty and brilliance of the iris and the violet. This dwindling away into abstraction makes me want to re-spray over and over again just to relive that beautiful, bold beginning.

06/27/2011

8Scent 7.5Longevity

Baux
69 Reviews

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Baux

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Turnaround?

I almost made a mistake today. I almost sprayed Equistrius on my girlfriend. The thought came to me while having coffee at the computer, where I was turning the sample vial between my thumb and index finger and reading through the fragrance notes. She likes green and violet, she probably wouldn’t notice the iris, and I don’t need to tell her about the chocolate. Then I checked who I actually got the sample from. And lo and behold: from a guy. (Many thanks to Dannyboy at this point.)
At this point, I want to make it clear that Equistrius doesn’t necessarily come across as masculine, but rather that my girlfriend, whose fragrance preferences I can gauge relatively well, would definitely have felt attracted only to the pyramid from about the top to the hips. Then the scent takes a distinct turn. And since I ultimately sprayed it on my own chest, I can say: to its advantage.

Equistrius starts fresh and softly green with herbal hints. If violet is listed in the composition, I would accept that, although you don’t smell much of it. But that’s not important, as the responsible fragrance oil dissipates relatively quickly. So far, the perfume actually smells green and delicate. With the transition to the heart notes, the green shifts into the clean. The iris in Equistrius is not powdery, but soapy, and there’s a bitter, slightly sweet chocolate that comes through. (I know a thing or two about chocolate now; I own Chocolat Amère.) This bitter-soapy quality leads directly into the base. And the base is simply wonderful.
Here, two components can be found that harmonize beautifully, each of which can sometimes seem a bit arbitrary on its own. The soapy iris is now replaced by a creamy, soapy sandalwood note. At the same time, it connects with a green, sparkling vetiver. Although both are pristine clean notes, the base of the fragrance radiates warmth and juiciness on the skin.

Even though the development of the perfume doesn’t announce itself in the top notes, there are fewer breaks to be found here than the first impression might suggest. The perfume plays through variations of clean, which can be found in both the green notes and the sandalwood base. And once again: the scent is definitely a vetiver suitable for women. But what it primarily is, is a multifaceted sandalwood fragrance for anyone who is looking for it.

(This comment is, as promised, for Pazuzu.)

04/30/2018

9Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

Augusto
177 Reviews

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Augusto

Top Review 21

Romantic Play with Light and Dark, Heaven and Earth, Iris and Chocolate -- Glue and Old Cookies?

AugustA tries a drop. And with the opening, I immediately say three times in a row, delighted: “Hmmm!” Interesting what you get to smell, not just fresh or anything, no hesperides, no citrus, no pharmacy, but right in the middle of the fragrance action: Iris with chocolate patch and ambrette. The top note doesn’t wait around for me. And it doesn’t become too heavy or oriental right away. As if the base had swung into the head on a swing and now has to fall back to make room for others. A memory of those old glue bottles with the rubber applicator also floats by. I used to love smelling that stuff, that was many years ago. Now I throw caution to the wind and go in for a proper dose - this will surely not be a headache scent. You have to try it in its full size and form.
Now, more body: I smell milky sandalwood and yeast. And the dry iris root unfolds, pushing further through. I find iris together with wood particularly beautiful. Now: The violet. Over minimal cookie sweetness, no gourmand touch, strength, cookies that have been lying around a bit too long. Slightly rancid. Maybe a dried date with its own herb-malty sugar smell. And all of this in the first 10 minutes.

Wow.
Not a scent that you apply and forget about right away.

What does Equistrius mean again?
Ah, a beloved tournament horse.
Shiny warm coat to stroke, I can accept that with this scent. Freshly groomed, velvety. But rather not: racing, rider-horse noise or such hoof trampling. Or maybe, in the distance?

Iris, the messenger of the gods - a rainbow - rather.
For the scent spans from the floral side with the iris at the center, in an arc of earthiness and heavenly transparency, the violet adds a slight evening violet to the sky, which only carries a few wispy clouds.
And yet they also cast shadows. A romantic play with light and dark.

Buttery, earthy iris root and dry powderiness blend with the steam of rice. Next to it lies a piece of dark chocolate, the already mentioned date, the old cookie.
A drop of rosé in a glass. Fits with the slightly fermented note that now greets me as I come closer.

Equistrius is not heavy, it soon merges completely with my skin, which smells and feels slightly spicy. The scent manages to create a special materiality that you can feel just as much as you smell.
An iris and rice powder cloud that hovers over the skin, enveloping, like a warm glow.

There’s also a leather aspect, perhaps from the horse? Violet and iris leather, gloves, harness or something; cocoa sometimes has that herb-bitter tanning note. Very dry. On the skin, the leather radiates warm and fragrant, just like this scent. That’s it. Not too much of it at all.

In the base, after 3-4 hours still the iris powder, but distinctly woodier, a remnant of bitter chocolate, ambrette and: vetiver. Through its companions, the vetiver here is sweet, nutty, green-powdery. A fresh hint of grass and air is also present.
Again, the scent spans the olfactory arc from the root to the blue sky. That’s how I like vetiver.

A comprehensive fragrance experience.

Today, I didn’t know right away which sample I wanted to test. So I just grabbed one. Et voilà! This is truly a well-rounded, unusual scent! Definitely unisex, as the male and female components and codes support each other wonderfully, and I’m sure it will unfold in different emphases on every woman’s and man’s skin, and whoever has completely shed these attributions. It will surely remain exciting; we won’t let this one go.

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