Darcy Parfums de Marly 2014

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6.6 / 10 161 Ratings

A perfume by Parfums de Marly for women, released in 2014. The scent is floral-sweet. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Floral

Sweet

Fruity

Spicy

Powdery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Orange

Bergamot

Citrus notes

Heart Notes

Jasmine

Rose

Base Notes

Patchouli

Praliné

White musk

Perfumer

Hamid Merati-Kashani

Ratings

Scent

6.6161 Ratings

Longevity

7.5135 Ratings

Sillage

6.9139 Ratings

Bottle

8.2158 Ratings

Value for money

5.973 Ratings

Submitted by Scentist, last update on 02/01/2025.

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Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/07/2023

Rosymel
122 Reviews

Rosymel

2

Sharp and screechy

Oh noooo. Literally had to scrub this off both times I tried it. I thought maybe I’d been too harsh the first time, so I tried it again, but no. It’s full on sharp screechy 1990s era green and white florals that remind me of a cheap knock off Eternity—a perfume I don’t actually like much in the first place. It also made me sneeze. Major sad face, or more accurately, mad face that even though I scrubbed it twice with strong soap, I can still smell it.

11/16/2020

1
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Connie
198 Reviews

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Connie

9

An hour was more than enough.

Short and sweet, just awful. It only happened to me a couple of times that I simply had to wash off a scent after an hour but I just washed off Darcy because I just couldn't stand the "smell" anymore. Pungent and sharp up to the sky... I see people at the cemetery, all dressed in black with black lips and dog collars as jewellery. Chills...

I usually love bergamot and orange scents but I just smell some pungent floral indefinable notes. I see a black rose, dull and dark, with a pungent orange in the background. After 20 minutes my nose almost hurt and I had to give in to Darcy. I was waiting for something soft, something soft that would bring this unbearable sharpness, including scary thoughts and ideas, " kill" but unfortunately nothing came...

09/23/2023

1
Pricing 10
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 3
Scent

Sirbennyone
297 Reviews

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Sirbennyone

Helpful Review 4

You go other ways! / Are you a Marly?

Hello everyone,

this will be a relatively short review. I know that there are different tastes and that's a GOOD thing...

The scent is strange, difficult, scratchy and somehow unattractive - really.
(It starts out sweetly floral, a little green and herbaceous, and then becomes slightly sweet and soft in the drydown. Ultimately, it reads very pleasantly, but the tuning is really strange for the house and, in my opinion, not appropriate if you know the standard of the brand...)

I can NOT recommend it to you!

The H/S is quite good to good, but after 1x, 2x testing my wife and I could no longer smell it - she also found it extremely unpleasant and she is also a great friend of the house.

I can't understand what PDM has done here, it's an absolute mystery to me, really! We don't have an inexpensive provider here, but an upmarket niche house and these words offend me a little!
Why?

I've been a great friend of the house since 2011 / 2012 and MANY fragrances were really really good and I'm talking about the fragrances for women and men, but here phew...

In the end, the bottles, sprayers and lids at PDM don't differ much (depending on gender), except for the color, BUT you have to say the house really does a lot right, anything other than a 9 or 10/10 is hard for me to understand (I like those) !

And now have a nice day/evening, or whatever you read this review, LG the Benny
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And now, almost finally, to the point about the "dear price", let me put it this way: if we say we have a certain desire for luxury products / fragrance products in the niche sector, then I find it difficult or quite honestly almost pointless to chalk this up as something negative. Nobody is forcing us to spend this money. If you ask me now: Benny is it worth it? Then I say, if you want to spend it, test it and then buy it, but I recommend everyone to test it! You just have to experience it - the art of what is / can be possible.

Now a brief word on the subject of my opinion:

I am not sponsored, influenced by anyone, receive money or anything else. I approach the subject of parfumo as I am, honestly, everything else is not mine. My real personal opinion is worth a lot to me and maybe I hope ;) that you notice that. If I don't like something, e.g. OVP, bottle, sprayer or H/S, then I communicate this!

03/15/2024

6
Pricing 6
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 4
Scent

MoniBonboni
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MoniBonboni

Helpful Review 5

Personality disorder in a bottle

Even though I like some Marly fragrances, Darcy - otherwise very hyped - is a flop for me. No plan, no concept, personality disorder in the bottle, that would be the short version.
If I hadn't known that I was smelling a fragrance from the luxury sector, I would never have guessed blindly. Pretty mainstream for me in the opening and not worth the price.
I love bergamot and orange scents, here I smell neither, but pungent, floral and indefinable notes in the drydown.
Sweets from a funfair and just at that moment a man walks past, his aftershave lingers in the air.
Generic, arbitrary and interchangeable.
Similar to some Montale fragrances, only short-lived and less overwhelming.
A little similar to Panthere by Cartier, I didn't like it either. Some say it smells similar to Mademoiselle by Chanel, I only find it similar for the first 30 minutes. My main problem with this fragrance is that it smells so random.
The sillage is good, the longevity is poor and I would rather wear the fragrance in colder seasons.
More of an evening fragrance.
A very contradictory fragrance development, as if the fragrance suffers from a personality disorder.
Very feminine, sweet and omnipresent at the beginning, aftershave vibes at the end.
No blind buy and for me no buy at all, 10 ml vial must also work.

11/06/2024

7
Pricing 7
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 6.5
Scent

Jyyyyyy
2 Reviews

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Jyyyyyy

Not for everyone

I'm a big Parfum de marly fan, so I didn't let myself get carried away and tried other fragrances from the range: Darcy.
Expectations were high, in practice unfortunately a little meagre. I was expecting a lot, more depth, more character. It is by no means a bad fragrance, but nothing that would "catch" me. The fragrance smells like many others, simply thrown together, without any outstanding character - just as you would expect from Marly. Longevity is as usual: pretty good and long. Lingers on the nose for a very long time. After some time has passed, a rather delicate version of it remains, which is much more pleasant than the initial part. Still, it's not something I would be hyped about and would recommend it to others. Okay for testing, but not for future use.