08 Intrigant Patchouli 2005

08 Intrigant Patchouli by Pierre Guillaume
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7.5 / 10 81 Ratings
A perfume by Pierre Guillaume for women and men, released in 2005. The scent is spicy-sweet. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy
Sweet
Earthy
Woody
Oriental

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
CitronCitron LemonLemon Mandarin orangeMandarin orange
Heart Notes Heart Notes
PatchouliPatchouli Mysore sandalwoodMysore sandalwood
Base Notes Base Notes
AmberAmber HoneyHoney CinnamonCinnamon GingerGinger

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.581 Ratings
Longevity
7.757 Ratings
Sillage
7.245 Ratings
Bottle
7.052 Ratings
Value for money
6.610 Ratings
Submitted by Seglein, last update on 12.08.2023.

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Bottle
8
Sillage
8
Longevity
8.5
Scent
Violett

40 Reviews
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Violett
Violett
Top Review 23  
Confusing adult
One must have wandered around on this planet for some years to be allowed to experience certain encounters of the special kind... I mean with it coincidental meetings of former schoolmates which one has not seen for several decades any more. Sometimes it is nice, one has immediately the old wire to each other again, and it is completely unimportant that both look long ago no longer so freshly as with 18, or in the case of the men mostly, possibly less hair on the head have. Sometimes, however, seems the once so familiar counterpart changed in such a way that one hardly recognizes this person, who speaks differently, moves differently, even laughs differently, and incidentally also seems to have completely different memories of earlier...
Well, I would like to tell you about my last encounter of this kind :
ICE Frankfurt direction Munich train compartment :
Opposite me sits a strange gentleman with Geheimratsecken in chic suit and bulging briefcase. He puts on his glasses and pauses :
"Excuse me...are you about....the violet ?"
" Um, yes ? "
" Yes, don't you know me anymore ?!" Not really.
" Well, it's me! Good old Patchoulino!"
" Right, now I recognize you! You smell exactly like you did back then, at 16 . After very slightly sweet dark spicy earth, warm, mysterious, but straightforward and somehow quite like adventure. Well, I'll be! How could I only überschnuppern this...so really."
" Yes." He leans back in his seat, grinning and visibly flattered. " Basically, I have also remained quite the old.
"True. But you radiate such a lightness that you didn't have before, Patchoulino."
" Well,first of all,I haven't lived in the basement for a very long time,"
defiantly, he strokes his remaining cinnamon brown hair with a few dark honey blond highlights. . Secondly, I am now times no longer the oily type from the small bottle, no ! Meanwhile, I have a dignified blend of citrus notes, which almost develop a touch of light florality with Igwer on me. They give me this aromatic lightness.
That's right. He can not deny his deep, dark side, but meanwhile skillfully let it fade into the background.
"And", he bites cautiously into a cinnamon bun " Finely balanced spices give my appearance in public the special twist, let me, with all modesty, seem more interesting. And look here, my camouflage cloak !" He nestles something out of his suitcase, which looks like a silver cloth flap.
Indeed ! Briefly, he disappears completely from the scene, leaving only lemony-floral-spicy aura. To reappear in the next moment. " Back again! " And then
" Gone - back again !"
" Away - back again !"
" Gone - there again !"
"Really impressive," I mutter, increasingly irritated. Was he like that before too ? This little game he does two, three times with me, once even leaving the compartment for about 10 minutes. Somehow he seems to me no longer so completely trustworthy...
There is this certain distance, which I did not perceive earlier so in the behavior Patchoulino. And the fact how much he has changed. There is no denying it. He seems absolutely not as simple-minded, honest, wild and adventurous as before. But instead... very elegant.
Although the boy P. from old times appears again and again in my nose, I recognize him somewhere possibly still, he has changed, has grown up and seems to me long ago no longer to be so uncomplicated and naive. And also no longer really close and tangible.
He has become more refined and, at least in part, more reserved. has acquired a carapace of hardened sophistication.
Still, I can't help but think, he still seems extremely seductive to me. After all, was he not always one of the most beautiful ? In the course of the hours spent together, more warmth develops in his behavior. Now he lets play adeptly his somewhat woody charm,
listens sandel-creamy-smiling to my stories and actually smears me even dark golden honey around the mouth. I notice that he has actually been doing this for hours.
What a confusing meeting
" I go me times briefly freshen up," I say. I must wipe me urgently times the honey, how does it look then?
When I come back, I see that my purse is open. My purse is completely empty, just like the compartment. A hint of dark warmth and floral honey sweetness is in the air. Patchoulino has disappeared.
Or is he still there?
20 Comments
ColinM

516 Reviews
ColinM
ColinM
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Intrigant nostalgia
Intrigant Pachouli is a nice “dark” and mellow patchouli scent with a peculiar sort of “powdery dead flowers” feel all over, a vibrant romantic mood with a slight stale aftertaste – like a dusty, old pot-pourri of dry flowers. Actually there is no flowers apparently, but the feeling of a “ghost of a chypre” is quite there in my opinion, I guess due to musks and benzoin. On the base I even smell something similar to ambergris – that same salty-rooty-mineral organic note. The addition of ginger provides a nice touch of spicy sweetness, which blends perfectly with amber to “warm” up the scent. I don’t find this that “intrigant” to be honest, rather – and pleasantly – gloomy and nostalgic, with a palpable melancholic and neoclassic refinement. A sophisticated and clever harmony played around patchouli, dark yet sweet and cozy, an elegant souvenir of a powdery-earthy chypre – like smelling your old aunt’s scarf. As other reviewers already noticed, it surely has a nice “vintage” feel, yet not smelling like a plain ripoff of an older scent. Not a masterpiece, but really pleasant, clever and creative.

7,5/10
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Scent
TeaWithMilk

27 Reviews
TeaWithMilk
TeaWithMilk
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Fruity Patchouli--Oui, Tres Intrigant!
Hmmm...I love this perfume, but I am puzzled as to why it smells a bit sweet and fruity. From what I've seen online, "Intrigant" means "scheming," and I would say that this perfume is scheming to hide the patchouli because I don't smell much patchouli unless I try. I detect more sweet resins than anything else. It is the kind of clean, natural sweetness you find when the sap of a tree oozes out and hardens.

It reminds me of Yule Brynner in The King and I. The perfume has a purple, somewhat exotic darkness about it, yet I can't take it too seriously because of the sweetness. It's well-behaved in comparison to other patchouli perfumes that seem bolder, darker, more mysterious. On the contrary, Intrigant Patchouli is soft and subtle. At times there is a powdery black leather quality that reminds me of Chanel's Cuir de Russie.

SUMMARY: "Getting to know you, getting to know all about you. Getting to like you, getting to hope you like me...." ~The King and I
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jtd

484 Reviews
jtd
jtd
4  
I'm like the child who missed the school bus.
I wanted to like this perfume so much. It seems to be one that captures the perfumery equivalent of that perfect combination of high and low art that every other form has examples of, and the innermost sanctum of the cognoscenti recognize intuitively. Think Warhol during the 60s in NYC. Perfumeries Generale has to my mind a well-earned reputation as a line of distinction with decidedly less bullshit than most niche firms. Smart, always interesting, willing to make an attempt and fail, but usually succeeding. So there’s the high art. Hippy patchouli: there’s the low art.

All the fumies love it, and give the blogging equivalent of a knowing nod when using it as a reference point. I get one big, gorgeous nose-full of hyper-patchouli, and then can’t smell it at all. Believe me, I know it’s there from the comments of those around me when I’ve tried it. Apparently it’s a patch bomb to most noses, where to mine it’s effectively a glass of water.

So this is my low self-esteem perfume. The one that captures the best of all worlds in perfumery and tells the world you’ve got smarts and taste. And I’m left scratching my head.
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