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16 Jardins de Kérylos 2006

6.9 / 10 109 Ratings
A perfume by Pierre Guillaume for women and men, released in 2006. The scent is green-fresh. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Green
Fresh
Fruity
Woody
Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Green figGreen fig
Heart Notes Heart Notes
White peachWhite peach Sycamore woodSycamore wood
Base Notes Base Notes
MuskMusk TuberoseTuberose

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
6.9109 Ratings
Longevity
5.980 Ratings
Sillage
5.467 Ratings
Bottle
7.271 Ratings
Value for money
6.418 Ratings
Submitted by Seglein, last update on 12/26/2023.

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Turandot

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Turandot
Top Review 15  
juicy green
In this garden, I would certainly love to be on a hot summer day. Cool, green, shady with golden lights peeking through the foliage and on the lush lawn where the grass has recently been mowed, the sprinkler is now running and spreading that unmistakable scent. Jardin de Kerylos creates a leisure atmosphere, but not the cheerful-loud kind, rather the one you spend alone with a good book in a shady spot in the garden. Well, maybe someone recently oiled the squeaky garden gate with WD40, as NW1990 pointed out, but that hint of synthetic does not bother me; it even feels rather aromatic.

I can understand that those who like floral, oriental, or powdery scents will not be happy with Jardins de Kerylos, and I would not choose it as a signature scent either, but it is certainly an interesting and pleasant fragrance experience for me, and I wouldn’t have a problem wearing it occasionally in the summer.
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Lila

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Lila
Helpful Review 9  
juicy figs and green grass
I can also smell the ice candies in the opening. :-) I quite like that. However, this opening fades after a short time, and the scent of juicy figs and green grass unfolds. The figs emit a sweet coconut-like aroma, and the combination with the herbaceous green notes is very well balanced. There is also a very delicate floral note present, although it is not listed. On my skin, it initially develops a creamy scent that, due to the coconut note, slightly reminds me of sunscreen. The whole thing then concludes with a gentle woody base. I find this scent very straightforward and pleasing, and not so incredibly green that it would be bothersome. On the contrary. Jardins de Kerylos is, to my nose, a lovely delicate summer fragrance that is very skin-like and does not become annoying even in high temperatures. Unfortunately, the longevity leaves something to be desired.
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DonJuanDeCat

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DonJuanDeCat
7  
Weak Fig
Oooh figs!
… oh no, forget it… you probably know me well enough by now to know that I totally go crazy for certain fragrance notes. There’s, of course, tea, citrus notes, and naturally figs. You also know that I’m into Star Wars, Batman, and other nerdy things. Oh and… you know (and roll your eyes because of it) that I sometimes find the ladies here with amazing fragrances absolutely irresistible, but I’d still rather run away in nervousness from them, especially when I have to test women’s fragrances :D
You also know that I’m single, you know that I can get a bit hysterical here and so on :D

But there are surely some who don’t know me yet, right? You there, in the second row, you don’t know me, do you? Alright, let’s start over… argh, no! Just read above and you’ll know that I’m a freak… so, now that we’ve cleared that up, I can finally get to the scent. Which, of course, smells like figs :DD
Ooooh, you know I like figs! Aaaargh… I said it again. But once caught in this loop, you can never escape! :DD

… oh dear, I shouldn’t have mentioned the nerdy things, now the newcomers think I’m a freak too, arghhhh! I’ll quickly test the scent. And then I’ll go cry a little. But just a bit…

The Scent:
The scent clearly starts with the fig, but it’s quite a green and therefore unfortunately a bit stuffy fig, which I personally, despite my love for figs and fig scents, like a little less than the fig notes that smell sweeter or at least less stuffy. But it’s not bad, as the stuffiness doesn’t last long and the scent is mixed with nice, green notes (still, there are prettier fig notes! :DD).
Strangely, I have some difficulties with the peach. Normally a very easily recognizable note, I smell it here weaker than most describe it. Well, as often, scent perceptions are different (mine are right, yours are wrong! Mu ha ha ha,… does that sound very arrogant? :DD).
In the background, floral notes can be smelled, but they can’t really be identified. Later, you still smell figs, which are now even less stuffy, but still seem a bit dry. A light musk note appears and gives the scent a (very slight) sweetness.
The scent hardly changes anymore and remains so until the end.

The Sillage and Longevity:
The sillage is unfortunately quite low… it will hardly be noticeable to others shortly after spraying, unless you press the scent wearer really tightly. A little while later, the scent is almost skin-close.
Accordingly, the longevity is also low. It lasts about four hours, but after that, there’s hardly anything left of the scent.

The Bottle:
The bottle is rectangular, transparent, and thus very simple. The label is at least round and brings some variety to the otherwise almost always rectangular labels of most fragrances. The cap is black and cylindrical. Nothing special and rather practical.

Okay, the scent is not bad. Yes, you can see that I’m not really excited about the scent, but it’s just not bad. It smells green and of figs, but there are fig fragrances where the fig note (the whole scent, in fact) smells much better (e.g., Philosykos by Diptyque, Fico di Amalfi by Acqua di Parma, Figuier Eden by Armani, Debaser by D.S. Durga or Fico d’India by Tuttotondo, etc…).

Additionally, the scent is unfortunately also extremely weak, it dissipates quickly and will hardly be noticeable or only for a very short time on someone. Therefore, it’s at most suitable as a casual daytime scent, but as I mentioned, there are better (and possibly cheaper) fragrances for that.
To be honest, I expect much better from Parfumerie Générale. So it’s not something you absolutely have to try, even if you, like me, totally love cute figs :D
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Baux

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Baux
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Of Fig-Eating Kingfishers and Dead Forest Elves
Etymologically, PG is starting to annoy me. Cadjméré doesn’t actually mean cashmere in any language I can find online, but that’s supposedly what it means. Why the ancient Greek Kerylos (kingfisher) was chosen here remains a mystery, as does the question of what it has to do with the fragrance at all. Additionally, I’ve now learned that forest elves initially smell like Play-Doh and then increasingly like grass.
The perfume is actually quite pleasant, as long as you don’t think about Play-Doh the whole time, but maybe that’s just me. However, it is also one of the more inconsequential ones I’ve tested recently, which is a bit of a shame because the kingfisher story from Ovid's Metamorphoses, which lends its name to the product, is quite lovely (if you can find something appealing in this godly stuff).

Alkyone and Keyx were actually quite happy together until he had to go on a business trip. Back then, sea travel wasn’t so safe, and Aiolos, Alkyone’s father and the god of winds, wasn’t too fond of his son-in-law, and storms were ultimately part of his job. So Keyx does the Jack Dawson thing (just with more wind and without an iceberg), while his beloved, who of course knew better all along, howls in anticipation of his return. When she learns that it won’t happen, she throws herself off the cliffs into the sea. The gods found the whole story entertaining enough to transform Alkyone into a kingfisher and take the dead husband, who is floating below the cliffs, along with her. Together, they then fly towards the sunset.
Once a year, the wind god Aiolos takes a week off so that the kingfisher can build its nest in peace - in the garden of Pierre Bourdon, where figs also grow and the gardener (not Pierre himself) has freshly mowed.

The perfume is really not bad. Anyone who likes Play-Doh, figs, and grass should give it a try. The fig here is not too juicy-sweet but rather interpreted as fresh and green, which counters the fruit salad monotony of lower perfumer mainstream. But honestly: Couldn’t more have been made from the story? Something with sea and wind that is beautifully tear-jerking? Even in the garden of the famous Villa Kerylos, more typical perfumer ingredients grow than were used here.

No. 16 is too cowardly for me.

P.S.: The dry down is really bothering me. The sweetish quality of the fig and the grass-hay note combine into something not so great - I’d say it smells like the neighboring apartment when grandma hasn’t emptied the mail in a while. Perhaps the Memento Mori from Ovid's tragic story is being referenced here again. I definitely don’t need that.
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FrauHolle

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FrauHolle
Less helpful Review 6  
Glacier Ice Candies with Liquid Core
Ingredients Candy:
Cane sugar, glucose syrup

Acidifying agent liquid core:
Tartaric acid, citric acid, lactic acid, formic acid, arsenic acid, barbituric acid, prussic acid, butyric acid, chloric acid, acetic acid, uric acid, carbonic acid, phosphoric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid.

+natural ice candy flavor.
(also glacier, ice)
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Tuberose unfolds in the album:
Fig before peach blossom.
Musk raves: Botanical garden, colorful, but: Photos in b/w.
No color film. Beautiful.
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Ether Worlds: green, fresh, almost unripe fig, juicy and fresh, watery and a bit bitter, with a subtle sweetness too, exaltedly beautiful.
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A lot of leafy green, watery-maritime, less lactonic. The fig ripens, becomes fruitier, but soon sinks into familiar woody fluff. OK!
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Four test runs, sample empty! Result: green, grass, a bit of fig, green, a bit more fig, tomato leaf (?) occasionally fruity but green.
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Fresh green with unripe fruits growing in the shade. Unsweet. Tomato leaves + a few flowers with clean musk. Not my garden.
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Beautiful, green fig scent. Slightly salty and floral undertones. Fresh for summer and quite unsweet.
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Why do I smell marzipan at the start? I'm not a fan of that. Later it's nicer. Fruity, a bit of unripe peach & a hint of tuberose.
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Green-woody-fruity is how the garden of Villa Kerylos in southern France smells. It must be wonderfully airy there with a fresh breeze from the sea.
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The most beautiful fig scent I've found so far. Delicate, cool, subtle, fresh, elegant. I don't share all the fuss here.
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In the garden of Villa Kérylos (my dream house), there isn't a single fig tree. Still, there's a green fruity freshness without Diptyque's creaminess.
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