Rose Musk Sorceress 1977

Bottle Design:
Thierry de Baschmakoff

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8.0 / 10 67 Ratings

A popular perfume by Sorceress for women, released in 1977. The scent is chypreartig-floral. It is being marketed by Palm Beach Beauté.
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Main accords

Chypre

Floral

Woody

Spicy

Powdery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Tangerine

Bergamot

Basil

Osmanthus

Heart Notes

Ylang-ylang Jasmine

Jasmine

Narcissus

Orange blossom Rose

Rose

Base Notes

Oakmoss absolute

Sandalwood Amber

Amber

Honey

Patchouli

Bureaucratic Copper

Perfumer

Daniel Hoffmann

Ratings

Scent

8.067 Ratings

Longevity

7.756 Ratings

Sillage

7.456 Ratings

Bottle

7.862 Ratings

Submitted by Lissy, last update on 06/03/2025.

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What the fragrance is similar to

Histoire d'Amour Parfum

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Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/30/2025

Thewrongbeth
78 Reviews

Thewrongbeth

1

Unexpected!

Blind bought expecting this to be much more green/bitter. It's a chypre, after all.

Surprise! It's a lovely, semi-sweet floral with pretty aromatic, powdery touches. Like an expensive dusting powder, but from a bygone era. Even though it has this sort of "old timey" feel, it's not dated. Could easily pass for a Guerlain or Carven: sophisticated and very French. Has an endearing transparent quality. Also, while powdery, HdA has a gauzy, watercolor feel. Like an impressionist painting of a wildflower meadow.

Clean, breezy, earthy. And for $15? A steal!

ETA: don't be influenced by comparison to Krizia. That is a CK Obsession dupe and HdA is nothing like either.

11/23/2014

10
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 8
Scent

GothicHeart
85 Reviews

GothicHeart

Helpful Review 6

Amour perpétuel...

Histoire d'Amour... Oui, mais quel sorte d'amour est-il? It's strange, but this is one of the most ambiguous perfumes I have ever smelled. At first it looks and smells like it comes right out of the pages of a Victorian horror novel. This is how a theatre dressing room would smell back then. But whoever would be waiting for the young thespian outside, could be nothing less than Jack the Ripper. So the poor beatiful thing would meet her doom-laden fate, but smelling divinely nevertheless.
On the other hand it smells of something a firebrand would wear. Tough and hard-boiled, but straight and honest to the extreme. I don't know, how can be something romantic and cynical at the same time? Oakmoss battling narcissus and osmanthus quarrelling with basil? I love to watch such fights taking place! Their outcome is usually a mess, except some messes are unique and stunning.
And concerning its "gender", this one's feminine and (I'm Francisco "Paco" Rabaneda Cuervo and I've made) 1 Million (in a month) is masculine? Right... O tempora o mores!
Now, I can already hear the Old Lady Alert screaming, and see youngsters pointing at its "outmoded" bottle in sheer horror. So, do we have an old lady here? Of course we do! The youngsters are right, but also so wrong. She is an old lady indeed. Only this one packs a pair of knuckledusters inside her old lady bag. And after flooring any arrogant and pompous brat, she'll kickstart her old lady motorcycle and vanish into the sunset. The very kind of an old lady who can use this gorgeous bottle to spray a mesmerising shroud around her, but can also bludgeon every hater to submission, before (s)he'll be able to say: "Hey, it smells like old la..." Bang! You're down! Now, be smart enough to stay down and kowtow before her prodigious awesomeness! It's so much fun being an old lady sometimes! Especially when embarassing clueless newbies is the name of your game.
I can't stress enough how much I miss smelling perfumes of this magnitude and quality in public nowadays. So, ladies, please, wear this and go somewhere. In a club, to a ball, it doesn't matter; somewhere. If there's any gallant and fine gentleman there, rest asured he'll come directly to you, like drawn by a magnet, tossing every fruity-candy-sweety girl aside in his wake. And perhaps your Histoire D'Amour will be born...

09/08/2013

10
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 10
Scent

Sorceress
213 Reviews

Sorceress

Very helpful Review 5

Histoire d'Amour-Inhale The Scents The Forest Has To Offer

I can't get enough of this scent! For the price, it's amazing to me. I picked it up at TJMaxx for under $10, a blind buy based on reviews, and this has to be one of my happiest purchases I've made that way. I've been wearing it for awhile and I absolutely love this.
The ylang-ylang and bergamot, soft and dancing around the patchouli and oakmoss make a heavy incense that lasts for hours. This is a scent for a wearer that enjoys mature, full-bodied fragrances that are earthy and full-scented. Wearing it, I am transported to a haven of trees, where Spanish Moss hangs, perhaps, where it is cool and damp and the air is heavy with the scents of the woods around me. I am inhaling all the scents the forest has to offer and feeling the Earth's spiritualness from within. If this is what a Chypre is all about, then I want to bask in its scents of the woods. Absolutely fulfilling as a fragrance, this will not leave you wanting for more. For the price point, you will be pleasantly pleased and able to taste the woods for yourself.
The bottle is surprisingly huge. It's also very pretty. Simple, timeless and Victorian in style. An excellent Fall and Winter fragrance to wear on those chillier days and nights.

01/19/2012

2.5
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 6
Scent

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

Helpful Review 5

Drugstore Cheap Chypre Inspires Respect

I have to say that I'm surprised to learn that Aubusson HISTOIRE D'AMOUR was launched in 1984. I'd have guessed closer to 1884. Even the bottle looks as though it might well have been blown in the nineteenth century. One thing is clear: this perfume could be used quite effectively to define the expression "old lady perfume" by ostension. HISTOIRE D'AMOUR is the very essence of all that people hate or love about "old lady perfumes." Ponderous, introspective, dusty, even musty. The drydown of this perfume is a joyous old-school chypre to be cherished. But, to be perfectly frank (quoi d'autre?), spraying this stuff on initially evokes in my mind instantaneous images of grandmothers meandering about Walgreens drugstore.

Yes, as is true of all things, finer distinctions can be made within the broader category of "old lady perfumes"—of which, I should clarify, I own quite a few. There are old lady perfumes, and then there are old lady perfumes. CHANEL NO 5, FIRST, CALECHE, WHITE LINEN, among others, stand on one side of the thin white line, while somewhat less noble old ladies are found on the other. Dare I say "YOUTH DEW", the perversely named Platonic Form of "old lady perfume," to which all others can only aspire?

Drugstore cheap chypre is the bottom line here. This is not the perfume of the Carmen Dell'Orefice featured in the doubly embarrassing "Class is forever" ad. (Is she unaware that the advertisers are implying that she is *infinitely* old? Is she unaware that people who talk about "class" are usually those conspicuously devoid of the same?) No, HISTOIRE D'AMOUR is more the speed of the nonagenarian with wrinkles on top of wrinkles who, when asked to reveal her secret to longevity, smiles, baring dark yellow teeth and crinkling the skin around her eyes even more, as she replies: "I've smoked a pack of Camel straights everyday now for sixty years."

Eventually, after drying down, the wafts of "old lady at the drugstore" from the opening of HISTOIRE D'AMOUR (apparently also ironically named...) dissipate considerably, but they still beat their way back now and then, like the woman who obstinately refuses to renounce her Camel straights or the deadwood professor who will not retire before his cold corpse must be pried from his desk.

Yes, lest anyone misinterpret my colorful examples: I respect HISTOIRE D'AMOUR, and I have every intention of holding on to this bottle until death do us part—in spite of the intermittent wisps of old lady whispers in my ears.