Mon Parfum Chéri par Camille Goutal 2011 Eau de Parfum

Mon Parfum Chéri par Camille (Eau de Parfum) by Goutal

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Mon Parfum Chéri par Camille (Eau de Parfum) (Goutal)

6.2 / 10 115 Ratings

A perfume by Goutal for women, released in 2011. The scent is earthy-powdery. It was last marketed by Amore Pacific / 아모레퍼시픽.
Pronunciation

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Main accords

Earthy

Powdery

Fruity

Floral

Spicy

Fragrance Notes

Indonesian patchouli

Heliotrope

Iris

Plum

Violet

Perfumer

Isabelle Doyen

Ratings

Scent

6.2115 Ratings

Longevity

7.377 Ratings

Sillage

6.969 Ratings

Bottle

8.283 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 25.06.2023.

Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/21/2021

7
Sillage 7
Longevity 5
Scent

Gelis
161 Reviews

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Gelis

Top Review 10

Chéri?

Short comment:

Starts on the skin as if patchouli and plum were coked together in the pot. Since someone loved his daughter but not very, I think to myself. A perfumer had told me, Ms. Goutal has dedicated this fragrance to her daughter Camille. After fifteen minutes, I return to the "spray room" and .... Yikes! What is that?! The room smells delicately of juicy fruity plum with a bit of earth attached. That pleases me then, nevertheless, better.

Over time, the two approach each other and result in a mixture for me, but then I can not do much with. It is at the end, as if one had pushed the pot yet in time from the hotplate. Iris, violets and heliotrope must have disappeared so quickly that I didn't even get a hint of them

02/16/2013

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Very helpful Review 11

the lottery

I am as easily sucked in by the term “chypre-effect” as the next perfume fanatic. I’ll admit, I blind bought. Not only were the reviews good, but the dark plum-iris-patchouli targets me perfectly. Factor in my recent fascination with Annick Goutal fragrances and I become a big, round bull’s-eye.

As it turns out, I’m in love with this perfume. It is encompassing. Blanketing really, but perfectly calibrated. It’s a dusky, dusty, musty pairing of patchouli and coumarin. The plummy richness and the odd, lovely pairing of florals, iris and the dark vanillic heliotropin, serve more as modifiers than main course.

In tone, this could be Aromatics Elixir’s younger sister, a bit less stern but equally towering. It’s not a chypre, though. It’s not even like a chypre, despite the common thread of pachouli. It’s a dank, powdery wood, with a remote sweetness. It’s neither old-fashioned nor retro. But it does feels like it refers to the past. In the way that certain perfumes seem to have a language, MPC speaks the language of the more assured mid-late 20th century feminine perfumes. It is a like mind to Diorella, Sherrer by Sherrer, Azuree, Chanel 19.

Contemporary perfumery would lure you into a Bravo world where high heels define femininity. MPC reveals backbone. It’s not perched, it’s grounded. It is 180° from another patchouli heavy feminine, Angel. Angel is an exciting, monstrous femme that knocks you over. But where Angel is an irresistible force, MPC is the immovable object. It has gravity. MPC demonstrates that stillness is not stasis, but poise. It doesn’t try to appear contemporary, as in the ridiculous expression ‘fashion forward’. It simply IS contemporary. J’y suis, j’y reste.

Screw bubbly and whimsical. They are irrelevant. MPC is serious. The seriousness speaks of intent and assuredness. This is how perfume is sexy.

P. S. I’ve always disliked the AG ‘gender’ bottles. The blocky masculine bottle is tolerable, but the feminine bottle is ugly in its plain-Jane frilliness. Is gender really so simple as these two bottles? Putting the self-possessed MPC in this dowdy feminine bottle, though, reveals a line of thinking that shows that the easier it is to spot the simple gender binary at a glance, the easier it is to move past it.

06/23/2021

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 8
Scent

Serenissima
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Serenissima

Very helpful Review 8

damp earth after the rain

For me, patchouli is the scent of the earth: moist and fertile, smelling of decaying leaves and mushrooms, of mysterious depth.
Its hue is dark brown, interspersed with golden streaks; the shiny polished gemstone of tiger's eye as a creamy-bearing flow of fragrance.
Its tone is not major and not minor; somehow patchouli resonates between the two.

And this dark, somewhat dirty patchouli scent is accompanied by a wave of dark purple floral and fruity aromas in "Mon Parfum Chéri par Camille"
Already the prelude with patchouli and dark ripe plum, whose sweet juice can be sensed pulsating under the plump skin, seems strange.
But why? This sensual fruit draws its strength and beauty from this very heavy fertile (patchouli) earth.
Excellent to the melange fits the small violet with its friendly face and the intense feminine fragrance, which it generously exudes.
Velvety like the skin of the ripe plum is also this flower and thus an invitation for iris powder, which lays delicately scented over everything.
Heliotrope flowers in thick umbels, also in rich dark violet, live up to their name "vanilla flower": warm and sensual, they spread this heavy balsamic fragrance and harmoniously close this composition.

Thus, patchouli and its floral fragrance-intensive companions appear here like purple blossoms after rain on damp earth; even the small iridescent droplets on the dark flower faces can be glimpsed.
The result is a fragrance structure of earthy-erotic charm, which will not only cause enthusiasm.
For this it is too special, too dark and too own; its lascivious sensuality can certainly repel as well as charm.

"Mon Parfum Chéri par Camille" was designed by Isabelle Doyen for Annick Goutal's daughter Camille.
Isabelle Doyen, more of a family friend and collaborator from the beginning, was the down-to-earth counterpart to the lively, graceful Annick. The two complemented each other perfectly. Like now Camille and the nevertheless some years older Isabelle.
The company Annick Goutal can afford these small emotional fragrance side jumps.
Stands nevertheless for three decades large companies behind the enterprise: after the champagne manufacturer Taittinger it is today a Korean enterprise.

"We want to tell a story with a fragrance," Camille Goutal explained in an interview.
And it wouldn't matter at all if the person wearing that fragrance read or experienced it the same way.
A fragrance is, after all, something very personal.
Thus, a whole story lives in a small flacon, which nestles shapely and sensual in the hand and invites you to touch.

"Mon Parfum Chéri par Camille" tells the story of a female friendship; the story of three very different women united by their passion for fragrance.
Since I'm currently wearing this fragrance, I kind of belong too.
This feels very good!

01/03/2014

Omni
70 Reviews

Omni

Very helpful Review 8

Miss American Pie

Tell me a story of long ago. It is written on sheet music, or in prose, or in the notes of a perfume. Sometimes it is possible to combine them and this is what Camille Goutal has accomplished with Mon Parfum Cheri. It was inspired by a gift of solid perfume from Collette to Annick Goutal, who was eight when the French author Collette died; one wonders what circumstances led to a gift being made to a child,but they were both pianists who left their original discipline for another field, sensual prose for Collette and perfume training for Annick. This perfume, crafted by Camille Goutal as a tribute to her Mother pays homage to the rustle of silk, silver candelabra, Austrian crystal and fine Damask napkins.The table is set. The ladies are resplendent, in dress and perfume. Even the table napkins are scented, it's patchouli.
Indonesian patchouli is employed without apology in the opening of MPC. It's frightful... one recoils, then I consider how it was first used as an insect repellent in bolts of silk and other imports. I allow it to dissipate as I recall the sensuality of the book. 'Silk'. And then, by association, I think of FILTH, a book with an acronym in its title (Failed in London, Try Hong Kong)
There is plum, Satsuma of course, and I am reminded of Femme, the great Roudnitska's lovechild. Iris, the goddess of the rainbow, mixes and mingles as an excellent hostess should at a soiree. The adventure isn't over, the similarity to Cuir Amethyste hits me like a brick and I tumble down a rabbit hole where Daim Blonde is trying to wake the Dormouse. A jester sings to the KIng and Queen in a coat he borrowed from James Dean and moss grows on a rolling stone, but that's not how it used to be, back in the day, before the music died, before perfumery became praline, before we all began to smell of egg custard pies. Who started throwing those things anyway?
Mon Parfum Cheri par Camille is about how it used to be, an open declaration, a petition if you like, for a return to great French Perfumery. Where do I sign?

10/24/2012

10
Bottle 7.5
Longevity 7
Scent

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

Very helpful Review 5

Chewy Purple Fruitchouli...the best of its kind!

I have to confess that upon applying Annick Goutal MON PARFUM CHERI, my initial reaction was: "Meh. Goutal gets into the fruitchouli game." However, I had to eat my words shortly thereafter, because as the perfume developed and settled, it became more and more compelling to my nose. There is a lot more complexity here than I've sniffed in other fruitchoulis of late, and the high quality, natural-smelling ingredients which I've come to expect chez Annick Goutal are in full evidence as well.

The overall result is quite appealing: chewy, plummy, woody with some sweet florals along for the ride. I like this composition very much, I really do. Another big surprise is the heft, projection, and potency. I was sure that this must be an eau de parfum because of the sheer strength of this elixir. In fact, on the vial of my manufacturer's carded sample are clearly printed the words "eau de toilette". Nice to know that not all houses have succumbed to the temptation to dilute their wares to stretch them as thinly as possible...

Good work, Goutal! One must like plum and patchouli in order to enjoy wearing this perfume, but if you do, then this one's for you, as it's the best of the recent bunch of launches in this general mold.

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