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Vague de Folie Verte
FR! 01 | N° 05
2014

7.2 / 10 30 Ratings
A perfume by Le Cercle des Parfumeurs Createurs for women and men, released in 2014. The scent is green-fresh. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Green
Fresh
Spicy
Synthetic
Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Green notesGreen notes Star aniseStar anise ArtemisiaArtemisia
Heart Notes Heart Notes
GalbanumGalbanum OakmossOakmoss BlackcurrantBlackcurrant
Base Notes Base Notes
VetiverVetiver MuskMusk

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7.230 Ratings
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5.324 Ratings
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Elysium

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Elysium
Elysium
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On The Turf Bench
Turf benches were among the most distinctive features of medieval gardens, a green place to rest, and are depicted in many paintings and tapestries. Such courts may be rectangular, circular, L-shaped, or U-shaped; the U-shaped type is known as an exedra. The most renowned Russian realist painter, Ilya Repin, created an excellent impressionistic canvas: "On a Turf Bench." The picture was painted in July 1876 in the village of Krasnoe, a picturesque suburb of St. Petersburg. It shows a corner of a garden overgrown with trees, against which, on a bench covered with turf, rest the artist's close friends and family under the shade of trees in a garden. Women are busy sewing, men are reading books, and children play at ease and calmly on the grass. Bright summer greens, openwork foliage of trees, and a calm state of the characters create a feeling of joyful family well-being, delight, and joy. Summer lives in every stroke of this sunlit landscape. The colors are as if mixed with the sun and radiate happiness and the joy of life.

Vague de Folie Verte, similar to all the other six perfumes of the collection, was realized through essential rules, no limits to the quality of the raw materials used, minimalist packaging with paper, wood, and glass from eco-sustainable sources. The only protagonist is the fragrance that describes and enhances, in its deepest essence, an authentic and shared passion for the Art of Perfume. Antoine Lie, who has created perfumes for Armani, Paul Smith, and Ralph Lauren, was inspired by wild nature and looked for the creation of an emotion close to the thrill, provoking the sensation of speed, movement, whirlwind.

Amid the six Eau de Parfums in the collection, I fancy Vague de Folie Verte precisely for that summery, greeny, balsamic, and aromatic nimbus that surrounds its fresh glow—the allies are the green notes that we don't usually dare touch them. An overdose of them until they made a green, medicinal perfume, close to an elixir of madness!

On my skin, Vague de Folie Verte acts like green, fresh, and aromatic perfume. It embraces you with a wave of green madness that reveals aromatic facets of absinthe and star anise. It has a fairly sunny start, bright green turning to yellow, with an apparent minty note on me, which refreshes the whole. I'm talking about it, because I haven't seen it in the composition which tells us about absinthe and star anise, but on me, it's not aniseed at all, it looks like mint.

The heart bleeds with milky, aromatic, and resinous accords featuring the green notes of blackcurrant bud and bitter galbanum combined with the fig leaves. The galbanum imparts a fresh, natural green chypre tone to the scent. I seem there is a touch of something floral, warm, exotic, delicate, and sweet floral aroma, and I bet Arabian jasmine sambac is in the heart, so intoxicating with its amazing fragrance, turning sweeter in the drydown, yet not as sweet as Jasminum grandiflorum absolute.

The base, whose freshness remains, includes oakmoss, vetiver, and white musks. As the grass notes fade, the herbal aspects take over, and what remains is something along the lines of a minty sage with a soft, peppery effect. Fresh, vegetal, green, clean musk and woods are the notes I get. The dry down brings out more of the musk and vetiver, and it's not a dirty musk but just fresh and clean. Under a few aspects, it reminds me of the clean smell and vibe as Le Labo Gaiac 10.

Vague de Folie Verte is an amazing and confusing fragrance. It has very green, overdosed notes. Slightly vegetal, somewhat crisp, and green, this one plays a series of grass notes against some minty and herbals for a reasonably realistic and bright stem effect that goes a bit teal. If I had not been told the notes for this fragrance, I think I would never have found it. Le Cercle Des Parfumeurs Createurs describe it as the most masculine of all. It is cold, but it has a great warm spot, it is not strong, but it has a strong personality.
Under the surge of the wind, the grass bends, undulates, hypnotizes. The large trees around form an untidy crown of leaves and woven wood. A shiver that tastes as the madness of raging nature.
The performance is pretty good, longevity is about several hours on me, for a spring or better summer lazy day.

Stay safe; stay well.

-Elysium
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Ergoproxy

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Unfortunately, no bitter end
FR! 01 / N° 05 - Vague de Folie Verte? It must be a green scent, that much I can gather from the name, but the rest remains a mystery to me due to my lack of French knowledge. I think Parfumo will quickly fill this gap.:)

I must say right away. If this fragrance didn't have such a generic base, I would have been completely ecstatic.

The top note is truly wonderful. Herbal, fresh anise (not star anise, but the kind you find in the Mediterranean) and a fine, slightly bitter note coming from the mugwort. The absence of citrus elements adds to my excitement.

Then the fragrance slowly glides into a slightly floral direction, skillfully maintaining the herbal, slightly bitter base mood. At the same time, the scent now spreads a pleasantly nostalgic atmosphere without feeling old-fashioned. But unfortunately, the fragrance also has a base accord.

This is so interchangeable that I can't hide a certain disappointment. Too much clean musk with a hint of green background noise is all that remains of the wonderful greenish bitter scent.

For a change, I would have wished for a (greenish) bitter end here, and the fragrance would have immediately found its way into my collection. But that doesn't seem to be the case.

What a pity!
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KleineHexe

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Good Morning??
I think this is the opportunity for me to come out - as the new German phrase goes - I do not belong to the morning people.

The time between 6 AM and 9 AM I only survive through decades of training in the same activities. From 9 AM onwards, I then have a rough idea of what I am doing, and one could consider me competent from that point on. Just like today.

With sleepwalker-like certainty, I entered our bathroom, which, fortunately for me, has been in the same place for several years now, and washed the unknown, crumpled being that looked at me tiredly from the mirror. Then it was time to brush my teeth. So before breakfast.

To the possible objection that brushing after breakfast is the only truly blissful method, I always counter with the argument that I couldn't wait long enough for all the acids in my mouth to be neutralized. Getting up earlier is unfortunately not an option for people like me.

Then it was time to get dressed and apply perfume. A green, herbal scent wafted into my nose.

Oh no, this can't be true!

Next came the famous breath-freshening aroma of toothpaste or mouthwash.

Damn, did I mix up the bottles? After all, it was still before 9 AM.

I went back to the bathroom, confused. It wasn't the mouthwash. It doesn't have a spray nozzle. I was relieved to rule out any leftover toothpaste residue. So only Vague de Folie Verte remained as the source of the evil.

Now, I wouldn't necessarily describe the fresh scent of toothpaste and mouthwash as madness. You can't really scare anyone with that. So I kept the perfume on my skin and went to the office. The green freshness soon faded away. A very unremarkable base, like in countless other fragrances, emerged.

Dear creators of this EdP, Annick Goutal did this much better with Ninfeo Mio!

For me, Vague de Folie Verte is just another failed attempt to create a new fragrance experience. Those who love the "breath freshness" of mouthwash would be better off purchasing that in terms of sillage and price anyway.
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Fefaminz

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The Dose Makes the Poison
I was quite skeptical: Artemisia! A bad memory of the Bohemian almost prevented the test, after all, I really liked the basic ingredients present there, but in that combination, it shook me! It doesn't matter, I'm brave, and the description from Franfan20 doesn't sound too bad.

The beginning is foresty-mossy fresh, a real delight and proof that freshness at these temperatures is possible even without lemon or aqua. Yes, it is a bit herbal, but this is softened by a very light sweetness, probably that wonderful combination of galbanum and oak moss (have I mentioned that I like this combo?!;-) The very slight hint of herbal candy prevents it from becoming too nice. I can't perceive the blackcurrant directly as such, but it contributes the necessary floral note and has nothing to do with eating. The dry down is very soft, leaving only a trace of musk at the end (I can't make out vetiver).

Unfortunately, No. 5 lasts only a few hours on me, and the rather pleasant re-spraying in this heat might not sit well with the wallet.
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Souhsza

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Transformable Wave: Between Dandelion and Blackcurrant
I am by nature so soft, so sweet, so deep, so airy, so feminine, so heavy, so clear, that perfumes have a hard time with me.

I see the perfume advertisements on television and think, I could never buy such a mass-produced scent.

My fragrance must complete me while simultaneously highlighting me. Citrusy or simply sticky sweet, like so many drugstore scents, would already be unsuitable because they are just too vulgar.

However, I do not smell that even with a hint of green madness. At the beginning, I perceive the bitterness that completes me, like dandelion salad in spring, and to my delight, it is not at all common for a perfume.

I sense something elusive and thus mysterious, which emphasizes and flatters my depth. I am often seen as somewhat unpredictable.

Then, as it develops, a budding fruitiness emerges, like that of blackcurrant, which replaces the bitterness, softens it, and thus makes it easier to access the scent of me in the green wave. It rages over me and makes me shine fragrance-wise like a diamond by constantly flashing new facets. The approachability after the exotic, like a hand reaching out.

I am relieved by the clarity of a rock crystal, this perfume, which never leaves me in a powdery ambiguity that makes me cough.

The green madness blends quite well with my natural scent and allows us to make a really good impression until the very end.
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Vague de Folie Verte is an amazing and confusing fragrance. It has very green, overdosed notes. Slightly vegetal, somewhat crisp, and green.
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6 years ago
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Promising green-fresh start. Then it gets synthetic and aquatic. Reminds me of mainstream scents. Rather boring for my nose.
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Your green head
A snake bite
Of sharp herbs
Star anise
Beneath it flees a plastic lawn
Of vetiver, musk, and mosses
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Fresh-bitter-sweet spritzer with Pastis aroma and mint and floral decor in a signal green musk glass: Anise between fine and artificial.
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Nice green scent that shifts between plant sap and synthetic notes, then settles into a powdery musk bed. Unique!
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10 years ago
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A green scent through and through: aromatic and fresh with warm mint and sweet green notes. Very gentle and understated.
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green-fresh-creamy - a successful combo, starring oak moss, blackcurrant, musk. S/D was unfortunately hardly present for me :(
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Chilled fennel-anise tea. Fresh and herbal with a nice light spiciness. I really like the tea and the scent.
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Various shades of green shimmer together in a light cream, intertwined with citrusy and woody bursts.
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Green, fresh, and spicy. Light EDP, unfolds better in cooler temperatures, quite close to the skin. A successful scent all the way to the base!
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