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Sultan Of Style 2009

7.4 / 10 80 Ratings

A perfume by Sultan Of Style for women, released in 2009. The scent is floral-powdery. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Powdery

Sweet

Creamy

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Aldehydes

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Rose

Jasmine

Lilac

Orange blossom

Pink pepper

Xenophobic Thermostat

Base Notes

Iris

Powder

Musk

Rose

Vanilla

Violet

Amber

Clove

Perfumer

Amélie Bourgeois

Ratings

Scent

7.480 Ratings

Longevity

7.461 Ratings

Sillage

6.662 Ratings

Bottle

7.863 Ratings

Value for money

6.812 Ratings

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Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/06/2023

8Scent 10Longevity 8Sillage

Lala25
43 Reviews

Lala25

2

Blush+ lipstick

You have to give this perfume time and it will impress you.
The first time when I tried it I didn't like it because the
first few minutes did not please me.
I dropped the discovery, I remembered when I wanted to get rid of this sample.

It was as if it is a perfume from another era. A very vintage powder at first and quite sinister.
But very quickly arrives the lipstick we also smell the rose.
It doesn't stop here and we start to feel a spicy and hot side, it's the red pepper that's bad for it.
It will follow with a very sugary violet.
This perfume is a chameleon, it evolves and each time we learn new things about it.
I imagine a woman of the period with her powder wig, but who has a lot of blush and lipstick.
The spices do not let this perfume turn into a dry powder, it intervenes at each stage.
Blush+spicy lipstick that's it!

06/08/2020

9.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Emorandeira
395 Reviews

Emorandeira

Sweet and airy Lipstick rose

Very nice Lipstick fragance. Very similar to Lipstick rose by frederick Malle. It is powdery, with a very pleasant iris and Violet and a lovely and very subtle rose. At the same time It is sweet, with a smell which is between the los Lipstick bars and a chewie gum,and all the spices give ti the fragance a special and differencisl character. The aldehides gives some airy vibe and freshness to the fragance, making It It softer and very weareable.
Probably more femenine according to the traditio al traste but i LOVE It for myself.

Scent: 9.5
Longevity: 7.5
Sillage: 7
Quality/price: 5
Versatility: 8
Originality: 9
Global: 9

04/26/2021

9Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Medusa00
846 Reviews

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Medusa00

Top Review 21

A Redemption!

Perlerette hasn't been received very well by my predecessors. So I will take a stand for it. Not that Perlerette is being condemned here under the motto: “Once the reputation is ruined, it stinks completely unashamedly.”
I only recently discovered the house of Volney, thanks to some lovely decanting ladies. Volney is a traditional perfume house in Paris, founded back in 1919. According to their website, Volney currently only launches 4 fragrances: “Brume d'Hiver,” “Ambre de Siam,” “Yapana,” and “Objet Céleste.” Perlerette is almost a forgotten classic, and the owners of this fragrance can consider themselves lucky.
Lily? There is no lily here! Well, Perlerette does give us a brief sweet-syrupy note, which might lead one to suspect lily. But anyone who has ever had a large bouquet of lilies in their living room might very well find themselves enchantedly moving it to the broom closet after a few hours.

Perlerette is dominated by iris. Iris creates unsweetened powdery clouds in many perfumes.
After an aldehydic opening, a huge bouquet of lilac takes over and embraces the iris. Pink pepper, sweet-spicy, already provides the first powdery hint. Roses here are actually just extras, and there are certainly no overflowing Bulgarian roses.
In the dry down, decadent musk, stirred into an amber-vanilla cream, takes the stage and gives Perlerette a slightly disreputable, erotic note. And it continues to powder.....

No dupe to Brittania! Volney certainly doesn't need to produce any dupes at all!

12/21/2014

5Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Florblanca
1168 Reviews

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Florblanca

Top Review 17

Skin Chemistry???

Not at all! As experienced perfume collectors, we now know that our skin chemistry influences less than 4% of our scent perception.
It is our nose, our olfactory sensors, that tell us how we perceive a fragrance. And it is this fact that has once again surprised me regarding Perlerette.

Perlerette - the big sister of Perlinette, both created in 1925, but only Perlerette is being reintroduced to the market - is described by Volnay itself as a powdery floral.

Aldehydes and bergamot in the top note? If that is the case, then the two have hidden themselves very well, indeed, behind the immediately present iris. This iris conjures in my mind a wild leather soaked in lilac scent. The leather is extremely soft and very light, ivory-colored. Nevertheless, it develops the typical, dry, and very intimate leather scent, on which the lilac only gently comes to the fore.

Surprisingly, I find Perlerette less powdery than Objet Céleste. It is dry with an emphasis on iris. Perlerette bears no resemblance to its little sister Perlinette, which fortunately found its way into my collection in a beautiful old bottle.

I cannot really discern the other flowers according to the pyramid, nor the spices, although the pyramid provided by Volnay differs slightly from ours:

Top: Italian bergamot, pink pepper, bigarade grapefruit
Heart: modern clove, gentle orange blossom, delicate jasmine, modern rose, pink pepper, lilac
Base: Base 4092, Iralia, iris, ambrette, vanilla, violet, musk powder

After a half-hour of well-recognizable presence, Perlerette becomes extremely close to the skin and very skin-focused. In my opinion, this is a very sensual scent. Essentially wearable during the day, as it is very gentle, but I would not wear it at work, as it feels too personal, too intimate, and is therefore more suitable for private occasions.

Besides iris and lilac, other floral notes are only very faintly perceptible, not enough to identify them individually. The same goes for the spice notes. Ambrette and musk are likely responsible for the slightly sweet, very feminine skin touch, but are not explicitly noticeable as a fragrance note.

Perlerette was originally (1925) offered in a round bottle inspired by an ivory pearl. The current version comes in the same bottle as the other four Volnay fragrances, which only differ by the colored silk ribbons around the neck of the bottle. Here it is lilac-colored.

I find Perlerette very beautiful and pleasant, subtle and very personal. However, it will not find a place in my collection, as I feel it does not suit me and cannot compete with my personal iris "Cher" by Michel Klein.

02/21/2014

7Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Seerose
775 Reviews

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Seerose

Top Review

A Descriptive First Comment

This is the 2nd Volnay fragrance that has this peculiar dry and slightly sweet scent note.
It is always referred to as lily or GoldenStone lily. Fragrant lilies have a very strong to carrion-like smell, filling the room. The Golden-Stone lily has no scent; the petals are bright yellow with purplish small spots. It could be the ambrette seeds mentioned in the base of Perlerette.
Perhaps I will discover the name and origin of this scent note.
"Perlerette" starts for me exactly with this somewhat powdery-dry scent note together with a bitter fragrance, a hint of bergamot, a trace of spiciness.
Then follows a nearly animalistic development, a sweet floral blend tending towards the penetrating, with a distinct hint of civet. For a very brief moment, it smells animalic-fecal, and then it becomes very sweet, a floral mixture with clear lily notes like those presented in "Baiser Volé."
I cannot detect any fruitiness in it, certainly no European fruits. Overall, "Perlerette" has no citrus or other sour scent notes.
The sweet scent quickly recedes; now, as in all Volnay creations, the base 4092 appears, rose, unsweetened vanilla pod, and a hint of clove. A pleasing scent mixture, the signature of Volnay fragrances.
Base 9042 now blends with powdery and creamy scents likely from iris and violet roots. White musk adds even more creaminess.
The sweet vanilla that now takes the lead in "Perlerette" I have not perceived in any of the other Volnay fragrances.
Thus, "Perlerette" is now a gourmand perfume for me, pleasant. "Perlerette" remains for a long time with medium sillage, not diminishing. It would be an arbitrary boring powdery-creamy musk scent with appetizing vanilla, nothing spectacular.
If it weren't for that very peculiar, unidentifiable scent that still remains at the same intensity, which from the beginning has intruded dry and dominant into my nose and made me somewhat retreat internally from the scent.
However, together with the base, it fits well, creating a rich consistent fragrance, and prevents "Perlerette" from becoming an arbitrary vanilla gourmand.
I would love to read more opinions on this, including controversial ones. It seems to me that something is missing in this scent, that I am not perceiving something.
A part of my sense of smell signals: It is a very good idiosyncratic fragrance, and the other part cannot come to terms with this special peculiar scent note, although it gives the fragrance its uniqueness.

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