Mitsouko Eau de Parfum

This is reviewing a 50ml refill bottle of the EDP I bought online in August 2019. I don't know what the edition is, yet I am quite sure this is one of the most recent formulations, because yes, it is different from the formulae I have always known.

I will hasten to add that it smells wonderful... So it's not *bad*... just *different*.

Brilliant, nose-prickling …Read more

This review is for Mitsouko EDT from 2001. I am very familiar with Guerlain's Shalimar and the difference between the EDT and the perfume are striking, so I'm assuming the same goes for Mitsouko. This fragrance is stunning. There is nothing else like it that I've experienced. Sure, the Guerlain powder dry-down is similar in many of their older fragrances, and Mitsouko has that, but …Read more

I fell in love with Mitsouko many years ago when I bought a tiny collector bottle from a cosmetic catalog...it was an EDT. After sampling this, I bought the EDP formulation, not realizing that there can be a difference in the actual scent.
I gave away the EDP and actually forgot about Mitsouko for a time and then lo and behold, I ran into another tiny collector bottle of Mitsouko...and …Read more

As I get older, my tastes are changing. I find that I prefer heavier, spicier, stronger scents and am finding I enjoy the older classics more and more. I recently tested Mitsouko in a store (my preferred method is spraying my hands and then forgetting about it for a bit). I left the store and was delighted that soon I detected some soft wafts of an "oriental" vanilla drifting towards my …Read more

Classic winter fragrance for sure. I'm surprised they still make it, warm and woodsy. Parfum at it's best. Pure Parfum and the eau de Parfum are my favorite, creamy woods and spice, the eau de toilet is a bit more sharp spice leather and woods. A man could wear this just fine.

UPDATE: a few reviews on fragrance sites remarked that 2014 Mitsouko was excellent, but other reviews commented that 2015 onward was not. If you read basenotes or other perfume blogs, mitsouko, more than other Guerlains, seems to vary in character with different concentrations, year, etc. etc.
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Original review:
I have two bottles of mitsouko: 1. mitsouko extrait, a …Read more

Queen of Chypres

There isn't much more to add to what has been said. We know it's significance. It has it's place in history of perfume, it's been called the best of all time etc.

It's oakmoss and peach and rose and many other things, it's like a secluded garden in a forest full of flowers, with the smell of rain still in the air. Jacques …Read more

I kept thinking about this fragrance as it is so well reviewed and described on mua and one weekend I finally saw it at a large department store. I sprayed the little card with it and some managed to get on my little finger. I smelled it and then the card and put the card in my bag. Wow what a fragrance no wonder so many people think so highly of it, it is strong however the strength doesnt …Read more

Edit: It has become far and away my favorite fragrance. I only have 10 ml so I hoard it. It was recognizing that it smells like a homemade, rich spicy peach pie that helped me understand it, and now it's the most decadent thing I have and I'm crazy about it. This is probably my HG.

Four wearings now.
Today was the first day I could even detect any peach.
The …Read more

Right from the start, I never bought this perfume, just tested it.

And as you guess from this statement, I´d never buy this perfume for me.

Finding a new perfume is alway a chore for me. Right now, I have exactly 1 perfume I´d buy again and 2 others I don´t bother to buy again.

I thought I´d stray from my usual clean-scented perfumes and find something …Read more