I've read someone dissing this fragrance that it smells like you've rolled on the forest floor. As an ex-boy scout I felt it was my duty to roll on the forest floor. I've just received this from Lucky Scents in the US. I've been wearing it for two days. This fragrance is gorgeous. This is one of the creamiest, fluffiest, most delicous chypre I've run across. No shade to Mitsouko. Mint, soil, mushroom, violets, oakmoss. I'm knocked over by this perfume. I'm going to go roll on the forest floor. Thanks guys.
Same word in Dutch. Not to be mistaken with the food we call 'hummus'. Sample set of Oriza was best buy in recent past. Chypre Mousse is a tad difficult though for a gourmand lover.
Nice one, guys. My personal fave from the house is Relique d'Amour. Not really "flirtatious" like Chypre Mousse, but certainly evocative, and shines in warmer months.
Wonderful recommendation. I just bought it blind, and I'm delighted with it. I get a lot of mint, but with several different twists to it. I can't name them, but all are enjoyable. The antique colours of the box, and the bottle and tassle, make you feel as though you're stepping back to the 1920s. My seller was Les Douceurs D'Anita whose15% discount on first order, and shipping only 12 Euro, kept the total cost below130Euro.
This fragrance, which I'm wild about, TAUGHT me what oakmoss smells like. It taught me because I knew oakmoss was a key note in this one, though I wouldn't be able to pick out that note with confidence (having no previous point of reference), but THEN...some days after wearing this one I wore Eau Sauvage EDP. I'd bought the latter after huge disappointment with Eau Sauvage EDT, finding it too simplistic, a linear Lemon Drops ride. but the Eau Sauvage EDP was a creature of entirely another dimension, hugely satisfying. And I recognized there was...*something* lurking in the EDP that wasn't in the EDT and made a-a-all the difference, but what WAS it? Well! After wearing Chypre Mousse and then wearing the Eau Sauvage EDP, it hit me, with a wallop: the subtle thing in Eau Sauvage EDP was precisely the knock-out note in the Chypre Mousse that THAT had to be...oakmoss! So this was a hugely pleasing learning moment.
So nice to see you two back and this perfume and the house look amazing. Will have to investigate and perhaps get some samples via Lucky Scent. Will look forward to your best of 2019. You have mentioned you both work in the classical music field as pianist and singer. Would love to hear more about your musical backgrounds. Your videos are absolutely delightful and informative. All the best for the holiday season to you and your families.
Thank you so much for making me aware of this perfume. So beautiful and out of the ordinary. Perhaps surprisingly, I really get a lot of mint, and then mainly angelica. I don't associate "forest" at all, although I do get fir. But all the rest, from mint through clary sage, angelica, earthy notes, dry leaves, fern, moss etc. that all says "gardening" to me. Gardening in the country side, minus any flowers. I love the dry-down, too, with just the right hint of sweetness. Just the other day, I put on a scarf and caught a whiff of something, and thought, whoa, what's that happy smell? until I remembered that it was Chypre Mousse. I've asked a lady friend what she thought of it, and she said she found it too bitter and somewhat harsh. So perhaps it's leaning more towards the masculine end of the spectrum. I'm getting a full bottle. Thanks again, and let me reiterate how much I enjoy your conversation. The complete opposite of those video channels where people first take ages to come to the point, then repeat the word "great" several times, and leave you without any precise idea of the perfume supposedly being reviewed. That being said, I wish you would find more perfumes on which you disagreed! I am sure I would really enjoy you having a polite disagreement and explaining yourselves to each other. The dialogue form would be so obviously ideal for that kind of discussion.
Cannot wait to order a sample set of these fragrances. Been eyeing the Horizon you mentioned Joe. The notes are so similar to my wife’s favorite fragrance on me(Bvlgari Man in Black) so I thought that I’d give it a go. Will most certainly be trying Chypre Mousse as well!
I have had couple of Orizas tested on paper strip, last week in shop. This was the only step front and found unique/interesting. So, I decided to spray on my wrist, before leaving. It projected quite nice. Not sure if it is bottle worthy but yesterday, I ordered a sample to sample more.
I've had the sample for two years now. In the beginning I thought it smelled like zombies coming from the underground lol. I love nature smells and especially dark, witchy types of perfume, but I thought this was just unwearable. Now this year I've come around to own Eden from Cacharel and loving the swampy, damp green mermaid vibes. And I noticed this mushroomy, earthy quality in the dry down, that immediatly reminded me of Chypre Mousse! So now, that I'm testing it again, I can actually imagine wearing it on a moody fall evening :) By the way - hummus - means soil that is formed by decomposition of plant and animal matter.
Mousse either hits my waistline , or like this it's going to hit my wallet 😂 Appreciate both your Insights into this one. Great to learn more about something I've not tried 🙏
Vetiver royal bourbon is also a really amazing fragrance, unfortunately from chypre mousse I get a very strong mushroom note but I appreciate it's creation, very unique and niche like
Yes, it certainly is. Lots of people talk about the mushroom note, but it wasn’t that prominent for me. I didn’t try VRB, I’ll have to get hold of a sample
I also get the impression of tobacco leaf in many chypres, especially in the base. I suppose it's just my perception merging aromas, but there you go. Difficult to distinguish green-leafy from green-musty and dry-green-earthy sometimes.
I swear i smell a hint of something like chocolate in this. Also, it could be just the lighting where you shot this, but the juice in my bottle is a much lighter color. It is incredibly fresh and green, vegetal creaminess.
Years ago, this fragrance was first spoken for by Sebastian Zara of Smelling Great Fragrances. For the most time I’ve relied on my tiny decant only to have gotten it last Australian winter. Brilliant-Brilliant-Brilliant!!! What others from the ones you tried is worth investigating?
I was just wondering what kind of house this is. Is it indie? Obviously yes, because it is privately owned by Hugo Lambert and Frank Belaiche. It follows it is not a designer house. Is it mainstream? No, too much under the radar, seen globally. Neither is it artisan. So it must be niche. But unusually noticeable niche, having this beautiful shop in the 2nd arrondissement. Clearly a very special place.
Yes, a very special place. It's an interesting one, in that it is a 200 year old house that lay dormant for almost 70 years. I don't think we can easily categorise it. 100 years ago there was no niche/designer/indie, just perfume, and I think that's where it belongs.
You stated that this was a step above, Floris, Penhaligons and Trumpers. Did you mean the perfumes? If so can you honestly say that without serious consideration of the other three companies? They do produce some wonderful scents. Or did you mean the shop? Another interesting video Gentlemen
We’ve both spent quite a lot of time with those three houses. There’s a lot to love, more so from Trumper and Floris I’d say, but I think the quality of Legrand does feel greater.
Thank you, I respect you guys for your honesty, you guys are my top 3. As a subscriber I’d love to see a full Fredric Malle or amouge review if you guys don’t already have , thank you for your response I highly appreciate it, merry Christmas!
Why do you think this is called a "Chypre". From everything that I have heard (from you, too), it's nothing like a Chypre. Aren't these characterized by citric top notes (e. g. bergamotte, neroli), floral heart notes (rose, jasmin etc.) and woods and oakmoss dry downs, coupled with other stuff like patchouli or musk. Perhaps the confusion arises because in name both this scent and Coty's original "Chypre" refer to Cyprus, but only Coty's perfume, which was actually created later than the original "Chypre Mousse", has become the founder of the eponymous perfume family. Do you feel that nevertheless "Chypre Mousse" should be classified as a chypre?
I've read someone dissing this fragrance that it smells like you've rolled on the forest floor. As an ex-boy scout I felt it was my duty to roll on the forest floor. I've just received this from Lucky Scents in the US. I've been wearing it for two days. This fragrance is gorgeous. This is one of the creamiest, fluffiest, most delicous chypre I've run across. No shade to Mitsouko. Mint, soil, mushroom, violets, oakmoss. I'm knocked over by this perfume. I'm going to go roll on the forest floor. Thanks guys.
Rolled on forest floor sounds like a great compliment, and rather accurate in this instance!
What a wonderful review! I love this perfume.
You guys were missed....WELCOME BACK
Thanks!
Humus is latin for soil and refers to soil enriched with organic matter such as compost or leaf fall.
Ah! Thanks so much for the clarification! That makes sense!
Same word in Dutch. Not to be mistaken with the food we call 'hummus'. Sample set of Oriza was best buy in recent past. Chypre Mousse is a tad difficult though for a gourmand lover.
Yes, I can well imagine!
All should sniff this one at least once! 🌱🍄❤
Nice one, guys. My personal fave from the house is Relique d'Amour. Not really "flirtatious" like Chypre Mousse, but certainly evocative, and shines in warmer months.
Wonderful recommendation. I just bought it blind, and I'm delighted with it. I get a lot of mint, but with several different twists to it. I can't name them, but all are enjoyable. The antique colours of the box, and the bottle and tassle, make you feel as though you're stepping back to the 1920s. My seller was Les Douceurs D'Anita whose15% discount on first order, and shipping only 12 Euro, kept the total cost below130Euro.
This fragrance, which I'm wild about, TAUGHT me what oakmoss smells like. It taught me because I knew oakmoss was a key note in this one, though I wouldn't be able to pick out that note with confidence (having no previous point of reference), but THEN...some days after wearing this one I wore Eau Sauvage EDP. I'd bought the latter after huge disappointment with Eau Sauvage EDT, finding it too simplistic, a linear Lemon Drops ride. but the Eau Sauvage EDP was a creature of entirely another dimension, hugely satisfying. And I recognized there was...*something* lurking in the EDP that wasn't in the EDT and made a-a-all the difference, but what WAS it? Well! After wearing Chypre Mousse and then wearing the Eau Sauvage EDP, it hit me, with a wallop: the subtle thing in Eau Sauvage EDP was precisely the knock-out note in the Chypre Mousse that THAT had to be...oakmoss! So this was a hugely pleasing learning moment.
I get a lot of honey, a balsamic honey, mixed with fir resins.
Amazing projection, sillage and longevity.
Yes, that sweet resinous quality that reveals itself from the mid
So nice to see you two back and this perfume and the house look amazing. Will have to investigate and perhaps get some samples via Lucky Scent. Will look forward to your best of 2019. You have mentioned you both work in the classical music field as pianist and singer. Would love to hear more about your musical backgrounds. Your videos are absolutely delightful and informative. All the best for the holiday season to you and your families.
Thank you so much! All the best for the holiday season
Thank you so much for making me aware of this perfume. So beautiful and out of the ordinary. Perhaps surprisingly, I really get a lot of mint, and then mainly angelica. I don't associate "forest" at all, although I do get fir. But all the rest, from mint through clary sage, angelica, earthy notes, dry leaves, fern, moss etc. that all says "gardening" to me. Gardening in the country side, minus any flowers. I love the dry-down, too, with just the right hint of sweetness. Just the other day, I put on a scarf and caught a whiff of something, and thought, whoa, what's that happy smell? until I remembered that it was Chypre Mousse. I've asked a lady friend what she thought of it, and she said she found it too bitter and somewhat harsh. So perhaps it's leaning more towards the masculine end of the spectrum. I'm getting a full bottle.
Thanks again, and let me reiterate how much I enjoy your conversation. The complete opposite of those video channels where people first take ages to come to the point, then repeat the word "great" several times, and leave you without any precise idea of the perfume supposedly being reviewed. That being said, I wish you would find more perfumes on which you disagreed! I am sure I would really enjoy you having a polite disagreement and explaining yourselves to each other. The dialogue form would be so obviously ideal for that kind of discussion.
Thanks for watching. Yes, others have requested videos on fragrances which we disagree. There aren't many, but we'll see if we can think of some.
You guys keep on going . I have become such a fan , I can relate to being a musician who loves frags . CHEERS BOYS !
Thanks!
Cannot wait to order a sample set of these fragrances. Been eyeing the Horizon you mentioned Joe. The notes are so similar to my wife’s favorite fragrance on me(Bvlgari Man in Black) so I thought that I’d give it a go. Will most certainly be trying Chypre Mousse as well!
very nice review 👍🏾 waiting for my sample to arrive .thanks
Hope you enjoy it!
I have had couple of Orizas tested on paper strip, last week in shop. This was the only step front and found unique/interesting. So, I decided to spray on my wrist, before leaving. It projected quite nice. Not sure if it is bottle worthy but yesterday, I ordered a sample to sample more.
Your presentation is art
Why, thank you!
I've had the sample for two years now. In the beginning I thought it smelled like zombies coming from the underground lol. I love nature smells and especially dark, witchy types of perfume, but I thought this was just unwearable.
Now this year I've come around to own Eden from Cacharel and loving the swampy, damp green mermaid vibes. And I noticed this mushroomy, earthy quality in the dry down, that immediatly reminded me of Chypre Mousse!
So now, that I'm testing it again, I can actually imagine wearing it on a moody fall evening :)
By the way - hummus - means soil that is formed by decomposition of plant and animal matter.
Mousse either hits my waistline , or like this it's going to hit my wallet 😂
Appreciate both your Insights into this one. Great to learn more about something I've not tried 🙏
Ha!!
Vetiver royal bourbon is also a really amazing fragrance, unfortunately from chypre mousse I get a very strong mushroom note but I appreciate it's creation, very unique and niche like
Yes, it certainly is. Lots of people talk about the mushroom note, but it wasn’t that prominent for me. I didn’t try VRB, I’ll have to get hold of a sample
I also get the impression of tobacco leaf in many chypres, especially in the base. I suppose it's just my perception merging aromas, but there you go. Difficult to distinguish green-leafy from green-musty and dry-green-earthy sometimes.
Yes, precisely
I swear i smell a hint of something like chocolate in this. Also, it could be just the lighting where you shot this, but the juice in my bottle is a much lighter color. It is incredibly fresh and green, vegetal creaminess.
Yes, I can see the chocolate suggestion
I don’t know if this was posted already but humus refers to piled up dead leaves that are rotting away. Like composting.
Years ago, this fragrance was first spoken for by Sebastian Zara of Smelling Great Fragrances. For the most time I’ve relied on my tiny decant only to have gotten it last Australian winter. Brilliant-Brilliant-Brilliant!!!
What others from the ones you tried is worth investigating?
Definitely Rêve d’Ossian, and wonderfully liturgical incense. Also, Horizon and Gentry Jocky Club
It is fabulous , only have a sample but it is fabulous .
Sounds a very interesting Fragrance guys, you review some fantastic Fragrances that some other reviewers don't do...Atb Lee
Thanks!
Fabulous. I'm ordering a sample kit. Any recommendations in addition to what you mentioned here?
Definitely Rêve d’Ossian, Horizon and Gentry Jockey Club
@@WaftsfromTheLoftThanks guys!
Would Molecule 01 tamp down its slightly stinging, astringent edge by amping up its warmth?
They probably confused hummus with HUMUS.
I was just wondering what kind of house this is. Is it indie? Obviously yes, because it is privately owned by Hugo Lambert and Frank Belaiche. It follows it is not a designer house. Is it mainstream? No, too much under the radar, seen globally. Neither is it artisan. So it must be niche. But unusually noticeable niche, having this beautiful shop in the 2nd arrondissement. Clearly a very special place.
Yes, a very special place. It's an interesting one, in that it is a 200 year old house that lay dormant for almost 70 years. I don't think we can easily categorise it. 100 years ago there was no niche/designer/indie, just perfume, and I think that's where it belongs.
Great perfume I have 2 vintage bottles
Nice! When are they from?
I bought them in 2014 one from notino and the other one from lucky scent
You stated that this was a step above, Floris, Penhaligons and Trumpers. Did you mean the perfumes? If so can you honestly say that without serious consideration of the other three companies? They do produce some wonderful scents. Or did you mean the shop? Another interesting video Gentlemen
We’ve both spent quite a lot of time with those three houses. There’s a lot to love, more so from Trumper and Floris I’d say, but I think the quality of Legrand does feel greater.
@@WaftsfromTheLoft that is interesting.and the chypre seemed very well priced with that beautiful package and bottle....excellent, thanks for reply.
Can you guys PLEASE review DUA fragrances, PLEASE if you guys haven’t checked it out
Hi, thanks for watching! We’re not interested in clone houses, much more interested in perfumers doing original, creative work.
Thank you, I respect you guys for your honesty, you guys are my top 3. As a subscriber I’d love to see a full Fredric Malle or amouge review if you guys don’t already have , thank you for your response I highly appreciate it, merry Christmas!
Thanks! Yes, there’s a lot to love from both of those houses!
Humus is the top decomposed layer of earth. Very rich and dark. Not hummous as in chickpea dip.
Thanks for the clarification, that makes much more sense!
Are u releasing a 2019 best buy Video?
Yes! Recorded it. Will edit it ASAP, hopefully publish on Sunday!
@@WaftsfromTheLoft Love U!
By the "humus" they mean the wet decaying leaves.
Hello gents :)
Hello there!
It's pronounced like this: hue muss
Why do you think this is called a "Chypre". From everything that I have heard (from you, too), it's nothing like a Chypre. Aren't these characterized by citric top notes (e. g. bergamotte, neroli), floral heart notes (rose, jasmin etc.) and woods and oakmoss dry downs, coupled with other stuff like patchouli or musk. Perhaps the confusion arises because in name both this scent and Coty's original "Chypre" refer to Cyprus, but only Coty's perfume, which was actually created later than the original "Chypre Mousse", has become the founder of the eponymous perfume family.
Do you feel that nevertheless "Chypre Mousse" should be classified as a chypre?