Histoires de Parfums · 2018
This Is Not A Blue Bottle 1.4
Longevity
Very long8-12 hours
Projection
ModerateFills your personal space
Polarising
Mixed
spicy
sweet
confident
warm cardamom tea, resinous florals and patchouli
Scent Notes
Warm & Amber
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The full profile.
About This Perfume
Histoires de Parfums This Is Not A Blue Bottle 1.4 smells like warm cardamom tea, resinous florals and patchouli. It opens with cardamom, davana and lavender, moves into benzoin, tonka bean and ylang-ylang and settles on labdanum, patchouli and opoponax. It reads unisex.
It works across all four seasons and is an evening scent. Reach for it for casual days. Released in 2018.
Wearers report that it lasts roughly a working morning or afternoon, and projects to about arm's length.
Is it right for you?
- Best for: anyone after something spicy and sweet for casual days.
- Sample first if: spicy is new territory for you.
- Skip if: you dislike sweet fragrances.
Around $170.
Explore more: Spicy perfumes · Cardamom perfumes · Davana perfumes · Lavender perfumes
The verdict
Best for
Best for
- Casual
The Brand
Histoires de Parfums
Its most discussed picks run from a thyme-and-amber to a powdery rose and plum and a leathery herbal scent. Scendira carries 31 Histoires de Parfums perfumes, from about $55 to $237. It is a Paris house founded in 2000 by Gérald Ghislain.
A closer look at Histoires de
Ambre 114, 1889 Moulin Rouge and 1740 Marquis de Sade come up most for Histoires de Parfums.
Histoires de Parfums Ambre 114, an EDP from 2001, smells like warm amber syrup with woody herbs and a soft vanilla haze, opening on nutmeg and thyme above amber, vanilla, benzoin, tonka bean and musk.
1889 Moulin Rouge (Eau de Parfum, 2010) is powdery rose and plum with sweet spice, from plum, cinnamon and mandarin down to iris, fur, musk and patchouli.
Herbal bergamot leather with warm spice and smoky resin describes 1740 Marquis de Sade, a 2000 Parfum opening on artemisia and bergamot over immortelle, leather, French labdanum, elemi resin, birch, vanilla and Virginia cedar.
For similar notes see amber perfumes and leather perfumes; the brand directory has the other houses.
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FAQ
Common questions.
It smells like warm cardamom tea, resinous florals and patchouli. It opens with cardamom, davana and lavender, moves into benzoin, tonka bean and ylang-ylang and settles on labdanum, patchouli and opoponax.
Wearers report that it lasts roughly a working morning or afternoon, and projects to about arm's length.
It works across all four seasons. It is an evening scent. It suits casual days.
It reads unisex.
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