MAUBOUSSIN

10 Reviews

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   murkyHawk1

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   Love, love, love this sultry, oriental beauty!
   The notes remind me of swirling caramel and boozy, over-ripe fruits.
   This perfume is all about the base – you get the full works almost immediately:-
   patchouli, peach, caramel and ambery goodness. It is an ideal Autumn/Winter,
   special occasion scent.

   The bottle sets the scent off very well as it is iridescent and
   multi-faceted.

   I Love how Mauboussin makes me feel – all womanly and seductive.

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   wornoutLizard1

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   Very warm, very well blended fragrance. I seem to catch a bit of the pipe tabacco thing going on with a deep dark vanilla. The patchouli rounds it out in the end and makes it quite sparkly at the drydown. It is not too much patchouli for my taste but it is quite distinctive so patch haters please take note. I would call this an evening fragrance and quite a bold one, yet soft somehow at the same time. Very elegant, very current still and very affordable.

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   cheerfulRaisins9

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   First, you have to like patchouli for this one.

   Second, there’s kind of a lesser Belle en Rykiel thing going on between Mauboussin EDP & EDT. In BeR, the EDT bears almost no resemblence to the EDP; EDT light patchy floral touched by fruit. The notes in the voted main notes area on Fragrantica don’t even mention patchouli or incense. On the other hand, BeR EDP is this heavy, sweet, powdery/vanillic/musk beauty with coffee undertones. The prominent notes are vanilla, amber, heliotrope, coffee, incense, touch of lavender, musk… The two aren’t even the same color, and have different entries in Fragrantica.

   In Mauboussin, the EDP a heavy, dry, musky, dirty patch bomb. My skin is pulling out none of the honeyed/ambered note others mention. Instead I’m getting a waft of mandarin at opening over smoky patch, wood, and amber. The mandarin disappears quickly, and the patch and smoke linger on over a middle grown of amber. It never gets very sweet – only insomuch as amber is a lesser note. There’s a touch of aromatic floralcy – rose/ylang-ylang per Fragrantica. I’d say the floralcy is the rose, some of the dense middle spice/smoke is the ylang-ylang. I didn’t get plum, or if i did, it was tucked into the disappearing mandarin.

   Mauboussin EDT… tons of rhubarb/grapefruit, lighter, much more of your ubiquitous fruitcholi/floraloli thing. After a lot of drydown, it begins to pick up on the dry, dirty patch bomb thing of the EDP, but there’s still floral fruity mediation and the skank is way down. Fragrantica doesn’t mention rhubarb – says mandarin, mirabelle, plum. But my nose is parsing it as rhubarb/grapefruit thing, with that sourness.

   I’m not as excited about the EDT as I hoped to be — the shower gel is very musky/patchy, classic warm old-school patch, and that’s what I was hoping for from the EDT. But I can see how the EDT is more wearable publically. They’re both good in their own way – good ingrediants, fantastic lasting power. Bottles are gorgeous, with a twist on-twist off feature on the top that I appreciate.

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   eagerSyrup4

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   I bought the EDP unsniffed just because it sounded like something I would like and I had already bought Histoire d’Eau and was quite pleased with it. This is classified as a fruity chypre. On my skin Mauboussin starts off with a boozy fruitiness but settles into something smelling much more like a honeyed vanilla tobacco – in the best possible way. It’s mysteriously sexy and long lasting on my skin.

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   ardentWeaver6

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   I found a mini of this gem at my local perfume shop, and was so smitten with the dark, syrupy plum-vanilla that I immediately purchased a 100ml online. For $35, it was a steal!

   Unfortunately one of my versions (the mini or the 100ml) must be old or otherwise off as they smell completely different from each other. While both say EDP, the mini’s liquid is dark orange whereas the 100ml is a light yellow. The most significant difference, of course, is the scent. The mini is a dark, voluptuous plum with a heavy dollop of vanilla, whereas the 100ml has a drier, plasticky, more powdery aspect that reminds me of fruit left out to dry for way too long. I’m suspecting that either my mini has turned (it was out on display at the store when I bought it) or it might actually have been the EDT. I’ll have to find a tester of the EDT to verify, but as of now I love my mini and am unsure about the 100ml.

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   sugaryRelish3

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   Yet another unsniffed adventure buy, ridiculously cheap,after reading that it was created by Christine Nagel who did Theoroma, and was like a cross between that and Kenzo Jungle. An amber-y oriental, it sure is, but has a smokey slightly more tobacco/floral tonality…whereas you would say ‘plum’ or maybe ‘currant’, for Jungle, and I always think ‘orange’ for Theoroma. It is a really lovely fragrance, and how can it end up in a discount auction for $19 whilst some new releases cost ten times more, is one of the great mysteries of the marketing world!
   A bright oriental, (it also reminds me a little of the first Prada) with satisfying development, very wearable, (the ‘clean chemical’ [as opposed to my favorite old hippie oil] patchouli zing disappears quickly if you are worried about Angel) and while I am a niche addict and tend to like minimalist bottles, this one is a real hum-dinger! My only issue with the bottle I bought, is that it came in the newer silver box with the stars on it (I got it off ebay and the picture was of the old box, don’t you hate that)…I suspect the older version in the purple-bottomed box (and that bottle has pink rainbow shimmer) may be less likely to be a cheapened formula, but that is a pure guess. If you find it somewhere, it really is worth trying.

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   troubledCardinal0

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   I got this on sale at Perfume1 (I love that place; very sound prices), and I LOVE it. The description is as follows: “Mauboussin was introduced in 2001. This romantic scent has notes of Golden Plum, Bergamot from Calabria, Red Mandarin, White Peach, Ylang-Ylang from Comoros, Turkish Rose, Amber, Patchouli, Cedar of Lebanon, Vanilla. Fresh Benzoin, Indonesian Sandalwood and Indian Jasmine.”

   What I love about this scent is that it is sweet, but at the same time woody. That’s the only way I can describe it. A perfect scent for fall/winter. It’s sweet, woody, and the fruits make it warm without making you smell like a fruit salad. I would certainly recommend it.

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   contentKitten7

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   I had $20 to blow and decided to be adventurous….buy a fragrance that I have never sniffed. BAD IDEA.

   Pros/Cons: Scent is so individual so I clump them together because what one finds a pro another a con.
   1. Very long lasting.
   2. Mature scent. I do like some mature fragrances but this one cues up memories of old women in my mind.
   3. This scent was not pleasant for me in the bottle or the skin. However, one time after a heavy workout session and lots of stinky body odor, I put this fragrance on and it was tolerable….interesting.

   Maybe I will try it again in 10 years, when I’m older and stinkier.

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   finickyTortoise4

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   I could drown in this stuff. A new favorite.

   I’m not a floriental type usually, I love chypres, amber, vanilla . . . but this stuff is intoxicating, rich, luxurious, beautiful, decadent all wrapped up into one.

   As others have written, this reminds me of Angel or Lolita Lempicka all grown up, and it’s closer to what I hoped Black Orchid would be: though both are indolent and hedonistic, I find Black Orchid falls flat at some point, just oozes down into laziness, that slightly rotting fruit smell unable to rise from where it’s descended.

   Not so with Maubossin. It parties all night long, robust, sexy, goes down into the decadence, filling your head with that drunken plum, a strong bash of lush florals and jasmine winding around that beloved vanilla and amber, rolling around and descending into unbridled sandalwood sensuality, but with energy to burn, driven by that nicotine that rises to the fore every so often.

   Not for the faint hearted, this stuff is like the backroom of a Paris bordello where the women are too expensive for most men, prefer diamonds to cash, and are expert at getting what they want.

   Exquisite and addicting, the way real pleasure is.

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    importedThrushe0

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    I admit: tobacco turns me on. I like smokers, I am a half-assed smoker myself (never got to really love smoking those things but I’ll have one once in a while), and I like the look of smoking. It’s a dirty indulgence; I know I should quit. But it’s one of the reasons why I like this scent–don’t get me wrong, this scent doesn’t smell like yellow teeth and nails at all–rather, it smells somewhat like a really good cigar lingering in the winter air. The tobacco isn’t too strong in this perfume but it’s enough to give it a grown-up scent, which keeps it from just pittering out into boring vanilla. I feel like this perfume is also one of the only ‘warm’ scents that work well on me.

    I wore this scent to class one day and my boyfriend would not stop sniffing the air like a puppy. I asked him what he was doing and he admitted that he smelled something delicious in the air. He seems to think the scent smells something like really really good cookies (he kind of thinks through his stomach haha); and I admit the scent does transform into a sugar cookie scent after a couple of hours on me. All in all, I feel like this is a scent that would be hard to go wrong.