#Jean-Claude Ellena

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Hermes Terre d’Hermes

Hermes Terre d’Hermes

Nose: Jean-Claude Ellena

notes: orange, grapefruit; pepper, pelargonium, flint; vetiver, cedar, patchouli, benzoin

By now, you probably know Terre D’Hermes, even if you don’t know you do. It’s ubiquitous. Jean-Claude Ellena has the extremely valuable talent of pulling off airy minimalism in perfume — ie, more cynically, making a small formula budget smell good. And Terre d’Hermes does smell good.

It has a nice, light-stone, dry feeling, from vetiver, with a lot of airy radiant aromachemicals and little sunlit glints of citrus winking in and out.

Soon it settles into plain vetiver with a particularly sheer and synthetic texture.

Honestly, Terre d'Hermes is vetiver with training wheels. It's diluted with abstract "perfuminess" and a bit of citrus, so it's more likable than a more intensely bitter-dry vetiver like Encre Noire, and it's easy to find. Terre d'Hermes is solidly good: not exotic, not extreme, not awe-inspiring, but smooth and seamless and shining. Nothing to complain about.

(Nominally masculine, but easily unisex if you want it to be; it's just a dry, light, woody scent without a trace of anything decorative.)

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

— Jean-Claude Ellena, no livro "Diário de um perfumista".

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Frederic Malle Heaven Can Wait Review - Jean-Claude Ellena; 2023

Brand new from Frederic Malle and Jean-Claude Ellena: the retro-loving #HeavenCanWait.

It is to his credit that Frederic Malle continues to make us wait a whole year between new releases: he could so easily have given in to the temptation to churn out a half-baked creation every few months or so. And funnily enough, the passage of time is alluded to in his latest piece of work, Heaven Can Wait, created by the man behind some of his most memorable scents, Jean-Claude Ellena. Here’s…

[mosscollector]

Illusion is not a lie, it is a way of fulfilling desires.

Jean-Claude Ellena, Perfume

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[fadinghours]

Quite enjoy this fragrance

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HEAVEN CAN WAIT composed by Jean-Claude Ellena for Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle // ESTEÉ LAUDER Companies

Photography (c) Michael Dürr

more soon : https://www.fredericmalle.com/

www.michaelduerr.com

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— Jean-Claude Ellena, no livro “Diário de um perfumista”. (Ed. Record; 1.ª edição [2013]).

[ashstfu]

hey queen. you have perfume recs for me? I don't really like super sweet scents but I love your taste in well. everything so I'll take anything you suggest <3

hiii hello! i’m not a big fan of super sweet scents either, i prefer muscular woody or spicy notes with a hint of vanilla. you know the scents that are unisex but lean more masculine... my personal favorite perfume that i always recommend is tobacco vanille by tom ford, let me tell you it’s the best mixture of spicy and sweet and it really makes a statement. wearing this scent makes me feel more attractive.. more mysterious and much more confident! there’s just nothing like this out there.

some other perfumes that strike just the right balance –

odor 93 by meo fusciuni

top notes: birch leaves, clove, cumin

middle notes: tuberose, narcissus, sage

base notes: oud, vetiver, guaiac wood, patchouli, vanilla, tobacco

lasso by jean patou

top notes: peach, carnation, heliotrope and fruity notes

middle notes: rose, iris, jasmine, pepper and violet

base notes: leather, musk, amber, civet, oak moss, sandalwood, vanilla, patchouli and vetiver.

salvatore ferragamo uomo

top notes: pink pepper, italian mandarin and grapefruit

middle notes: cinnamon, cardamom and cypress

base notes: tonka bean, leather, roasted coffee beans and patchouli

female christ by 19-69

top notes: eucalyptus, patchouli, pimento

mid notes: rhubarb, wintergreen, red thyme, geranium

base notes: vanilla, amber, benzoin, cinnamon bark, cashmere wood

morn to dusk

top notes: bergamot and lily of the valley

middle note: vanilla

base note: musk

vintage by john varvatos

top notes: rhubarb, quince, pepper, wormwood, basil and fennel

middle notes: cinnamon, juniper berries, lavender, green leaves, jasmine and orris root

base notes: tobacco, suede, balsam fir, tonka bean, oak moss, woody notes and patchouli

l’eau d’ambre extrême by jean claude ellena

top note: nutmeg

middle note: patchouli

base note: turkish rose

[jovoy]

favorite perfume brands? i'm always looking for niche or relatively unknown brands and you seem to have somewhat similar tastes to mine

well my favs arent really unknown im kindof basic to be honest LOL. i looooooooooooooooove hermes theyre my all time fav they can do literally no wrong in my eyes christine nagel and jean-claude ellena are gods among men i think anything from hermes is incredible and they are honestly so underappreciated as a fragrance house. and then i am a diptyque girly too i just love a refined brand aesthetic in general and fragrances that are made with like restraint seemingly yknow… i also obviously love frederic malle and serge lutens as unapproachable as a lot of their frags are they are so artistic and when they hit they hit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! also love kerosene theyre a bit more heavy handed but so interesting. ihave also been very intrigued by caswell massey lately i would love to try their almond and rose fragrances they have a very cutesy coquette refined look to their branding. and i am dyyyyying to try the dries van noten frags esp soie malaquais

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tagged by: @zenexph (haii :3)

last song: reflecting pools - gwynst4rr

currently watching: tomato's my summer car vods

currently reading: Atlas of Perfumed Botany by Jean-Claude Ellena/The occult book by John Michael Greer

currently listening: combat - ky vöss

current obsessions: hunt: showdown, C:DDA, sewing, tomato (the twitch streamer), asian-style cooking, dark souls 1

don't really have anyone else to tag so this is just a silly little post

[rosinaperfumery]

Houbigant 📷 Collection Privée Essence Rare Created by Master Perfumer Jean Claude Ellena, Essence Rare is a soft floral that dazzles with the beauty of its raw materials.

#essencerare #houbigant #rosinaperfumery #glyfada #athens

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Cartier Declaration review - The Favourites - Jean-Claude Ellena; 1998

Surely, one of the greatest releases of the final decade of the 20th century: Jean-Claude Ellena's Declaration for Cartier.

— Back in the 80s, in the UAE, a soap was launched onto the market. Little did we know that it came from a brand that had actually been established in the early 1950s, but there you go: the apparent newness of everything was part of the excitement of living in the Middle East in those days. The soap was called Zest — if memory serves, there was a green one and a yellow one — and it was…

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Duty Free Quick Takes

smelled on the strip, not on me

Hermes Jour d'Hermes

Nose: Jean-Claude Ellena

notes: grapefruit, lemon, water; white flowers, gardenia, sweet pea; musk, woody notes

a rather unfriendly fancy-hotel-soap scent in a chilly aquatic-fruity style; nice enough but doesn't spark joy.

CK One

Nose: Alberto Morillas

notes: lemon, green notes, bergamot, pineapple, mandarin, cardamom, papaya; lily of the valley, jasmine, violet, nutmeg, rose, iris, freesia; green accord, musk, cedar, sandalwood, oakmoss, green tea, amber

Surprisingly musky! A nice contrast between unisex citrusy-green freshness and something a bit dustier or sweatier.

CK IN2U For Her

Notes: pink grapefruit, bergamot, currant leaf; cactus, orchid; vanilla, cedar, amber

Painfully screechy chemicals and cloying sweetness and unpleasant "choking" musks? Wow.

CK Be

Nose: Rene Morgenthaler

Notes: lavender, green notes, bergamot, mint, juniper, mandarin orange; grass, peach, jasmine, freesia, magnolia, orchid; musk, sandalwood, cedar, vanilla, amber, opoponax

A very simple but peaceful "clean green" synthetic scent, like a single gong ringing out into a quiet evening.

YSL Paris

Nose: Sophia Grojsman

notes: rose, mimosa, hyacinth, geranium, green notes, nasturtium, orange blossom, hawthorn, cassia, bergamot; violet, lily, linden, ylang-ylang, lily-of-the-valley, jasmine, iris; musk, heliotrope, sandalwood, oakmoss, amber, cedar

A delicate, baby-blue, powdery violet with other soapy florals. Not nearly as loud or sweet as I expected from descriptions; more of a clean ladylike scent.

Davidoff Cool Water

Nose: Pierre Bourdon

notes: sea water, lavender, mint, green notes, rosemary, calone, coriander; sandalwood, neroli, geranium, jasmine; musk, oakmoss, tobacco, cedar, amber

This is the OG aquatic scent and it's still startling how happy a smell it is and how it does right what countless imitators get wrong. Crisp, masculine, with a bit of tart fruit, it basically smells like the world's cleanest, most invigorating shower.

Armani Stronger With You

Nose: Cecile Matton

notes: cardamom, pink pepper, violet leaf, mint; pineapple, cinnamon, melon, sage, lavender; vanilla, chestnut, amberwood, cedar, guaiac

Interesting sweet-dark chestnut note, drowned out by an obnoxiously loud woody-amber.

Lancome Poeme

Nose: Jacques Cavallier

notes: narcissus, datura, peach, plum, poppy, mandarin, blackcurrant, bergamot, green notes; mimosa, vanilla, tuberose, ylang-ylang, orange blossom, jasmine, freesia, heliotrope, rose, leather; amber, tonka bean, musk, cedar

This is a real, full-bodied perfume; a big ol' heady aldehydic floral, lots of sweetness, lots of fluffiness, tuberose and mimosa are definitely involved. Your mom is wearing her good jewelry and going to the opera. Can one...actually, y'know, wear it? in 2023? Probably not, or at least not without irony, but it at least has artistry.

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