John Varvatos

For Women (chypre floral)

This fragrance is exposed only in one Ukrainian shop but it's among top-sellers there. The student whom I asked to buy For her by Narciso Rodriguez in Vienna and who loves perfumes, said me she was impressed by Varvatos. So I became even more curious to try it. I read its description before and was astonished in advance by the quantity of the components.





The first fragrance for women by John Varvatos has arrived in February 2008, at first to Saks 5th Avenue, and then world-wide by the end of September.

The muse for this fragrance was his wife Joyce, who has worked on creation of this fragrance and has given it an artistic touch. The fragrance was created by Rodrigo Flores-Roux of Givaudan and John Varvatos. It is composed of apricot, Damask plum and golden mandarin. The heart seduces with oriental lily, Indian mango blossom, Egyptian jasmine, and Turkish rose. The base unifies oakmoss, patchouli, Tonka beans and wild honey.

The fragrance comes as 15ml (0.5 fl.oz.) parfum extrait, and as eau de parfum, but a special one as it will contain 50% concentrated parfum.

The bottle, designed by Doug Lloyd of Pochet, comes in 50ml (1.7 fl.oz.) and 100ml (3.4 fl.oz.) sizes.

The face of the fragrance is Louise Pederson, and the photographer – Alasdair Mclellan.

I can't agree with the given classification - I would call it floral-fruity, fruity-berry or floral-berry. Noone can smell there anyting referred to chypre. The main notes I smell are grape, apricot, plum. There are so many components there that it's quiet impossible to distinguish all of them. During first hours I smelled a light metallic note and I thoought that was because of Tonka beans (they give the same effect in Mat series). And besides all components have epithets - turkish rose, indian blossom etc. So complicated!

But the fragrance is really nice, graceful and very delicious. I have desire to eat it :-)) But it's not similar to so called jam-fragrances (like Nina New etc), very feminine with its own style.

My definition: delicious grace