Le Parfum de Thérèse Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle 2000

Le Parfum de Thérèse by Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle

Bottle Design Frederic Malle

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7.6 / 10 216 Ratings

Le Parfum de Thérèse is a popular perfume by Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle for women and was released in 2000. The scent is fruity-floral. It is being marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies. Pronunciation

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Main accords

Fruity

Floral

Spicy

Leathery

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Melon

Cucumber

Heart Notes

Jasmine

Plum

Rose

Base Notes

Vetiver

Blond leather

Patchouli

Perfumer

Edmond Roudnitska

Ratings

Scent

7.6216 Ratings

Longevity

7.7155 Ratings

Sillage

7.2155 Ratings

Bottle

7.5149 Ratings

Value for money

6.430 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 26.03.2024.

Interesting Facts

Originally, this fragrance is said to be a creation for Edmond Roudnitska's wife, and it dates back to the early 1950's. So, it was apparently only used by her until Thérèse Roudnitska gave the licence to Frédéric Malle.

Reviews

10 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/11/2020

Therese
7 Reviews

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Therese

The bottom line

For me, this wonderful, precious perfume is the quintessence of Diorella, Diorama and Eau Sauvage - the best of all, and made from the best raw materials. I cried when I first wore this beauty, I cried when I wore it and when I met a man. I still cry when I wear this perfume. Le Parfum de Therese and this man have left traces in my heart and they are linked. Unfortunately, and yet beautiful.

04/30/2020

7
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Somebody
17 Reviews

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Somebody

Very helpful Review

He must have loved her very much

This perfume really shows the effort and care, the time and love invested in its development.

The dense olfactory network is very mature, deep, perfectly balanced between flowers and fruit. It rests on a base that sometimes gives me soft mossy green, sometimes earthy brown patchouli. On top of that the rich scent melange, which my nose is not able to split up into its individual parts.
Neither sweet nor tart, its character is quite unique, and as it effortlessly combines such opposites as the "proud rose" and the "modest violet", the esprit of pepper and the anaesthetic effect of nutmeg, it is easy to assume that certain human qualities of the name patron saint have been fluidly interpreted.

And strong it is, the perfume of Thérèse, accompanies me for many hours and must be chosen with care so as not to overtax myself and my environment.
I can't remember ever having smelled anything that somehow resembles this fragrance and it has absolute recognition value for me.
I like it very much, this vial-filled monument that Edmond Roudnitska erected to his wife, a Taj Mahal of the perfume world...

08/16/2013

5
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 10
Scent

FloraMilena
47 Reviews

FloraMilena

Helpful Review 8

Down to Earth Elegance

PARFUM DE THERESE by Frederic Malle

Dazzlingly Beautiful. This is a Spicy-Fruity-Chypre-Aquatic. I have never smelled anything quite like it.

This a profoundly beautiful composition of byzantine complexity and magnificence on me. Therese Roudnitska and I must have similar chemistry, because I get a huge positive development that blooms from every single accord in this creation on my skin.

Opens with decadently rich blast of fruity fresh mandarins, sweet jasmine, and dewy-aquatic melon laden extravagantly with a generous dusting of spicy pepper and more nutmeg than I have ever smelled in a fruity feminine perfume. Juicy ripe plums and honeydew melons swirl around a shower of plush rose petals and soft violets. Everything then settles securely on the opulent base of clean woody cedar, delicately restrained leather, and herbaceous vetiver.

I worried initially about the leather because my skin generally magnifies animalics to an unpleasant degree. However the leather here is blended so seamlessly that it functions to absolute perfection as a buttery smooth and sensually refined anchor on me. I can easily smell why there was no need to throw in a cheap musk or a heavier wood here, and yet still maintain a lusciously decadent dry-down. This fine and delicate leather envelops the earthy vetiver and aromatic cedar to achieve an intensely sumptuous velvety finishing base that melds impeccably with skin.

The exquisitely powerful peppery-dry-nutmeg combo offsets the dewy-aquatic sweetness of the melons and jasmine, while also brilliantly restraining the darkly rich violet/rose here. This never tips into heady floral land due to the generous addition of the dry spice in the mix. It remains firmly as a splendidly joyous and powerfully earthy fruity-chypre with the sensuality of the entire composition emphasized by the addition of that dewy aquatic jasmine/melon accord.

I find this perfume to be extravagantly elegant and exuberantly down to earth at the same time. I visualize a strong and grounded woman with a refined sense of beauty who exults in the happiness of family and good friends. A woman who loves deeply and is loved as such in return. A woman comfortable and secure in her own skin. A woman who is not afraid of life and lives it to the fullest.

This is what I feel that Therese and Edmond Roudnitska share with us. Profoundly feminine. Gloriously beautiful. Magnificent.

06/19/2014

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Helpful Review 6

gift

It’s interesting to see the comparisons between Dior Diorella, Dior Eau Sauvage and Frédéric Malle Parfum de Therèse. Diorella seems like the logical successor to Eau Sauvage. Riskier, less seemly than Eau Sauvage, it still came from the same principles and intentions of composition. Parfum de Thérèse seems overall a little further from Eau Sauvage, a bit less similar in composition and concept. Surprisingly, though, I catch entire flashes of Eau Sauvage when wearing Parfum de Thérèse, like hearing a full sentence that you recognize from a well known novel.

1. Diorella is clearly the next generation of Eau Sauvage. It’s the louche early 1970s to Eau Sauvage’s pre-summer of love 1960s. The few years between Eau Sauvage and Diorella were ones of great social change. The distance between the two, the change in perspective is fascinating. Eau Sauvage has a simple, easy sophistication. By contrast, Diorella is worldly and explicitly carnal.

2. To work creatively within a finite range shouldn't be confused with limitation. It is a deliberate, focussed workshop of ideas, with richness between two relatively close points. For Edmond, these ideas played out as the experimentation with olfactory brightness and shade, representation and abstraction (especially in fruit and ripeness) and the play of simplicity and complexity both in formulation and in the experience of wearing a perfume. There's also a respect to the lineage and the experts who preceded him. The chypre was not the invention of Edmond, it was Francois Coty's. But it could be argued that nobody in the 20th century did more to advance the genre as Roudnitska. The fact that the height of exploration and creativity was reserved for and dedicated to Le Parfum de Thérèse is an astounding testament to his affection for and appreciation of her.

3. The love affair. The beautiful expression of abstraction. Rather than trying to tell a story, or create a portrait in specific, Edmond composed and recomposed an object of beauty and contemplation for Thérèse

I’m not really one for story-telling and the romance of perfumery. But my husband David, the love of my life, gave me le Parfum de Thérèse on my 50th birthday. Parfum de Thérèse is now about another great love, mine and David’s.

07/11/2021

BrianBuchanan
355 Reviews

BrianBuchanan

Helpful Review 4

Strange Brouhaha

If Diorella was a concerto, this would be a symphony, it takes the same idea and expands it to the max.
There's no point trying to name the chords, it's a kaleidoscope of merging colours.
It's fascinating, strange, beautiful even, but not pretty; not a bauble to garner compliments. More likely, it would draw comments like "What's that weird smell? I've never smelled anything like that before."
And you could tell them "It's a love song by an olfactive philosopher."

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