Agent Provocateur Agent Provocateur 2000

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Agent Provocateur is a perfume by Agent Provocateur for women and was released in 2000. The scent is floral-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is being marketed by Inter Parfums. Pronunciation

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Top Notes	Coriander Saffron
Heart Notes	Gardenia Jasmine Magnolia Rose Ylang-ylang
Base Notes	Amber Musk Vetiver

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Scent

6.8323 Ratings

Longevity

8.4237 Ratings

Sillage

7.6217 Ratings

Bottle

7.1223 Ratings

Value for money

9.118 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 09.04.2022.

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10/31/2021

YellaYella

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YellaYella

Helpful Review 6

My body the handgrenade

Agent Provocateur was one of those classic blind buys, based on what felt like 100 read Parfumo reviews and a very tempting price-performance combo. Arriving yesterday, I was extremely curious, as polarizing scents are a particular pläsir of mine. First impression: this is Opium's piggy pink sister! Whereby the haptic superfine bottle is a total misdirection, with pink-lovely-powdery Agent Provocateur has not the slightest thing to do. It doesn't even want to. The top note pops in any case spicy-herbaceous, as I find, and was for me not at all assignable. Anything but pleasant. Rather putzmittelscharf and just tart. Mentally, I was already thinking about how many coins I could sell this thing to the community in the souk. On the other hand I knew, well, he and I, we will need time. AP doesn't polarize so fiercely for nothing.

In the heart note then suddenly something flowery, more pleasing opens up, probably the rose. Interestingly, has been present on my skin (wrist test overnight) left the rose, right the herbaceous. So much for individual skin chemistry ;-). By the way, my skin is normally a scent eater, quite a few scents are hardly noticeable on me after a few hours at most. AP has easily survived until the next morning. The base I would then even classify as unisex, soapy-clean and there issie yes again, the opium DNA, of which I do not know where it comes from.

Conclusion: I like it. This is a fragrance that is probably severely underrated. Complex enough to develop some edges, beastmode as far as longevity and sillage go, interesting. Those who like it super pleasing probably won't enjoy it. One of the fragrances that demand great entrée

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05/02/2020

8
Scent 9
Longevity 7
Sillage 7
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Iseabail
25 Reviews

Iseabail

An oriental diva

This fragrance is very chemistry dependant. I am one of the lucky ones who get this big lush rose, seductive musk and enough herbs and spices to make it intriguing. The saffron note is attractive as well. My significant other really enjoys this one. I often receive unexpected compliments when wearing it. Get a sample and find out if this sexy little beast loves you.

07/06/2018

9
Scent 8
Longevity 8
Sillage 1
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Noedde

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Noedde

Top Review 19

Apparently, exactly my thing

It took me years to dare approach him.
His reputation as Donnerhall made me very reserved towards him.
Now that my large stock of "Diane" by Diane von Fürstenberg has shrunk a lot and is no longer on the market at acceptable prices, I had to make a serious effort to find a new signature fragrance. So I ordered one of these pink flacons at an absolute bargain price because it was listed as a fragrance twin of my beloved Diane and the risk of a possible misbuy would not be a drama.
Two days ago the first anxiously expected sprayer was delivered - seriously expecting to have to take a shower again Very soapy, but clearly with the certain undertone that all my favourite perfumes have. It will be exciting to see how it develops. Anyway, at first nothing arrives in my nose, which makes my imagination think of a brothel. Clean, elegant rather than wicked and still soapy.
After about 30 minutes I am thinking whether it might not be better to give it away immediately. He's become powdery by now, and I'm not that powdery.
My scents have to be rather harsh and woody - but I know this phenomenon from other scents, which became my absolute darlings afterwards - So Pretty by Cartier, for example, I found at first quite terrible to love him hours later crazy!
And so also here - still approx. 15 minutes later he develops an incredibly soft woodiness, which only becomes elegant. Absolutely far away from the mainstream, absolutely unsweet and exactly my thing!
I don't tend to be sparing with perfume, but I don't seem to have any Sillage, because after we hugged each other to greet each other, several women asked me if this madly great fragrance appealed to me.
He keeps me sprayed in the morning until the evening hours.

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04/11/2018

7.5
Scent 8
Longevity 7
Sillage 7
Bottle

Carlitos01
347 Reviews

Carlitos01

Very helpful Review 4

L' Agent Parfumeur - The sexy agent

[Short review]
A man's opinion of a woman's perfume must mean something ...
I offered my wife this pink, oddly shaped bottle. Agent Provocateur usually provokes polarized reactions. It took her a while to decide which side to put this fragrance on: love (and keep) or hate (and give away)?
I especially liked this perfume and I'm glad she loves it and is using it now. You get some notes of saffron and rose, but a pungent musk is the key note that plays an important role in this fragrance. During its development you will notice some dust or powder, a certain aggressiveness with an animal accord that reminds me of Civeta, and a mixture of gasoline and antibacterial soap (!). It's not really a safe blind buy. But it's nowhere near as untenable or dirty as I've heard some people comment. The threshold and ledge are high so be careful with the trigger.
In my opinion, my wife smells a lot sexy and hotter with this perfume and she knows it. She has a different perfume, similar to the one I like too. It's Coriandre for women by Jean Couturier, but it doesn't have the same "punch" as this one.
This is the kind of scent that makes the difference between an attractive adult woman and girls who smell like Lolita and Brittney candy and really don't attract a man's attention. The feeling that your wife / girlfriend smells sexy and like no other woman makes a nice difference. If you are a grown woman keep this in mind when you spray Agent Provocateur. You will smell unique and in a very good way. People around you are sure to notice you.

Note - Agent Provocateur's master perfumer - Christian Provenzano - is in charge of Penhaligon's LP No. 9 for men. This is the perfume my wife chose as the sexiest perfume for men.

Music: Beverley Craven - "Promise Me"

12/18/2017

4.5
Scent 9
Longevity 10
Sillage 8
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Bcars10
90 Reviews

Bcars10

Helpful Review 2

A Rose Warhead

WOW! This stuff is potent.

One thing I'm sure of: I'm definitely smelling a LOT of rose! And it's not really the sweet, clear rose of Stella McCartney's Stella; it is closer to my grandmother's fusty rose, unfortunately. At the top I also strangely got a sweet suede-like smell. I tiptoed along the ledge of feeling a bit nauseous by that note. There is no suede or leather note listed, but it has got to be there. After about 30 minutes it had passed, but I did not at all enjoy that phase. I'm not really sure what else I'm smelling, as I don't really know what saffron smells like. I don't get any coriander, and the other florals are completely drowned out by the rose. Maybe I'm getting a touch of jasmine, but the rose is such a beast. No amber. No musk. A tiny hit of vetiver. My skin smells like a very salty rose...how is this possible?! And this is supposed to be an agent of seduction?! I can't think of a man alive under 50 years of age who would want his wife/girlfriend/lover, etc to smell like his grandmother! Ew.

All that being said, I don't dislike this perfume. I will likely not reach for it very often, as I feel like I need to be in a certain mood to handle it's "vintage-y" scent. I actually have a sample of its flanker, Agent Provocateur Eau Emotionelle, which I think I like a bit better. It seems tamer compared to its nuclear-tipped warhead of a sibling. The beautiful pink porcelain bottle is a Trojan horse for the conquering juice inside. I'll bet Helen of Troy smelled like this! It wasn't her beauty...it was Agent Provocateur!

Sillage is enormous. I applied a squirt to each wrist, which I smoothed down my hair, and then one to the back of my neck. I was overcome! It was too much! Now it's over three hours later, and it's manageable. I like it better now than at the top. Next time, I think I will spray the mist in the air and walk through it.

Longevity seems to be good. I like it, but it's...moody. I feel like it would be best to wear out in the evenings, but then I will risk imperiling the lives of all those around me. This is definitely not office, school, or church safe! I only feel safe wearing this at home alone!

Overall, I guess I will give it a 4.5 out of 10. That seems harsh, but I don't feel I can rate it too highly, but I also don't dislike it. It is strong enough for my tastes and lasts a long time, which I appreciate. I just wish it were fresher and less fusty.

11/05/2017

1
Scent 7
Longevity 7
Sillage 8
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Isabelle1
47 Reviews

Isabelle1

furniture restoration

For me this stinks as the chemical products to restore and wax antique furniture, it is a no no...a throw away, i am not gonna insult friends or family by giving this to one of them ..or maybe just keep it in the bathroom as decoration, i think the bottle is not to bad, i have the edition porcelaine...so yes the bottle might be a keeper, but the juice makes me sick
It was a blind buy....

11/07/2012

LiliumLibido
51 Reviews

LiliumLibido

Helpful Review 5

Mustard?

This one did not work for me at all, it attacked my nose and throat with a vengeance, it kept reminding me of mustard greens, lol. And like all scents that did not work out on my skin, it was a scrubber of the most tenacious variety!

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07/14/2012

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Very helpful Review 8

Rose Chypre Revamp

Agent Provocateur is a rose chypre in the 1970s-1980s style. It is gravelly like many rose chypres, but it seems to have a less gigantic rose than that of Lauder's Knowing and Rabanne's La Nuit for instance. AP's rose is rich, but comparatively low-wattage. It joins the patchouli in harmonious fashion and gives AP its oriental style lushness. The different rose changes the tone of AP. It is expansive and takes over the conversation as the genre tends to, but once it does it doesn’t free-associate senselessly and endlessly in cocaine-club fashion (Montana’s Parfum de Peau for example.) AP is as big as the others of the genre, just not as overpowering.

I know many dig AP for its vaunted used-drawers nastiness, but I just get that mineral scent of soil that patchouli can lend to rose. Smells like a garden, really.

06/09/2012

5
Scent 7.5
Longevity 7.5
Sillage

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

Helpful Review 6

Rusty nails, dirty underwear, or old ladies? A chacun son nez...

AGENT PROVOCATEUR opens with a truly confusing and cacophonous collection of very synthetic--verging on industrial--notes. I had no idea what to expect, but the bottle certainly suggested something a bit more inviting.

However, after a few minutes, this concentrated edp develops into an extremely well-behaved old school dried roses chypre. Fortunately the drydown lasts a long time, perhaps even long enough to compensate for the jarring opening, but I am not at all surprised by the large number of negative reviews, some of which may well have been based upon the first few minutes, after which many a perfumista would feel justified in dashing to the bath for a scrub. That measure would be precipitous for some, provided that they have a predilection for dried flower chypres!

Only the opening of AGENT PROVOCATEUR is a floral woody musk, with the emphasis on that latter term. For the rest of its life, AP really is a chypre, which probably explains the "old lady" allegations I've seen interspersed among the reviews referencing "rusty nails" and "dirty underwear"! A provocative composition, indeed.

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05/12/2012

Fleurine
4 Reviews

Fleurine

Very helpful Review 8

Who is Agent Provocateur?

If you read through the fragrance notes above, you might not catch the right drift of Agent Provocateur. AP is a dirty and suggestive (in all the best ways) rose fragrance. The saffron and corainder combined with the musk, takes this uprtight powdery rose in a somewhat inappropriate and backroom direction, which is quite addictive. Like one of those powdered wig courtesans, AP has a formal outward appearance, and trappings of a traditional rose scent, but also a complex spicy sharpness that often leaves people divided on whether or not they like actually like it. Also, it opens with a bitter sharp blast (much like Montale's White Aoud) that takes a few minutes to calm down, so hang in there for a few minutes if you are trying it for the first time....

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