L'Original
Préparation Parfumée
Andrée Putman 2001

L'Original / Préparation Parfumée by Andrée Putman

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L'Original / Préparation Parfumée (Andrée Putman)

7.8 / 10 152 Ratings

L'Original is a popular perfume by Andrée Putman for women and men and was released in 2001. The scent is woody-fresh. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Woody

Fresh

Green

Spicy

Aquatic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

White pepper

Water lily

Heart Notes

Coriander

Base Notes

Driftwood

Perfumer

Olivia Giacobetti

Ratings

Scent

7.8152 Ratings

Longevity

6.2121 Ratings

Sillage

5.3116 Ratings

Bottle

6.395 Ratings

Value for money

6.712 Ratings

Submitted by Lobelia, last update on 11.03.2024.

Interesting Facts

In 2015 the scent was renamed to "L'Original" in coincidence with the re-introduction of the brand with 5 new fragrances.

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/01/2024

7
Pricing 6
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Genoveva
14 Reviews

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Genoveva

Top Review 19

The fog

You are there.
It's not you.
I can feel you, your presence fills the space around me.
I am singing. A little friendly melody.
The notes rise very softly, fall again, disperse and finally fade away.
The fog has come closer and closer, it changes shape. I can see my hands, I can only glimpse my feet on the ground with cautious steps.
The air around me feels soft and I now know for sure that you are there, a shadowy figure, back there by the dancing birch trees with their shimmering elven hair.
The mist has given us this space, we are safe here.
I walk towards you, through damp veils, delicate webs.
I walk and walk until my contours also dissolve, a vague trembling, a reflection, there they are again, the soft, friendly tones, this time you answer me.

Thanks to @Can777 for the opportunity to get to know this special fragrance.

07/18/2021

6
Pricing 7
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Tofuwachtel
23 Reviews

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Tofuwachtel

Top Review 37

After the rest..

... There comes the silence

The I, the being
Drifting
In a calm clear lake

Like dull silky
Wood
Seemingly endlessly alive
Since eternity
Distant in time
In the lasting self

Thoughts float
Quietly
In herbaceous hope

A soft breeze
Fresh
Caressed soul

Silent breath flowing
Whispering
In the eternal cycle

Relaxed eyes gaze
Secure
Into the confidence of life

Quietly goes the wind
Caresses the wood
Refreshes the spirit

Gossamer green
Security
Very gently and quietly

Here in the now
Free
Of all too much

01/30/2019

9
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 9
Scent

Anarlan
21 Reviews

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Anarlan

Top Review 34

Silence is so accurate

If Mark Rothko had not been badly shaken and internally torn apart by his severe depressive illness throughout his life, he would not have had to experience the escape with his family from anti-Semitic persecution in the USA as a ten-year-old boy, what would his painting have looked like?
These pictures, which have made him one of the most important representatives of American color field painting and abstract expressionism: If there had ever been a sufficiently strong neurotic impulse in him to paint them?
Pictures that are meant as decorative art prints, misunderstood in almost all cases, hang in every second office of the authorities. Pictures that sometimes form vibrating color spaces of several square meters in the original, dark, violent, from which the light is sucked out and in which an all-encompassing darkness spreads. The painter wanted them to be hung in darkened rooms which the viewer should approach at a distance of 45 cm in order to directly experience their desperate emotional world - drama, tragedy, fate.
If he had been a happy, life-affirming man, this Mark Rothko, and his painting had served confidence, not despair, his paintings would have become spaces of horizontally stacked lightfulness.
I imagine these reduced colored areas of a mentally healthier, joyful Rothko, floating, white, gray, green, pastel, creating brightness, silence and hope like a sunrise seen on a foggy morning.
I'm sure there never would have been these pictures.
But there is L´Original by Andrée Putman.

"When I wear L'Original, I can rest in myself instantly, no matter how upset or depressed I was before."

These wonderful words do not come from me, but they describe very aptly how this fragrance works. I see his layers of colour in front of me: an almost white surface, central, determining. White pepper. A much more subtle, precise quality than "peppery hot", better: aromatic, focused, defined.
A further colour space, green, pastel, fresh, floating: coriander, it mixes with the pepper on the edge, but remains independently perceptible as a green quality.
In the background, in the lower image area, a gray tone, wood, whichever, withdrawn, solid, matt, the base.
The coloured areas are surrounded by a rosy shimmer, a hint of a watery unsweet floral scent.
I don't know what water lilies smell like. I own a water-filled whiskey barrel, planted in a sawn-through whiskey barrel, hibernated at this time of year, standing at the entrance to the house, delighting me and our visitors all summer long with pastel yellow flowers. I've never noticed a scent before, but the scent name "Water Lily", perhaps also an allusion to a long-running theme of impressionistic painting, fits perfectly, even if it's possibly a fantasy creation.
I hardly know of any other fragrance that is so reduced, simple and noble that it creates such an effect of silence and focus. I remember Mojave Ghost hovering in a similarly pastel way, but here a strong alcoholic juniper blue-green, on top a surface of rosy, powdery iris.
Especially at this time of year I find this fragrance impression very appealing in its simple elegance and reduced casualness. One has smelt oneself a little tired at all the loud, resinous, incense, balsamic winter scents, the operatically elaborate compositions one loves so much, and this scent sends one a wonderful premonition of light, vastness, new beginning, collection.

"Silence is so accurate." Mark Rothko

I thank Turandot for the opportunity to get to know this beautiful fragrance.

03/14/2012

5
Bottle 5
Sillage 5
Longevity 9
Scent

PBullFriend
308 Reviews

PBullFriend

Helpful Review 5

tranquility

A translucent dove-gray smell of lake (not ocean) driftwood and some peppery wild plant. (I’m surprised there’s no vetiver in here.) I picture myself walking on a forest trail toward a lake on a 55 F (13C) day, wearing an oversized plaid woolen workshirt that has been hanging in the fresh air, having all the time in the world. The lake is full of life - loons, beavers, trout snapping up to catch flies. (Although this is supposed to have waterlily in it, Northern US waterlilies I have smelled have a sharp greenness I don't smell here.) In one word: tranquility.