Les Espionnes du Tsar
The Spies of the Tsar
Roméa d'Améor 2009

Les Espionnes du Tsar / The Spies of the Tsar by Roméa d'Améor

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6.6 / 10 54 Ratings

Les Espionnes du Tsar is a perfume by Roméa d'Améor for women and was released in 2009. The scent is floral-sweet. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Sweet

Fruity

Powdery

Fresh

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Red apple

Grapefruit

Lemon

Melon

Heart Notes

Jasmine

Lily of the valley

Magnolia

Rose

Iris

Base Notes

Ambergris

Musk

Patchouli

Sandalwood

Vanilla

Caramel

Perfumer

Pierre Bourdon

Ratings

Scent

6.654 Ratings

Longevity

6.238 Ratings

Sillage

5.136 Ratings

Bottle

7.532 Ratings

Submitted by DeGe53, last update on 09.03.2023.

Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/24/2022

9
Pricing 10
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Nushka
24 Reviews

Nushka

Helpful Review 4

A sadly discontinued gem

The name does make sense if you read the brand's inspiration for this perfume: spy working for Peter the Great sent to the atelier of a master painter to acquire paintings for his majesty's collection (at a time when art was a meaningful way of showing status and royal courts appointed court painters). The story features lemon sorbet, travelling by carriage and stopping in a flowery meadow under a frisky morning breeze, the smell of paint in the atelier, tea at the French court, and of course the hypnotic scent trail our spy Anna left behind, which convinced the master painter to see her!

I do get lemon in the opening notes, but it's a mellow, rounded scent, not juicy or acidic as you're used to encounter in perfumes. Then there is a light patchouli which invariably gives me black tea vibes. And there is a woody, acetonic overtone which reminds you a bit of paint or lacquer. The whole composition is beautifully balanced and blended, not overpowering yet noticeable. The quality of ingredients is undeniable and incomparable to designer fragrances.

The creator of the brand worked in champagne before working in perfumery, the perfumes in this line were all created in collaboration with renowned noses (my fave is and always will be Les princesses de Venise), and I love the storytelling behind the creations. I, for one, have yet to find an equivalent to these sadly discontinued fragrances.

07/01/2015

7.5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 7
Scent

Seerose
96 Reviews

Seerose

Don't pay Attention to the Name

If you pay your main attention to the name of "Les Espionnes du Tsar / The Spies of the Tsar" you will get disappointed for sure.
So let's forget the name of this scent and take a look at the pyramide. The pyramide is exactly the plot of "Les Espionnes du Tsar / The Spies of the Tsar".
Here I admit that the story which the name is promising does not suit to the story of the real scent.
I am smelling a fine floral-fruity fragrance, very ephemeral and floral at the beginning. Later "Les Espionnes du Tsar / The Spies of the Tsar" is going slowly to become a more and more tangy and fruity scent. And then it is becoming sweeter and dense. For a certain time it's a fruity gourmand. Patchouli seems to be very restraining for me which I do not regret. Santal and musc are as well not obstrusive.
But after this developement "Les Espionnes du Tsar / The Spies of the Tsar" is again a transparent fruity-floral fragrance.
For those with a particular liking of fruity scents it might be a wonderful though dainty perfume. I myself do not prefer fruity fragances but tested many and dare say that "Les Espionnes du Tsar / The Spies of the Tsar" is unique in it's own way.
But now I tested it the third time. And this time a have fresh and new original samples direct from Roméa d' Améor. I just bought a complete set. Is it possible, that the vials and decants I had before were not quite fresh, openend many times dripped on several skins? Because despite of my disliking fruity perfumes I consider "Les Espionnes du Tsar / The Spies of the Tsar" now as an excellent perfume. The two times before I disliked it really. Now it seems to me a distinct and noble yet different fragance?

07/12/2012

5
Bottle 6
Sillage 8
Longevity 5
Scent

Gold
541 Reviews

Gold

1

Niche Ninotchka

What a misleading name. I expected something much more outstanding - but this scent is neither surprising, nor unique. It's done in the style of Coco Mademoiselle (but Coco M. is better!), a fruity fragrance mixed with woody notes. Girlish, playful - if you did a blind test, you'd never ever detect this was a "niche". I probably would have thought it was the latest "Nina"-flanker or something in this vein. Russian spies? Hardly. Maybe a cute, little Ninotchka in an embroidered red dress. Don't get me wrong: This juice doesn't smell bad at all. It smells pleasant. I simply don't see any point in buying such a fragrance for 120 Euros when Nina and Coco are cheaper, smell better and are readily available. Where's the point of "niche" here? Is it just the label?