Launched in 2009, Parisienne borrows the name and the bottle’s look from Paris, along with one of its perfumers: Sophia Grojsman composed it with Sophie Labbé. A vinyl accord, cranberry and blackberry open onto damask rose, violet and peony, set on patchouli, vetiver, musk and sandalwood. Kate Moss is its face.
Robin, of Now Smell This, finds Parisienne pretty, wearable and slightly offbeat, more interesting than Elle, but tamer and less exuberant than Paris.
Olfastory’s review
Robin, Now Smell This, October 2009
On October 8, 2009, Robin described an opening of frothy violet and rose, lifted by tart berries. Once worn, the berries fade quickly, and so does the rose, and the perfume turns dusky, almost wistful; the vinyl accord is noticeable at first, then fades and returns over the next hour.
The base of musky woods and cleaned-up patchouli, smoothed over by powder, stays in her view more clean than daring, far from what one would expect from Kate Moss in black leather. Against the vivid pastels of Paris, she sets those of Parisienne, muted and greyed, at once retro and straight from the lab.
Robin likes it: pretty, easy to wear, offbeat enough to be more interesting than many, and more than the house’s other recent launches. She does not fall in love with it, and it mostly reminds her why Paris is still admired after twenty-five years.