Launched in 2014, a year after Repetto’s first eau de toilette, the Eau de Parfum composed by Olivier Polge is inspired by a performance night. The house describes it as a woody floriental: plum and cherry blossom, rose absolute and orange blossom, patchouli and an amber elixir that the press says is centered on vanilla. Its round bottle is entirely frosted.
On the 2013 eau de toilette, whose structure the eau de parfum takes up, Victoria Frolova, of Bois de Jasmin, hails a charming floral gourmand; Jeanne Doré, of Auparfum, smells only an overly sweet fruity patchouli.
Olfastory’s review
Victoria Frolova, Bois de Jasmin
In July 2013, Victoria Frolova finds the eau de toilette as charming as the house’s patent leather ballet flats: a floral gourmand, a soft rose over a marshmallow of orange blossom and vanilla, with a hint of fruity patchouli.
Likable without being vapid, in her view, the fragrance resembles a Chanel Chance that has grown up: softer, less insistent on sweet patchouli, opening on tart pear and mandarin juice before pale pink rose petals and soft suede.
Jeanne Doré, Auparfum
In July 2013, Jeanne Doré sees in it, on the contrary, a fruity chypre “as pointless as it is sweet”: a pear outbid by a tangy red-berry accord, over a praline, musky base that quickly turns very sugary.
She imagines that Olivier Polge conceived Repetto at the same time as La Vie est Belle, to the point that the two formulas could have been swapped, and laments the anonymous trail it promises to young women in ballet flats.