Since I’ve been swamped recently, I don’t follow NST’s community projects any longer (not complaining – just stating the fact). So, I didn’t know this week’s topic (“True Colors: tell us your favorite color, and wear a fragrance with that color in the name, or that reminds you of that color, or that has juice in that color, or … ?”). But I got a suspicion it was related to NST and color when I saw hajusuuri’s IG post earlier today. And that was when I realized I wore four green perfumes this week. Spontaneously. In the middle of Winter. Without knowing about any projects. So, I decided why not to make it into the SQ.
Saturday Question #148:
What Are Your Top Five Green Perfumes?
Bonus question: Do you wear green perfumes all year round, or is there some particular season for them?
My Answer
I’ll start with answering the bonus question: as I explained in the post The Color of Spring (I used a photo from that post below even though not all of the perfumes on it made it to my Top 5 list), I associate green perfumes with Spring. But it seems this year, with its unexpected heavy rain in our area, I started craving green perfumes earlier.
My Top 5 Green Perfumes (not in particular order):
- Chanel No 19 EdT
- Puredistance Antonia
- vero profumo Mito
- Avon Deneuve
- DSH Perfumes Vert Pour Madame
How about you?
Undina's Looking Glass 
I’m not really a green perfume connoisseur, so I’ll go with just listing four that I have and sometimes wear – Chanel No 19, jacomo Silences, Safari, Goutal Heure Exquise. Definitely get pulled out in spring!
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Same as you MMKinPA, and No 19 and Silences are my first 2 as well. I don’t think I’m very consistent with when I wear certain genres. Three others, hmm… EA Green Tea, Masque Milano Ray-Flection, and I guess L’Occitane Herbae before I broke my travel spray in my suitcase!
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I like Green Tea also. I tried Ray-Flection again yesterday: I can barely smell anything at all. I wonder what ingredients in it I’m anosmic to.
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Nice to see Safari. That’s a great fragrance
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Silences and Heure Exquise are my favorites as well.
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OOOH! Undina, green is one of my favourite fragrance groups. There is some crossover with my Chypre loves too, a bonus. I tend to wear them all year but mostly Spring/Summer
Order as come to mind:
DIOR Granville
Nikki de Saint Phalle
DSH Perfumes Giverny in Bloom
Nicolai Le Temps d’une Fête
Eris Parfums Green Spell
There are so many others I love and wear regularly but this is a nice cross section of styles. Mito, Silences and No 19 should be there too but 5.
Portia xx
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Nikki de Saint Phalle (thank you!) and Nicolai’s one are my favorites as well! And my list would have been longer as well. But 5.
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HA! Yeah, I probable could have hit 20 if we were aiming that high.
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I have been wearing green perfumes a lot too. It has been very warm and wet for January, so that may have to do with it. Green is my best loved genre.
Chanel 19, in all forms
Vero Profumo Mito, in all forms
Parfum d’Empire Mal-Aimée
Dusita Fleur de Lalita
Guerlain Vol de Nuit
The most green perfume I have is Annick Goutal Eau de Camille, but I only wear that in Spring.
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Can you remind me of Mal-Aimee’s smell? I tried it long ago and remember liking it, but not the details.
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It starts with a sharp green note, a bit like nettle, with a hint of blackberry. It develops into a very natural smelling ‘weedy’ scent, like the stem of a freshly cut flower. It rests on a base of beautiful orris.
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Eau de Camille is gorgeous. I drained three bottles. Wish they didn’t discontinue it.
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Mal-Aimee is beautifully herbal, as well as Eau de Gloire. I cannot decide which I like better.
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Love Vol de Nuit, but I didn’t think about it as green. Need to wear it now to see how I feel about it now.
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Greens are my favourite. More so these days as something has happened to my sense of smell and I can feel very nauseated by anything that is even a little sweet.
I share Hamamelis’s love of Eau de Camille, which someone once said felt like being slapped round the face with wet ivy! Bracing, exhilarating and now sadly discontinued – there is nothing like it. Then there is dear Mito, which is astringent and beautiful and rightly has your and H’s love.
Silences is lovely too, and smells like a cousin of No 19, which is obviously a favourite.
Another departed beauty is YSL’s Eau Libre (not related at all to the current perfume of that name). Actually coloured green, in a distinctive green and silver box, and so fresh and clean yet long-lasting. I treasure a bottle I have which still smells good.
Greens are uplifting and refreshing. We need them cos of the weather, the time of year and the sorry state of the world right now!
Is that a bottle of Kenzo’s Parfum d’Ete is see in your photo?
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I liked that Kenzo and planned to get a bottle… until it disappeared from discounters :) But the bottle on the photo is another leaf bottle – Yves Rocher Nature.
I didn’t know that YSL reused the name for that perfume. It’s a pity.
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Oh, I remember Yves Rocher Nature now – I had a bottle so that’s why it looked familiar. Can’t recall how it smelled now, and I assume the Kenzo suited me better. Would love to smell both again.
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I do own a few greens & as with most of my scents I wear when I feel like wearing them. As Portia said, my greens also crossover into my chypres. Moss & patch are green after all.
Top five?
Sisley Eau de Campagne
Chanel No19 EdT
EA Green Tea
Papillon Dryad
O de Lancôme
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EA Green Tea is surprisingly popular among perfumistas!
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Greens are not an easy wear for me. The ones I own and like to wear are Chanel no 19, Goutal Heure Exquise, Papillon Dryad, Guerlain Vol de Nuit, Eris Green Spell.
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Greens are the trickiest perfume notes for me to wear too, Sylvia. I find I don’t suit them. I loved smelling a sample of Malle’s Synthetic Jungle: it’s beautiful, and def not for me. I have Irisia, and Givenchy III, and Chamade in all its forms-and I think that’s all I have. But today, as it’s freezing rain outside and I’m cleaning, in between bouts of movie watching and admiring my sleeping cat, I’m burning an Iluvo candle called Emma-has it has notes of myrrh and galbanum, cedar, vetiver, patch, moss and lichen. Perfect for an overcast freezing rain sort of day :)
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Synthetic Jungle was too synthetic for me :)
Chamade is a beauty!
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You’ve got the best of them! :)
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I have the same challenge as Portia: only five? I love green scents and have many. So I’ll say that my top 5 right now are:
Chanel No. 19
Papillon’s Dryad
Chanel Cristalle
Jacomo Silences
Guerlain Vol de Nuit
I really like the four “Vert” scents released by Tom Ford a few years ago, but wouldn’t prefer any to the list above. St. Clair Scents’ First Cut and Gardener’s Glove are quite green, and I love them, but I wouldn’t say they are primarily green.
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I find First Cut to be predominantly green. Whatever its ‘colour’ it is fabulous.
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Isn’t it? I love it too.
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For me First Cut is all about the lavender and hay so I never thought of it as green until you mentioned it
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I think of the hay first too, when I smell First Cut.
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I also liked all Verts from Tom Ford! But not enough to get more than small decants.
From your list, only Dryad didn’t work for me. With the rest we’re in agreement.
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Undina, We think alike on green perfumes, to some degree.
Chanel No. 19
DSH Vert pour Madame
DSH Perfumes Giverny in Bloom
Nicolai Le Temps d’une Fête
and the best in my opinion:
Puredistance Antonia
I had high hopes for Eris Green Spell and participated in the crowd funding, but it didn’t move me.
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Other than Givenry that I haven’t tried, I’m with you on the other 4!
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And I forgot, Chanel Crystalle Vert, for a light green option.
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Gap Grass
Wrappings
Aliage
Pucci Vivari Sole 149
Private Collection
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I love Wrappings! Sadly, it no longer appears on the Clinique website, at least the US one.
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I think it’s seasonal and comes out only during the holidays
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I’ve learned that the accord that really says “green” to me is galbanum. I just love it.
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And I think it’s in every fragrance that everyone has mentioned
Violet leaf ( not violet) and tomato leaf are also green to my nose
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Vent Vert or Coriandre
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You’re right! I have Vent Vert but haven’t worn it in ages. I don’t think I have Coriandre, though I know a bit about it, probably because I’ve read so often that the current version isn’t very good. Do you have one that you recommend?
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I only know the vintage and haven’t smelled it in decades. It was the signature scent of one of my friends from my ballet days. I don’t think current version is that expensive at all so you might give it a try because I think you like the green genre right? I was also thinking of Azuree and Ester as well. I think Ester Lauder had quite a few green fragrances in the 60s and 70s that were just outstanding.
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Estee ….my phone keeps changing it to Ester!!
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Yes, I love greens! And you’re right, Azurée is a stunner.
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I think that galbanum is my most favorite note in general.
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Ooh, I would have said I don’t care too much for green perfumes, but there are a few which have spoken to me: Gucci Envy, En Voyage Zelda, Jean Patou Vacances (vintage), and I would also have Chamade and O de Lancome, which others have mentioned, which wouldn’t have occurred to me as very green, but I need a couple more to make up my five!
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Also Vero Kern Mito Voile d’Extrait – forgot that one…
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Definitely Chamade (though I don’t think of it as green perfume). And Mito.
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