Deneuve Catherine Deneuve for women

This was my signature scent for years. And then it was just gone... I've been trying to find something similar for a long, long time. I even wrote to Catherine and begged her to bring it back! "That's not likely to happen" she said. Well boo-hoo! I have a tiny vial which I only wear for very special occasions now. Oh how I would love to wear it everyday again!

Mil gracias to dear Mariella who sent this to me after we swapped a few times...One word: EXQUISITE! I'm glad that fotolux included the notes in the review before this one...The aldehydes, muguet, orris, oakmoss and civet are what mix together on the willing canvas of my skin...Together, these notes paint a smolderingly gorgeous picture of promise, beauty and elegance that anyone is invited to feel when they don this fragrance...Amazing!

I wasn't sure what to expect from a perfume that in my mind, was supposed to live up to the epitome of French elegance and class herself. Now that I've smelled it, it makes sense. It is a lovely fragrance. This is a scent you can wear forever. There is nothing trendy here - no berries, no coconut, no candy notes, just pure classic sophistication. I detect mostly woods and green notes and some subtle florals. This is not girly, this is womanly. This is not for your silly moods, or when you're lounging around the house in your yoga pants. This is for when you want to make an impression, be taken seriously, or project an air of intelligence and mystery. Can a perfume do all that? I think so. I wouldn't mind having a bottle of this.

This review is for pure perfume concentration.

This fragrance is real class!!! very good chypre i must say, i am not fond of chypres, but this one is good indeed! Quite spicy and sharp at the opening with nicely blended green notes and basil it settles down into something refined and classy after a while. This is mature and grown-up chypre with a lot of moss and wood notes at the drydown. I don´t get any rose inbetween, no hyacint, but more of the violet. The rose is noticeble in the drydown but very slightly.
Sillage is GREAT, and lasting power is GREAT. As for me i think i really need to grow up still to use this one, maybe after a couple of years i will be mature enough to wear this. At the moment i will wear it only on special rare occasions preferrably on colder time of the year. A perfect haircut, expensive suit or strict dress and bold jewerly highly required to wear with it.
Definitly a keeper!!!

Deneuve was ALL I wore for years and it was lovely! EVERYONE would ask what lovely scent I was wearing. I do wish she would bring it back; I understand it was US tax problems that caused Ms. Deneuve to remove it from USA. There's absolutely NOTHING like it but someone please tell me if there is a scent close to it.
southerngirl

In the eighties I got as apresent the parfum Catherine deneuve from my aunt who lived in the USA.Does anybody know where i can buy the parfum here in europe .My email adress is hackmanncora@gmail.com Bye an thanks

I wore Deneuve since the 80's and always had people ask me what wonderful perfume I was wearing. I found a fragrance from "Parfumelle" in Fort Worth,Tx named L'Amour De Catherine which smells exactly the same a Deneuve on me. I get the same response when I wear it. It lasts forever and available. I had spent two years searching for Deneuve and finally found someone who sent me the Parfumelle. It would be wonderful if this fragrance, soaps and powders was revived.
A friend of mine tried to wear Deneuve an it just wasn't the same on her. It is all about the Chemistry. I wore Impreveu until it was discontinued then I was lucky enough to find Deneuve. Now I have found Parfumelle. I will look forward to trying Diva but for now will continue to use L'Amour De Catherine. JoAnn

Thank you, Kterhark, for enabling me to try this much-beloved scent.

I like Deneuve (parfum), but I agree that it has that "hairspray" note I find in a lot of older fragrances, especially greens and chypres. (Anybody know what that is? Is it supposed to be there or has some note in these older fragrances gone off?)

After the hairspray dissolved, Deneuve reminded me very much of two other chypre scents which I have owned or currently own: Diva (which I loved but found unwearable on my skin), and Jacomo Parfum Rare.

Deneuve was certainly beautiful and long-lasting. It has green notes and floral aldehydes, with just a hint of sweetness, drying down to a true mossy-animalic base.

Given the similarity and affordability of the other two scents Deneuve resembles, especially Diva, I know now there is no need to run, run, run to ebay to pay ridiculous prices for a tiny bottle of Deneuve.

(I will likely continue to walk, walk, walk to the antique store and thrift store and will snatch up a bottle of Deneuve if it turns up at a good price.)

Ever since I tried the knock off of this i've been wanting to try the original.

Sadly, i'm not digging this too much. maybe i'm having a bad perfume day, but this is smells very strongly of hairspray on me. outdated sample? Perhaps.

Take away: if you find a bottle on ebay, exercise caution before buying blind.

Bon Vivant to Mme Deneuve for this Lovely
Perfume this fragrance brings out her Personalty Cool refined elegant worldly
sophisticated and French.
Mrs Deneuve the Legendary screen goddess
released her only fragrance Deneuve in 1986 the top notes first applied to my skin is an hearty note of greens crisp and bright with the coolly sophistication of Aldehyde; the heart notes dries to a scent of dry muguet
Rose for an Powdery texture and grounded
Orris for an earthy feel.

I do smell a pervasive amount of Jasmine
but the drydown is a bit oily but nice
with Warm dry Sandalwood with a deep
woodsy note of Oak moss musk for an masculine appeal and civet which i don't
think it should be in this perfume but it is.

I love Catherine Deneuve she brings French Elegance and Womanhood to the screen.

I wore this perfume for years! It was (and still is) my favorite. I miss not being able to get it any longer. Unfortunately, if you can still find it...it won't smell the same because it's old. Perfume's and Cologne's generally only last about a year...then they start to smell different. What a shame Katherine doesn't see the high demand for her fragrance!!!

Top Notes
Green notes, Galbanum, Bergamot, Neroli, Basil, Aldehyde .

Middle Notes
Rose, Muguet, Jasmin, Orris, Ylang-Ylang, Violet, Hyacinth .

Base Notes
Moss, Musk, Cedarwood, Sandal, Civet .

(Imitation review)
My review is of a perfumer's (DSH Perfumes) recreation of this scent, based on natural ingredients/high quality oils that best imitate the original.

While i've never smelled the original, I have to say I LOVE this version. I was told that this contains Bulgarian Rose in the middle notes, and this is my favorite phase. The opening (Bergamot, maybe aldehydes? I forget the rest) is really gorgeous. Not so flowery that it offends, kind of has an oriental twist to it, a more 'earthy' floral opening.

Can be bought in oil or EDP, and I bought the EDP version, which wears close to the body. Very lovely, and I'll be refilling my bottle on this one.

I also bought this BEAUTIFUL perfume and I loved it!I was always getting the "pardon me, but what is the beautiful fragrance you are wearing" question at my office.I bought 6 bottles and am down to the last 1/4 inch of my last bottle.BRING IT BACK!Women and men will line up for this.Every woman feels beautiful when she wears it and every man wants his woman to wear it!!

Does anyone know of a fragrance that is similar to Deneuve? Is it still being produced? It is the best fragrance!

Well I can say that I have discovered the most exquisite perfume of all time. More than two decades ago I was in a department store in Waterford, CT. There was this lovely perfume called Deneuve. I bought a bottle, went back and bought ten more, went back a few months later and bought 15 more and haven't been able to find it since. Today my daughter pointed me to several websites that have it. I searched high and low, New York to California, Paris to Nice, Milan to Sicily, Germany to Vienna, Rome to Madrid, Porto Alegre to Amazonas, and Joao Pessoa to Rio de Janeiro and always was a purchase away from the last bottle. I have been stopped by men around the world who say, "Miss, I am not being forward, but you smell heavenly." Always when this happened, I was wearing Deneuve. I found a few vials in Los Angeles and have hoarded it for special occasions since finding those at the Beverly Hill Perfumery. They were quite expensive but with this smell, and when I hit the lottery, I will buy all that I can find. I even learned to extend the fragrance with a "musk oil" (pure) that I dare not mention the name of, so that only I can, with my chemistry, recreate this fragrance. What is the distribution problem in the U. S? Anyway, for the most "heavenly" perfume of all times, try to find some Deneuve. I imagine it must mimic angel dust. You cannot duplicate the smell anywhere. Wish I could distribute it here in the US. It could turn this recession into quick upturn in the economy. You will never forget it and will search high and low for it forever. Liberte! Egalite! Deneuve!

My best gal-pal wore this in high school. I bought and cherish still the .25 oz parfum I have. Truly a unique, elegant and seductive fragrance.

Oh, the memories! I think this came out in the 80s (like most great perfumes). Anyway, being the perfume junkie that I am, I had to have it. It is a very elegant scent. Like the woman who inspired it. I wish I could find it again.