Ma Liberte Jean Patou for women

If you love Justin bieber's someday, you will absolutely hate this scent!

One spray of Ma liberte (EDT) on my arm, I was really shocked when both citrus & lavender break into my olfactory senses. For 10 minutes I was enjoying the masculinity of a perfume which is actually marketed for women.

When the two notes of lavender & citrus began to evaporate in the air and slowly disappearing, I smelled something powdery & creamy just as Mitsouko’s Heart note. Hmmm, beautiful composition from Kerleo in the heart of Ma Liberte.


In the end, Ma liberte was attended by some of the notes that have been commonly present in general perfumery.I felt the presence of vanilla & patchouli.

Now "My freedom" is discontinued...

It smells a little like a classic Patou fragrance, floral and spicy and soapy at first with some citrusy aldehydes, but it doesn’t have the soft, mossy, chypre feel that the older ones do. It’s a classic top grafted onto an 80s base. As it dries down I can smell the lavender. In the final stage, I smell a faint skin scent of musk and rose. There’s moderate sillage for most of the time, and the scent lasts 6-8 hours on skin. This is a well-made, wearable, and enjoyable perfume, not wildly original, but very nice.

I am honestly shocked that this scent doens't get more buzz. Let me put my snob hat on for a moment. I don't wear cheap scents.

But when I saw the price of Ma Liberte I was floored. Really? THIS quality can be had for under $50?? There are a lot of threads on 'what are some recs for a classic floral chypre?' This never comes up, and for heaven's sake why not???

This is better than most of what I've tried, and I've tried everything that comes up on those threads. Floral chypres are my favorite genre, becasue when it's done right, as it is in Mitsouko, every knee shall bow in adoration.

The spicy clove note works for me here. It's edgy without being scratchy. the florals are deep and earthy, not sweet and fleeting. The base takes time to develop, but is very classy when it finally arrives.

Fans of the following will want to try this: Niki St. Phalle, the Balmain greats, Chanel 19 and Ma Griffe.

MA LIBERTE, the freedom of wild nature. There's nothing like this, has never been, will never be!! "MA LIBERTE" is the free (and most of all UNTAMED) nordic nature. Bottled Wilderness.Mysterious with capital "M" spring-herbals. Cloves and wildroses burst like spring in the topnotes. The heart of a mystical lavander woodsy cinnamon cedar & sandalwoods. This scent is taken out of the most northern Nordic WHITE MOSS WILDERNESS!!!! A sauna in the deepest woods of Finland. The one & only true scent of real freedom! Heated herbs, and burning fresh spring Björk(Birch)-wood with it's spring-buds thrown on the saunas hot stones. The scent of this exact STEAM !!!! This is freedom. Clearest sweetwater fjordes of Norway, the pulsating magical hot springs of Iceland. And the crisp spring-air & Waters, combined earth, the ground-soil of the cleanest nature of Sweden. A saga - more than a fragrance. Ancient and close-to-heart. This is one of my signature scents. Like an older, wise ancestor to Guerlain's "Jicky" edp. "MA LIBERTE'S" bolder & deeper. MYSTIC !!With added dark vetiver and white moss. THE leader through the whole scent, lavender from bright innocent jasmin-rosebuds-lavender top - down to "MA LIBERTE'S" woodsy earthy lavender-base.

First an explosion of lavander, a bit sharp and strong. when I smell again I detect something fresh I think the lemon, then it gets more woody ,powdery even.The lavender is still prominent to my nose, but I can also start to smell some spices cinnamon and the patchouli maybe.The drydown is a lavender woody scent whit a bit of vetyver.
A very nice scent.
I wore the edt version about 20 jears ago and now I have the edp version. The notes in the edp are more prominent then the edt.

Sillage and staying power are great, can smell it still the next day.


Ma Liberte is one of the classics from Patou

WOW!!! Awesome surprise!!! I got a full 3.4 oz bottle for 24 dollars and I just rolled over with delight when I sprayed it.

It is a twin of JICKY!!!!! But with a little more bite. Jicky is one of my favorites, so I'm in heaven!!

I have a collection from many years ago that my husband got me, of several of the Jean Patou fragrances in mini bottles. I'm really pretty amazed at the staying power. If I get in the mood, I might go through the collection and start writing some reviews on the ones I revisit.

It is a set of about 12 fragrances including Moment Supreme, Colony and others. I have seen the collection selling for as much as 600 dollars!!! Hmmm guess I'm glad I didn't get rid of the collection on one of my cleaning out rampages.

More later.

Reminded me most of Annick Goutal Vetiver (supposed to be for men, but it's lovely), until I tried them side by side. Ma Liberte is much softer & more nuanced, with the citrus and lavender (and later, the vanilla) giving a calmness to the delicious spicy vetiver. I have a mini and might need a bottle before this becomes even harder to find.