Le Parfum Sonia Rykiel for women

Oriental woody? Yes, but it is also a fruity chypre. I think this one sits in both camps, definitely a rich and quite complex scent. Each facet seems to come to the fore over time, it's a woody dry aldehyde with a wine-like fruity depth, then it's a peachy chypre with woody, dusty undertones. Interesting and quite old-school in character - I would never have guessed at 1993, it smells like a reformulation of something much older, perhaps a teensy weensy bit like Rochas Femme (a fave of mine).
Very interesting and growing on me.

Wow...I feel a bit amateur for this after the reviews I've read. I just bought this today on Ebay after a difficult time finding it anywhere else. I first noticed it on a waitress in a Middle Eastern restaurant my family frequented. She always smelled alluring to me, so one day I asked her what she wore. She replied, "Sonia Rykiel". That was two years ago. Imgaine my challenge trying to figure out which Sonia Rykiel she meant. Unfortunately, she's no longer with us, so I cannot ask. But I found a great chart delineating scents as far back as 1920 or so, and I noticed I have a thing for "woody" scents, Paloma Picasso and Knowing being two of my favorites.
Now, after seven years basically raising my babies, I want to wear perfume again. And I don't want to go back to the "past", so to speak, so I want something in the same vein as the scents I love...i.e. woody. I was excited to see "Le Parfum Sonia Rykiel" falls in this type of scent. So I went for it...I will receive the scent in the mail soon. We'll see how it wears on me. I'm disappointed it doesn't have sandalwood, but maybe the hinoki wood offers a similar experience? I don't really follow the rules on "day" or "night" use. I don't care if some find it heavy or ostentatious or deep. If I'm going to wear scent, I'm going to wear what speaks to me. Wearing something citrus or fruity because it's summer or daytime doesn't speak to me at all. I'm 41, I know what I like and I'm excited to wear this complex, unique scent!

everything in this perfume reminds me of cognac, the expensive liquid people are willing to pay an arm and a leg, but when we get the first chance to try - disappoints greatly, leaving us wondering why the hell anyone would ever want to spend any money on something that smells and tastes as if it should be kept in a woodwork workshop!

after the fresh, bitter - aldehyde opening it spirals through fields of roses and honey jasmine. It's full of flowers. Then the sweetness becomes oriental, spicy and close to gingerbread, where carnations replace neatly obvious cloves notes. drydown is intoxicately dry like rich ambery liquor, a heavy drop full of aromatic oils. Woody like oak that gives buttery notes to chardonnay barrels. Luxury, sensual, close to skin, mind-blowing. If you liked Angel give it a try, this is a much darker side of sweetness.

there are scents that we need to learn to love, just as we learn to get pleasure from eating black olives, French cheese or drinking beer. Or cognac.

This is a very musky fragrance, to me it smells in the range of Magie Noire and Aromatics Elixir. I didn't like it but the bottle is nice.

This is a strong, old-fashioned, complex scent that starts out as a blast of floral and fruit aldehydes. It reminds me of some of my mother’s perfumes, the ones that I didn’t particularly care for. In fact, I think it is the reincarnation of all of them put together. I’m thankful that I was super-cautious in the amount that I applied and I’m glad I tested this when I was alone in the house, because the sillage is like a hurricane blowing through every room with enormous force. There are so many notes mixed together that the result is discordant. After a half hour I can start to pick out a very synthetic jasmine, but it’s mostly buried under a heap of other amorphous floral things. At this point I decided to abort the testing because I know that, for me, perfumes like this can trigger a migraine and no sampling is worth two days of down time.

If ever there was a perfume that deserved the label “old lady”, this is it, a scent for people who have lost most of their olfactory receptors and need the volume of every note turned up to painful levels. I will not be revisiting my sample any time soon.

I simply adore this perfume!!! It left me speachless the moment I put it on, strong , yet soft, reminds me Madame de Rochas a tiny bit+ the incitant rose in Parfum de Peau wchich I don't even like, but this combination of notes is the most interesting stuff I smelled in ages....Original
Edit I have really dry skin, I am wearing it right now and is well, fruity, not at all oldlady or sharp....I detect rapsberry and cream???

A sophisticated oriental, a bit old-fashioned and definitely too spicy for me. I appreciate its warmth and its great staying power but it simply doesn't match my skin chemistry - all I can feel is spices and earthy notes from beginning to end. I wish the honey and rose notes were more prominent.

On me it smells bitter enough mimosa and more bitter Hinoki wood. Also I feel passion fruit and sweet vanilla. So it's bitter and sweet at the same time for me. The lasting power is great. This fragrance is really worthy, but it's too bitter for me, that is why I wear it very rarely.

I have a bottle of this, it's so special that i hardly dare use it, just a tiny dab at a time. So perfect in every way, it lasts and it smells earthy and warm.
It smell very expensive.

I bought back in 1993 ...in Paris
at Sonia Rykiel's boutique....
loved it's complex spicy character ...
perhaps thats how I felt and saw myself while in Paris ...
oh yes.... It's a perfect smell for Autumn..
I agree!

A very complex perfume, with old-fashioned feel to it; most prominent notes on my skin are honey, spices and carnation. A bit too loud for me though, definitely an evening fragrance. For me it stands in one line with Cartier Panthere and Le Baiser du Dragon, also found some similarities with EL Spellbound - great perfumes but practically unwearable....unless I have a chance to attend Vienna Opera;)

i forgot to say, this have a long lasting power, i put it in the early evening and still can smell it the next morning..:-)

i got a mini of this as a gift..and i fell inlove with it right away..its really a nice smelling fragrance..its really what u called perfume..very good for romantic evening for its srong but not loud...but i can wear this everyday. :-)its one of the few perfumes that match my skin chemistry..i would definitely get a big bottle.:-)

It's a perfect smell for autumn, and I'm glad I got it in the right time - windy & rainy. It gives me warmth me and makes me feel comfortalble. My mom said it was too posh for everyday use, that I smelled like I had gone out the night before (which means some ppl might think I go out every day - cool!), but I feel 100% ok about wearing it as a casual, everyday scent.

got it today along with Cartier Le Baiser Du Dragon. They are pretty similar though.
They seem so old-fashioned that they are again sharp and have post-modern character.
Dusty and bohemian perfume.

nice deep parfum for luxury ladys.
have very spicy character
for night and special occasion. i love this one.