The scent I've been wearing for the past few years - Irisia by Creed - Turin and Sanchez write off, with a cutting one-star review, as a "green floral chypre of exceptional banality and unpleasantness", so I have have had the amusement of trying to find a replacement.— Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Entirely feminine with an exotic floral chypre, it is perfect to wear or gift on Valentine's Day.— Paramus Post
(One of the most expert technical scent industry experts told me he considers it "among the great reinventions of the masculine chypre.")— NYT > Home Page
If it's a chypre, I'm going to wear it.— The Non-Blonde
A faint scent of chypre from Petticoat's cigarette as he alit.— Ptomaine Street
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