Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Family of fragrances build on a base consisting of bergamot, oakmoss and labdanum.
- n. A perfume with such a fragrance.
Etymologies
- From the name of a perfume created by François Coty in 1917. French Chypre means Cyprus. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“What is to follow in the next seven years is a slowly but steadily growing number of releases that use the word chypre either as their classification or as a note.”
“The second, a family of both men's and women's fragrances called chypre, stretches from Guerlain's legendary Mitsouko, first released in 1919 and considered by some critics today to be the finest fragrance ever produced, all the way up to Chanel's Cristalle and beyond.”
“I am a known as a chypre junkie and oriental lover, and generally speaking I seek complexity and evolution in my scents, which isn’t often satisfied by florals.”
“Patchouli is a key ingredient in chypre, oriental, floral and gourmand fragrance categories.”
“Fragrance bloggers and their bretheren are of the opinion that hyper regulation of oakmoss is to has led to the destruction of the chypre category.”
“The chypre undertone in Crabtree and Evelyn's Ultra Moisturizing Body Butter with Revitalizing Lemon and Coriander is an exquisite find in a product with a $32.50 price point.”
Ode to Oakmoss: Crabtree & Evelyn Ultra Moisturizing Body Butter
“Oakmoss is an ingredient in fine fragrance that defines the chypre category of fine fragrance.”
“The much maligned Oakmoss, which is the subject of a bitter regulatory debate in the European Union and The United States, defines the chypre category in fine fragrance.”
“Eau Dynamisante - the feel good fragrance with a bouquet of citrus, chypre & delicate woody notes”
“The real surprise of the morning was a sample of Andy Tauer's new Une Rose Chyprée, a perfectly balanced rose/chypre where the rose is lifted by clementine and bay and grounded by labdanum, oakmoss and vanilla.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chypre’.
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Aromata Aromatica
Fragrant things and terms that describe them. Generic names of botanical binomials aren't capitalized if the unconventional lower case form has a useful Wordnik definition. I'm primarily seeking te...
curry leaf, tuberose, orris, moss rose, smudge stick, lavender, frangipani, sweet acacia, sweet bay, tea rose, patchouli, linaloa and 162 more...
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Stink Different™
What-the-smell is that?
hircine, jumentous, hyena butter, cadaverine, new car smell, teen spirit, parosmia, hircismus, ylang-ylang, burnt hair, hydrogen sulfide, gay bomb and 115 more...
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Perfumery
perfume, perfumer, aromachologist, fougère, le nez, civet, perfumer's organ, Tapputi, Eau de Cologne, eau de toilette, eau de perfume, eaux and 92 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
czardas, cytometer, cytology, cytheromania, cystoscope, cystolith, cyrenaic, cypseline, cyprinoid, cyphonism, cynophobia, cytogenesis and 1298 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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toponymonymonymonymons
bits and pieces
india ink, chypre, cashmere, astrakhan, bikini, boho, damask, dollar, spa, cognac, champagne, yorkies and 2 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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rich words
auburn, aureole, relic, reliquary, aureate, umber, lyric, elegy, requiem, jacinth, sable, penumbra and 95 more...
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poetic & exotic
gloaming, nacreous, limpid, lambent, limn, elegiac, arenaceous, boreal, harlequin, sphinx, alfresco, coruscate and 109 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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true wood
durable steadfast words
rhododendron, philodendron, druid, dendron, dryopithecine, germander, dryad, drupe, obdurate, indurate, endure, dura matre and 70 more...
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Brave New World
Words gathered while reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
penitente, pyrrhonic, ossuary, henry-georgian, kropotkinesque, scopolamine, bokanovsky, semi-moron, hypnopaedia, welfare-tyranny, fretsawyer, theremogene and 85 more...
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roguewraith's Words
quixotic, frith, estuary, obsequious, fawn, alliteration, furrow, fez, tyro, sallow, desultory, madrigal and 33 more...
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seafoamgreen's Words
saturnine, ambergris, tuberose, bergamot, neroli, vetiver, cassis, chypre, cardamom, frangipane, heliotrope, oudh and 3 more...
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Whatever you rolled in, it sure smell...
aka words having to do with scent
oude, sillage, vanilla, chypre, mephitic, noisome, opoponax, patchouli, cardamom, grains of paradise, rice flower, chamomile and 67 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for chypre.
jmjarmstrong JM likes his resins straight – none of this chypre stuff! Jun 22, 2009
john "Often those shoppers collect, amassing as many as 200 bottles and vials in their homes. And many have learned to distinguish among olfactory families like fougère (fern) and gourmand (edible smells), and even to pronounce chypre (SHEE-pr, roughly), a classification based on citrus and woody notes."
The New York Times, Everyone's a critic, by Ruth La Ferla, April 17, 2008 Apr 17, 2008
arby Chypre is a name used to describe a family of perfumes, usually based on a top note of citrus and woody base notes, usually from oak moss.
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I believe it's pronounced "sheep-reh" (never learned French but that's how I've heard/read it). Jul 13, 2007