CHYPRE PALATIN - PARFUMS MDCI

🕊️ Chypre Palatin – MDCI (2012) 💧 Concentration: Eau de Parfum 🌿 Olfactive Family: Chypre Oriental 👃 Perfumer: Bertrand Duchaufour 📂 Source: GCMS Club Collection – Archives Gilbert Bendoni 📦 Number of Ingredients: 90+

💨 Creative Context

How else to begin a femme fatale vintage collection than with this modern chypre masterpiece? Chypre Palatin is Bertrand Duchaufour’s homage to the golden age of perfumery — a scent that channels the grandeur of Mitsouko, the velvet of Knowing, and the animalic tension of Paloma Picasso, all while remaining unmistakably contemporary.

Released in 2012, it reimagines the classic chypre structure with oriental leather, green florals, and resinous depth, sidestepping IFRA constraints with technical finesse. It’s not retro — it’s regal.

🧪 The Architecture

Chypre backbone: Patchoulol, Labdanum Absolute, Oakmoss-type (Evernyl, Cedryl Acetate), Coumarin. Floral–green lift: Orange Oil, Green Mandarin, Clary Sage, Galbanum, Jasmine Absolute, Iris Concrete, Hydroxycitronellal. Spiced–resinous depth: Benzoin Siam, Styrax Oil, Tolu Balsam, Cinnamon Leaf, Caraway, Castoreum Absolute. Musky–woody warmth: Musk T, Tonalide, Ambroxan, Sandalwood Oil, Vetyveryl Acetate, Iso E Super, Bacdanol. Aldehydic shimmer: C14, C18, Helional, Styralyl Acetate, Canthoxal. Fruity–floral nuance: Methyl Anthranilate, Fructone, Nerol, Neryl Acetate, Cis-Jasmone. Fixatives & accents: Hedione, TEC, DPG, Triethyl Citrate, Benzyl Salicylate, Vanillin, Florol, Orcinyl.

🌫️ The Signature

Chypre Palatin doesn’t evolve — it commands presence. A scent of green velvet, leather shadows, and powdered florals, with a drydown that hums like a palace corridor at dusk. It’s not nostalgic — it’s architectural. Think Caravaggio in scent form: chiaroscuro, tension, and elegance.

🪞 Cultural Echo

This is Duchaufour at his most baroque — a perfumer known for incense and shadow, here building a chypre with palatial scale. It’s often cited as one of the finest niche chypres of the 21st century, and its original formulation is already sought after due to subtle reformulations post-2017.

🧪 GC-MS fidelity 🖤 Femme fatale certified 👃 Duchaufour’s chypre opus 🪞 A scent of velvet, moss, and imperial restraint