Enchanted Forest The Vagabond Prince for women and men

I recently tried a perfume sample that I purchased based on some positive reviews, but unfortunately, it didn't quite hit the mark for me. The scent is overwhelmingly reminiscent of pine, almost like a household cleaner, which I found off-putting. Despite my efforts to give it a fair chance over the past four years, I just couldn't bring myself to finish even the small 1 ml sample. Every time I attempted to use it, the strong scent upon opening the vial deterred me from proceeding further.

While I understand that fragrance preferences are subjective, this particular scent didn't resonate with me at all. It's definitely not your typical crowd-pleaser; rather, it's quite distinct and may not appeal to everyone. Despite its promising name, I felt it fell short of living up to expectations. Overall, it's not a scent I would recommend, but it might still find its niche among those with different olfactory preferences.

I have a bottle and half of the masterpiece. What can i say? It's a scent that evokes childhood memories, even though I don't wear it very often, it will be always in my collection.
Feel free to send me pm if you want to try it.

Do you remember Juniper Breeze from Bath and Body Works? This is her, all grown up in the best possible way. She married rich, moved to Appalachia, opened a winery next to her Christmas tree farm and enjoys the good things in life. I wouldn't wear this if you're going to be hot and sweaty (gym/summer) as I smelled kind of like a dirty lumberjack after working out. Sits fairly close to the skin after 2-3 hours, but if someone walks into your personal space it's noticable. Long lasting on fabrics. Starts out a bit masculine but dries feminine.

Enchanted Forest by The Vagabond Prince is a beast in the fragrance game, and it's a damn shame they haven't kept this rainy forest masterpiece on the shelves. The blend of black currant leaf, black currant blossom, red wine, rosemary, rum, pink pepper, sweet orange, artemisia, hawthorn, and aldehydes in the top notes sets the stage for an olfactory journey that's nothing short of enchanting.

As it unfolds, the middle notes kick in with black currant, vetiver, coriander, honeysuckle, carnation, and rose, weaving a story of a forest drenched in rain, the scent of wet earth and flourishing foliage.

And let's talk about the base – balsam fir, cedar, oakmoss, opoponax, Siam benzoin, patchouli, vanilla, amber, and musk. It's not just a fragrance; it's a symphony of woodiness and aromatic beauty that lingers like the aftermath of a refreshing rain.

This scent deserves a comeback – a rerelease that brings back the magic of the enchanted forest. It's a fragrance for both men and women who appreciate the raw power and mystique of nature. The Vagabond Prince, if you're listening, the world needs this rainy forest gem back on the shelves. Don't deny us the pleasure of being enchanted once again.

Interesting learning that this fragrance house belongs to the owner of fragrantica! I own this fragrance & was gonna be a little mean But will show some respect as I am also honest. I’m trying to figure out why the carded sample for me was all the magic people on here say it is..As if I envisioned green & purple powder or pixie dust with green & purple glitter even maybe!! And my full bottle seems to wait till the far far dry down to kinda give me that..Perhaps because I didn’t think to try this till I was about to go to bed? and the initial wet spray was all over my neck just before sinking down onto my pillow? I just remembered being in pure ecstasy smelling it in my pillow all thru the night & “At the time” This being more than I was used to paying for “Niche Frags” Having to be purchased thru Luckyscent I had to pull the trigger on this & anxiously awaited its arrival..I kept the presentation because it wasn’t as big of a box as other houses & with almost 300 fragrances I don’t know how people could keep all of these boxes! Anyways I wore it two or 3 times before bed & it seemed nowhere near the same..I’ve had carded samples such as PM Carslile end up better than the actual bottle..Seems to be an ongoing issue with Niche frags & never Designer ones. Thinking of what to write about today I whipped this one out being its not been reached for in over 2 years…So generously sprayed myself down being it’s cold & windy at work today here in Houston & 20 min before leaving the out this morning all I was getting was the fresh clean air of a pine forest “Very fresh” Photorealistic” which would be the conifer listed..Every year since I was young We’ll go to our place in East Texas 3 hours out of Houston & see grandparents & Deer hunt...It’s all hills & pine trees The air is clean you can always see tons of stars in the sky unlike here in the city you never see any so I’m definitely reminded of that “But only that” & nothing more till I’m halfway to work 45 min later I’m starting to get the berries And later on at the four hour mark as I write this I’m getting amber & seemingly black berries Making me think for a second of Amouage Jubilation but not quite…I figured I’d spray to full blasts into the material of my long sleeve sweatshirts wrist to see how it would do on material and I can say it does bring the tartness out like I’ve read in some other reviews..So it did get better with time. I’d say better & def more longer lasting on clothing…Seems like alot more fragrances I’ve noticed with the black current fruit listed in over the last 3 years or so. Way more than used to be.. I still don’t know how to pinpoint it…Here in Tx I’ve never even seen this fruit in anyone’s shopping cart in the Grocery store, So how a lot of people know when they’re smelling black current is beyond me! I see this fragrance now is hard to get & I basically have a full bottle with presentation if anyone is interested in trading something. I can see how this is special to some..Perhaps is was to me & my taste has just changed because I definitely remember how bad I had to have it

I was raised in Russia where we had a lot of blackcurrant. This fragrance smells exactly like stems, leaves, and berries all together. I think BD made it almost photorealistic. But for those who do not have similar experience it may smell strange.

Photorealistic pine sap and red berries. That's it. That's the fragrance. If you want to smell like fruitcake and a Christmas tree, this is the one.

this is my clean fragrance. i don't get any cleaner than this. being clean to me is more of a spiritual thing, like letting god's light cleanse me. i might bathe in a waterfall or eat a juicy fruit and let it spill all over myself. wow this is so pretty on me. my nose is pressed against my skin.

The tartness out of the bottle turned me off a bit and I thought I wouldn't like it at first, but Enchanted Forest changes instantly upon contact with skin and goes a bit sweeter, a bit more natural. The sun-baked fir is apparent from the start and shines through above the general fruitiness - and it IS sun-baked: fragrant and warm. This is not the cold, dark, austere woods associated with many fir and cedar fragrances.

The whole composition seems warm yet it retains enough coolness to be bearable in the heated indoors during the winter. It's like you stepped outside for a breath of fresh air on a sun-warmed Christmas day and there's a breeze gently delivering the live fir right to your nose, but you can still smell the rich, spiced jam and fruit pies being baked behind you as the warm air rushes out.

Enchanted Forest is definitely a holiday scent to me. I could wear it at another time of year for the nostalgia but in reality if I'm feeling Christmas I would most likely just layer my Christmas Fir oil from Juniper Ridge over whatever fragrance I'm wearing at the time for a little extra green. The drydown arrived fairly quickly after application and settled into a standard warm, somewhat spicy woods. For these reasons I won't be getting a full bottle but I would say this is definitely worth a sample! I will inevitably pull this out again over this winter and the next couple of years until my sample is gone.

This is very beautiful, sweet and tart. Gorgeous soapy berries with the dominant one being blackcurrant. The woody base (mostly fir, cedar and vetiver) is very reminiscent of Tom Ford's woody bases. It's masculine with a slight edgy and sexy note. I agree with the other reviewers that it is delicious and gorgeous. I am very impressed by this perfume and would love to try more of it.

LOVE. The black currant really does remain through the whole wearing! And pine is there alongside. I don't detect much from the other notes and that's ok. The currants are crisp, the pine is cold, and I'm in my happy place.

Something about this absolutely does not work for me and I can not figure out where it's coming from. On the initial spray this is super nice...my skin REALLY picks up the fruit notes (orange, black currant). It's like an orange that has been rubbed into a fir tree. Very green, almost sappy. That is super nice, but something happens where it ends up...weirdly plastic/rubbery? I can't figure out where I'm getting that (maybe the benzoin?) with that hit of citrus. I actually kind of get what another reviewer said about it smelling like Off! Insect Repellant. Similar vibes for me...something very plastic/rubber/synthetic here and not nature woodsy. It isn't entirely unpleasant, just strange, and definitely I think does not come off on my skin as intended. It's like a 4/10, unfortunately :( Not a total scrubber, but not really pleasant. And, probably, not a scrubber because really it doesn't have a good longevity on me at all. Also, it didn't cause my nose to itch like 70% of fragrances so I can work with it. There are better woodsy, herbal, green scents out there.

Loooooooooove it!!!!!!

Very woodsy! Unfortunately on my skin it smelled exactly like my own experience of being in a heavily wooded area i.e. being doused head to toe in Off! Mosquito and Tick repellant.

I'm enchanted all right! Strong, nuanced, mystical... This is better than I'd hoped. I already knew it was quality. That was a given, by wearing the simpler but excellent Swan Princess, also long lasting. But these are completely different styles of scent from one another.

The opening of Enchanted Forest smells as I expected. Somewhat coniferous and decidedly green. But as the fragrance develops it becomes less expectedly masculine and far more unisex, warm, inviting, and sensuous. The coriander is a win-win for me, always a chypre and animalic siren call. The spiciness that then develops is charming - like that of Christmas day or some fancy-dress occasion, mingled with vintage fragrance...

If this doesn't sound trite, there were moments when Enchanted Forest reminded me vaguely of Fancy Nights - the same tonality of green and patchouli and florals. Not that they are in any way alike; it's more the color and aura that are conveyed. There is nothing intentionally sweet, but the perfection of blended notes is gently, naturally sweet on dry down. To me there is even a touch of fuzzy powder (the musk?) which softens the powerful notes like a charming filter.

Highly recommended. If you are in the market for a luxury scent, look no further. The packaging and bottle, it must be said, are ultimately deluxe, hefty, and impressively handsome. <3

I wish it smelled like an enchanted forest like the reviews, but I can't stand this fragrance. Not many fragrances will make me gag but there is something in this one that is really pungent that I dislike. To be fair, this isn't my typical kind of scent. I wanted to venture out, but now I know I should stick to what I like which are sweet fruity florals.

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On my quest to find an amazing black currant scent, I tried this.
It's fantastic in the sweet and tart black currant notes with some greenness.
However, the barbershop soapiness note makes it much more masculine.
The deal breaker is during the dry-down: it's a band-aid/medicinal note which I imagine is oakmoss, a note which I hate because it smells antiseptic, like chemicals.

7/10-good black currant fruit with leaves, but the soapy and the unpleasant medicinal note ruin it.

Enchanted Forest is an enchanted forest in a bottle. All the smells of a lush overgrown coniferous forest of Eastern Europe or Russia is there. When you first spray this perfume, you are greeted by the smell of evergreen trees, pine, spruce, and fir. As the fragrance develops you are deeper into the forest and the smell of tart and delicious berries beckon you to find them. Hopefully they are not poisonous, but one never knows in a magical forest if the forces that created it are good or evil. There is the smell of herbs that are growing on the forest floor, aromatic edible herbs full of medicinal and life-giving healthy properties adding a little bite to a sweet woody perfume. The florals here are distant, like a far-off dream, you can sense them and search for them, but you drawn deeper and deeper into the dark coniferous forest. This is a fully unisex perfume. Perfect for Christmas. Or anytime you want to enter the forest of fairytales.

Smells exactly like Haribo gummy bears. Crack open a bag of gummy bears and stick your nose in it and you are 90% there. A happy smell, has elements of Roja Dove’s Burlington 1819.

If you're into cedar and pine its great. Its evocative it tells a story of walking through the forest very Grimes fairly tales. But the pineiness off it made it a bit too masculine leaning for my taste. If it were an oak note it would have been perfection for me.

Wow. This is so interesting. I don't think it's something I would wear, but it's delicious. I'm sure it's the rosemary, but to me this fragrance smells like fresh basil that stays on your fingers after handling it. Really yummy, but very very nature-y. If you're into that then you should buy this.

tart clean airy, something thick sweet in background wine? ok its pretty good in opening but port wine amber slight greenness back bone just big meh

A bottle of nature. Everything is there: greens, woods, mild florals, an earthy vibe, pine trees, herbs, fir trees, resins, forest fruits, damp soil, cassis, a slight hint of alcoholic vibe, and cedar with a delicate sweetness. This smell is not very gourmand or too sweet. It seems appropriate. I've never encountered a black currant and fir balsam note like this. Absolutely captivating and intoxicating!

I love Enchanted Forest!!!!!!! Wanted a back-up bottle so I can use it more generously--but it's back ordered or sold out? Please make more! I want to buy some!!!!! Pretty please!!!!!!!!

A true fairytale experience is captured in this bottle of Enchanted Forest by Vagabond Prince ✨

The note of honor in this fragrance is black currant, and it truly does shine throughout the composition, as it is paired with a red wine that accentuates the berry-like facets of the black currant note. The rest of the scent is constructed with a heavy emphasis on a crisp balsam fir that smells fresh and aromatic, and really conjures the image of this mystical forest the perfumer was trying to portray. This fragrance is one of the most unique and cherished additions to my collection.

As a gourmand junky my nose has been groomed to link sweetness with dessert-like perfumes, but the very distinct sweetness found in this bottle is not gourmand in the slightest. It’s the natural sweetness of woody notes, aromatic notes, and fruity notes, coming together to create the experience of walking through a fragrant forest, but in such a concentrated way that it feels like your senses during this trek have been heightened.

This perfume is special to me because when I smell it I am transported to this quiet and magical forest. The floor of this forest is matted with pine needles and fresh snowfall. The air is fresh and brisk, and I’m kind of just standing there, taking in the serenity and magnanimity of the scene before me. While standing there I take big breaths so that on every inhale I suck in as much of this pure unadultered forest air as I can. That is the sensation this perfume provides and it helps calm my nerves when I feel overwhelmed by this highly-manufactured life surrounding me.

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Maybe it's the Balsam Fir, but it smells like Rancid Apple Juice on my skin. A scrubber IMHO.

Two years with this bottle.

My first impressions changed a lot.

Black currant wine. Not earthy or piney or even slightly woody. Nothing forestry or sylvan or jungly. Nothing that makes a reference to a forest in any part of the world, no tundra no tropics (not one that I’m aware of, at least. The world is big).
Another misleading name. It looks like that the briefing was one thing and the branding was another completely different situation.

Boring, monotonous and kinda uninspired.

Sugarless black currant Trident (the bubblegum).

Please, don’t strike down non positive reviews. It’s not personal against anybody. They can be helpful.

To my nose, this is first and foremost a woodsy/aromatic scent. On my skin, the fruits and florals are held at bay and are waaaaaay in the background…if I try really hard, I maybe smell some wine? Maybe?

I am quite sad that this doesn’t work with my skin…it’s not balanced nor is it the lauded Christmas/Magical concoction everyone raves about 😔

I smell like I rolled in pine or some tree sap got on the back of my hair. It’s faint and I can hardly smell it…there’s no longevity to speak of on my skin. Admittedly, yes, whatever it is I smell does smell nice but it’s really REALLY FAINT!😭😫

That’s really sad and unfortunately, I will not get a full bottle of this…take my word for it: this is NOT blind buy safe! Try a sample first. I am glad I did just that!!

PS: I have to add that the bottle itself is beautiful looking. It has elements of Northern Europe decorations (especially found in Finland/Ukraine/Russia). I absolutely am a sucker for that stuff!

I find this scent so fascinating and complex. It’s not like anything I’ve ever smelled before. I definitely get that sort of folklore feel they’re going for; it smells like a fantasy. I was reminded very much of the book The Bear and the Nightingale. I almost bought this immediately, but it seems to be sold out online. I hope they bring it back! It’s so interesting. Unfortunately, it didn’t last super long on my skin, maybe 3-4 hours.

Enchanted Forest by The Vagabond Prince (2012). This magnificent creation by Bertrand Duchaufour is a Fruity-Woody-Aromatic centred on Blackcurrant. It is a complex fragrance based on the notes listed, but it morphs beautifully like walking through a full bloom garden with bushes and trees. The opening is pungent Berry-Fruity Green scent where blackcurrant plant is the front runner. The heart is more Green notes, Oakmoss with a slight resinous touch. In the drydown intense earthy Woody notes and a hint of Vanilla. The fragrance is versatile in our (Tropical) weather but longevity (5-6h) and projection are average. The bottle is gorgeous!!! And the scent is unique.

Very green forest-y opening, dry down smells like a small amount of dried cat urine on a fragrant pine.

I was really excited for this one because I heard that it’s similar to “One umbrella for two.” It is not. Like at all. I got told this by a lot of people too so I’m kind of confused but oh well. The opening was very crisp and green so I was a little scared as I do not love super green scents. I let it dry a little bit and I like it a little more now. It has a lot of notes but the ones I smell the most prominently are, cassis, red wine, rosemary, rum, fir, vanilla, and amber. VERY aromatic and almost spicy. fragrantica lists fruity, woody, and aromatic as the top accords but i’d put them in the opposite order. along with fresh spicy. I was hoping for more black currant but that’s okay. overall I really like this smell, it’s very complex and sophisticated, but I don’t think I will be buying more of it. its just a bit too clean and green smelling for my taste. very gorgeous though. I applied it at 4 pm and at 10 pm it is 90% gone from my wrists. it’s still on my shirt though, like 60% still there. honestly it’s kind of giving me a headache at this point. im getting the sharpness of the patchouli which always makes me nauseous in any amount.

Scent- 4/10
Logevity- 7/10

Really lovely. I adore Chrismas as a holiday and I love decorating the tree. This scent is perfect for the holiday season because it's enchanting and it reminds me of a fir forest. It's truly magical! There is nothing mysterious about it in a scary way, it's all fairy tale forest. I think of sparkly snow, all drifting quietly deep in the forest. Cassis is definitely a dominant note and you have to like it. I love cassis and this is really good.

PSA: In what world is this similar to L'ombre Dans L'eau?? Seriously, if you have not smelled something, don't claim that it smells like something. I've noticed this a lot on Fragrantica. Just because one perfume has ONE note in common with another perfume means that they smell similar. It's absolute madness and not helpful.

Definitely Christmas in a bottle-- I get a really nice juicy blackcurrant and photorealistic pine, with a touch of booziness. It's a very vivid imagining of a Christmas party in a wintery conifer forest. Mysteriously, I don't get as tremendous a complexity from it as the notes list implies. It's really just that blackcurrant, maybe the red wine, and the pine standing out to me, so maybe this is less the whole forest and more one single tree at the house party. It is surprisingly faint after three hours of wear and doesn't project more than a foot. I was expecting a bit more of a deep, atmospheric, juicy hours-long cacophony that casts a spell when you get a whiff. The reality of it is definitely pleasant, but not quite so opulent and not an exciting prospect for year-round wear.

Smells like acknowledging that berries are growing in a cold, dark forest.

Wow! What a heartbreaker. According to the notes and reviews this was on my covet list and I tracked the package obsessively. I sprayed it and then started doing some chores to give it time to dry down. In the process I started doing some light cleaning and became concerned when it smelled like one of our cats had gone outside of the litter box. I pushed some hair out of my face in a moment of frustration after a futile search and recoiled. Between gasps of laughter I raced over to my husband and shoved my forearm in his face, which prompted an immediate intense dry heave. He asked which cat had peed on me in absolute horror. I subjected a third family member to the sniff test to which I received a slightly more polite "if a cat peed on a christmas tree". Who knows what did not mix with my chemistry by lordy lord this is not a blind buy! Best of luck everyone.

Well first let me say I do like this
there are pros and cons
I don’t know if I would buy a full bottle
the juice is very weak! upon opening I get rosemary, balsam light fruit, more fresh spicy than anything and green.

Passes through the first stage very quickly onto the middle tense of wine continuing with a fresh spicy I have some others before I just don’t know very niche, very new, very nuanced, not straightforward , not cheap, natural just not strong enough just lacking! to dry down I guess the vanilla benzion and oakmoss is very Guerlainaide would love to play around with a FB but just too much at $180

This is my holiday scent! So much love.

It’s constantly evolving and changing and different notes pop up. The opposite of linear on me.

It opens sweet and berry forward — boozy sweet, like a cocktail, not sugary. Although cranberry isn’t listed, I very much get the sense of cranberry (in a Christmas cocktail, not a thanksgiving spread).

The middle brings you into a room filled with a Christmas tree and pine boughs and mulling spices. I get delightful hits of wine every so often. Vanilla joins the party and adds a sense of warmth to the complex, well blended base.

The party lasts about 6 hours on me before mellowing out into a vanilla meets the Christmas tree skin scent for a few more hours.

Not something I’d wear all the time, but I look forward to wearing it at every festive opportunity.

I am overwhelmed by sweet resinous woods, fruits and green notes.

"I lie the grass and I am dreaming, I just let my thoughts flow and the breeze is rocking me"...(Kristina, "Horehronie").

Fragrance: 8/10, Longevity: 8/10, Sillage: 7/10.

The day after Thanksgiving at our favorite family’s house & the teenager asks me as the first snowfall starts sticking if I have any Christmas scents in my sample bag. Do I ever!

Festive & joyful & rich & complex. Perfect for tramping with spiked hot cider through the grounds of a Northeast mansion to look at the holiday lights.

Gave her the sample. She smells fantastic. We've got a full bottle of Jubilation XXV & there's enough overlap in these two Duchaufour masterpieces that we don't need both, but this is a lush & elegant winter wonderland.

This has a very different fir and berries beginning, that is strangely fresh and mildly sweet without being super, traditionally fruity. After dry down, the red wine note becomes super strong and overwhelms even the balsam fir. As the scent matures, it mellows and the notes definitely meld together. It's definitely complex and totally unique - I've never sampled anything even close to it. While I might try this again, just to be sure, I don't think this is for me. It doesn't smell bad to me - I could see someone else really liking it. But it's not a fragrance that I'm instantly obsessed with, for sure.

Such a nice holiday perfume surprise. I love many cassis based scents and I also get a Christmas feeling too. It’s very fresh, crisp and celebratory, nothing unnatural or heavy handed. Dry down is softer as expected, vanilla peeps out from around the curtain. Aldehydes are turned up just enough to give Enchanted Forest some stamina.

It’s ho ho ho and not ho hum, and a pleasant discovery. Love it.

I think I love it, even though I've only tried it on once. It has a certain sweetness to it that reminds me of ripe berries in the summer. I was scared that the black currant would turn sour on me, but thus far it smells pretty much just like a sweet, ripe black currant berry with somewhat of a typical perfume-ish quality to it, which I don't mind in this case. After a few hours there's something in it that smells a bit like a candle, which gives it a softer, cozier quality and makes it more wearble during winter than what I'd thought initially. On me, and according to me, this definitely smells more like a typically feminine perfume. I definitely recommend sampling it and trying it out yourself if you're intruiged by it!

This is an absolutely stunning perfume...It tells you a story, it takes you on a journey. I'm rubbish at recognising notes, but I can tell I smell berry and wine and something else, something mysterious. It's a quality creation, nothing feels synthetic or discordant. I absolutely love it and it's in my top 3 scents for life. I hope it never gets discontinued! By the way, I found that the juiciness of the berry greatly amplifies if you age your bottle or decant for a couple of months or more. At first, it was much more pine-y and also weaker. A couple of months later it's incredibly rich and super strong! Great stuff.

Ooooh, right out of the gate this is heaven. A tiny bit christmasy given the fir, but shortly after I get more of an herbal broad leaf with the fuzzy texture of mint (guessing the black currant leaf) and tart, underripe berries. Sour, fruity, but distinctly green.

Somehow the long list of notes comes together to produce such a vivid sensory experience I can almost feel the dry rough surface and jagged edges of a fresh blackcurrant leaf against my fingertips. A few more sniffs and I get the mulch, towering evergreens and boozey notes... this is just one of those scents that's amazing no matter how much or how little you smell of it, so I feel confident wearing it in any weather, for any occasion. Love love love this.

the opening of this scent surprisingly went in a christmas direction for me smelling of eggnog
then fruity notes & bubblegum
eucalyptus, rose, patchouli
it smells like a cough drop
a syrupy black currant with the facets mentioned above
3-4 sprays, medium to strong projetion, lasted several hours

I love this! It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for for a Christmas/holiday scent. Smells like a pretty, fresh Christmas tree with some sweet berry pie baking in the background. Gonna buy a bottle ASAP

Admittedly, I’m someone very sensitive to black currant in fragrances. To my nose, this smells EXACTLY like cat pee mixed with Robitussin cough syrup.

I mostly get an incensy-conifer feel from this. It’s a very complex fragrance. Judging by how it smells with my chemistry, I’d say this is indeed very masculine. It’s an awesome fragrance, but not for me.

I read an amazing review for this fragrance by a Fragrantica reviewer named GRAF. I really felt like I could smell the fragrance he was describing, a black currant and fir balsam earthy magical forest.

This lured me to read a few more reviews, and it really seemed to be a love or hate type of fragrance. So I decided to order a sample, instead of taking the blind plunge.

It arrived today. Five milliliters of a fragrant enchanted forest. Perfectly named.

This is what I wished every black currant fragrance to be.

There is a tiny hint of this in Gucci Guilty Absolu, and I loved that tiny hint enough to buy a full bottle...but the lasting wasn't great, the cypress not strong enough, and compared to THIS! This is the scent! I wish I had smelled this one first.

I really have not worn this long enough to do a review of it justice, but I don't really need to, because GRAF has already done that. All I need to do is confirm, and tell you how happy this fragrance makes me.

It is warm dark berries, in a deep enchanted forrest, with beautiful projection, and great lasting.

I grew up surrounded by the forrest, but moved to the city, married a Texan, had Texan children, divorced a Texan...an amazing father, so here I stay. Dreaming of home.

This fragrance smells like how home smelled to me as a child, searching for fairies, and the mushroom rings my mother warned me about.

Snacking on berries, deep in the woods, my happy place full of wonderful adventures, my... enchanted forest.

It is magnificent.

Thank you.

I wanted to love this so much (and thought I would) but it ended up being kind of 'meh' for me. I love woody perfumes that remind me of the forest but this opened with an almost medicinal, leafy green note. Reminded me more of just straight up herbs than it did a magical forest. It dried down a bit nicer but I never felt impressed by it. I like it but not enough to pay the price tag. I also got little fruity notes, dry down was more woody and piney. Longevity didn't seem to be great either and I felt there wasn't any strong projection. The scent itself is a 'like' but overall it's pretty disappointing and overhyped.

Dear Fragrantica and Bertrand! Thank You!

For this heavenly creation of a Fragrance! This is the flagship of Bertrand's creations! This is the one you are seeking for!

Have you ever had a Pancake with Compote blackcurrant? Well this is a Sticky! Thick! Concentrated blackcurrant syrup!

Its like you took the blackcurrant put it in a pan with sugar and some boozy accord add some spices and Sugar, and reduce this to a half!

This is what you get! A Reduced blackcurrant with spices, booze, sweetness, and some greenness to round things up!

This is a Masterpiece! Intoxicating! Simply Marvelous creation!

Bravo Fragrantica, Bravo Bertrand

10/10

This DOES smell exactly like a pine forest. Unfortunately I’ve learned that pine scents tend to smell like cat pee, so this reminds me of a litter box. :(

I’d wear this maybe if I was staying home, but I’d be afraid that people who pass by me would think I smell strongly of cat pee.

I totally get this. I grew up with a forest behind the house. It is summer, and it is the feeling of just thinking about running into the deep woods. Tiny, unripe black berries - a floor of pine needles. But also, the sourness of the wet soil when you are picking and turning grass and moss. The oakmoss to give you that dusty grass feeling. Very evocative, nostalgic. The great and mysterious silence that only belongs to the forest.

Longevity isn't great with this one, but it is still a great scent. Wouldn't wear it to feel beautiful, but for a pure experience of the woods from my youth.

Very wow, it will turn heads, smells magical

I received an ~8 mL decant of this scent in a recent swap.

STRONG menthol cough drops in the opening, which churns my stomach. As it dries down, it gets a little sweeter, probably from the “jammy” blackcurrant, but it still smells so menthol dominant that I seriously am on the verge of losing my cookies. I wonder if my decant is bad/has turned, or if that’s just how it smells. Maybe I’m just a basic bitch with too much designer and not enough niche in her wardrobe and who has an “untrained/unseasoned” nose, but so be it. As much as I looked forward to trying this scent, it does NOT love me back.

In my journey for the perfect forest scent, here’s a quick rundown of what I’ve tried so far. I loved the opening of Vert d’Ences, but hated the heliotrope/cooked banana drydown. I loved the opening of Cape Heartache, but was disappointed by the big strawberry reveal / disappearance of the beautiful forest opening. I just straight up hate Enchanted Forest--no insult intended to my swap partner, but damn, this is not for me and straight up clashes with my chemistry.

Maybe MMM Replica’s Soul of the Forest is as good as it is going to get to my perfect forest scent...

Smells like blackberry vape e-cigarette liquid (i.e. glycerine-ish), not in a good way

It was an unusually gloomy day today in LA, threatening to rain but never actually raining...so the morning was perfect for L'Eau Bleue d'Issey Pour Homme, a green scent with a blue mood. But that only lasts a few hours and was gone by early afternoon. Just before sunset I took a hot shower and looked over my collection for something that would fit the weather but also improve my mood, and I decided to wear this for the first time in a long while.

I sprayed on quite a lot and it really hit the spot!

As Narcissa said below, all the black currant notes do give off a kind of blackberry jam vibe which feels friendly and kind of fun for me without being juvenile. It's on the sweet side of the aisle, but it isn't cloyingly sweet like so many sweet frags of the last decade were.

I love greens and Enchanted Forest definitely has some green to it, but it isn't a powerhouse fougere like my vintage Quorum, which can be a bit much sometimes. This is more delicate, but has a deep base. It's definitely got some woodsiness going on. I'm not much on picking out the notes, but it smells a bit addictive and I can see how it could be transportive.

I tend to find fragrances feel masculine or feminine -- most unisex frags lean feminine to me and therefore I usually don't want to wear them. But this one feels like it's either mildly masculine or a unisex frag I'm very happy to wear.

This would make a great gift because it comes in a beautiful box and the bottle sits in white silky cloth inside. And the bottle and the cap both have a good satisfying solid weight to them.

Despite an impressively long list of notes, I can really only pick out blackcurrant and fir. I'd say it is mostly blackcurrant supported by coniferous fir. Wayy deep into the drydown the blackcurrant lets some soft woods share its space. At this point, it has become nearly undetectable, a skin scent. Overall, it's fruity, but tart and green--not sweet. I've tried my sample a few times and my first impression of it as a bit linear hasn't subsided. That's of course not always a bad thing, but given most reviewers' praise for the scent of a mythical frosted woodland, I'm really not swooning over it as much as the imagery suggests I should.

My pick for a blackcurrant fragrance with green underpinnings is Pulp by Byredo. While both fragrances are unmistakably tart, the fruit in Pulp is fuller and juicier. Here, you can tell that these berries are small and delicate; they are the under-ripe early spring counterpart to Pulp's over-ripe end-of-summer fruit. All in all, I think this one just isn't a hit for me just based on my personal taste. I do think that if you like Pulp, then you should try this too.

I want to buy this one but it is not sold here in Turkey :( I spray this kind of fragrances on my book splitter and my books smell magical when I am reading them :)

Enchanted Forest is a unique, breathtaking realistic scent of the forest floor. The mouthwatering sour black currant is quite noticeable and blends wonderfully with a mix of herbal, mossy and coniferous accords. It truly reminds me of walking deep into an old growth forest, squashing unknown berries between my fingers, kicking at rotting logs. Just beautiful. Many perfumes attempt to conjure up the scent of the forest and this one outdoes them all.

I have always known that there is a mystical perfume that makes dreams come true. This was the most unexpected gift I have ever received and the most desired perfume for a long time ...Thank You!!!
Everyone has a days of lost hope, sometimes it happens a difficult moments with a bunch of doubts and a vain expectations ... and just then the magic attacks you with such a power that can make you believe again.
Every spray of this scent is a mystical experience, it surprise me with the tenderness of wooden air, it caresses my skin with the breath of blackcurrant, it touch my hair with a whiff of rosemary and artemisia ... and my whole being wants to be intoxicated by the kiss of that ...rum.

Green, woodsy, herbal, and so awesome! Imagine hobbits, elves, nymphs, smurfs (lol) all running around through an ancient forest. Imagine Atreyu from The Neverending Story flying through the night sky on Falcor. This fragrance tells a story to the person wearing it. It has good longevity, projection, and performs well. I think it could worn day or night and it leans masculine smelling. It's worth buying a full bottle.

I got a sample from eBay but it's a bit too male for me. It does have a very interesting unique vibe, wish my partner wore cologne, I bet it would be great on him.

Amethyst is lighter and more wearable, floral. Enchanted Forest is a fruity woody moody fragrance you have to try first, not for a blind buy.

Hi. Has anyone got any thought of this being similar to lalique amethyst ? Can you let uus know please

This is a beautiful smelling fragrance, though I can't help but think I'd prefer it as a candle.

This one grew on me the more i wore it. Initially it was only a mere like, as I found that other fragrances from Bertrand Duchafour were more intriguing - maybe sniffing EF with his other perfumes in mind was a bit unfair though.

If you love blackcurrant (hint - I do), this is where your journey ends. I get none of the cat-pee vibe others mentioned, I get no medicinal facets, I only get a beautiful, boozy, warm and enveloping blackcurrant note, surrounded by mild spices, fir, and a woody aspect in the far drydown.

It really evokes the image of standing in Russian forest, breathing in deeply and finding peace.

I can see both guys and girls wearing this one, it does have a more youthful vibe to me, maybe it´s not one for an older gentleman. If you like fruity/woody scents though, this one is simply sublime.

Scent 9/10
Longevity 7/10
Projection 6/10
Sillage 6/10

Performance with this gem is only average, that does not deter from the overall experience though. I´ll happily reapply EF throughout the day if I feel like I have to. As I mentioned, it took three to four wearings for me to fall in love with it, but now I feel like this is one the best fragrances to transport you to a kind of fantasy world. Maybe not the worst feature in a year like 2020...

Update from earlier review: I did end up buying the full bottle from Lucky Scent. It came in an absolutely gorgeous bottle with beautiful blue packaging and is by far the fanciest I own given that I have mostly designer full bottles and only decants and samples of niche.

This fragrance is great for pondering walks in the local park. I low key pretend I'm in a Russian forest walking through the boring oaks in my suburban ohio town park.

This smell is like a story. Like your walking on a path in a park, its early autumn and you see very ripe currants shining in the warm sunlight. But some jerk has already picked some, so you leave the path and follow a trail of blackcurrant into a dark pine forest. A single shift of light breaks through the dense canopy, illuminating a huge blackcurrant bramble. Sticks and moss and leaves and pine needles crunch under foot as you practically run to the bush, releasing a deep green smell. When you get to the bush you hastily begin picking the berries, on the ground overripe berries that have fallen macerate in the sun.

9/10 (-1 due to longevity issues)

I only have a sample of this but I'm wearing it right now and I absolutely am surprised at how much I like it. It's the forest without being too heavy on the woods. You can smell the currants for sure. It's so smooth and well blended. I am wearing a different scent on my right wrist called Supermoon and it makes it feel cheap and immature by comparison. There was definitely a lot of thought put into the mental images it induces. I am so impressed. This is what niche perfumery is about. Making olfactive art.

This scent is for trained noses only. If you have more designer than niche in your collection, you will be writing a review like "I don't know what the hype is about"... First, the name IMO should have been Enchanted Garden as this fruity, green, floral, spicy-woody and slightly resinous mix really reminds me of my grandma's beautiful garden in the bloom. The front runner is the black currant plant (you could say this scent does the same to black currant plant as Philosykos to fig tree). Second, the blend is impeccable and the black currant plant theme starts dying deep in the dry down. Longevity and projection are average, not a beast nor a slouch. It reminds me of Bleecker Street by Bond N9 (another berry-fruity green scent) and a bit of Green Valley by Creed (as it is going for similar imagery though the notes are different). The bottle is gorgeous!!! This scent is a true art but still rather wearable, which is a plus. Overall, I was mesmerized by the scent the first time I smelled it and I knew I had to get a bottle. Once again, this is a purchase when you have 10-15 niche fragrances in your collection since this is for a seasoned nose. Versatility is the only weakness here: this is to me a casual scent for spring-summer. If you like Bleecker Street, this is a safe blind buy. Otherwise, test it. Chances are you will be buying a bottle since this scent is like no other!

I have my bottle for about a month now.

Went from a "like" to "love" in no time!

More than synesthetic impressions of any sort, one review below hit precisely the point I came to realize - Enchanted Forest is to black currant what Philosykos is to fig.

It's about the whole context and environment of the main note in nature - stalks, leaves, fruits and its surroundings. Enchanted Forest became even more beautiful when I realized that (because, I have to be honest, I've never been to any forest that smelt like this perfume).

Enchanted Forest is sweet, sour, woody, earthy and dark-green at the same time.

Linear, which is a win.

Projects adequately and lasts a whole working day. Clothes will smell gorgeous at the end of the day.

Beautiful scent!

10/10.

I do not know what the hype is about
It literally smells like a forest. Why you would want to smell like that?
Performance is average at best
Not worth the asking price IMO

This is a very enchanted forest, indeed as is has a pastry shop right in its middle! I smell first and foremost blackcurrant, not so much on the vine as in a luscious amber vanilla dessert. Around the edges of this swirls fir and cedar, oak moss and patchouli, all the time playing a supporting role to the berries and vanilla. There is a faunish musk, too, right towards the end. This is what tea in Tumnus' cave would smell like (and you cannot get any more enchanted than the forests of Narnia.....). Slightly sweeter than I generally like but done so well that I cannot help but love it. For that reason it leans slightly more feminine (beware the White Witch) to me but easily unisex nonetheless.

Black Currant Heaven (Bertrand Duchaufour, 2012)

Scentrack: The Cure – A Forrest

As the name correctly suggests, this fragrance is an enchanted forest. A dark, green forest. A primordial organism that lives for eons.
Enchanted Forest opens with the strong and realistic note of finest black currant liqueur (maybe Chambord was a role model). Upon this boozy opening aromatic, leafy green notes reinforced by aldehydes emerges like some distant, fruity relative of Chanel’s 19. In the background, I can sense some refined and balmy note of crushed pine or fir needles which I really like.
The heart of Enchanted Forest is a floral bouquet of old fashioned carnation and subdued, dark rose. At its base the pine and its sticky resins become stronger. These dark, archaic resins are juxtaposed to the green-fruity heaven. The whole composition is rounded with just a touch of vanilla and amber. A black currant heaven.

Rating: 8.5/10

Once in a while...dreams come true.
The first time I smelled this, I was sorry I ever purchased any other perfume. It's very expensive and well...I just have too many perfumes already! I couldn't justify the cost. I simply wrote this off, just as owning my own island, never having to work again and looking like my favorite super model. I had hoped SO much to win a giveaway of this perfume that my heart was just too broken to even give it another thought. I did have thoughts, but it just wasn't meant to be and I accepted my fate.
This community is lovely people...friendly, giving, just SO many giving, and NICE. I mean, these people GIVE of themselves like no other. I'm not "sucking up". I already ordered my, mine...MINE, my very own bottle of this so soooo pretty perfume? No! It's not "pretty" OR a "perfume". It's an experience to me. This magical bottle will give every day I wear it and every Christmas just THAT much more meaning and feeling. It will turn any given day I choose to wear this into that special feeling and memory, like the first time you watched It's a Wonderful Life! Who doesn't want that joy inside of themselves!?
This is too lengthy, sorry. I just would like to thank all who conjured up this "potion", all who made it possible..NO! ALL who were giving and sincerely thoughtful enough to offer this at such a special discount! I am thank ful sure...but most of all, you made MY dream come true!

I've coveted this scent for many years without having been able to smell it, just from the story surrounding it. In my imagination it was a rich dark blackcurrant liqueuor. Heady and enveloping. So in the end came the time where I blind bought it. I was hoping for a sexy currant, something like Lalique's Amethyst combined with a leathery boozy currant like the much loved and discontinued Ralph Lauren's Notorious, but with stellar power.
Unfortunately it was neither. Just a green blackcurrant leaf very reminiscent of cat pee (yes I know, I have it in my garden) combined with pine and the clean watery smell of aldehydes. Doesn't go boozy or sexy or dark. The pee smell is just something I can't power through . The one time I wore it to work I was afraid people would think I smelled of funk. It stays pretty linear thoughout the wearing time, and being the particular smell that it is, it cannot be worn every day.
So today with a sigh because I couldn't appreciate it, I am bidding farewell to it, sending to people who can see in it all the things I could not. If you're looking for a blackcurrant scent go with something more mainstream and far less expensive like Amethyst or Notorious.

To echo others, this is decidedly “Christmassy” - in the western, Christian-Judeo olfactory tradition. Piney, spicey, sweet - like a number of lovely Christmas themed candles, oil diffusers and room sprays I’ve encountered over the years. This observation may seem like a slight, but it isn’t.

The high quality resins, vivid jammy black currant, and a few unexpected accents (oakmoss and white musks are strong to my nose, and they work beautifully) elevate this above typical “home fragrance” fare. The forest image evoked isn’t one rendered in the style of realism - it seems more gestural to me. I don’t think this will transport many to an actual forest, but when you inhale and squint your eyes a bit, you’ll see the roughly sketched outline and undulating shadows of one.

This is my second Vagabond Prince experience. My first was their ode to leather, and while I found it less “wearable”, I also found it far more interesting. This one is beautiful, artful, but not necessarily provocative or mind-blowing. The strong associations some have with the “Christmas accord” present may not make it a natural choice for everyone, but it’s certainly beautiful.

The aroma is a rich slightly sweet super natural green three layered: 1) leaf (from the blackcurrant you would say because of the always present smell of of the fruit); 2) its blossoms too, for the flowery opulence is palatable; 3) closing it comes the blackcurrant itself, sweet and super natural, along with some spices in a very low volume and then I don't get much of anything else advertised being worthy of noting down at least. To me an overall very similar proposal to Diptyque Philosykos - a realistic smell of the life form and structure of a fruit, in a similar way that Diptyque Philosykos did with fig, here done with black currant. I'm very surprised with the voting for seasoning wearabillity for this one showing winter/night prominence - to a fresh and light green/natural fragrance? No sir - although slightly sweet, to me this is a 110% spring/early fall DAY time celebrating fragrance - a very good one, absolutely unisex and super versatile with satisfying performance.

Too masculine for me. Strong pine needle, pepper & bitter black currants on my skin. Reminds me of original Polo that my dad wore in the late 80’s & early 90’s.

True to its name, Enchanted Forest transports you to a lush, green, mysterious and inviting forest.

It opens very sweet with a bubblegummy feel to it, but this sweet note settles down to a more fresh, green, sweet and vibrant scent with all the notes (and there is a lot going on) blending together. The dominant note will be the from the black currant though.

Where other forest scents (Tom Ford's Vert series or Fougere d'argent) give a more truer feel of being out in nature or deep in a forest, the sweeter notes in Enchanted Forest really brings about that enchanted and mystical feel to it and makes the scent a great experience. Where other scents dries down to be more woody, Enchanted Forest remains lush and green and more on the gourmandish side.

Enchanted Forest lasts a decent amount on my skin around 6-8 hours and projects well too without being overpowering.

Probably not the best scent for a work environment due to the sweetness of it, but it's perfect for either being outside or when you just want to day dream a bit. Best in early Fall, Spring time or cooler Summer days.

If you like green, fresh scents or gourmands, then Enchanted Forest is definitely worth checking out. If you are a perfume fan then I'd also recommend just giving this a sniff for the sake of experiencing it.

This is probably the weirdest sample in my collection, so I don't wear it often. But when I do, I'm immediately reminded of how great it is. It is so lush and green, even compared to the other forest-type perfumes I have. I want to get a full-size bottle, since it looks beautiful.

I have recently been able to procure a 100ml bottle of this fragrance as part of a much larger order...
A very unique and exhilarating fragrance.....
I can honestly say that I have NEVER experienced a fragrance quite like this one....
Soo lush and green....
The green deciduously lush scent, is really quite intoxicating!
Something to wear when delving into some deep thought, writing, music making or meditation.
It feeds the imagination like a well fed spring of endless thought and possibility.
“Yeah....but Can a fragrance really do all of that....?”
The answer is yes.....

Embark on your journey through the Enchanted Forest by Vagabond Prince....and tell me you were Not creatively inspired to imagine.....and I’ll tell You a lie, too.

The Verdict: EXCELLENCE

I actually stumbled across this fragrance online while window shopping and was curious about the bottle and name. After reading up on the fragrance and how it came about I decided I had to try it and ordered a sample decant.
At first I was dismayed, a strong scent of cat pee overtook me but it very quickly changed (within a few minutes) and I got to the nice jammie black currant fruit, leaves and balsam fir opening. I liked this enough but it was later on when it mellowed that I really fell for it. The black currant was still a strong core of the scent but with cedar, amber, pink pepper, maybe some patchouli and honeysuckle. It really evokes the feeling of a mysterious forest in summer. I know it's supposed to evoke the feeling of Russian forests but it made me think more of the forests I grew up in and around in Wisconsin.

Utter deliciousness.

This is so great. Opens with a jammy blackcurrant punch with freshly chopped currant leaves and fir. Herbal, minty, dark green and wonderful. The jam oozes in natural sugars macerated in Zinfandel wine, Armagnac, and rosemary.

Orange peel, vetiver, cedar, pepper berry, a moss-like component. A touch of resin, more waves of black currant jam and a lip-tingling freshness. The bouquet definitely gets lost, I get swifts of davana, not too much hawthorn. I think it's due to how delicate and soft it is.

At this point, the scent stopped developing, but this is not a bad thing. I think what is important here is preserving the scenic feel. So yes: The dark deep forests of Russia in the early summers, and the cool shades and breezes of a never-ending sea of pines, and a dark-haired gentleman on a white horse looking or running from something.

If a cat peed in the forest, would it smell like this? No, it wouldn't! I was worried about the "cat pee" smell due to all the cassis in this, but happy to say it's not there.

It pretty much smells like a forest, or fresh cut Christmas tree. Somewhat the same effect as Serge Lutens' Fille en Aiguilles, but this is a little more like the outdoors rather than indoor holiday smell. Not as sweet as the Lutens.

Is there is a similer scent to it ?

I LOVE this! It smells like forest, trees, and something a little christmassy. Not cinnamon spice Christmas but fresh cut tree. What makes it interesting is that on my skin, you can smell the currant and leaves, like an early autumn walk, but on my mans skin it's all cedar and fir and amber, fresh and yet warm. Truly a beautiful scent. If you like the smell of forest but you don't want to smell like pine sol I highly reccomend this. It's very natural and not chemically. I'm probably going to buy a full bottle.

I was drawn toward this perfume merely by its name because that's the kind of fairy-tale nut I am, but it turns out it does smell magical and gorgeous! Blackcurrant and fir and spice and flowers and moss and a bit of cozy vanilla: the mysterious breeze through the enchanted forest. The blackcurrant does put me in mind of L'Ombre dans l'Eau, but that one always felt melancholy and cold to me (even while beautiful), whereas this feels complex and deep and lively and more like something I'd wear. I might need more of it.

Picture a warm, thick forest with lush undergrowth including currant and berry bushes - you grab a handful of currants and get sticky with the juice, the sap from the crushed leaves and broken stem gets on your hands; the tree resins resonate with an earthy semi-sweetness as the sun warms everything between the thick canopy of pine trees.

Scent: 10
Value: 10
Packaging:10
Performance:10

with this incredible niche fragrance, you get every penny of that which you've paid for. Highly recommended for those with diverse tastes.

I tested this a while back and had another sample given to me. I don't remember the first time I tested it, and sadly, never kept notes on it. But this time, it's straight up pink pepper. As in Si Lolita (Lempicka). It's almost identical to the much cheaper scent, though Enchanted Forest has a bit of juniper and patchouli that give it more development.

Unfortunately, this one has quite poor longevity. It dries down quietly within an hour of application. At this point it's complexity is revealed, but being quite hard to detect makes me sad.

It is a beautiful scent, and if I didn't own and love two versions of Si Lolita, I might need it. But the cheapie out performs the high end by quite a bit. So this is not something I need.

I got a sample of this and got super excited.
My disappointment was big the first wear. Yes, was mostly black current but almost like an apple. And also a tad sweaty. I put it asight and was kind of happy that I would'nt spent so much schmoney on a bottle although I am loving its design. I'm Russian and the illustrations are 100% on point. It's an homage to russian artisanal tradition, a lullaby playing in my head right now.

Several weeks in and I'm not particularly enchanted, more like haunted by the smell. I did not test it afterwards but my nose receptors, synapses, brainwaves, whatever you might call it are howling for that smell! I think it was the forest air inside the juice, ionized and all-pervading.

Great, I might have to spent that euro! And yeah, it really is a great scent.

I dug up the sample that originally made me buy a bottle of this. Still smells great and evokes that wet mysterious forest thing.

It is just a shame that the actual full new bottle that I bought smells nothing like it. It has basically one single note, of black current, and nothing else. Nothing forrest about it. Completely linear, no evolution. I have tried a few times to make it work, and once again today, and basically decided it would be the last time I would wear it, as I quickly find it kind of obnoxious. Still puzzled about how I could be so wrong, I tried the original sample one more time.

I don't know what happened, but it does explain how some people here seem to identify a bunch of interesting notes, but some video reviewers agree with me that there's basically just that one note. There must obviously be a lot of variety in batches, or production problems. It took me a lot of searching, and several refunded orders, including directly from Vagabond Prince, before I found somebody who actually had it in stock. Just a shame that what I ended up with isn't the kind that I loved at first.

A slightly boozy blackcurrant syrup in a chilly, mountain forest.

When I got a decant of this back in December 2018 i immediately tried it as I've heard a lot about it but as soon as i sprayed it reminded me of bubble gum and pine which i didn't like at all. Fast forward to present day i decided to wear this again. Now when i sprayed it on i could immediately detect the black currant note, looking at the notes pyramid there are a lot of notes but i only detect Black Currant, Fir, Oak-moss and hint of Vanilla.I have to say this is the best black currant fragrance available but this is not a bottle worthy fragrance for me.

Beautiful gourmand scent.

Gourmand for me are novelties so I would rarely wear them on a night out or professionally. So, clarifying that for perspective I blind bought this as a treat to get my black currant fix.

It worked. Simply gorgeous syrupy fresh crushed black currant - a bright smidge floral at first drying down quick smart to the currant boosted by a red wine tanin note with a touch of syrup.

Unfortunately this morphs after 30 - 60 min - fading to the back ground and the darker base starts to overide with a touch patchouli, and light resinous amber with a mint riding over the top. Warm as a scent at this point almost slightly urinic or like a dried out empty wine glass.
An hour in and I get wafts of this which I like but I am afraid others around me may look strangely at me feeling like I have to offer an explanation that it is a perfume of fruit that they smell to which then I would get an “oh yeah OK but you do know that you smell like you pee'd...”. So yeah I get some people's reference to the 'cat pee' smell or for some whom are positive the wine smell... realistically on the longer dry down I would suggest you would have to be confident (or questionable) to wear this in public.

For me this is a personal scent as I do like gourmand and this is above average and unusual, and if you like natural unisex scents this is a goer but it is one on my personal scent shelf that I would wear at night at home...

Only Humiecki and Graef Multiple Rouge for raspberry and Piotr Czarneki Blue Bijou for Blue Berry, Lost Cherry and Qom Chilom for Cherry, Xerjoff Cruz del Sur II for Mango give such lush fruit fruit representations. As far as Blackcurrant this is the only product that does it for me...

The aroma of berries, buds, black currant leaves. The quintessence of black currant is all its essence in one bottle in one flavor. He's just great. Pound the leaves of black currant and inhale the aroma ... this is it. Break the currant twig - a slight opacity, astringency and bitterness - that's all it is! Take the black pearls of this berry, put it on the tongue and press the tongue to the sky like an egg ..- juicy berry- and this is again it- This aroma is currant perfection!

My initial impression of this fragrance is not very positive.
The scent of the top notes reminded me of an apartment that I once rented that was infested with German cockroaches. When there are hundreds of cockroaches, their combined odour is quite distinctive and you will never forget that scent.
However after half an hour or so, this fragrance morphs into a much more pleasant scent.
It's wearable for me however if I had paid big bucks for a full bottle, I would be very disappointed and annoyed.
I am happy that I only bought a sample to try!

A generous friend offered me to sample Enchanted Forest. It's a very interesting, original scent. The first notes that I can detect are those of alcoholic beverages: to me it smells like mulled wine, with sugar and spice and all things nice. Then the blackcurrant note breaks through: it's quite realistic and to me it smells like freshly cooked blackcurrant jam, which combines beautifully with mulled wine. The final layer is that of green, woody and leafy notes: I can detect fir resin, cedar and oakmoss. This fragrance strongly evokes the images, scents and aromas of late autumn and winter, which is exactly what the perfumer B. Duchafour wanted to achieve. Beware that this is by no means a crowd-pleasing, everyday fragrance: instead, this one should be treasured and worn on special occasions, preferably when it's very cold outside - practically, you'll only need one bottle in a lifetime. As to gender tags, it's unisex, perhaps leaning masculine, but as a woman I find this to be totally wearable (but, as I've said, only on special occasions). Projection is moderate, and it lasts around 7-8 hours on my skin.

Enchanted Forest by The Vagabond Prince has been a delightful surprise for me. I usually find myself grappling with fragrances featuring prominent blackcurrant and blackcurrant leaves notes, as the intensity of greenness in some and overwhelming sweetness in others tends to be a bit much for my taste. However, Enchanted Forest strikes a perfect equilibrium.

The fragrance opens with a brilliant interplay of crunchy, vibrant vegetal greenness and a ripe, musky sweetness from the blackcurrant and its leaves, all complemented by the earthy tartness of rhubarb. Unlike other experiences, here the balance is just right, conjuring a vivid image of fresh berries and rhubarb without veering into the jammy or overly green territories.

As Enchanted Forest evolves, it gracefully transitions into a slightly more woody dry down, losing a bit of the dewy feeling from the opening but retaining its natural and realistic portrayal of fresh berries and lush vegetation. Importantly, it avoids the cliché of disintegrating into a generic clean white musk base, a pitfall that many green fragrances seem to fall into.

I've also noticed subtle nuances, like the occasional hint of tomato leaf and a faint burnt note with a heavier application. Surprisingly, these variations only add to the complexity of the fragrance, making it more intriguing rather than causing any discomfort.

The moderate sillage and impressive 9-hour longevity on my skin make Enchanted Forest a reliable companion throughout the day. It truly captures the joy of picking berries and rhubarb in a lush garden at the end of summer. It's become one of my go-to scents when I'm in the mood for a green blackcurrant fragrance that strikes the perfect balance—lush greenness without being forceful, mouthwatering sweetness without being sugary, and a layered, engaging composition that remains cohesive.

For those who share a fondness for blackcurrant and green fragrances, I wholeheartedly recommend exploring Enchanted Forest. In my personal journey, it has come remarkably close to my ideal blackcurrant fragrance, offering a unique and captivating olfactory experience.

Vagabond Prince's Enchanted Forest is exactly that: dark balsam fir woods and tangles of black currant shrubs and wine and roses.

The first spray turns one into a wayward elf, dressed in flowers and drunk on berries. The acid bite of the fruit slowly softens with benzoin, sweet on the skin, and lofty on clothes for hours.

I feel like I'm the heroine in an epic fantasy novel saga wearing this stuff.

This is very magical indeed. It really does remind me of a forest, but the ones I imagine when I read fantasy books. Midnight poison is my favorite fragrance, and even though this doesn't smell similar, its juicy aspects kinda hit the same spot for me, and it gives me a very similar sensation when wearing it. I just love it. Once someone commented that it smelled 'different', but in a good way. I think he meant different from most perfumes that one would find in a department store.

A Christmas tree farm enclosed in a jam-making factory. Syrupy sweet berries with pine. I can’t do it—the dissonance is just too massive for my olfactory nerves. I sooo wanted to love this, too, due to the glowing reviews!!! Sadly, it is not to be. A big shout-out to Starcadia for the little sample—thanks!

Enchanted forest falls onto my wrists like icy, cold, greenery assaulted by early snow. Bright aldehydes sparkle like snow crystals. Do you remember an early frost? When the late fall berry bushes were still clinging to the last, fertile, formidable, few of the bumper crop that graced the canes earlier in the fall? These hearty, deep purple berries, now entombed by an early snow, give up their essence, along with the leaves, and the precious buds which will now, never flower, never come to fruition. This is a bracing, and serene moment, somber, and reflective. Cold wind sharpens the senses, magnifies perception. The wine, drunk before my walk out alone, smells heavily on my breath. Warm, sweet & slightly bitter, it mixes with the crystalline beauty of the landscape and adds an echo of berries sweetened & fermented to the frozen perfection around me. Then, the sun unexpectedly appears, brilliantly in a flash of Aldehydes, & a hint of sweet orange. My body heat rises with exertion as I trek though familiar paths, enjoying the sight of old evergreen trees, souls I’ve known for years. Their sun warmed essence fills my senses, as the wine finally warms my cheeks and my heart. The warm, wet scent of soil, and wood surrounds me, along with an oily, rich animal aroma, a scent carried on the errant breeze from some furry family’s cozy nesting place. This must be the castoreum, buttery, oily & smooth, like burying yourself in a fur pelt back at the cottage, with a cup of spiced black currant tea, by the remains of the nights former fire. Cozying up, with my favorite book, I stoke the fire, and the scents of my earlier adventure still cling to my skin. Foliage, crushed frozen berries, forgotten flowers, pine needles underfoot, wet earth, musky, animal warmth..the nights imnibed spirits.. Softly they whisper, to me that the forest will always be the place where my soul is at peace.

A masterpiece here

You get a jammy and highest quality possible black currant note that lasts throughout the entirety of the fragrance.The lingering full and rich sweetness is met with some vanilla and woods in the base. It is quite rich, full and fruity

I would say this is unisex, but maybe the slightest bit masculine, but would be slain by a confidant women wearing this in purple.

10 hours plus longevity, very good projection and great sillage.

This might seem linear, but if it didn't enchant you from the start it will get you in the end.

3/10

This is Art not just a fragrance.

Nearby my house there's a dense forest. Every morning and evening comes a beautiful scented air from there. This is the first thing that came to my mind when I smelt it for the first time. It was a love from first sniff and this is the only niche that I've bought two bottles.

Nature in a bottle. It has everything, greens, woods, light florals, earthy vibe, pine trees, herbs, fir trees, resins, forest fruits, wet soil, cassis, a faint smell of fallen decaying leaves, a little boozy vibe, cedar with a delicate swetness. This is not overly sweet scent or a gourmand. It feels natural. This is the best black currant and fir balsam note I've ever experienced. Absolutely intoxicating and mesmerizing, calming like a forest and a little melacholic. Its name, the bottle (so heavy, I love it), the decorative elements and the scent speak to me. That being said, Enchanted Forest is a totally unisex and realistic scent, so it's not for all. Not a safe scent or crowd pleasing one and definitely not for blind buy.

Labyrinth of essences. Enchanted Forest is a strong, dense, complex and multilayered scent with two main parts. It is simplier than the note pyramide though. It feels like a majestic symphonic orchestra without any dissonanse. Masterfully blended to the point of perfection with a natural outcome. It's difficult to pull apart all those individual notes. You just feel things when your mind emerges memories.

Unique. I've never experienced such a realistic scent in my jurney to perfumes. Original and natural. One of a kind IMO.

Performance. This is all year round scent but it feels better and it performs better in mild cold weather. Fall and spring have the best weather conditions for Enchanted Forest. The longevity is great, I got 14-15 hours from it before it dies but the projection is limited. The sillage is moderate. This is not a strong scent but it has nice longevity. With overly warm weather feels uncomfortable and its performance becomes limited overall. I still have to try it in freezing temperatures to see how it feels.

A fairy tail scent. Mysterious and deep it transfers you into the ancient world of fairies, elves, green spiruts, gnomes and forest nymphs. It takes me to an eerie dark world of strange beauty. The awaking of the Old World..

If it was a movie, it would be Narnia or The Fellowship of the Ring. If it was a song it would be May It Be by Enya. If it was a feast, it would be Yule celebrations in a northern dense evergreen forest. This is what ancient deities in northern countries would wear. The epitome of russian fairytail.. this could be a magic potion of Baba Yaga..

This is the smell of our ancient natural inhabitant, the Sacred Forest, the source of Life. Behold my holy grail in perfumery.

The faeries are having a revel! sweet red wine, cypress/pine in the top, light floral with a butteriness like orris in the middle, serious ass musk and amber in the base

Juicy, black currant deliciousness.

Definitely not something that fits on the department store counter. Nothing else smells like out there. My wife doesn't really like the opening, but LOVES it after a few hours.

Lasts all day as long as you do the usual shower/lotion routine.

Overall 9/10

I keep thinking about this one. Love the dark berry with the sweet summer clean sweat accord. It's a hike in the summer Northern primeval forest, where the sun doesn't get to the ground but the warmth is heating up all that the woods contain. Strong, but there are certain elements here that are addictive, the black currant especially.

Unfortunately, I find this fragrance to be very disagreeable. I'm not getting anything jammy or resinous - just sour blackcurrant, sour pine, and sour wine. The overall effect is just very sour and on its way to the dreaded cat pee effect. I love the smell of fresh, juicy blackcurrant, but this is not it for me, sadly.

Mmmm I like current, and trees, and herbs. This has a nice bit of oakmoss and a sweet touch of florals. The rum is really interesting. I like the way it starts sharp and green with wafts of fruitiness and it becomes sweeter as the rum and resins move the the foreground.

Three hours in coriander and opoponax makes it's presence known. Five hours in it is heavenly! A blend of resins with a floral undercurrent and just enough pine and cedar and greenness to remind you of the opening. Ten hours in it is warm and resinous and blissful. This may be one of the best things I've ever smelled.

I am enjoying this immensely.

You are standing on the edge of a beautiful overgrown forest and then you take your first sniff - instantly you are hit over the head and dragged through the wet soil, shrubs and berries left to wake up with a mouth full of the forest ground.
Within minutes though you are standing straight up, your mouth clear of debris and magically no pain on the back of your head. You inhale and take in the beautiful enchanted fruits, fir trees and delicate sweetness and spiciness around you. It's magic.

As you walk through the woods the smell changes slightly, but maintains a strong pull on you. You are mesmerized. You could wander this enchanted forest for days.

That is the scent. It's powerful and yet inviting to others. My husband who doesn't always appreciate all my niche tastes loves this one. A winter wonderland of a scent that I definitely will be getting a full bottle of. Lotions, candles, room sprays - please make all of these and more, I can't get enough of this luxurious fairytale scent.

Bubblegum... lasts forever with a horrible freezer burn type of dry down.

Black Currant can be one of the most tricky and difficult notes to work with. If not mixed in proper amounts with the right formulas, it can be an off-putting scent, and unfortunately, very similar to cat urine.
The Vagabond Prince has absolutely mastered this note and perfectly blended it into an exquisite, dreamy parfum that is indeed uni-sex.
It opens quite sharply and green, with the mighty black currant announcing that he is the ring leader and King of Berry. About 15 minutes later, he allows his back-ups to shine, and boy do they ever, but they wisely never attempt to out shine the ring leader.
Enchanted Forest is truly the perfect name for this fragrance for it is a magical trip into a forest of delights. The balsam fir and cedar here are extraordinary and compliment the black currant so well.
Although I like and love many fragrances, there have only been a very few that actually triggers my senses and transport me to another place when I smell them.
Enchanted Forest does this more thoroughly than any of the few that have accomplished this.
Where does it transport me, you ask ?
To the most enchanted winter-time forest my imagination has ever conjured up.
I enjoy this experience every time I wear this heavenly fragrance, or even if I just sniff the gorgeous bottle.
I absolutely love this stuff and will purchase it as long as they make it.


Scent - 10
Sillage - 6
Longevity - 6

At first I thought I had opened a bag of Haribo. (You know, one of the bags where you’re really happy because there are mainly red ones inside but then you feel sick afterwards because you couldn’t control your greed and ate the whole bag!) Got a comment on how to lure young children into the forest – after mentioning the name of the scent.
Then…, as the mocking continued the woody layers of this come out and slowly mix with the detonation of berries from the opening. As the berries fade away and get replaced by a mystical evergreen Tundra my nose is feeling more and more comfortable wearing this and I loose myself in endless mossy forest.
Over time this perfume journeys from childish Prince to mature, wise and handsome Czar. Both are very rich, well-mannered, intriguing and make you want to stick around and talk to them.

This is magical!really enchanted!It starts with a blast of berries, namely blueberries and black current with a touch of citrus and balmy notes. To me smells like the best quality red wine out there without any bitter aroma of alcoholic drinks. I find it pretty fruity and that's good news for me as a fruity fan. but it never approaches the mainstream of common fruity perfumes. Actually it reminds me somehow of pomgranate noir by Jo Malone, but it's much more delicate and less harsh.
As the time passed berry magic fades away by the woody and balmy notes. It's just like walking from berry bushes to a deeper black forest. I like the way it remains sweet without exaggeration. It's like having a glass of wine in an enchanted forest under pinon trees.
Even though the smell would be different, I can compare enchanted forest with elixir des merveille, because of the same impression of the forest I get from both. Everything about this perfume is extraordinary, not only my favorite between the other perfumes of the line, but also one my favorites among thousands of other ones I've tried.

bubble gum at first then it remindes me of JS Fancy love!

So yes, I was one of the very lucky 100 subscribers who received a sample of Enchanted Forest from fragrantica.com when it was first launched in 2012. I was around 17 years old at that time.

When I received the sample, I was thrilled. The black currant and rum were so tart and yummy, while the oak moss, cedar, and amber added the perfect amount of warmth in there. It was the perfect scent in the humid weather of Florida. I treasured the sample for years, until I graduated high school at the age of 19. I didn't have the courage to spend $200 on a perfume back then, but the scent has always stayed in my mind.

Now I'm turning 23, have moved to LA and got a much fuller wallet. I finally ordered the full size bottle of this beauty, and received it today. It smells exactly like the memories, like so many of the humid night I had spent in Florida. It's still tart but warm, sophisticatedly yummy. I can see myself using it a lot for the summer night dates here in LA too.

My collection has grown so much since then, but this is still one of the very unique ones, and will always hold the sentimental values in my heart.

Enchanted Forest is indeed a good take on blackcurrent frag but I'm not sure if I want to pay big bucks to smell like a Ribeena drink or my dad's homemade blackcurrent jam! Ha ha!
It's amazing to see this as 15 people's signature scent!.

Personally, I think there are many, many better choices for gorgeous perfumes.
Especially in this price range.

Enchanted Forest smells like a blackcurrant pie with some bitter cassis leaves put on the side of a plate. Further into the drydown I sense some pink pepper, red wine, and some edible spicy, fruity notes (it has a bubblegum vibe as well). It is a definite like, however I do not find it to be extremely interesting. It's makes me feel like, ok this smells nice, but nothing beyond that. It is a nice piece of art and very wearable, versatile, yet not groundbreaking at all and highly overpriced. If it was a designer fragrance at a designer price, I would recommend it, sadly in this case I do not.

Sweet blackcurrant being tempered by whiffs of pine needles, dewy undergrowth, some red wine and good old fashioned magic. Unlike anything I've experienced so far, a combination of notes that works amazingly well, and to me is at the same time nostalgic (there were blackcurrants being grown at my home farm next to a lake and a forest) and wearable. Spring-summer-early autumn would work the best, although the blackcurrant might be interesting in cold air :P

My next FB for sure, and speaking of the bottle, TVP nailed the design, fits perfectly.

Love love love.

Black currant,Black currant,Black currant,Black currant,Black currant,Black currant and again Black currant.Black Currant tree juice!
Black currant bubblegum!That's it!
So much hype about this one too.
Linear IMO.More Simpler than it's mentioned notes
Sillage and Longevity are both modetare and also overpriced!
Not suitable for men over 35yo.

Test before buy

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7/10

Man oh man, this stuff is amazing and intoxicating!

My husband would never be able to wear this, and I am a faithful woman, but were I to have a torrid affair with a beautiful Russian grad student half my age, he would have auburn ringlets like a fairy prince, big blue eyes as deep as Lake Baikal, pale skin, rosy cheeks and smell of this magical elixir.

It open strange and medicinally astringent from the cassis leaf and dries down jammy and woody and mysterious. I've smelled some of these notes in other compositions, true, but this combination is a dark art of blending.
Enchanting and dangerous!

I first encountered this one at a store with a sizeable perfume collection. My friend and I had gone there to shamelessly smell all their fragrances and this was recommended to me because I love Dasein Winter. Well, let me tell you this one is otherworldly. I am in love. It's stunningly complex, there is so much going on! It also lasts forever (and stays on your clothes too). It's more luxurious than Dasein Winter, with more currant and sweetness. It definitely conjures the Russian Forest imagery they are going for, rather than the singular tree that many similar scents go for. But alas it's super expensive and I probably will only buy decants.

Received my samples through the Fragrantica draw and this is my favorite. Thanks soooooooo much!!!

A really gorgeous fragrance. I also have Olympic Orchids Blackbird which is a bit similar but sweeter and much more fruity. I love both of these fragrances.
It really does conjure up images of a deciduous and conifer forest. Fairies dancing amongst the brambles and dock leaves. I get lots of blackcurrant and balsam fir. The blackcurrant leaf note is a tricky one but it's handled perfectly here. Its very easy for it to smell like cat pee if not used lightly. I don't get any wine note.
This is not a very sweet fragrance but more fresh, a touch fruity and slightly tart. I also can't help thinking of Jo Malones BlackBerry and Bay.
Moderate sillage and longevity

I received my bottle today thank you to Fragrantica!! I love it! This is a realistic pine and blackcurrent scent. I don't find it to smell like Olympic Orchids blackbird. Blackbird turned into a pine scented car airfreshner mixed with very medicinal kids cough syrup with a base of laundry detergent. But Enchanted Forest is Enchanting! Me and my family sat around smelling it and reminiscing! It brought back memories for all of us. To me it opens with a blast of tart juicy, realistic boozy blackcurrent! A few minutes later the pine comes out and this pine smells fresh and cold, like it's dusted with snow. At this point it smells like Christmas trees and a boozy berry wine! Next the memory's start to emerge. I swear i smell Pine cones, Acorns and sap; the sap that runs down the pine trees and gets sticky on your hands. It smells like when i was a child when we used to go to the Fraiser Township park every weekend. The park was filled with pine trees and pine cones covered the ground, sap ran down the trees. Me and my brother and sisters would run around playing hide and seek. We hid behind the pine trees and would get sap all over our hands and it even got in my hair once. We would gather pine cones and make crafts out of them with mom once we got home and occasionally throw pine cones at eachother:) It was so fun and the fact that this perfume smells exactly like that time in my life makes this very special. The innocence and carefree frolicking, laughing, playing, and imaginations running wild. This is a very well made perfume. Sillage is an arms length for the first 30 minutes and then is close to the skin but still noticeable to others. Longevity was about 4 hours, it could be more, it's possible that i became nose blind after a while. Very beautiful scent. If you love the smell of pine cones, pine trees, sap and boozy blackcurrent than im sure you will love this.

Enchanted Forest is pretty cool and unique. Admittedly I don't feel it smells as complex as the orchestra of its notes suggest, and it's pretty linear, but its high quality is apparent. Most of the time the strongly dominating notes are black currant leaves and blossom which give it very edible/juicy and aromatic quality but also, unlike the sweeter berries, quite tart, almost strident edge (more typical of red currant berries). This can make wearing it an effort of considerable audacity, though women could possibly find it much easier. However it offers monstrous staying power, especially on clothes, and that's how its complexity and softer edge reveal themselves with powdery vanilla smoothness and some aldehydes - waiting until the next day and sniffing the shirt is the sure way to enjoy its beauty and get to the warm sunny spots in this shady green forest. A very remarkable creation.

Wow guys....this is one of the only niche and unique perfumes my girlfriend enjoys, we will be buying and sharing it! This fragrance was exactly what i wanted it to be, i payed over 5 pounds for a sample and it was so worth it. Its a fruit dominant forest, slightly feminine maybe, but it wont stop me from loving this masterpiece... if you are looking for a sweet foresty scent, give this a sample.
Update: longevity is about 5-6 hours max, tried it on the back of my hand and was a bit dissapointed, however this could be because my sample is dab on and not a spray so i probably didnt use that much, ill try it again and update a second time

I do not know anybody who wants to smell like blackcurrant, believe me. Yes, it smells this berry, no more. What was the pont? I do not know.

very interesting smell, indeed. i can not say i smell blackcurrant AT ALL, but at the same time i would not mind having it in my collection, but honestly- i will find so many more perfumes for which i would eagerly pay 200 $. Sorry, EF does not cost that much, waaaay overpriced.

It shows great magic, it simply envelops you in an enchanted aura...complex and alluring.
Best blackcurrant on the market.

I have waited for half a year to write this review. Just wanted to let the seasons change and to fully experience this AMAZING scent. And the wait wasn‘t for nothing. Enchanted Forest is truly a blissful scent. First time when I sprayed it on my wrist it just blew my mind. It is THIS kind of scent that makes you go WOW. So deep, juicy, fresh, ripe, earthy...
I wore it during my wedding. Yes, this scent. There‘s no huge sillage, it just wraps around you. However, it all depends on the amount of sprays. Anything over two will keep everyone asking „wow, who smells this good?“. However, you will be feeling it the whole day and it‘s quite a challenge. That said, two sprays are the top for me.
Summer or winter? For me it‘s definitely a cold season scent. There are two main parts that come up on me: the animalistic side of the perfume and the black currant side. During hot summer days, it‘s all about animals in that enchanted forest. Mysterious and mythological creatures. During colder days, black currant takes the leading role leaving all the forest life somewhere in the background. Lovely lovely lovely.
Lasting power is very long on me. 8 hours on skin, up to 10 hours on hair. While spraying the perfume on my wrist I accidently sprayed some on my watch leather bracelet. It‘s been a week and I can still feel it. And I love it. Amazing.
The scent is nothing else but magic. I love how well balanced it is. It‘s neither feminine, nor masculine. It‘s an experience. A journey. Coming from northern Europe, we had black currant growing in our backyard. The accuracy is amazing. For me it‘s like taking a walk on a hot and damp summer day in a pine forest. All the resins come out of the trees and give of this amazing sweet smell... and then it‘s berries and the earth itself. All moist and sweet and deep.
Amazing.

To start with it only has a slight resemblance to OO Blackbird which I also love. Blackbird is a much darker smokey berry fragrance. EFTVB has much more balsam fir and wood notes. EFTVB is also not as sweet, dense and as rich a fragrance as Blackbird. I love them both for different reasons.
EVTVB is a lovely fragrance which for me immediately conjures up an autumn sunlit conifer forest. Aromatic first and then berry fruitiness. Its autumn in the woodland and a time of mellow light and fruitfulness. I do think it is unisex but I think its sweetness makes it edge a tad more over to the feminine. I was a bit disappointed that both sillage and longevity were moderate but its forgiven as it is so gorgeous.

LOST IN A RUSSIAN FOREST

It's the first day of spring and I'm wearing this. Enchanted Forest is a masterpiece. To me this represents Russia as an epic movie from the 50s, think War and Peace only it would be more of a fantasy children's version but it has some content which can be appreciated by adults as well, like a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. I get the same kind of Russian cultural thing as I did with Maroussia. This fragrance evokes Medieval Russia, the deep forests, peasants, Gypsies, tsars and princesses. I'm reminded of my favorite Russian fairy tale Vasilisa a Cinderella type of poor girl who owns a doll, outsmarts an old witch, becomes a beautiful make of dresses and clothes and wins the heart of a prince. It's a fragrance that matches up with Tchaikovsky ballets like Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty. It's a fragrance of Rothbart and Odette, an evil wizard and a princess under a dark spell. It also really does match up perfectly with the end of Act 2 of Sleeping Beauty the part when Prince Desiree is entering the castle struggling to find Aurora through entangled vines, climbing plants and thorns, cutting away at the greenery with his sword, defeating the evil witch Carabosse (Maleficent) and finally awakening the princess with his kiss. The forest theme is dead-on. I do smell a forest but it smells like the vision of a forest, only fragmented images come to my mind. I see berries, poison ivy, and hallucinations of dancing fairies, deer running through the forest and little gnomes hiding behind mushrooms. It wears more like you've taken some poisonous flower or plant and now you're lost in the forest and lost in your hallucinations. It also makes me think of the Schubert Lieder "Elfkoning" The Elf King which is a very sad song about a dying boy who is hallucinating about an evil elf king in the forest who is trying to kidnap him, using sweet kind words and promising him a life of pleasures in the forest, while the boy's father, carrying him in his arms and riding a horse, gallops away to the nearest doctor's house but the boy dies. I have never smelled anything more beautiful since Lancôme's Magie Noire. I would like to say that although this scent is not exactly like Magie Noire I get the same kind of feeling and vibe from it. Magie Noire affected me deeply and I will always love it but I have room in my heart and my life and my perfume wardrobe for this beauty too.

Notes in The Enchanted Forest By The Vagabond Prince

TOP Notes: Pink pepper, aldehydes, orange, cassis, blackcurrant, hawthorn, rum red wine, rosemary

HEART NOTES: Black currant, coriander, honeysuckle, rose, carnation, vetiver.

BASE NOTES: Opoponax, benzoin, amber, oakmoss, fir balsam Patchouli castoreum cedar notes, vanilla, musk

This is a very heavy complex fragrance and it throws up so many of the notes as it wears for over 9 hours on your skin. Powerful stuff. I smelled the aldehydes at the first spritz a bit vintage and old fashioned. Then I got a lot of the grape scents in this frag: black currant and cassis, a hint of orange. Then there is the boozy intoxicating scents of rum and red wine. It smells like a celebration in a village near the forest. A young boy ends up drinking too much wine and gets lost in the forest and never returns. He enters a magical world of fantasy: fairies, elves, gnomes. The heart is spicy with coriander and rich with honeysuckle which really blend well with the booze. It's like honey wine. I would not call this a floral fragrance although it does contain some flowers. I smell mostly the rose and carnation. Beautiful and a tad on the melancholy side like these flowers are only a part of the forest mirage and I can't actually pick them up to smell them. The rosemary provides a floral aromatic touch. The fragrance becomes dry and then smells of woods. I smelled lots of woods: cedar and oak moss. Naturally there would be woods in the forest. Ah and there's patchouli wonderful patchouli doing it's thing, it's magical aromatic thing and harmonizes with the incense note which is here in the form of benzoin and opoponax. The castoreum and musk are the animalic scents that are clearly there at the last part of the fragrance and conjure up images of animals in the forest: deer. The muskiness gets pretty strong and becomes a bit like civet but because of the booze and the honeysuckle the vanilla and other notes that are usually sweet it's not too bad a musk or odorous. The amber note at the very end is absolutely lovely. Every part of this fragrance is to die for. I love love love love this perfume so much. Totally unisex so both guys and gals can enjoy this trip into the forest. It's still got a bit of a winter touch, and really it's better suited to winter and autumn and smells better in cold weather but it's still chilly here in New York. I'm in the Enchanted Forest and it will be a long time before I get out of it.

Fragrance that wants to represent the beautiful forests Russians, their stories and the Slavic tradition of one of its most important holidays called Kupala right on the summer solstice at night of San Juan.

The fragrance opens fresh with aldehydes and orange also feels a well-mixed and herbs with the effect of a powerful fruity note of somewhat boozy blackcurrant due to the effect of rum and wine and then move to spicy note of pink pepper a feeling of currants with a soft green floral background point is the best part of the tour.

During drying pretending to be very woodsy feel but discreet. an agreement fir, cedar, moss and note that prominent blackcurrant seen not go away.

The fragrance is beautiful, the note very edible and appetizing currants, love, promising evolution as a party, but only until the middle notes, drying is improved and not just found those wonderful Russian forests that should have felt better .


Rating: 6

Thanks to the team for making me fragántica get this gift.

This is the breeze mentioned in Stardust, wafting from Faerie and filled with rosemary and blackcurrant and pixie dust, that makes the sparks from the fire glow unnatural colors and puts strange dreams into the hearts of men. Do you dare cross the Wall and sample the delights of another realm? It's not for the faint of heart.

I came back to say that my love for this perfume keeps on growing all the time. Enchanted Forest is the most magical fragrance I've ever experienced. If you don't fall in love with it right away, give it time and get to know it gradually.

I just received a sample of this wonderfully unique fragrance in the mail, but unfortunately the vial had come apart and it had all leaked out. The good news is: this is a high quality scent comprised of sufficient long lasting oils that I I was able to wipe the residue onto my skin and get a lasting impression. If it had been cheaply made the alcohol would have made it all go away.

Because my sample had leaked I'm going to give you just some words of impressions: cassis, forest scents, indie, unisex, well-done. This is not a trendy scent. It dares to be different, and it works.

I'm getting sour black currant over fir. This amounts to unwashed armpits after 3 days hiking. No can do.

I believe I was one of the lucky winners of a sample of Enchanted forest. Thank you I am so pleased to have been able to sample this.

I feel the name is very fitting for the fragrance. It opens with warm pine and gives me the sensation of walking barefoot through a pine forest on a foggy night in search of my prince. The pine blends so nicely with a beautiful jammy black current that surprisingly compliments eachother.

When I think of Niche smelling fragrance this comes to mind. It's very well blended and is definitely unisex. Very pleasant and fits the winter season well.

Smells like bubblegum then it vanishes in a few hours....

Got a sample of this from lucky scent yesterday and..... I wish I could join everyone who love it but I would not be keeping it real. It's a nice scent in itself, but I couldn't wear it. It smells just like a certain starburst flavor straight up along with a real fresh piece of fruit.

I really thought I would LOVE this. The forest fruits are real enough, as is the pine. Somehow though it doesn't jibe.
My daughter did not like it on me or herself when I made her test; but her automatic response to most things I offer these days is"no thanks!"

*edit - I've ordered another sample and will test again now that it is summer. TBA...

Fantastic!!! This is a work of art, is an enchanted forest in a bottle. This fragrance is beautiful, natural and charming. Every note has its role,i can be able to feel as if the dew drop on the leaf of black currant... really beautiful. The Black currant is always present,both in the top notes both in the base and in those of the bottom. The touch of red wine blends even more other notes, making the magical scent,mysterious and fairytale. The notes are really real, it is extraordinary as the master Duchaufour created this masterpiece,bringing into harmony all these notes.. This is one of my favorites, I love it, it makes me feel really surrounded by an enchanted forest. I love this scent, in the nights of winter, with the moon,gets cold outside, the fireplace is lit and leaves and resin give off their scent in the air ..All this makes this fragrance wonderfully magical and real at the same time. This is just an enchanted forest. Masterpiece.✦


Sillage: 7.5/10
Longevity: 8.5/10
Scent: 10./10

Overall: 10/10

Chanced upon this via a small sample. It's so fruity, juicy and organic giving the sniffer an "I wanna eat you now!" vibe. Even guys love to wear it on their own skin! Totes amazeballs x

Enchanted Forest is meant to focus on the concept of black currant in a Russian forest. The concept is well-executed and lovely, however; it’s hyper-realism doesn’t translate to something that is wearable for me. Sometimes the best paintings are forgiving on some of the unattractive details of daily life and real people.

The experience of Enchanted Forest is very true. Sweet and tart blackcurrant. The delicious smell of fir-needles in the forest. The woody smell of twigs underfoot. Animalic nuances of woodland critters. You can almost sense the textures involved in this scenery.

The hyper-realism comes in when you and I come into the picture. This fragrance not only transports your mind to this serene forest hike (how lovely it would be if it only did that), it transports your body too. I always loved walking in the forest, but never enjoyed how the smell mixed with my sweat and hair and made me smell afterwards. Enchanted Forest includes the hiker in this forest scene unfortunately. Now I’m not saying it smells like straight up sweaty body odor, but more like a person wore deodorant, but after a really long hike would need to reapply. Something had me sitting on the fence with Enchanted Forest, and it was this “day old deodorant armpit” smell. This aspect of the fragrance makes me feel a bit dirty, not in a sexy way- like I need to freshen up a bit after the long walk in this forest. But hey, some people might be into that kind of thing.

In the beginning Enchanted Forest seems like it could be very unisex, but it dries down a couple hours later to a soft sweet berry smell. The dry-down is very pleasant, but it’s without the woods that could make this fragrance comfortable with traditional-men’s fragrance wearers.

Overall verdict: this fragrance is successful as an experience, in taking one someplace else, it’s deserving of being considered art- a masterpiece even- but personally I would have preferred a little more abstraction.

Enchanted Forest would be a top favorite of mine if it weren't soaked in rum. I am certainly not arguing that the opening is really good, but the drydown almost makes me sick.

Enchanted Forest smells exactly like I imagine the painting 'Ivan Tsarevich riding the Gray Wolf' by Viktor Vasnetsov to smell. This is so complex and fascinating and every time I spray it I notice something I haven't noticed before and everytime it takes me to a different place. Sometimes it makes me weep because it's so beautiful and other times the smell of it makes me feel nauseous. This scent can be both alluring and disturbing depending on the skin's chemistry and the mood it's wearer's in.

My first reaction was similar to @dsty's. I literally laughed out loud because it was so completely different from anything else I've ever smelled. My very first impression was a lush blackcurrant bush in a dark unkempt garden. The smell captured the whole bush, not only the berries, but also the leaves, the branches, the buds, the roots and the earth underneath it. It felt like magic. The scent was so perfectly natural and deep and it evoked such strong mental images. My partner said that it smelled exactly like their grandmother's backyard.

At first I found the blackcurrant so overwhelming that I didn't pay attention to anything else. But now every time I spray this on me I found something new! The first spray took me to an unkempt dark garden and with the second spray I stepped out of the garden and in to the forest. With every wearing I get deeper in that dark enchanted forest and it gets more voluminous all the time. Now I'm totally lost in it. Sometimes it's scary and unpleasant but usually it's exactly where I want to be.

This scent is not something to spray on when you want to smell 'nice'. This is not a 'beauty product' or just an add-on to your outfit. In my opinion, this fragrance is art. An experience. And you should spray this with care, because it's quite strong and too many sprays can make you feel unwell.

Too bad my sample is getting empty and I can never afford to buy a full bottle of this masterpiece (the flacon is also a gorgeous piece of art). It's not easy to be addicted to fragrances and broke.

10/10 (but definitely not for everyone)

Black currant & something green. Sweet, yet piney fresh. Velvety smooth. Complex enough for those who are looking, simple enough to really enjoy. Blind buy, no regrets. On me, longevity and sillage quite poor. The packaging is really a new standard.

استمرارا لفكره العطور التى تحاكى المكان ،،ساتحدث عن عطر على هذه الشاكله وهو عطر الغابه المسحوره enchanted forest الذى تم انتاجه سنه٢٠١٢ من شركه حديثه تدعى الامير المتشرد the vagabond prince ولقد
استخدم برتراند دوشافور صانع العطر مكونا بارزا لعطره هذا وهو الكشمش الاسود ليكسر حده الاخشاب التى تهبط بالعطر للقتامه والكآبه .
سبق وان تحدثت عن عطر wald من شركه ايفوريوم وكذلك عطر نورن من سلمبرهاوس وكلا العطرين يعتمدان على استخدام اشجار الغابه الاوروبيه مثل التنوب والصنوبر والسنديان و هذا العطر يستخدم نفس نوعيه النوتات ولكن دوشافور يدعى نوتات اخرى ربما بكميات صغيره للغايه لا تكاد تبين .
يدعى السيد دوشافور ان مقدمه عطره تحتوي على الالدهيدات مع اوراق الكشمش الاسود ولمحات تشبه المشروبات الكحوليه كالنبيد مع الدافانا و الفلفل الاحمر والروزمارى والبرتقال الحلو
ووسط العطر يحتوي على خلاصه الكشمش الاسود مع الفيتيفر والورد ونبته العسل اما ذيل الهرم العطرى فيحتوي على خلاصه التنوب مع راتنجات البنزوين واللبان العطرى الابوبوناكس والباتشولى وطحلب السنديان والمسك والفانيلا والعنبر
تخيل معى حشد النوتات هذه .... المفروض اننا امام قنبله عطريه متلونه
العطر خطى الى حد كبير ،،،، فاكهى مع نوتات خشبيه ليس اكثر ،،،نوته الكشمش هى الغالبه على مسار العطر تختلط مع الاخشاب فتعطى احساس الغابه مع وجود اشراقه تكسر حده الاخضرار السائد.
افتتاحيه العطر بها لمحه فاكهيه تشبه شراب الخوخ او الكوكتيل مع لمسه من الالدهيدات وسرعان ما تدخل الاخشاب لتصنع جو الغابه الاوربيه .
على العموم العطر يونيسكس وانا اراه يميل ناحيه الانوثه فى اوله والخشونه الذكوريه فى نهايته ،،فوحان متوسط وثبات جيد،،،، العطر افضل ما فيه اسمه الذى يحيل مخيلك لغابه الاحلام واجواء الغموض وضبابيه المجهول.
العطر ياتى فى زجاجه مميزه سوداء اللون جميله للغايه ،،ال١٠٠مل ماء عطر بما يعادل ١٨٠دولار

I love this...it truly is a magical Enchanted Forest, a winter wonderland of deep forest covered in sparkling snow. Mysterious, quiet and sensual. I think it's a modern masterpiece and one you should definitely try.

Today bought second bottle of this wonderful perfume, previous one served me for 6 months. Bertrand Duchaufour is genius, I endlessly thankful to him for this perfume.

Enchanted Forest is bright enough to inspire, mysterious and deep enough to feel something else behind the fragrance. It's sexy, smart and has a secret. This perfume is definitely worth to try.

Oh , not for me :( , full of fruits in church..

I have worn this around 3 or 4x over the past months and I am just able to put my finger on it. With so many notes you would think it would be more complex than what it is. I don't pick up any of the sweeter notes such as amber,vanilla or benzoin. What I do get is an aromatic/fruity/woody combination. Similar to Mancera Cedrat Boise. As stated before, this is not as dramatic as the pyramid. I would say that it's a safe scent to be worn year round.

If you ever went into a forest just with a backpack and a map, you probably know that in general, the woods aren't like your cozy-happy little hut. It's filled with challenges and danger, but also wonders that, if you're lucky to witness, will leave you in awe and mesmerized.

Enchanted Forest aims at capturing such an environment. The fragrance is definitely not a crowd-pleaser. It is strong, very recognizable, dense, and has too much blackcurrant going on that overpowers all other notes (probably except for the balsam fir). I would have to disagree with others who claim this scent a "complex green"; having owned several green scents, to my nose Enchanted Forest really has 2 layers only: the "sweet currant with pine" layer, and the "less sweet currant with pine and barely-there vetiver-cedar" layer. Fruity and long-lasting yes, but complex? Not really.

However Enchanted Forest is a scent you will remember. And there are these rare days when you put it on and the sweet currant and pine come in waves after waves to awake and sooth your senses. And it's perfect.

Today is such a day and right now I desperately want more than just a small sample.

I added my review of the fragrance some time ago, and I was sitting here thinking...and I ask this with respect and affection, might the Vagabond Prince consider making edible versions of Enchanted Forest? I really do think this one would make a fantastic syrup. You could use it as a mixer for cocktails, or for making granitas, using it for trifles, cakes, etc. Endless possibilities. I don't really think I can wear the perfume, but I definitely want to eat/drink it. Seriously! Please consider it. :)

I purchased this due to the reviews that compared it to Fille en Aiguilles which I love. Yes, it has that but so much more. Fresh balsam fir, winey sweet/tart black currant, herbs, mosses, florals, woods, resins. It is a heady and intoxicating blend. I think it will immediately become one of my favorites. Gorgeous.

After one full wearing I can say that on me projection and village were both very good, becoming a skin scent at around hour seven. The bottle is itself a work of art and very substantial. If you dropped it on your foot you might break a toe. Even the cap is formidable. Dare I mention without incurring the wrath of the fragrantica gods that it is available for less from Min NY with free shipping?

I had previously used the sample I ordered, but for Christmas, my sweetie bought me a bottle - score!

I find this fragrance absolutely delicious! I found it fruity and woody on spraying. The drydown has a darkness to it that lingered all day. As the day progressed, I noticed more wood and wine, and little pops of leafy green. But a dark leafy green, like walking through cool, very shaded woods, a day or two after a good soaking rain.

I am not good at picking out certain wood or floral notes. I adore orange, but I have yet to pick it out in this fragrance. I do catch the rum notes, the coriander, the pepper and the patchouli on occasion. Mostly though, it's the woodsy scent. There is a sweetness to it, underlined by something dark and just a little spicy, which is good, because it keeps this scent from being sickly sweet or cloying.

What I particularly notice about this fragrance: when I wear it, men really lean in to talk to me when I wear it, and seem to want to stand close - but no one ever comments on the scent. Ahem. Love that.

Oh, how I wanted to love this. It DOES, in fact, smell like a "forest," a forest full of lush evergreen trees and mosses, with black currant bushes secreted away amongst the branches. That part is relatively true, and it's kind of beautiful. I don't want to smell like trees most of the time, but at the risk of sounding cliche, my sample of Vagabond Prince was a must-have on Christmas.

Unfortunately, that smell does not last long and does not have much sillage. I get about 4-5 hours of wear with this one, and it sits extremely close to my skin, even if I apply it liberally.

Furthermore, the scent is quite linear: it goes on smelling like balsam, fir, and black currant, and it stays that way. I get maybe a glimpse of the wine fragrance when it's first applied, but it quickly fades. I do not get any of the florals, the vanilla, the citrus, etc. I think that's my biggest disappointment with Vagabond Prince: I expected something truly unique, magical, and a little surprising, and I got something pretty but boring.

Alas, I will not be buying a full bottle of this one. Hopefully I can find something that's similar, but more complex and with better longevity.

I'm not sure if it's a problem with my skin, my nose, or just my individual taste, but I absolutely hated this one. Smelled just like a strong blast of some kind of pine based cleaning detergant on me (pine-sol?). A very chemical, harsh and abrasive scent with a whiff of black currant cat pee. I'm not sure who would want to smell like this, and I have no idea how this gets so many good reviews. This is one of those perfumes that I just don't understand (like Angel) and actually made me feel physically nauseous.

Maybe I am anosmic to some of the nicer notes in it? Or maybe it really is over-hyped on this site and isn't that good. BF hated it as well. I guess my expectations might have been too high-- I was expecting what other people described, an enchanted fairy wonderland forest (lol) and instead all I got was tons of STRONG pine. And nothing else (well, other than the aforementioned cat piss!)

As a side note, this also feels *extremely* masculine to me-- and I am not afraid of "masculine" or unisex perfumes (regularly wear & love midnight poison, midnight in paris, DHI & black orchid) but this is just SO manly. No flowers or fruits here at all.. just pine needles and pine-sol. :( Maybe I'll try spraying it instead of dabbing? I did notice some other people down below had better luck with spraying.

Also, I hate to say it, but at $180 for 100ml is crazy.

Edit: after further testing, now I am getting the fruity opening. But it still makes me feel sick :( I don't know, maybe I just don't like pine?

Enchanted Forest is the smell of a big beautiful fragrant fir tree in a small wooden house that's surrounded by a forest. A freshly baked tart blackcurrant pie and red wine wait on the dinner table, where there is also a small vase of carnations and roses. The fireplace is burning, a cat is basking in its warmth. The window is open, and the fresh cold night winter air creeps in and fills each room. You look up at the stars, the dark night is enchanting, an owl hoots.

This fragrance embodies everything I love about Christmas.

As a child, my Christmases were always magical, with real candles, crooked trees, beautiful meals and reading Grimms' Fairy Tales at bedtime.

Every time I wear this perfume, I am overcome with acute nostalgia and instantly get teleported back in time.

Well, unlike many people here, I'm not a fan of this perfume, at least on my skin. I have to apply A LOT just to get the faintest bit of any berry or wine scents, and all fruitiness disappears quite quickly. After 15-20 minutes, I just smell like a Christmas tree, and it's like that til it's gone, really. I wish I could experience this perfume as wonderfully as so many of you seem to, but I really do just smell like a Christmas tree. Just a linear fir tree.

The number of reviews for this fragrance is dizzying! Pretty amazing. As for the fragrance, it gets better and better. The first wearing was a little bit strange, nothing new for a Douchafour creation. I get a bit of Serge's Fille mixed in with sweet black currant. What I find so attractive is that the scent up close is not the main beauty, it's the projection. The wafts of black currant are remarkable as it smells unique yet there is a comforting familiarity of a more commercial release such as Spicebomb or Diesel's Fuel For Life in the silage. Is it the CO2 that creates this effect? I don't know but it's a winner. Four out of five stars.

this one is a MASTERPIECE.
I have never smelled anything like it !!!
Words fail me........

Enchanted Forest is a very complex fragrance. I love the opening and you can instantly smell the blackcurrant and red wine. The dry down is a mild spiciness, on me I can really smell the rosemary, castoreum and vanilla. It is sweet but powerful enough to get a whiff now and then. Perfect for the Fall and Winter.
I could see Lana Parrilla, the Queen from Once Upon A Time wearing this perfume.

When I first sniffed The Enchanted Forest, I almost laughed out loud, it's so strong and so different from anything else I've ever smelled.

The opening is sweet and medicinal and very green, even startlingly so; then after a while blackcurrant and wine come through; then more green, coniferous notes and something very faintly animalic. This doesn't sound very extraordinary but all the way through there's this strength, this force that melts all the elements together into something altogether unique that does make the name sound about right. As you might guess, it also performs quite admirably in projection as well as longevity.

I had a hard time deciding if I actually liked this when I first tried it in the summer, but I was definitely intrigued. And now that I'm wearing it in the fall, its true season I think, I find I really love spending time in this enchanted forest.

Extremely appropriate name. Dark green and deep but with a mysterious sparkle around the edges. Fir/pine/cedar/moss with black current are the most salient notes to me. The green woods lend a heavy crispness (dark green and soft) while the black current is sweet and rounds out the scent well. There are some dark alcoholic notes as well and I think my nose detects a little bit of anise or licorice although it is not listed in the note pyramid. Black currant gets stronger on the dry-down and although it never quite dominates the woods, it does become much more prominent as time goes on.

Enchanted Forest opening is very similar to an old cheapie, Spark for Men by Liz Claiborne. I loved Spark when it first came out, but soon that honey and rum accord got old, and I couldn’t tolerate it anymore. Enchanted Forest isn’t any different, it smells nice enough at first application, but soon, those honey and rum notes are overwhelming. I actually like the smell of chili peppers, but the rum seems to drown all the other notes to the point that it becomes heavy, stuffy, and choking. The opening of green, buttery leaves (yes, buttery) is very nice, but then, in a short while, I smell like an alcoholic. For $200.00 per bottle, I expect more. PLEASE, give me some air!

Wow! I love this fragrance, but I have to admit it reminds me of an expensive Christmas potpourri that I used to buy. Probably because the Balsam Fir is the most predominant note on my skin. I also get the black current and vanilla. It is really lovely - will definitely be getting a full bottle in December and scenting myself, my pillows, my clothes . . . Wow again! Love it! It does smell like Christmas magic and fairytales to me!

One of my closest friends is from Chelyabinsk, and he says Enchanted Forest smells just like his grandmother's backyard. He walks around with his nose pressed to his wrist. Absolutely authentic.

I was entrance by the reviews, so I bought a sample. Great idea, as I am one of the unlucky ones for whom this fragrance is a disappointment. After four tests, I get the green notes; herbal, mossy, and somewhat bitter. Of course, I get the slightly acrid urine note as well. Every single time. Lucky me! No fruity notes, no carnation, no sweet orange, vanilla or amber to soften the blow of being hit in the face repeatedly with boughs of astringent greenery. The drydown is swift, maybe after 1 1/2 hours so there's no longevity to speak of. Thankfully, the base is tolerable, with some rose and a bit of softer moss, vetiver and musk. Definitely test before buying! I do wish I could have enjoyed as do so many others.

So, I did end up layering this with Demeter Thunderstorm, and wow! I feel like I'm sitting on the floor of a forest, hiding under a thick pine branch while a summer downpour goes on all around me. Perfect!

I’m trying to skip over my disliked note - black currant, and be objective…
It’s really a smell of a forest in north countries. I grew up in the country covered with pine and fir tree forests and gardens full of black currant bushes. Also my granny had them and I have drunk liters of its juice, have eaten jars of its jam and I have seen how to use the black currant leaves to conserve vegetables. The smell of black currant is so common for me…and it’s the main note in EF. It’s always present - from the top to the dry down. I can smell also pine and resins and something like incense. It gives a sensation of dark, inaccessible forest with enormous ancient fir trees…It's no light there and if you get enough courage for passing, you will get lost…

It’s definitely good, complex and worth-to-try perfume. If it goes to my dislike shelf, it’s only because the black currant happens to be unwelcome note for me.

This smells like childhood adventures, when the forest was a magical place that went on forever and was my secret utopia. I can smell realistic pine needles, juicy dark berries growing on thick bushes, clean crisp air, damp undergrowth and fertile ground.

I'm always looking for perfumes that smell like the memories I made exploring the woods growing up as I've moved very far away from my home and the landscape is vastly different. I think this one will help me in my scent journey.

I believe tomorrow I am going to try layering this with Demeter Thunderstorm and see how it goes. In my mind, I'm hoping for the true scent of a forest after the rain.

I'm really glad I tried this one out and that it works with my chemistry.

Judging by reviews this scent appears to be VERY CHEMISTRY DEPENDENT, so I'll simply add that you really should test this if the notes appeal to you.

If you're unlucky you may get fruit cocktail, overly apparent aldehydes, or perhaps the dreaded blackcurrant catpiss.

But if you're lucky enough for this one to love you back... ohhh the beauty in store for you, my friend!

My personal experience involves an opening blast of cold coniferous forest air, fresh and almost overwhelmingly green and beautiful, absolutely entrancing in its realism. Stunning fresh-breeze type aldehydes meet deep (unripe) currants and pines of all types. The opening frequently makes me close my eyes and just sit in silence, meditating as if alone in such a place for a few minutes.

The drydown (@ about an hour) becomes a tad drier and more bitter, with the artemisia and some dry tannins a la cabarnet really coming forward on my skin. Now the currants are really more like what you can detect from a deep, dry red wine undertone, so I can see why wine is listed as a note. Dashes of peppery-woodsy vetiver (sometimes more so than others) and cedar come forward along with these other deep notes at this stage and it seems to stay this way until it fades out of my detection.

In short, I love it. It's beautiful, strikingly so, but admittedly I have chemistry that loves most berry notes and pines. My only gripe is that my skin seems to love to drink it as much as I love to smell it; I can detect it for only about 4 hrs. Again, it's absolutely worth sampling! Just cross your fingers and hope it loves you back ;)

ETA: lately my skin pulls the vetiver forward over the fresh greenness and currants which I don't care for as much, but this is a common problem. My skin amps vetiver and I dislike that >.< makes it more masculine and less fruity, this may be weather dependent though.

@Jerine123: it is available on luckyscent, for example ;o) No body lotion for sure, only eau de parfum 100ml ;o)

Has anyone heard when this will become available? Will it be sold in the US at a department store or?? This would make a great fall or winter scent and the black currant and cedar would be great during the holidays. Will they be making a body lotion? I received one of the samples and was thinking that it would become available soon or more news about the release date would show up on Fragrantica?

From first sniff to the end, this scent engulfs me with Balsam Fir. Since I was born my family used Balsam Firs as the tree of choice for Christmas trees, so I am having a hard time disassociating this scent with Christmas, and thus I cannot imagine wearing it frequently in the summer months. Accompanying the very loud Balsam Fir note is an equally loud berry note, which I suppose is black currants based on the the notes but had I not looked it up I would have suspected black raspberry. The black currant note is a very edible one, rich and tasteful. Beneath the fir and berries, I smell a bit of cedar and moss, but not as much as I was expecting with the name of this scent being "Enchanted Forest." A forest has many smells to me, whereas this one presents two almost the entire time. A few hours in this scent produced an even sweeter note than the berry one on my skin, with the fir tempering down a bit to let the gourmand surface, but still being present. I did not get the animalistic notes, the patchouli, or any of the florals out of this. In all, I would love to own a bottle, but think that I would love it more if the balsam fir note was tempered down several notches to allow for the other notes to come through.

from all the reviews and notes i thought it will be a masterpiece perfume & it will be my signature as i was excited.... i just got the sample yesterday and honestly it was an extreme NORMAL perfume. the top note had the black current conquering over while it smells like a black current bubble gum, maybe artificially & delicious sweet, let's say a syrup that you can add to soft drinks. later the red wine and maybe the rum slightly appears a bit, and the rest is not there.
i was disappointed actually as the name of the perfume should be called to a masterpiece rather than a very common perfume. not my type of perfumes.

This goes on my skin strong, very fruity, fresh and tangy. I can discern the blackcurrant, fir and rosemary, then the cedar and coriander and bitter (not sweet as stated in notes) orange; that may be a combination of pepper and orange. On me.. this all combines to smell of passionfruit. Next comes some peppery carnation about 40 mins in and green, crushed leaves. For an hour or so this smells very bright, later it smells like a faint musk.. I get no woods at all apart from resinous fir in the opening.
A big like for me but as I purchased 30 ml in a split I will probably not pursue a full bottle. I'd like to try this in summer.

All I have to test of this is basically 1/15th of a ml I received from the lovely Vie Cafe. I have hoarded it for a while but realise I may lose the tiny amount to evaporation, so here goes!

Black currant is unabashedly the most prominent note in this fragrance right away. Juicy, dark and ripe with the unmistakable tang of cassis. Almost equally strong is the fir note. Juicy forest berries.

The fir is balsamic and resinous. As if I were walking through the forest and some tree sap stuck to my fingers. A little sticky (owing to the cassis as well, of course) but forest green pine at the same time. For forest lovers you should definitely feel nostalgic for lush fir trees.

When I sniff up close I feel a stinging in my nostrils. Perhaps this is the boozy quality? I can't speak to the scent of red wine as most wines smell different from one another. I do feel that stinging when I smell a wine with a high alcohol content, however.

When the scent is wafting towards you it is at it's most beautiful. Soft sweet cassis with luscious fir undertones reminiscent of Fille en Aiguilles. The sweetness is perfectly balanced and I think that it is because of a great blend, firstly, but also because cassis has one of the best types of acidic, tangy, bold sweetness.

In the dry down I get a spicy orange that reminds me of clove. My mother makes a liquer called quarante-quatre (44) by spiking 44 cloves into an orange and steeping it in vodka for 44 days. The dry down reminds me of that boozy sweet-spicy orange smell. With the fir still always in the background.

A very beautiful composition. Have another giveaway, Fragrantica! I want your juice and can't afford it right now!

This is a very familiar scent of black currants. When I first apply "Enchanted Forest" on my clothes, I smell rum, flowers and sensual spices as carnation, in addition to predominant note of black currants. This is a very precious perfume to me and I searched everywhere to buy a full bottle of it. For me it is impossible to enjoy perfumes without having this beauty in my collection. It starts of, with patchouli added after a few moments. The change from the top note to the darker tone is accompanied by occasional green elements. This is a masterpiece fragrance, with decent silage and projection and a good longevity of four hours on me.

This is a really deep, earthy scent. I can smell a mossy forest floor, pine needles, and dark juicy berries. I love my sample and wear it only when I'm wearing something else dark and mysterious. Perhaps one day I will purchase this fragrance, as it is quite lovely. Definitely not for those who prefer sweeter fragrances.

Vagabond prince enchanted Forrest.

Woah!!! my oh my!!!
Fruity blackberries, cassis, resins, rum, oakmoss, cedar that's what I get from enchanted Forrest. The rest of the notes are definitely in there...no doubt about it but are so well blended it's difficult to pull apart the complexity. Just one of those fragrances you can stand back and admire. This Forrest is definitely enchanted, it has the air of a fine wine about it bold deep & fruity just a brilliant, individual piece of work.
The dry down is gorgeous and gets more into the musty Forrest floor it becomes close to the skin and above all exudes quality.
Oooh it's gone a bit animal now a few hours in and I'm definitely getting civet and slightly decaying leaves...interestingly dark. The longevity on this is pretty average too!

Today I received sample, the black currant is definitely the dominant note, a real one, not the kind used in candy, although there is a big candy smell in the whole juice, but a healthy candy, made of real ingredients. 5 minutes and a strong mint note revealed, giving a refreshing effect, I think this note is the reason some reviewers describe it as "masculine", and I don't know how the leafy/minty note formed. It has the what I call Niche Category Characteristics, or let's shorten that as NCC. It is feminine for me,but not warm, I find it cold and innocent.

I was so pleased to win a sample of this! I'd been coveting one for a while, so thanks for the giveaway Fragrantica.
There are already lots of wonderful visual reviews of this scent, which should give you a clue about how good this is, but what's one more.
Enchanted Forest opens with a dark, biting and realistic blackcurrant leaf. In vial it smells like expensive red wine and castoreum absolute and on my skin the castoreum is definitely there with the blackcurrant, actually making a really good pairing. There are certainly lots of dark greens in Enchanted Forest, making it a very aptly named scent indeed, kind of like what you'd imagine the Black Forest smells like. Also the red wine note must be mentioned, adding a richness to the blackcurrant which takes it further and further away from it's fruity beginnings. It smells to me like a more mysterious and much more complex version of Blackberry and Bay. Wild berries crushed in the undergrowth, evergreen trees and wild cats stalking through the night. This is one of those scents (which aren't actually so common) where what impressed me the most was just how well executed it was - the structure, the idea behind it and how it all came to life in this liquid.
Castoreum ultimately a bit strong for me, but it's a part of what makes the scent overall so intriguing, it would be a different scent without the animalic undercurrent. This definitely gets a thumbs up.

If the will of Bertrand Duchaufour was to imagine the sniffer in a forest of memories, he succeeded with flying colors. Congratulations!! A good perfume of innocence and childhood ... .... like diving into a sea of grass. Lovely freshness!

This smells exactly like those sweet and sour Pastilline hard candies sold in those round tins. Combined with mentholated fir trees and wet moss.

I wouldn't say it's a modern fruity-floral sort of sweet -- rather, it's a childhood candy-sour-sweet that brings back so many memories of sneaking into a candy-tin that belongs to the grown-ups. Add hugging my dad and kissing his cheek and getting a whiff of his aftershave, and you'd get Enchanted Forest.

It's charming, but I wouldn't buy a full bottle. These two little sample vials would be enough to last me years of traipsing down memory lane. Lovely, but not for me.

This perfume reminds me of the “The Fir Tree” story by H.C. Andersen; the story about the beautiful little fir tree who does not know its own beauty or the beauty all around it. Very much like the amplified violets of Guerlain's Insolence EDP, I can imagine not many people appreciating this Blackcurrant dominant beauty simply because it’s a rare occasion to find the Blackcurrant note amplified in this fashion. I personally have never smelled a composition that even showcases this note, let alone so intensely. I have, however, been lucky enough to grow up in the Eastern parts of the world where the dark forests of the Northlands are brimming with the scent of dark, wild fruits that this perfume has magnificently captured. As you walk through these magical woods, the smell of the moist earth fills your nostrils and the Blackcurrant bushes, with their bountiful yield, beckon you to pick their mouthwatering fruits as a most fulfilling sustenance for your journey. The Fir, Cedar, Opoponax, and the Oakmoss notes blend together to emulate these fresh woods flawlessly. The amplified Blackcurrant, though it does feel like it’s on steroids on occasion, adds deliciously to this mix and won’t let go until the very end, which is well after 12+ hours on my skin. In “The Fir Tree”, the beautiful little fir tree came to comprehend its own beauty when it was too late to enjoy it. Enchanted Forest however, knows and enjoys its splendor. Rightfully so. I give 10 out of 10 for this visionary Masterpiece.

There is something very "prickly" about this scent, and unfortunately, I suspect it is the orange. On first application, I get mostly black currant and vanilla, though it does have depth which I would usually have liked. There is just this strange note hovering around that just won't settle down on me. Whatever it is, it is still there through the drydown, and on clothes the next day. I can't say that I *hate* this, but it doesn't sit well for me.

Just got a sample of this from The Perfumed Court and I don't really know what to think. I tried it on near my Mom and sister and they said it smells like cat pee and lysol... I'm not disagreeing. I can see why people might like it because it's so different and fresh (green), but it's just not suited to my taste.

The currant and green notes are pretty strong and overpowering. Maybe layered with something gourmand or citrusy it might work but for me it's a scrubber unfortunately. I would however try something else by The Vagabond Prince!

There's a black currant Koolaid stand in the middle of this forest!

Meh. Projection is super close to the skin and it doesn't come across as an EDP... more like EDT. I also don't find this frag to fall anywhere near the masculine side of the masc/fem continuum. Much too fem for me to wear. I find the persistence to be very lacking, requiring multiple reapplications. It also comes across as a bit powdery, which is my absolute least favorite frag characteristic.

All this being said, Enchanted Forest is a nice scent and I can see how some (frag neophytes?) would love this one. I mean, if you're comparing this to the frag selections at major chain department stores (Macy's e.g.), this would seem like an amazing frag.

I got a decant of this from a Must de Cartier I purchased...it's beautiful! a scent you cannot compare... The good thing about it is, you don't get to smell this too often that you'll be so pleased owning one...

it's so good and has some depth... like wine... like grapes... it smells like fresh grape juice but different... very addictive!!!

Beautiful beginning but over time the green and fruity notes are taken over by a syrupy vanilla that is nauseating. I wish I could order a sans-vanille version of this because it is otherwise an exquisite piece of work. I recently discovered that Oud Prestige by Jacoglu is somewhat similar to this in that it has a pronounced black currant note, though it lacks the utterly captivating wet greenery feel and the currant isn't nearly as fresh and tart. I do like the Jacoglu, however, in that it has no bloody vanilla, which only 1 perfumer out of every 100 seems capable of omitting from her/his creations.

Talk about knocking it out of the park on the first at bat. The Vagabond Prince's first fragrance is phenomenal. It is like nothing I have smelled before. I love when a fragrance pushes the boundaries and works. I have to give much respect for The Vagabond Prince for starting with a fragrance so original and unexpected.

I am male with normal to oily skin. I have only had a chance to test this in the winter and it works well. That being said, I think this is mostly a spring summer scent. It reminds me of waking up early while camping in the forest near fruit trees. I have never smelled a black currant tree, but when I close my eyes I can imagine standing under a fruit tree surrounded by mossy rocks next to a stream. You smell the entire forest, trees, rocks, moss, bark, even the animals and insects. Fantastic! It is definitely a multi layered fragrance. As I wear it throughout the day, I occasionally get whiffs of the woody side, and at other times I get the fruitiness. It is a very dynamic scent. Sometimes I get whiffs of the entire composition. Every smell that wafts by my nose is a good one.

It smells great from start to finish. And the finish line is a good distance away from the start. It lasts most of the day and the projection is good but not so prominent that it would fill up a room and offend anyone. So, you could wear it to work, though I would not think of it as a work scent.

I hope The Vagabond Prince continues to innovate and never plays it safe. Maybe they won't hit a home run every time, but the industry needs more houses like this one.

Let me begin by saying: "Thank You Very Much" to The Vagabond Prince Inc. for my sample. I am grateful!

I sniffed this when I first received it, but was waiting for a good time/day to try it on. Well, it's cold, raining and misty here now and figured this would be the perfect weather to wear Enchanted Forest. Indeed it is!

I must admit that I appreciate and sometimes do find the inspirations and stories behind fragrances interesting. And I accept the challenge to see if the perfumer's creation actually transports me to their vision, idea or place. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

Enchanted Forest however, really did transport me to that world. I've been to places like this in real life and remember the scents and emotions those places evoke and this fragrance does it quite well.

I have several fragrances that feature currant, but nothing so amazing and intoxicating as this! I love eating currants and if I didn't know better, I would drink this.

This is a great scent and is everything it's described to be. Rich and slightly tart, with a nice green/aromatic aura and a piney, sweet, warm dry down. This is a rich rewarding fragrance that is "Enchanting" for sure!

Oww wow...just put this on and I want to eat my arm! HUGE black currant note. Im getting some fir and a quick shot of broken open leaves. Black currant is calming down and mixing beautifully with the fir and leaves. Damn is this smell addicting...turning into the most realistic fir Ive ever smelled, like I put my head right into a pine/fir tree, and I thought Norne was good...still fir dominant but it must be the wine mixing to give a little bit of sweetness...

Hate to do it but im jumping on the 'Love' bandwagon on this one. Into the drydown I get more fir than currant so if youre a fir lover this is a must-try.