Annette Neuffer
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Bitter orange and absinth fizz with a startling herbaceous snap, whilst bergamot adds brightness, but chamomile and violet leaf immediately complicate matters, introducing a green tea dryness that prevents this from becoming a cheerful citrus fragrance. The effect is simultaneously fresh and unsettling, like biting into an orange expecting sweetness and encountering something closer to medicine.
As the volatiles settle, the iris emerges with considerable presence—dusty, slightly metallic, absolutely uncompromising. Coffee blossom adds an intriguing bitter-sweet note whilst jasmine and rose provide traditional floral warmth, yet tobacco weaves through them all, creating an almost smoky haze that transforms the composition into something altogether more ambiguous and compelling. The spicy accords assert themselves here, offering subtle pepper-like qualities without any identifiable pepper note.
Oakmoss and cypriol settle into an earthy, slightly damp foundation whilst sandalwood provides creamy underpinning and tonka bean adds just enough sweetness to prevent the fragrance becoming austere. This base persists with quiet determination rather than bombast, a gentle woody-earthy presence that lingers closer to skin, rewarding those who lean in to investigate but making no grand sillage statements.
Chyprette announces itself as a deliberately paradoxical creature—a chypre that refuses the typical sweetness of its family, instead favouring nervous energy and intellectual provocation. The opening salvo of bitter orange and absinth creates an immediate discord with the jasmine and rose waiting beneath; this isn't a comfortable marriage but a friction that generates genuine intrigue. Annette Neuffer has constructed something that sits at the intersection of a classical eau de cologne's brightness and the earthiness of a proper chypre, with tobacco smoke curling through the floral heart like an uninvited guest who somehow improves the conversation.
The iris carries a particular dry, pencil-shaving quality here—no powdery softness, but something more austere and architectural. That coffee blossom note adds an unexpected bitter-sweet rumination, suggesting you're wearing something contemplative rather than decorative. The violet leaf and chamomile keep everything botanical and slightly herbal, never allowing the composition to tip into conventional prettiness. Cypriol and oakmoss provide the chypre's skeletal structure, earthy and slightly mossy without feeling dated or retro-nostalgic.
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