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CHEZ PIERRE

Secret Garden

Secret Garden

Inspired by Erba Pura, Xerjoff

50 ml glass bottle (Eau de Parfum)

278,00 kr
1 943,00 kr 278,00 kr
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Inspired by: Erba Pura, Xerjoff
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  • Handcrafted
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PRODUCT DETAILS

Secret Garden is bottled as a 50 ml eau de parfum with close to 20% fragrance oil. Price is €25 flat, identical for every bottle we fill. Free shipping starts at €49; delivery is 2 to 5 working days.

Erba Pura is sold as an eau de parfum, so Secret Garden, our fragrance dupe of it, matches that concentration, denser than a typical eau de toilette without going as heavy as an extrait de parfum.

Longevity is 5 to 10 hours. Handmade in small batches, vegan and never tested on animals. Fifteen days to swap Secret Garden for something else if it does not suit you. This is not a limited luxury release you have to chase down; it is an everyday alternative among our perfumes you can reorder whenever the original runs low.

NOTES

Top notes

Sicilian orange, Calabrian bergamot, Sicilian lemon

Heart notes

Fruity notes

Base notes

White musk, vanilla, amber

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Secret Garden is our perfume dupe of Xerjoff Erba Pura, a unisex fragrance built around Sicilian orange, Calabrian bergamot and Sicilian lemon before it moves into a fruity heart and settles on white musk, vanilla and amber.

The citrus opening is sharp and juicy rather than sweet, closer to fresh fruit than a candy accord, and that is what people notice first when they smell it. As it develops the amber and musk take over, and the whole thing turns softer and warmer without losing the fruit underneath. The middle notes barely get a stage of their own here: the fruity heart moves straight into the amber and musk base.

Some shops call this kind of fragrance a clone; we call it one of our perfume dupes, built so it smells like Xerjoff Erba Pura without lifting anyone's formula. Whether you already collect niche perfumes or you are just curious about the scents everyone talks about, it is an affordable way to try that citrus-to-vanilla shift for yourself.

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Perfume concentration

EDT, EDP or EXDP - what you are actually buying

The difference between these labels is not quality but how much perfume oil sits in the bottle. That decides how long the scent stays on your skin and how far it travels.

EDT Eau de Toilette 5 to 15% perfume oil

The lightest of the three. It opens fresh and fast, but fades after three to five hours. Pleasant in heat and at the office, as long as you top it up during the day.

Our choiceEDP Eau de Parfum ~20% perfume oil

The middle ground that became the standard. It lasts six to eight hours, one spray in the morning is enough, and the scent stays recognisable into the evening without filling the room.

EXDP Extrait de Parfum 20 to 40% perfume oil

The densest form, worn in drops, and it can last over ten hours. In return it loses that easy opening, and the price per bottle climbs the most.

Why we chose EDP

Every Chez Pierre perfume is made in Eau de Parfum concentration, with 20% perfume oil. That is not by accident.

An eau de toilette would mean carrying the bottle with you and refreshing the scent after lunch. An extrait would push the price up, and only someone counting hours would notice the gain. EDP sits exactly in between: one spray in the morning carries the whole working day, and the scent opens and develops instead of settling on the skin at once.

So we don't make lighter and pricier versions of the same scent. We make one, in the concentration where that scent works best.

How a perfume is measured

Longevity, projection and sillage

Three things describe every perfume, whatever the price or the name on the bottle. Once you separate them, it is easier to say what you actually want from a scent.

01

Longevity

How many hours the scent stays on skin

Measured from the moment you spray to the moment you can no longer smell it up close. It depends on the concentration, but also on your skin: on dry skin every perfume lasts less, so a dab of unscented cream before spraying helps.

02

Projection

How far it travels around you

Strongest in the first hour, it tells you how much space the scent takes up. Big projection is great for evenings and colder days, while at the office or in a meeting it usually gets in the way more than it helps.

03

Sillage

The trail you leave behind

Pronounced „see-yazh“, it means the trail a scent leaves behind you. It is the reason someone turns around as you pass. A perfume can last a long time and still leave a small trail, and the other way round.

Strong is not the same as good. A perfume with huge projection quickly tires both you and the people around you, while one without any trail stays your own private thing.

That is why every one of our perfume descriptions says how it wears, not only how it smells.

CHOOSE YOUR LIFESYLE

Secret Garden

Inspired by: Erba Pura, Xerjoff

Secret Garden is at its best from spring through summer, when the citrus and fruit notes have the warm air to carry them, though the amber and vanilla base means it still works into a mild autumn evening, and even a light winter one indoors.

It is a unisex fragrance and suits daytime as easily as a night out, since the trail stays close rather than overwhelming a room. Nothing about it reads strictly masculine or feminine, which is exactly what makes unisex scents like this easy to share.

Choose our Inspiration

Xerjoff is an Italian niche house, and Erba Pura belongs to its V Collection, one of the brand's most recognised fruity fragrances.

Most people shorten the name to just Erba Pura rather than adding Xerjoff, and it comes up often when someone is searching for a dupe similar to a well-known niche scent. Read a review of Xerjoff Erba Pura and the citrus-to-amber shift is the thing that gets mentioned first.

Secret Garden is our take on that fragrance, matched as closely as we can to the original while remaining its own blend.

Why choose us?

Secret Garden is our alternative to Xerjoff Erba Pura, filled by hand in small batches rather than mass produced.

We make it only as an eau de parfum, since that concentration carries this kind of fruity, ambery composition best. If it does not smell close enough to what you expected, send it back within 15 days and we will exchange it.