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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Cachet by Prince Matchabelli c1970

Cachet by Prince Matchabelli: launched in 1970.

In a 1970s introductory ad, Prince Matchabelli claimed that the "Fragrance is as individual as you are. Fascinating Cachet reacts to your body chemistry to make this delightful."  Another ad read "Besides being fresh and fascinating, Cachet is designed to pick up and play up every girl's own very special chemistry."



Fragrance Composition:


So what does it smell like? It is classified as an animalic floral chypre fragrance for women. It starts off with a spicy aldehydic top, followed by a sultry woody floral heart, resting on a warm, leathery, mossy base. Sophisticated floral, slightly oriental, mossy.
  • Top notes: aldehydes, herbaceous note, spice note, and galbanum
  • Middle notes: patchouli, orris root, jasmine, East Indian vetiver and Oriental rose
  • Base notes: Abyssinian ambergris, oakmoss, leather, Tibetan musk, and Abyssinian civet

My bottle of Cachet cologne is vintage 1970s, very heavy with the oakmoss and vetiver. I dabbed a little on my wrist and well, it is not something I particularly like as I am not usually fond of chypres, my husband took a whiff of it on my arm and said it is a scent he "would buy for his mother" and not his wife.


The American Home, Volume 80, 1977:
"Cachet by Prince Matchabelli is a complex blend of florals with lingering notes that are ambery, mossy, woody, and musky. It's designed to smell totally different for each wearer."

Fate of the Fragrance:


The original Cachet seems to have been discontinued around 1990, but it was reformulated and relaunched in 1995. But for those who grew up wearing Cachet, it will always remain a favorite classic and can be found at discount perfume websites.

  • Top notes: aldehydes, green grass, bergamot, spices and galbanum
  • Middle notes: patchouli, orris root, jasmine, vetiver and rose
  • Base notes: amber, sandalwood, leather, musk

57 comments:

  1. I have been using Cachet since 1970...it is the only cologne that I can wear that does not change on me...I have tried other colognes since I can not get my Cachet anymore and after spraying them on within 10 minutes they stink so bad. The chemistry in my body works only with Cachet!! Please bring it back!!

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    1. I am the same cannot stand any other cologne

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    2. Me too, I started wearing it as young girl. My father bought it for me. I am 40 now and can't go without it.

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    3. I wonder why they reformulated Cachet. It was a beloved scent. The new product is missing the “it” factor.

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    4. I love it!! So sad I cant find it any more..why discontinuing? Seems there is a lot of people that want this...I miss it so much.

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  2. I have been using Cachet since 1970...it is the only cologne that I can wear that does not change on me...I have tried other colognes since I can not get my Cachet anymore and after spraying them on within 10 minutes they stink so bad. The chemistry in my body works only with Cachet!! Please bring it back!!

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  3. What the heck is going on???? Has the Prince Matchabelli Family/corporation become Opportunists and decided to see how far they can exploit and dismiss the following of women in their past years of success! I have been wearing Cachet since the 70's and I am an active, attractive, beautiful woman of 61. This "drug store" cologne became mine, and my signature scent for years, with always compliments.I use to buy cachet as gifts for family, friends, nieces,etc. It is now unavailable at most stores...and is being advertised at purchase price at $99.00! if your corporate goal is to profit from this now, old, um I mean now "vintage" scent (yes, as a small business owner I understand) (profit) There is no reason to discontinue this fragrance....or did someone lose the recipe? Find it, bring it back or forget any more purchases.

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    1. Yes, please bring it back. I love it

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    2. I have been wearing it since I was 16, and I am 58, PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!

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  4. I truly miss this perfume. I have worn it forever and am now 61 years young. I am almost out and wish I had stocked up on more bottles but had no idea that my favorite perfume would be discontinued.

    I really wish you would bring it back as I cannot afford the ridiculous prices people are asking on Amazon, etc.

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    1. I'm with you! I've worn this perfume since I was 15. And I'm 60. I cant afford those way to rich for me prices either.

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  5. Please bring Cachet back. Its all I wear and always got compliments. Please, please bring it back

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  6. This is the only perfume that I can ever remember my mom wearing. She is now 63 & on her last few drops of the last bottle she has from years ago. She has been using it sparingly since it became so hard to come by. The prices on Ebay/Amazon are just crazy (even for used). To me, this scent is my mom. Hope it comes back, I'd rather pay a little more to a store than the people trying to blow their prices up...because they can. :(

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  7. Ditto the other comments. Cachet has been my cologne since 1970. I consistently receive compliments about this fragrance. I've tried other colognes and people know that they are not my scent. I've been searching online and finding ridiculous prices for those few bottles out there. For all of us who have been using cachet for over 40 years, please bring it back.

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    1. I agree with all of the above comments. I also have been wearing Cachet since 1970. I am very sensitive to scents and Cachet is the only one that I can wear! I am 64 years old. Please bring it back so it is a reasonable price for those of us who may be nearing retirement.

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  8. I have been wearing Cachet since 1972, so many people ask about my perfume, it is unreal!!!!!! Men have stopped me to ask, at the embarrassment of their wives to ask and are thrilled to know what kind it is... I work in a resturant, one night a man said lean over here... he smelled my neck and said "Yes its you!!! What kind of perfume you wear, I want my wife to smell like you!!! I gave her a bottle with small amount to try and he was sold !!!!! Now they come back to ask what are we going to do since it is discontinued... due to allergies, I have never worn anything else since i started using Cachet.. Please bring it back!!!!! My husband now does not know what to buy me for Christmas, birthday etc.....I always got 4 bottles every year from him

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  9. Please prince matchabelli..bring back Cachet. I have been wearing this cologne for about 41 years I received a bottle as a birthday gift and haven't stopped wearing it until now. Why did you stop making a cologne that so many people enjoyed and are now totally disappointed and upset that it is no longer available. Just because something is old you just don't throw it out! I just hope when you get old someone doesn't decide to throw you out!! Please bring back cachet and make an bunch of upset 55 year Olds extremely happy and not feel like we were left out to pasture. Thanks

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  10. Please bring back Cachet. I miss it a lot as nothing else suits me so well. Most perfumes smell like flyspray on me. Couldnt you at least produce a limited edition to see how great the demand is?

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  11. I have been using Cachet since it launched in 1970!!!! PLEASE BRING IT BACK. I am LOST without it. People used to stop my on streets, in elevators, in meetings, etc and ask me what I was wearing. You have left me without a signature scent...HELP!!! Ill buy whatever cases of it you have left!!!!

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  12. I first wore Cachet in 1974 (age 14) because of my 16 yo friend. I thought it smelled better on her and her me, lol. I wore it til age 17 daily and used up every bottle ever owned. Bought it again in 1984. I bought it for nostalgia in 2014 and my 14 yo daughter took it from me and I bought a second bottle. I have searched for years since its discontinuation and just purchased a 1 oz. bottle in the classic shape on Ebay for $20. Glad to own it again! In 7th grade art class I sketched the bottle it in pencil for an A+ grade. No other fragrance held the place of Cachet, my first sophisticated Glamour magazine advertised fragrance first seen in 1970. Forever special and should be brought back for the first and new generations of devotees if deCoeur is smart.

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  13. As a Cachet user since the early 1970's I miss the compliments I would receive whenever Inwould wear it. Please bring it back....I miss how t makes me feel.

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  14. As a child ~ "sweet honesty", as a young lady ~ Cachet. And every time since. I believed it when it said matches my chemistry, why? Because I didn't smell like urine or bug spray when I use Cachet. People often noticed and complimented me on my perfume.
    I smell like my deodorant now. Very said because I enjoyed how I felt when I put it on. I was special.

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  15. Boyfriend troubles, teenage angst, dodgy 70s fashion and beautiful Cachet, I found some in Superdrug many many years ago and the memories it evoked sigh. Please please bring it back.

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  16. Cachet was my very first perfume as a teenager. Wore it for many years til I could no longer find it. I don't like very many perfumes. I was so desperate to find it again I just ordered two bottles from one of these companies that say they can recreate any scent. I WAS SOOOO EXCITED! Well it just arrived today. Smells nothing like I remember and the strongest part of the scent, to me, smells like a freshly plowed field, or wet dirt. Now some people like those smells. I do not. Especially in my perfume. Now I AM SOOOO DISAPPOINTED. And yet, the prices people are asking for this stuff on EBay! I think they are smoking whatever the main ingredient is. I used to buy this at, I think, even Walgreens. But I have never had a lot of money so I know I never paid an exorbitant price for it. That is why I liked it...loved the fragrance and it was something I could afford. Please bring it back, at a reasonable price, and make it available to those of us that made it popular in the first place. I am a very young 67 now and on SSI but that doesn't mean I am old and don't care about the same things I always have. But it does mean I don't have the money for those ridiculous prices on EBay. Profit is one thing but greed is another. These people on EBay that ask 10 times or more the value of something...they can keep it. I have owned business before and I never did business that way. If you bring it back at a reasonable price, there are apparently a lot of us that would purchase it. Please consider it.
    Why do companies always stake the best liked items off the market??

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  17. Miss Cachet so much. No other perfume has made me feel so happy.

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  18. please bring back cachet!! My mum used to buy this for me and I loved it.
    No other perfume even resembles this.

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  19. The only perfume I have ever worn since early 1970s. It is soft and really does work with your chemistry. Please bring it back! I am looking everywhere to find some. I can't imagine trying to wear something else.

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  20. I LOVE Catchet. Please bring it back. My mom used to use Catcher and I loved the scent. When I was 10 yrs old and I asked for a birthday present, I asked for Catchet! I LOVED spraying this intoxicating scent. Luckily I still have a full bottle of vintage on my dresser because the sprayer came off and I couldn't use it for awhile. So yes in 2018 I still have vintage Catchet! Please bring Catchet back I used to spray it also on my pillow so I would sleep with Catchet. It's still my favorite perfume after all of these years.

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  21. Cachet and Matchabelli men's cologne.... come on BRING THEM BACK.

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  22. If you brought back your Cachet perfume for women? Your company would make a fortune!!! Why on earth would you stop selling it, when there are 1000s and 1000s and 1000s who want to buy it?

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  23. I used to wear Cachet in my teens during early eighties. My elder brother would gift this great perfume to me those days. Eversince I have been longing for Cachet but failed to grab even a single unit. I wish the owners of Cachet reopen it's production soon.

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  24. I have worn Cachet for 46 years. I am on my last bottle that I received as a gift for my sister.
    I have always loved the clean, crisp smell.
    PLEASE bring it back!!

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  25. I have worn Cachet since it came out in the 70s and never looked back.Everyone knows me by my signature scent, I know a lot of women have made the same comment, but its true and thats what makes your cologne so unique. I am 61 years old and on my last bottle [ yes I bought out every store where I could find my Cachet] I cannot image not wearing it. You have a devoted group of 55 to 65 year old women who have been wearing your product for over 40 years, please dont disapoint us. Bring it back. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE

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  26. Cachet is my favourite perfume. I also use chanel but cachet is far better it lasts longer please bring it back

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  27. OH HOW I MISS THIS-I LOVED CACHET!!

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  28. I too love this fragrance so much. I cant find it anymore! Please start making it again!

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  29. Please bring Cachet back.I nevered ware anything else and I miss so much.Why can't we have it back.Walmart use to carry but things changed all the times.I miss it so much,my mother loved it too and always said it smells better on me.Sure Miss It .P.Pl.P.Ple.P.Pl.P.Pleare bring it back.

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  30. I am a 59 year old female who had worn Cachet since high school. It is the only perfume that I consistently got compliments on. I started seeing the deodorant spray and even got more and more compliments. One man in line st the grocery store said it should be ill-legal to smell that good. My husband laughed and said I told you. I bought it all I could get at the stores even PM stopped making it and bought all I could find on line. Now I am out. Please please please bring it back. It was my signature scent. Everyone loved they way I smelled. I always felt confident wearing Cachet. Since then I have lost my sense of smell and can't pick perfumes. I know Carney works for me. Again please please please bring Cachet back!!!!!!

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    1. I wore since my aunt gave me a bottle I think I was 7 or 7 I'm now almost 50 n cant find it any where.

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  31. Nothing smells as good as Cachet! I too got numerous comments by complete strangers on how lovely I smelled.Other scents turned sour on me and I miss the original so much. I have bought the new version but it's not the same! Please bring the original recipe back!

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  32. Please please bring back the original cachet! I wore that perfume for close to 45 years! By sheer luck I got about 2 oz of it at Walgreens for 3 bucks because it was discontinued. I desperately miss it! Obviously it was my favorite perfume ever! It beat out Beautiful by Estee Lauder, hands down! BEGGING YOU!!!! BRING BACK CACHET!!!

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  33. Please
    Bring it back! I only wore this and CK Both have been discontinued. And flex shampoo. Why? .

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  34. I have read lots of these comments and I find it quite incredible that, not only are they all saying pretty much the same thing, but they are expressing my feelings and experiences exactly. I was first introduced to Cachet when I was given some as a gift for my 21st birthday, back in 1973. I fell in love with it and have worn it ever since then until I could no longer find anywhere that was selling it. I have a small amount left that I will cherries because I am shocked at the prices on e-bay. As so many of the comments say, I was always complemented when I wore it, and again like so many others, it is the only perfume that I can wear that doesn’t irritate me so now I feel lost without it and would be over the moon if it was to return to the market at the reasonable price it always was. So, YES — Bring back Cachet BUT it would have to be EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE ORIGINAL.

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  35. Like everybody else I used Cachet since I was 18 and kept buying until all of a sudden I couldn't! I am with the above, please bring it back. I am going to go to the fake perfume website and try theirs. I would rather get the real thing!!!!!

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  36. I wish they would bring Cachet back I wore it all the time in the 1970's and I long to smell it again and own a bottle, but , it must be exactly the same lovely smell, please please bring it back.

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  37. My mother-in-law wore this perfume. When she passed away, my father-in-law sprayed it on her pillow every night before bed to help him sleep. He ran out a short time ago. I tried to buy some for him but $250! Good Lord. Please bring it back!

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  38. Loved the original cachet. My first boyfriend bought it for me I. 1972 and it was MY SCENT....people really did stop to ask me what it was and it made me feel pretty and special. Then they stopped making . I was so excited when It was rereleased in the 90's and I was so excited but it had been reformulated and it was just not the same ..I knew it was different immediately. My ex boyfriend and I had stayed friends and I wore it to surprise him at a reunion dinner . He did not even recognize the scent . I agree the scent should be back but ONLY as the original formula ..the remix was BIG FAIL... AND BELIEVE ME IF IT IS NOT THE ORIGINAL.. WE DIEHARDS WILL KNOW RIGHT AWAY !

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  39. Please bring Cachet back my grandmother wore it she always smelled so good I wore it for years so please please bring it back

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  40. Please, Please, Please bring it back......

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  41. Ive been searching for a couple of years..no luck..please bring it back. I always got so many compliments on it...

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  42. I remember the very first time I saw a Cachet perfume bottle in a drugstore back when I was 17. The bottle glistened from afar, in the light, and as I walked over to it and took a wiff...I fell in love. The scent brought me into a glistening world with glittered sky’s and gold paths. Silvery and glistening gold flower petals entranced me into its scent. I fell in love with perfume for the very first time in my life and I have never faltered. I do hope to see it return in its original scent and exquisite design. Cachet is immortal. It will be remembered forever and ever because such beautiful scents and memories are unforgettable. If one thing is for sure is that it was loved in return, yet real love always comes back so, I hope to see it again.

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  43. Please bring Cachet back!!! It's the ONLY scent that I've worn since the 70's and have always received sooo many compliments about it when I have wirn it. I don't understand why something so popular has been discontinued!! Please bring it back

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  44. Please bring the original Cachet perfume back. I wore it for 40 years. I wore it at my wedding in 1982 and it was "Mom'ssmell" according to my children. It made me feel confident and people, both men and women, would ask what the scent was. It holds a special place in my heart. Please bring the original Cachet back.

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  45. Please bring the original Cachet perfume back. I wore it for 40 years. I wore it at my wedding in 1982 and it was "Mom's smell" according to my children. It made me feel confident and people, both men and women, would ask what the scent was. It holds a special place in my heart. Please bring the original Cachet back.

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  46. Please bring back Cachet. My grandma always wore it and I love it so much - it is a beautiful, timeless scent. Why discontinue such a classic?

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