La Fleur Bouquet

I was comparing in the store Valaya and Fleur Narcotique and strongly prefer the latter. Valaya for me is more dense and heavy. Hence between Mystique bouquet and La Fleur bouquet I chose this one. While I did not smell them truly side by side, I did wear Fleur Narcotique from tester couple of times and I find La Fleur Bouquet to be an absolute perfect dupe! It smells like a beautiful flower garden after the rain. It is a very ethereal, light and happy scent, which screams SPRING. And all that with a very impressive longevity! I can easily smell my scent bubble throughout the whole work day in the office. From the notes I do recognize fruits (peach and maybe a little bit of litchi) and flowers (peony and jasmine). I do not feel any rose or powder which is listed above, also no real woodiness. Maybe some musk is there for longevity, but mainly it is wet and pretty fruity flowers.

According to Afnan's site, the notes are: Top - orange blossom, jasmine & peony, Mid - litchi, peach & bergamot, and base - musk, moss & petalia. On the Ex nihilo site the notes are rearranged into another order and there is a note of "transparent wood" added to the base. I'm not sure if it is the moss or the litchi addition to the florals, that I am obsessed with, but this perfume is so pretty. I often like perfumes that have Jasmine and orange blossom together. It does last for hours, but unfortunately at this point the projection isn't really there unless I really overspray. However as with pretty much all Arabian perfumes you have to let them macerate/ sit. I've had my bottle for nearly a week. I wore it to bed last night, and I could smell it still when I woke up. Also, I have Afnan's Mystique Bouquet and that did get stronger with time.

The fragrance oils combined in this beautiful bottle is what we can call good quality, as you can always expected from Afnan — quality and affordable. In short, I have no any objection to this fragrance, it’s a love. The fruitiness in here I can smell kind of pear or pineapple or peach coming together with powdery woody note. I think it can be considered a close relative of Burberry Her OG or Coach Dream OG, but less woody than Burberry Her (I just don’t understand why these two fragrances are not listed in the similarity section). If you love the DNA of these two fragrances, you gonna love La Fleur Bouquet more because the quality is almost better. The longevity is better than average and I love the packaging so much 😍

This is THE ONE! This is what I wanted Valaya and Fleur Narcotique to be. I can’t handle the strong, synthetic base of Valaya and Fleur Narcotique smelled slightly musty to my nose. But La Fleur Boutique smells exactly like what others described when they hyped up Valaya and Fleur Narcotique. Ethereal sparkling peach! Flirty and juicy without being too sweet, too strong, or too floral. Also- the notes on Fragrantica are wrong and a mess. Here are the actual notes directly from the Afnan website: Top Notes: Orange Blossom, Jasmine, and Peony Middle Notes: Litchi, Peach, and Bergamot Base Notes: Musk, Moss, and Petalia

I ́ve tested this and Fleur Narcotique side by side several times. To figure out why people think they smell alike. I still think they need to get their noses checked. This smells amazing. However, it is MUCH sweeter than FN. FN is a very airy, clean, floral, musky scent—almost laundry-like. FB is a sweet, fruit-floral scent. If I have to compare it to something, to me, it smells like an elevated, more refined, more airy version of Lataffa ́s Fakhar rose. It is very sweet and bubblegummy, but not as much as Fakhar. Overall, gorgeous, sweet, airy, feminine scent. But nothing like Fleur Narcotique.