Fleur Cachée

Love this. Just blind bought it and love it. Fleur Cachee translates to Hidden Flower. I do not get any florals nor any vanilla whatsoever. This smells like extremely dry spices and wood. Verrrrrrry reminiscent of Serge Lutens’ masterpiece Jeux de Peau which I also love. Totally unisex. This isn’t something I’d wear out. It’s an at home and/or personal-hygge-comfort-time kind of scent. It eventually sweetens up a bit after 1-2 hours but the sweetness is the immortelle (maple syrup) type. Overall this not especially sweet but done in a naturally spiced-sweet way. I’m repeating, just in case you’re expecting to find vanilla here, that this does not smell of vanilla to me, nearly at all. I imagine being inside a colonial home in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1870s walking around the enormous kitchen with walk-in fireplaces and an oak lined pantry with wooden barrels filled with dry spices. The person down below likened this to the smell of a sauna. Yes, I definitely agree. PS: this is quirky and oddball so def sample first

Did you ever notice that certain notes almost give off a chocolate smell. It’s maybe the mixture of the notes and hw it comes out on your skin. sometimes sandalwood and vanilla comes off this way on my skin. This is a well blended fragrance which leans very unisex but smells great on me. It does have a green spicy note in the mid turning so herbaceous and excellent for this time of year. I really love this fragrance and love the woody spice here. this isn’t a beast mode fragrance but definitely projects. As one of the reviewers below said this is not floral by any means, but can be worn by anyone!!! Highly recommended 10/10. Want to try others from this line!!!

Yes! Whoever voted this as similar to Jeux de Peau, I completely agree. There’s a creamy quality to Fleur Cachée, it’s foodie and natural. Before I saw that it was voted similar to the Luten’s masterpiece, I was thinking this is a “vegetal gourmand”, and the vanilla used in this composition feels daring, but it’s the note that holds it all together. My review may seem laconic, but this one is cool and weird...and caught me by surprise.

I smell immortelle here, very nice.

This is totally a hindsight bias sniff for me. I could not parse out turmeric but then I saw it as an ingredient and was like oh yes that's exactly what I am smelling. The vanilla is strongest to me -- this is a very sweet scent (bc of that), but it's spiced as well- and not in a spicy way I was able to place on my own. It's a spicy, woody, anisic vanilla. A little reminisicent of the smell of a sauna but sweeter and spicier, the smell of an aged alcohol barrel totally makes sense. Like what the inside of an empty bourbon barrel might smell like, but with a caramel or praline feel.

This has a syrupy and slightly bread-like opening, similar to Jeux de Peau, but it's not the same scent by any means. The majority of this fragrance's life span is spent smelling like spicy syrup. In fact, I'd say this fragrance is quite close to L'Innommable by Serge Lutens, kind of like a cross between that and JdP. The spice in here tickles my nose a little, it's not a very smooth spice but more like a dry spice cabinet. I guess the turmeric note smells quite like immortelle, which can smell a lot like curried maple syrup. Now, Fleur Cachee is not exactly curried maple syrup, but curried golden syrup (lacking that signature maple quality), but with this raw quality lingering in the background that really smells like a raw root vegetable that has been scrubbed thoroughly in the sink and sliced. This quality could also be compared to a medicinal, clean oud, or those clean washroom oud notes. In any case, this is a unique fragrance very suitable for fall, but not my cup of tea. The raw-clean-oud quality is subtle and you won't be able to smell it in the sillage, but up close it adds to the artistry. I think it would be interesting to smell someone wearing this in public. It's not off-putting, just not standard, and smells more like a person that spent the day making spicy-sweet treats (the dense, sticky kind, like baklava) with many lit candles in their home, than an obvious perfume. If you've tried "Brioche" or "Bois Lumiere" from this brand, Fleur Cachee has the same thick syrup quality as those two, which I personally dislike. If you own L'Innommable or any other syrupy-immortelle scent I don't think you would need this one, but it was still fun to test. My favourite fragrance from this house is still Grimoire, which I hope to own one day.

Fleur Cachee is odd. It starts out light and bakery-fluffy with vanilla; a little anisic (from the fenugreek); and maybe even a tiny hint of crisp pale-pink rose. Then it goes distinctly Indian-spiced a few minutes in with the turmeric, which is itself a rather delicate and floral spice, and a warm woody backdrop. There’s also an ambery maple-syrup note (again from fenugreek, or its relative immortelle) which comes to the fore next, making this a warm, sweetish golden-brown scent. There’s still a strong anise undertone, and that barely-there hint of delicate floral crispness. It’s an interesting warm-cool contrast. Honestly this isn’t the easiest fragrance to love – I often have a hard time with curry, anise, and maple-syrup notes – but it’s creative and gracefully done.

So I wore this and for the best part I smelled something like this kinda pickles my ma made and she sure stuck turmeric and other spices generously into the mix.A mouthwatering balsamic, spiced-up, strangely vanillic frag with resinous herbal tendencies . And it stays for hours on end on the skin. If you're teaching something along the lines of potion making in Hogwartz, voilà your very perfume. Ya and I couldn't get my nose on the so-called fleur cachée (hidden flower) as the name suggests it is cachée, do not be à la recherche de cette dernière fleur

This one seems to be a chameleon depending on the surface, even more extremely so than Grimoire (which also smells very different on skin vs paper). Fleur Cachée opens with pleasantly spicy turmeric, a suggestion of vanilla, and a massive, massive amount of horrid, oozing maple syrup. It’s jumping off the skin for half an hour, suffocatingly sweet. It’s the sotolon in fenugreek that can give this effect, and my skin (which typically doesn’t do anything weird to perfume) seems to be super susceptible to it. I almost washed it off. After half an hour, the maple syrup effect is less intense, and the other spices are more apparent, there’s some nice sandalwood, the vanilla bean’s slight booziness. But everything still has syrup residue on it from the initial maple avalanche. When I tried Fleur Cachée on paper a little later, it smelled the way I gather it’s supposed to: fresh spicy indeed, lots of turmeric and a saltiness I’m guessing is Timur, the fenugreek behaving more herbal-bitter than sickly sweet. The perfume has a lovely airy quality, suggestive and full of Fernweh. Too bad I can’t wear it.

What I really get is a giant basket of tangerines in all stages of ripeness, as if you were going through a compound for processing these sweet fruits from the first plants with green tangerine seeds through ripe, overripe fruits, tangerines pickled in cans and finally a few black overripe tangerines with a pungent beginning of the rotting process (this is probably due to the turmeric extract)....and they made one perfume out of it. In an hour it starts to clear and concentrate, warm dry immortelle or fenugreek hay like notes come in. After two hours the scent calms down a little and in addition to citrus fruits it also releases a slightly salty, cleaner grapefruit-like undertone. Not for me, but could be signature material and will for sure find its buyer.

100% unisex, this perfume is spicy in bottle. I can not wear it, I have the feeling to be in my kitchen and to cook. Vanilla is not the star of the scent. It is not a sweet perfume, don't blind buy! 4/10 not my style of fragrance

Cloying, medicinal, boozy, fecal, unbearably strong, lots of cough syrup, dirty diapers and a distinctly rancid unwashed body odor. After about a half an hour the more polarizing animal aspects of this fragrance give way to a powdered, tangy, fruity hard candy scent. NOT a safe blind buy, tread with caution

I cannot get why there are so very limited reviews about this beauty. In Lebreton's interpretation, vanilla is a flower before being a pod. So, the perfume should take us on a trip from a flower (a hidden -cachèe flower) to the ambery-balsamic aspect of the vanilla pod. This hidden flower is for me "immortelle" or, at the vert best, the notes that Anatole combines results in a spicy-maple syrupy everlasting flower. First of all, we have fenugreek (trigonella) used in abundance here worked to perfection. With fenugreek, from th eone hand you get the sweetish maple-syrupy tone that can be compared to butterscotch or caramelized sugar, but you also get astrong, pungent, and slightly bitter, earthy base, with noticeable celery-like or curry-like undertones. The use of turmenic paves the way to the woody heart of Fleur Cachee. The essential oil is primarily Earthy, warm, woody, spicy. But here, there is one other aspect taht should be considered; the perfume is bitter, medicinal, smoky, and phenolic. I bet Anatole added a huge dose of guaiacol. The overall effect of the curcuma longa and the fenugreek with a hint of timut pepper (spicy, but airy and a little bit acidic) is unbeliavably alluring to me; yet many people find it unbearable and they rush to scrub it off. As it wears, a woodsy, oaky note emerges, not quite boozy but the casks were something smooth and delicious was aged: that is the cedar. A sort of smothness is reached thanks to the sandalwood, but not to much to forget the gorgeous opening. Finally this complex scent dryes-down to a beautiful salty vanilla base resting on a tolu balsam, very cinnamon and caramel- like, so common to many creations from this brand. IG @alexolympia6

My initial impressions of Fleur Cachée are of celery and shadows and green seeds and spice pods crushed on cool marble, desiccated bouquets more dust than bloom, and the skeletal, crumbling remains of frosted confections covered in cobwebs. This *is* a vanilla scent, you can smell it, but it's a vanilla that's not going to be defined by the ice creamy-cakeiness that we typically associate with this note. It's almost as if it's dressing itself up to be unpleasant, like it’s trying to convince us that Gillian Anderson is the creepy and clock-stoppingly tragic figure of Miss Havisham-- but you can't fool me, and I am not having it. This is gorgeous. As it wears, a woodsy, oaky note emerges, not quite boozy but the casks were something smooth and delicious was aged. Overall, this is a deeply melancholic and complex vanilla, strange and dry and unlike all of the vanillas you may have known up until this moment.

I took a gamble on this because of the comparisons to Jeux de Peau and I was buying Incarnata on clearance sale anyway. Of the two, I thought this was the riskiest blind buy, but I'm actually enjoying it more than Incarnata. I can't entirely confirm that it smells like Jeux de Peau because it's been a long time since I've smelled that one. I'd say maybe this one isn't as milky and probably slightly more herbal rather than wheaty.

Finally a page for this weird little gem! Fleur Cachee is creamy, salty-skin vanilla on me, with these delightful off-kilter herbal notes that I can't really place. I've never really smelled anything like it, though the oddball deliciousness of it does remind me of my beloved Jeux de Peau. If you like a weird gourmand as I so do, it's worth a sample.

A vanilla for those indifferent to or hostile to vanilla. The vanilla here reminds me of that Margiela perfume Mutiny. Not too sweet and lifted by the other notes as it conveys vanilla’s origin story as an orchid. I am slightly more impressed by Racine Carrée because of the iris and celery but this is nice. 3.5 out of 5.

(7) ★★★☆☆ with sugar and spice the remnants of christmas eve everything, nice