Le Jardinier

The Victorian garden... Although i'm not a fan of lilies, but i guess the jasmines are making the lilies blooms! the grass, and the honeysuckle are adding the luxurious effect making this Victorian garden shines with beauty. I recently grew a love relationship with floral specially the white animalic ones and this blend is satisfying my thrusts. The perfumer wrote "The morning after Marie-Antoinette’s big party - the royal gardener tends to the flowers and the aftermath in the Petit Trianon. ānti depicts the scent of ingénue lilies bathing in champagne buckets, and the sharpness of freshly-cut grass. An ode to the care-free decadence, and evanescent memories of last night’s soirée." I believe i can see that scene somehow. Beauty in a bottle.

the opening spray of this is an ode to 4711 cologne and as it quickly dissipates it’s already grabbed me by the heart strings, by doing a small (almost) historically accurate nod to the perfumes of the late 1700s era this one is inspired by ! this dries down into a subtle green scent slightly sweetened by the honeysuckle. if one were to smell too hard it might almost be a bit sickening, it oscillates between not quite yet ripened and bursting with odors. something about this reminds me of toiling in a garden on a hot spring day. the suggestion of moist tilled soil, pollen and nectar, dew cooking off fresh blades of grass. as always, i love corticchiatto’s touch

The "lily stems" from the notes list actually have quite a bit of lily still attached to them. These bewitching flowers, so difficult to capture in perfumery, are conjured up in all their velvety voluptuousness here. There is less sweetness though, magnolia and a vague aldehydic/soapy feeling give a lot of freshness. The greenery is less literal here than in some of the perfumer's other works. Very nice, definitely recommended for people who like crisp green florals.

love at first sniff! this is stemmy and juicy and vibrantly floral— smells like walking through a garden that’s just burst into bloom

Masterpiece, fresh cold green lillies. Nothing feminine other than flowers, unisex.