Floret

I can’t believe I have not reviewed this perfume until now! I’ve loved this one since it first came out in the 90’s, always loved this one. I first bought it from Nordstrom back then and when they no longer carried it, I was thankful to buy it directly from Antonia’s Flowers website. Omg they would package the bottles so beautifully, it was like receiving a gorgeous gift and I loved it! The house was also so generous with samples of their other fragrances which I didn’t realize how valuable they would be one day! Back then I felt even the edt was a little pricey, but I did splurge to buy it and now regret not buying more at the time when I could! 😢 Since then, it breaks my heart that Antonia’s is no more...and I’ve paid high prices to get partial bottles of Floret off of eBay which come around only every once in a while but at least I have a couple since this beautiful Lily of the Valley fragrance is in my top 3 perfumes of all time. I just love the flowery fruitiness of it and it lasts well for me all day. I don’t feel that Petite Cherie is similar, but I do think Benefits Maybe Baby is close so have stocked up on a couple bottles of that one because for a while it also was unavailable then they brought it back and last time I checked it doesn’t seem to be on their website anymore. At any rate, Floret will always be one of my very favorites and now spring is coming again so I am looking forward to celebrating the season by wearing the lovely Floret! 💐🌹💐

I love Floret, and also prefer the EDT version of this perfume to the EDP. I first encountered Floret in a beautiful gift shop near the ocean. My sister and I were so enchanted with its delicately fruity floral notes we each immediately bought a bottle. I also used up my entire bottle in a few months. For someone who owns as much perfume as I do, that's a rarity. This is not an audacious, risk-taking fume. It's playful, gentle, charming, bubbly. The EDT smells as I would imagine champagne made of flowers might taste. I can credit this perfume for making me realize how much I love sweet pea as a fragrance note.

I am absolutely ga-ga for this specific type of scent. This is the first of its kind that I smelled, back in the late 90's. I was at Barney's NYC with my aunt and she asked me to pick a fragrance I'd like for Christmas. This is what I picked hands down. Now there are a few others in this scent-range for me...the most recent being L Gwen Stefani for Women...Then there is AG's Petite Cherie, which is a rose-pear instead of the rose-apricot pairing of Floret. These are go-to summer scents. So innocent and sexy at the same time. Heaven.

Sweet peas and lily of the valley soaked in champagne with a soft subdued dusky fruit on the bottom. Tiempe Passate is better, and probably classier and AF's best perfume, but in her prime this was love at first sight for me and a very good, American alternative for Petite Cherie by Goutal that, in my opinion, turns too quickly. Nostalgia from the age of Tom Ford for Gucci, SATC, plucked eye brows, low waist jeans, late '90s R&B and very expensive sticky, sparkly, shiny lipgloss.

The notes listed above are all easily found within this unique floral potion. The apricot really gives this scent more of a honey or nectar facet, which creates a rich and creamy floral rather than a sharp floral. It's like grassy apricot orchards in the summertime. This is not one of my personal favorites to wear (for my chemistry), but at the same time I can't bear to give the bottle away because the fragrance is too marvelous. The EDT is plenty strong and reasonably priced.