Sous le toit de Paris

I got a sample of this perfume when I got the ultra popular Clementine California and when I first sniffed the sample I didn't like it. After getting back home I sniffed the card, dabbed a bit on my wrist, and still didn't like it. And then an hour later I couldn't stop smelling my wrist. On theme for it being a leather fragrance it's like new leather shoes. First time you get blisters but after time it just moulds to you. I'm so mad I didn't like it immediately and get a bottle because now there's no chance of me getting it without selling my first born. I think it's a love-hate perfume and even knowing some people would hate to smell this on me, I do not care. If I get my hands on this everyone in my life is going to have to learn to love it.

This is a bunch of crushed violets picked up by a leather gloved hand on a chilly March morning.Inhaling the crushed aromatic leaves and the sweetness of the flowers and the pungent new leather gloves put on that morning. The citrus notes are so fleeting that they barely register before the violets and the pronounced leather appear.The drydown is violet/geranium with the vanillary warmth of Tonka bean and a totally silent musk.I love the Atelier signature of a fresh citrus top note combined with a warm base.

This cologne is awesome. I ran through my sample so fast I'm thinking about getting a full bottle for summer. I received many compliments on this cologne. The name says it all Under the dome in Paris is very Sexy.

The arrival of spring always makes me feel restless in a happy way: there's new life popping up everywhere, and it feels like new possibilities are opening up for me as well. This feeling might be irrational, but it's intoxicating, and Sous le toit de Paris is the perfect companion for this giddy, happy time. It's early springtime in a bottle, super green in a cold, rather medicinal but distinctly joyful way, and I like it very much. It reminds me a little of Un Jardin Sur Le Toit, which is green in that same medicinal way that reminds me oddly of zinc oxide cream (which, even more oddly, is a good thing!). Not that they smell very much alike otherwise; there isn't much sweetness to this one, and it's a lot wilder and more aromatic as well - but since both were inspired by Paris rooftops, I guess the comparison can't be that far-fetched! The drydown is less up my alley, as is the case with almost everything from Atelier Cologne: the aromatic aspect crowds out the green accord, and the spicy notes become more pronounced as well. Not bad, and longevity is good for a cologne as wel, but it it weren't for that wonderful opening I'd pass my decant on. As it is, Trèfle Pur remains my favourite green Atelier scent, but as niche as that category is, there's definitely room for two of those in my collection. I'll have the perfect green scent for every season: Trèfle Pur can remain my go-to for early autumn, when the weather turns colder but the world is still green, while Sous Le Toit can accompany me through the opposite season, when life starts to stir up again in the cold.

Wow, quite an unusually wide range of opinions here; apparently this particular, limited edition (and no longer available other than in very small quantity from 1 or 2 retail decanters) fragrance smells VERY different from one person to the next. I find it upon dry-down to be a heavy floral that leans more towards feminine rather than unisex; moderate longevity and sillage. FYI - it was created as a limited edition to mark the 100th anniversary of the installation of the glass dome of the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris.