Poudre de Liberte

This is really unique and unlike anything else that I own. I just wish this house lasted longer. I own four of them. This goes on all about the spice. It is cinnamon, licorice and sweet notes. I don't get much fruit at all or citrus, maybe some mildly present underlying florals. A hint of musk and a little dry leather as it dries down to balance the sweetness. Mmmm, spices and leather done in a new way. Yes, in a way, it is weird like Kenzo Elephant but with spices added. Not as potent or strong. Glad I blind bought this one. In the winter this was a spicy floriental, like tuberose and orange blossoms mixed with spice.

Just got this. I love it. It opens with a strong cinnamon or cassia note. Then it dries down to a pretty musky rose with just a hint of spice- like a hint of pepper. Sillage is moderate. Doesn't last terribly long, 3 hrs or so. But it is so unique and a limited edition that I really enjoy this and make an exception to my preference for fragrances that last 6-8 hrs.

Poudre de Liberté sure has a spicy personality! I would put it into the category of spicy orientals like Coco EDT (not syrupy nor cloying enough to compare to the EDP). It is heavy on cinnamon, so if cinnamon is something you really enjoy, you will love it. The cinnamon smells so natural, just like when I open my giant jar of cinnamon sticks to use when I am cooking Indian food. I can never resist sticking my nose close to the mouth of the jar and inhaling the scent. Spicy perfumes of this type are ones I have always thought of as perfumes worn by assertive, successful women who know exactly how to wield their personal power. Poudre de Liberté takes me back to my childhood. It brings to mind my aunt, the CFO at her company, awfully successful for a single woman in the 1980's. She was someone I admired as a strong female figure. A ballsy, no-nonsense, financially independent woman. Her favorite perfume for some time was Opium. So I don't know if it's just me who maintains this association between spicy, oriental fragrances and strong women. The element I really adore about this perfume is that I distinctly smell candy--clear, sugary, hard candy. A lot like my memory of rock candy. The perfume on the whole reminds me very much of candied apples. When I was little, I always chose caramel apples over candied apples, but during the precious few times I ate a candied apple, I noticed the coating had a cinnamon flavor infused in it. And this is what makes the perfume smell especially free. I imagine a woman who lives each day with authority over her life, and then you add the aspect of childhood, which is truly (or should be) a carefree time in a person's life. Poudre de Liberté goes in a totally different direction than other spicy perfumes of its kind...because it just doesn't take itself too seriously! It's like a confident woman who can still allow her inner-child to come out and play. This is an amazingly fun, creative twist on a classic theme! All this talk of cinnamon and no talk of powder yet. Well, a few hours into wearing it, the cinnamon nearly disappears, leaving behind a light powdery scent. And I mean light. This is not a powder keg by any means, so don't buy it expecting What We Do in Paris is Secret or Teint de Neige. It's a surprisingly timid drydown for a perfume that packed such a spicy punch, but I really like the bit of sweet powder in the end.

“I saw freedom sleeping in the fields cultivated with sky and money, to heaven and love, protected by barbed wire" Nothing I wanted to start this review with these splendid words taken from a song by De Andre. Poudre de Liberte wants to be a hymn to women's freedom, to their duality: "vintage" aspects such as powdery hints combined with fruity and, I must say, very very sweet accents. A fragrance that for my tastes I find extremely unbalanced. The sweetness is contrasted with dusty hints that my nose really doesn't like. Unfortunately not my fragrance.

My respect to this house of fragrances, but sadly or unfortunately to me I ordered this fragrance direct from factory to avoid fakes, so I was expecting a surprise according descriptions for bloguers and you tubers, It doesn’t happen, the smell at opening excellent, but after five or seven minutes disappear completely, I treated differents peoples skins and same results, very disappointed with some peoples descriptions

Poudre de Liberté starts like a modern version of Kenzo Jungle. Then you come back to it one or two hours after, and it evokes the great Femme de Rochas (spices and prunol probably). Uncategorisable but lovely. :)

This one is Amazing, this has powdery sweet note with some leather sandalwood combination, light citrus, mild spices, sweet roses, and fruits. Beautifully blended.