Noa Perle

Love at first sniff. As Lainey said, a marvellous fragrance in a marvellous bottle. So beautiful and fits the name perfectly. It IS mood-lifting, for sure. Starting out fresh and slightly aquatic, with a light citrus touch (the bergamot). Then watery flowers, like petals flowing in a lake (that peony!)... you refresh and rejoice, bathe in it, and while you do, something different, more substancial, is materializing in your palm... you feel it more and more, emerge from the water and realize it is a perfect, marvellous pearl... The drydown is one of the best I've smelled, the hazelnut accord is soooo beautiful as it slowly appears and keeps getting stronger and stronger, emerging from the water and flowers and overcoming them, to finally blend with the most delicious vanilla. I must say that at first spray, in the store, it smelled exactly as I had expected it to smell - watery and fresh, but with an intriguing "something" behind it. Bought it and put it on to go to the cinema with friends. It was on my wrist and decolleté and I smelled it all evening and late, late into the night. TRUE LOVE. I found out that something must be right about my zodiac sign (I'm a cancer) - water is my element and pearls go with it.

It's like two different fragrances in one, the second part being significantly better. It opens up with a fresh almost tropical citrus, a pretty common opening overall. There is someting disturbingly alcoholic about the initial opening, but just 10 minutes later it evolved into this unusual, increadibly pleasant soft smell like melting creamy chocolate icecream sprinkled with hazelnuts. Even though it is tasty, it's not a gourmand perfume, rather an unconventional floral fragrance with nutty undertones. If the opening was a bit disappointing, the middle and base notes were surprinsingly good, warm and cool at the same time, but still very comforthing. It's a departure from the classic Noa in a good way, beacuse it is not as soapy, plus it has a touch of aquatic. I think it's a good fragrance for the winter because the top notes are reminiscent of summer, while the rest will serve you a hazelnut hot chocolate to remind you cold days are not that bad after all.

IMO Noa Perle has two phases which are not similar at all. The opening is very sharp, zesty almost screetchy. The first smell is much alcholic. But after 15 minutes it starts to sit on my skin. It softens down and warms up. Floral notes start to talk. And the drydown is the best part. The nutty base is gorgeous. The smell stays still soft floral but it gets warmer, sweeter and creamier. I don't like the opening but I love love love the drydown. The sweetness of Noa Perle is just at the right amount. Not cloying or suffocating at all. The drydown reminds me of a Summer sunset of a day spend in nature. The sillage is average I don't think anybody near will be offended by this perfume. That makes it nice for office wear. The longevity is so good that you can enjoy the warm, soft, nutty phase for hours.

I don't feel like this should be considered a floral fruity perfume...on my skin, the hazelnut is quite prominent after an hour or so. I get a touch of tangerine in the beginning and then creamy florals. Overall, I would say it definitely has gourmand in its character. I find this very pleasant to wear from time to time. Something about it makes it very distinctive to my nose. It's light, slightly sweet, and before the hazelnut kicks in it reminds me of soft fragrant flowers after a spring rain. And speaking of rain, something about this makes it perfect on me when it's gloomy and rainy outside...hot or cold. I love it on these days!!!

This is the one perfume I find myself buying over and over again. When first sprayed I find the peppery note somewhat of a shame. I just don't like peppery smells much I suppose. The dry down is absolutely amazing however. The peppery note fades after a while and a beautiful very sweet and warm floral smell emerges. I've made this into my signature scent, I just can't get enough of it! The scent is quite strong, but I don't find it overpowering or too heavy. It's just strong enough to be noticably there and it's staying power is great.

So excited to get this fume! Found on eB $20 for an ounce with shipping included. So it is still out there! I find it nothing like the white Noa, but I do like this a lot. I find it very similar to how I remember "Ode au Reve" by Yves Richer, though the discriptions here do not seem to have any shared notes to speak of. This starts off as a very sharp white floral, then mellows out into a floral & nutty scent. I really like Olivier Polge, and enjoy many of his scents, Flowerbomb & Florabotanica to name 2.

I miss Noa Perle. I used to wear it all the time and it was something special on me, I guess it meshed well with my body chemistry. I always found this perfume interesting. I used to really enjoy the way it developed throughout the day - the zesty citrus, the florals, the creamy hazelnut! And the dry-down would last and last and last... I always felt feminine and special wearing it. I wish I could buy another one of those beautiful bottles.

I've had two bottles of it and I'm still in love with this beautiful scent! It's very sophisticated and I think that every woman should have one! This is one of my favourite scents and I recommend it for any age. Although it's a fruity floral, the hazelnut base makes it wearable all year round! I found it for a very good price, so I bought four bottles!!! Price: 15 euros for 50 ml EDP and 10 euros for 200 ml body lotion.

I blind bought this little gem about 8 years ago for $20. Loved the zesty pink pepper opening which would then turn into a lovely floral on me. The hazelnut drydown was delicious,creamy,warm,comforting and very long lasting - I still have a tiny amount left to enjoy. Really sad this was discontinued. Hoping to find another bottle of this one day. Update - lucky me - found a 30 ml unopened bottle for sale online!

I miss this scent sooo much! this has always been my go-to fragrance. as many others have already mentioned it smells very sharp in the beginning but the drydown - oh the drydown! I love it with all my heart. I've never ever received so many compliments as with this one either! please, please bring it back...

I like Noa just a bit, but I love Noa Perle : it's sweet and clean too, but flowers appear a few minutes after the first pschit and it makes the perfume warm and creamy. I think this one can be worn at any time, not only during hot days. Now I want to try all the Noa fragrances : each one is different.

I just love this one.. Bought it second hand (full bottle) for peanuts. It opens very green and fresh, soft, and light, yet so very there. Drydown is sweet and nutty. It lasts for a long time as well. I put it on last night before bed and could still smell it well this morning. Safe blind buy. Yummy!

Please bring it back Cacharel, this is a masterpiece. I’m so enough and sick with the jokes called fragrances this days. I want back the elegance, the sensuality and femininity that I want in a fragrance to speak about me, not some cheap disgusting cologne masculine fragrances so called unisex.

My holy grail, Cacharel please bring it back! I logged in here few years ago to find a substitute for Noa Perle but......there is no fragrance like this one. My number one. I really miss it.

This perfume is a masterpiece. Whoever decided to discontinue this scent ought to lose their job. Huge fail. Unforgivable. Off with their head!!!

I'm looking at its empty bottle at the moment and i miss it very much. It was fantastic, love it. Please cacharel; bring it back :(

I would say, it's even better than the original one... too bad it's discontinued :-/

The sea foam that Aphrodite was born from... captured in a bottle.

I miss this fragrance please bring it back !

I'm a big fan of Noa, it's one of my favorite everyday perfumes, so I didn't hesitate when I had the opportunity to buy a sample of this flanker. The notes list makes it look very interesting. Well, it's less interesting than I hoped, but it's pretty and pleasant. Like the original Noa it's very suitable for daytime use, but they don't smell alike. To me it's mainly an orange blossom fragrance with some peony and a zesty, slightly bitter kumquat in the opening. It's light, clean and fresh with a subtle underlying creamy warmth. This is rather close to the skin, especially in the drydown when the kumquat is gone and hints of hazelnut show up. Honestly, I wouldn't have figured that this has a hazelnut note if I didn't see the notes list. There is a slight nuttiness which is rather dry and not gourmandish, but the scent is so weak at this stage that everything feels a little blurry. All in all I like the scent of Noa Perle, but it doesn't move me in any way.

I wasn't sure I'd like this perfume at first. When I sprayed it in the store, it morphed into this strange synthetic fruity smell.. not unpleasant, but strange, and somehow familiar. My boyfriend loved it and thought it smelled like his childhood (I think it was the pink pepper, we have a lot of those trees around here and he spent a lot of time outside). Then it hit me.. it smelled just like the cherry toothpaste the dentist used when I was little! I got some compliments, but associating this scent with that wasn't pleasant for me. The dry down, however, was a warm skin scent that was AMAZING. I wish I could smell like the base all the time, but I'm not sure if I could stand the toothpaste. Perfume has a lot to do with skin chemistry, so I'm sure it was just me. The perfume itself is well constructed, no headaches, and has sufficient lasting power.

First of all the advert confused me a little bit,made me think this would be another Eau de Rochas, but somehow it shows the fairy spirit in the perfume too. The colors are just beautiful,purples,blues,creams... Also it seems to be orientated towards the young crowd and teenagers, but you know what? I am 44 and feel really comfortable in it. It makes me feel like Campanilla moving her wings in an autumnal forest before dark. I find it quite seductive and at the same time I do not think it can offend anybody around. I am enjoying it enormously and I think I will enjoy it even more in October and November when the leaves start falling and the feeling of nostalgia begins invading us all. It is as beautiful as that.

I have greatly desired Noa Perle after meeting Noa, how it lit my life is recent history. It is a nice surprise to perceive colored pencils and black pencil leads though seemingly unmotivated. Hazelnuts are perhaps that bitter side I call pencil, and this aroma is not the classic gourmand. Peony releases its scent softly as if no chemical agent is involved so overall the feeling is very comfortable and smooth. Noa Perle is not that usual fruity or citrusy I'm used to. It is not a crackling peppery rather a dance of ingredients in perfect balance. Is serenity, a cloud I dive in and to slowly emerge from in its unfolding. Noa Perle takes all its time quietly, calmly and so do I.

I'm a bit confused by this one. It's absolutely adorable with sweet florals which very quickly settle into that amazing hazlenut base which I love - BUT it's sooooo light I have to have my nose to my wrist to smell it. Maybe it is that it suits me so well I can't smell it but I want to smell it so much it's just frustrating! EDIT/UPDATE Tried again in cooler weather and it's oh so lovely. It wafts around me, a sweet floral, then that lovely hazelnut base. I think maybe I was trying too hard before. You think it's gone then suddenly it's there again. A skin scent I think but very very lovely. Now searching a for FB!

It's a nice scent reminding of water - that's why the ad fits it well. Like lovelylavender I used to choose it in cloudy rainy days as it feels a bit nostalgic. It's not too spicy, just a little bit and only in the beginning. I think the hazelnut in the base (i don't know why the description here lacks it) gives this extraordinary note that is hard to find in more popular fragrances. Quite pleasing, though! I got amazed by the box and that was what helped me to make the choice among few.

At first I fell in love with Noa Perle. The scent is unique and sophisticated. Its heart is like a milk chocolate with hazelnuts; its beginning are hazelnuts who haven't matured yet. Noa Perle is delicate, somehow strange, it isn't edible, it's pretty. I have to be in a proper mood to wear it because it may be a bit nauseating and strange. Lasting power and the look of the bottle are very good.

I know it doesn't seem (acording to the notes displayed ), but to me it is exactly like Eau Jeune's "Démon" , perhaps in less strong . As simple as that . It's sensual and quite provocative (as i said in my "Démon" review ) , the name "Noa Perle" doesn't match with the smell , neither the packaging not to mention that it is not original "Noa" smell related in any way Like it anyway.

One of the scents you will never forget. I thought it is too light for my, after spraying I could not smell it, but colleagues were wondering not "who wears perfume today" but "what is smelling so nice here"? Besides, I have heard that if you can not smell perfume on you it fits you the best. This scent made me feel clean, peaceful, calm, positive. I felt like I'm a woman-fairy.

A little bit peppery light floral fruity fragrance. First while the opening of this fragrance I was impressed by the tender floral combination of the peony, orange blossom and freesia notes mixed with the citrusy kumquat note. But soon this floral beauty quickly turns into flowery sourness and the pepper note is annoying enough. Unfortunately, not my cup of tea.

It opens with citrus and pink pepper, and it's sweet. I keep wanting it to be tangy when I bring my arm up to smell it again, but it's not, it's got a soft character. It's smooth from the start, and gets creamier as it dries down. It's pleasant but honestly, I have cheaper lotions that do the same generically pleasant job, scent-wise.

This is soft and gentle and romantic. It smells very similar to Ghost Summer Dream. Probably because both contain freesia and pink peony.

i have a vintage bottle as a tester of 90ml in a bottle of 100 ml. No box allways kept in the dark

The Absolutly BEST of house Cacharel! Unique and very wearable🥰 pure love 😍

It ́s not so fruitty! Very romantic but for me a bit boring.

I have a sample. --- A warmer musk, but still sharp. Does remind me of Noa , but the hazelnut does not come through as a note. I find it reasonable, but not special.

Its horrible, maybe one of the worst scents i have ever smelled! Its so strong,harsh and sticky . the flowers makes me feel sick,and gives me headache ,and the smell of rubber ,or hazelnut or whatever ,is unpleasant and disharmonic. No balance in this one,yuck..

Noa Perle was so very fruity and fresh in the beginning that I feared I would not like this fragrance. I left the perfume store concluding that Noa Perle was a Summer fragrance heavily scented with citruses. However, thirty minutes later, I was surprised by the soft florals that began to emerge. The fragrance was still considered to be fresh and clean, yet there was something about this scent that was winning me over. Hours later I realised that I was actually enjoying wearing this fragrance. Oddly enough, in the base notes there was a rubbery, balloon-like scent, which although strange was somewhat likable. I don't agree with the bottle design which gave me the impression that this fragrance is reminiscent of the ocean. Instead Noa Perle reminds me of Summer carnivals and fairs complete with jumping castles and fairy floss. The lasting power is rather excellent however the sillage is not all that strong. This scent certainly would not offend making it perfect for the office or hot Summer days.

Noa Perle is such a marvel in such a marvellous bottle :-) I absolutely adore it - it is such a shame I have not tired that perfume before! The fragrance is very unique, the pink pepper and kumquat are so fizzy feminine, the top notes are mood uplifters, that is for sure! The floral heart (OHHH, that peony to fall in love with!) and nutty base make this fragrance very unique, there is no way of getting unnoticed when wearing it! I strongly disagree with this being boring - if you want a boring one, try one of these own make supermarket fragrances and you'll have a clue what boring means! Noa Perle has a great longetivity and noticeable sillage, it has become my signature fragrance! It smells similar to L by Lempicka, the difference is that L is more sweet (thanks to vanilla) and salty (thanks to Frangipani) and Noa Perle is a fruitier and fresher version of L. Anyhow, Noa Perle is wonderful and certainly deserves a space on the red carpet, amongst other fragrance super-stars!

I’m a huge fan of the original Cacharel Noa , and wondered how else a flanker called Perle might improve on the notion of clean, luminous perfection. I sprayed Noa Perle on and, wonder of wonders, it was bright and sweet and young(er), with a distinct air of toffee or caramel candy. As the fragrance warmed on my skin, the toffee went away, to be replaced by a fruity sweetness, reminiscent of a different kind of candy ... of the artificially fruit-flavored sort children in the 70s could get, pressed into various shapes (a skeleton called “Mr Bones” for Halloween, for instance). Or kiddie aspirin. Noa Perle doesn’t smell at all like Noa. In fact, it bears a closer resemblance to another Cacharel -- Promesse. And it’s strong ... the candy fruitiness stayed unchanged on my forearm for the better part of an afternoon, until a dip in the ocean diminished -- but did not entirely extinguish -- it. Not the original Noa, but not bad either.

Ah, Just bought this today, and I am so pleased I did. Thank you all who recommended this one when I asked my fellow perfumistas in the forum if they thought I would enjoy this. This is such a lovely and unique perfume; it seems to perfectly and magically inhabit two worlds simultaneously, and do so very beautifully and gracefully I might add. I am first met by a wonderfully zesty candied citrus, which then quietly steps back to introduce the sweet yet understated floral bouquet. Then, to my delight, it becomes this delectable chocolatey hazelnut mousse, and all the while, seamlessy swirling about me, almost like a whisper, is that hazy and dreamlike soft citrus floral veil. I am happy and comforted wearing this, and feel enchanted by this Perle. It is as irridescent as the bottle that contains it.

This scent - although a fruity-floral - chooses it's wearer. It doesn't suit just anyone and is rather mature, sophisticated, unlike it's many sisters... The pepper-note isn't overbearing and just underlines the fruityness until the musky/metallic drydown. At least on me. On my sister it's even better: a bit berries, freesia and a lovely soft drydown. I like it on her much better, it suits her well. On me it's boring and easy to recognize, that I just don't have the right body chemistry. The bottle mirrors the scent. Doesn't compliment me, but on the right person it's excellent.

Quite nice, i smell the pepper and the orange blossom in the opening, progressing to a gentle floral heart then a creamy nutty drydown. I don't find this to have enormous sillage but rather a nice cloud of scent to envelope you. The floral heart is a little reminiscent of some fabric conditioners you get for laundry and for this reason I am a little put off. Btw on my skin the dry down is very reminiscent of cavalli nero Assoluto so this may suit as a replacement for this discontinued scent

I just love this fragrance--so much more than the original. I bought it because I couldn't resist the bottle, and I was intrigued by the Hazelnut description. The top notes are very pink pepper and bergamot, just as described. The fruitiness soon disappears to a wonderful and interesting floral. Then there is the incredible bottom notes of hazelnut which make this so special. I only bought the 30ml bottle, so I know I'll be looking for another soon. This is so unusual and just lovely!

This is like a warm sweet blanket...you know those days when you just CAN'T feel pretty no matter how hard you try, so you put on some item of makeup to keep yourself from totally falling into the abyss, and wallow around the house in it? I use this perfume for that. It keeps me from losing a grip on femininity even while deeply entrenched in apathy. It's warm and soothing, like lying in a pool of warm fruit tea...nice to use when it's dark and hopeless outside in winter.

Hmmmm, this reminds me of something- Just Me by Paris Hilton? I'm not really a fan of that scent, but I think I may like this one a bit more. After about a half hour it was ok on my hand. We'll see...I guess so far it's worth the $10 for a 1oz. I'm a sucker for a bargain bottle. There's something that reminds me of toys or possibly hand soap here. I don't think I would recommend this to anyone though.

Noa Perle is a peppery and so sweet fragrance, even causing me a headache. No little resemblance to the soft Noa plus it's too feminine. Just too ordinary, yet so simple composition and so strange. Individual notes are good, but it's so heavy in dry-down. Summer Noa is maybe better than this. Original Noa is still the best in this range.

Nope, didn't work on me. Peony and pink pepper are usually two of my favorite notes, but Noa Perle just turned aquatic, headachey and overpowering. I wore it to work one day, and ended up scrubbing myself down in the bathroom and wearing just my jacket, while my shirt was airing out outside the loading docks...

While it didn't stand out among the crowds, I feel there's nice quality in the perfume. It's warm, not too overpowering. Good of evening wear but not in the formal situation. In the rainy days in Jakarta, when I don't know what perfume to wear, I just use it. It seems work on the tropical area like Jakarta.

so much better than the original Noa. Love this version, pretty sharp at the beginning but in a nice crispy way. Then it becomes more subtle and very creamy. It's perfect, a shame that it is discontinued.

I was addicted to this perfume and it's sweet, floral scent.