Baiser Vole

Last weekend, my husband asked me why I keep getting perfume samples, and I told him "I'm looking for the perfect scent that encapsulates who I am and who I want to be. Something light and floral, but warm and comforting. Something that smells like the outdoors without smelling too literal. Something that a mother would wear just as easily as a CEO or a woman on a date. Something I can wear effortlessly no matter the occasion. Something our kids will smell and know it as their mom's scent." Tall order, right? In my quest to find the elusive "perfect signature scent," I've tried white musks, solaflores, and gourmands. I've tried scents that replicate my mom's signature Chanel Coco (because when I smell it I think of my mom, and what's more comforting than that?), and scents that are described as "younger Coco" (nice, but not for me). There are aspects in all of these perfumes that I've liked, so when I went to Nordstrom again this week, I knew I wanted something with light florals, green notes, and a little woodiness and warmth, with decent longevity and close to moderate sillage. The SA at Nordstrom had me smell lots of scents that were nice, but not quite right. I was prepared to leave with more samples, none of which quite fit the bill, all of which I would keep trying in hopes that one would grow on me. And then, in a last ditch effort, with a bit of a sigh, she asked "well, what about this one?" She sprayed BV on a paper swatch, and it was PERFECT. Lilies are my favorite flower - my dad has gotten me a bouquet every Valentine's Day and birthday since I was a little girl, we had them growing in our garden when I was a kid, and I carried a bouquet of white lilies on my wedding day. BV smells just like lilies, but not just the flower - the whole plant. It's like fresh cut lilies from the garden, with sweet earth, and sharp green stems. I eagerly sprayed some on my wrist and asked for a tester so I could see how it develops. I was not disappointed! As it dries down, some of the greenness in the top calms down, as a woody, powdery, almost vanilla base develops. I walked around the mall for an hour, and I kept getting a whiff of this magical perfect scent. I left and went grocery shopping, and it followed me there, too. Five hours later, I could still smell it when I changed for bed. BV is the perfect scent for me. It's floral without being JUST flowers, it's green without being JUST green, it's powdery and woodsy and vanillic without being overbearing. It's just so beautiful.

Stolen Kisses in Spring... First Impression: Baiser Vole literally means stolen kiss, and this holds true to the name. Delicate, yet powerful, it's a fresh, green, spicy, powdery & succulent lily...this is a good scent for looking forward to spring after the winter break. I find lily here as somewhere between water-lily and lily-of-the-valley, but just a touch spicier - not enough for a spicy main accord, but still. A few hours into the drydown this turns sweeter, almost a creamed-honey-tea. For a soft white-floral, this has surprisingly good performance, but it isn't a beast, and could be worn anywhere, anytime. I'll wait and see what this is like in warmer weather, and then update my review, but so far a 10/10. Update 04/20/25: Sprayed this on today as it seemed an appropriate Easter lily for Easter Sunday. It hasn't changed much from my first impression, except it's gotten creamier, and maybe a little stronger performance - still a photorealistic lily with a creamed-honey-tea drydown. Classic lily love. Here are some contrasts: Contrast to Pleasures Intense Estee Lauder: These are different, but there are some similarities with lily. However, Pleasures Intense evokes a photorealistic lilac for me, with a softly sweet maple-esque drydown, while Baiser Vole evokes a photorealistic lily with creamed-honey-tea drydown. Both have excellent performance. Contrast to L'Instant de Guerlain EDT Guerlain: These are different, but there are similarities with a white-floral creaminess. However, L'Instant de Guerlain has a more forward citrus accord and a thicker creaminess that evokes more magnolia & gardenia, while Baiser Vole has a lighter freshness in the opening, and the creaminess in the drydown is softer and more powdery. Both have excellent performance. Contrast to La Panthère EDT Cartier: These are different, but the openings are similar somehow. However, La Panthère EDT dries down into a chypre similar to La Panthère EDP (only less intense). Both have excellent performance.

You are already aware that the principal accord is the lily note. But perhaps you were oblivious to Mme Laurent's prowess in giving such breath and life to a note so that a masterful perfume was formed. The lily is fresh and light, and quite green too. By quite, I mean that it falls within that delicate midway between a slap on your face chypre green and white floral powdery green, you know, that rather curious and delicate balanced act. In addition to floral greenness, there is an almost airy spice soap to the drydown... not quite spices but there is a hint, a promise that the fragrance will develop some complexity to itself. It never quite reaches that mark as what you will be presented with in a lighter-type bottle (a bit odd concerning the elegant juice) is a rather linear, but far-reaching, light, but faintly persistent, simple, but elegant fragrance. I love lilies. Every other Sunday after service I buy a bouquet of flowers and it is usually the white lily. This fragrance is to me the experience of trimming and arranging the bunch for a fitting vase. This is a fragrance that requires consistency and dedication. People might never compliment you on your fragrance while on the bus, but if you are consistent, your colleagues will come to associate this scent with you and might remark during a company lunch, "you always smell so good." I do not see this fragrance ever being discontinued, but I find my heart lies with the parfum version. An improvement, if I might be so bold to claim, on an already masterful offering. The best time to test/ wear this is during warmer days.

If you don't like lily and green notes, you won't like this. That's fine--more for me then! Baiser volé (Stolen kiss in French--the acute accent is crucial) is to the white lily as Diorissimo is to lily-of-the-valley. No, neither is a soliflore, but one note rises above the rest, and in Baiser volé it is the white lily (a fragrant Easter or Stargazer variety, perhaps). Yes, there is an elegant woody base to keep things from getting too strident, but they're listed only as "green notes," which might mean stems and leaves, the smell of flower shops, or it might mean a more sylvan green, a forest-floor sort of mossy green. Here I think it is more of a flower-shop green, but I'd still say it's slightly woody. All that is just quibbling, though, because really this is ALL about the white lily, from stem to stamen. It just hit me what this perfume reminds me of: Sparkling White Diamonds by Elizabeth Taylor (not the regular White Diamonds). This one is greener and less soapy, but they both fulfill my personal criteria for "clean girl" fragrances. I could see putting either on after a bath, before getting into bed, but it would be just as appropriate to wear either to a meeting or a lunch date. Chances are that anyone who smells you would assume you had just used a luxurious soap, shampoo, or lotion. I like to spray both on handkerchiefs because they linger so beautifully on fabric. Also, for many people in my demographic cohort, white lily is the smell of soap, specifically Ivory soap, with which many people have positive associations (I do).

Dewy, Baiser Vole is dewy, its creamy, green and really fresh, it is such a pure, innocent scent to my nose and its such a realistic soliflore. The bottle, with it being from such a luxurious heritage house, is in itself a work of art; apparently its inspiration was a powder compact and I can see that, exceptionally well crafted and feels solid, it closes with a satisfying click. The scent itself is gorgeous, a very pure, fresh photorealistic lily and whilst it is a soliflore, its not boring and as one reviewer said, its 4D in experience; you get every stage of a lily's life cycle on your skin from the crisp green notes of a lily thats just about to open, the cool pepperiness of a freshly bloomed lily and then the creamier, green, slightly banana-y scent of a lily thats getting ready to start its cycle all over again. Aside from a florests shop, it kind of reminds me a little bit of Kerastase shampoo (Bain Discipline, orange bottle) and a bit of clean, freshly lotioned skin. Longevity is decent with about 8 hours of wear but it sits quite close to skin, I dont find it to be cloying or stuffy smelling whatsoever and it could easily be worn year round but I personally think its better suited to spring and the summer months, office safe, easy to wear and really inoffensive. It's a scent that anyone of any age could wear, it just smells fresh, its a solid love and a future repurchase <3

TL;DR Didn't like this at first, rather disappointed, but now actually kind of love it Opens *sharp* green. Then becomes soapy waxy white lily which turns into slight spiciness with green snapped lily stems. Then my least favorite phase takes over: Flower by Kenzo, a better and fresher version, but it shares a lot with Flower, specifically the floral powder aspect. (Flower is a perfume I wore in high school and I have negative associations with the scent. I eventually outgrew and even detested it.) However, thankfully, Baiser Vole retains a freshness and does not descend into choking powder territory like Flower. Once this mid phase fades, BV continues to be powdery but softens into a soft musk. Overall it's sharp and fresh from the green notes yet creamy like an expensive spa lotion. So it does smell quality and not cheap or synthetic. Do I like it? I'm not sure, I think so? I enjoy the lily and I especially wish the spiciness stuck around and was more pronounced. I enjoy the drydown as well, but I almost recoil from the middle phase. Luckily, the perfume's evolution is quick, from beginning to end it takes 10-15 minutes. Edit: The more I wear this, the more I like it. It may be one of those likes that turns into a love. I do love the cool green lily here, overall it's classy, refreshing and well blended.

Baiser Volé is a lovely perfume and it truly smells like a lily flower, just like as if it were in the water of a vase right in your living room. You can smell the pistils, the pollen, the stems and the lily flowers themselves. There's also a touch of green, citrus and spice in this scent. It is soft and sweet smelling and very natural smelling too. It's definitely a lily soliflore, but it's still somehow complex and reveals different facets of the lily. It's also quite heady, indolic, white floral and angelic. It would be appropriate wearing in this perfume in spring and summer and day and night and I think it is a very versatile fragrance. It smells very luxurious and yet simple too and I could imagine it being work by women of all ages. The sillage was moderate on my skin and the longevity was fairly good, at 7 1⁄2 hours on my skin. I love the beautiful bottle that looks like a gold 1920's/1930's cigarette lighter too and it feels very weighty and substantial in my hands. It's so satisfying to hold! My only gripe with this perfume is that the sprayer isn't the best and sometimes sprays the perfume in streams instead of a mist. 9/10 from me and I definitely think that this perfume is a modern fragrance classic for the house of Cartier!

This was a blind buy for me. I decided to get it after watching a video that described the typical wearer of this scent as a woman with a gorgeous white coat coming in late at a Christmas dinner party. This isn’t at all my vibe, to be honest, but I was intrigued. Perfume can be worn as a costume, after all; it doesn’t have to always be an expression of one’s true self. When I first tried Baiser Volé I was pleasently surprised. It opened with a very fresh and green note that smelled like the dewy leaves of a lily. Immediatly after I was overwhelmed by this powdery, earthy note. Again, lily, but more of the flower, especially the pistil. First impression: what a heady perfume! After a while, what I could smell the most was a sweet note of something similar to vanilla, a powdery vanilla, not a gourmand one. After a few hours, what was left behind on my skin was a clean scent. This is definetly one of my favourites. It’s such an interesting perfume because it is based on a single note, white lily, but it considers that plant in all its aspects, including the earth in which it’s buried. In the end it manages to be more than just a pretty white floral, it has much more depth and richness.

Absolutely stunning! Up until this fragrance I haven't been a huge lover of green notes. This was a blind but for me because I read a review from someone saying that she wasn't a lover of green notes butvsaying this fragrance was beautiful. She is absolutely correct! Very photorealistic white lilly scent with a powdery, almost musky dry down that turns creamy. This is the epitome (for me) of the word elegance. This is not a complex fragrance but with that said, it's simplicity is what makes this fragrance so beautiful. I agree with another reviewer who said they envision a beautiful blonde lady in a long silk dress. This is sexy and elegant. Definitely could be a signature for someone who wants to smell classy, elegant and sexy. It is obviously very appropriate for spring/summer thanks to the lillies but also for hot nights or special occasions with the powdery/muskiness this oozes. Moderate sillage and projection. People will smell you! This was such a wonderful blind buy for me as I love powderyand musky fragrances....and if you are the same, then definitely full bottle worthy. So glad I found this.

This is a daytime scent that I find calming and appropriate for office, brunch, corporate celebration, formal dinner party. It is light, powdery, mature (not in a “old lady” sense, but a grown, elegant woman sense). Although it is a lily scent, there is no tropical or waxy aspect, no sweetness. It is a cool white flower that grows in the shade of a greenhouse; formal, expensive, regal yet understated. Quiet luxury personified. I feel grounded when I wear it, and don’t get tired of it due to its soft profile. Yes, Baiser Vole is a floral scent, but indeed a tasteful whisper of it. Longevity is okay, it stays on clothes and hair longer than on skin. If you are looking for a perfume that goes with your white silk or pearls, this is it. I also picture Charlotte Rampling on a safari... a geometric pattern head scarf, cool linen trousers and vest, brown aviators and crocodile shoes? A famous actress from Agatha Christie’s mystery?) The bottle’s classic lighter design is also elegant and fun. It clicks, too)

Finally. Years ago, I accidentally purchased the EDT when I intended to buy this one. I’ve since sold the EDT and Lys Rose, and while wrapping them up for their new homes I began to grieve the loss of the gorgeous bottles (😭 maybe my favorite in my collection) and I thought, OK I ought to track down a bottle of the one I actually wanted years ago. So I did. I can’t get over how insanely good the Lily is. For me, this is femininity in a bottle. She stands firmly in her soliflore but keeps you guessing. She’s cool and yet warm. She’s a bit spicy but reveals a sweetness in due time. You think you know her to be one thing, but she surprises you. Ultimately, she feels like coming home. The dry down is slightly too sweet for me to enjoyably wear in high heat. But all other weather would be appropriate, in my opinion. I suspect it would be stunning at Christmas. Baser Vole is so good you don’t want to write a gushing review about it, but oh well, I can’t help it.

So fresh, so green! Baiser volé (Stolen Kiss) is a wonderful choice for springtime. All I discern is lily and lily-of-the-valley, the latter of which isn't mentioned so is probably a combination of the unspecified green notes and the lilies. I am puzzled by the "animalic" note listed in the pyramid. I smell nothing at all animalic, unless there's a smidge of beeswax or something like that. To me Baiser volé is a clean-girl soapy floral, very much in the tradition of, say, Anaïs Anaïs, Noa, or Sparkling White Diamonds. I call it soapy not because of the aldehydes but because of the lilies, which I associate with soap because it is used in so many classic American soap formulas (Ivory, etc.) For me what makes Baiser volé stand apart from other lily-centric fragrances is the intense greenness, which reminds me of new-growth lawn cuttings and flower shops. It's delicate but rather piercing in its sweetness--much like spring weather.

Finally get this bottle and I blind buy this after reading some comment in the forum. I would said no one will hate this smell and is a very very safe blind buy perfume. Biaser Vole is clean, elegant, airy, a touch mild white lily, and green perfume. The Lily is not prominent here, Lily is just a touch of a white flower scent. This lean more citrus, green scent and very natural. The green are leaning toward stem green, not the type of green +soil + bitter mud smell. The stem green just direct from the lily plant stem. Is comfortable is pleasant and gentle. Projection are mild lean toward skin scent. Not everyone surrounding you can smell this. Is suitable for office and daily body scent. Will not bring burdensome to other and yourself. This is EDP, surprisingly last 5 hours on skin. Not expecting they are powerful as this won’t be achieving that type of strong performance perfume. Overall, I love it!

My second year in high school I got a job working at a high-end flower shop in one of our local malls. It was established and run by two business partners from NYC. They were both impossibly savvy and chic, and I wanted to work for them as soon as I met them. I was there until I graduated, I loved the job so much. Baiser Volé smells exactly like that flower shop—icy, sharp, and green, underlain with the Easter ham/warm clove scent of Star Gazer lilies, which formed the backbone of the shop's signature flower arrangements. It's an impressively unadulterated floral—no patchouli, no amber, no animalics, probably not even any galbanum. Nothing to funk it up. And yet it's both super strong and complex, with a very strange fresh cream and wet cardboard dry down. Don't let the initial watery aspect fool you. This stuff lasts forever.

Wonderfully fresh and natural floral. It is very green up front and dries down to a sweet, powdery white floral. I usually do not care for powdery scents, but in this case, the fragrance would not smell as natural without the powdery quality of the lily. Agree with Trimoon's statement that it smells like walking into a floral shop. It is perfect! This is definitely office friendly and great for casual daily wear. It is light in character, but it can have overwhelming, strong sillage if oversprayed. Skin scent is still present at the end of the day. This fragrance is non-offensive but in no way bland or lacking in character. Who doesn't love the smell of freshly cut flowers? It is a happy fragrance and suitable for all ages.

I didn’t expect to love this but boy do i. I got a sample of this and when i read the notes i was like meh. ok. I’m not a white floral girl, usually really dislike white floral scents. It opened the way i thought it would, pure lily. I was like yeah ok. I went on with my day and then like not even a half hour later i smelled my wrists again and omg! it was sooo powdery and sweet, kinda woodsy as well? There was still lily but way less than at first. I love it. It has a vanilla feel to it, a really beautiful scent if you ask me. I’m sorry if this review completely sucks, i have never really written one but this perfume made me feel like i had to :)

Baiser Vole is a favorite of mine. It's just so lovely and feminine. How can three notes create such a beautiful fragrance? Lily is the standout note through and through but I like the way the green notes create a balance. I don't notice the citrus very much. I feel this fragrance is a bit mysterious and yet innocent. Just a beautiful feminine, pretty, spring or winter fragrance. It reminds me a bit of Jessica Sarah Parkers Covet. Same vibe. Longevity is moderate, as is projection. If you are looking for an easy wear, non offensive, lovely fragrance I suggest you give this a try. It was a blind buy for me and I'll never regret it. Enjoy!

warm and comfortable, yet delicate and floral. Along with the lily notes, this has a powdered, sweet, and slightly woodsy vibes as well. My favorite flower is the lily, and this fragrance reminds me of freshly cut lilies from the garden with sweet earth and bright green stems. Some of the greenness in the top calms down as it dries out, and a woodsy, powdery, almost vanilla-like base emerges. BV is the ideal fragrance for me. It has a flowery scent without being overpoweringly floral, a green scent without being very green, and a vanillin and powdery scent without being overpowering. It's simply breathtaking.

This has become a top twenty favorite in my collection. I love this so much. I should specify that my juice is from the purchase of many unopened samples via Mercari, which I sprayed into an empty fragrance bottle I bought online. Is this a linear fragrance? Yes. Is it a lily dominant fragrance? Yes, minus the waxy qualities. To me I get the best quality of a true lily from this juice. Is it a green dominant fragrance? No. To my nose the green note floats lightly in the background. I love the ratio of lily and green. Is it a citrus dominant fragrance? Not to me. I don't sense citrus in here whatsoever. 🦋🧡🦋

I bought this a few years back, and I must say this is a love for me. You would think that all the lily in this would be off-putting, but I can promise you that it is not. This is so light and fresh. This smells rich and classy as hell. You can only wear this if you have your shit together. So therefore, I wear it sometimes 😆. I'm just kidding, but this has definite boss lady vibes. This lasts all day on me, there is no need for a refreshing spray of this perfume. I know Cartier makes very high end jewelry and other things, and the smell of this perfume definitely lives up to the name.