Fève Délicieuse

Dior Feve Delicieuse EDP opens with a strong projection of sweet, lactonic, gourmand, and fruity notes. The opening is delicious, refined, bold, inviting, and delightful. The milk, praline, caramel, cacao, sour cherry, and vanilla are the opening most noticeable notes. The chocolate, milk, praline, caramel, and vanilla mix their notes into a lactonic, dessert-like, and delectable accord, intense and delicious. The sour cherry is also noticeable, a candy-sweet, tart, syrupy, with an almond touch fruit. As the fragrance commences to dry down, the tonka bean develops a sweet, spicy, caramel, and nutty accord closely follow by the ambery and the sweet resinous touch of the benzoin and, the creamy milky, and warm touch of the sandalwood. The leather is the projecting accord, a mild inoffensive leathery touch in the background. The jasmine, freesia, and lavender are support notes, a faint touch in towards the back of the fragrance. The fragrance is relatively linear, the bergamot is a faint touch during the opening, regardless, all featured notes come up as soon as the fragrance is applied and continue into the dry down which occurs very quickly. Once Dior Feve Delicieuse EDP has reached its full dry down, it can be summarized as a strong projection, fantastic, sweet, vanilla, cacao, caramel, praline, cherry, milk, and resinous fragrance with leathery, and faint floral accords. The fragrance feels ambery, appetizing, bold, casual, comforting, creamy, delectable, delicious, dense, dry, elegant, energizing, exotic, expensive, fruity, gourmand, high-quality, inviting, slightly leathery, long-lasting, milky, modern, natural, nicely-blended, nutty, resinous, rare, rich, romantic, seductive, special, sweet, syrupy, unique, unisex, warm, and very pleasant. BATCH REVIEWED: 2020 (#9A01). WOW RATING: 10/10. A lactonic, fruity, chocolaty, gourmand, and delicious fragrance. DISLIKE RATING: 1/10. The fragrance is very sweet but well-blended. UNIQUENESS: 10/10. The notes and resulting scent are unique. MASS APPEAL: 9/10. Lactonic, fruity, and chocolaty notes are crowd-pleasers. PROJECTION: 4/10. Moderate, about 4 feet around the wearer. SILLAGE: 6/10. Moderate, about 6 feet behind the wearer. APPLICATION: 4 atomizations. LONGEVITY: 7/10. Excellent, about 7 hours, it projects well for over 4 hours. SEASONS: Winter, spring, fall, colder days, daytime, nighttime, and climate-controlled environments. OCCASIONS: Formal events, outdoor gatherings, office, business, casual, holidays, vacations, romantic, dating, clubbing. This is an office-friendly fragrance. VERSATILITY: 6/10. A great fragrance for casual and formal wear. GENDER: Unisex. All featured notes, lactonic, fruity, and chocolaty, are unisex. AGES: 25 and above. RECOMMENDATION: Dior Feve Delicieuse EDP can be purchased for $200 (4.25oz). An exquisite and delectable fragrance ideal for those that appreciate its main notes. This is a great buy. BLIND-BUY: No, sample it first. SIMILAR: These are examples of fragrances in the same genre. Dua Fragrances Beauteous Delight is a very good clone of Dior Feve Delicieuse; Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille is a great boozy, and vanilla fragrance; Kilian Black Phantom EDP is a fantastic, intense, delicious coffee, boozy rum, sweet caramel, and dark chocolate fragrance; Kilian Back to Black is a great, honey, tobacco, almond, and sweet fragrance; Montale Chocolate Greedy is an intimate, very sweet, cacao, vanilla, and tonka bean fragrance; Nishane Fan Your Flames is a great, intense, rum, tobacco, woody, and tonka fragrance; Paco Rabanne Black XS EDT is a delectable, mild, very sweet, praline, and tolu balsam fragrance; Parfums De Marly Oajan EDP is a great, intense, spicy, cinnamon, sweet, honey, vanilla, tonka bean, and resinous fragrance; Thierry Mugler A*Men Pure Tonka is a great, intense, sweet, tonka, coffee, and cacao fragrance; Tiziana Terenzi Al Contrario is an exquisite, malt, woods, cacao, and sugar cane gourmand fragrance; Tom Ford Noir De Noir is a great, mild, roses, patchouli, oud, vanilla, and truffle fragrance; Tom Ford Noir Extreme EDP is a great, delicious, sweet, dessert-like, and floral fragrance; Costume National 21 is a delicious, ambery, milk, vanilla, and tonka fragrance; Mancera Choco Violet is a very good, mild, tasty chocolate, vanilla, and hazelnut fragrance; Hugo Boss The Scent Private Accord EDP is a good, unique, short-lived, sweet vanilla, Maninka, coffee, and cacao fragrance; Mancera Roses & Chocolate is OK, a mild, dry, sweet chocolate, vanilla, and light floral fragrance; Dior Feve Delicieuse EDP is a fantastic intense, sweet, vanilla, cacao, caramel, praline, cherry, milk, and resinous fragrance. SUMMARY: A strong projection, fantastic, sweet, vanilla, cacao, caramel, praline, cherry, milk, and resinous fragrance with leathery, and faint floral accords. The fragrance feels ambery, appetizing, bold, casual, comforting, creamy, delectable, delicious, dense, dry, elegant, energizing, exotic, expensive, fruity, gourmand, high-quality, inviting, slightly leathery, long-lasting, milky, modern, natural, nicely-blended, nutty, resinous, rare, rich, romantic, seductive, special, sweet, syrupy, unique, unisex, warm, and very pleasant.

Such a beautiful perfume, I have the authentic original and selling samples only to half bottle, then saving rest for myself . I suspect the bad reviews are from ppl who bought fakes, coz there are so many fakes being sold. Many sellers on Mercari are buying fake cheap dupes of popular perfumes and of discontinued one and selling samples for very cheap and meanwhile I’m selling authentic samples but because I have to charge more coz well it’s a legit sample that I paid a lot for, but ppl flock to buy the cheap fake samples instead, thinking they got some great deal. Then they come here and bash the fragrance. SMH. And don’t get me started on eBay and their carded samples. I’ve gotten many fake carded samples too. From eBay. Hey as we all know, you get what you pay for. I have my lil store and everything I sell is 100% absolutely authentic from my own collection. I only have one bottle of each, when I sell out, there is no more. I don’t have 100 China made fakes in some basement somewhere. I have a great reputation for selling only legit perfumes with all positive feedbacks . The one negative I had long ago was from this idiot woman who assumed she was paying $15 for the $350 bottle of perfume after I asked her in comments if she understood she was only buying a sample and she said yes. But then lied to Mercari to get her money back and sample the perfume for free coz I got back half of what I sent her. This is why you have to read the negatives, some are not deserved. But if ppl want cheap $5 samples of fake high end niche perfumes. Then good luck to them. You have no idea what garbage China puts in those fakes. But hey, you’re getting your sample for $5. Who cares if it’s legit, seems to me most ppl don’t care. Coz they keep making the crooks who sell fakes, rich. These are the same gullible idiots who think the seller selling the bottle of Baccarat rouge 540 extrait for $85 is authentic . Yeah you know who you are. Btw this is a beautiful perfume, anyone who says otherwise has a fake or has no sense of smell. Stick with the cheap $5.99 Avon perfumes sweetie, Niche is not for you.

If you’re expecting a super sweet, gourmand chocolate covered cherry fragrance you will be disappointed. This is not that. It wasn’t meant to be. This is so much more. Feve is smoky, leathery, semi sweet Tonka bean. The other notes are there to add nuance to the Tonka bean. There is really nothing else like it. I’m wearing Feve on one arm and my other arm has Guerlian’s Tonka Imperiale: almond like - tonka, powdery, herbal and sweet. Commodity Tonka: herbal, aromatic, powdery, hay-like Tonka. Yes they all share powderiness but Feve has a semi sweet, cocoa dust powderiness with a rich smokiness that has an aromatic touch from the mint but it’s not minty. It has more similarities to Shalimar than it does to Tonka Imperiale or Tonka. Feve starts out a smoky, leathery, semi sweet cocoa but as it dries down, it’s becomes more creamy, vanillic and much sweeter. A few times I’ve dabbed and that’s when I smelled more of the cherry and milky chocolate. It’s really beautiful. A little tangent: fragrances need multiple wearings before one really gets a full experience of what it smells like. Many come on here after wearing for 5 minutes and give their first impression as a review. You’re really just commenting on the top and heart notes. Fragrances need time to bloom on the skin. You’ll also find your skin chemistry changes the fragrance and your fragrance can smell different and perform differently throughout the day and month (you know what I mean ladies) The nose needs time to differentiate between the notes. The more fragrances you smell, the more olfactory memories you create, the more notes your nose will recognize. New bottles perform better a few weeks in, once air has entered the fragrance. I purchased the 250 Ml bottle of Feve and every time I wear it, I smell a different facet of the fragrance and after selling a few decants, it smells deeper and projects more. I wouldn’t go out and blind buy a bottle but I would buy a decant or small sample if you’re at all curious. It’s a lovely Tonka fragrance.

Ok, so to put this review into context, I am a pharmacy fragrance manager and I basically work on minimum wage and favour wearing pricier mainstream fragrances (Dior Homme range, Guerlain, Mugler, etc.) because I can afford them as a luxury. Anyway today I was in the Melbourne CBD doing some light clothes shopping, and it starts absolutely BUCKETING down rain. Like, I'm talking heaven's floodgates opened into a small cyclone (not quite, but you get the picture). So I am conveniently stranded outside a Dior Boutique which sells women's accessories, like handbags and purses, etc. and I decide to go in and wait out the rain. I spot this beauty, alongside some of the other fragrances in this line. I see the price and I'm like huh, that's like fourteen years of overtime, but I'll smell it anyway. Anyway, now I'm home with a 250ml bottle next to me and I'm absolutely paralysed with debt but oh GOD this is good. I can't tell you what this does to my senses but I'll tell you one thing. Best $450 AUD ever spent. The scent itself is surprisingly masculine - I have never smelled a gourmand fragrance that has been so un-sweet girly. It's opulent and rich and milky and boozy and just plain beautiful. I sprayed once on my arm to try it on my skin when I got home, and that one spray was enough to fill the space some good feet around me with this delicious aura. This is definitely a special event fragrance - I'm not talking "date night" or "dinner with the in-laws", I'm talking meeting the goddamn queen or marrying Hugh Jackman or something. DAMN. I'm not religious but I am ready to go to church to thank god for making it pour when it did because otherwise I would have walked right on past. Seriously good stuff. I can see how it may not be for everyone, but I'm so glad my chemistry works. Now, please excuse me while I go and take out a home loan to get some backup bottles, because I don't want to be without this.

This reminds me of the bottom of my mother's "pocketbook" from the early 1970s, but in the best way possible. This is a total comfort scent to me. It reminds me of the comfort and mystery of the pocketbook, where from the depths would ocassionally emerge a cherry lifesaver candy or aged mint and a tissue, just when absolutely needed. The cherry and mint of the candies, the powderyness of a Guerlain face powder and an waxy-scented lipstick in a metal tube, as well as some of the dust of an aging packet of tissues all being cradled in the depths of the high quality and somehwat aged soft leather of the pocketbook, bring back comforting feelings of when mother had it all under control and knew exactly how we should behave. Mother carried only the best leather bags, and the leather is very high quality here, so it smells like the softest leather ever. The cherry is strong on me at first, but eventually blends well with the powderiness that eventually settles in. This is one of the most memory-evoking fragrances I have ever smelled. I'm thinking of many Sundays, mother dressed in her finest with lipstick on and face powdered, carrying her leather bag and gloves, but I'm falling asleep in the old Gothic-style church with my head eventually settling next to the handbag, nodding off while watching dust particles sparkle in the streams of light through the arched stained glass windows, hearing the faint crinkling from the woman in the pew behind opening a mint...