Fifi Chachnil

got the edt today, and it's far stronger than expected. a few drops and it's lingering and swirling around me very nice. sexy deep powdery and smoky scent with some lucious hints of sparkling lemon and creamy rose... simple but very beautiful! it's not of those scents, who are trying to be sexy to a maximum whit loads of sugar and patchouli, it IS pure sexyness in a bottle with facetts of innocence and understatement naughtyness. it's not even a tad sweet in the first half hour but then the spiced lemony rose changes to a creamy sweetness of lovely flowers - truly beautiful and intoxicating, still slightly spiced, woody and smoky with an warm ambery trail. fifi perfume has a modern vintage-feel to it, what is very elegant and feminine, transporting a joyful creamy rose soap und powder vanity aroma. a very different interpretation to other vanity scents - and i think, this one is just on the right point. the tobacco isn t that noticable as someone could be afraid of... it's a golden blond tobacco, no darkness or dirtyness. it floats in the background, just to give this round perfume a slightly aromatic edge. it reminds me instantly to fragonards grain de soleil but way smoother and softer by same intensity. love it :D a perfect seducing scent. sillage wonderful, staying power exeptional! the bottle is soooo pinup!!! a masterpiece!

This reminds me of Rizzo from the movie, Grease. She's been wearing Kenickie's leather jacket and since they are fighting, he asks her to return it. She liberally powders her nose and spritzes on her favorite perfume (Chantilly?)to go meet him. On her walk over she smokes and snarles at anyone who makes eye contact. When she sees him she hurls the jacket at him, then storms off. Kenickie catches his jacket and and also catches the strong cloud of powder, cigarettes, sweat, and Rizzo's sharp perfume. All stale, and all mingled together. He hangs it outside to air out, but it still has that sourness several hours later. Oh well, it's not super sweet or floral, so no one will think he smells like a girl. Rizzo is a brash, mouthy gal. I think I'd rather smell like Sandy :) Update: Hubby picked this as his fav in a lineup. Apparently this French lingerie company knows what men like ;) I REALLY like it layered with something sweet. I just don't know if I'd pay for a fb to have to layer it. OK, I went from meh, to like, to love, to NEED A FB ASAP! Fifi has won me over and now I find this scent so addictive and comforting at the same time. Too bad it's so overpriced and hard to find in the US.

A gorgeous, pinky, feminine, tobacco perfume with citrus accents. I used to think this one was too feminine for me but now I embrace it totally...for a 'boudoir' style perfume this is pretty much perfect (review is for the vintage edt, i have the contemporary edp too but prefer the larger dose of citrus in the edt to balance out the richer notes) The bottle is substantial and the bulb sprayer works beautifully. Somehow quite a lot of care went into this and I so appreciate the coherent attentions to detail....the fragrance is actually almost neon in it's bright, light shimmering quality, belying an underlying electric heat from the spices (coriander mmm), floralcy, and amber. Do we have to know how clothes are constructed to wear them and have style? I don't think so, and I don't need to know how a perfume is exactly constructed to be given a conceptual mood...........a concrete but ephemeral idea of a feeling....the areas of my brain that perfume reaches are to me most precious!

I really do love this! On my wrist I can smell the rose in the first blast along with the coriander - I do get a sweet note from my skin. I don't seem to get any of the citric notes at all and I don't get any tobacco from this. At the middle stage the rose shines thru and I think it is only a few stages from sweetness to KM's Loukhoum. I do get a very gentle amber entwined with a feint rose scent in the drydown. This is very French and chic. I would say try the sample first and don't be swayed by the gorgeous bottle. But it is worth the money and a little goes a long way - thankfully as I don't think I could hawk the bottle and spray in my handbag or keep on changing the tops each time I went in and out!!! I do think it is a perfume that depends on your skin's chemistry as to how it eventually sits on you. I tested this against Loukhoum and, certainly on my skin, the to have an extremely similar scent and it is only the Loukhoum that is sweeter!!!

It is a very intimate, seductive powdery, smoky fragrance! The scent is perfect for the boudoir! The first spray is very sharp and is similar to lemon-scented cleaning supplies. The scent eventually softens, and becomes spicy, aromatic due to the coriander. The coriander causes the scent to be mysterious! As the lemon mingles with the coriander, the warm amber goodness is gradually coming through. There is rose in the pyramid but it is well-blended because I do not sense it at all on my skin. The smell of tobacco is the most delicious thing to me, it is here to round the scent and blends beautifully with the sweet amber. A touch of the lemon still lingers beneath the all of the notes keeping it from becoming a dark, deep scent. This is a very sensual fragrance! I have been looking for this for almost a year, a lovely person PM'd me out of the blue offering to sell me a decant of this, thank you so much!