Belle De Paris

This is absolutely BEAUTIFUL. Right up there with Infusion d’Iris (turns out they have the same nose! Hardly a shock), but to me it has just a more heft, more presence, though still soft and ethereal. They don’t smell the same, but they are both masterpiece iris perfumes. Actually I find this perfume more complex and impressive. Here I get more of a face powder, orris root scent as it dries down. This is marvelous because I went through a phase where I spent a lot of time and money looking for a great cosmetic powder perfume, but most of them only started like this and didn’t last. This has a beautiful base of creamy face powder that lasts for hours. It’s well-balanced with something clean and bright at first spray. The overall effect is clean, elegant versatile. I can see this with a tshirt and jeans but also with a cocktail dress out to a nice dinner. I don’t notice any incense, but that could be because I spent too many years wearing churchy incense perfumes. Sillage is great. One spray to the wrists last the entire day and smells marvelous on the cuffs of my sweaters. It’s autumn, and I have been reaching for it daily for weeks now. You can’t go wrong with the price for a big 100 mL bottle. Every fragrance in this line is complex and perfectly balanced. It’s also diverse enough that anybody should be able to find a favorite. I hope Fragonard keeps up this winning streak!

This is lovely and feels like the kind of fragrance I've been searching for for a long time. It feels very classic and quite proper, maybe a little old-fashioned but still refreshing and not grandma-ish (although its pretty timeless so i can see a grandma wearing it!) instead it is mysterious and sophisticated. The kind of fragrance left behind on a beautiful silk scarf. The opening is a little fruity but on me this quickly gives way to the violet and iris. The violet is candy sweet (like parma violet sweets) and brings some fun and brightness to the soapy and more serious iris note. After about 30 minuets its dries down to a soft and powdery note that reminds me of cold cream on a cotton ball but the violet note is still detectable. I wasn't expecting Belle De Paris to last long but it actually lasts a decent 4-5 hours and longer on clothes. Overall, a delight that I am enjoying wearing in the autumn weather, the £40 UK price for 100ml is also excellent value!

Such a nice clean floral scent, not sweet at all kinda musky and ever so slightly incensey. Smells like a meadow. Powdery, clean and soft. It’s smells cold yet cosy. I love wearing this to bed or just lazing around the house reading a book. It’s sunday vibes in a bottle. Fresh laundry but better. Understated and inoffensive. Upon first spritz it smells clean, fresh out the shower. I smell the Iris but it’s powdery and light. I do get a little citrus/green in the opening and the incense in the background which doesn’t last long, it’s barely there. Dry down is mellow slightly creamier, maybe I can smell the pear lingering. It’s so calming. I imagine it being a beautiful scent to wear in the spring time. But it’s also so comforting right now during winter. I reckon you could pull this off most seasons.

Daniela Andrier excelles in producing perfumes that are variations of the same theme, one more stunning than the other and this could be one of the Infusions d'Iris. I smell everything listed and it's lovely, like an aura of cleanness, bright and diaphanous. I love the combination of neroli, incense and cedar with iris. The dry down is less compact and defined than expected. It reinforces the overall ethereal almost abstract impression. Very persistent, very musky, woody and smoky iris. Minimalistic and elegant. The efforless wear. Cold and fresh. It should help during summer heath. Great quality.

I was hoping I wouldn't like this, but unfortunately I think I love it. I am a big fan of heavy, powdery, creamy, vintage makeup-y iris/orris perfumes. This is not that. Belle de Paris is a light and fresh take on iris, perfectly balanced with the violet, over a base of clean musk. A very affordable perfume in the same genre as Penhaligon's Artemisia. Fragonard really keeps impressing me with their perfumes, they're all so ridiculously pretty and well-balanced!