Les Naturelles: Fleur de Vanille

Fleur de Vanille is sweet so you'll have to be a huge gourmand lover, but don't expect a cheap cupcake vibe. The vanilla here is very impressive, luxurious, creamy, rich yet delicate.. There is a perfect hint of florals - rose, heliotrope & ylang ylang - & a touch of musk. These notes are so well blended & don't overpower or ruin the vanilla. To tie everything up in a beautiful French bow - the cocoa/chocolate note brings everything together perfectly. The longevity is amazing for an EDT & lasts a long time on me! Fleur de Vanille is of the best vanilla's I've smelt in a long time. I've already purchased a full bottle & will definitely buy it again.

On me this isn't a chocolate or even very floral .On me this is simply citrus and vanilla= YUM!!!!! Excellent for year round use.

Thank you so much Blueberrypie for sending me this gorgeous fragrance as a gift!!! love you! Action

Delicious gourmandish vanilla and caramel. Fresh, bit sweet, comforting. Could get cloying in high heat. Good for spring and fall, but could be too weak for cold winters. Like but not a love...I enjoy smelling it but not all the time on me. Scent: 7 / Sillage: 7 / Longevity: 7

I miss this scent so much!! This was my high school scent. I tried their new vanilla and it’s just not the same!! Fragonard please bring it back! It was a sweet gourmand of course but one that didn’t feel too cheap or childish. I wish I could just experience it again.

This is a delicate and pretty fragrance. I get lots of ylang ylang, a moderate dose of vanilla, some powder and a bit of cacao. This is a safe bet for any occasion. Fresh, light, sweet and totally inoffensive.

A towering cumulonimbus formation of vanilla. Fleur de Vanille has the same musky sweet opacity, gentle attitude and tenacious staying power as the vanilla in Frederic Malle's Musc Ravageur. It's as if the vanilla from Musc Ravageur were kept, and the bergamot, anise and cedar were disregarded, leaving just the sweet vanilla with a bunch of heliotrope. It opens very powdery, billowy, and smells somewhat peculiar, but this initial stage passes rather quickly leaving something quite nice in its wake. The dry down does contain a light dusting of cocoa and a hint of rose. The lasting power was terribly poor.

This is a disappointment on many levels. It has a warm but flat vanilla note and I can detect some chocolate towards the end but it does not live up to my expectations. If you are looking for something special with vanilla, unfortunately this is not it.

This has been at the top of my 'to test' list for ages and I'm very glad I finally got a sample, thanks to Sa Majeste la Rose :) On initial application this is a very boozy vanilla. On contact with my skin for a few minutes this becomes quite powdery, a lot of ylang ylang coming out. I can't say I particularly smell chocolate, but this is a very rich gourmandish vanilla scent. The sillage is absolutely great, and I only dabbed on my wrists and throat, and the staying power is being very heroic too - 10+ hours on my skin so far, though much closer to the skin now. But for the price of this fragrance I think that's pretty amazing. When I've run down some of my other vanillic scents, I think I will very likely get a full bottle of this for every day wear. Edit: The Fragonard website includes heliotrope in the notes - which explains the powderiness :)

I've had this one for a few months now, I wear it from time to time. I like it, it's very discrete, one has to really come close to smell it on me. But longevity is very good, I get whiffs of it just when I think it's gone. Smells unique,too. Perfect for winter. I think this can be cloying during warm weather. Edit: I found that what stayed on my skin smelled like something salty, just like the caramel au beurre salé (salted butter caramel) they sell in Brittany. This becomes cloying after a while. So I experimented layering this with orange magnifica of guerlain's aqua allegoria line. Smelled like those expensive orange chocolates in a box , beautiful ! I guess this layers well with fruity or floral scents to brighten it up.

This is a pleasant, non-confrontational vanilla. I agree with previous posters that this could be worn anywhere and that the chocolate note is very faint (however, something much more sweet emerges around the 1.5 hour mark) This is a fragrance a man would love to nuzzle his nose in (a gift suggestion for the gents). It's very soft and sweet. don't buy blind, however. This is definitely more a gourmand than an oriental, and I can tell for myself that the added sweetness would grow wearisome.

I am not a fan of gourmand or cloying sweet scents. Surpringly, I like this light vanilla with a creamy powdery and sweet florals dry down. It reminds me of drinking artisan hot choco in a quaint coffee shop. Rich but not overpowering, so you savor it more.

I tried this today and I'm really disappointed - smells like Coty Vanilla Fields or some other chemist powdery vanilla. I expected something more complex from Fragonard

On me, the initial spray was citrus and vanilla but when it settled it was all milk chocolate powder. I still can't tell if I like it,I'll give it some time...

Fragonard, please bring this fragrance back. I want more of it and they tell me it has been discontinued. What a pitty... Bring it back, please.

I can't say that this fragrance smells vanilla a lot. Disappointment(