Eau de Camille

I'm wearing a sample of this and am astounded. THIS is precisely the smell of childhood walks with my grandma in the spring and early summer, when the air was rich with the smell of greenery and honeyed white and yellow blossoms. I'm not sure which blossoms I was actually smelling back then, but this is that smell 100%. I've always wished I could have that scent bottled and now I do! Or at least, I will soon. It's magical-a scent that you wear purely for yourself but is coincidentally just beautiful as a scent for others to experience as well. It is "safe" in the rarest way, not generic or anything like that, just so utterly beautiful and realistic that although it's completely one of a kind, it's the type of nature scent that I can't imagine ANYONE being bothered by, even those who hate perfume, because it doesn't smell like perfume. It smells like lush, warmish yet breezy, sunny flora filled spring air-bottled. I know I'm being repetitive now but this is one of those extremely rare scents that is as close as perfume can ever get to surpassing art and becoming true magic. It is really so insanely realistic that it just totally blows my mind, and trust me I've smelled a LOT of perfume. It kind of gives me a high, and is almost psychedelic, like how LSD can take you back in time, not just a memory but it can seen to literally transport you to a certain time- this does the same. More than photo realistic, trippy. And euphoria inducing. I've tried thousands of perfumes and have only reacted like this to maybe 3 or 4 now. Wow, just wow. What an experience.

I was hurrying to a class before 7 am, when it is dark out. The wind was cold, but it carried the most wonderful scent of green grass, woods, and something fresh carried from afar. It was actually coming from me, it was the Eau de Camille that I had sprayed on that morning. A relatively simple 'green' fragrance that goes on bitterly green, split-foliage and in-your-face. Better to spray and step away from the cloud. The green mellows a bit but remains green for most of the life of Eau de Camille. The drydown is pleasantly sweet, and vanillic, and really nothing like the rest of the scent. While I like Eau d'Hadrien in the summer, I think this would be a great summer scent. It is long lasting and apparent to the wearer(for an AG) but not a sillage monster that will send people running away from you. But I will remember the cold, green scent that I caught on the wind the other morning when I think of this scent. This sort of scent is right up my alley, and I really love it. PS: Yes, I do get the 'herbal soap' references. If you lived in a fairy land, where manufactured scents smelled like the real thing (think...Green Tea smells like green tea candles. Lemons smell like lemon perfume, or cleaning solution, etc.) then Eau de Camille would be the hidden "Irish Spring" so to speak, although, since I've drunk from many a cold spring, I can say that they smell like nothing, except for cold and wet rock.

Simply adore this bitter symphony of nature! The grass is fresh and rotting at the same time, the honeysuckle-moist, I am walking through an awakening garden , peeling the bark of a newly cut twig, enticed by a distant whiff of flowers. I know that they are very close yet I could barely smell them. It is one of the most enchanting perfumes I have ever had. Contrary to many comments here I don ́t think it ́s linear. Not in the least! It ́s just the effect its delicate ingredients produce by playing their music parts together, not taking up solo. Annick Goutal is one of my favourite perfumers. I can never get enough of her beautiful scents and this one is a real masterpiece. I prefer it to Eau d ́Hadrien any moment, any week, any month and year. It bears resemblance to Chevrefeuille, which I love too. But while the latter is brightened up by a substantial amount of fresh ̈lemonade drops ̈ which makes it rather sweet, Eau de Camille is the alluring bitterness itself. However it is not dark at all. It is natural, vivid, tender and magical. Good longevity and soft sillage. 6 out of 5.

This was a blind buy, I'd ordered a sample, and was bidding on a big bottle on ebay. Won the auction, big bottle was delivered, still don't have the sample! When I first sprayed this on it smelled like pure clove oil, and I dislike that scent intensely. After a minute it settled down and I was getting spicy fresh cut grass, and a slightly bitter green note followed by florals. It has fairly decent longevity too, more so than my other Annick Goutal fragrances. EDIT: amazing how the changing seasons can affect a fragrance. When I first tried this it was winter, and I got a very sharp clovelike note that was very dominant . I tried it twice with the same result, and the bottle went to the back of my cabinet for a future swap. Its now spring and as I was going through my collection I pulled this out and gave it another try. What a difference! Now I'm getting the green grassy notes and florals - not a lot of florals but noticeable. Its still a little sharp especially as it starts to dry down, but I'm liking it a lot better!

This starts out with an amazing ivy note. True, deep fresh cool ivy. Very different from the majority of green perfumes that smell like bright grass or leaves. I wish that it stayed on this note. It's incredible. After a few minutes the white florals start to show up. I smell jasmine (not sure how false jasmine differs from from regular jasmine). I smell white floral that I'm not familiar with, which may be the syringa? Not sure, I won't conjecture just to try to sound knowledgeable about florals. I honestly don't smell much honeysuckle (if at all), but that might be because compared to Annick Goutal's Le Chevrefeuille, which is a Honeysuckle haven, they aren't the forerunner in this mix. I do get how people could interpret a soap note. The flowers in this are pure white and clean, but also in full bloom, almost on the verge of being heady. That soft, almost "over ripe" scent white florals can have which to my nose always smells like being on the edge of a soapy powdery smell.