Hameau de la Reine

I received a free bottle of this by accident. I was looking for a rose fragrance and someone told me about Historiae Rose, which I ordered on Amazon. By accident the seller sent me Hameau de la Reine. When I contacted the vendor, she told me to keep it for the inconvenience and sent out the rose perfume. While I think this is a very nice, green freshie, it really feels too masculine for me. It almost has the freshness of an aftershave. I think I'll pass this one along. Maybe my nephew might appreciate it more than I do.

I love this perfume. I was looking for a fresh, light but unforgettable scent when I stumbled upon this. Immediately, I have fallen in love, with its not so usual smell - the smell when you step out of the house in the middle of the forest after the rain stopped. Whenever I wear this, I always receive compliments - especially from the tomato leaf note which I think is something new to others, and from its freshness during the drying down.

It's wonderful scent, very refreshing. Perfectly for summer (and spring also). Note of tomato leaf is noticeable and interesting. IMO unisex

one of my bedtime scent, Transcend you to a magical garden where you unwind

Fragrance Review For Hameau De La Reine Historiae Top notes bergamot, black currant leaf, tomato leaf fig leaf Middle Notes rose, galbanum, peony, geranium, mock orange ivy Base notes vetiver, patchouli, white wood, musk honey. The Hameau or Hamlet is located just beyond the lake and gardens in the palace of Versailles France, the home of French monarchs like Louis the 14th, 15th, 16th. The Hameau was created for Marie Antoinette and her children and friends as a faux farm. It had cows, sheep, ducks, geese, and a vegetable garden. It was maintained as if it were a real country farm, even though it was in a smaller scale. This fragrance does a spectacular job of smelling like you'd imagine the Hameau was like in the 1780s. This is a very green and vegetal very realistic earthy garden scent. It's a garden. The galbanum is my favorite ingredient and on here it's very pronouonced. Smells green and mossy. The other notes do a fine job of recreating the farm: ivy leaves, figs, tomato. That tomato is actually the dominant note. Smells like tomatos that have been planted on a garden patch. The flowers are not heavy and in fact all I could detect was geranium which is also typically found in farms. Roses were Marie Antoinette's favorite flowers but the rose here is faint or shy. The peony which can smell like a rose only much softer is to blame. I did pick up on the slightest hint of peony. It is the dy down that gives this scent an amazing longevity and richness, and a graphic realism. It is supported by patchouli another green herbal scent, some spicy vetiver grass and some honey. The honey is more like beeswax and honeycomb, more a honeycomb than honey in a pot. Very graphic honeycomb. The woods are light. This is mostly a patchouli-honey in the dry down. To me this wore like Un Jardin Sur Le Nil by Hermes except that while that frag took me to ancient Egypt this one takes me to 18th century France and into the Queen's Hamlet where Marie Antoinette escaped the troubles of the state and was the happiest she had ever been in her life just entertaining her children and friends and milking cows to make milk and cooking with herbs and tomatoes.

I stumbled upon this because I love Indian Summer by Houbigant, and I'm a sucker for the "Reminds Me Of" part of this website. Because of that.... I have over 400 perfumes, haha. This is nothing like Indian Summer but... I found this for a STEAL. Seriously, brand new, sealed for $10 plus $3.50 shipping. This starts out sharp green, lush and juicy in a clean fresh unisex way. The middle gets more feminine/floral, and just when you think you love it, indeed the drydown is quite masculine. It's not a severe masculinity-- more like a fresh/clean men's soap/body wash. I can't pick out honey/beeswax sadly. It's cold and rainy, so this deserves more testing. On skin and summer/warm weather maybe.

I would agree this is a unisex scent, regardless of the marketing surrounding it. It is *very* green, starting very sharp to my nose, but drying down to something that tugs at the memory, though I can't define what that is. It is definitely a scent that mixes heavily with your personal chemistry; everyone I know (including my husband and my sister's husband) all agree it not only smells better on my sister, it smells almost as if we are wearing two different scents entirely - so be sure to give it a chance to dry down on you before deciding. Out of the bottle and dry down are worlds apart with this scent.

Ohhhh I love tomato leaf, peony, galbanum and rose and honey. Why is there always awful Patchouli ??? Not sure if the vetiver is well suited here either. :-( Any further reviews ?

This starts off truly magnificent, all tomato and cassis leaves and then rather quickly dried down to a very dull, generic, quite masculine green scent. Such a pity...

It's definietly not my cup of tea, rather for a man than a woman.