Orangers en Fleurs

Orangers en Fleurs Houbigant (3702304, October 2022 batch, USD 120) I brought Orangers en Fleurs on spot, the same day as I have sniffed. I have been on a quest for Sweet and Powdery Orange Blossom fragrance, and this yeah. This is it. I am not so sure if my assumption is true, but Orange Blossom as raw material in perfumery. It is more like a feeling than the actual substance. I rethink on my fragrance journey. And I found that Orange Blossom, most of the time, when mention in perfumery. It more like sparkling sweet-fresh citrusy ambient, softy nectar like - more like a wet feel. How high you have been dump the Orange Blossom raw material. It will just support the sweet, fresh citrusy side. Orange Blossom, as per origin doesn't mean to last. Majority of Orange Blossom fragrance will tile on other note. To assist the long lasting Orange Blossom feel, on reinterpretation into other direction. i.e. Le Rivage des Syrtes by MDCI Parfums, ambitious to make Orange Blossom dominate fragrance with incense. or Amyris Femme Extrait de Parfum Maison Francis Kurkdjian, new way by merging to fruity note instead of Classic tuberose interpretaion. or assist with modern material likes Atlas Garden Yves Saint Laurent, the known Mortal-lite amber accord. or Prada Infusion de Fleur d'Oranger, the dominant soapy-orange blossom fragrance. Orange Blossom most of the time, play the support role - not the main roll. The most true to life Fleur d' Oranger interpretation, is somewhere between Ylang, Tuberose, Soft Mandarin on Powdery base, slight touch of spice as origin source - as you know "Fleurs d'Oranger Serge Lutens"; Orangers en Fleurs by Jacques Flori, I find this more on gentle and delicate take of Orange Blossom, it is not as hot as Serge Lutens one, not as big and smoother than the one from Serge Lutens, but still, walk in the same direction. Orangers en Fleurs by Houbigant, gives modest projection for good 1-2 hours before lasting on skin as woody, softly soapy ambient on skin unto 3-4 hours before it is all gone. I believe this EDP rendition in term of quality of ingredients. This preforms quite similar to the new EDP release of Santa Maria Novella. Rely on percentage of material to create a good quality scent than the lasting and projection. If there is one point that slight turn me down is soft aroma chemical tone (prob Iso-E) and lite-amber that gound scent together is slight evidence in dry-down and this slightly rich in Hedione. I think this is probably one of smooth soapy clean orange blossom that feel so warm to put on skin. A firm like to love for me and I really want to know you more. As individual fragrance and orange blossom. :) ===== Update 1 : January 25, 2025 I wear this again today.. So happy. I drive in these kind of Orange Blossom lately. So far my another 2 companion is Pichola Neela Vermeire Creations & Le Rivage des Syrtes MDCI Parfums. I think these can show how good dial ratio between : Orange Blossom, Rose, Ylang, Nutmeg / Clove and Tuberose with Jasmine. Can makes good impression of Orange Blossom scent. I think this slight vintagy and classic. It do develop in 3 stages. Like a classic fragrance... It kind of my own time scent. All the goodness is in Top and Heart. The Floral bouquet. But once it moves to support role. I smell something like Soda wood, It kinds of Sparkling cedar experience. reminds me of Jasmin Sambac by Hermes. Another fragrance I think of during wear is Champs Lunaries by Rogue. The Spicy Tuberose (This more green and show case with liter Orange Blossom). It is soft bubble gummy tuberose any way.

Tried this at Neiman Marcus in Atlanta over the weekend after almost wearing out a 10 ml sample of Serge Luten's Fleurs d'oranger. Honestly I thought they were one and the same. Yum, yum yum YUM! There is something I can almost taste in both of them, like the juice of a valencia orange as I swallow. At the same time they both hover around me. I have never walked down a row of orange trees but in my imagination they are just like cherry blossoms that festoon everywhere only they waft a floral orangey scent. I find the cumin in the Lutens to be noticeable but not hippie skanky (if you know what I mean). Its just right there at the end of the row of scents like punctuation. Maybe it is telling my nose "stop sniffing now". But I don't find it offensive and pretty much find cooking cumin to smell as BO-ish as a spice can smell. Anyway the Houbigant to me is the same deal only no cumin. So at Neiman Marcus the sales girls were going up and dowsing themselves in this. Like it was hairspray or something (I kid you not; I thought this one girl might roll around in it like a dog who found something stinky in the woods!) Later at Panera the girl behind me said to her boyfriend "Someone smells amazing, like jasmine or something". It was me that smelled amazing! Maybe I can't smell Jamine? To me this is just a very heady orange blossom but I was already addicted to Serge and the local Blue Mercury was out of it so I went for broke and bought the Houbigant online. Neimans was having a gift with purchase that included a sample of Blackberry and Bay so in the end I'm thinking it will be cheaper and better than the Serge Lutens. Plus am I the only one annoyed by the Serge Lutens website? My husband would weep at the cost ($180.00 from NM for 100 ml of eau du parfum) but then he's out of town and doesn't even need to see the new bottle! Win-Win! Go me!

Oh sweet orange blossom, it opened perfectly with loads of natural smelling orange blossom - feminine and beautiful. Also it is very soon joined in by a animalic and very sexy jasmine which here smells simply raw, dark and sensual making this a really unique mix indeed. As more it develops I get even more of this dark, sensual jasmine, also ylang ylang appears making this a bit heavy for the nose. I've had bad past experience with ylang ylang, so I cannot say I enjoy this 100%. The thing about orange blossom at the heart part, it is not dominant, for me jasmine is what leads the parade as for orange blossom - it stays a tiny bit in background being more green that sweet (also the green note is pretty much from tuberose which creeps in the lead role now and then), which for me is a good thing as jasmine is very indolic and heady at this point. I do seem to enjoy this composition, it's def. a power fragrance - sexy, "in your face", ultra feminine, very natural smelling. It is also very interesting as it seems to change all the time - at one point it's animalic, then heady and sweet, then dark and sexy - it has it all. The quality of ingredients is more than one could hope for. Worth every penny. This is "femme fatale" in bottle.

As a child, my family would drive mile upon mile through orange groves in Central Florida, while I hung my head out the window, intoxicated by the fragrance of orange blossoms. Those orange groves are mostly gone now, replaced by asphalt, strip malls and theme parks. The fragrance of orange groves was powerful in all seasons, with ripe orange fruit and peel, and the depth of mulch thick with orange bark, but it was the orange blossoms that I found most beautiful. In this lovely perfume, Houbigant has captured perfectly the orange grove in all its complexity, merging seasons: the blossom, the ripened fruit, the oily bark. Redolent with jasmine, brightened by ylang ylang, deepened with rose and tuberose, anchored by an unexpected nutmeg, it unfolds as the orange epitomized. Balanced and well composed, it somehow manages to invigorate and sparkle at the same time it soothes and calms me. A lovely fragrance, good silage and projection, not as long lasting as I would like, it lasts on me perhaps 5 hours. I like cedar, although I realize others do not, but here it smells to me more of orange bark, orange mulch, with just enough musk to round out the drydown. The jasmine is outstanding, very vintage and natural.

Sigh...the drydown here is SO gorgeous--lush jasmine and nectarous orange blossom tamed by clean musk and woody notes. I tried on a sample yesterday and now every five minutes I'm sniffing the sleeves of my sweater, where Orangers en Fleurs still lingers. If it smelled like this from beginning to end, I'd already have ordered a bottle, no question. However, about five minutes after I sprayed it on, a quite pungent ylang ylang reared its head, and I had to suffer through a cloying, sticky sweet floral tinged with overripe banana for an hour before I finally arrived at this absurdly beautiful drydown. If it were less expensive I'd probably just buy it and suffer through that hour, but for almost $200...I don't know. Maybe. I'm torn. If you love orange blossom and musk, and you can at least tolerate ylang ylang and tuberose, go for it. If heavier florals put you off, try before you buy. EDIT: I've sampled this a few more times, and the ylang really has grown on me. I think the ylang detracts from the typical soapiness of orange blossom fragrances. I've gotten compliments every time I've tested it. I've added it to my want list.