Quelques Fleurs l'Original

Upon first applying a sample of this, I was surprised at how beautiful a floral this is. I expected it to be a bit too vintage smelling for me, but I agree with the previous poster that it is like a damp flower garden. I smell this within about 8" of my skin too from initially applying. I know there are a lot of different notes in here, so it's hard to pick out specifics, but it does smell fresh, dewy, spring floral. Herbaceous slightly. This is just a lot more lovely than I expected. And again, it doesn't just scream 'vintage,' perhaps only slightly dated at best. But it could almost be a creation made today. This is just the smell of walking through a lush green garden after it rained. It's also mature, refined, elegant, feminine, slightly subdued. 30 minutes later and there is a slight spice and warmth to this, but it's still fresh. I can smell it strongly within about 3" of my skin still, and more lightly outside of that. Houbigant's site mentions clove in the middle notes, and I feel like I get that, plus some sandalwood, but still amongst dewy flowers. 40 minutes later and there's even the slightest touch of sweetness coming out, that's a bit addicting to smell. It might be the honey. This also just has a sort of serene and peaceful happiness to it. I'll see how long this lasts. I honestly like this way more than expected. I don't typically wear fragrances like this, and I'm not sure the occasion I'd wear this for, since to me it feels more for a dressed up classier occasion perhaps, but I would like to this smell this again. 2 hours later and it's still going strong. The scent hasn't changed much, but it honestly has been still projecting so much, it's been a bit overwhelming/nearly cloying for me just sitting around today. If you were walking around and doing stuff though, it would be perfect, or applying less. I still enjoy the scent though, it's just a lot. 4 hours later and it's mostly a skin scent, but definitely there on the skin, as well as some light delicate sillage. It's gotten pretty 'warm' as well, but yet again, still mostly the same floral. Just warmed up a bit. 9 hours later it's a soft skin scent that's white floral and slightly powdery. I might be picking up on some oakmoss as well. This does smell a little more vintage, but I don't mind, it's still pretty. I'm very surprised I smell it at the level I do after this long as well. 14 hours later and it's basically gone.

Such a beautiful perfume! I’m in love 🥰 This is the scent of the stairs and gates that guard heaven. Maybe that’s a little dramatic but it’s so pretty. It’s a beautiful, clean and fresh floral bouquet composition thats inoffensive and doesn’t smell like a grandma. It smells realistic like walking through a huge garden in a mansion! I had found a sample and heard Princess Diana spilled this all over her wedding dress and Kurt Cobain really liked this perfume, so I had to check it out. My first impression was that I was underwhelmed. It smelled floral but just that. Floral. I actually spilled about a quarter of it on me because the vial was so hard to open, so I ended up wearing it throughout the day and it grew on me significantly! I kept smelling it throughout the day and it smelled so good!! It was almost calming and reassuring. This was composed in 1912, the same year the infamous Titanic sank. That same year, L’heure Bleure by Guerlain was made and I have to say that one aged like milk and this one didn’t age at all! Smells fresh, bouncy and clean for being such a vintage perfume! Houbigant, this perfume house has been here since the 1700s, and Marie Antoinette carried 3 vials of perfume from this house on her way to the guillotine, Napoleon also shopped around in this house! Some people have been said to refuse any other perfume and have strictly stuck to the ones made by Houbigant for decades! It’s all so fascinating! This was also the first of its kind to be a floral perfume with a ton of flowers rather than just focusing a few main flower notes. Also 15,000 flowers go into just 1 oz of this perfume! That’s 45,000 flowers for 1 full size bottle! Longevity and Sillage are massive!! Super long lasting and magnificent sillage despite me only using a quarter of a sample! This perfume is worth every penny! Great for spring and summer, it’s good in hot weather and would be great to wear to a wedding! Scent: 9/10 Longevity: 10/10 Sillage: 10/10 Price: 8/10 (Not too bad considering the quality) School and Work Friendly! Would recommend a blind buy if you know you love white florals and floral heavy scents! Age: All Ages! Yours Truly, Yuzu 🍊

Vintage classic in the best possible way. There's a reason this perfume has been selling since 1913, it's beautiful, feminine, classy, and versatile. I could see this scent as someone's signature. I'm a huge fan of orange blossom, I figured, I'd never find an orange blossom scent rivaling my beloved Fragonard EDT & Intense.. but this hits the spot. Fragonard is more sharp, less sweet, more realistic an worth owning both if you love orange blossom. I initially purchased it because it has orris root, violet and honey, I initially expected this to smell like Ysatis Givenchy, but no. I was initially apprehensive because of the tuber rose. Tuber rose is a tricky note, I loved honor woman, but it churned my stomach. I love CD Poison with the tuber rose accord and this because it has just enough to say "I'm here" but it's not dominant, she's the shy girl in the corner who serves her role adding her signature sweetness without being cloying or stomach churning. The sweetness from the ylang ylang isn't too banana like. She's well rounded, a diverse mixture of white, purple, pink and yellow flowers. The combination keeps the powdery accord soft and pleasant, the honey and yellow flowers are balanced by the citrus and tonka. I could see someone young and innocent wearing this to a sweet comforting matriarch gracing the world with her presence. I do understand why some say it's soapy, for me that's very slight in the clean realm. Not laundry soap. I cannot imagine anyone could possibly be offended by this scent. If I could find the lotion on a discount site, I'd snatch it up in a heart beat. She lasts for days on clothes (literally) and I only have the new formulation, I can only imagine the original must have been more animalistic with more depth from the civet. On skin, I'm sure I went nose blind to it after 3 hours. This is one of those under rated rare gems that must be a well kept secret as it's been sold for 111 years and I stumbled on this by accident. The bottle is beautiful, thick frosted glass the way Halston Sheer used to look. If you're on the fence thinking this scent is for a more mature crowd, release the bias, give her a shot.

(6 sprays total, one on each back-of-hand and two on each wrist, gently pressed together.) It's nice and very 'classic' and 'feminine' and I can see why famous people like Princess Diana and Dita Von Teese wore it but to me it's just another basic LoTV perfume. If you have Diorissimo or something similar, you really don't need this one. If you don't have any LoTV perfumes in your collection though, you may enjoy having this be your only one. Imagine an engagement ring, and LoTV is the center stone. Oakmoss and Lilac are the two smaller diamonds on either side, making the LoTV look and feel even prettier and more luxurious. Surrounding the three stones are smaller diamonds, representing the jasmine, rose, and other notes. The very first green note listed in the "your votes" column... either I'm anosmic to it, or it's just blended so well that I just detect it as a realistic LoTV note. Projection and longevity are okay approx 1- 1.5 feet/ 3-4 hours. Spring/summer daytime. It's a very timeless perfume too. No sharp edges like some other LoTV offerings out there. There is no way someone in 2018 could smell this and say "Ah! A perfume from the 1910's or 1950's or 1980's! It feels like an upscale niche house could have invented and blended this formula just yesterday or 200 years ago. If you only want one LoTV perfume or one white-floral, this should definitely be a contender. ___ Also, I am not a fan of the fictional character reviews. If you want to exercise your writing skills on here, fine, but please, no more than one review per perfume, and it must be a perfume you have actually smelled and are reviewing accurately. No one wants to read about your Southern Sorority Sister roleplaying fantasy if you didn't even smell the perfume and are just making things up and stealing info from other reviews. People spend a lot of money and invest a lot of emotion into blind-buying perfumes and they depend on honest, accurate reviews from Fragrantica, so it's not fair to them when you make things up. Either that or write whatever made-up story you want, but put a disclaimer at the end so that we know not to take your pretend-review seriously.

There is a vintage formulation of Quelques Fleurs that reportedly smells different to the current version, it was allegedly discontinued in the 1970s. I'm reviewing the modern formulation that was released in the 1980s. It's a massive and utterly seamless 80s floral bouquet. Jasmine and lily of the valley dominate but there are a ton of other floral notes as well. Orange blossom, carnation, tuberose, rose, violet, ylang-ylang... the florals meld together via the honey note, the animalics give them a touch of warmth, and the result is an ethereal, vaporous cloud of flower nectar. Soft, luminous, and quintessentially feminine. QF is unique in the sense that it has aged into the new millennia far better than most of its contemporaries. It certainly doesn't smell like a modern release, but it doesn't exactly smell 'old fashioned' either. It has retained a degree of timelessness because it skews fresher, greener, and more natural smelling than the other big florals of the time. If you wore it out, people wouldn't necessarily think "Yuck, someone's wearing a granny perfume", more likely they'd think "Hmm, something smells like flowers". The florals of the 1980s are particularly difficult for me (a younger nose) to stomach due to an unpleasant note that most of them have in the base (I'm looking at you Chanel No. 5 EDP). Fortunately the dreaded oily champagne note that dominated that decade is barely detectable in this perfume. The comparisons to Lauder's Beautiful are on the money, but that perfume is much heavier on the carnation, and it is sweeter with a stronger tuberose as well as a mimosa note. This perfume is easier to wear, and while it's a lovely perfume, the opening of Lauder Beautiful is a bit much for me. I haven't found a Sophia Grojsman perfume I love yet, and her florals are particularly intimidating. All in all I'd say: If you're on the market for a classic and classy French floral and you don't like the other florals that are still in production (R.I.P. Patou!), be sure to give this one a try.