Pour L'Amour de L'Inde

This one is too wonderfully and tricky crafted to describe in a way you can understand, how it smells. It is like triple spiced, - from cardamom, (0,1% absolu of cardamom oil) from spicy tagetes (in a way carnation can be spicy) and - from pepper. Plus, it has 0,1% absolu of Indian jasmine. Which makes it smell more deeply aromatic and dry-spicy, than Kenzo Elephant, for example. It is like loud and multicoloured market in Marrakesh, full of hanged dried fruits, long rows of spices and exotic women in exotic dresses. Very good base, mainly from sandalwood.Hard to find, but well worth it, it is better, than majority of niche fragrances with spices and jasmine, that I have tried.

Pepper and Cardomom are very dominant here, and that makes this scent really oriental and spicy without any sweet or too heavy or too flowery notes. After a while the jasmine is getting stronger, but never too sweet, because of that pepper/cardamom company. Really a great scent! I can't find any roses in here (but that's just my skin, I guess) and I don't miss them. The dry-down is very earthy, authentic, pure. Although the eau de toilette itself doesn't smell like that at all, the feeling it creates reminds me very much of the feeling that Yves Rochers Nature Millenaire evokes. Two scents I really miss...

This is an oriental in pure character as they were meant to be! I would categorize not as an oriental flower but PURE oriental. It does not take the easy way out like, put some vanilla in it and it would be just fine, noooo, this one is thought about carefully! It is saying, you want to be in India and feel right at home...? Wear this! Good luck! Action

The best blind-buy in my "perfumista" career! I absolutely love it! The opening is spicey, but not peppery (although pepper is listed among the notes), then it quickly settles down to a very pleasant jasmine (not harsh and in-your-face as it sometimes happens with it) and rose (weird - when I read that there IS rose in it I could detect it - if I didn't knew I'd never suggest it's a rose note). But the drydown is like a dream...woodsy vanilla (not the sugary type, mind you!). And it lasts and lasts...about 7-8 hours on me! And this is EDT! I wish all edt's would last that long...Now I'm going to chase down all Isabel Derroisne scents (sigh)Ah, and one more thing - this is the only frag in my collection that was approved also by my 16.y.o. daughter and 67 y.o. mother;)Must keep a sharp eye on this bottle (LOL)

Never tried this one just before a few days ago. I could not stop sniffing it :) It is so rich and sensual. It is rather soft and flowery, very good balanced. Actually, hard to describe how exactly, but it reminds me a lot about Vie Privée Yves Rocher. Lasting power is very good. I could smell it ́s aroma whole day. Could be used as a romantic or everyday parfume.