Fleur de Bambu

I love this genre of aquatic, floral, woody, green tea scents, and Fleur de Bambu does it well. It smells high quality, and the performance is REALLY good without being overwhelming. The opening is strangely musky and a little sweet for my liking, but I really enjoy the dry down, which is earthier, woodier, calming, and comforting. It's also softly green and milky in the heart and base notes. I don't know if it actually smells of tea, rice, bamboo, and ivy - but the image is spot on. While Fleur de Bambu has quality ingredients and a nice composition, it's also possibly a tiny bit generic. In terms of similar fragrances, By Kilian's Bamboo Harmony is close in feeling, but is much greener, fruitier, more complex, and has worse performance. Oud Pagode by Chapel Factory is maybe even closer, but more masculine. Worth sniffing if you get the chance!

I was very resistant to try this sample, since I find that Il Profumo has very strange (read: ugly) bottles and I had a bad customer support from their official website. Fleur de Bamboo is so airy, aquatic green, it gives a feeling of wet drops, so pleasant, chilled and perfect for lazy mornings, casual wear. I really like the lotus flower. In general, Fleur de Bamboo reminds of a childhood smell, my mom had a deodorant like this, I could never find anything similar. This scent has a bit of a soapy character. If you like Ivy-for example from Diptyque offerings Lieree - you will probably like this one as well. Safe blind buy if you like greenish/aquatic scents or Hermes Un Jardins Collection.

Unlike any freshie I’ve ever tried . Has a sweetness to it that is akin to a green banana which I ador. The bambo and water lily freshens this up and feels very aquatic and the rice gives it this creaminess which I think is what is making this give off like a banana scent ? And has a green stem touch of the ivy . This can become a signature scent all year round- I live in Florida so I can see myself reaching for this all the time

This is one of the most beautiful fresh compositions I've ever smell. So fresh and delicate bamboo flowers and after time warms up and became little creamy(may be it's the rise milk). It is very longlasting (on my skin). I love it :)

I received a sample from this last summer but never bothered to try it because I didn't really have an idea of what bambou smelled like. I visited the botanical gardens near Accra Ghana years ago and stood in a giant tropical bambou bush which smelled like absolutely nothing! I had been wearing heavy winter scents all month ( Poison Hypnotique, Heure Bleue, ...) so I really wanted to try something really light and fresh, something like Fleur de bambu. My first impression was that this reminded me a lot of the discontinued Truth Lush by Calvin Klein. Both share bambou and woodsy notes, Fleur de bambu is a greener scent while in Truth Lush the bambou and wood were complemented with a soft floral note. It is a nice scent but I do miss a more floral touch.

A pleasant bamboo, rice, and water Lily scent. Fleur de Bambu has a spa-like quality. Remains linear after the more interesting opening fades—which smells fresher with a more pronounced ivy note. I like it but it’s not a love.

Fragrance Review For Fleur De Bambu Il Profumo Top Notes Tea Middle Notes Bamboo Rice Lotus Water Lily Base Notes Ivy Asian Rice & Bamboo This is a lovely and very simple fragrance. I'm a hardcore Oriental afficionado but this is rather too tame and even sweet for an Oriental, perhaps it isn't even appropriate as an intro to Orientals for novices. Instead, it's a calm, soothing soft green floral and bamboo scent to smell for the sheer pleasure of it. It doesn't throw up a big projection and it doesn't last as long as I would like. It's a spring and summer scent to lift your mood and temporarily whisk you away to rice patties and bamboo gardens in South East Asia. It smells like Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Cambodia. The effect is a charming little escapism via the notes which evoke these Oriental Asian themes of rice and bamboo, which are 2 of the biggest icons of Asian landscapes. Though I hate to compare fragrances, this one, with it's sweet and soft touch, can be likened to Japanese Cherry Blossom. This is a very sweet sweet perfume. The opening lacks fruit which is interesting and grabbed my attention. Very few frags (unless they're indies) open without fruit notes. Fleur de Bambu opens with a tea note. It's a green tea, aromatic, herbal, and indeed like a Japanese teahouse scent. It smells like putting your nose to the tea cup itself. It also smells like the tea bag. Enough green tea to satisfy you and quite strong at the first spritz. The florals are softer and more delicate, aquatic, like water lilies and lotus flowers floating serenely in their own scent on little pads on ponds. It produces the image of a Chinese garden complete with the bridge over the pond. This perfume can match up with Monet's Nymphea or Water Lilies series of paintings. The lotus is one of my favorite floral notes in fragrances and always a pleasure to find them. This is a very well-crafted lotus scent; sweet, heady, and like a bath product. It's like floral bath water, aquatic, and very relaxing and pretty. A sweet rice milk is also there. It's very engaging since I don't have too many scents with rice notes in them. The rice is somehow blending with the first note of tea, it's almost a gourmand like rice cakes or rice crispy. The dominant accord is of course, true to it's moniker, the bamboo. This is a graphic but not overpowering bamboo. The bamboo wood can be detected as much as the bamboo leaves. This is a pleasant bamboo which oddly enough can smell like banana. It, too, is sweet like the floral notes of lotus and water lilies. The bamboo features every vestige and element of the tree: the sprouts, the flowers, the leaves, the trunk. The scent is also a bit reminiscent of a sugar cane. It's such a natural and heavenly aroma. Finally the dry down is a faint ivy, green and herbal, and again the tea note appears. Two notes of ivy are featured and they are the Hedera Helix and Hedera Cnariensis. If you have ever experienced ivy and not poison ivy, then you'll love the ivy in this fragrance. It's herbal, and a bit like a sweet fig. This is still a floral note but it has more in common with the green tea because of its greenery. Beautiful. This fragrance goes full circle from tea into florals-bamboo and then back to tea. On me the tea note is as big a player as the bamboo and the ivy. The floral notes only provide a sweetness to it as does the rice. Very easy to wear in spring and summer and can pass for a Bath & Body Works scent. It's a bath scent, fresh after the shower and casual day time or morning scent. I love how this smells and hopefully you will too even if you by this blindly after reading my review. Enjoy!

FLEUR DE BAMBU is my first foray into the offerings of the house of Il Profvmo, which I have often wondered about but somehow never encountered. Guusjes was kind enough to send me a generous sample of this perfume, which I have now tested a couple of different times. Initially I thought that I did not like FLEUR DE BAMBU, because it seems somewhat aquatic and therefore not really my kind of thing. However, after a couple tries, I have decided that this composition really is quite nice for what it is. Believe it or not, this creation evokes memories in my mind of rural Japan. The wet, glistening grass of rice paddies is the precise image before my mind's eye. The scent is both green and wet, so it's more like grass after a rain. Or rice paddies in rural Japan! I'm not sure what bamboo is supposed to smell like, although I've certainly smelled bamboo sprouts while preparing or eating various kinds of cuisine. The watery, greenish quality of this perfume seems to match the pale yellowish-green of bamboo sprouts. There is also a watery floral facet to this perfume--probably the water lily and lotus listed among the notes. Overall, this is still more aquatic than green to my nose, but it smells calm and serene rather than aggressive and angst-ridden, which is my typical reaction to calone-heavy aquatic fragrances. Probably if I overapplied FLEUR DE BAMBU, I'd experience those feelings again, but sparingly applied this is an appealing atmospheric scent.

I took a chance on this when House of Fraser put it on sale, and I am glad that I did. Not only is it very beautiful and calming, but it is surprisingly long-lasting. Given the relatively few scent notes, the fragrance is more complex than you might expect - but the main scent is bamboo (less sharp than you'd find in Issey Miyake or Kenzo scents that include a bamboo note). I summarise it as a sweet aquatic bamboo with a creamy floral heart (jazzed up a bit by the tea). Warmth improves it, so that it smells a bit different and much nicer after about 15 minutes, and that scent lasts about 4 hours, seems to fade linearly. I can't really name another perfume that it reminds me of, but if it's any help to readers, I now have a huge scent library and this one is a keeper.

This is a beautiful delicate floral perfume but the silage is so weak, I could barely smell it on myself. It sits close to skin, where you can detect it for many hours but not in the air around you. It opens a little more in the heat, but it’s too subtle for my liking. Otherwise it is a very beautiful and feminine scent, with a tropical vibe that I really enjoy.

I always chasing after fruit fresh happy scents .and it's one if the best. It's not coming at pink pretty bottle ,it's not look like girly thing -but smell is everything about sparkles:). Clean fresh perfume with tender sweetness and cold notes. Longevity suprisingly very good.

It's a very clean and elegant scent. Love it for everyday.