Fath de Fath (1993)

Fath de fath edt .5oz bottle My mom walked in after the first test spray and declared what a beautiful smell! Well after that I shared a spritz with her and her eyes lit up and a smile on her face overtook her. I think I just lost my first bottle of FdF. Its that good. The opening is beautiful with the slightly bitter cassis, plums, mandarin, then the menthol creamy tuberose, rose, floral heart mixes with the Tonka! Tonka shows its presence early as a guiding hand thru this fragrance. After about 10~15 min after the light fruity start it still mixes with the florals. Its lightly peach like tresor note but better. The vanilla and the base mix as support with the rest of the fragrance. It's a well done complicated in the best way, that reminds me of vintage scents. Its not cloying at all to me, as I can handle Rumba with ease, or Charlie gold is more syrupy than this to give you a guide. Its dryer to me in its fruit presentation because the tuberose cuts thru the fruityness which I love when that happens. It keeps the tuberose from taking over and drying out the syrupy fruits that could veer into cloying. But it does not. Looks like I'm buying another bottle. I don't think I'm getting this one back from mom. Lol! Update: ordered 2nd bottle..3.4oz and that was confiscated by mum because she ran out of her .5 bottle..now I just recieved my 3rd 1.7 bottle for me.

I purchased a mini of this from fragrancenet and immediately went online to purchased a 100ml edp. I am in love. This is delicious from beginning to end. Slightly boozy, honeyed fruit and florals in vanilla cream. I find I am craving it, and there are not many scents that do that to me. I now want to get an extrait or pure parfum of this scent. In the meantime, I have a vintage 1953 version on the way as I want to compare the reformulation for myself. I have a feeling that is going to be very different because it is categorized as a chypre. Notes for that are - Top notes: aldehydes, bergamot, lemon, heliotrope, orange and green notes. Middle notes: iris, Bulgarian rose, Grasse jasmine, Grasse may rose, ylang ylang, carnation, tuberose, orange blossom and lily-of-the-valley Base notes: orris, vetiver, oakmoss, sandalwood, ambergris, tonka bean, patchouli, musk, vanilla, cedar and benzoin This perfume has spurred interest in me finding out more about Jacques Fath. Doing an image search some of his designs are truly beautiful but very of their time. Update 7/28- I received the original 1953 version in a sealed package. Top notes were shot, as to be expected but the mid and base reminded me of chypres in the manner of Dior Diorella or Chanel Cristallle.

I'll admit it , I'm a Perfume Junkie . I have had a love of scents since I got my first whiff of Tabu on my Mom ~ I love strong scents that have a wonderful dry down , that don't spritz one way and wear another , what you smell from note one , like Venenzia by Laura Biagiotti & Fath de Fath . Both are among my top 20 scents that will remain in my Perfume Wardrobe . I adore Oriental / Musky / Patchouli , sometimes without a fruity or floral hint . I must say those which are my flavorites are in their original formulation , I have 2 bottles of the original Fath de Fath and lotion { 2 } too which is a creamy silk lotion same as scent . This smells delicious , from one to two spritzes . It holds it own . When I wear , I get asked Who are you wearing , and I am always happy to tell . I'm proud so far of my collection of 60 plus , but honestly some I can no longer wear . I'll stick with my tried and trues , Poison ~ Obsession ~ Anne Pliska ~ White Shoulders ~ Bvlgari Rose Essentielle , even Tabu ~ Ooo , yeah , the list is long . I miss those that I can no longer name , which is why I'm here , to try and reconnect with those Scents ~ I appreciate those posting in detail , it has helped me find 3 so far ~ /=^ } ~

In life there are not so very many experiences when you fall in love with person, dress, shoes or perfume at first sight and forever. And if you do, it surprises you every day by how easy it was, like it was meant to be your person, your dress or your perfume So I guess same story is between me and Fath de Fath. We just meant to meet and stay forever. Its a perfume I understood from first second, all notes – separately and as a whole where somewhat engraved into my skin and chemistry a long time before the actual meeting took place. Its a part of me. - always is the right time for him, its stunning, perfect, refined, silky, beautiful, smooth oriental. Its my glass of cognac in front of fireplace and feet massage, its my sleeping pill, its my morning smile, in all times and situations – the best. Its never just fruity or just floral or just oriental, its..creamy rich long-lasting smell of comfortable life - Fath de Fath... All things in one, all beautiful things as a whole. *give me a medal, I invented a new slogan* lol

Fath de Fath Jacques Fath for women is one of the finest fruit-topped fragrances I've ever owned. I'm not sure why others are comparing it to something as simple as canned peaches. It's much too sophisticated and multi-faceted for that. Fath de Fath is a luscious, velvety, cognac-colored elixir that sparkles with currants, plums, and citrus. Its heart blossoms with tender tuberose, heliotrope, rose, and orange blossom. I was very surprised that I could love a fragrance that contains orange blossom, because it's a note I normally cannot tolerate. I think Fath de Fath must be expertly crafted with high quality ingredients. It's just so beautifully balanced. The sweetness is countered by the floral bouquet and the base of amber, tonka bean, patchouli, musk, vanilla, cedar and benzoin. Although, the musk is very subtle. Fath de Fath is a real gem in an elegant bottle. It strikes me as a modern and unique scent. I find it hard to believe it was launched in the 1950s.

This is one of the scents that I like more and more, the more I try it. I never disliked it, but at the beginning it was just pleasant for me, now it is definitely love. I like oriental frags, and also sweet scents, and this one is almost like a hybrid: Not really oriental enough to be one, and not sweet enough for the other, and I just start to realized now, this is where its perfection lies. It is a wonderful delicate balance, very refined, almost shy and introverted, as if she herself is not sure about her own beauty. She is truly lovely. Some find her to be similar to Jil Sander No 4. I really don't get that. I adore No 4, and she is definitely a flamboyant lady, out there, striking and vivacious. At least on me Fath de Fath acts more like a well mannered sweet gal that is a pleasure to have around. Isn't it weird how fragrances evoke images in our minds?

I have vintage EDT. From the bottle it smells like overwhelmingly sweet fruity syrup. However, when you put it on your skin... this is where the magic happens. Oohhh... I believe, although never had a chance to visit one, this is how smells notoriously private, exclusive, just for VIP clients, opium parlour in 20's of last century somewhere in London. Its opulence and luxury is beyond your imagination. Geishas in silk kimonos silently appearing and disappearing through sweet smoke of opium. Sensuality is in the air. It's never rowdy loud, it's close to your skin. Warm and sensual cocoon of sweetness is intoxicating. A night fragrance for me. Together with my the most beloved orientals Or des Scythes by Novaya Zarya and original Venezia by Laura Biagiotti Fath De Fath is 100% a masterpiece among of many sweet Oriental perfumes out there.

I have had this perfume on my want list for a long time and finally broke down and bought it. If I had bought this last year I would have saved time and money searching for the right vintage scent. Fath de Fath smells like what I wanted all the Guerlain's and Caron's to smell like, classy, sultry, and timeless. All those bottles of perfume I bought that didn't quite fit the idea of what this one delivered will huddle whimpering behind this beautiful faceted Ambrosia. The perfect combination of fruity top notes, followed by floral middle notes, and the resinous bottom notes culminate into a perfect blend of harmony. This perfume will definatly deserve a backup bottle or two, or three. I will never want to run out of this.

It really is a beauty. You smell like a delicious peach salad with some other fruits in it on a summer day and sunshine comes to mind, light breeze, nothing serious. It is a very playful scent to invite to smile and to take it easy. The scent lives between the sun, the clouds and the trees for a while. Then we travel down to the ground which isn't heavy though. Dry grounds - the dry down is really beautiful and exciting. A scent that is deeply rooted with childhood memories of a summer day - very comforting for no reason other than this. *I am new to the world of scents, I have a good nose, great insides but still learning the right words for it. Stay with me (: *

Fath de Fath, vintage extrait... drops of nirvana, shared with me by a wonderful fellow Fragrantican. FdF in this version is what I imagine the still life paintings of flowers and fruit by old great masters must smell like. Yes, there is vanilla, but it is such a fine, and not candied note. The Tonka and Benzoin serve to ground the scent. But the fruits! The flowers! So beautifully preserved in this small bit of parfum. To inhale vintage Fath de Fath is to take a dream memory trip into a simpler, more gracious and slow-moving time. This is what fragrance is all about. Making one feel hungry to smell the wrist or neck again and again. Complexly gorgeous.

OMG I love this one! It just keeps changing and developing on the skin and that is truly the sign of a GREAT perfume. Layers and layers WOW!!!! I may have just found my fall signature scent. This is too beautiful for words!!! I have the EDP and it is just amazing! There is a creamy smoothness to this that is really top notch along with the Tonka and tuberose, amber and peach it just keeps drifting into something new and LASTING!!! It is not like the synthetic planned obsolescence sprays that are gone in two hours so you use up the bottle in a blink, this one is a masterpiece!!!!! GORGEOUS!!!!

Fath de Fath smells good enough to eat. Yes, it's a modern reformulation and while I usually frown at reforms, who could quibble with this warm and spicy beauty? Not me! Amber, soft and sweet notes make this perfume a warm comfort on cold, rainy days. It'll surely be good on hot days, too, maybe high temps will improve the already good sillage and lasting power. The pyramid shows blackcurrant, but I can't pick it up. Which is great because blackcurrant is too foxy/stinky for me. Fath de Fath is one of the very best perfumes I've tested. Why isn't this more popular?

I love this in extrait form. Sweet and smooth... nothing sharp here, at all. Very well blended plummy-peachy white florals, honeyed amber, gentle musk, and just a smidgen of woody spices make it interesting. Slightly powdery upon dry-down, but otherwise linear. Stays close to the skin, but gives off nice wafts with movement for many hours. Extremely comforting. I wear it in any season, as the white florals and fruit are reminiscent of spring and summer, and the honeyed amber, musk and woody spices make it warm and cozy enough for cooler seasons. Most pleasant.

If gold would had a smell, it would be Fath de Fath. I didn't remember the fragrance and it was a blind buy of a 0.2 ml. The first drop made me so excited that I used the vial at one go and immediately ordered a full size EDP. That's what I call a Masterpiece! It's sweet and spicy and flowery but it's blended and balanced so wonderfully that none of notes overpowering. Longevity and sillage are incredible! One spritz lasts for 24 hours on me. Love! Love! Love! Glorious Jaques Fath!

This is one of those forgotten gems that doesn't get enough love. It is stunningly beautiful, and yet it's rarely suggested or mentioned. Rich, floral, honeyed, fruit. It's got it all without being overwhelming or stuffy. There are the big white flowers, rich ripe plumbs, and nearly liquid amber. It smells rich and very expensive. Super smooth and well blended and it lasts really, really well. The price? Well the price is stupid cheap for what you get, I paid $30 for my bottle.

This fragrance was never on my wish list, it was a totally impulsive blind buy. OMG, this is so gorgeous, it really awakened my olfactory senses with its beauty. It is really hard to believe it was launched so long ago in 1953 because it smells so modern. Just like the previous reviewer said, it is not too sweet, not too loud. Very rich and elegant with a prominent metallic note. But I would never call it generic, this beauty is definitely fit for special occasions.

I have this perfume and I absolutely love it. I completely disagree with the comparisons. It's different from n. 4 Jil Sander ( same family and similar notes but different smell). And please It can't be related with the new Cavalli, That I hate and I can't stand. Fath de fath is sweet, warm, fruity but not cloying or overwhelming. It's subtle, elegant and precious.

The vintage fragrance from 1953 has now been added to our database and has its own page. The 1993 relaunch is a completely different formula, an oriental, whereas the original was a floral-leather chypre. Any additional info on the original would be much appreciated, posted to its respective Fragrantica page as a comment. Thanks!!!

Sadly this is discontinued and a lot better than the current revamped Jacques Fath perfumes. A boudoir tuberose, peach custard, heliotrope and cognac. If this is housed in a Guerlain Art & Materials line I bet a lot honeybees will go gaga over this amber beauty and wax poetic about i!

I have the parfum extrait, and I love, love, love, this stuff. I can't distinguish the individual notes, but the fragrance is sweet and boozy in the best possible way. It has great staying power, but because you dab it on the sillage is controlled at about arm's length. Bravo!

Sitting in the back yard eating some nice sweet fruits, mid-summer while there is white laundry hanging and drying under the warm sun at noon. This is what i would imagine Estee's white linen would smell like. Lovely really...

My best blind buy. Love, love love. In the manner of Lou Lou, a bit reminder of Alchimie not the same at all. Delicious, elegant, warm, lovely. Thanks to fragranticans: I bought only by all your positive reviews.

So beautiful! Herbal heliotrope violet vanilla with touches of white flower and pear. It is unlike anything I've smelled. Based on my sample on pale pearly pink card so I must have the new version.

Has a very sweet opening smell but by the end it's just a warm honey aroma. I really like it, I just wish it lasted a little longer!

This was made in 1953? I’m astonished. It’s like a modern day juicy fruity BUT with a soupçon of smokiness. I want to bathe in it.

This is so beautiful I had to leave a review. It’s not like other fruity florals, this is so warm and special. I love it

Love love love this perfum ....l bought this perfume blind buy and l fall in love with it ...Wonderful warm fragrance

It is in the same family as the new Cavalli! Have them both and love them both!

A golden peach liquor perfume! GORGEOUS!!

So... I ordered 100ml Gres Lumiere d'Orient from a seller on eBay, based in France. This arrived instead. I can't return it, because Royal Mail won't ship perfumes out of the country, so I either keep it, sell it or bin it. I read a few of the reviews below before opening and testing it (I was giving serious consideration to selling it in its sealed packaging) but curiosity got the better of me, as usual. Fortunately I like it, so I've added yet another perfume to my wardrobe (which is already bursting at the seams). I really don't think this is the overwhelmingly syrupy-sweet-peach-sugar-bomb that has been remarked on by a couple of people (predominantly in 2009-2011). It is possible that my nose has been desensitised to sugar because of its overuse in many more modern perfumes, given the trend to make them sweeter and sweeter in recent years. I don't think this is the case though, as I regularly wear fragrances such as Timbuktu, which can't be described as "sweet"; comparing FdF with Timbuktu is ludicrous of course, but my point is that FdF doesn't make my teeth ache when compared to Timbuktu, which it would if it was THAT sweet. Of course, Fath de Fath may have been reformulated - and for the better, for once. It is "naturally" sweet from the flowers and fruit, notably tuberose and orange blossom, peach and plum, with a contribution from tonka and vanilla, but the green notes and cassia are enough, in my opinion, to stop the perfume becoming saccharin. There is one review below which particularly resonates with me; Bandit describes FdF as being "the well behaved and pretty vanilla sister of the original Dior Poison formula". I think this description is perfect! Fath de Fath 1993 reminds me of Dior's Poison, with MUCH reduced potency, sillage and longevity. Where Poison bursts flouncing into a room, demanding attention and pouting, Fath de Fath enters quietly and stands discreetly to one side, waiting to be noticed. I don't understand why Fragrantica has designated this an "Oriental" perfume - there's no heat or spice or hint of mystery (and amber? What amber?). FdF is a grown up fruity floral perfume and is actually a very good one. This is a very pretty perfume; the longer I wear it, the more I like it. I still want my Lumiere d'Orient, though. And now I'M pouting :D

I had an opportunity to try Fath de Fath thanks to the kind and generous Ana, who sent me a decant months ago that I only got around to trying today. Thank you so very much! It is gorgeous, and I have already purchased my own 95% full bottle of this little treasure. Someone below referred to it, I believe, as Poison's younger, well behaved sister, and I definitely get that connection. I am basing this off of a single wearing and clearly there are layers here with multiple facets that ebb and flow throughout it's lifespan on my skin. While sweet, I haven't detected anything similar to that "grape Koolaid" thing that comes roaring out of a bottle of vintage Poison at first spray, and while I like it in Poison, I also appreciate the honeyed sweetness that Fath has to offer. It is very elegant and most definitely has it's own identity, so one need not consider love or hate of Poison as a determining factor if choosing to purchase blindly. There are plenty of bottles available out there for an affordable price, and if the seller offers returns, you have little to lose by trying it this way. I want to write more about this new infatuation, but I need to know it a little better before I can do so, once the infatuation turns to love! ========= A few hours later... resistance is futile. I am in love! Thank you again, dear Ana!! ========= Full bottle came today and I sprayed with abandon. It is glorious, though I detect the black current and cassia in the opening and they are not notes I care for, but it's not terrible and they quickly recede enough that they are more in service as a counterbalance to the sweetness. It's just so pretty! I was bemoaning the fate of the packaging of most of the classic Guerlain fragrances in the hideously cheap bee bottles, so opening this and holding the weight of the gorgeous, faceted bottle was a treat as it adds to the luxury of the experience in spite of the fact that I paid very little for the once-sprayed bottle.

I still have a bottle of Fath de Fath that I bought in 1996 while visiting Paris. It was maybe one of the first perfumes that I bought for myself, without any guiding influences, and today for some reason I decided to remind myself why I chose this little bottle over all the others. The dark amber gold colour made me fear the perfume might have turned, but no! One spray and I knew it was still as glorious as the day I chose it in that Parisian perfumery :) This is one of very few fruity perfumes in my collection, and yes it is syrupy but I find the opulent layers of golden peach, candied pineapple - I always get pineapple with this even if it's not listed, benzoin vanilla, honey, heliotrope and even tuberose (normally too cloying for me!) very well balanced. The orange blossom lifts the deep, rich, fruity notes while the light jasmine provides a touch of white floral elegance, all anchored by warming, sweet & spicy but not overpowering patchouli. I do also get a few hints of almost savoury, spiced notes in the dry down from time to time, maybe from the cedar..nothing as strong as cumin but something earthy and a little acrid - strangely this is not a negative however, I think it keeps the sweeter notes in check. I find this perfume almost intoxicating, it's exuberant, heady and deliciously more-ish. Whenever I wear it I find myself sniffing my wrists every few minutes to almost drink in the scent. I did wonder if my 1996 choice had been a naïve one, that I had just fallen for the lovely little glass bottle or an overly sweet fruit bomb of a scent, but having re-visited it I don't regret my choice at all! The twinkly star shaped bottle will happily remain in my collection as both a treasured perfume memory and a perfume that I can still wear and enjoy today. N.B. I haven't tried any recent or current releases of Fath de Fath so I can only hope they don't differ too much..

It took me some time to fall in love with Fath de Fath, but it's now grown on me. At the first sniff I was shocked and thought OMG it's waaaayyyyyy too fruity and sugary for me 0_o!!! I like sweet scents e.g Angel and Candy but I swear I've never smelt any perfume this sweet in my whole life! It's not sharp so no headache but it's extremely strong. My nose went kinda numb, all I could detect was syrupy PEACH PEACH PEACH and hint of orange, probably tuberose as well. However my patience was rewarded after 20 minutes, when the peachy waves began to ebb away. I started to get clear sweet and cool tuberose butter melt down in vanilla cream, so feminine and 'dangerous' that it'd work out great on a femme fatale smoking a slim cigar. Given another 30 minutes, it became more musky and earthy. Still seriously sweet but no longer overwhelmingly fruity, rather oriental or even gourmand as the tonka bean smelt more than good enough to eat. It reminded me of Accenti by Gucci and these two had the best tonka bean note ever. It was a mini modern EDT I tried and I could imagine a vintage parfum to be much deeper and richer, a truly divine scent. I only wish there'd be tobacco or leather note to perfect it but so far it's good enough for me to order a 100ml bottle ;)

I'm honestly surprised at the cloying peach syrup analogy, because I don't get anything like that, and my chemistry is frequently uncooperative with fruity sweet notes. I think the key with this fragrance is to go for greater concentrations - I've got the EDP and the pure parfum, and the EDP is a sparkling cocktail, while the pure parfum is sooo smooth, dark, and mysterious! (I had the same experience with Magical Moon by Hanae Mori - it only works in greater concentrations.) I actually bought Fath de Fath as a day-to-day replacement for Alchimie, no less! (I got tipped off by fotolux - thanks a lot!) They're not the same, of course, but they share a creamy smoothness that I really like. It's not a flowery fragrance, but the combination of the top and bottom notes - in equal amounts, w/o the emphasis on the peach - is a good representation of what it smells like on me... Maybe I got lucky just this once ;)

I can not add much to my review which has not already been said and written about this beautiful perfume. When I first sprayed it on my wrist I though, its OK nothing special. After about 10 minuets the most amazing smell was coming from my wrist. It is a truly unique and special perfume. It is sweet but not overly sweet in my opinion. I am not a lover of sweet perfumes at all although I do love vanilla. I also have Jil Sanders 4 and I do not find they have the same smell even if others do. I love them both and find them dissimilar enough to justify having both in my wardrobe. I have a 100ml bottle of Fath de Fath and it will be my perfume for the coming colder months. Sillage and longevity are excellent. It last a good 8 hours on my skin. This is one of those perfumes that you are happy that not everyone knows about it. Perfect.

Just wanted to add to my original review - now that my bottle has had a chance to sit and recover from it's journey to my home, it is even more beautiful than I initially thought. Truly magnificent, the fruity sweetness and creamy tuberose make this one for the ages. While the similarities to Poison are there, this is it's own fragrance. I actually think it is more reminiscent of Lou Lou. I can not believe how entranced I am by a fruity floral, but then again, this is not over the top sweet. It's very natural smelling. When the vanilla and amber emerge, it does take on some elements of an oriental, but by and large, this is all about the plum, peach, and tuberose, with a powdery heliotrope lending it a softness I adore. I truly believe this is a masterpiece and multiple wearings unveil new layers.

I also agree with those below about the opening. I thought the decant that was "paid forward" had turned. To me at "least" the first 15 minutes have a cloying/plasticy concoction that is SO not me. However, after 20 minutes or so....that starts to change and become more tolerable to my nose. I am SO hoping that I get to the marvelous fragrance that almost everyone describes this to be :o) I'll update if it keeps going and going to get to the perfect elixir described. *fingers crossed!*

The opening is vintage, and I thought I would love it but that quickly leaves behind ripe fruits (plums and peach and currant). This is a much better fruity fragrance than many of the cheap girlie crap nowadays. This is darker, richer, very ripe and fermented with a little underlying musk to deepen it. I don't want a full bottle but am glad I bought a mini to try it. In the dry down, the fruits take a backseat to the floral that rise in an aldehydic sharp manner.

I got this one for the tuberose, but was bowled over by the heliotrope. Nice boozy fruits out of the bottle, peach brandy and plums that stay well into the blooming tuberose and jasmine. There’s some really good citrus-y rose–with nice black currant thorns that give a bit of sharpness–then *BAM* comes a huge dusty-sweet powder puff of heliotrope. The amber on the bottom doesn’t hold it down. Vanilla-almond floral dust floats around like a cloud for hours, trailing sugary musk everywhere. It’s good–especially the first few minutes on top–but all the notes I love are just obliterated by that powder. Some of my favorites are heliotrope bombs, like Lolita Lempicka and L’Heure Bleue, but this one is too much for me.

Hi Chrisndema, I had a very similar experience with Fath de Fath, and you describe my sentiments perfectly. I hate saying negative things, so I'll only say that if this fragrance works for you, I'm so jealous! I really am, I mean, look at the notes! How scrumptious! I also experienced a note in the drydown that reminded me of a candle, a spice-scented candle that had been left out too long and there's hardly any scent left. It's a waxy candle note (I read somewhere that this waxy note might be benzoin...my apologies to whoever mentioned that, now I can't find that comment to give credit to, arrgh) and I just can't get past it. I also bought mine on ebay (glad I paid very little for it), maybe I should have bought a new one? Oh well. I wish this worked for me, the bottle is beautiful and the notes listed in this are so lovely! I'll ask my sister if she wants it, she loves fruity florals and she might be compatible with it. Wah....

Oh my god. My teeth hurt just from sniffing this. I've been around many sweet fragrances, but this is something new. This is the most sweet, cloying scent I've tried. Really. At the first seconds of the opening I get fruits, I get peach and plum dipped in syrup. The next thing I'm having is the tuberose, which is extremely sweet and extremely creamy and makes this all more gourmand, because it does actually taste edible. Little bit too edible I must say. Ok, so hear this - if you are ok with sweet scents, but not Pink Sugar kind of sweet scents, if you're ok walking around smelling like peach syrup, then it's for you. But watch out. One spray too much and everyone around you will run a way screaming and gassping for air.

I'm not sure what's going on with this one... It started out with a root beer like smell that reminded me very much of Gucci (brown bottle) but after half an hour or so, I can think of nothing except garlic! It's not that it really smells like garlic but there's just something about it that's a little off and out of sync. I don't get peach or syrup like everyone else, just a soft sweetness with a bitter/garlic-like sharpness to it. Maybe it's the changing weather or maybe my nose is just on the fritz but I don't think this is something that I will be wearing anytime soon. It's a pass for me.

I purchased a small dabber of the EDT to test before buying a larger bottle. I was originally interested in this fragrance, because I saw it was supposed to be similar to the discontinued L’Occitane Notre Flore Neroli. Sadly, to my nose, this does not resemble at all. I love Notre Flore and was looking for a more affordable option. However, there is something in this fragrance that smells of plastic doll. This fragrance is sweet and not particularly offensive. It’s just not a love for me.

I don't like sweet/sugar or surypsweet notes in my scents. In Fath de Fath I find great, darkfruity notes and some great flowernotes. A wonderful fragrance. I don't find it that sweet that many rewiews writes about. Jag gillar inte sockriga/söta eller sirapsöta noter i mina dofter. I Fath de Fath så hittar jag härliga mörka fruktiga doftnoter och några riktigt fina blomnoter. En superfin doft. Jag tycker inte att den är så söt som några omdömen säger.

1993 version - Stale boozy fruit compote in a cheap plastic dish. Moderately sweet but very sticky and cloying in feeling. Devoid of freshness. Like fruit gone bad just before you throw it out. Unclean smelling with no particular indoles. I don't want to smell it...on me or anyone else. Strong dislike...sadly. I shall have to acquire some of the 1953 vintage and assess. I am very curious.

I'm really disappointed with this one coz i bought it based on the reviews here. Its a meh fragrance of i can't even tell which notes, some watered down fruity concoction of tresor. I mean really weak, projection. It lasted 30 mins or less on my skin and the dry down was a plasticky artificial mess. Is this real french perfumery or maybe coz i bought it on ebay i got a dupe!!!:(

I smell soooooooo many perfumes in this one. So rich! For those who miss their beloved Gucci EDP - there’s so much in FdF you’ll appreciate. This to my nose it is dripping honey (maybe from the benzoin+pear) and vanilla sweetness, with a peach + tuberose middle (and maybe because of the plum, ever so slightly refers to an accord in Dior Poison, which may feel heavy and dated in comparison due to the coconut), and with a sheer lace of lily of the valley + orange blossom top. In the crannies, there are clean musk, heliotrope, patchouli, tonka .... etc ... which play supporting role to make the mix feel rounded and delicious. There's another way to look at this fragrance (for those who are into more popular recent releases) and it's a type of LDBS-like fragrance, sweet, leaning on honey instead of marshmallow. It's much sweeter than Cassili, but thankfully, despite all these citrus notes, I can't feel their cheap juice ruining the honey+peach+tuberose heaven we have here. If I'm ever to layer this fragrance, I'm curios to see how it would do with marshmallow notes or light jasmine. I'm curios to see how some orange blossom centered scents will work with a splash of this (for example Courreges La Fille de l'Air). If Fath de Fath is too plummy for you and you only want the bright golden airy feeling from the vanilla+honey+tuberose+orange blossom+tangerine, going a bit more in a laundry detergent direction, rather than perfume, try Sultan Or Pascal Morabito - it's a great cheapie to start with. You must be into the notes, though. And mind it - it can't beat this one!

Originally a floral aldehyde/chypre, this perfume was completely reformulated in 1993 as a honeyed, fruity oriental. The original Fath de Fath (1953) is a lady in a sharply tailored tweed suit. The perfumer for the original is identified as Roubert. I have the EDT of this version, which is a delicately rigorous chypre with bergamot, galbanum, aldehydes, lily of the valley, herbal notes and a beautiful musky-woody-leathery drydown. Imagine a lighter, more herbal vintage Miss Dior (and yes I do compare everything to vintage Miss Dior). I have to say the 1993 oriental is quite lovely too. (I have the EDT splash, short ingredient list, no "e" sign). The 1993 EDT bottle is beautifully made, but the perfume within is about as different from the 1953 Fath de Fath as two perfumes could be. Interestingly, at least for vintage perfume geeks, the 1993 bottle resembles a different vintage Fath bottle, the one used for Canasta (1950). I have not been able to identify the perfumer for the 1993 version. The 1993 version is balsamic and somewhat syrupy, with a distinct pineapple note, but the juicy hesperidic notes keep it from feeling heavy. 1993 Fath de Fath reminds me of Molyneux Fete (1963) and Montana Just Me (1998). Since the perfume is still listed as a 1953 launch with a photo of the 1993 bottle, the reviews are unsurprisingly quite muddled. The 1993 version is discussed as though it were the original, leading some to wonder how such a fruity oriental could have appeared in 1953. It didn't.

Like fruit liqueur par excellance, Fath de Fath opens ups with a most luxuriant medley of peaches, plums, pears, and more, all lightly fermented, and then, fully saturated within an ambrosial amber accord that is made most complexly sweet, with varied elements of vanilla, benzoin, and tonka. A very clean white tuberose also adds richness, but does not color the composition in an overtly floral way. Yes, there are many other langourously sweet and fruity fragrances that seem vaguely similar to Fath de Fath, ...but most are more prominently oriental-spicy (like Femme Rochas), or rosy (like Tresor), or more lightly and brightly constructed overall (like Azarro's Oh La La, ...or else, Le Roy Soleil). No, Fath de Fath is exceptional in the deeply syrupiness of its fruit. While still not quite fully gourmand, there is indeed a desirous sense of edibility to this, especially near the opening, before any of its admittedly light woodiness or muskiness becomes apparent. To say Fath de Fath is like amber-honeyed ambrosia does indeed make for a particularly apt simile here.

Everything I could say about this perfume has been said most exquisitely by Yohji. What can I add except this is the most heavenly perfume I have smelled in a long time. I have many olfactory experiences but Fath de Fath is such wonderful one for me. Tuberose predominates this fragrance along with a boozy note, but the booze is a smooth and silky one, nothing harsh in here. It is most certainly a comforting and uplifting fragrance and I will wear it to death in the winter, when I feel that the notes will sing and dance and make themselves heard more loudly than in the warm summer months. In fact, as people who know me well, know that I dislike winter intensely , I can reassure myself that it will be more tolerable when I wear this beautiful perfume. Longevity is excellent on my thin dry skin, 8 hours+ and it has great silage too.