Living Lalique

I usually don't like woody fragrances at all but Lalique living is my lovely exception It starts powdery,tones of soft powders surround you and sit gently on your skin and I love this,of course it IS woody but thanks God,I mostly detect cashmeran and Tonka bean,which I like I don't find just iris powdery here so it's not lip steaky,you know how cashmeran and pepper can be powdery too.and I can easily detect lavender here,specially when first sprayed.I never thought that I can love lavender in a perfume designed for women but here,lavender goes so well with wood and powder spiced by pepper and nutmeg,not that much spiced to burn your nostrils,just a tad tastey.it feels warm,cozy,fresh and clean at the same time It definitely can be unisex IMO,is kind of nostalgic for me and reminds me my dad every time I spray it but this doesn't stop me from liking and wearing it best season for it is fall,when you are wrapped in all these woodsy powdery spicy goodness..longevity is moderate and it sits close to skin I believe living is unique,there are not much similar feminine fragrances out there.if you're tired of all other feminine fragrances with all those fruits,flowers and gourmand notes in them you have to try this one.it has a specific personality, serious but kind,not a girly or seductive kind of fragrance,it feels sophisticated,can be an acceptable choice for formal or casual cases but I won't choose it for clubbing or romantic dates.it can make a perfect office perfume And it's bottle is to die for I'm starting to appreciate Lalique as a perfume brand."living", "le parfum", "satin", "perles" and even "elle noir"are all different with mainstream while being easy to use and their reasonable prices is another bonus لالیک از برندهای خوش قیمت محبوب منه و عطرهای زنونه ی خاص و به یادموندنی مثل له پارفیوم,ساتین,پرلز و اله نویر داره و قطعا لیوینگ هم جزوشونه کلا عطرهای چوبی دوس ندارم و لالیک لیوینگ از معدود استثناهامه.نت های چوبی,روایح اسپایسی و پودری خیلی هنرمندانه در هم ادغام شدن و حاصل کار رایحه ای آرامش بخش و بالغ و تمیزه که بعنوان عطر امضا برای خانوم هایی ک از عطرهای زنونه رایج ک پر از میوه و گل و ترکیبات خوراکی طور هستن خسته شدن و میخوان یه عطر متفاوت داشته باشن خیلی مناسبه,همچنین بعنوان عطر روزانه ی پاییز(البته بصورت چهارفصل قابل استفاده ست) و بعنوان عطر اداره و محل کار یه گزینه عالیه موندگاری خوب و پخش بوی متوسط داره و رایحه جدی,باوقار,مهربون و باشخصیتی داره ک میتونه یونی باشه و برای آقایون هم قابل استفاده ست

I'm collecting Lalique fragrances. I knew this one had been discontinued, but recently I saw the lotion available for a great price on a gray market site. I was immediately attracted to the swooping birds on the package design. I liked it so much I ordered a second one and then set about attempting to track down a bottle of EDP. It took a little while but I found a lightly used bottle online, 100 ml and went significantly over my usual limit for it. Wow, this one is my prize! First, the bottle - so clear, so heavy, feels perfect in my hands. The design is lovely, elegant and slightly intimidating. The accords above mirror my experience with this. For me, it is not an everyday fragrance at all, I need to be in the right mood. Today I am alone with my thoughts, in my studio, and finding Living to be an invigorating and inspiring companion. I love many traditionally feminine fragrances but I also love this woody, slightly smoky masterpiece on me. It challenges me, and I respect it. There are lots of other days when this is not my first choice - when maybe I'm not up for the challenge. But most days it IS the first one I pick up to simply hold in my hand and smell the cap before I choose my SOTD. I thoroughly enjoy it even when I don't wear it. This beautiful perfume is probably not for everyone. It's woody, fascinating and a little intimidating. It's the teacher you love who you know you need but also scares you a little. This is how I interpret this one, and though it is not an every day scent for me, it is a privilege to have and to know this discontinued treasure. If you like woody, aromatic scents and you happen across this in the wilds of second-hand or estate shopping, I highly recommend it.

Oooooh, this is good. I have a terrible(!) blind buying habit and have had a lot of success with Lalique perfumes; this is described as balsamic, it's Lalique... so I bought a partially used bottle from a seller on eBay. I think Lalique missed an opportunity here - had this been marketed as a unisex scent, it would have been a greater commercial success; its woodiness combined with vetiver definitely makes it lean masculine (having said that, wear whatever makes you happy). Living has a wonderful sandalwood presence, which performs in my favourite way - as a light oud (in fact I thought there was oud in it before I checked the notes). It's not a barnyardy oud - please don't let my reference put you off - the sandalwood just has that slight edge which I absolutely love. I am not getting mint from Living, thank goodness. I like mint but I don't want to smell it in my perfume. Although beautifully blended, lavender, citrus and wood all pull in slightly different directions and it could almost be described as a fougere. Sillage is soft, bordering moderate. I've only been wearing this for a couple of hours, so I'm not sure about longevity, but it's now priced very reasonably, so I don't mind respraying when necessary. ETA. Living Lalique has a powdery and creamy feel to it, which may be due to the iris/vanilla combination - I find it quite unusual; I don't recall any other perfume which is similar to it. I love it. Edited again: The sillage on this is greater than I initially thought. Two people I work with commented on the "lovely perfume" I was wearing - and they were both nearly two metres from me (although the door was open and there was a draught, so they were downwind of me).

I wish this lasted longer. (Edit: I take this back, I can smell it on me the next day, just not explicitly on my skin. Hangs in the air like a fuzzy aura! Yay!) Still - a delicious offering, and the best Lalique I’ve tried by far. I’m not usually a fan of Lavender notes but this is Lavender done so perfectly that you can’t help but enjoy it - I almost want MORE Lavender if that’s possible, because it is strongest and freshest when first sprayed and doesn’t stick around in the creamy drydown. This is primarily, though, a creamy, woody perfume. Lavender just lifts it. I almost get coconutty vibes in here from the cashmeran, but not quite, and I disagree with the reviews that say it can’t work in warm weather - it definitely can. It’s nowhere near overpowering enough to be offensive in warm weather. In fact, in the summer sun it almost gets a TINY bit sunscreeny, but only in a background kind of way. That’s probably the lavender mixing with the tonka. Do I wish there was a little more bergamot for freshness? Sure, but we can’t have everything. I really love it. It’s what I wanted from the much more popular Libre by YSL, but didn’t get. Creamy, woody, and a tantalising fougere that disappears and reappears. As a true autumn there’s not a lot of summer fragrances I enjoy, so in the spirit of going against popular opinion I may just have to make this one of my summer staples. I live in the UK, so I can pull it off. We have about 3 days of summer here.

This was a hugeeee surprise for me. I received it like a New Year 🎁 from a good friend. It's arrived at my house on 29 but I didn't have time to open till 31, when I see it from Lalique I was like...hmm not such a big fan, they don't really have feminsit scent in their collection...at least that was I thought than. Anyway, I opened it and sprayed in the air because I was afraid really to put it on skin, considering that everything I had tested at Lalique was sweet, sugary, girlish etc. When the atomizer sprayed ... wow. What is this, I thought? This can't be Lalique, this thing smell like a Patou from 90, powdery, mentholated citrate beginning, then follows a creamy, the medium notes are aromatic, I smell a nut with a classic iris not the sweat one from today formulas, something resembling cardamom and something floral like a magnolia, and the base...I don't really like cashmere wood but in this combination I don't mind, woody with a little sweetness, powdery and floral and at the final before to disappear a vetiver vanilla. A feminist lovely formula, a fragment which is seen to have been created for the feminist area, for the career women area, for the suit .... very good no words remain.If Lalique managed to bring this in 2015, I decided that will keep an eye on this brand from now on