Eclat d'Arpege

I am so jealous when I read the other reviews that detect fruit, especially mandarin, apricot and peaches. I detect predominantly fresh green, like a fresh cut flower stem mixed with a tiny, TINY bit of flower (I apologize that I cannot detect what flowers. I have no idea what any specific flower smells like, maybe because I am not really a botanic person. I don't know what most flowers look like, not to mention what they smell like. But what I DO know is if I like a perfume or not. So I leave the deciphering of special notes to the more sophisticated and botanically educated noses!) So the flower notes come through more and more as time goes by, but I totally miss out on the fruity aspect. Nothing fruity here for me, and I so love juicy fruity frags. Bummer. Still nice for a hot day, it is fresh and peppy, but reading the other reviews I think on my skin it doesn't quite unfold its full potential. Oh, oh, it's coming, it's coming. Finally I can detect the fresh mandarin note. Clearly there, and the green harshness disappeared. LOVELY! Well, better late than never. I will have to change my like to love, now!

I have the original Arpege parfum, and while this doesn't smell a whole lot like it, it retains the peachiness of the original, and frankly, it smells better than most of the fruity junk that saturates today's market. It's a very original floral fruity, nothing else like it on the market. Haven't smelled a floral fruity this beautiful since Fleur d'Interdit. If you love peach and lilac, you should definitely give this one a chance. It's fresh and clean and perfect for summer. If it weren't December right now, I'd own it already!

my all time fave perfume!!!can consume at least 5 bottles in a year..i get compliments that i smell really good even from strangers whenver im wearing this...

Wow, what a pleasant perfume! I don't know how but the mandarin is strong on my skin! And I know that there shouldn't be any mandarin here :) Magic.

Lanvin's Eclat d'Arpege has been a pleasant and inexpensive blind buy which holds up surprisingly well and long on my skin, for the type of fragrance this is. I'd call it a louder soft fragrance; I get the same feel from this as I do from fragrances like JLo's Glow, a "clean" type of feel that in this case I think comes from the green tea, interesting in combination with the lilac and peony. I'm thankful that the peony here is more subdued, however the lilac is almost overwhelming in the opening: not a bad thing if you like that. I do like this perfume much better after a couple of hours have gone by, as it holds up quite well for a good 6 or so hours, so performance is better than average for the type.