Champ de Fleurs

I know this is not a groundbeaking fragrance, but on my skin it is beautiful. I dabbed on my sample and then sighed in ecstasy as this beauty unfolded on my skin. I adore a good white floral and this one is done with a deft hand to give it an airy, outdoorsy feeling. I love how the tuberose and gardenia are made to feel light and blend so well together. The grapefruit is fresh and uplifting and the pear gives the scent a tiny bit of natural sweetness. It is so great to find a floral these days that is not overly syrupy or overwhelmed by oud or leather notes. I'm buying a full bottle of this beauty. I love La Chase au Papillons, too, but Champs de Fleur is a fresher, more country breezy scent than its older sister. Perfect for the warmer months ahead.

Fresh and wet jasmine, well balanced and easy to use.

Even though they're not listed in the pyramid, Champ de Fleurs strikes me as a foremost tuberose-gardenia fragrance. The initial opening of the softly bitter grapefruit pith quickly reveals the fleshy heart of tuberose and gardenia. The creamy sweetness is very restrained here, so much so that it feels almost like a nutty sweetness when the cedar starts to whisper in the background later on. The cheese-like butteriness of gardenia purrs quietly under the blanket of clean white musk, just enough to provide a certain intrigue but far from threatening the overall lighthearted mood of the fragrance. The sillage of Champ de Fleurs is mostly intimate, and it lasts around 6-7 hours on me. I initially thought of Champ de Fleurs as very similar to La Chasse aux Papillons EDT - one of the most successful L'Artisan Parfumeur offerings, and last year's Roger & Gallet Tubéreuse Hédonie, all three composed by Anne Flipo. After comparing them side by side, I still think that they're interchangeable to a certain extent, as all three share the similar tuberose heart and all three fill the same spot of a pretty, girl-next-door type of tuberose fragrance. But there are still noticeable differences, with Tubéreuse Hédonie being the closest to a tuberose soliflore, exchanging the buttery cheese aspect of gardenia with the vegetal and somewhat chalky undertone of tuberose, while the hay-like nuance of linden blossom in La Chasse aux Papillons becomes much more apparent in comparison. As a result, Champ de Fleurs turns out to be more creamy, more musky and less vegetal, even though marginally so. It's certainly a very wearable, everyday type of tuberose fragrance. Adequate for sure, but I'm afraid it doesn't have much anything new to say, and I doubt it would make much impression to hardcore tuberose fans.

Very bright warm and fresh, primarily lily of the valley, violet, jasmine and slight pear fragrance to me. It’s a nice off-white floral which smells like a mix between Marc jacobs white flower fragrance of the same name and DG Light blue. I could in fact see this being a beautiful floral flanker to light blue. Lasting power and projection are weak on me, however, I’m testing from a dabber.

A winter morning, the Sun reflects brightly off the ice covered stream. You lean in and, somehow, blooming flowers. Did Spring come early? No, it's a distant memory. The days still short.