Fleur de Liane

This is so beautiful, even those who normally do not care for green may enjoy it. I would say this is unisex leaning toward feminine due to the moderate dose of floral notes. It eventually settles into a green magnolia which may be too feminine for a lot of guys. But I certainly wouldn't have a problem with smelling this on a man. Fleur de Liane starts out pretty full on green but not overwhelming as some of the greens can be. There is no nose burning forest bomb or anything. It smells pleasant straight from the bottle. It settles down into a nice green floral. It smells extremely natural. If you closed your eyes and smelled it you would probably think there were flowers and greenery nearby. Seriously, it smells completely real and natural. I would wear this year round. It isn't a "summer only" green by any means. It would smell great in the dead of winter as it has a hint of evergreen. Fleur de Liane is a one of my new favorites. Now I wish I had purchased the 3.4 instead of the 1.7 when I had the chance. I seriously did not expect to like this as much as I do. Now let me hurry back and see if they have any of the big ones left.....:)

Fleur de Liane is one compelling fragrance. Duchaufour creates a scent dedicated to the sinuous rainforest vines of the liana and in the process contributes a humid, succulent green scent that begins as a sober aquatic but quickly shifts into thick stems, oversized shiny leaves, and plants pregnant with sap and phloem. It's lushness brings to mind the mirror globules of moisture on bright green surfaces, the flavor of aloe vera juice, and the scent of peculiar orchids that I've smelled in hothouses. I also detect what reminds me of the scent of Yulan magnolia on a warm spring day. A milky, musky dry down somehow brings to mind bamboo in the mist. Sadly, I've all but given up finding a bottle of Fleur de Liane that is going for under 500 US dollars on the resale market. It's certainly a delight, but not worth that much money. I do have other fragrances in my library that fill this niche (Xinu Monstera, Ulrich Lang Apsu, Cacharel Eden, and Duchaufour's own Eau d'Italie Magnolia Romana).

Wonderfully fresh, and truly resembles salty ocean winds. Slightly bitter, a tad floral - some unusual blend, not the typical tuberose scent. Refreshing and not that aquatic (pure aquatic in my book is not a good thing), only enough to evoke sea voyage memories. After pondering over my reasons to like this scent despite its aquatic notes, I decided that FdL's bitterness saves it for me. Aquatic is perfectly balanced by the smell of young willow or ash's shoot with scratched off bark when you smell it straight away. Another scent from nature I've always liked and wanted to find in a perfume. If someone would recreate the smell of young resinous poplar buds, I'll be in olfactory heaven.

This smells of the neck of my babies where the milk has seeped into the folds of skin.Mixed in with the floral Scent of Johnsons Asian Baby baths and clean babygro and sweaty but clean skin.We lived in Hong Kong at the time and I can smell the heat and humidity and the ocean breeze off the pacific just outside our window ,along with my milky sanitised babies. It's absolutely full bottle worthy but disastrously discontinued.

I find, it's a beautiful tuberose, some waterflower, and something like pitahaya and banana, fruity green, dripping of humidity in the air. it's also quite cold and leafy although a creamy effect warms it up (the woods in base). whenever I spray it, it creates the picture of lush, damp jungle trees with lots of thick brushwood and small seldom symbiotic (or even parasitic, but beautiful) flowers.