Aqua Sacrae

I've recently bought and worn 3 Aquas Le Couvent. Solis, Paradisi and Sacrae. Acquired at rock-bottom prices. I want to mention the bottles are luxurious and the perfume house impeccable. Sacrae is the easiest to process, and possibly to like because it's the most familiar. It's gourmand like the other two. Not watery colognes. On skin it's a pretty flowery tea perfume, possibly warm Italian cream pastry. Yet it's 50% different on fabric - where it's a pure white flower EDT and not gourmand. A designer and natural white flower perfume at dimestore jasmine prices. Have a go, white flower lovers. I found my new 200 ml bottle for $22 and I don't think any house offers something so natural smelling and elegant for just a few shekels. This is the only Couvent of the 3 I now have that I would offer as a gift. The other 2 are too arty.

This fragrance is a real compliment getter! I've been using this a lot this summer. Every time I hugged a friend they started to sniff me behind my ear and gave me tons of compliments, which surprises me since I don't get the same reaction when I use other perfumes. I thought this cologne was a lame safe buy, but it turned out to awaken people's curiosity. Therefore I must give this fragrance the highest point possible. Longevity is good too, projects and lasts as a perfume.

If you’re a lover of Earl Grey this is the frag for you. Somehow, it’s not really gourmand, but light and sparkling (like champagne) and utterly free of disastrous sugar/vanilla/cream notes most people would stick in an Earl Grey fragrance. That is why Ellena is the best. Wear it to bed. A love and 2 full bottles for me!

This is a very beautiful, powdery scent, a bit like posh face powder eg Les Voilettes by Guerlain. It’s quite soft and subtle. It smells like Penhaligon’s Heartless Helen in the dry down but is not as citrusy in the first spritz. I keep the 200ml bottle in my bathroom cabinet to wear after a shower.

Official note list: Top note : Mandarin Heart note : Jasmine Absolute & Tuberose Absolute Base note : Sandalwood So, base is sandalwood, albeit a very subtle one. In fact I find the base to be mostly musk. The mandarin note somehow lingers. This is beautiful.

I fucking love this, and I’m not a white flower person. It’s distinct, it feels creamy and powdery, and the slight spicyness holds it all together so beautifully.

It is barely there, but it's also very pretty. I will be wearing this during the hottest days. Just a hint of floral femininity and my favorite earl grey tea.

I like this atypical cologne - it is light and soft white floral scent, mostly jasmine on a pronounced woody base, some citrus brightness just to balance everything out and some powdery feel to it. Overall impression is slightly musky, yet almost soapy white floral. Spring, summer and autumn daytime. Unisex for floral scent enthusiasts. Inoffensive, safe, quite on the clean side; minimal, well balanced and no extremes. Rather original, yet forgettable. Moderate to soft projection with up to four hour performance on the skin.

Soft and rather beautifull woody floral. Very longlasting, but sits so close to skin that I can hardly notice it myself, so I overspray, just to get a wiff of Aqua Sacrae and 10ml gets easily used over the weekend. I would have loved it to have a little bit more sillage.

I like it a lot. It is a floral woody musk in the vein of Glossier You or Diptyque Fleur de Peau -- it definitely has that pencil shavings note. The way I see it: Fleur de Peau: floral woody MUSK Glossier You: floral WOODY musk Aqua Sacrae: FLORAL woody musk

Floral, light, pure & innocent 🌸 A bit powdery but not overpowering. It reminds me of a girl in the prime of her life.

In love with this scent right now! It smells like a pretty woman

Starts out fresh and floral, feminine. Drydown is a little more soapy-powdery (but not vintage or granny like) and I even get notes of pink roses. It's a modern floral that would suit any age. Inoffensive and light - it can be used for sports as well as officewear. It's not generic although it reminds me of so many fresh floral perfumes.

A word of warning to potential buyers: I was interested in buying most of the perfumes in this series, (due to the nose behind them). They hit the TK Maxx's in Germany and were low priced, but despite this I ended up returning all of the sealed boxes I had bought. After discovering one TK Maxx where the public had opened the seals on the boxes I was able to test what I had purchased. I was shocked at how bad they were, (apart from Nubica - an acceptable, although very watered down patchouli/vanilla combo). Regarding the above Sacrae, I could not smell any tea note or bergamotte /earl grey note. The perfume smelled off...really bad. Mahana was revolting. The sea-salt note and caramel totally dominates the whole creation. Horrible. I cannot imagine anyone wearing this. Paradisi was just okay. It is extremely sweet. My personal thoughts on this brand is that the ingredients are very low budget and inclined to turn sour at some stage. I think it was a rushed project aimed at unercutting the Diptyque brand. I hope this helps as a warning to buyers.

It smells very strong , projection is enourmous from me . Although it’s kind of clean , sharp, soapy smell , somehow I dislike it . I think the ingredients are super cheap and synthetic , or maybe because I like to overspray perfume and this one no matter that the flanker looks like simple mist ,it is actually very powerful . No tea note , neither jasmine or tuberose . After sometime it starts to smell like in church something like rosary kept in a wooden box . That accord is maybe nice , but only a drop of it . I tried to layer , but it’s overpowering every other perfume . Maybe I will use just a drop in some mixer ...... maybe I will just spray into fabric conditioner .

Imagine an old fashioned wooden box. You lift the lid and in the box is a floral white bar of soap on a nest of baby powder that has a hint of something spicy (like carnation) along with several faded tea bags. It's fresh and pleasant, elegant like a Victorian woman but I don't think it's my style. I appreciate it, but don't know that I'll ever reach for it over anything else. I like my white florals to be lush and this is definitely not that. I can't pick out jasmine or tuberose individually, it just smells like faint white florals. It is very good quality for the price, so overall I appreciate it as a faint like.

When I got my hands on a bunch of these botanical colognes I certainly wasn't expecting to like them all, and I'll go ahead and spoil that this one isn't my thing either. Rather, I hoped to learn something by trying out these scents with presumably rather simple formulas, as a kind of nose training if you will. But this one I find really difficult to analyze, like all the parts have completely fused into the whole. All I can say is that to my nose it's a bit old-fashioned, like a very traditional ladies perfume. I get flowery, sure, but in a kind of musty and stale way that to me, dates it.

Soft and spiky floral scent. I don't smell the regular parfumerie jasmin or tuberose in it. I might be used to richer, narcotic white floral. It is simple, humble. Not "in your face" kind of scent. It is a cologne. It doesn't project that much, but at the end of the day, I still can smell it on clothing. It's not a wow scent but people who likes shy, floral, not sweet perfume will like it.

Usually I find tuberose scents too stuffy and headache-inducing, but Aqua Sacrae is a nice exception! The tuberose in this is not dominant, ant that imo brings the best out of the flower. Earl Grey tea adds a slight spice-like edge to the scent and the woody base makes it soft and pleasant.

It smells like nothing. If anything, maybe a faint smell of alcohol (ethanol)? But other than that strangely... nothing. Thank God I got it as a sample, otherwise I'd be very, very disappointed.

What I find interesting about this fragrance is that I can easily identify each individual note, which is quite rare for me. Overall, I find it leans more feminine than masculine.

This is a young rose scent for me. The one you spray 5 sprays in the morning to wake up after you take a shower. Lasts for about 1 hour and then you can put your real perfume on.