Lann-Ael

Ah, Lann-Ael, how I love thee... Similar to the previous reviewer, I also had a bottle, sold it, later regretted it, and then couldn't find it. The plight of a fragrance enthusiast. (FYI it is still available on the French website for delivery within EU, but not on the U.S. one.) Finally, I managed to snap one up on Mercari--thank you, fragrance gods. So, if I loved this so much, why did I sell it? I thought it was too soft at the time, and couldn't appreciate it for what it was: A gentle, loving, mother's embrace. Maternal love that doesn't demand your attention, but whose unassuming presence fills you with peace, warmth, and the sense that everything is okay in the world. I've seen reviewers use similar imagery for powdery fragrances like Teint de Neige. This is something altogether different--not powdery (or perfume-y) in the least. This is cereal (baby's first food-type) and milk with a slight bakery sweetness. However, I would not call it gourmand, because it feels more fresh and natural than it does foodie-sweet. It is a gentle breeze flowing over a field of golden hay that melds effortlessly with milky cereal to evoke one's earliest childhood memories. The ultimate nostalgic scent. Now a little more seasoned in my fragrance journey, I would say the sillage and longevity are actually not that bad. In recent years, I've come to appreciate fragrances with moderate sillage/longevity, and I enjoy refreshing after a few hours, anyway. There really isn't any dupe I've come across, but lovers of this fragrance might find something to enjoy in Frassai El Descanso, which has a similar cereal note and fresh, breezy aspect to it. However, it is much greener, and lacks the gourmand hint. A Lab on Fire Freckled and Beautiful evokes a nostalgic feeling with the milk + biscuit notes, but it is more powdery and floral dominant (orange blossom and honeysuckle). I also enjoy those, but for different reasons. Reviewers have also noted some similarity with La Danza delle Libellule, but I get a more tart and somewhat artificial apple in that one, and no lactonic note whatsoever. Lostmarc'h: If you are reading this, please make Lann-Ael available in the U.S. again!

UPDATE: Karl Lagerfeld Liquid is nothing like this. It's much more masculine, thick and bready/spicy, and not sweet. UPDATE: La Danza delle Libellule is very similar but with better longevity and sillage, as well as a more prominent red apple. Highly recommended. I blind bought a full bottle since I couldn't for the life of me find samples. I better love this, I thought, and I do! First sniff was instant love and swoon. There are many wonderful perfumes, I'm always surprised when something is this thoroughly special. This starts with a sweet citrus, like lemon curd. It shares some DNA with Honey I washed the kids by Lush. If you have and like that one, you should absolutely layer these two. I agree that it has a Froot Loops quality to it, with warm milk. The milk is nostalgic and reminiscent of childhood. This vanilla is not grounded, powdery, deep or natural. It's light, so sweet and airy, innocent, cakey and childlike. Lann-Ael is so very unique and a must try. Longevity is frustating and disappointing though, for such a delicious scent.

Fruit Loops and hay in a bowl of milk to start, and then ultra dense vanilla crepes. This is truly a skin scent, one meant to be smelled on warm bodies by noses close enough to nuzzle; it feels wrong, somehow, to smell this sprayed over clothes. Ultimately Lann-Ael is too heavy for me to wear all over, but a little dabbed onto the crook of my arm every so often makes for a rare yet decadent treat. Update: I have since purchased a full bottle of Lann-Ael and am in love. It does seem to have that odd characteristic where when I try to smell it by putting my nose up to my skin, it seems weak and barely present, yet at other times in the day, I'll catch a strong whiff of deliciousness radiating from my wrist. I suspect that there's some molecule in this fragrance that is so large that it temporarily causes anosmia by blocking receptors in the nose. All of that is to say, this is a gorgeous fragrance, but not one that should be reapplied feverishly throughout the day.

This is so delicious I could eat myself ! It is seriously addictive if you are into gourmands. It has a vanilla based and truly a fruit loops flavor that I haven't smelled anywhere except in the cereal itself. It makes me feel like a kid . As edible as this is, charming and delightful , it isn't all positive. This perfume has one or the worst possible lasting power and silage. It disappears so fast that you need to respray extremely often to be able to enjoy it. I haven't payed money for it, as I was lucky enough to get it in a swap with a wonderful member here, so I spray with abandon and love it to the max. However, if I was to actually spend my money for it, knowing how pricey this is, I wouldn't probably be giving it a glowing review, since it is so very weak, quite the contrary . But it's a swap so I am not thinking thinking of anything like value to price ratio and I can just love it and say what a wonderfully delicious fruit loops cereal scent this is .

I tried this because I've read here that it smells very similar to "La Danza delle Libellule" which is a niche perfume that I ADORE but because it's so expensive I never buy. Well, that is true! The two fragrances are pretty similar even if this one doesn't have a note hierarchy so it lacks a bit of magic transformation. It costs a little bit less and it turns on the same mood. The "bread with butter and marmalade" feel is there, especially at the beginning with the opening notes. Then the fragrance sits into a warm honey-vanilla dry down and that's where it resemble to "La Danza delle Libellule". I would say it is a good cozy bedtime scent, to watch a movie under the wool blanket or to take an Early Grey tea with friends. Overall It is a good fragrance, smells edible, but after a while it stays really attached to the skin. But keep in mind that this is an Eau de Toilette! :)

I loved Lann-Ael. It's milk, cereal, comforting, relaxing. I first bought it in 2017 along with body milk and liquid soap and loved to spray it before going to sleep during winter and fall. After moving houses I could not find it anymore and have been trying to buy it without success, today I saw their new web, it delivers to my country! I had to ordered immediately along with their Ael-Mat (sea-salt / chamomile notes). I am so excited to receive them and hope they will be as lovely as four years ago. Update March 18th 2021: I received them today and Lann-Ael is exactly as I remembered, except its color is more transparent. In addition to the notes I mentioned, I detect almond - marzipan like, very faint lemon zest start. The start is so beautiful! After a few minutes the apple gets through. I would say it is a gourmand more than an oriental fragrance. LOVE.

2nd review... The more I wear this, the harder I scheme at ways to get my hands on more of it. It lasts and lasts and lasts on clothes. The first minutes are BEAUTIFUL to me. Soft, sweet, natural, and delicious. The sweet spice of hay and gentle nuttiness of cereal grains mixed with vanilla and cream. A touch of tart apple. Scrumptious, but mild. Not over the top like a teenage body spray. After a while, what's left is milky vanilla and sweet butter, noticeable only to those with the privilege of being close. Alas, after only 2 hours, I need another spritz. But, that's the draw of this stuff...I NEED another spritz. It's as addictive as my mother's spritz cookies. Now, if only I could find an extra, completely useless wad of money, amounting to exactly $85 plus tax and shipping.

I obsessed over this for almost 2 weeks, but couldn't justify the purchase. My little brother got me a 8ml decant for Christmas. It came today! Sniffing the bottle, I was disappointed. It was...metallic. I spritzed once on my wrist, and out came sweet vanilla, crisp apple, and something like butter cookies, baked to a golden brown. The metallic note was still there, but faded after a few minutes...along with the whole rest of the fragrance. This is SO FAINT. After 10 minutes, pressing my nose into my wrist brings me a *barely detectable* whiff of vanilla and brown butter. To get any enjoyment out of this, I'd have to reapply it all day, and with an $85 price tag, that just ain't happenin'. It's really a lovely fragrance, but it's longevity is Not At All.

When I dabbed this on from my 1mL sample, I was immediately reminded of a barley candy that I used to eat as a child, and also a couple of sweet gourmande perfumes that I like. I guess the sweet barley note I'm smelling is probably a combination of the milk, hay, and wheat notes, because I cannot recognise any of these notes distinctly on me (I've never actually ever smelled hay or wheat). You can smell the vanilla, but only barely. I really like the perfume, because it's relatively gentle on the senses, partly nostalgic, and also partly reminiscent of perfumes I love and own. It's like the country cousin of Cinema YSL (city cousin) and Diptyque Eau Duelle (suburban cousin lol). Love it!

This smells nothing like I expected. At first you get a whiff of cereal, as it settles you get creamy, lactonic note with vanilla and at the background you have tart citrus to keep the overall feel airy and bright. It reminds me of my childhood, eating waffles with vanilla ice cream melting on top. This is exactly what Lann-Ael smells like. Such a beautiful scent! Too bad the longevity is not better. By the way, the notes are not correct (at least not with the renewed line), these are the notes from their website: Top notes: bergamot, clementine, grains, fruity Heart notes: floral, milk, woody Base notes: vanilla

This is my school-starts-scent. I'm working as an educator at a primary school. Tells confused, excited, insecure, tired six-year-old children, first day at school behind them: follow me, I tell you what to do, trust me... Who doesn't trust the smell of semolina pudding, apples and vanilla...? Also later Lann-Ael makes ill-bred obnoxious brats use terms like 'thank you', 'please', 'you are welcome' and prepubertal goats become sweet, cuddly little girls again. Sounds manipulative? Yes, is also a bit exaggerated - but often seems to work. Proofed and tested the last eight years...*g*

This is not an oriental, this is gourmand. It smells, for me, too edible to actually wear this as a perfume as I would be afraid that someone will think that I work in a bakery and spend my days baking those lovely vanilla cookies. This smells exactly like vanilla cookies and sugar, there is the slight citrus touch, but mostly it's vanilla + hay which makes everything even more smell like freshly baked cookies :) Lovely smell, brings back memories, very cozy, comforting and with amazing quality, but, really, I love to sniff it, but smelling THIS edible? No.

A crispy, crunchy, light as air, sweet vanilla biscuit studded with lemon zest and a little apple. One of the most comforting, literally delicious scents I’ve experienced. Sweet, but not cloyingly so, unlike some of the newer vanilla gourmands out there. This is light, like the brush of angel wings across your cheeks. Lann-Ael evokes feelings of safety, calm, coziness and home. Perfect for bedtime. Lasts 4-5 hours on skin and has moderate sillage for the first couple hours then is a skin scent. Please never stop making this.

Immediately sprinkled is wrapped in a delicious new that reminds a lot of the smell of an exquisite baked cake. Definitely a sweet and delicate scent, not discounted. It would be perfect if it just did not disappear in a short time, because the persistence is not high! Perfect for the day, but also to indulge as a cuddle before going to sleep :-) Too bad that he can not find it on the market..I told me he went out of production .. otherwise I would recompile for sure!

I LOVE IT! It's sweet but not nauseating, maybe because of apple. In my opinion Lann-Ael smells exactly like my apple cake before baking: vanilla, lemon zest, fresh milk, butter, flour and apples. Delicious and tender, it reminds me of childhood, when I used to cook with my beloved grandmother. real notes are: bergamot - lemon - tangerine - apple jasmine - cotton flower buckwheat - vanilla - milk The body lotion is lovely, too!

This is great! The closest I have come to finding a milk fragrance. The opening was slightly disappointing with all that greenish accord which might be a weird mixture of zesty apple and hay but then it soon evens out and I`m left with this delicious warm milk underlined with a touch of powdery vanilla. Creamy smooth, soft and gentle. The price is affordable for a niche and it`s unique. Definitely on my wishlist.

Another heartbreak... I owned this one once, and I shipped it off to a friend living in Germany because it wasn't getting a ton of wear for me and the sillage was so close I wanted to try "bigger" fragrances, which I did. A horrible mistake that it appears I cannot come back from. I have missed this one ever since. Now that the website has this in stock again, I've found they will not ship to USA.

when I smell it, I understand, how can people leave this world for the secret hills of tuatha de dannan... bewitching! (I never thought I would tell it about confectionary fragrance) O_o It makes me (well, and my husband, too) smile and sniff-sniff-sniff all the time. Just what I need at frosty gloomy January. PS. The longevity is pretty nice for niche products - about 6-8 hours.

Spicy-sweet, cinnamon apple-y, warm-creamy, earthy and crisp. Very simple and uncomplicated; yet delicious and addictive. I get compliments of the "yummmmm" variety whenever I wear this one, and it lingers nicely and softly on clothing. For me it's like flip-flops and denim shorts as opposed to stilettos. Just as attractive---but for different reasons.

Porridge, delicious, warm and sweet porridge. You can actually distinguish the wheat (which gives the oat-porridge felling to the concoction) with milk and vanilla. It is a very close-to-skin fragrance, doesn't have much projection and lasting power is very poor, but I really think is worth it.

...I really love my Lann Ael... and I can't wait to wear the body lotion... still 2 days and i'll have my Lann Ael body Lotion again ;))) It's sweet and lovely..

I go back and forth on this and Kyse Brûlée. But this will always be my favorite. I’m currently looking to purchase a bottle. Can’t find it online.

it smells like an apple pie in a winter day...really delicious!!!

I've been eager to test Lostmarch's Lann Ael for a long time, and if I'm honest that probably has as much to do with the enticing brand and fragragrance names as with the glowing reviews I keep seeing on Fragrantica, especially in the Gourmands forum. In any case, my imagination was peaked, and I was very happy when someone sent me a sample and I could finally smell it for myself. At first sniff, I was disappointed. In the opening, this scent is sweet and milky to the point of reminding me of another fragrance I tried out after seeing it hyped on the Gourmands forum, albeit a much cheaper one: Malizia's Bon Bons Milkshake. That one was fun to try out, but way over the top for me, like scenting myself with the fillings of a Milky Way - which is fine for a 10 Euro bottle, but not what I was expecting from this niche scent, so I was taken aback a little. Luckily, this impression didn't last long: sure, there are similarities, but this one is about a hundred times more restrained and well-balanced; once I knew what to expect, I found the milky sweetness in the opening soft and cosy and very enjoyable instead of overly candy-like, and the presence of green apples and especially the wheat accord do provide a nice contrast (although I wish they were more prominent on my skin). But it's only in the drydown that the magic really starts to happen, at least for me: the milky vibe tones down a lot and the other notes disappear altogether, and what's left is one of the best pure vanilla scents I've ever smelled, realistic and powdery and just sweet enough. Which might not sound like a lot, but it's something I find irresistible when done right, and it really is in this case. So while Lann Ael was surprising and not anything like I was expecting (which is strange in itself because I wasn't expecting anything in particular), I definitely understand the love for it, and I'd like a bigger amount of it for myself.

So I just have to disagree with the whole breast milk thing. Sorry. If I had seen that before receiving a sample and loving it, I would have avoided this at all costs. Thankfully that isn't what happened. To be clear, I have a son, I don't have an issue with breast milk, I just don't want to buy it and wear it. Before I saw the notes in Lann-Ael I thought it had a caramel quality. Like a soft, less overpoweringly sweet version of some of my gourmand favorites. It's strange to see the list of notes afterwards. The milky quality reminds me of the milkyness in Prada, and though I'm not a big fan of Prada, I am a fan of Lann-Ael. So picking it apart to fit the notes I can smell milk and grain, with a caramely vanilla. It could remind me of cereal, but I prefer to stay with my initial impression and simply enjoy it. If you own any sweet caramel scents you may well find Lann-Ael full bottle worthy. Certainly it's worth checking it out.

Hmmm... this scent is, well, interesting. I can't say it's different from what I expected, but I guess I'm just not really impressed with it on my skin. To me it smells like a baby's breath after eating cereal, or a bowl of cereal that has been sitting out for a couple hours. Now that's not necessarily a bad thing. It is indeed comforting. It's a milky, cereal scent with a noticeable but quiet green apple note. It's actually interesting, and I don't hate it, I just don't know why anyone would pay $85 to smell like this. There are probably a million things I would rather smell like than this. Sorry, just my two cents! And like others have said, your nose fatigues of this scent quite quickly, so it doesn't appear to have staying power (although if I smell something else for a minute and then smell my arm, the scent is back)

The good: This is a lovely fragrance. It is very true to the listed notes: vanilla, hay, apple, wheat and milk. The apple is probably the least noticeable. I agree with those who mention that it smells similar to cereal or oatmeal with milk and sugar. The vanilla here is foody, but it isn't obnoxious or cupcake like at all. It's very creamy and subdued. There's a light and airy quality that keeps it from being a heavy gourmand. The sad: This fragrance disappears almost as soon as is applied. Five minutes after I spray it, I have to literally press my nose to my skin to detect it at all, and even then it's very faint. I like this fragrance a lot, but I would be reluctant to get too attached to it because it would require almost constant reapplication to be detectable at all.

First spray: sweet cereal and milk. It literally smells like a bowl of cereal. But not in an I unappealing way. Dry down: less cereal and more milk and apples. Very softly sweet and creamy. Nice and light for warm weather. After 2 hours: A nice sweet cream scent, with hints of grain and fruit. If I had to relate it to something, it smells like a bowl of oats in heavy cream, sweetened with honey. Very soft and sweet. I would recommend this to people who tend to like oriental smells and want I try a gentle gourmand fragrance before they commit to something much stronger.

Opening is mouthwatering ! 😍😍 It reminds me of the smell and taste when you dip one of those cookies into the tea Unfortunately as it time goes it leans into more green fresh phase which is pleasant but not sweet and delicious as the opening Sillage and longevity is of course poor... I'm kind of mad at myself for always choosing those perfumes with poor performance for some reason. Anyway I think this perfume is worth at least to try from a decant (for those who like gourmands and sweet scents)

Straight from the bottle, I really do get the lovely apples and cereal scent that everyone raves about. But everything all comes down to skin chemistry, and on me, this disappears as soon as it dries. All I'm left with is something vaguely sweet that I can't even smell unless I press my nose to my wrist. Amped up x10 this would be the most perfect, comforting gourmand ever. I'll go weep bitter tears into my hot cereal now for the love that could have been between me and Lann-Ael.

I like this! I'm usually against very sweet scents, but this one smells like a fresh homemade apple-pie in a very good way, so unlike all the gourmands around that simply smell like candy industrial factories. the hay comes out later and it smells fresh. It calls to simple real pleasures from childhood and it has a vague sensual edge, yet I'm not too much into edible perfumes for feeling sexy, so I'll pass on this. Not my thing in perfume, but a lovely one and very longlasting.

Lovely skin scent! I get heavily creamed honey tea. It’s not like any other scent I’ve tried before. Unique. It’s definitely not “beast mode”, right before receiving this I tried three Kerosene scents, one of them being Sweetly Known. That is one scent that stays with you and leaves a trail, this is the exact opposite type of gourmand scent, being very intimate and airy. Still beautiful, and most of my favorite perfumes have lactonic notes, so this I’m definitely not mad at!

Received this as a free sample from BeautyHabit along with an order and am so glad to have it. CremeBavaroise described it well; not sure why this isn't categorized as a gourmand. Very yummy; I typically don't like gourmand fragrances. To me, the vanilla is the strongest note but it is not cloying/sickening as in other fragrances. Would wear this on a Monday as a quick pick-me-up.

This is wonderful! It's such a sweet, cozy scent, but not heavy at all. If you're a lover of vanilla but feel like it's more of an autumn or winter scent, this is the solution. The beginning is a bit like a fruity cereal indeed, but once the apple note fades it's a creamy, milky, vanilla dream. It smells like vanilla ice cream. I'm seriously considering a purchase of this beauty.

This is exactly like incence sticks I once had. They came in a chique black and silver box and were called 'super hit'. And for incense, this was quite something different... The Lan-ael is cotton-candy-like sweet, but with great depth. Too heavy for me, though. By the way, I smell not a single apple. Hay, yes, but not ordinary hay. Pimped-up hay. Cotton candy cones made of it.

Got mine on sale. Glad I did - it's a bit much to pay for something with only slightly more complexity than a cheapy chemist vanilla edt. Smells very much like fresh baked vanilla cupcakes. I usually love fragrances with a sweet foody smell but this is just too much like food! Might use it as a room spray when I sell my house.

This is all fruit loops and milk on me, but I love it.

Nutty, delicious almond biscotti.

This perfume starts off w/ a very, very tart green apple note w/ lemon. I am getting a chamomile tea smell as well. This smells like the Lemon Meringue doll that my little sister had. If you are familiar w/ strawberry shortcake dolls Lemon Meringue was one of her friends. If you like lemon bars, lemon meringue pie w/ wheat crust, vanilla custard, a slight herbal tone from a chamomile search for this. Very linear. What you smell is what you get here. Will probably be a crowd pleaser since it is a tart gourmand. But it smells to much like food for me.

Crazy crazy crazy price for a perfume with no projection or longevity. The scent itself is pretty plain too. I literally poured my entire sample all over my body and my forearms and I couldn't smell it at all. Well that's not totally true. For the first 5 minutes it smelled like an orange Starburst candy. The apple is blended pretty well with citrus to make a slightly tangy opening. From then on, the perfume vanishes. If I press my nose to my skin really hard I perceive a very unexciting sweet scent with maybe a touch of cinnamon. Even if this scent were 5 times as strong, it's still not interesting to me. There are lots of better perfumes, like L de Lolita, for far less money and far better quality. I got absolutely nothing out of this that I'd hoped for, no trace of hay, no wheat at all. Definitely sample first, as this seems to be one of those instances when chemistry is everything.

Nope. Nope. Nope. This does not work for me at all. Smells like the air that escapes from a box of apple cake that was forgotten in the back of the office fridge for three months when you inevitably check what it is. My nose finds it revolting.

Spraying Lann -Ael we can imagine one of these magical evenings just before Christmas when you are involved into preparations recalling easily some happy, childhood pictures. Lann Ael is like a plate of freshly baked biscuits smelling with vanilla and citrus flavour put next to a glass of hot milk.Mother calls it`s time to go to bed. Yes, a tale or evening story will be told if you clean your teeth first:) Second picture taken straight from Hallstrom`s Chocolate movie -it`s gently snowing, not to make huge, white caps on the trees but only to refresh a landscape.Small cafe or confectionery in the suburb :people are friendly chatting and telling Xmas wishes. Santa Claus who is eating biscuits asks if they were polite enough to have a gift ;)? There is something warming, uplifting your spirit in this beautiful scent. It`s not complex perfume but very cozy, comforting and gourmand in its style.Vanilla, milk, some fruity flavours. Enveloping and building an atmosphere of safety.I can`t detect any green ingredients in Lann -Ael.A clear similarity to Danza delle Libellue and Dulcis in Fundo by Profvmvm.But first of the mentioned is much more savory and Danza is more gentle, fruity with coconut undertones. Staying power of Lann Ael is rather weak, with moderate sillage for the first hour.It dissappears quickly.A bottle interestingly designed and like a perfume itself manufactured by Lostmarch. Can be also used as a room spray of course not only at Christmas time.

I wanted to add my review because of a huge difference between my sample and the decant from a fresh bottle. This is in no way a reflection of the site who sent me the sample and the splitter of my decant. My sample was vanilla milky deliciousness. I don't always like milky perfumes, as I find them to not work on my skin so well. This was working nicely and quite a comforting scent. So I ordered a decant from a very reputable splitter and a good friend. I got a floral fruity top note that barely went away. I couldn't detect any vanilla! I thought something was wrong, either with the perfume or my nose! I asked the splitter for her thoughts. She also said yes, floral fruity. I think even she was disappointed with it and also agreed it didn't smell like her sample either (and our samples came from different sources). What does that mean for you? You may get a different top note from your sample than from your full bottle or decant. Just be aware of that. The splitter thought maybe the top notes just fall off when it's decanted into 1 ml vials or something to that effect. I thought about leaving my decant open for a few hours or a day maybe, but that made me nervous. I may do it anyway because I'm not enjoying my decant and I want the Lann Ael we are reading about here! Blow drying your skin a little may help too, I will try that next time. Anyone else find this happening to them?

Lann-Ael is the essential cereal fragrance. All humour aside, I actually don't mind smelling like a breakfast food. It's milky, it's vanillary and quite a fun little gourmand. The buck wheat note is what lends this fragrance its cereal quality, and the apple note provides a subtle hint of tart sweetness. All in all, Lann-Ael is quite an inoffensive fragrance, easy to wear and enjoy. Lann-Ael is no doubt a quirky little scent, something that will surely appeal to gourmand or vanilla lovers, however I agree that the price is a little high. I think if anything, Lann-Ael is the kind of fragrance that will appeal to younger women, so it would be wise to sell it a lower price, a price that they are willing to jump at. Lostmarch is quite an obscure niche brand, but a fragrance house that I rather like. Lann-Ael used to be stocked in Australia, however I haven't seen this fragrance in many years. It is unfortunate that so many fragrances come and go. I will no doubt be wearing my sample more now that I have grown accustomed to it. It's rather uplifting and comforting. The sillage and longevity are not bad either. I wish Lann-Ael was more well-known.

The webshop is in French and products ship straight from Bretagne. It's lostmarch.bzh The perfume reminds me of a crisp September morning. It's a sheer vanilla, sweet but not cloying, light and natural enough for summer, but the also the perfect touch of warmth for an autumn day. At one point it was discontinued, so I tried La Danza delle Libellule, but it turned into a very artificial smell both on my skin and clothing. The apple note in Lann-Ael is more subtle in comparison, and the effect is more transparent. Lann-Ael has the most incredible opening. Despite being a cosy and comforting smell, it does remind me of the outdoors, more like the air coming from an open window rather than straight from the sea. In about three hours it fades to a soft skin scent and loses the outdoors quality. I had the lotion back when it was available, and it also had the same opening as the eau de toilette, only fading process was faster. It looks like the company is trying to expand its line, and according to the website, room sprays and scented candles will be available within the year. Hopefully the body products will come back as well.

I blind blought Lann-Ael based on reviews. It arrived in the mail, I tore it open, sprayed, sniffed and said, "Mmmmm...mmmm...yum...how CUTE!" about 700 times. It really is adorable. I thought this would smell more "dusty", like hay and a baker's kitchen with flour everywhere, but instead it instantly reminded me of a homemade lemon bundt cake with confectioner's sugar icing drizzled on top. Lann-ael is not all baked-goods sweetness, though - milk and wheat notes add a unique and comforting smoothness. My husband, never knowing about this fragrance before, was happy to say it smelled like, "That cereal you have to eat quickly because it's not good when it gets soaked by the milk." (He meant General Mills' Golden Grahams.) My only hang up: Lann-Ael really doesn't last on skin or clothes. I'll probably blast through a bottle quickly because it is so feeble (and because the scent addictive!) If only this fragrance lasted (a lot) longer and projected even a bit - it's so cute, I want everyone to smell it! :)

This frag is really delicious, albeit light - I guess it could be called a skin scent? What a sincere pleasure to wear. I don't get all of the complexity that some folks are getting, but I definitely get the vanilla! First on, it is very foody - like sugar cookie dough, yum. That's the only part that is "gourmand." The foodiness wears off fairly soon, and then I get a warm, creamy, milky, vanilla dusky-musky scent, I guess because of the "hay" or "wheat." There's too much green to me at the base to be cereal, but I can say that there is a smell in the summer that comes off of sun-warmed fields that this echoes, I looooove that part. I don't get apple, although occasionally with wear, I catch hints of something tangy - could be apple, I guess. Lasts pretty well on me, most of the day, although it does not have much sillage. To my nose, it is similar to Coty's Vanilla Fields, perhaps lighter and not synthetic. I prefer this one, but whatever fits your pocketbook!

Lann-Ael is one of my fav fragrances. It's definitely a skin scent, but this one lingers longer than some other skin scents I have. I can still pick it up many hours after the first application. It's light, creamy, deceptively complex. With a lovely mellow lemon that's not too sharp or bright. Just the right amount of sweetness overall. The best lactonic scent in a sea of them. Not sour at all. Comforting. A perfect bedtime spray. I considered Akro's Bake as a possible alternate. I quite like Bake, but it's almost too perfectly realistic to replace Lann-Ael's unique vibe. Lostmarc'h no longer ships to the U.S. (I contacted the French company directly when I was down to my last few drops). I did some outreach and found 2 personal shoppers who can get it for you. Message me and I can send you their contact info.

This does start of smelling like a bowl of Fruit Loops cereal for sure, but it settles quickly and as soon as it does it is divine. Softly fruity sweet, (though I wouldn't say it smells particularly of apple at all) creamy smooth like warm milk and honey, this is very homey and relaxing, though a bit gourmand. I can completely understand people who say it makes them think of a mother and child, and it's name, which means 'Angel Heath' seems very appropriate. Sillage is lovely and staying power very good, 6-8 hours or so, though linear. Can't decide whether it's full bottle worthy as I have a fragrance of a similar vein already, but a definite like.

This is the most perfect, comforting, delicious scent. For the first 5 minutes. Then it's gone. Such a shame, because the fragrance itself is perfectly composed vanilla comfort goodness. I'll echo what everyone else said and agree that it smells like cereal with milk. But the longevity is SO poor - worse than any perfume I've ever owned - that it makes this scent unworthy of buying. Very expensive for 5 minutes of fragrance. I've tried everything to make this last longer - spraying on clothes, hair, lotion, skin - everything! Nothing works. It just dissipates almost as soon as it is applied.