Mauboussin Pour Elle

It brings to mind Chanel Coco Mademoiselle eau de toilette. It starts like a classical fruitchouli, with a luminous top. Very beautiful. Well blended. I think orange flower-jasmine-rose centered with a sparkling, undefined fruit. Indeed similar to Repetto which is also a lighter take on Coco Mademoiselle. I know the Elixir version to be an intense spin on Coco M. making it a fit member of this family thus. Lovely. Womanly. Also watery and spacious with spring being a good season for it. But scent profile is rather universal. Very good. I got rid of it as it was too heavy on rhubarb for me, now I have a travel spray which I received gratis with my Star purchase and it is more pleasing, stellar even, with rhubarb hidden rather than first place. It is available for a steal, too, in a gorgeous bottle. I recently bought the showy Elixir but this is winning me. It does not have the same presence or power as Coco Mademoiselle, it is gentler and rosier. I felt it better on my wrist yesterday than during my global application today. I think it works better for an evening on me judging by the behaviour of the blend yesterday and today. I cannot say I feel it around me during a day.

This is slightly sweet but still elegant. I didn't expect to like it as much as I do. I bought three from this brand and so far this is the best of the three. My friend also tested the three with me and also liked this one best. I'm not a huge fan of sweet perfumes but this sweet is floral, elegant and sophisticated. I can see a woman or maybe even a guy of any age wearing this. Full disclosure I am a fan of rose scented perfumes so slightly biased here. I hope it improves with age but it was wearable right out of the box. For the price this is a great deal. Longevity and projection are above average. I did not like the Mauboussin Pour Elle Elixir perfume and gave that away. I think the Oud turned me off. I purchased this from Fragrance.net and it cost $30.00 USD. I recently tested four other niche/luxury perfumes from Split Scent that cost 4 to 5 time more than this one. I liked this one best!

Very rich and quality juice with great lasting power and sillage. The most prominent notes are amber, sandalwood and orange blossom. The caramel note emerges only at the end of the dry down stage. Pour Elle by Maboussin is a strange juice; on one hand I was ever so annoyed to learn that there is nothing fruity about it, on the other - I was mesmerised by the beauty of a deep and rich amber note that made me feel like the most elegant woman in the world. It was a blind buy of mine triggered by reading about the two of my favourite noses behind that beauty. All in all it was a brilliant blind buy. I am so wearing Pour Elle by Mauboussin tomorrow - it is chilly and gloomy outside and it is the perfect season for wearing Pour Elle. To me - it scores 10/10.

I was hit by rhubarb and caramel train at first spray. For some reason the opening is a little medicinal for me. I think it causes by rhubarb-gardenia-caramel mixture. Luckily it doesn't last longer than 10 minutes. Strangely enough, I love it. The drydown is lovely. I find caramel base smells better and fit my personality more than vanilla base. So, it's a plus! Overall, it's a sweet, fresh and vibrant perfume that can be used for office or casual days. Doesn't have enough oomph for nigh time use, though. Longevity is moderate, 6-7 hours. Silage is soft, 1 foot away.

This perfume surprised me, even though I was expecting something sweeter. Is quite woody, fresh and floral. A lot of rhubarb and red berries with amber. Is a very elegant perfume and evoluates very nicely on skin trough the day. Is mostly for a classy woman who is serious, yet very confident and feminine. Says that you know what you want, you can smell good without trying too hard. The lasting power is great, nothing to complain about. Is an autumn-winter daytime fragrance.

This is intriguing, compelling me to keep sniffing to decipher the mystery of this composition. It starts leathery and dry, kindly grabbing my nose to take me somewhere I've never been before with a perfume: a leather candy, like a high end sweet wrapped in fine leather! It's a totally psychedelic experience, the transition is smooth and ends with a whisper of smoke. This is so classy, so put together and yet extremely eccentric, I might be in love

I'm almost nervous to tell too many people about this fragrance because it's so good and the price is so good that it might start to go up in price? It's a rich floral burst that is classy, pretty, and oh so very feminine. Projection is amazing and it's also long-lasting. My bottle is almost finished and this is one I would consider repurchasing. It still blows my mind that it was created by two perfume greats and no-one really knows about it.

Ahhh~ so elegant and definately for night! I can feel rhubarb and that harsh smell... It doesn't smell like old lady perfume, although I can imagine Rose from Titanic using it to prom. If you want to feel more mature but not like grandma, this is perfect. On my skin smells more carameliously.

i knew it,... natalie lorson and olivier cresp never failed me ...they created such an amazing perfume but why no body talks about it... beautiful white floral ,its sweet but not cloying actually its close to the skin ... beautiful really love it

This smells amazing on my nose and I am addicted to it. Fresh flower bouquet with a hint of amber. Truly a hidden gem cuz nobody really talks about it. Very appropriate for work.

I love this perfume! Read sandrina_bambina comment she says it all! I have nothing to add!!!

This is like a stronger version of 212 sexy by CH.

Caramel and red fruits are not at the top of my esteemed notes list, to put it mildly. So the fact that I would buy Mauboussin MAUBOUSSIN POUR ELLE scent unsniffed speaks volumes about my obsession with this house's bottles. I really love all of them. I might even buy them if they were filled with colored water. Fortunately, the house of Mauboussin maintains a perfume collection as an auxiliary branch rather than as a source of profit. It seems to exist to humor one of the family members. Well, that's my impression anyway, given that all of the perfumes, even right after they have been launched, seem to pop up at discounters for a fraction of MSRP. MAUBOUSSIN POUR ELLE is less than two years old, and it has already been turned over to the gray market rats, which is just fine with me, since there is no chance that these perfumes will ever be duped. Who would bother? Are Mauboussin perfumes ever sold at full price and, if so, where? I wonder. I do not recall ever having seen this house's perfumes for sale anywhere else but at discounters... Mauboussin tends to commission fine perfumers, so usually the compositions are interesting, even if not magnificent. Probably if they invested more in ingredients than in the vessels, these perfumes could compete at the niche level. Instead, they struggle on in low designer territory, completely unknown to most perfume consumers because they don't seem to be visible in any of the places where ordinary ( = not perfumistas) consumers dispense with their fragrance wallet share. This creation is a light floriental with a slightly sticky quality, as though the flower petals were spritzed with some sort of thin caramel syrup. It's not thick and cloying, but it is sweet enough to make me think of caramel. Now that I reflect on this composition, MAUBOUSSIN POUR ELLE may be close to ELIE SAAB without the patchouli. The orange blossom does seem dominant here, albeit dialed down considerably from ELIE SAAB, but there is also a buttery caramel popcorn scent as well. I could see this being gunky in the wrong weather conditions, but it is wearable by me in cold winter weather such as we are having in Boston, with a couple of inches of snow accumulation over the course of the day. I would definitely recommend MAUBOUSSIN POUR ELLE to anyone who wears celebrity scents such as the Britney Spears collection. This is a step up from those, plus the bottle is a million times better, well, with the notable exception of BELIEVE.

This was a blind buy and I had never heard of the brand but liked the bottle design and it was on sale so I said why not? The orange flower is what is dominant to my nose when I spray it on my skin. I absolutely love rhubarbs in perfumes but I am not detecting it here at all. It does have a fruity smell so the red berries are pulling their weight in the opening. Is it unique? Nope. Is it pleasant? Yes Will you get compliments? Oh yes, because it is a well created fragrance and will work well in the cool of the day and evening. It’s not loud but it is also not a shy fragrance. If your skin mixes well with orange flower, you will enjoy wearing this. It has a classy, French vibe to it and because I am almost 50, this perfume suits me well. For an edt, the performance is above average, I didn’t get any caramel at all and honestly, I don’t miss it because I don’t want another over sweet, vanilla candy scent that bombards the perfume counters nowadays. So give it a try if you like floral fruity scents that will make you smell good but not stand out in the crowd. Because I like smelling unique, i layered this perfume with Lattafa Afaq at an evening dinner event and it was a huge hit. I got tons of compliments and it is one of the reasons I am a perfume addict and lover. Finding the right combinations of perfumes to layer together can take them from good to AMAZING. Enjoy.

I’ve had this fragrance for a while now, and I think it is so beautiful! I loved it from day one and excitedly had a friend smell it. She said it was “meh”, I was deflated and it went to the back of my shelves. Well, I just sprayed it again and again I thought it was beautiful!! So, who cares what others think!! Everyone has different tastes and opinions and this one is a winner for me! It smells more luxurious than the price I paid for it, and it’s a great everyday scent for just about anything! I think it would be great for any setting, and any season! I had to laugh to myself when I saw the nose behind this. Nathalie Lorson rarely misses the mark for me! I almost always enjoy her creations and I have also enjoyed Olivier Cresp’s ! This one is a good one! I’ll have to try more from this brand in the future!

Mauboussin pour Elle is a nice refreshing fruity/floral. It's fresh, yet warming and sensual. The opening with refreshing red berries and rhubarb is fresh fruity, luckily not sour. It blends nicely with a creamy floral gardenia note, warming amber and creamy sandalwood. Personally I don't detect caramel, rose and jasmin. Longevity is not too bad, about 4 to 5 hours on my skin. Sillage is soft. ♥♥♥

Luxury and long-lasting perfume, which was also veeery sexy to my man! I sprayed it on a cold winter evening and it get along with my skin. I can't match it with some other perfume, this is something new to me. Very classy. I think I want it. ;)

it's nice, but very, very weak. I bought it for my sister and tried it as I always do before giving it to her, and it's basically an EDC being labeled as EDP. I won't bother returning it, but I'm done with this brand as the same thing already happened with their PL in Red, which was literally scented water. they're either storing their products wrong or Notino started filling them with water, which I doubt. I'll update this if she has much better experience with this in couple of days.

Looking at the notes, and the other reviews, I expected this to be a warmer, more balanced scent on me. Instead, I found the fragrance to be predominantly tart and very floral, due to the red berries, rhubarb (which I normally love) and the manifestation of an abundance of gardenia on my skin. I did not detect any caramel or amber in the dry-down, but the sandalwood, which took a long time to reveal itself, added a warmer and creamier effect to the gardenia note. Overall, it feels light and elegant, but it clearly isn't at its best on my skin, where I am not getting most of the lovely basenotes! UPDATE: I judged this fragrance too quickly! Normally, with other fragrances, the basenotes emerge within 15 minutes on my skin...with THIS fragrance, it took over an hour for the sandalwood to establish itself, and a full TWO HOURS for the basenotes to really take hold. When it fully dried down, the base was a warm and slightly sweet oriental delight! The caramel and amber provide richness and depth to the sandalwood, and here it reminded me of another old favorite of mine: Carolina Herrera - 212 Sexy.

I am unmoved by the unique bottle design. It’s all about the contents for me. I know I will draw a bunch of thumbs down for this, and quite frankly, if people give you a thumbs down because they don’t share your opinion, it says more about them than about your review. To that point, I am amused at the poorly constructed sentences cobbled together that are passed for reviews...especially those that are waxing lyrical about a fragrance that reminds the writer of raspberries, play dough, baby powder and chocolate. They seem to evoke enthusiastic balloon gathering. This reminded me of Alien at first spray, not a fave. It just smells like most of the cheap synthetic smelling bottles you see stacked in the heated up west facing window display at Chemist’s warehouse. It has a harsh opening, and if that note is rhubarb, well it should be banned from all perfumery. It settles down about half an hour or so later into a watery nothingness. It’s probably cheap enough to blind buy, but you might immediately go into “who should I gift this to” mode very quickly.