Une Histoire de Femme Sensuelle

Affordable cheap fragrance but Designer smelling scent !! Before we speak about the scent, I feel like the quality of this Bottle and Box is amazing. It nice to hold and spray, the texture is soft and it feels so expensive even though it isn’t !!! The design is really minimalistic yet sophisticated ! It has such a nice quality and for such a low price point, it is wonderful. It feels like it is competing with designer fragrances on every level !!!! A clean musky scent who is complimented by the praline. It feels creamy, powdery and extremely clean. I ain't a huge fan of rose in my fragrances but I don't mind it if it's subtle or nicely blended, and it's the case with this EDP. It performs good for a perfume that was that cheap, got it for less than 40euros at a local store in France. It is a sweet and clean « gourmand » (I think that this praline is really sweet but don’t know if we can qualify it as a gourmand perfume) with musky roots, the freesia also helps on the creamyness with the praline. I wear it as an easy reach perfume, or when I am comfortably staying at home with a latte machiatto and some jazz on the home sound system. It feels designer to me, high quality even if Mauboussin isn't my favourite brand in perfume history, considering that "A La Folie" is too synthetic and sweet in the wrong way. The champagne note and the synthetic caramel causes me nausea. Une Histoire De Femme Sensuelle is the one and only fragrance from this brand that i adore. It is really sensual and clean I love love love it ! I get some strong alcohol in the opening (lasts around 5 to 10 minutes) but when the perfume dries down, get ready to smell super duper clean and sweet with the white musk and praline enveloping your smell in the nicest way possible. The rose helps the clean facet of the fragrance as well as the musk, and the « gourmand » sweet and creamy notes are given by the praline and the freesia. I JUST LOVE IT. And you should love it too if u adore your clean, musky, sweet, lactonic and a bit floral and mostly sensual scents !!! Easily a perfume that is relevant enough to be an everyday, signature scent. Perfect perfume, I give it a 9.5/10

First review. :) So this one was a blind buy. Definitely not disappointed. I was, however (likely based on the design of the bottle) imagining a powdery-er scent, fresher, I suppose. Something airy and refreshing. Probably also because of a few comments mentioning Nivea, which also has a similar bottle.. round and white, similar enough! On a somewhat different note, my order came in a few days ago while terribly sick, so I was really sad because couldn’t smell anything from a couple sprays lol. But now that my senses are almost fully functional again, I was taken aback by the first whiff I got. At first, it reminded me a lot of a Dove floral beauty bar. Again, the soaps. I blame it on the Nivea talk. But after a few seconds, I feel like it’s anything but “soapy”. I do not feel that “cool”, fresh quality I’d imagined, but rather something sweet, and floral, almost akin to frankincense. Really giving frankincense for me, for whatever reason. Floral, slightly musky, sweet, incense; elegant and mature. Also lasts pretty well! All in all, I 100% recommend giving it a try if that kind of scent sounds interesting to you. Not to mention the price!! I got it for about $25, which just by scent alone I think I would have thought it cost way more... that is, if I wasn’t the one who bought it LOL.

I managed to get a bottle of this during a winter sale and figured I can safely blind buy it and if I don't like it, I could gift it to my mom or a friend since the rose note had me on the fence. When I first got it, the smell of luxury cream hit me straight and after letting it settle to a somewhat normal temperature, the rose started to bloom. The smell is that of rose-infused pralines left on clean sheets. The freesia comes through as a suble note along with the more dominant musk, which is not skanky in any way, but clean and fluffy. Lately I found that I like wearing this to bed since it's such a comforting smell. Not sure if it's office appropriate since after I spray it, I do go nose-blind to it quite fast, but on clothes it lasts for 10 hours + (or at least that's what my boyfriend complains about lol) I would dare say it's in the family of Ariana Grande's Cloud, or at least that's how I perceive it, although I must admit I've never quite smelled anything other than the fluffyness of Cloud which everybody says is in the MFK BR540 vein. Note: By the above I am not comparing HdFS with BR540, they have nothing in common as far as I'm concerned.

This is creamy and sweet with light powdery florals and an inviting white musk. It's the smell of warm skin after the day's sunscreen has almost completely faded. You're smoothing on a luxurious layer of body lotion before sliding into silk sheets. "Sensuelle" indeed, but in a drowsy kind of way. I wouldn't have guessed praline as one of the notes at first, but (perhaps through the power of suggestion) I now detect a very subtle saltiness - a delicate sliver of sugared almond that helps to ground the airy notes and keep everything delicious, though not quite edible. The nuttiness anchors the fragrance, but graciously shares the spotlight with the lactonic notes - like a comforting glass of almond milk before bed, ready to smooth your passage into dreams. The opening does share some similarities with Lorenzo Villoresi's "Teint de Neige", but TdN remains more powdery and floral throughout its life. The drydown states of these two are quite different, with Sensuelle touching on the gourmand side (though not quite leaping into foody territory). I am happy to have both. :)

Sweet and comforting scent sharing similar elements to Roses Vanille by Mancera and Iris by L'Erbolario. It's like something inbetween these two perfumes. Very nice. The opening is what I would describe as "sparklingly sweet", but soon enough after that it goes powdery and a little bit creamy, quite lotion-like, with rose, vanilla and musk being the most noticeable to my nose. I'm yet to test its longevity and performance properly, but as for the scent itself, it's really powdery and "sensuelle", really pretty. If you like this type of perfumes, this can be a nice addition to your collection of powdery perfumes. Also, I can easily imagine this as a bedtime scent, just like the comments below implied. Suitable for a day, suitable for a night. :) I wanted to try this fragrance for a long time, but it was sold out everywhere in my country. I'm glad Notino has it back in stock. UPDATE: the longevity and sillage are quite good, I didn't really expect that. :) it stays on significant amount of time even after shower. :P