Coeur d'Ete

Coeur d' Ete contains a kombucha-like tang in its opening and middle. This may turn some people off, but it deserves to be worn in different temperatures and humidity levels because as Sherapop said, it changes from wear to wear. The Heliotrope lends a little bite of cool powder to the lilac and all the citruses and other fruits sort of blend together into a warm, tart, half-fermented pulp. The cumulative effect is like a fresh Lilac bar soap next to a glass of fruity sour kombucha. It smells intimate, curious, and feminine. It isn't always easy to wear, but it does smell very natural, which affords its more challenging attributes an approachable quality. The far drydown reads as Egyptian musk on me which is totally sexy and unexpected. I can't find it until the end of Coeur d' Ete's life, which is why I love to wear this all day, and all night-waking up to musk the next morning. It's misnamed, I think. Should have been called After Summer, Before Fall. I think it suits this time best.

I'm confounded by the mixed reviews here for this fragrance. To my nose, it's light, fresh, and easy to wear. I don't pick out many of the individual notes because they are beautifully blended to create a soft, easy overall feeling. Fruit salad? Funereal feel? I can't imagine these are reviews for the same fragrance that I'm now wearing. It's a lovely soft summery floral. Sure, if a reviewer studies all the notes in the fragrance, you'd come to the conclusion that it's a cornucopia of disharmonious notes. Not so. I'd recommend that if you have the chance, give it a sample wear. Charming and feminine. A great daytime scent for warmer months with excellent longevity due to the resinous base and great sillage as well.

I truly enjoy Coeur d'Ete. I'm not getting an overwhelming lasting powdery scent from this fragrance, as some of the other reviews stated. The powder is definately there but it does not dominate the fragrance on me. It starts out a little fruity, then developes, as I read elsewhere, with a scent of babies. Luckily, that only lasts a short time on me before it develops into a smooth soft vanilla, violet, sandalwood, pear scent that is absolutley gorgeous!! I do love this scent! It has a smorgaspord of many unusual scents that combine together to make a very lovely scent. It is my first from Miller Harris Perfumes, I definately would love to try more!!

Coeur d'Eté has been likened to Après l'Ondée, but I don't really see it. Aprés l'Ondée is much more airy and ethereal, while Coeur d'Eté has something very substantial, almost chunky. On my skin it's warm and enveloping, has a dark honeyed sweetness. A very motherly sweetness, or is it just me being influenced by the story? Fresh purple lilacs cut through the musky sweetness and a woody note balances everything nicely. The very late drydown, a stage I only experience with this scent when showering in the evening (more than 12 hrs after applying), is a soft smoky woody blend of benzoin and sandalwood. Utterly captivating.

I bought a bottle of this in my late twenties, when I was bored of designer fragrances and wanted to try a niche scent. I had just moved into a house with a gorgeous lilac bush outside the window, so I went on a search for a lilac perfume. This was overwhelmingly lilac on me, in the best possible way, tempered by a dry cocoa note and a touch of sweetness and warmth from vanilla. It was not a fruity scent on me. I absolutely loved it, and was so sad when it was discontinued. But it inspired me to seek out hard to find, niche fragrances, and I’m grateful for that.