Heliotrope

It's a sublime heliotrope. Absolutely wonderful! Everything that heliotrope is. I adore it. It's so romantic and elegant and sophisticated. So lovely, delicious creamy soft sweet almond cream and fresh garden too. Beautiful! It's one of my top favourite perfumes. And the bottle and box are so stunningly beautiful. Magnificent.

I love Molinard frags...have many. I have also been on the search for a really good almondy frag. I have blind bought many (I know, silly me). Carol's Daughter Almond Cookie (good, but size of bottle compared to price, not great). LT Piver's Heliotrope (huge bottle and a tiny price tag...sadly, smells of "plastic dolls heads" and lasts a nano second). I could go on and on. This Molinard Heliotrope got huge thumbs up from both my husband and my son. To me it's just not that elusive almond I am searching for. It's nice, like baby powder nice. But why spend nearly $40 on baby powder? I can get the same scent from a ginormous generic canister of baby powder at the 99cent store. Any suggestions out there? I am not asking much. An almondy frag with decent longevity and silage for a fair price. Maybe that is asking too much. In my 300+ collection of fragrances, I have many expensive, discontinued frags that have been let downs and many cheapie that are what dreams are made of. Finding frags in dusty little thrift shops and at yard sales is the best...you sniff...you fall in love (or put it down)...you haggle...and most times walk away with a score! I buy most of my frags online. Not all online sellers will sell a sample, so it never fails, I go for the larger, "economy size" for just those few dollars more on the off chance it will be a "Eureka!!! moment". There have been more "Eurekas" than not, so the fragrance gods must be looking down favorably on me.

This Heliotrope smell very close to a concentrated version of the scent that caracterise NIVEA Creme, the classic traditional white dense moisturizer into the metal blue circular box. Molinard relauch this fragrance in 1993 I suppose, I bought it (that year directly to Molinard in Grasse and togheter with Orange Cannelle) for that comfortable, lulling sensation and perfume of cleaness and protection. It is lovely, romantic, bit vintage/old fahion, but so old to be almost new. Very 800s style actually. It makes me think to a Greenhouse Nouveau style. Those in glass and metal. Full of delicate plants. I have a real flower heliotrope, smells like light green vanilla. Nothing to share with this creation that is more abstract, not similar at all to Heliotrope by Piver or the Etro one, not such vanilline style. Warm and fresh, this Molinard smell like talc, cotton, linen, and iris, also a bit metallic, bit dark/bitter. Smooth, sophisticated, unusual and weird somehow. Perfect after a shower in the evening, in late spring, reading a book on the porch, waiting, without anxiety, maybe someone who will.

This fragrance started off on me with a very screechy white musk and then it mellowed into a clean cotton type scent. I do not smell any heliotrope to speak of, but it is a pleasant scent nonetheless.

if anyone has a small sample of this available to swap, please pm me. thanks!