Parfum d'Elle 2

This one is interesting. I got baby powder/lotion smell in the beginning phase that lasted for quite a while (30-45 minutes). Powdery iris and aldehydes, that’s all i got, nothing special at all until it slowly turned into warm musky and soapy scents. Then i was able to detect berries and peach, flowers later, and finally all the notes settled in a creamy sandalwood heaven. I really love the final drydown, it’s so pretty, velvety soft, a bit powdery, woody, and more soapy (classy one). And yes, this fragrance has 90s vibes. About the notes, the golden box mentioned different notes composition with the one in this fragrantica page.

6.5/10 - lemon sherbert after maturing with sunscreen vibes. Inoffensive cheapy but wouldn't recommend because ordinary and average

Awesome bottle, as is with most Claude Montana bottles though. In the beginning, you smell a couple things alongside each other. At first I got this powdery sweetness, almost alike a hard candy in that bowl of candies at your grandma's that hasn't been touched since you were in diapers. Then, there's a slight bit of rose that peeks through the aldehydic mist. Alongside these, there's the smell of sunscreen. As it dries down, the hard candy aspect disappears, leaving room for the rose to get much stronger, and a bit soapier. The sunscreen then becomes more of this talc-ish baby powder smell, but it really reminds me of the smell of castor oil, which I really like. As it dies, it gets dryer and dryer, and fades away in the form of this sweet-ish vetiver musk. This exceeded my expectations, it's definitely not as simple as you'd think. I mean, I love ylang ylang, so take this with a grain of salt if you don't. Lasts a good 8 hours, nothing crazy, projects well though.

Classic 80s scent. fresh and floral. On skin it becomes very soft. I had it in my young 20's. Liked it then

Layer this with invictus. It's strangely an amazing combo, though I'd rarely wear invictus on its own.

On its golden box is written: "The exuberance of red fruit and peach release from an imaginary shell a strong fragrance with a generous heart of magnolia, iris, and geranium leaves, refined by purity of wood, the discretion of amber and the mystery of musk" so notes here up seems to be totally arbitrary. In fact I suspect sometimes fragrantica create new note list by their ispiration. Somewere else (on the other two main perfume sites) we have: Top: Aldehydes, Peach, Red berries Heart: Geranium, Iris, Magnolia Base: Amber, Musk, Tonka bean, Cedar. It is a fruity acidule powdery scent. Imagine of a fresh white velvet on your skin. Linen and velvet fragrance. To me smell like white melon and vanilla pear yoghurt, vinyl and make up. A sort of baby body lotion. Iris geranium light talc. I find it similar with Lou Lou Blue. This is not an 80s fragrance as the comment below says. More second half of the 90s. Officially 2003. .

UPDATE: I recently gave this another try. I like it better now, for some unknown reason. It's not something I reach for all the time, but it makes a nice go-about-the-house scent. I blind-bought this believing I was getting the 1990 one. This happens to be the 2003 version. It's not terrible, but if I had smelled it I would not have bought it. ☹. The voters were right. The predominant notes are ylang-ylang, which I' m not crazy about; musk, which I only tolerate in minimum doses; and green notes, which one me always smell like lettuce, or worse, wet vegetables. Thank goodness for the rest of the notes or this would have gotten canned right away. I paid a very low price for a tester, so I'll give it another chance. So far, I'm underwhelmed. This is a far cry from the gorgeous Montana powerhouses of the 80s. Rats.

I like this scent surprisingly. I have bought this fragrance by chance. It was an occasion. Actually I thought it was the first parfum d'elle which I adore but never had. At begin I have found it no so special. Even a bit synthetic. But now I appreciate. It is a musky iris with light unripe, sour fruits and tropical flowers like ylang or sweet aldehydes, sandal maybe. White woods. Smell like fig milk resin at times. Very refined, sexy, without be invasive, almost innocent with class, not childish. Soapy. Wearable. It could be a sour version of Cashmere mist or Nocturne by Caron. A forgotten little treasure. Very good. A bit distant, aristocratic. Remember me also a bit Dovana by Sylvaine Delacourte could be one of those.