Femme de Montblanc

Ooo how JEALOUS am I of you who are getting "hot chocolate liquor" and the cinnamon notes! I like it, I REALLY do, but I only get florals and musk at the top with maybe some fruit thrown in there and then a nondescript sweet, powdery drydown. I adore warm and spicy but honestly this smells *much* more like spring. I can definitely tell the heliotrope and the raspberry - those I'm certain of. But the gorgeous "dark chocolate", cardamom, heck even PINEAPPLE - I would *much* rather smell those! Ugh so disappointed at what I thought would be the perfect Christmas scent coming across only as a beautiful spring day on my skin. Where oh where are the spices?! :( It smells NOTHING AT ALL like Dior Addict, Lolita or Angel. Angel?! Wow where did that even come from?! This reminds me a bit of those cherry-scented soaps they have in restrooms but there is absolutely nothing that reminds me of Angel lol. It *does* however remind me a bit of Petite Robe Noire and I didn't quite care for that so it may explain why this isn't speaking to me. It saddens my heart to tuck this away for next year because this is just *not* a cold weather scent for me. Still gorgeous and still something I'll love wearing, just in a different season.

About the EdT. This is unique and so beautiful, and not at all popular here, where I live. The opening is fruity fresh, but just after few seconds it becomes a thick, warm, creamy, slightly nutty, gourmand aroma. I smell some notes which are not listed. For example, I feel crushed apricot seeds, cherries in liqueur covered with dark, exquisite chocolate, almonds and their peels. And that's why I think this scent is from the same shelf as Petite robe noire by Guerlain and Lolita Lempicka scents. I didn't buy it because I had red it was quite similar to Angel which I simply can't stand. But I still kept thinking about it. But no, on me it smells nothing like Angel, on me this is wonderful. This is a rich, strong, sweet and elegant very high quality scent. When I spray it on, I think about an early winter morning and about the first snow slowly falling -fresh, creating the impression of something sweet like sugar powder, so unreal, so dreamy. And all this covered with this fragile sensation of celebration of life.

A lovely fragrance i just added to my collection. The cardamom is very strong at first, but later settles nicely. This is a fragrance that is quite complex, unique, VERY different and totally non boring. Go for it, if you want to 'experience' a scent, and not just wear one...the notes develop and flow one after the other mingling beautifully. I love this. Best for: fans of gourmand frags, and definitely for strictly spice / oriental lovers... If you enjoy Si, or L by Lolita Lempicka, or Dior Addict, then i think you should add this to your collection :) Mont Blanc did get it right, especially with such complicated combinations of herbs, fruit and flowers. Longevity - excellent, no need to reapply often as the base lasts - and is the best part of the scent ; sillage - excellent as well, and i have the edt.

This review is for the EDP Femme de Montblanc opens with cinnamon and chocolate. Gets juicy in the middle- bergamot, peach, strawberry, then heliotrope, rose, very slight jasmine. More chocolate, patchouli, musk in the creamy drydown. There's a faint smoky bitterness hidden deep somewhere in the warm, spicy sweetness which adds a nice dimension. It is an unusual fragrance. I love it! Lasts 4- 5 hrs on my skin, longer in cold weather. Moderate sillage. For some reason I got pepper the first time I tried this on. Maybe the cinnamon-cardamom note turned peppery on my skin. (After a few tries I got the cinnamon.) This made me try layering Femme de Montblanc with Bvlgari Jasmin Noir L'Elixir edp, because I love the peppery note- got an interesting scent that worked for me!

I agree with miZZpuRRfect that this is an elegant, yummy gourmand scent. It's a lot softer than I was anticipating from the strong colour of the perfume and is very classy smelling, soft, warm, slightly powdery, a little sweet - really nice! I don't detect at all the masculine sense that several reviewers here have mentioned. On my skin it's feminine, warm and sexy all the way. I'm a lucky girl because I got my bottle in a swap with a lovely fellow Fragrantican and I'd never smelled it before so I'm sooo happy that it's such a nice perfume! I'd recommend it very highly and it definitely gets my approval!! ;o))) UPDATE: I'm officially LOOOOVING this perfume!! Hooray - it's one of my new fave discoveries, along with Gucci Guilty. I love 'em both!! ;o))