Le Temps d'une Fête

I pulled my previous post because I now have more sampling experience under my nose and can give a better review. This scent is so unabashadly green it could be used as the mascot for St. Patrick's day. Now I love Chamade, and have added it to my collection, but I will say i **like** this opening better. Unlike Chamade, which comes out of the bottle wiht a slap to your face, this slinks out of the bottle; like a cat with an oily grin on it's face. And this kitty is sly. It rests langourously on its throne all day, a throne made of deep, rich woods. Idly the kitty peers into a pool framed by narcissus, and is greeted by a tart, seductive smile. I set this one notch below Chamade, however, because of longevity and hte dry down. While the dry down is impressive for an EDT, it doesn't carry the green sparkle throughout. But for the first few hours, this is truly the cat's meow of green florals.

There must be a reformulation going on here for anyone to compare this to Eau de Givenchy, which is a beautiful scent but completely dissimilar to this. While Eau de Givenchy is a beautiful cut-grass and white floral marvel, this is a dusty rolling-in-the-hay affair of sunny daffodils and warm grass. It's distinctly vintage in its style - and I mean very vintage. My bottle has a heavenly opening similar to that of Mouchoir de Monsieur or Jicky with daffodil instead of lavender. This plush, sweet, incensey bergamot opening leads to a fresh galbanum-jasmine for just a short while. The heart then starts to come in - a touch of ionones add texture to the most breathtaking daffodil I've ever encountered in perfumery. This is like Vol de Nuit: day version. Hours later, the drydown is a warm, sweet, woody affair of incense, moss, methyl-ionones, and pollen.

So lovely, lovely, lovely. It opens with a gentle green -- not sharply, astringently green, but fresh, dewy leaves. I like very "green" perfumes and this is not a heavy hitter in that category. Shortly therafter it blooms into a golden bouquet of spring light. It's barely sweet at all, mingling warm hay with something pleasantly piercing and deep -- I guess that's the daffodil. It is the olfactory idea of golden sunlight with pollen motes dancing in it. After buying a full bottle, I learned the hard way that over-applying Le Temps d'Une Fete results in a day spent choking in a hayloft -- it is definitely possible to overdo this one! But if you spray moderately, you carry your own atmosphere of a perfect late spring day in a meadow along wherever you go. And it does indeed last all day.

Le Temps d'une Fete has all the makings of a classic, traditional French perfume. I expected it to be fresh like grass in spring, but it has too much of a "perfumy" and complex vibe about it, again, like a traditional French perfume. While it's green and a bit oakmossy, I would wear this perfume for an evening out when I want to wear something that isn't intense and heavy. It has a vintage feel without being powdery. Also, I smell something spicy. Not a culinary spice, but a flower that is known to have a spicy quality. Sometimes hyacinth can do this, and according to LuckyScent, this perfume does contain hyacinth. I think Le Temps d'une Fete is really special. Definitely a green worth owning.

coup de foudre, seriously. from the first tender, flowery green sniff, the most beautiful narcissus you can imagine to the resinous drydown. never bought a perfume as fast as this one. it's moving and even poetic. sniffing it, feels like finding something that you've lost a long time ago. edit: though it appears to be a strong scent, tenacity is weak. the lush green narcissus disappears much too quick- and as for my taste, the drydown is not as interesting or complex as the middle part of it... and btw, tell me I'm crazy, but the first thing that appears, is a strong frangipani note that softens the narcissus...(only realized because of the new frangipani absolue in my collection)

Le Temps d'une Fête is a beautiful spring floral, green, lush, rich floral perfume, with a lovely earthy/woody/patchouli/spice undertone, that really smells to me like a beautiful lush garden with spring flowers in full bloom, where there's an abundance of jonquils, which I absolutely adore, and where all the smells waft around in a lovely fresh warm lilting breeze, and the bees are humming and the earth is singing with the delight of life and love awakening. It's incredibly natural smelling, and realistic. It's beautiful.

This is the sunniest, friendliest, most open green floral I have ever tried. The perfume has a balanced, well-rounded structure, and the notes, rather than existing as distinct yet harmonious beings, have meshed into a newly created whole, a new species of scent. A few spritzes of this and you are enveloped in a soft cloud of fragrance that moves gently with you throughout your day and hums a quiet but genius tune -- a tune I seem to want to hear over and over again.

This is how it feels to be rolling in pollen! Le Temps d'une Fete is indeed a beauty, in a very lady-like, grown up sort of way. However, to my nose, it is not green or sunny at all. Instead it has a velvet, golden, melancholy aura. That's why it would be perfect for autumn. As the previous reviewer pointed out, it is spicy and it does remind me of perfume from the eighties, probably because of the narcissus. Longevity and sillage are average on me.

For me Temps d'una tempe opens very, very gentle with fantastic shy flowers, very feminine and warm, it does feel like spring time, after a very cold winter, when the first sun is up, the first flowers bloom and there is this warm and fresh feeling in the air. This is my second perfume for Parfums de Nicolai and so far both I've found extremely lovely with amazing staying power, it truly is a gem and a must for floral lovers. Happyness in bottle :)

This is perfection in a bottle for me. It's the perfume I go to when I need a pick me up, or when I need something happy. It's just so unlike anything I've smelled and it's unusual enough that I keep coming back for it. I think others have gotten it correct--this is a very soft, smooth, gentle green floral. The base kind of reminds me of "guerlain-ade" but I guess since Patricia is a descendant of Guerlain, it makes sense. Five starts all around.

I love this scent, and when I read that it might be phased out I bought a big bottle of what must be a reformulation...to my nose it's pretty, but it's lost the huge roll-in-the-hay opening that made it smell like summer itself. Wasn't it more unisex? It seems more feminine now, softer, prettier--the moss sits politely behind the green florals, the narcissus has lost its acrid sharp slant and I miss that sumptuous hay

Many of my most worn perfumes are larger than life, dramatic, strong in personality -- I wear them partly to enhance various aspects of my own personality. But this is "just me": a neutral, true to life portrait that describes, rather than shapes, me. A portable olfactory landscape rather than a persona. It suits my naturally unruly hair, impish green-brown eyes, and deliberately grown-out eyebrows to a T.

Gah. I've wanted this for two years now. It's very yellow and green and reminds me of Easter. I love how real it smells -- it has a texture that I perceive as scratchy, due to the images it conjures of pollen-encrusted flowers. It's perfect for me and what I flatter myself to be my youthful naïveté and whimsical independence. A scent unsullied by clichéd sweetness. Love, love, love.

Le Temps d'une Fete is like a secret party happening on a warm night in May. Green and fragrant with flowers until the seductive oakmoss and sandalwood sneek in to give it that animalic dusty romp in the hay kind of feel. I think this is a bit more mysterious than sunny if I had to describe how it makes me feel. It is classic perfection in a bottle- that's what it is.

Le Temps d'Une Fête is like a more resinous, semi-indolic version of Bel Respiro (edt). What a BEAUTIFUL concoction! A threesome of a bold narcissus making love to a bitter green galbanum and a "dirty" jasmine on a bed of opoponax. A green chypre that illustrates the very conception of daydreaming... Pure poetry. I'll keep this 30ml bottle like the jewel it is. 12/10

I try not to 'hoard', but I bought backup bottles on sale years ago - And I'm glad I did. My first bottle was an Xmas Secret Santa gift from a Basenoter years ago. (Smart cookie, she was !) If you want an ultimately beautiful green floral experience, try Providence Perfume Co.'s Wild Lime Leaf body oil underneath this. Oh my.

One of the best from this House. Perfect green spring scent, for those of us who are too cold and can't wait to wear spring! I like and appreciate "Y" YSL, and find this a good alternative as it is softer and less "edgy". If you love NO 19, you will also enjoy this one. Like finding a 4-leaf clover in a weed patch.

I feel like a honeybee wearing this! Not airy and pretty like a butterfly, but golden and warm. I feel like I'm nestled inside the cavity of a daffodil on a warm sunny day. Dries down to something a little more mysterious, like the sun is retreating, the flowers are closing, and an earthiness comes through.

Gorgeous warm green floral opening! Its wood and light incense dry-down gives depth and complexity to the scent. It is perfect for spring without being delicate or overly sweet. Lasts 4 hours on my skin with moderate projection.

This is my new spring favorite. I absolutely adore it. It's perfect for warming temperatures and can go easily from day to night. If you're stuck with a bottle and you want to get it off your hands, let me know.