Fée du Lilas

At this point I think I can just blind buy from Odette and stop spending my money on samples. This is beautiful, show-stopping, completely made for me. What a lovely way to honor Odette’s sister, the lilac fairy! I am sorry for her loss <3

fee du lilas is nothing like what i expected! i get a burst of dewy lilac for about a minute upon spraying, and then it transforms into a kind of creamy, sunscreen-y scent - i'm going to attribute that to the mirabelle and tiare, i suppose. after a little while, it becomes more full-on creamy and less sunscreen-y and i get whiffs of the lilac here and there when i actively sniff my wrist. this also reminds me a lot of fantome's olwyn, but not as heavy and better for summer. i wish the lilac was much more prominent throughout and didn't just reappear every now and then! ETA: layering with pacifica french lilac is giving me the exact experience i desired! just wish it was all in one fragrance :)

Maybe I’m a little insane here, but I pick up VERY little lilac from initial spray, even as the heart notes settle down into the skin. I feel like this is a very solar, white floral forward perfume - and had I been blindfolded and not shown the notes, I might have labeled as jasmine, solar notes, and an almost sunscreen like warmth. As it settles there’s a waxy sort of sweetness, and I think it’s overall a lovely scent. The notes are just a bit misleading to my own nose, even if this is a lovely and well crafted scent. The bright side is that I was worried this scent would be too sweet and heavy for the summer - but it actually would work quite well for a beachy scent!

This is pretty and feminine but it’s not quite true lilac. It’s more of a purple-ish floral that veers sweet and sugary rather soon after the first spritz. I like it a lot but I would not have necessarily guessed lilac if I’d smelled it blind. Definitely worth a sample though 💜✨

A lovely sweet lilac and tiare flower scent. It’s soft. A great layering scent over say a vanilla lotion. I get what the other reviews are saying about a sunscreen scent. I’d say because of the tiare flower it has a slight tropical scent instead.