Fleurs de Glace

Opening and drydown are totally different scent on my skin. I don't like first notes, its too cold and sharp, but drydown is lovely with galbanum, vanilla and musk.

Opening is chilly just like you'd expect from ice flowers (fleurs de glace). Not actual flowers but the ones that ice crystals form on glass windows when these are frozen solid in winter. At least when you are living in an unheated house with single pane windows. The smell itself really does remind you of being inside a giant freezer. Like many fragrances from Olympic Orchids this is NOT something you'd want to wear on a social get together. But it is a good scent for taking you to another place.. I was just transplanted to my youth when indeed I was living in a house with just one source of heating (downstairs in the kitchen and sometimes, when having visitors in the 'best room'). As Sumukorento noticed, drydown gets much better: it still has that weird icy impression but it is something one can live with. BTW, as so often it is very hard to choose between like & dislike. As something for wearing a def dislike. As a thought provoking scent, def a like!

I see what the other reviewers mean by freezer scent. I am not a fan of this. It smells dirty and musty. I can see why it's being discontinued. If you do like this scent head over to the website now because it's on sale. UPDATE 2 hours later: omg... This scent is really terrible. And it won't die! I tried to wash it off but it was too late, it had already soaked in. Dirty freezer scent keeps popping out at me every time I move. Yuck.

I tried this one and asked other people what they smelled. It was cucumber and green beans , and non of these notes are mentioned so that was funny. I think it has the waft of a freezer that needs cleaning. I would not recommend this to a friend

On me it opened with a strange aversive plastic scent, and over 30 minutes it got a little quieter but remained just as unpleasant. The drydown was no better. I have smelled things from this perfumer that I liked a lot, but found this one so unattractive that I wondered if somehow it had gone bad. The sample came directly from the perfumer, so it seems unlikely that I got the wrong thing. Not a happy olfactory journey.