L'Eau de Concombre

As stated in the title simple and cucumber. A very good interpretation of freesia, a cold aqueous floral.

Realistic, fridge-cool cucumber with no great complexity but a nice green glug of gazpacho for a hot day if you crave that cold, juicy feel. So watery-splashy that it doesn't hang on for long - the real vegetable zing is over in under an hour - and after a couple more it modulates into a slightly detergent-y white muskish sort of thing, barely there but still fine, but this phase is a bit less refreshing and just a hair too synthetic for my personal taste. Not out of this world, not as amazingly lovely as some of the other Phaedons (it's a terrific house overall imho) - but a great splash of freshness and a good slap of refreshment if you need a perfume to really fight muggy, suffocating heat.

Though I risk sounding overly simple, upon taking the first wiff of this scent, it instantly gave me a flashback of powder detergent. Try as I might, I can't find any cucumbers in this. It's extremely clean and crisp but definitely not boring, on the contrary - it's eye opening like a cup of coffee. If you have to be wide awake for a meeting and didn't have your caffeine intake yet, just spray this under your nose. Not only will it wake you up, but it will make others turn around and want to find out who this professional, put together person is.

Blast of photorealistic cucumber in the opening, followed by mint, and later by some florals with a leathery undertone. Not exactly what I'm looking for, but I can totally see how it might fit beautifully on someone else during the Summer. Performance is average. Recommended, assuming you can find it discounted.

Very nice & relaxing scent, tranquil. Cucumber + Freesia combo smells like lush morning dew. Dewy. Fresh, watery. Cucumber is a tad melon-y (actually might be the sweet mint mixing)... which IMO is what makes this fragrance unique & worth purchasing. Poor longevity, but great quality.

An interesting if somewhat synthetic fragrance that is pleasant, has moderate silage and longevity, and seems to go well on a hot summer day.

As someone else mentioned, this fragrance has an uncanny resemblance in odour to powdered-detergent. However, I find it only starts to smell like that during the end of the dry-down. The opening of cucumbers hits you right away; almost has a melon-like quality to it. It's followed closely by the mint note which is quite refreshing and reminiscent of Torino 21 by Xerjoff. I wish the opening notes of mint and cucumber would last far longer, because the end is a very harsh laundry detergent-like smell.

To me, this smells of rain and wet forest. A very clean, fresh and sentimental scent, cold and misty. It's not overpowering, but lasts all day, lingering. Unintrusive and not very challenging, but really beautiful.

More cashmeran than cucumber for me. The cucumber note is brief and gone in an hour leaving a synthetic accord of cashmeran and cedary Iso E Super. If you like these notes, good luck to you. If not, avoid.

I get a lot of mint and especially cucumber, very fresh morning scent, for what it is it's great, very green and slightly sweet perhaps good for the summer. I don't get much leather or musk.

Laundry-fresh, resembling aqua universalis by Francis K. The cucumber-violet note - recalling neofolione etc, brings it into the territory of Geoffrey Beene's Grey Flannel. Nice.

Summer salad under the sun. Refreshing, unique and fun. What I find very surprising about this one is its out standing longevity & sillage for a freshy.