Desir Pour Femme

Such a happy, optimistic, careless scent! Better than any aromatherapy product as a cur against depression and anxiety. Maybe because of all those strawberries and chocolate, and something else – pure magic!Love it,love it!

Delicious! I tested it when it came out but for one reason or another never bought it. But I definitely will soon!

My first blind buy ever and I cannot say it was a complete disappointment but unfortunately no fireworks either. I have noticed it shares a lot of notes with Boss Femme which happens to take a wonderful, sophisticated turn on my skin to the extent that people are surprised this is what I'm wearing, so I hoped Desir might also have an unexpected twist to it. Unfortunately there was no special interaction and Desir stayed on my skin just as it was in the bottle: fruity-sweet, girly, very 'pink', simply nice. Given the list of notes I expected a bit more depth but I suppose that my chemistry just doesn't bring out the best of it and that is the reason why it smells so unoriginal and familiar. I will keep trying though in hope that I will figure out a way to experience the full bouquet of this perfume. And maybe it will become more intense and long-lasting too because at the moment I would need to keep reapplying it every 3 hours or so. Or I'll just swap if my efforts fail ;) In general a good scent for me but I just wish it was a bit less 'girly' and more 'feminine' as I admit that the lovely advert and design of the rather minimalistic, 'cold' bottle had given me an impression of something more sophisticated. Maybe if I keep trying my wish will come true.

I got this in Lanzarote on hols back in 2008 along with a few other perfs I found really good value (and I had testers and samples thrown at me left right and center!) So anyway this scent brings back memories from that holiday, and I opened it there and started spraying - I love Rochas and have had a good few perfumes from them, so I had to have this too. First of all the bottle is rather simple, almost cheap-looking, the scent is nice, light, not-your-typical-fruit-juice, but lacks sillage and longevity big time..It is more like a splash, or maybe same category as Avon would be as it literally didn`t last more on me than an hour or two. It really is pleasant, girly, soft, slightly fruity, even though I`d rather notice the chocolate note than the strawberry, not too sweet or juicy. But interesting enough. The only thing that kept me from buying another bottle is the fact it literally didn`t last..Pity! I noticed the same with Rochas du Soleil as well - nice light fruity scent, but no staying power whatsoever..A real disappointment after all my other Rochas scents, but hey, it was worth trying anyway, and it`s your choice if you want to respray..

It opens with juicy fruity notes,lots of litchi,strawberry and some rose and I didn't like it at all,I thought it's very synthetic and childish,but as a delicate blend of florals started to show up,I didn't dislike it any more..I thought this is a very nice,fresh tender pink scent,an innocent fruity floral for a girly girl..but after more than half an hour I started to really like it!!chocolate note makes it a winner and prevents overall scent to be a strawberry flavoured shampoo.a really lovely strawberry,chocolate,rose combo with other florals and fruits in background,very little amount of other base notes,enough patchouli to give it some depth but not that much to turn it to a general fruitchouli Desir doesn't stay or project that much,yet it's happy,delightful and pretty.fresh and delicious the same time.it's youthful,uplifting and I really like it It likes hot weather,but I prefer it in mild summers,it's sweet and delicious not suitable for very hot and humid temp ❤❤❤❤

I absolutely love it. For some reason I just feel like it smells... expensive. I agree with what @Andorsia said about the fresh out of the shower vibe. I only have a sample so I am not actually able to spray it on, only dab it, but it does appear to be quite soft sillage wise. I catch very light wafts of it while sitting at my computer and I just adore it. Now that I read the notes I do pick up on the chocolate after awhile if I go really close to my wrist and sniff. But there is so much more to it that I wish I was able to describe! So glad to have discovered this. I will definitely be buying a bottle at some point. ***EDIT Nov 2018 So I purchased a full bottle of this because (I thought) I was in love with it. But now I actually feel a bit disappointed. It's not the exciting, lush fruity fragrance that I remembered it to be from my sample. I still like it... but I don't love it anymore. May utilize it as a body spray after showering, as it's not that strong. Oh well! :)

My first impressoin of this was negative. After the initial sniff I thought: This is really weird. The fragrance gave me a synthetic vibe and I was not pleased at all. Now, months later I rediscover this perfume - it's pure delight! The scent is so gentle, feminine and fresh. On my skin this opens with juicy litchi and rose. After 10 mins. it comes the dark chocolate. Maybe this was the note that put me off in the past, but now I find the combination pretty unique. I can also smell mandarin orange, casablanca lily and cassis. A very pleasant and sophisticated scent by Rochas, perfect for springtime!

My god this is beautiful! Fresh strawberries dipped in chocolate with whiffs of clean rose petals,magnolia and fresh litchi on the side. Not gourmand though. So tender and fragile even. I usually do not like chocolate in perfume but in Desir it is simply done to perfection. Here it's more of a light milk chocolate rather than bitter dark chocolate.This fume is soft, sweet, sexy and innocent at the same time. My new absolute favorite and I have to say the best blind buy ever! I think I will make this masterpiece my new signature scent.

fruit salad The scent is exactly like that. Cool, but also plain. The note of the rose is clear. But litchi fruit, strawberry, peach, mandarin are bland. It has chocolate in it, but it does not appear on the skin. After 1 hours it fades, very faded. That makes me sad as first 10 minutes of this scent is really nice, why does not develop ? Its discontinued anyway.

Not bad at all . but to me very ordinary. Pretty fruty, deliciosly light flowers ,Reminds me of John varvatos .but less strong , this is like a soft brush on the skin a warm summerday. fruty and uplifting, tender and mild , i can not see this harming anybody.

Strawberry champagne. That's what Desir makes me think of; pink tart fruit and sweet rose overtop cassis gives this a wine-ish quality. Musk and patchouli make it a little more grown-up. Overall not impactful, though. Might as well be a body spray.

Today I got my Desir. It starts as many fresh flower aromas, but now changed to Floral Aquatic and very airy fragrance.sitting pretty close to the skin, but i still happy to use it this summer. Very discreet fragrance

This gives a fresh out of the shower vibe. The strawberries give it a shampoo feel although with a bit more depth. In part, it has a similarity with Guerlain's Champs Elysees.

A delicate, hidden desire: between the innocence of peach & the drama touch of dark chocolate... Really tender. I just wonder is it longlasting?...

Very fruity indeed! I like that it's not sour at all as you might expect from fruity scents. Very nice!

Desir is not terrible, but it just doesn't work for me. I made the mistake of blind buying this based on all the raving reviews. Sadly, I got no strawberry whatsoever and that was the whole reason I purchased this. I'm crushed. It's sour litchi/rose and never really develops into much else. From the start, there is an underlying bitterness from either the chocolate or the patchouli that never goes away. Maybe that's what my nose was picking up on most and distorting the rest? Not sure. It wasn't sweet to me, it was a light, bitter citrusy rose. I wish I could have loved it like the others here. Just goes to show how different body chemistry can effect a perfume.

This opens as a high octane citrus blast. It dissipates quickly leaving lychees, which have a subtle flavour, as the dominant note. Thirty minutes later this hasn’t really matured, it remains very light and doesn’t bode well for longevity.

Ah, fruity litchi or strawberry juice again, very sweet and heavy in the opening, in the dry down fruity lemony nondescript, when is the fruity horror trend to the end? I am so tired of it.

Thanks God i have tried it today in store before buying it. This is a complete dissapointment to me, very very light fragrance, just like a dilluted strawberry juice. I had to sniff really close to my wrist to smell a bit of it. It was an EDT. Nothing memorable, it becomes more prominent after 20 minutes, but at the same time it becomes not that pleasant at all (must be the dark chocolate combined with rose, not a good companionship). All the notes here are way too light and airy, maybe it would be good on the hot summer day, but i am not going to add this to my other perfumes. I would really call this a complete waste of money, even though it can be bought really cheap online. Dissapointment from Rochas this time. UPDATE: Someone after me has commemnted that it smells for 2 weeks on the scarf, and that might do the trick for this fragrance, but on the skin (my skin and i can pull almost any fragrance without any problem) it has very weak lasting power and sillage.

Oh this is a fairy tale. It's like having a date in a rose garden in a late spring day. He is late, so you are eating ripe, sugared strawberries and thinking about him. And when he comes at last, you realize you are starting to fall in love with him, with the spring, with the sun... It is the sunniest and happiest strawberry scent I've ever known. It's not powdered as it is in Valentina. Desir is delicious, sweet yet fresh, positive and maybe even romantic. Very well balanced with litchi and citruses, so it would not turn out sickly sweet. My skin hates chocolate, but this note is muted with patchouli which I adore in Desir. Patchouli does not stand out, it's just there to add some complexity. On me Desir does not smell 'quite and innocent', it's almost as delicious as Miss Dior Edp from 2010. I'm not saying Desir is elegant chypre, but it smells french, sunny and sexy. I want you, Desir!