The Mistresses of Louis XIV

Oh, such a full and potent opening! It started with large doses of spicy, sensual lily and narcissus. The way this adventure started gave me many hopes that I will find a unique lily based scent I could enjoy. BUT - the heart part brings out the generic part of "The Mistresses of Louis XIV", lily on my skin is gone completely and I am left with rather generic, though pretty, green L-O-V and rose combo on a sweet musk/jasmine base. In conclusion I must say that this is very pretty, feminine floral with an opening that can take away one's breath. Unfortunately for the first 10 minutes. Then it's just a very nice and safe floral.

Roméa D'Améor LES MAITRESSES DE LOUIS XIV is a crispy, crunchy floral green featuring hyacinth and lily-of-the-valley. Very reminiscent of Gucci ENVY, but without the bloblike expansive synthetic lily-of-the-valley note which eventually ruins that composition for me. Still no soapiness yet to be found in the house of Roméa D'Améor, but so far I've found a couple of nice variations on clean themes without the bubbles, this being one of them. The green is not at all mean here and a far cry from the notorious CABOTINE, among others. I like LES MAITRESSES DE LOUIS XIV a lot, and would love to have a bottle of this perfect-for-every-occasion-and-season perfume. I would not say that this is a romantic creation at all, but, hey, maybe that's why they were the maitresses (plural)... Perhaps once the image of innocence had been ruptured his ladies lost for old Louis their appeal? On ne sait jamais... Anyone who likes ENVY would like this perfume, and some among those who do not (self included) will like it as well! 3.27.11

This is sort of like a lily version of prada's infusion d'iris. The opening is a sickeningly strong lily with the galbanum in the background and it slowly softens to a slightly softer more bearable lily with the addition of powdery iris. Still green-ish though. A clean crisp floral. Not really my cup of tea as I hated the lily opening.

Wonderful. But it does smell like another perfume, I just cant distinguish which. The various fragrances from this maker is actually intriguing. Empresses of Japan for example, does conjure images of kabuki faces :)