Bourreau Des Fleurs

Absolutely stunning! I have been wearing this wonderful 'parfum' for a year, i love it. So at first you think this is quite sweet immortelle, licorice, resins and ... something smoky, I have my money on incense ... but...hang on a minute is this a deeper and more pure version of Le Participe Passé? The Liquorice comes through strong on my skin for the first couple of hours and i didn't notice this until the 3rd day of wearing it. The immortelle is beautiful and doesn't come out as culinary because it is earthed by the resins. There is something else... I don't know what but it confuses people into thinking it is a floral perfume... When first sprayed on, the dried fruit comes through quite strong but calms down fairly quickly. The sweetness also dries down and disappears. You are left with resins and immortelle which is heaven! This perfume (yes it says on the bottle that it is 'Parfum' Not EDP) is often described as a semi gourmand but I don't feel it, there is such little sweetness in it that it actually opens you up to another world of scents and makes you notice how everything in our world is overly sweet, it is a welcome respite... It transports me to another place and time. It is earthy and grounding and full and so resinous it is a masterpiece and as another reviewer was saying worth every cent

My first perfume from SECTION D'OR Line , that i've added to my collection and definitely NOT the last ! I think to believe , that this line is aimed to attract people , that are looking for something else , different , artistic and unique ! Creativity to the maximum , and as already metioned from the brand "taking an idea to its very limits".... I get a lot of Immortelle with this one , a hint of something sweet and syrupy , but at the same time ,also something bitter and resiness ! Indeed , there are some smoky facets ,that i get too , although , on my skin they feel quite light and transparent ! It ain't something dark and mysterious (of how i personally get with Serge Noire ) , but more of that love and hate relationship between Serge and his mother , that feels very nostalgic and sentimental , pleasent in kind of way , but painful in another !

Silver 7777 i couldn't agree more.. I would like to add my feelings about this perfume. This perfume makes me emotional. When you apply first you smell an anger comes from disappointment. It's not over powering, after half an hour later you realize how soft and creamy this scent can get. Real beauty starts after this, it's almost like an end to a mother's anger. You can feel her love, her affection towards you. And when it starts to become a skinscent, it does that so well, you want to start all over again. Like a baby can't get enough of her/his mother's scent. Or a child constantly misses her/his mother.. This is my favorite from Serge Lutens not because of sillage or longevity. This is an experience. The only scent brought tears to my eyes. Immortal scent from Serge Lutens.

The Executioner of Flowers is a lovely tribute to the Serge Lutens lines favorite flower the immortelle which actually smells more herbal green. The perfume is the best representation of this brands minimalist Oriental aesthetics and evocation of a land and time gone by. The perfume begins with notes of licorice and dried fruits and heads to the heart of immortelle flower. The perfume dries off to a unique base of smoked sandalwood and musk. The unisex scent has moderate to strong projection and very good longevity. Very nostalgic and one of the best examples of this lines distinct evocative style. Enjoy!

I am not a master of words. I can't write a three page essay about perfumes. But if I could, I would have written a novel about this one. A criminally lesser known masterpiece. It is beautiful from the very beginning - licorice and immortelle. But the true gorgeousness comes in about an hour on me - mind blowing scent of honeyed prunes and charred noble wood (cedar?). For the past two hours I have not been able to keep my wrist away from my face. In fact, it took me 20 minutes just to type this out because I keep sniffing myself, and each time it takes my breath away. I am just in sheer awe.

Immortelle,fruit and burnt wood. I'm an overly emotional person and as such I tend to respond to most stimuli without much thought but with as stated, emotion. When I sprayed this on my abdomen and smelled it waft up I just simply sat down for like five minutes. I'm not kidding, I just sat there on the edge of my bed looking out of my window and it was like the world had stopped. The fragrance is so beautiful it hurts almost, wow just wow, no words, when I pass please spray this in my coffin.

Beautiful. I wish notes and accords were listed; I tried to hunt down the perfect immortelle after Like This and it would’ve been nice to find this beauty then. It’s rich and thick immortelle on me....caramel, maple syrup and cloves with a touch of classic lutens raisins. It’s crazy expensive; but if you can find it for a “typical” high end niche price it’s definitely worth it. (It reminds me a little of the Lush Yog Nog shower gel; but melancholy)

...and this is how an immortelle fragrance should be done- sweet, syrupy and so incredibly dense. The smoked woods and beautiful exotic spices so perfectly temper the sweetness. Bourreau Des Fleurs is quite the masterpiece and, for me, worth every cent.

I see from Basenotes that the notes here are licorice, immortelle and charred wood. Will get back with more once my bottle arrives!

Bourreau des Fleurs is advertised as heavily revolving around immortelle, and that's exactly what I got from this new Section d'Or offering. Upon spraying, the immortelle immediately jumps out with its sweet, maple syrup-related aspects. Decadent dried fruits are drenched in unctuous, golden honey, then get reduced and caramelised, until the dried fruits look like being preserved in amber. This might sound like a nightmare of gooey molasses, but that's not the case on my skin, as the sweetness feels ambered and are in a lower octave than pure sugar fest. Moreover, if inspected closely, there's a subtle, underlying woody bitterness effectively anchoring the rich sweetness, which might be the doing of licorice and the smoky woody elements. Bourreau des Fleurs behaves largely in a linear manner and is dominated by this lavish sweetness of immortelle. At around 90 minutes in, the spicy cumin aspect of immortelle suddenly makes a surge and then looms at the periphery, completing the olfactory profile of immortelle. Towards the later dry down, Bourreau des Fleurs sometimes makes me think of an almost resinous honey tobacco, but it eventually feels more like an illusion of immortelle. The fragrance has a heavy to moderate projection, and lasts comfortably for 9 hours. I quite enjoy Bourreau des Fleurs for its many facets of immortelle, especially its rich, ambered sweetness. However, the elephant in the room is, without surprise, its price and limited distribution. Personally, I'm not more impressed by Bourreau des Fleurs than other wonderful immortelle-centric fragrances such as Annick Goutal Sables, Lutens' own El Attarine, or Pierre Guillaume Fareb, etc. I would recommend it to those who are looking for an immortelle soliflore, or a generally resinous honey tobacco fragrance, but there are surely other ineresting and more affordable choices out there.

Very much in line with others from the Lutens range (Think L’innomable, el attarine). Opens with dense and goopy aspects of maple syrup, honey, and dried fruits. Give it a bit and it settles into a really nice lightly sweet floral and roasted coffee scent I’ve tried a few and I’m not sure I can pinpoint what differentiates this line from the main Lutens range that would justify the price. The ingredients and scent profiles are similar to releases that are a third of the price. Unfortunately seems like a cash grab with exclusivity being the selling point, which is a bit of a surprising mindset to see from this brand

Hot butter and maple syrup over fruit and pecan waffles. A coworker walked into my office and said something smells like pecan cinnamon rolls, "your breakfast smells good," but I didn't have any food with me. The brand says this doesn't contain any floral notes, but I'm noticing a significant number of people saying they smell immortelle. Are you, dear fellow reviewers, wrong, or did Serge Lutens misfire? Or, is Serge lying to us, which he has been known to do sometimes, so maybe we're being intentionally mislead into thinking there is no immortelle flower? The title means Executioner of Flowers, strictly translated. Does this mean flowers have been killed - i.e. they don't exist - or does it mean flowers have been achieved? There are likely typical Lutens word games afoot. Or, is the focus actually on fenugreek and not immortelle? (Hint: yes, it is). Lutens has played with immortelle and/or fenugreek before, but it's one of his least referenced accord types, dwarfed to near numerical insignificance by his other preferred floral accords of jasmine or rose. How ever you choose to interpret the starring accord in this perfume, what Bourreau certainly executes is your pancreas. In a period where the world is rife with obesity, heart disease, and diabetes this perfume fits right in with our de rigueur shots of insulin, weight loss drugs, and the spike in colon cancer. There couldn’t be more room for acetates and lactones like sotolone shoved into this perfume without bending the laws of physics. So, you better love these types of notes: Hot maple syrup; brown sugar; sweet breakfast pastries; cooked peaches and apples; melted salted butter; fenugreek, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, etc.; buckwheat honey; confectioner-prepared roasted nuts. Lutens is desperately trying to hide the minute floral aspects inside the confectionary display case, but the materials of immortelle/fenugreek and mimosa very, very quietly reveal their floral sides in the dry down (as compared to not-at-all pre-dry down). Fortunately, in the dry down the overwhelmingly sweet notes mercifully depart. In addition to the woody, spicy immortelle/fenugreek and lightly-honeyed mimosa, a yellow-milk-fat sandalwood and sweet patchouli come forward in the dry down. You're going to have to endure a lot of gagging to get to this point and, if you're like me, a headache. This perfume is only tolerable after about the 5th hour. My bottles of Sables, Immortelle Corse, Immortelle Solaire, The Afternoon of a Faun, Eau Noire, and many others have no fear of being supplanted. At one point I had to tell my wallet "cut it out, you made your point" when it wouldn't stop its derisive laughing at Bourreau. It seems it was quickly discontinued, but who knows if Lutens will bring it back. Hopefully not, and perhaps enough time has gone by for our doctors to take us off Metformin.

In a lot of ways, this feels like a rebalanced version of Chypre Rouge. The immortelle is still present and, in fact, one of the dominant notes. I feel like there is other floral sweetness, some candied citrus, and a vague amber-woody aura. Certainly an easier and more pleasant wear than Chypre Rouge, but also much less distinctive.

There is nothing stunning about it. Similar to "Jasmin Des Anges" and "Grand Bal 2018" by Dior. Sweet Peach, Apricot, Osmanthus, Jasmine. Absolutely the same... slightly more woody and earthy due to the Immortelle. After 30 minutes it reminds me of "Blanche Immortelle" by Atelier Cologne. 👎 Disappointing overall.

Launched in 2017, and already discontinued? Not available on their US website. UPDATE: Serge Lutens wrote me to say it isn't discontinued, but only Temporarily unavailable.

selling at $600 for a 50 ml at saks. that is outrageously expensive for an edp.