De Profundis Limited Edition

A dear friend from paris had the kindness to sent me a bottle of this magnificent creation!!!!! A version that has two little 30ml bottles and a vaporisateur!!! Classy black bottle!!!! I had the chance to smell and instantly fall in love with this unique fume two years ago when I received the well known black envelope full of solid samples from the company of serge lutens!!! I waited and waited imagining how it would smell!!! And now it's hear!!!! I LOVE IT!!!! I could cry!!!!!!!! The scent is amazing the best thing that I own it's so precious and fragile like a fresh bouquet of wild flowers collected under the moonlight!!! I get the smell of night the smell of kindness nothing sad!!!! It is an absolute floral but the secret blend of some unknown to me base notes and the quality of ingredients makes it so unique unlike everything i know!!!!! Trust me iff you're lucky enough to find one you will be amazed of this greatness!!!!!! It's my first lutens and from now on I only hope to find a way to get some more!!!!! Thanks G.

A lovely green and bitter floral, gimlet-eyed and unforgiving. The chrysanthemum accord is like no other scent in my wardrobe (mums are funeral flowers in France, where I live, and so are absent from perfumery). Very melancholy. I handed this round friends for a perfume evening and one woman said it smelled 'like fear'. There is apparently a trace of cadaverine, the smell of dead bodies, in this fragrance, hence perhaps the strong reaction. I have the original De Profundis but a friend has the vap. tout noir version and says it goes off rapidly - he has to keep it in the fridge. Mine, in contrast, is about seven years old and still going strong.

I have to say I am deeply disappointed. I had a sample of an old Bell jar-version with actually made me cry, it was so beautiful. This is just pleasant. I blind bought this thinking it was a much better way to store and use the scent. How ever I find i really lacks something of the old version. To me it lacks something... wet and damp. There was a note in my sample that made it less poudery and more.. like a cloud. I guess it must have been the soil. Because that is missing to. This is nice and a very good everyday frag but not to special. Not like the scent i have ben missing and craving like mad for so long.

Wow, this is fabulous. Clean, soft, elegant. The opening is floral, crisp and clean; the violet-green notes dominate the first hour or so on my skin, and then the tone gradually shifts to a warm, toasty and complex smoky musk. This is accompanied by a subtle but comforting chrysanthemum, which really makes this stage damn good. The drydown is quite nice; the ash and incense notes really emerge on my skin, and overall it's a lovely, subtle unisex scent; I think anyone can wear this well, although it does have a very formal air. Really, one of my favorites!

I Absolutely Love This! I don't know where all the gloom and doom comes from as I don't get that. What I get is the sweet smell of purple and violet flowers in a cool forest in the evening or night after the rain, dramatically and hauntingly beautiful, mature and sultry, not gloomy- magical. -Angelica 000 says it best, it's bewitching!