Laine de Verre

I have decided for this scent to be my very first Fragrantica review because of its upside-down quality. And because it is August and the city has been melting down in a neverending heatwave. I clearly remember my first LDV sniff last spring: "OMG, who would like to smell like this?!". I took the sample though because it seemed to be a good joke to spray it on one of my friends constantly crying about how weird the niche parfumery can get. The real joke turns out to be the same me ordering the 100ml bottle and hoping for the quick delivery today. This thing obviously lacks some whole part of the usual perfume formula and it is everything but likable. No juicy citruses á la Annick Goutal (which I love). No childhood memories á la L'Artisan (in love with, too). No Mediterranian holidays. No emotions, actually. Just cold edges and surfaces and I can hardly express how surprised I get finding out I love it. What you get is - the idea of a stainless steel pool with extremely clean cold water - the smell of steel chips - the sensation of just ironed bedsheet - the touch of an ice cube on your burned tongue - ... The longevity is not really a problem, what might bother you is the rather weak projection. It stays really close to the skin. To the surface, one wants to say. It is clean and distanced, just like you want to feel on a crowded tram. P.S.: oh yes, notes: metal, water, cherry flower, synthetic citrus.

This is one of those perfumes that smell very different when sprayed on paper and on skin, producing very different results for different people depending on their skin chemistry. It was semi-blind buy for me. One of my perfume aficionado friends was selling it because he didn't like it. Because I been already wearing heavy evening perfume, I couldn't test it on my skin, so I sprayed it on paper and loved it both on the opening and dry down. However, when few days later I sprayed it on my skin it really does produced smell of some cleaning product. I even had questionable compliment "Somebody been cleaning his house today!" when I came to work wearing it. Test it on your skin before buying it! Edit: As I came to like it, I also realized what it smell like on my skin ... Suavitel Morning Sun fabric softener or dryer sheets. Not the way it smells from the bottle, but how clothes smell when they cool down.

Laine de Verre is by far the most interesting and my favourite from Serge Lutens' Les Eaux series. The opening is absolutely bewitching : screechy aldehyde creating a mineral texture, which reflects the name so aptly, paired with a really tart, almost salty melange of bergamot, lemon and mandarin. This combination doesn't seem that pleasant, but it works, magically! However, this phase doesn't last that long. It mellows after about 30 minutes, and after about 1 hour, what left is a gentle musky scent. And the overall longevity is not optimal, either. I got about 4 hours with close sillage. However ephemeral the opening and the overall scent is, I'm still enchanted. And I'd definitely recommend giving it a try for an interesting olfactory expereince. By the way, dear Santa, could you please drop a big bottle in July so that I can spray it abundantly again and again just for the wonderful opening? :-P

Reminds me of when I was a child and my mother would squirt too much liquid dish soap into our bubblebaths. This is a "spray-on-after-you-wash" kind of perfume. It tops off the cleanliness of a hot shower perfectly. I appreciate that Laine de Verre smells nothing like the sebaceous glands of human flesh. It's clean, white, and metallic. Innovative perfumes oughtn't be predictable, right? Some of my favorites are the androgynous kind that gently play peek-a-boo with my olfactory glands. And while it's true that you eventually go nose blind to it, the scent does waft in from time to time during the day.

I absolutely love it. I understand why people wouldn't though. It's first time I bought full bottle of Lutens and I've got only half the juice left. It starts cold, fresh, it's like an alert. It reminds me of a laundry put to dry outside on cold windy day. Close to 0C-32F. Then it gets citrusy. We can say like detergents :) the dry downs gets warmer, muskier, quieter but still clean. on my boyfriend it gets much warmer than on myself. It doesn't smell like anything organic, it's very unique and I think it's really pleasant at least to me.

I love this fragrance, which is strange because I tend to prefer Lutens' dark and dirty fragrances. But this is bright, crisp, clear, clean. The aldehydes are bright without giving me the fluorescent white light headache I get from so many of them (Pleasures, Beyond Paradise). It feels wonderfully cool on a hot day, but oddly I seem to have worn it a lot this past winter when its coldness seems to fit the day. It does have the slightly scratchy feel of fibreglass, or running your nails down a glass pane.

Out of all the Serge Lutens scents I’ve tried, I like this the best so far. I get a pleasant, light soapy scent with a hint of citrus. This is perfect for hot, humid weather, and I got a wear time of about nine hours. It does fade to a skin scent after about five hours, but it’s still somewhat noticeable. I definitely want a bottle of this down the line 😍

Frozen bittersweet citruses, fresh cut mint leaves, cold, sharp, metallic aldehydes, salty vapor, the scent of washed laundry. Everything at once, everything in one. Ultimate freshness in that typical uncompromising SL style. Sharp as a knife. Fragile as glass. This fragrance shines bright like a diamond.

Fresh soapy musk and aldehydes. A very nice fragrance for warmer days, that should get much more love than it does. (why Khiel's Musk is loved while this one is hated? Doesn't make any sense) Leans slightly feminine, even if I hesitated a lot if buying it or not. Spring/Summer days, 20+

This is an amazing perfume! It smells like when I walk in the woods on a wet winter morning and pass the pepperwood trees. I have no idea how they captured this clean, unique scent, but it takes me to my favorite places way back in the woods. Absolutely lovely!

I'm walking through mediterranean woods with scented shrubbery underfoot.Aromatic Eucalyptus and pine scenting the air and enjoying the cool freshness,before reaching the musky warmth of the sunbaked Beach.

So powerful, so surprising, this perfume reminds me a glass of frozen vodka! It's Amazing, expecially in sunny days

I was terribly disappointed when Lutens launched the "Eaux"(Waters collection). The first was a sort of CK'One sold more expensive, the second "Froide" was slightly more interesting especially for its treatment of the mint, the third (which will be the last of the series) had little chance to make me change opinion and yet ... The opening is frankly aldehyde with a sharp metallic appearance and there is a slow evolution towards an simultaneously animal and mineral musky base. This is the opening of Chanel No. 22 with a touch of Sécrétion Magnifique and then a move towards what makes me think to the musky base of M/Mink. It is not made for winter, but this summer it may well become for me an uncontrollable purchase. Fresh and terribly original, it is finally what I expected from a simple "Eau" by Serge Lutens. A beautiful composition.

It's clean, soapy, freshness. Some of the reviewers have commented on its coldness. I don't love it. I don't hate it. And that's the problem. I think what bothers me about it is that it takes the generic American idea of "clean scents" and warps the genre a bit; it's "warped clean." The last comment about "someone cleaning" made me laugh. I have not had that experience, and if anything, I find it disturbingly innocuous with so many other "fresh" scents around. Some of the Hermes scents remind me of this. But with all the other SL scents in my wardrobe and others beside, I don't mind seeing it as an artistic expression--and there so much "artistic expression" around us that many of us are not compelled to wear...

Literally a breath of fresh air, like opening the window on a cool, breezy summer day while doing the laundry. First time I've really enjoyed aldehydes... it's really a perfect rendition of something sharp, bright, clean. Soapy and herbaly, I find the fragrance to be just fine for what it is. 6.5/10 "It is only after he had been penetrated by the winter that, laying down his arms, the Lord of Glass came to place at the feet of the Lady of Wool flowers and ferns which had frosted on him. Just like a rapid, from the source to the estuary, it is the steel of a rope which extends this eau."

As a massive SL fan I was expecting a lot more than an expensive version of fabric conditioner. At €105 on the official SL website I think I'll pass. I was gifted a sample thankfully but I wouldn't buy it. Very disappointing. I wonder if the "nose" for this was moonlighting and actually works for Procter & Gambol or Unilever.

Smells like a steam-ironed white shirt. Nothing groundbreaking, but It’s pleasant and has decent lasting power with moderate projection. A good alternative to summery citrus fragrances if you want to add variation to your fragrance rotation.

Am I the only one to smell vodka lemon on ice? I love it!

Extremely clean. Hard steel,fresh blood,aldehydic,keeps you awake in the humid summer heat. Wear it when you want to code all day and do not wish to be disturbed by others.

Smells like a huge white bar of "soap-scented" soap. Not my favorite but very interesting nonetheless