Parole d'Eau

Beautiful. Pine needles and fresh sweet citrus, mixed equally with cold clear water with a touch of salt. Super fresh, light, and restorative. Occasionally it veers toward almost too briny but then reels itself back in. If you could go to the cleanest mountain top lake, surrounded by pines, and sit outside in the breeze there in very early spring, this is what you might smell. Someone said it’s a good hiking scent, I agree. Also good for doing yoga, meditation, going to the beach. Any experience in nature. What I think it would be great for is taking a break from fragrance for a bit. If like me you like to smell them all but get tired of the constant parade of obnoxiously persistent Amber fixatives etc this is like a cold sweet breath of fresh air. I can’t go “naked” without fragrance but this might be the next best thing for a few days. It feels about as light and natural as would be possible in a fragrance.

Got it from Japan and the Serge Lutens SA showed me it layered with some of their fragrances. Love it smells really like water mist in a forest. No fishy or seaweed vibes. Very fresh and green (not the cucumber like, more like pine and grassy). Also love the musk in the base. It’s great for layering with many types of fragrances and wear on its own if you want to just smell clean and clear. It’s simple but unique. It lasts 6-7 hours on its own and last longer to layer. Depends on the fragrance that you’re layering. I also like Dans le bleu qui pétille. It will be on my wish list.

My signature fragrance for warmer months. As soon as the spring begins, I cannot wait to pull it off the shelf. It's airy and light but also well-projecting, eucaliptus-y and bitter, but less like sauna, and more like biting into the stem or a citrus rind. It makes me want to wake up and breathe in with my full chest. If I spray it in the morning, it lingers arond for the better half of the day. As the lover of all notes mentioned, I am glad that I have it, and would repurchase it if necessary. It doesn't bore me and makes me feel good, which is all I want from a fragrance.

Nice light scent. The citrus up top comes off like dried lemon and lime rinds. Pine needles are light. The eucalyptus is mellow. Some marine elements as well. I tested it next to another lemon lime opening scent in pdm sedley. This one is lighter but smells similar in the air in the opening. Up close this one has a much more sultry musky aloe vera marine thing going on. It's hard to notice until compared up close. The Matin line is great so far. I'm gonna get them all.

I get citrusy seaweed. There's that saline fishy funk you smell when strolling along the sea shore, but it's a perfectly natural part of the landscape and completely inoffensive. It smells like the feeling in your body after a good afternoon swim in the sea. I've put it on after a shower and I absolutely feel like I swam in the sea before taking that shower, I almost believe in it. This is a really cool scent! Curious to wear it in summer

This is a really pleasant, non-aquatic, lemon & woods freshie with a little bit of Serge Luten's classy old-world charm. And some eucalyptus too. It's an atypical freshie which imparts a strange sense of sophistication to its wearer. Clean, fresh, lemony, woody, and slightly herby. Definitely my favorite of the three in this collection. To me this is the kind of fragrance that a gentleman scholar puts on when they want to feel fresh.

I've never been more proud to gatekeep such a classy and simple DNA that just works. We're all in agreement not to tell the rest of the community about this one yeah? Kidding of course. Absolute steal for the price. Coniferous lovers watch out, this might be your new favorite.

An ideal spring scent. New growth pine backed by eucalyptus. The citrus floats around the scent and projects more but that projection is clearly hinted with the greener notes. It is not very musky at all on my skin.

A bright, soft citrus that's effortlessly elegant. It pairs with my morning coffee like a glass of fresh lemon water. Perfect for breezing through emails at 9am.

Great fragrance. Glad I jumped on this one. Perfect citrus aquatic.

Not my cup of tea, this one. It’s very nice, I do appreciate the herbal freshness of the overall composition. Something about dry down reminds me of a clutch of parsley sprigs wet with dew, just harvested from the damp soil in a garden. While that’s a very enjoyable aroma, it’s not a scent I’m too keen on wearing as a personal fragrance. I will say though— this is one of the most LOOOONG lasting freshies I have ever come across. This juice grabs your skin and will NOT let go. I just washed my wrists and applied some scented lotion as well. Nope! Didn’t work. Even under a layer of my vanilla scented lotion, Parole d’Eau ghosted right back up on both wrists. For a freshie, that’s downright ridiculou— er, I mean MIRACULOUS. Ah, well.🤷🏻 what can a woman do? Parole d’Eau insists on coming to bed with me tonight...But will Parole d’Eau still respect me in the morning?

I’m so glad I got this anyway. It was a blind buy due to a HUGE discount but then I read some people’s reviews and wondered what I’d signed up to. In reality this is a very light pine aquatic. Totally unisex it smells professional which is a word I’m not sure I have ever thought of when experiencing a fragrance. Yes it is abstract but there is not doubt the evocation of water. There is an aspect of herbal about it, definitely pine, a very light and different touch of eucalyptus but nothing chemical cleaner going on and nothing suggesting foods or hippy informality. It’s a walk through evergreens to a lake. Simple. No fish note on me. If I were a modernist architect I might wear this and it will sit well alongside my CDGs.

A reminiscent of the majestic chalk beach of Seven Sisters, combining the sun-baked limestone and remnants of the ocean. Driftwood, seaweed, algae, mineral, pear, starfruit, flowery musk intermingle and paint serenity. There are also the occasional droplets of ocean brine picked up by the sea breeze that you taste on your lips. Tactility i.e. you shuffle your bare feet across coarse and smooth pebbles while the waves gently brush by. Parole D'eau captures a fleeting impression that lingers as an artful composition, reserved only for the most unique of memories. 7.4/10

I bought this based on a chat gpt conversation. I was looking for a cologne that smelled really subtle and almost not like a cologne. I wanted something where if somebody smells me they just think that person smells good and fresh. I live in a hot climate so that was a necessity. This cologne works great for that use case I smell eucalyptus maybe some citrus and sort of the smell of a forest stream. It is subtle. It’s a great cologne for when you just get out of the shower and you wanna smell good but you don’t want to smell like you sprayed something on.

Awesome hyper realistic lemon juice opening. Dry down is a natural pine. Has no resemblance of a cleaning product for either the citrus or pine/herbal notes Gets relatively soft with a slight musk. It’s interesting but I have too many freshies in my collection at this point to consider this as TB/FB worthy. This is a good choice for someone who wants a subtle light fresh, soft your skin but better scent that doesn’t want to make themselves known through others noses the second they enter a room

Freshy fresh. Hazy fog pulls the eucalyptus and pine needle spice into a cool cloud. It is the cleanest you will feel on this cool morning as you kayak across impossibly still water. I love that this is an aquatic fragrance that feels like a fine mist, and doesn't do anything screechy or bright blue to force a masculine agenda. A hot weather banger.

Simple, fresh summer scent with only 4 notes. Citrus rind, pine needles, eaucalyptus and synthetic musk. Just the perfect scent for outdoor relaxation and sunny days. The unisex scent has moderate sillage and good longevity. Refreshing, elegant and discrete. Enjoy!

Even though it sits very close to the skin, I think it carries a successful open-air spa vibe. The blend of aquatic facets, pine-forest air, and eucalyptus is wonderful. A lemony freshness also runs through the fragrance. Very airy and refreshing!

The opening is what I love. Piny, camphoraceous eucalyptus. Unfortunately it does not last. It soon becomes a herbal, slightly aquatic, musky scent. Fresh, great for hot days. It is lovely, but not so special. And I do get the 'watery' vibe.

Very clean, fresh fragrance. The eucalyptus note is prominent, but well balanced by the other notes. To me, this is sort of the flip side of l'eau froide -- instead of brisk and cool, this is warm and inviting. Love them both.