Lost In Flowers

"The thrill of new love," "electric moment of discovery," "ethereal and profound," "free-spirited passion," "intoxicating joy," "lost in time, lost in romance, lostinflowers." The prose is a touch on the purple side, but then again so is lostinflowers. I don't find myself lost to what the description says it should be doing to me. The part of the description that made me smirk was "intoxicating joy" since I find more than a little overlap with the floral legend Joy by Jean Patou. This is not a bad thing for me at all, Joy is one of my all time favorite perfumes, nor do I smell derivation and find myself wanting to deduct points from lostinflowers. Though its personality is achingly familiar it is not a twin nor a trite facsimile. Joy takes me on a magic carpet ride of rose and jasmine, and lostinflowers takes me on a magic carpet ride of gardenia and jasmine. Thrilling, yes. Electric, yes. Ethereal and profound, yes. Intoxicating joy, yes (a pun may or may not be intended). The substitution of gardenia for rose makes this magic carpet ride noticeably more... lewd. A nude, sexy magic carpet ride. Rated R compared to Joy's PG-13. Champaca greets you, also called joy oil in India (imagine that), creating a rich, thick, golden, musky, and fruity honeyed floral accord that has a bassy sublayer of tannicky indoles. A bit of muguet brings wateriness and unctuousness, a humidity like warm breath down your neck, critical to the thick and rich feeling, and a sweet hay-like saffron helps with the soft green inflections and woody elegance. It is a stunning champaca material. I've smelled champaca in perfumery numerous times, but nothing like this; lostinflowers makes you want to call those other champaca materials phony. It's breadth, length and depth, and intensity of this broad spectrum of floral notes is breathtaking. A bit of dirty spice, musk, and salty flesh - and sex - waits fervently in the background, losing its patience and restraint to jump your bones. When it can finally resist no more the gardenia enfleurage is on top of you and the magic carpet's climactic ride builds. It is an onslaught floral amalgam with strings of the champaca still remaining, heady jasmine, and the star gardenia. Slight salty, slightly sweaty, and slightly dirty skin and up-close-and-personal fleshy warmth; raw animalic cream, pungent honey, and slightly funky earthy figs; humid, biological, and slightly metallic salivary textures. The senses of smell, touch, and taste are in overdrive, the imagination goes wild. This is a day dream that is NSFW. The oud makes itself more apparent in the final skin scent with deep, dark, resinous and oily woods. It's a very well behaved oud - well, insomuch as lostinflowers can be well behaved - by not presenting any medicinal notes, but yet an odd sour and earth floralcy, and only a minimal amount of animalic/fecal/barnyard aspects, probably having contributed what it could to the gardenia in earlier stages. lostinflowers is a trip, like the rush of dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins during... well, you know. It feels like a drug rush, a near-hallucinogenic magic carpet ride of a type suiting whatever your imagination thinks that should entail. It is a gorgeous perfume. But now for the elephant in the room. A big, amorous, red, yellow, white, floral adorned elephant.... As of today, 100mL of lostinflowers will set you back nearly USD$1000.... I understand that the gardenia and champaca used in this perfume are of superb quality and most certainly eye-wateringly expensive in themselves, but you are either mad or very wealthy to splash that amount of cash for 100mL of anything. For that price a perfume needs to be the font of virile youth, not a soft-core magic carpet ride. You could buy many, many bottles of vintage Joy Extrait in pristine condition for that price... so why wouldn't you? To be honest, I would. I would rather spend that money to have a lifetime's worth of Joy Extrait than one bottle of lostinflowers. I guess then, this is more like an unforgettable and electrifying tryst than a lifelong romantic love affair. Once my sample runs out I'll be sad and yearning, but then I'll see my faithful soulmate Joy, already forgiving of my daliance and ready to welcome me back, and I'll be just fine.

Christophe Laudamiel you fucking genius. There are other white florals out there (e. g. , Do Son, Tuberose by Diptyque which I also adore) that to me are "prettiness" luxury, polish and control and do not have any edge or mystery or earthiness in them. Lost in Flowers is completely different - it feels lush and humid and so, so potent and heady and over-blooming, almost suffocatingly, in the most divine way, like being caught in the center of an ancient conservatory at night while the flowers are at their most riotously blooming, full of indolic heat. I adore how far past prettiness the fragrance goes. Jasmine - the star of the show, truly. It does not smell like jasmine bouquets, but living flowers radiating that characteristic indole aroma, fleshy, warm, musky and bordering on animalic in the opening. It is not ethereal and clean but a thick, creamy bloom radiating heat and the tuberose and other white flowers really make it take the center stage, creating that beautiful explosion in the center of the composition. Champaca here really pushes it into a more tropical territory. The creaminess and golden touch that the champaca lends, along with that almost solar fruity touch, transform this into a deeply tropical-smelling flower symphony saturated with a moist, humid atmosphere. The oud beneath that is what sells it. Lost in Flowers has a subtle, resinous, slightly medicinal (in a good way) oud that works almost like a dark shadow in the background. It adds depth, sensuality and the sense of something darker and more narcotic at its core, which I love in fragrances. Otherwise, it would be just another luscious white floral. So, instead of pure flowers that feel ethereal, there is an incredible contrast: lush, narcotic and tropical blooms floating above this rich, dark, woody-resinous layer that grounds the fragrance. The oud adds warmth, mystery and a sort of dark, velvet undercurrent, making the white floral explosion feel even more luxurious and intimate on the skin. As it wears down on the skin, all of these elements start melding and blend into this smoky, creamy, golden and sensual skin scent. Many white florals feel controlled, composed and carefully structured in my experience and I find myself wanting to be overwhelmed, suffocated, surrounded by florals. Lost in Flowers manages that in a really artistic and unique way, while it completely envelops you, it never feels chaotic or messy, elegant in its overwhelming abundance. For me, it is the single finest white floral that I have ever experienced and subsequently one that I own. Too few white florals really strike me as truly tropical, alive, emotional and immersive. They often fall too clean, too mature, too controlled and too predictable for me. While this fragrance has maturity and a refined structure that comes with the oud, it fully embraces the over-the-top narcotic richness of these blooms without apology. Lost in Flowers feels wild and uncontrolled yet luxurious. Definitely one of the most intoxicating floral perfumes that I have smelled or tried. My personal rating: 10/10, the best white floral fragrance I have ever tried to date.

Reviewing a bottle from 2024. Lost In Flowers EDP was launched in 2018. Forget the typical oud & rose cliche. Lost In Flowers is a remarkable unique floral oud that dismisses preconceived notions of what a floral oud can or should be. This opens with a cacophany of bitter and aromatic herbs (tagetes +cardamon) brightened with Lily of the Valley. The tame Indian oud is noticeable from the start adding depth without overpowering animalics or funk. The green gardenia is extraordinary but for me it is the Champaca with its intensely deep floral ,sweet tropical fruitiness that steals the show.There are warm clove , golden pollen nuances before it settles into a smooth, and comforting base of sweet hay, dried fruits, oakmoss with a hint of leather. It seems to me a representation of wild and rugged nature as one might find with Parfum D'Empire fragrances with the warm life force of natural perfumery as found in Hiram Green. Expensive for 2018 but what with today's ridiculous prices for designer dross it is not unreasonable. Quality 5/5 exceptional materials and blending (kuddos to Christophe Laudamiel) Unisex - this is not a "pretty" floral Performance 5/5 - one drop is all you need Lost in Flowers is a wild and unconstrained floral anchored but not bludgeoned by a restrained use of oud. The oud is lost in these gorgeous flowers and you will be too. 10/10

Absolutely stunning unisex floral perfume. Top 5 Floral compositions I have ever tried without a doubt. High-quality ingredients and impeccable blending from Laudamiel. Wearing this one feels like sitting in a greenhouse, a huge floral garden, or being in a hot and humid climate like in Southeast Asian countries, where you occasionally will smell these tropical florals like Champaca as the humidity and the heat allow the scent to permeate the air. There are some spices in the opening, a bit of a leathery touch from the Safforn, and then the big, lush floral bouquet hits you. Very difficult to separate the floral notes, as they truly come together as a bouquet, but I can definitely pinpoint Lily of the Valley, Jasmine, and Champaca. Every aspect of the flowers is captured here, the green, the indolic, the tart, the sweet, the milky, everything. It's like a Botanics course on florals. The Oud is not prominent nor dirty. It provides a solid base to ground the florals, together with the Oakmoss. Overall, a 3D floral experience, with some spices in the opening, and a green/tart earthy base. Totally unisex, natural smelling, and very luxurious. It is pretty linear, but it delivers what it promises. This one and Silence the Sea are the standouts for me. Definitely overpriced but one can find these discounted quite often.

Lost in Flowers (lostinflowers) truly is one of the most gorgeous juicy, ripe, bright-yet-humid, happy-yet-explicit, summery-but-all-seasons florals. Never want to be without it. I get an almost botanical emulsion of citrusy cardamom and fruit (could be a trick of some brighter floral materials), banana-y ylang, jasmine, champaca (with all its complexities), and even some fresh-cut grass, along with what I consider a tame, woody oud, possibly supported by a sandalwood material I associate with Mr. Laudamiel: Bacdanol. Now, I definitely don’t want to weigh down the Fragrantica page of such a lovely artistic expression with internet nonsense. But as they say: “I’ve got time today” lol. I wanted to help @mariustao with his inquiry below. @mariustao, sometimes people are moved by a fragrance enough to want to share their (perhaps many) thoughts and feelings with fellow enthusiasts. Just a thought @mariustao: maybe write your reviews how you want, and leave your head scratching questions about review length to yourself. Let people live and be enthusiastic :) It can’t be fun to be the Review Length Bully. By the way, totally agree with you, @mariustao, lostinflowers is incredible. No one could imagine what it smells like from your review, but hey, that’s your style! 👏👏👏