Carillon pour un ange

I was surprised to see the vehement reviews below, because I love this perfume, although I agree that the opening is severe. I think Carrillon is a sleek greenfloral perfume with a beautiful, complicated accord of lotv (dominant) + (hints of) leather, and another beautiful, more typical one of oakmoss (dominant) + (hints of) rose. This perfume can be initially challenging: a stomach-churning opening, a texture so sleek it's almost waxy, stunning sillage. The perfume isn't gentle in mood, either; I'm reminded of a spring afternoon of high winds, riding horseback across a heavily fragrant, forested mountainside with a slippery floor. This waxiness, though, isn't amateur - it's just different. Tauer is indie, right? So, to compare perfume to music, I know that when I listen to Mogwai's "Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will" I'm not going to hear a Celine Dion-style production. I appreciate those perfumeurs who shun the mainstream and create their own style - who don't aim to please with traditional creations. (Floral Green is a small perfume group compared to Orientals or strict Florals, and some Floral Greens are closer to Green than to Floral. There are those who don't like this group. I personally think my own familiarity with and penchant for the often-complicated Chypre group make it easier for me to handle Greens.) I agree with the reviewer who finds Carrillon addictive - I crave the beautiful relief the perfume gives me 60 seconds after I first apply. That's a wonderful experience. When I visit NYC in November, I'm planning on purchasing a full-bottle at MIN. Rock on, Andy. (p.s. Boyfriend - who *very rarely* indicates he likes my perfume without prompting, and who often *shudders* when I wear my beloved Guerlains, is *all about* Carillon: "what's that scent? Is that you? Mmmm... You smell good," then hours later, sniffing, "pretty..". Plus I received some more affection the second time I wore it.

I was the extremely fortunate recipient of a bottle of CARILLON POUR UN ANGE not too long ago--thank you Fragrantica for introducing me to the perfumes of Andy Tauer, and thank you Andy Tauer for being un vrai parfumeur and creating such wonders! I have worn CARILLON several times now. My very first impression upon receiving the bottle was that this is not really an edp but a perfume. It is labeled "eau de parfum riche," and that's no joke. The viscosity, sillage, and longevity are characteristic of a perfume. So the first obvious point is that: a little goes a long, long way. Two tiny sprays and you will be walking through white-dotted grassy pastures for many hours. CARILLON is actually more green than floral to my nose, but it's also more than just grass and lily of the valley. I love how Andy has managed to capture a concentrated dose of nature in all its beauty in this little bottle. I definitely detect a note similar to dandelion milk, which adds to the charm and richness of this composition. Given my own experience from my first wearing, when I overapplied (unaware of the strength), I feel the need to offer a small caveat; this elixir is so potent and so natural, that anyone who has had problems with hayfever or grass-induced allergies should apply very, very sparingly to avoid itchy eyes. I love this composition, and I am delighted to report that my sister, who just came to town for a visit, immediately feel in love with it too. This is especially significant, since she dislikes most perfumes, but insisted upon wearing it today, and kept remarking how much she loved the perfume. We both marvel at how Andy succeeded in recreating such a beautiful scene from nature. We grew up in Colorado and appreciate the splendor and aesthetic wonders of nature itself, which Andy has managed magically to capture in this unique creation.

So many bad reviews...i find this just lovely specially for summer and spring. When you first spry it you get a big blast a bitter green bunch of lilacs, and to me there's some hyacinth tho it is not listed. Then the perfume dries down to a beautiful celestial clean lilac, slightly powdery. The scent evokes to me at this stage a light baby blue color..like very pure, very innocent, very clean and pleasant. However Tauer has paired this soft bright luminous scent with his signature ambergris base, which i can understand not everyone love...because it certainly is a discordant combo, but to me it happens to work beautifully giving some depth with kind of a feel like skin, but better, making the green lilac tie quite well with our actual skin. It also adds quite a lot of longevity to he mix. I can also feel the ylang there..to me it is the same ylang that you can find in Nuit de Noel by Caron..and no, the fragrances themselves are nothing alike, but the ylang is portrayed in both featuring it's most creamy almost oily side, which gives to the perfume kind of an animalic feel laying underneath the clean powder, the bright lilac..somewhere deeper with the ambergris. Oh! i forgot to mention. The overall effect is a very clean natural smelling lilac. It smells very very natural to me, like when you grab some flower from the countryside..when you smell it you get the perfume of the flower, but also the bitter greenness, etc etc. Lovely!! But i can see why it is a bit of a hard perfume to like.

Once I read an interview where A.T. said that Diorissimo - for him - was the best perfume ever created and that he loved smelling it only from the bottle (but not wearing it, I suppose). When I came towards 'Carillon', even though I was aware of Tauer's high degree of invention and creativity as well, I was ingenuously awaiting I would have found something 'à la Diorissimo': big mistake! Yes, even here you find lilly of the valley, of course jasmine, not to mention lilac or ylang-ylang and...stop! This is another matter, a completly different one: the atmosphere 'Carillon' evokes is that of a forest it makes me think at the enchanted wood in 'Midsummer night's dream'; a place of enchantment of course but not too fairy-tailish: it's a wood in the night where the gentle lily and jasmin - though evident - are the minor companions of oak moss and woods that I better detect both on my skin and by my nose as well. The composition is and recalls you, mainly, the 'green', shadowy 'location' you search for the right position you're looking for before planting your lillies of the valley (while in bulbs, better!), if you had to arrange them in a garden. Sorry for my gardenist enthusiasm! Long, lovely lasting. A real treasure.

Extremely beautiful scent. This manages to be a photorealistic floral and very otherworldly, angelic, ethereal, fairy-tale-like at the same time. I can see the flowers and the spring-early summer forest and the wings of an angel in the air. I mean, the angel really is included in this perfume. I've got a sample from my Tauer discovery set, and if I didn't have a limited budget, I would buy a full bottle of this beauty. However, this angelic imagery is not so much like "me" that I would take the splurge now. Performance: The sillage is moderate or heavy at the most, but the word "heavy" just does not apply to this scent at all. The overall "appearance" is quite thin, like an angel or ghost flying in the air, so I'd say this is an inoffensive, yet noticeable, fragrance. Long-lasting. Highly recommended to anyone who is into this type of scents. You will get your money's worth. Edit. OMG. The dry down was still on its way while I wrote the review above. It's absolutely divine and it actually gains some strength towards the dry down. Soft suede leather, moss, woods, some ylang ylang. Somehow I get a distant resemblance to Cristalle edp which I love. Wonderful!

I so love the smell of Lily of the Valley- Diorissimo is my Gold standard for all LotV based frags - I was drawn to Carillon ever since I read it was based on this flower I love so much. I finally manged to smell it. It is one unusual LotV scent. Yes, the note is there, prominent BUT it's not crisp and cristal clear like in Diorissimo. On the contrary it's a creamy, round one. Think of Cuir Beluga and Diorissimo, and add some amber. The top and heart notes are floral ones, but the best part of this frag is the drydown (and it lasts up to 8 hours!). It's something unique. I could not really pinpoint it... but I got it clear several hours later. This fragrance is a homage to a child, as I could get clearly a hard-to-describe "baby skin" note: the smell of a newborn's head, with that milky, sweet, salty, warm skin accord. It's almost animalic, in a clean way. I cannot describe it better BUT it was clear to me that the angel Tauer refers to in the name of this frag is a baby. It is sweet, round and can be addictive. I could not stop sniffing my wrists. (by the way, this milky-baby note is almost exactly the one you can get in Louanges Profanes).

Amazing! Tauer's first blasts are incredible. First spritz out of the sample spray, I get an animalic green, the natural smell of spring green florals: lilac, hyacinth, lily of the valley. Yes, there IS a bit of of that sweet rot that characterisizes lush environments (think: non-coconutty tropics). A tiny bit of dirt, a lot of moisture. This is early spring (April) incarnate. Tauer truly is a genius, particularly for a more thoughtful, sophisticated nose. Update: Just purchased a full bottle, so could spray more "liberally," which I put in quotes since this is a two-squirt max. Put in cleavage, the heat source moves a single spray swirling around your personal planet. There's an indescribable note in this that had me baffled (described above as animalic green). Then I looked at the list of notes and there it was: the pungent ambergris - animalic, slightly salty with an orris vibe (in the days before animal byproduct hoarding, er, regulation, I had a tiny vial of 10% ambergris. It was as described, plus "plump" and with a bite). Very unique!!

Extraordinary and beautiful. I bought a bottle of Carillon pour un ange very hastily and thought I made a mistake a first. The green and watery impression I percieved in the opening sold me at the perfume shop but the overall monster strength of this potion at home had me nervous to spray it on my skin. The key is to not judge this perfume by smelling it from the bottle or a test strip. And also don't apply this one to your skin like you would an Olivia Giacobetti or a Geza Schoen. This is a grande dame kind of perfume in the great old style when perfume was dabbed on pulse points and then bloomed gloriously on the skin for a fortnight. I spray once into the air and wave my left wrist through the mist and then repeat on my right side. That's all it takes to smell like an angel for the next 12 plus hours. At my desk with my arms a foot away from my nose, lily of the valley and a mossy leather base waft upwards at me all day. I feel instantly clean and pristine when I wear this and I have no regrets about purchasing a full bottle. 4 out of 5.

"Carillon pour un ange"...what a beautiful name for such an amazing fragrance! It's aroma is so green, pure, that it feels like you are listening to an angel with golden hair lightly touching the carillon's little bells. The song he plays accompanies bird songs, who chirp cheerfuly. It cannot sing in another place but the Garden of Eden, where lily of the valleys grow unhindered through the fresh grass and the blooming lilac and expand their fragile arms towards the diligent bees. On the trees moss, small raindrops rest before the sun rays take them as a tribute. The roses are yellow, so yellow that for a moment amazemnet can be read in you eyes, as you do not know whether the Sun broke pieces from its body and throwed them in the Garden. I think that for the creation of this perfume, flowers gave up their sap and blended it toghether in order to create such a wonderful scent. "Carillon pour un ange" smells like life, like Earth loved by the Sun and people loved by God.

I had given up looking for a scent that smells exactly like wildflowers in a forest. But, I found it. Yes, the opening is very green. Like traipsing through a field, crushing vegetation under your feet. I can understand why people don't like the opening, but I actually enjoy it, though I'm glad it dries down within minutes. For the next two hours it smells, as I mentioned exactly like wildflowers in a (deciduous) forest. Photorealistic and perfect. The heady aroma of lily of the valley is the strongest with fresh greens, mosses and woods underlying everything. As it dries down it does become much more leathery. I'm not a leather scent person, but the leather with the sweet floral is a really nice combination and actually made me realize how much of a leathery scent it naturally part of flowers in the forest. Still, I wish it spent more time in the heart notes and respraying every 2 hours doesn't seem reasonable.

Carrillon pour un ange does open with a bright blast of green. I assume this is from a combination of the ylang and oak moss. I like it. It reminds me of East Texas in the spring, when all of the wildflowers are blooming and the fragrant new grass is growing high. After a bit, the green calms down but never completely retreats, and the jasmine and lovely LOV come to the forefront. I love the way that Andy blended this scent, because the jasmine (which is not my favorite note) never overwhelms and is in perfect harmony with the LOV. The dry drown with its leather note is wonderful. This, like all Tauer fragrances is parfum,and you only need a few drops. The longevity is outstanding. Carrillon pour un ange is beautiful, fresh, spring-like wonder.

This is the most beautiful , stunning, strong , long lasting, intoxicating floral chypre I've ever had the pleasure of owning. It's even better than my beloved chanel No. 19 . This perfume is hard to describe. It's green , cold and warm at the same time. I think the warmness comes from the ambergis and ylang. It opens with a strong Lily of the valley oakmoss and lilac. I don't even like lilac but in this perfume I do. Next the leather and rose joins in. The rose is a fading, withering rose and the leather smells like a luxury hand bag. The scent is slightly soapy, green, warm, cold .... so unique. The sillage is outstanding and longevity is 24 hours. I've never known a green scent that lasted this long or was so intense.

Heaven, I'm in heaven... it's going to be really hard to bother with any other perfumes now after this! I'm so full of joy just sitting here smelling it develop on my skin. It's like this was made for my skin type. I don't want to eat, I don't want to sleep, I just want to sit here drinking in this odour which is the best perfume I have ever smelled in my life. I don't know how I'm ever going to want any of my other perfumes ever again now. I've a bottle of Guerlain Mitsouko on it's way to me in the post. How can I possibly want to smell it now? So yes, I'm now Tauer's biggest fan. I just feel woozy sitting here and smelling this olfactory perfection.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this. It has really sharp opening notes - when I first opened it, I thought "Wow - NOW I'm awake!" But after I spritzed some on, it quickly became warm and inviting. I once heard a fragrance described as a "corrupted Floral" fragrance. I thought that was unusual, until I experienced Carrillon. I love the uniqueness of the underlying "corruptness" of the fragrance - possibly from the ambergris? It provides a fecundity that makes this scent original and intriguing. I love a scent with lots of layers and I love the scent of walking through the woods in the early spring, which is what this reminds me of.

Carillon pour un Ange has a strange development for me, but in a good way... I am amazed with how the scent is progressing. At first it's fruity sour, and it has the same vibe with Une Rose Chypree, and it stays like that for a couple of hours which made me wonder where the lilac was, considering other reviewers list lilac as the most prominent scent for this perfume... Six hours or so, just about when I started to regret having 2 perfumes with similar scent, the lilac comes out in full bloom. And it stays like that for the rest of the perfume's life, which is about 12 hours or more.... Very wonderful creation.

I ordered this unsniffed from LuckyScent. They, and Andy are going to be the reason I will never be able to retire! The scent, yes the scent is simply lovely. Dare I say I like it more than the holy grail of lotv frags, Diorissimo. Carrillon pour un ange just blooms and blooms for 6+ hours on me. For the first 3 hours it reminds me of Le Jasmin by Annick Goutal. Yes, I get a lot of Jasmin. And then, oh then mmmmm the coldness that never leaves Diorissimo does just that and Viola, lily of the valley! Beautiful, sweet, feminine, and sanguine. Mr. Tauer has created a memorial in a bottle...and for that I bow down.

Perfect for end of the winter and spring I love this i can tell you i love in every way of this the top note and heart note is marvelous! I love the long longevity and huge sillage it’s not that much that everyone want to escape of the room but its heavy and i love 2 spray ots enough to feel spring in middle of winter with grey sky Wow I’m loving it My rate is 100 out of 100 And don’t forget its floral fragrance, test it you will love it Wow

I am happy to see young Andy Tauer having the heavenly inspiration of the past great masters of perfumery. It's a blessing for all of us. Like all his creations Carillon pour un Ange develops minute after minute. In certain moments it reminds me of the beautiful Aprés l'Ondée but less naif, more modern. It's a multifaceted scent and you can achieve it only with great artistry. Thanks Mr Tauer!!

This is simply addictive. It is far and away the best Lily of the Valley Scent in the world (in my humble opinion), and although expensive, lasts around 14 hours. It is like a green sanctuary, clean and pure and green. At first I thought it was pleasant and lovely, but I have seriously fallen in love with it and feel compelled to save for a full bottle. Total heaven. Like nature in a bottle.

Thanks to various reviews in fragrantica I learned first about Andy Tauer. I ordered a box of five samples and included was also a little card with the description and drenched in Carillon pour un ange. Well, I have not yet tried the five samples because I keep sniffing at Carillon. This is an amazing fragrance. A true masterpiece! Run for it!