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!

It's dramatic and high-art flower perfume and I think,not for everyone. I can understand why some people don't like this heaven. Because, hard to understand in first step and you have to spent the time with this. Andy Tauer amazing perfumer and he has fantastic imagination. I just love it and when I apply on me I'm in the heaven!

A sharp, bright opening gives way to a soft floral heart with just a touch of leather to keep things interesting. Andy's trademark earthy dry down adds warmth and some heft. On my skin, the lily of valley isn't dominant; it's a floral symphony, ever so slightly indolic. Massive silage and longevity, over 12 hours.

I'm really sad this one has discontinued before I could buy it! Amazing fragrance that smells almost spiritual but very grounded to nature. It's a floral lily of the valley oriented fragrances that smells rather fresh but in a very original way. This fragrance is like putting a idyllic month of May in a bottle.

I was lucky enough to win this beauty . When I first applied it the rose note was strongest . After about an hour the gorgeous green notes came in . It is not obviously Lily of the Valley but like Spring has invaded your home. It's sillage and longevity are amazing . A masterpiece with such a lovely name.

Discontinued for a while now. It's a shame Mr Tauer couldn't find satisfactory replacements for the necessary lily of the valley sinthetic molecules that IFRA pretty much banned, lyral, hydroxicitronellal, etc. This was his best creation in my opinion.

Sharp, spring flowers pushing violently against the last of winter. Loved the previous review about the Snow Queen in the Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe - a perfect marraige. Definitely an early Spring scent with the threat of snow still in the air.

Am I the only one that got a slightly MELON vibe off the top? I love it, but me and melon don't mesh too well all the time. Definitely different blend for Tauer......great to have a great start with them in variety!

I'm obsessed with this fragrance. I receive so many compliments when I'm wearing it. I can't seem to find it anywhere to buy and I'm on my last bottle! Mr Tauer never discontinue this fragrance.

First impressions from a tester strip: stunning white floral fragrance. I wish I was a woman to pull that one off. Too bad it's discontinued.

This is work of art, olfactive miracle and out of this world! Weird, attractive, magical...Smell of the magic forest.

This is one of the most beautiful floral scents in the universe. It's such a pity that it has been discontinued.

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perfect for spring and stunning magic

This is another exceptional perfume from Andy Tauer, but alas, I hate how it smells on me. I am not a lily of the valley fan usually, I probably should not have tried this one, as again the lily of the valley scent smells awful on my skin chemistry. The pay off is in the dry-down, which smells almost miraculously beautiful, a sharp note of lilies and a delicious honeyed lilac. But I can't get past the first 4-6 hours of wearing this perfume, when (on me, and to my nose) the dirty green lily of the valley scent is strongly reminiscent of dirty socks in the gym lockers at school... so, not for me, despite the angelic ending.

Smells like the listed flowers along with their green parts but the green is boosted 300% and someone's smashing your face in it. Very imposing smell. I kind of like it since I'm a fan of the said flowers but I prefer it when it becomes more subtle, after 5-6h. It layers incredibly well with Phi by Tauer. They smell kind of too strong at first but then they meld and I can't describe the result even if I had a week to do it.

A dense thicket of moonlit white flowers. A forbidden, ever so sweet but green poisonous flower that says admire but keep your distance. Enchanting and magical. This is the scent The Snow Queen of the Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe would wear. A very powerful fragrance with an odd cooling effect on the senses.

A bold and innovative muguet scent. It counterbalances the innocent, light floralcy of lily of the valley with an intensely grassy green note (leafy/green cis-3-hexenol comes to mind) and a hide-like leather. I love how Andy Tauer takes "easy breezy" floral notes and roughs them up in an intriguing way.

Work of art. I dislike lily of the valley, lilac and green notes A LOT, usually these are too cold and too sharp for me. However this perfume is incredibly well-balanced, unique and pretty. Extraordinary.

Pleasant floral scent, unforgettable from the first spray, imagine reading a book set in a spring garden. Absolutely love at first sight. Another masterpiece of Mr.Tauer. 10/10

The white lily-of-the-valley flowers are blooming, but in the rich and dense dark green flannel of this work, it actually gives me a strange feeling. A horror that is about to be eaten by green. It should be the fishy smell of grass, combined with the clean floral fragrance of lily of the valley and jasmine. Very likely to make you uncomfortable. So, as a reminder, don't spray too much. The texture of Carillon pour un ange is wet and sticky, green and astringent. A little uncomfortable when dizzy. Carillon pour un ange is really green. This fragrance is very bold. A good guy who challenges the senses.

I heard "green" and "bitter" and "floral" and I thought, sign me up! But what I got was an opening that reminded me quite viscerally of the smell of week-old grass clippings in full sun, with perhaps a tinge of lawnmower fuel in there, too -- a hot, rotting, herbaceous smell that completely obscured any floral notes. After a bit, there were flowers poaching somewhere in there, but they were the kind that have been sitting in a water glass in a sunny window for several days -- not "fresh" as I have heard this fragrance described. I waited for something else to happen, but finally washed it off. Or, some of it off, because it lingered even after a brisk scrubbing with soap. The fragrance, post-scrub, is interesting, if not lovable. I do love several other Tauer scents enormously. But this one would take some serious patience for me to connect with it.

Hmm, an initial finger dab on the back of my hand a while ago yielded a positive reaction so while digging through my samples today I thought I would give myself a treat. 4 finger dabs per wrist later and I am slowly suffocating under the ponderous weight of thousands of sweetly fragrant vines. Like Diorissimo, the LOV here is relentless and seems to grow in volume with each passing millisecond. I have rinsed my wrists twice now trying to tone it down to an enjoyable level but the unwieldy little beast is still going strong. If you like LOV and can handle Diorissimo then I think you may enjoy Carrillon pour un Ange as well. For me though, it has put me off my food and that is a deal breaker!

This smells Radioactive.Seriously, you could use this to clear your sinuses. Smelling salts and chlorinated pools, and Cat pee. I bought a five ml sample for a high price just because I was curious about the rapturous reviews here. So glad I didn’t get a full bottle. This smells like nothing natural. The opening note is pure ammonia and the dry down is fecal. The cap of my sample slipped off and I could smell it while sitting another room . Upclose it is eye watering. It just gave off nauseating waves sitting on my dresser so I dumped it in the recycling bin.

This strikes me as the type of perfume that you'd either love or hate. It'd be hard to feel neutrally about this one. Carillon pour un ange is like sticking your entire face into a bouquet of flowers. It's strikingly realistic with no real notes to offset the sharp freshness of the greenery. It is sweet, bright, and will certainly perk you up. Would I buy a full bottle? No, probably not. While it is a lovely scent, it's not my taste. But if you love truly floral scents that smell like you really are in a garden, then give this one a try.

Ok i just got this from the infidel contest and these are just little extra goodies they sent us i would describe this as grease n' leather first applied to my skin it was repulsive i mean i love leather scents but this was made to oily and too greenish i gag at this so i had to wash it off. it does dry down a bit to a note of greens and lilies and with an mossy drydown and there is a strong jasmine note but does not mixed into this scent i mean i also love strong fragrances but this is repugnant i'm swapping this sorry fragrantica.

I have never been so shocked by a fragrance before. This is so dramatically different from what the reviews make it out to be. Honestly, this is probably one of the harshest, most synthetic, and most overpoweringly unpleasant perfumes I've encountered. A cacophonous brew of weeds, smelling salts, and detergent factory runoff that just won't quit. A step above the vile Eau d'Epices, but certainly on a totally different level than the wonderful hippie perfection that is L'Air du Desert Marocain.

This stuff is horrifically awful. Just terrible. I can't bear it, it actually makes my tongue tingle. I can taste it. It's weird air freshner with something medicinal and an unrelenting CLEAN note with tiny tiny whiffs of lily of the valley peeping through occasionally. No lilac ( and I grew up with lilac), no rose. Just a chemical industrial stew. Maybe it's being ironic? Maybe my nose is uneducated. Not for me. Do NOT blind buy!

I imagine this must be heaven for lovers of lily-of-the-valley and lilac. I sadly often get overwhelmed by these flowers, I have in fact never quite cared for them even in their real, flowery forms, so this is a no-go for me. Sillage: atomic. Longevity: the half-life of radioactive waste.

CPUA smells extremely natural to me, it's not "artificial" or "perfumey" in the slightest! For a "Floral Green", it is also surprisingly unisex smelling, probably thanks to the heavy use of oakmoss, wood and leather notes. Unfortunately though, this is the only good points I'm able to give this scent. First off, CPUA is a contradiction as it is both natural, and at the same time abstract. It's got a very pungent, heady "green" aroma. We have crushed leaves, coupled with an earthy leather note, that's all topped off with incredibly "screechy", white flowers. Kinda like the feeling of getting soap in your mouth. This scent has gathered some very negative reactions I see, and since I'm always too curious for my own good I just had to go smell it! The combo of green notes, leather and moss are almost certainly to blame for the dislikes. Seriously though, what went wrong here? It def. smells a lot more "dirty" green than "clean" white, which lotv and lilac usually translate as to my nose. It smells sort of bitter and balmy actually. Almost poisonous, (which lotv is)! It's not a fresh and happy green at all, it is pungent, almost earthy. The scent of sadness and decay. In my experience, the combination of notes in CPUA gave off a scent extremely reminiscent of slugs! NOT a thing I want to be smelling like! I don't know if you have them in other parts of the world, but here in Norway you have these big, slimy, slugs (without shells) that lives on the moist forest floor. They are mostly black in color, but some are brown or green. They usually pop up everywhere as the weather gets moist and cloudy. Whatever it is that makes up this note is probably to blame for the dislike. It does smell extremely "natural" though, I'll give it that! Seriously, go outside in spring/summer and roll down a flowery hill, this is what your clothes will smell like afterwards- soil, crushed flowers, bugs and grass. Also, kinda smells like the hands of someone whos been digging around in a flowerbed all day, then washing them with a strongly scented, floral soap. It actually does redeem itself a little bit as it begins to dry down. The slug note seems to be swallowed up by the pungent green notes, and now it mostly smells like an extremely "green" lotv. It actually smells (rather) nice at this point, like someone picking a boquet of lotv in a mossy forest after a thunderstorm, all the while wearing leather gloves. EDIT: Three hours later, It saddens me to say, the rotten slug note has risen from it's grave! I was so hoping that this nasty note had disappeared for good, but I catch a whiff, and there it is! Full force, stronger than ever. Made me gag for real. Seriously, I can't tell for sure what it is in this perfume that gives off this dreaded scent, but I for sure have never encountered anything similar in any other fragrance. I completely agree with Carnation and lovingthealien. CPUA is the only scent reaching scrubber status for me as of yet. That note.. It's just VILE! No other words to describe it, really! Even Dans Tes Bras by Frederic Malle was less of a challenge. I'm terribly sorry Tauer, but I can't stand this one bit.

This perfume is nothing like I was hoping it would be. It smells mostly like a green, very bitter herb, almost identical to cow parsnip, a medicinal plant that I have encountered many times in nature, and I learned early on that just one little taste will make me extremely nauseous. A true, freshly bloomed lily-of-the-valley is in the background somewhere, desperately trying to peek out from under the 6-foot-tall cow parsnip patch. I find this perfume to be utterly intolerable, sorry. I am actually having chest pains now, the smell is so disturbing and sickening to me, and I will need to wash it off immediately. Such a violent physiological reaction has never occurred with any other perfume in my whole life. I know everyone else sees this as a masterpiece, but I would highly advise anyone considering this perfume to test first.