Quelques Notes d’Amour L'Eau de Toilette

I swear this used to have a pleasant balance between fruity, floral, and woody. Now it's just not the same anymore. It has become pretty dull in comparison to how it was originally formulated. I bought this about 6 years ago. Still have the same bottle. All used up. I tried going to different branches of Yves Rocher to restock as it has become one of my favorites, but lo and behold, the scent was no longer the same. I gaslit myself a few times, thinking that maybe my nose just got it wrong, or maybe I just got the name of the fragrance wrong. I finally decided to bring the nearly empty bottle with me after a few failed attempts at scent-matching. I even showed it to the sales personnel so we can compare together. And I was right; there had to have been an unannounced reformulation. This probably happened around the same time Yves Rocher changed their packaging for their signature floral EDT's from pretty tinted glass bottles to recycled, clear, generic-looking glass spray bottles.

This is a very different beasty from its edp. Where the eau de parfum is warm, deep and comforting like a blanket, this eau de toilette is fresh and fruity in a very nice way. It is green fruity, like you are walking through the garden, brushing the berry-bushes. I like the edp, but I love this eau de toilette. It is a bit like the "So elixir"-scent by YR: there the edp gives me a headache, but the edt is lovely. I can imagine people feel the same way about these sister-scents. So if you can't stand the edp, don't skip the edt!

Totally different from the edp version. It is fresh rose with black currant and grapefruit. It smells very similar to Baby Doll or In Love Again by YSL. Adorable scent, quite long lasting for an edt. Love the bottle as well.

So far, it's my favorite Yves Rocher perfume because I like rose scents that are still fresh and light, without having that overly sweet, almost chemical scent that some rose-based perfumes have.

Quelques Notes d'Amour EDT opens with a very intense cassis on me. So green and sugary, that it almost makes me think of burnt plastic. But within minutes, it soon softens into raspberry and sugar-coated rose. Although raspberry is among my least favourite notes, here it's not too artificial, saccharine or gooey, and even gets a bit fresher with time. The tart-sweet raspberry feels like one of the aspects of a real rose, only that it happens to be amplified in this case. The fragrance then remains as such until the end. The sillage is moderate to soft, and the longevity is around 8 hours. I was initially repulsed by the agressive opening, but the dry down really surprised me with its tart-sweet raspberry-rose. Quelques Notes d'Amour is still quite sweet, but not to the extent of being unbearably artificial. Compared to the original EDP, while both can be categorized as a gourmand rose, the EDP has a more pronounced patchouli contribution, and a creamy texture from resins in the dry down which EDT lacks. Continuing the gourmand rose theme, this EDT is a nice alternative to those who are not very comfortable with the patchouli in EDP. I'd recommend it as an affordable fruity floral gourmand rose, as long as you don't mind intense cassis.