Description
Cartier initiated the collection of perfumes inspired by kisses in 2011 with Baiser Vole edition. The name means “Stolen Kiss” and the composition is based on the essence of rare and elegant lily flower. The new fragrance Baiser Fou or “Crazy Kiss” comes out in March 2017, aligned with the collection, but focusing on another flower.
Announced as a “mischievous and feminine soliflor whose delicious accents evoke the aroma of kisses with lipstick,” Baiser Fou is developed by the in-house perfumer Mathilde Laurent, who chose the flower of orchid as the main ingredient. Like most Cartier fragrance, this one aims at the lovers of unique and luxury compositions. It was conceived as a passionate and intense aroma of sweet and powdery orchids, reminiscent of the scent of lipstick.
The bottle is transparent with gold accents, similar to the Baiser Vole edition. Its gold stopper is adorned with intense ruby top that contains the name of the perfume. The fragrance is available as a 50 and 75 ml Eau de Parfum.
chaosru – :
This isn’t anything like Baiser Vole. I finally found it today to test, and it is simultaneously reminding me of three things:
1. That pink antibiotic liquid they prescribe for kids
2. Something green, astringent, bitter
3. An old-fashioned lipstick.
Not blind-buy safe!!! It’s not *bad* per se, it’s just not how I personally want to smell. Plus, I have a feeling that it might smell better on a 20-something young lady, as it’s fairly sweet on my skin.
TimZone – :
Weird opening…yes…tart/sour black currant-ish..green..Baiser Vole-ish w/o the lily…then fruit cream…rises and falls…rises and falls….no white chocolate !!…At first you may think borderline “gourmond” but then it “falls again and sits into a light vanilla-ish powder…???….The beginning and middle “had me”….then the end….failure,sad to say.
BTW….fruit?…yes, but I did not “feel” raspberry..?
Well, just HAD to re-try this …one..more…time….AND…I am now REALLY liking it !!! I should always follow my own advice: Let the fragrance get to know you, and you get to know the fragrance…and also…be patient with the notes…let them develop…wait for the drydown…final results….Voila!!! It worked out with this one….1.6 oz bottle is on the way in the mail….
kxd194speagoessenda – :
This has to be my worst blind buy ever. And I buy a lot of them on the heat of the moment. It smells aggressively sour sweet, like a bad lollipop. I hid it somewhere out of my sight, behind all my perfumes. Got it out one evening and told my daughter (elementary school): they say it smells like raspberry. She wanted to try it of course. After sniffing, she burst into laughter and couldn’t stop and she said: but mom, this smells like parsley, fresh cut parsley. And yes, she was sooo right.
There, honest review. Elementary, Watson 🙂
Memrx586InsuffBooni – :
I just tested this in a perfume shop. I don’t like sweet scents, But this is an exception. It’s the same as baisers volé, but better as baisers volé is too rough even for a floral lover like me. This perfume is long lasting as well. Over all this wins over the original perfume.
ponka – :
I love this one also so very pretty.. I’ll be enjoying this s/s 2018
user3265 – :
A successful blind buy. It starts with an odd cough syrup vibe, but it settles down to a quite lovely fruity sweet – but not too sweet subtle scent. It’s not at all what I expected – it’s pretty and feminine without being too girly or cheap smelling.
I don’t get the white chocolate note, just a creamy fruity earthy smell. I have tried a few of the other Baiser scents, I I like this one the best. It’s quite different from the others – less floral and sharp. It’s more of a spring/summer scent.
This is a nice everyday fragrance – good projection and longevity.
cxo510bedyWelty – :
I agree with everything malinkonija wrote. Additionally, I did not think this was anything sweet or berry or chocolate. I got green, mossy, musky and absolutely UNIQUE. LOVE!
DionGymnmen – :
I adore the whole baiser vole line, however I’m starting to think I dislike gourmands, as this was a total no from the outset for me.
This baiser truly is “fou” or “crazy” as I really don’t understand why it has been included in this line!
I love the essence which has boozy overtones, but not this. It’s not the traditional lilly of the Baiser line, nor (to my nose) is it floral at all.
It has none of the green notes that accompany the rest of the line (apart from the essence) and to me it is a cacophony of notes.
A distinct No from a lover of the line.
dash313 – :
Bright, juicy berries after a weird? (but tolerable) opening. I didn’t know what to make of the fragrance at first as it was sharp, but this is brisk and the pretty, sparkling raspberry note is what accompanies you for most of the duration that it clings to your skin. I get what most of the reviews are saying, the fragrance is somewhat reminiscent of lip gloss, but it personally doesn’t bother me, and it isn’t artificial or plasticky at all. It really is quite unique. I have yet to try this during warmer weather but it smells lovely now in the winter.
скачун – :
This is a great example of a grown up fruit. Not too sweet and very real. It smells like my favorite Talenti Sherbert Roman Raspberry. I probably appreciate this more than others because I like minimalist fragrances.This is nowhere near as bad as people are making it seem. Or maybe my taste is weird. I hate many popular fragrances but I just may get a full bottle of this raspberry goodness! And side-note, this is nowhere near the same caliber as celebrity fragrances. You should be sent to the fire chamber for saying some mess like that.
boomerang76 – :
Baiser Fou is a strange one for sure. White chocolate? Raspberries? Really? Where are they?
This is a very green take on orchid. Almost a soliflore. Nothing gourmand about it. In the dry down there is a slight amount of raspberries giving this fragrance a juicy and lipglossy aroma with minimal sweetness. But chocolate? – No. And I actually appreciate that. Every new release is a generic toothache and I can hardly tell them appart, they are all the same. This is different, I am not sure if I even like this, but I appreciate it being different, and it was an interesting one to test.
I don’t know any other orchid soliflore, especially together with crushed petals and green leafs. Baiser Fou does to orchid the same thing Baiser Vole does to lilies. Except for, I much prefer lily as a flower.
*Thank you Perseia for sending me a sample.
saalant – :
Sharp, cold blackcurrant sherbet. Sweet and sweet…and more sweet. All the imagination went on the story (and that’s not even spectacularly imaginative). Very stylish bottle, though.
rusika – :
Fruity + floral + sweet = Eau de Mallrat.
Well, just as long as they continue to make scents Cartier Gold, Le Baiser du Dragon, La Panthere, etc., we can’t blame them for being forced to jump on the EdM bandwagon.
lambert – :
This was a very successful blind buy. Here is yet another fragrance that I don’t understand the down votes. It’s beautiful! Raspberry and Orchid with the right amount of white chocolate. I think some people are trying too hard to “understand” a fragrance, or they don’t find them “complex” enough. Why not just enjoy a scent for what it is, and in this case, a very nice scent.
nerzh – :
I sampled this and I found this to be utterly intoxicating in the worst way possible.. Very artificial, plasticy, and cheap smelling. All I can really get from this is this overly tacky floral and gross lipsticky odor. Pretty expensive for liquid rubbish if you ask me.
altxxxsashka – :
Very interesting scent. Lot of berries+exotic flowers. Definitely raspberry. Sweet base but not tacky sweet as La Vi Est Belle or Black Opium. I sniffed many perfumes that day at Macy’s (department store in USA), this one stands from the crowd. Unusual. Worth trying. Not unisex, feminine.
orennyneorn – :
Harmony in Red by Henri Matisse
blackmore47 – :
Beautiful perfume!! Starts greenish and tart (hommage to Baiser Vole edt), then fruity (hommage to Baiser Vole Lys Rose) and creamy vanilla (hommage to Baiser Vole Essence). Novelty are scents of orchid and white chocolate, melted in beautiful musk note,slightly resembling the one in La Panther. So, Baiser Fou is vivid fruity lipgloss scent, but elegant and refined in the same time. It has unusual combination of gourmand notes with fresh, green,fruity toneswhich make the scent fresh and not heavy. This is the only gourmand scent I can tolerate because it’s not sickly sweet. Modern touch is accomplished by this plastic note which so many people disliked,but in my opinion it blends well with the composition and wears off rather quickly. The perfume is long-lasting, I smell it the next day, when only beautiful, creamy scent plus gentle chocolate remain. It is very feminine and boldly reinterprates current sweet gourmands by adding sour fruits and touch of green feminine fragrances from 70’s. Pure love from me!
Magelon – :
The reception this perfume is getting is honestly surprising me.
The first time I tested it I was convinced I’d be smelling it on everyone within a month: it just seemed so cute and likeable!
Instead it seems to have repulsed many people, and left the majority indifferent… Oh well: the more for me!! 😛 Just hope they don’t discontinue it before I can get a few bottles.
I’m always on the lookout for a good, grownup fruity fragrance, and this one is just perfect! It’s like a summer version of Armani Sì, a higher than heaven, jammy raspberry on a sweet, powdery background that radiates beautifully.
What really made me fall in love with it was that it has this sort of bitter, florist shop greenness that freshens everything up nicely.
It’s like the gorgeous little sister of Calyx, and I love it!
(PS: the comparisons to lipstick are spot on: this totally reminds me of one of my mom’s YSL lipsticks from back in the day)
kolobok2011 – :
I got a sample of this and have tried it once. It smells very similar to my Batiste cherry dry shampoo. I’m hoping that’s not all there is to this scent so I’ll have to try it again.
Koly4ka29 – :
I was waiting for baiser fou since it’s release.I’m a fan of la panther line and also baiser vole line so I was very excited about this new member of cartier family.raspberry,white chocolate,vanilla and orchid are among my most favorite perfume notes,I also love sweet and powdery scents and the idea of smelling like lipstick was a great one IMO but baiser fou was a big dissapointment for me.Im glad that I didn’t commit mistake of blindbuying it
To my nose it has nothing to do with listed notes.there are not much white chocolate scents out there(not as much as I’d like)so I was really looking forward to enjoy it here but I can’t detect anything even related to it.also no raspberry,no orchid.on me it’s a tropical fruity,summery scent which I would never guess is a cartier.it smells like a sweet,watery melon/guava milkshake.it lasts like that for hours just that a handful of sweet berries are thrown inside the shake.when it’s a faint skinscent I can feel it smells like slightly powdery vanilla-raspberry which I can associate a bit with fruity lipgloss or lip balm but it probably wouldn’t come to my mind if I was not waiting for it.longevity and sillage are moderate
It’s drydown is nice,nothing special to justify it’s price tag but at least I like how it smells.if it was like that from first perhaps I would persuade myself to buy a bottle but I can’t tolerate four hours of bland and boring watery fruity shake to reach the pleasant drydown.I won’t compare it with celebrity perfumes as I have many and almost all of them are better
For a white chocolate-vanilla-powdery flowers-slight hint of fruity,raspberry-like treat,I will stick to my beloved fantasy nice remix of Britney Spears and for smelling like a raspberry lipgloss/lipstick I will go for miss dior absolutely blooming
I wish cartier not to start launching different versions and flankers of baiser fou.instead of baiser fou edt,baiser fou essence,baiser fou eau fraiche,baiser fou lys rose and whatever baiserfou they’re thinking of,I wish to see a new perfume with the real quality and complexity of cartier
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شروع آبکی،میوه ای شبیه به آب طالبی بستنی که در ادامه میوه های دیگه باهاش میکس میشن و شبیه میلک شیک میوه ای میشه.بعد از چهارساعت میشه کمی تمشک و وانیل پودری حس کرد..اگه دنبال شکلات سفید،تمشک غالب یا ارکیده غالب یا بویی شبیه رژلب هستید ناامیدتون میکنه
بشخصه ترجیح میدم برای رایحه ای شبیه به رژلب تمشکی برم سراغ میس دیور ابسولوتلی بلومینگ و برای ترکیب شکلات سفید-وانیل-گلهای پودری و یه ته بوی میوه ای که خیلی بیشتر از کارتیه بایزر فو شبیه تمشک هست ترجیح میدم برم سراغ فنتسی نایس ریمیکس بریتنی اسپیرز
Moftteajore – :
I absolutny don’t believe in the notes added to fragrantica.
First its reminds me a jewerrly cold store… but not a Cartier…Cartier has an int-imitate scent 🙂
To me this scent don’t have to exist.
Nothing new, nothing spectacular… definitly…past was better for Cartier ad Perfumes…
Its a very synthetic, smells like cheap celebrity scent.
viltord – :
Imagine stumbling across a huge raspberry munching on white chocolate and talking to with you rotten berry breath. Sorry, but this one, unfortunately, hits all the wrong notes for me. One of only a handful of fragrances that have the (dis)honor of making me actually dry heave upon first smelling and I can’t even begin to try and get through that opening to see what the end might smell like. For those who can pull this one off, I salute you!
Juannaska – :
At first I smell synthetic banana. More specifically, the banana flavored Amoxicillin I would have to take when I was ill as a child. You know the one. I don’t hate it. The tart raspberry notes give fragrance a tropical feel. If you were to tell me there was mangosteen in this I’d believe it. I wish those raspberry notes would last longer because it smells like rich, delicious tropical fruit. Mixed with the white chocolate its almost like a creamsicle. The adventure ends clean and chocolatey. Short life but very enjoyable.
fgh – :
It first it’s very intense and also spicy like some oriental notes were unlisted. However, later it softens a lot and it’s quite pleasant, chocolate-like.
sloginovksgs – :
It seems me fun, but maybe a bit weird too. You should smell it before buy it.
SERVAK – :
Addictive.
Baiser fou is, in my opinion, totally different from Baiser Vole. Its opening is an explosion of sweet raspberry combined with orchids. Never smelled such composition before. It dries down to a subtile fruity/flowery praline combo. The white chocolate gives just enough “gourmandise” to this perfume, without overwhelming it.
I also found the name well chosen. It is a “crazy” scent. I literally got crazy in love with this one. If I should associate a perfume to the notion of “fou d’amour”, that would it be.
It’s magic.
Dmitry2012 – :
Baiser fou is the windbreeze that you feel when you stand in front of your ex-lover’s flat in the house floor and realize that everything is over…bitter-sweet.
As for the perfume: I think this fragrance is well done as it manages to transport this mainstream sugar theme in an unusual and sophisticated way!
Endante – :
Those of us of a certain age will remember the days when people inexplicably thought that dumping pot pourri in a bowl to gather dust and insects in the living room was an interior design triumph.
Baiser Fou smells just like the fruity mix.
JIANSEJIOT – :
Drydown: strawberry cream lollipops. Not really lipsticky, but rather sweet as the drugstore lip glosses sometimes.
Very sweet, foody, a true gourmand.
Opens bitter and rotten; I don’t know how they managed to create such a perverted raspberry, but oh well there could be more notes, it’s grassy for a quite some minutes. When the herbal opening is over, you have a plain sweet fruit. The orchid needs time to develop and you might not even pay attention to when white chocolate has settled.
Linear and boring, nevertheless blended well. A safe scent. Layer friendly. Maybe we can layer it with Baiser Vole? Personally I don’t see the “crazy” in here; to me this is a “young kiss” or a “joyful kiss” not crazy most certainly. For a crazy kiss I need a crazier blending of notes.
BUT, since a more unique scent would not sell, Cartier chooses to, and I totally understand it, they are right, cater to the sweet-girly-gourmand audience. This is an amazing blind-buy for them.
I’m on the fence about it: obviously I cannot wear such a typical gourmand but at the same time I just want to layer the heck out of it; so many ideas!
boro_datый – :
It’s got the nice peppery hothouse/greenhouse edge of original Baiser Vole, but sweet, with a touch of raspberry milkshake.
I love the original, not so keen on sweet fruity florals, but this is nice, as they go..
amel – :
I get none of the notes listed, except for perhaps orchid. To me this is predominantly blackcurrent and blackberry- those are the main notes I smell. It is not synthetic- it is very thick heavy deep and rich sticky smelling blackcurrent/blackberry, hence it still has that luxurious smell like all other Cartier fragrances- this is not simply a generic synthetic fruity scent- it is sweet and rich smelling but not synthetically so.
I do like this one, but it is not me, I tend not to like sweet smells that much- it does not match my personality,
Because it is so sweet and rich I would not say it makes for a safe gift either.
However I would say this could be perfect for women 20-50 year old because it is neither mature or immature it does not fall into either category for me.
I think the bottle should have been deep berry fuschia purple because it smells like deep fuschia purple- if that makes sense.
Thus, this perfume is not complex or unique unlike a lot of scents from the Cartier house but it still has that luxurious high end quality- so is definitely worth the money if sweet rich heavy sticky blackcurrent is your thing.
It is strong when you first spritz however on my skin it quickly absorbed within 30 minutes.
CeasiashizDib – :
I bought Baiser Fou blind as I got 25% off on a selling site. It’s not the usual gourmands I go for it’s definitely got a lipstick vibe. It’s powdery and quite fruity it’s a rather unusual fragrance. If you like to step outside the box then maybe you should try this. I’m glad I bought it for a good price and I like smelling different at times. I wear fragrance for me and I’m not too concerned with garnering compliments. It’s definitely different give it a try.
Izida – :
Baiser Fou punches my nose with a chaotic, artificial tropical fruity cloud. Like previous reviewers, I too am reminded of litchi and guava fruit, plus some peach. But on my skin, extra sugar is dumped into this tropical fruit salad. There’s also a subtle bitter cacao powder note during the first 30 minutes. But because of the plastic texture of the sweet fruity scents, the bitterness of cacao powder didn’t manage to provide an interesting twist of which Baiser Fou is desperately in need; instead, it only enhances the overall cloying, synthetic feeling.
The fragrance does improve by tiny steps after 4 hours. The aggressive, tacky plastic texture of the sugary fruits finally calms down, although it never really leaves entirely, always lurks beneath like a hungry, calculating shark planning for the next assault. As the fragrance becomes a bit smoother, I do get the white chocolate accord. The fruits also develop more acidity to counterbalance the plastic sweetness. But overall, it’s still very much a typical saccharine gourmand fruity fragrance to my nose.
Baiser Fou has a heavy to moderate sillage, and it lasts at least 8 hours.
Sniffing Baiser Fou is a shock to me. It’s such a radical departure from the elegant, brilliant Cartier fragrances that I know and love: Baiser Volé, La Panthère, Le Baiser du Dragon, Eau de Cartier, etc. that I felt kind of lost upon smelling Baiser Fou. Reading the PR release after smelling the fragrance, as a hindsight, I do see the “lipstick” reference, probably to be achieved by the plastic feeling to evoke the waxy texture of a lipstick. Unfortunately, with the over-the-top artificial fruity sweetness, I perceive it as a low-end, artificial-smelling lipgloss rather than a luxurious, high-end lipstick. Personally, I think there are far more interesting and more refined fragrances depicting lipstick or orchid. Therefore, I would not particularly recommend this fragrance.
Merzo – :
Definitely a departure from the other versions…first sniff wasn’t convincing to me, I detect kind of a tropical fruity vibe, like guava!?then maybe some white chocolate!? and not sure , maybe the orchids..all in whole, for my taste, not the best combination…then, there is a certain spiciness, light, nothing harsh, like spicy orchids!? Like spicy lilies to my nose…in the heart it is more like the Edp, and edt..I know the scent is supposed to emulate the smell of cosmetics, and it gets there, half way..there is that lipstick vibe somewhere in there, the drydown is very nice, sweeter too.
I wasn’t a huge fan of the Baiser volé line, I thought this would work for me, and I am not convinced yet..orchids just have that distinctive scent, might not be for me..I won’t say it isn’t an interesting scent, it is…I need to wear it more!! Then will update…
sjj673intitytek – :
Cartier isn’t keen on revealing all the notes in their perfumes, but I found out today that this one also contains white chocolate. 😉 That’s probably what is making it so crazy kissable.
Lopiqaf – :
Wow !
Great work around this beautiful orchid. I get something that evokes litchi and guava fruits, it’s really gorgeous. So for me this is fruity but not sugary at all,
Bravo.
Post scriptum : does not share anything with baiser volé. No lipstick here. Be aware.
Update : After a few hours, may recall toilets freshner spray. I’m really sorry but i do get that. Perhaps this would not appear if used on the skin instead of a paper strip. I hope so…
Катюша – :
Gorgeous floral vanilla scent. Very luxurious and instantly satisfying. It’ll put you at ease immediately.
As the ingredients suggests, it has been developed around the subtle fragrance of the Cymbidium orchid that has delighted us for centuries. As an avid horticulturist myself, I know how delicate and short lived this scent is on the natural plant, so I take it, the perfume lab had to recreate it artificially with secret chemical compounds as well as some other floral natural oils.
The end result is a faint rosy smelling orchid with a hint of vanilla and peony.
Cartier have long been making extraordinary good fragrances for a jeweller. This one is no exception.
Verdict: 9/10 for a solitaire floral. Wished it had more development. Excellent blending of floral-sweet-fruity without being cloying at all.
kehtrpa – :
I smell a lot of litchis in the top notes. Later on, still the same litchis but the smell becomes somewhat artificial. That’s pretty much all I can say so far, need further testing!
sergey_shav – :
Want want want
rauber999 – :
It is going to launch in early 2017, people.
I love Baiser Vole, so I have high expectations for Baiser Fou. I hope this will be a nice lipstick scent (unlike lipstick on by Replica).
ЧертенА – :
Ah, I desperately want that bottle! However, what does mean ‘was launched in 2017’? Aren’t we still Dec 2016?
Kolen – :
Omg! Omg! I adore the Baiser Vole line! I can’t even deal with how excited I am! Eeeeeeeee! Yes, I’m a fragrance dork. Lol! I. Can’t. Wait! ^_^
xnust – :
Beautiful bottle!!!Nice name! Looks classic, I want it!