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t-1000stas – :
A man-handled gardenia — yes indeed SeverinoDuJour! Boutonniere is an enjoyable green floral. Lavender really vibrates against the white plushness: at times sharp, herbal and aromatic, at others smooth and creamy. Lavender is a hard note to do well in perfumery as it can lean too barbershop like with overwhelming white musk or too artificially floral. Here the petitgrain carries the masculinity of lavender’s natural perfume with its bitter woody-citrus character. This smells like fine French lavender, like my husband’s Taylor of Old Bond Street Lavender Shaving Cream with its clean scent, never soapy or dull.
The gardenia is quite big but fresh. It makes me think of crisp white sheets and sweet evening air in a garden. Crispy cold greens and the warmth of your companion conjure scenes of a romantic interlude. Boutonniere No. 7 is perfect for both your lapel or skin. This is a gorgeously refined floral for both sexes to share.
DavisSamp – :
Boutonniere No 7 is a fascinating and intoxicating gardenia, but here the gardenia has been manhandled. It is as if a man comes upon a gardenia, plucks it off the bush with the green leaves and stem intact, wraps his fingers around it in the palm of his hand and crushes it all together. When he opens his hand, what is left is the scent of Bounonniere No 7 gardenia. This is not a feminine gardenia at all; here it has been masculinized. The genet included provides the dirty green scent of the gardenia and lavender leaves which turn that lovely gardenia scent, bending it to a greener (but not fresher, more dirty) animalistic quality. This initial scent lasts quite a few hours. Later on in the dry down, the vetiver makes a stronger appearance, making this scent a perfect compliment to a suit and tie day. It is classy and clean. I wore this on a day that was very windy and a bit on the cool side, and it was perfect. The wind picked up the scent and kept blowing it my way, reminding me of the gardenia bushes I used to raise in my backyard. Longevity and sillage were both moderate for me.
qwerester – :
May 1899 hall of the Paris Opera. During the intermission a group of 7 young people gather in the lobby to flirt. Both elegant ladies and coquettes are attracted by the green and fresh scent of gardenias lit up like boutonnieres in the buttonhole of men’s jackets, men who use colonies of lavender and bergamot.
As they approach, “the flower of the opera” exhales its seductive scent, declaring the elegance of a single sacrificial flower in the eye of a man.
This powerful soliflore with cyan dyes is felt throughout its development completely natural, realistic to the extreme, a crisp green and with very few artifices.
Although it is unisex, I find it very masculine by the more woody drying and the seductive animal point with the oak moss that nuances more dry and lengthens the floral note until the end of the drying, which feels great to boutonniere 7 and gets the author That with these shades the result is a charming and enchanting scent.
B.7 has character, diffuses sensationally well for a long time, it is true that it evolves little and very slow, but if you like the aroma of this white gardenia jazminoide you succumb to its charms.
Rating: 9.2
ssppoolleerr – :
Love Love Love this fragrance. I feel the green stem tones from Gardina…. Highly recommend for clean/classy scent…Great job Carlos 🙂
gvfcaumvetcb – :
sharp lavender, gardenia nectar, and a bit of Indian + Syrian jasmine as i can slightly smell it’s rancidity. the top note is quite flowery sharp & maybe kind of disturbing to people who dislikes the kind of french flowers bouquet type of flowers. the top note could be explained as well as the smell of a field that has 25+ kind of flowers in and the smell gets mixed up together in the air in early morning in a sunny day.
later on the vetiver rises up and the lavender withdraws, the jasmines kind of hides but the gardenia remains still. there is also something bitter that mixed up with the gardenia and i guess it might be grapefruit…. bloody grapefruit!
it’s a good perfume for the ones who loves mixed up flowers as i guess it has kind of a hint of similarity to Une Rose by Frederic Malle and as well as Carnal Flower.
georgiy.63 – :
A very odd gardenia based scent, Boutonierre attempts to “masculinize” the effeminate flower. There is a brief, albeit beautiful opening which pairs the indolic gardenia blossom essence with lush citrus (bergamot and mandarin). This citrus/floral opening is quite lovely for its very short lasting efforts. A piercing (not much unlike fingernails on a chalkboard) animalic genet note ruins the composition for me. Its skanky, dirty qualities really submerses the ethereal beauty of the pure gardenia (here complimented well by another indolic partner– jasmine), much akin to taking the blossom through a puddle of mud. I must admit that in time the genet note does tone down, but its brief predominance brandishes this fragrance an epic fail for me. (157)
Bluz11 – :
A lovely green gardenia with a little sweet lavender, vetiver, and other herbs that round it out to an incredibly interesting floral. Initially you think it is going to sicken you with gardenia (a la Jungle Gardenia – for this price??), but then it settles down to a magnificent, sensual, feminine, classy, floral delight. It is absolutely lovely. Lots of compliments on this one.
Agree with numcks – cleaner and less skanky than Carnal Flower. And not something to wear to a PTA meeting.
Definitely a scent to accompany a tiara. 🙂
unabustaink – :
This smells like a balloon that was rubbed against someone’s head….
Rubbery, waxy, sharp….I must not like gardenia much.
pauk – :
Ancient, Dirty, Animalic and Decadent smell, very beautiful dry down. Beautiful on the skin.
diablo111 – :
It always amazes me how different perfumes smell on skin and paper. On paper I thought that maybe a little bit of Carnal flower had somehow got mixed up in my sample, I was overpowered by crushed gardenia petals. However when put on skin the sweet floral edge almost disappears to give way to a sensual spicy skin scent that I can not stop sniffing! This is like carnal flowers darker sultry sister, still with a hint of sweet gardenia but mostly about spicy wood (vetiver) and balmy lavender, and dirty (in a good way) genet and a shimmer of petitgran. In the heart the creamy sparkly gardenia comes back a bit to soapy strong for my liking. This scent wears very close to the skin not much silage. But depending on how long the soapy gardenia lasts this could be a little gem that should be worn close to skin, a little secret that only those close to you can appreciate.
posox – :
Fower bomb. Like Carnal Flower, but less skanky/interesting. WAY too feminine for unisex IMO.