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terra56 – :
The opening of Coeur de Fleur on my skin, is a fairly realistic mimosa. Not only does it has the puffy, golden sweetness of mimosa, but also the weird vegetal oil-like aspect. What a wonderful surprise!
The sweet pea and peach soon blend in. The sweet pea that I encountered in perfumes, usually smells like a mix of aldehydic powdery floral and fruity (mostly peach) notes, exuding a cheerful yet romantic feeling. In Coeur de Fleur, it’s no exception.
The fragrance continues to become more powdery, as the iris also joins the choir. After about 2 hours, like Sherapop, I too start to perceive violet in this idyllic bouquet, probably due to the violet tonality of mimosa and iris, combined with fruits. And because of the vegetal oil/fatty aspect of mimosa and the waxy facet of iris, Coeur de Fleur smells like violet lipstick for the most part of its dry down, and it becomes sweeter and more balmy, reminiscent of violet candy, as raspberry and amber hum in the background.
The sillage of Coeur de Fleur is moderate, and the longevity is around 9 hours on my skin.
Realistic mimosa, romantic sweet pea and girly violet lipstick/candy, Coeur de Fleur is an irresistibly charming bouquet, a blissful, carefree fruity floral with a graceful demeanour. Having a very low tolerance of sweet raspberry, I have a bit of struggle during the late dry down, but personal preference aside, I’d definitely recommend giving Coeur de Fleur if you’d like an elegant, idyllic fruity floral or a lipstick fragrance.
Graglus – :
Bright yellow scent. Sweet pea is very interesting, always recognizable. I see horses and hay, definitely a countryside type of fragrance, nothing urban about it. Saddles. Sun. Fields. Like someone fondly retelling me how they used to spend their childhood summers.
Accuttmal – :
What a beautiful and feminine scent this is…a nice fragrantican gave me a sample and I am enjoying it!
I have to admit I find it warm, motherly, innocent. Not sexy at all, it’s just lovely and soft, like a hug, or cashmere sweater . Powdery to the max, but without talcum luckily, if that makes any sense. Unfortunately the silage is low and the lasting power isn’t good either…. Such a beauty with such little power… I would definitely wear it if I had a bottle but it makes me sad that they didn’t give this a bit of oomph to actually make it more like perfume and less like enchanting body mist ….still gorgeous ! Would I buy it at Miller Harris price ? Absolutely not, it’s just too watered down… Unless I found it somehow heavily discounted …. Frankly to me it smells like it would belong in the Aqua Allegoria line from Guerlain… I love that too, beautiful and generally weak, but at least those are priced decently,.
kashiri – :
Very lovely scent:- )
bagster – :
This is a very sweet and girly fragrance and I don’t usually like this type of floral but I have bought it 3 times around as it has become a favourite and there is no other perfume like it!
mavakom – :
Ooee this is fine! Thanks to MrsLetterO for the sample.
Lovely on my hand so today I’m wearing it properly.
On proper wear, at first I got that slightly ‘spittely’ (as in spittle, I know horrible) quality from it that I’ve got from most of the Jo Malone’s I’ve tried. But you know what, it may be there a bit but it’s in the background and this frag has enough about it for me to overlook it.
I think Coeur de Fleur is what many perfumes would like to be – I’m thinking of things like Fleurs D’Orlane here – but just aren’t.
CDF IS purely floral and that is not usually territory I can go into (have a look at top line of my profile), but it’s SO well done, with that prominent sweet pea note and that overall feeling of ‘lightness’ (no sickliness or overbearing floral ‘warmth’ here) that I’m absolutely loving this, it feels ‘me’ and comfortable, and that’s saying something for such a fix-ed creature of habit as me!
As it dries down, I’m s l i g h t l y reminded, in smell and feel, of my old beloved Fleur de Fleurs by Nina Ricci. I’m not getting any violet, on very first sniff on my hand, I would have said ‘geranium’ almost – almost because I didn’t exactly get geranium but an overall quality that kind of reminded me of geranium. Don’t get any raspberry or fruit from it at any stage, which suits me fine. Quality blend. Actually, the more I sniff it, the more like Fleur de Fleurs it becomes. Looking at the classification pyramid thing at the top of the page, I should hate this but it is so the opposite.
Ooooh, want a big bottle now, love the work of Lyn Harris!
03/06/13 – I now have a 200ml bottle of the ‘eau parfumee’ limited edition of this. It’s quite different from the normal edition and not for me. I am offering it for sale – along with all my other ‘not for me’s’ – as a joblot within the UK. Further details are on my recent post on the ‘Exchange’ thread.
Sergio-71 – :
Miller Harris COEUR DE FLEUR seems rather violet-like to me: sweet and clean in just the way that violet-centric perfumes tend to be. Here it is only the illusion of violet, which is created through the combination of iris, jasmine, and mimosa flanked by a good dose of fruits: raspberry and peach. The overall effect is bright and shiny, in some ways similar to the fragrances which I have come to refer to as SSRI, including Salvatore Ferragamo INCANTO BLISS, Ellen Tracy TRACY, and to some extent Moschino TOUJOURS GLAMOUR. Balenciaga PARIS may fit into that category as well. They all shimmer in the manner of a mirage which one can never quite reach.
The difference is that COEUR DE FLEUR, while sweet and clean, also smells very natural and has a touch of amber mixed in with the fruits and the flowers. There is a sense in which this composition falls into the fruity-floral category, but what is missing altogether is the synthetic feeling of the vast majority of mainstream and designer vat-produced fruity-floral frags, which tend to be rather linear and produce a sort of zapping effect.
It is not that often that one encounters fruity-floral perfumes at niche houses, but COEUR DE FLEUR, like the rest of the Miller Harris collection I’ve tried, is on a much higher level in terms of overall quality than the usual suspects. It changes as it dries down, eventually becoming more peach dominant, but never becomes sugary or gooey. No plastic raspberries here, either–thankfully!
If INCANTO BLISS, TRACY and TOUJOURS GLAMOUR can be likened to Prozac in their effect upon the wearer’s mind, then perhaps COEUR DE FLEUR could be compared to how one feels after running to the top of a mountain. It’s a type of high, to be sure, but endogenously, not exogenously produced.
ankpro1 – :
This is a very pretty, very English thing, even more so when sprayed on fabric. I definitely get the sweet pea and I would say that this is far more floral on me than fruity. It smells like my idea of a perfect bouquet from Edwardian lady’s garden. Try spraying on your pillow before going to sleep, for dreams of cream-white summer linens and parasols, cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off and fresh scones with cream and jam outside by the pavilion.
lorreilkyLeme – :
This is a lovely, well-blended peachy floral scent, in the same vein as J’adore, although perhaps a bit less potent-
The dry-down is heavenly!
evgenyprorabov – :
I was just about to buy it. I tested it on a paper, I sprayed it on my skin, I was on my way to the counter with my bottle to make a purchase, and then I sniffed my wrist again.
A U turn towards the shelf, the box ended up being put right where it was.
Coeur de Fleur is a very strange fragrance, it sometimes shifts into a lovely, floral bouquet, and sometimes into something stuffy and unpleasant. I blame the jamsine note, it took me a while to figure out what it was that made the fragrance smell so harsh and unpleasant on me. The jamsine here is quite heavy and I would say that it is definitely one of the least interesting interpretation of it I had come accross so far.
The fragrance gets so much better once jasmin is out of the way, this is when you get the lovely mimosa, sweet pea, orris, the fragrance gets quite delicious with the peachy note in it. But, somehow it does not make it up for the terrible start for me.
василий филипыч – :
Coeur de Fleur is a lovely peach fuzz floral. The mimose is balanced and clean, the peach is soft and dreamy, the orris is powdery. All blend seamlessly to create a wonderful feminine all-rounder.
However, Coeur is also very discreet and lies very close to the skin which is a shame considering how pretty and gauzy it it.
Since I also don’t find Coeur especially unique or memorable or even emotionally engaging I would not purchase a bottle for myself. If I received this as a gift however, I would wear it quite happily, confident in its womanly appeal.