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dli907intitytek – :
I love many Diptyque candles and so far, none of the fragrances. On my skin and for my nose, they all skew feminine and a bit sickly.
This one is less overwhelming, but for me it’s just a simple “green.” I prefer the Hermes Jardin line or Eau de Celerei or Eau de Magnolia for this general idea. This one smells nice but is a bit too close to soap.
streigin – :
This has a nice opening of ivy and a pleasant sweetish and clean undergrowth. They spend two hours to settle in a drydown.Very down drydown.exaggeratedly down.
Daytime, versatile safe unisex.
Perfect in the summer when you have a shower every three hours because the thermometer marks forty degrees Celsius.
tpz554InsuffBooni – :
Great scent from the house of Diptyque, the feeling i get is walking amongst the cool leafy trees after the rain. Very refreshing clean scent. I wear it for myself and still get whiffs of it even after 6hours of wearing this and it is just invigorating when I do. Best worn during cooler months and in the daytime to just accentuate the freshness. Definitely full bottle worth and I would be keen to try the EDP if it is ever made!
Alexij – :
I admit it, I’m a Diptyque fan boy. While I don’t love everything from the house, I do love a bunch of them, including this one.
It opens green, just so green! Ivy Water is a perfect name for this fragrance. In the mid I get a little menthol like note, and to be honest, this isnt’ my favorite part of the progression. Once it dries down in smells like a nice green soap. So good for Spring. It’s listed as a feminine fragrance on Fragrantica, but I think it 100% unisex. I find it projects very softly but lasts for a good amount of time. This is a good one.
Greenfertryz – :
The house I grew up in sat behind a huge, overgrown hedge of ivy that had completely engulfed the front fence. Diptyque’s Eau de Lierre captures the scent of that ivy superbly – specifically, the ivy’s freshly cut sap. One whiff of Eau de Lierre stirs childhood memories of sitting in the branches of the maple tree while I watched my father, perched atop the crumbling brick outdoor fireplace, as he cut back the ivy with old wooden-handled secateurs.
The opening of Eau de Lierre is delightfully verdant – crunchy, vegetal and green in a completely inedible way. Think cut grass, sap, clover leaves and, of course, ivy. It settles into a milky dry down, almost like a sappy Philosykos, with ozonic and aquatic facets that remind me of the shimmering green/aquatic contrasts of Dior’s Dune Pour Homme. Unfortunately, the scent loses its clarity and fades within a few hours, which is more than a tad disappointing. But, oh! That opening alone makes it worth the price of admission. It’s a masterful demonstration of the power of synthetics in recreating, and transcending, the scents of nature.
slomakc2010 – :
Green plant notes, ozone and ink. Light, very sheer, nice. Not knocking my socks off, but nice
Ordevereese – :
I’m honestly surprised that no one mentioned the similarities between Eau de Lierre Diptyque and Un Jardin En Mediterranee Hermès. It instantly reminded me of it. Both are totally unisex. Now if only it had longer longevity and sillage it would be the only perfume I would wear in spring/summer seasons. Definitely a blind buy. I just can’t describe how amazing this juice is!!! GO to the mall and buy it NOW!!!
AndreHrebak – :
Cut grass and ivy after rain. Green, green, green with the creamy Diptyque drydown, very pleasant indeed.
svetik23 – :
The most striking note of this fragrance is the green pepper. Very straightforward and linear green fragrance. Reminds me of 2 discontinued fragrances: Gap Grass and CK Truth (minus the evolution of the fragrance).
Sillage and longevity are poor. But because this unique scent brings back memories of freshly cut grass and the smell of a garden after a warm summer rainshower, I bought it and spray it on quite liberally.
mashutka0111987 – :
This is the most natural, wonderful green scent I’ve experienced so far. It smells like a fresh spring rain amongst luscious green vegetation. Unfortunately, longevity and sillage are appalling, especially for that price; but I still bought a flask. That’s how wonderful it smells.
aleksandr2137 – :
The opening is green like grass and lush and wet and beautiful. I do get a light watery floral note that seems very cyclamen and a strong geranium. I like it.
Than it shifts and gets more airy and salty with an occasional fresh laundry note. Kind of like standing near the vent from the dryer in the most verdant lawn ever near the beach. With a heavier application the geranium lasted longer and it was less laundry more crisp green floral.
The longevity is so-so. I was able to get 8 hrs
EddDOS – :
Ever been to an cottage? Did you notice that there’s a “cottage smell” inside? There’s a woody scent in everything you touch: from putting clothes away in dressers, to pulling out old books and board games. Comforting and cosy. Ivy strong at first. Dries down a bit too musky and masculine for me, but certainly not unpleasant.
Melwm076Diobtetty – :
I like the scent of ivy well enough in real life, but I never would have thought of it as a likely candidate for a perfume note until I heard about Eau de Lierre. So I was a bit skeptical, but intrigued, and eager to test it.
Like others have mentioned, there are a lot of floral and woody notes listed here, but this scent is really all about ivy. There are only just enough other things going on in the background to make it smell like you put on this scent on purpose, and you didn’t just come back from an adventure in an ivy bush: at the start there’s an aquatic vibe, and then later on the aromatic accord is emphasized a bit, maybe by the geranium.
So as you’d expect, it’s definitely very, very green, and very unusual. That’s a wonderful thing – a breath of fresh air among the usual summer perfumes. I like Cereza’s description of how this scent can evoke a summer day, and I agree with Hoxx that it’s totally unisex, but I think you have to really love the scent of ivy to want to wear this very often. For me a little decant to revisit it from time to time would do.
kamalov_ernar – :
This is a very linear and literal scent. It simply smells like (realistic) vegetation.
It doesn’t smell like flowers, it doesn’t call attention or leave a wafty trail as you walk by – it’s very unobtrusive.
I feel that like a person, it sacrifices too much so as to be so inoffensive – it doesn’t have much personality in the end. I can’t hate it, but I don’t love it either.
saska1707 – :
I bought a sample of this first, and it took quite a few wears to decide if I liked it enough to buy a FB. At first I wasn’t getting the ivy ‘greeness’ that many reveiwers mentioned, I got only the woody, musky notes. The more I wore it though, the more I liked it, and I began to notice the ivy, or rather the idea of ivy, not the sharp green of an actual leaf. I also noticed a ‘grassy’ feel, more like walking on wild meadow grass baking in the sun than on a well tended lawn. I’ve come to love this fragrance, and now have a FB. Longevity is decent on me, sillage is minimal.
Melzu451bedyWelty – :
This is my new signature scent. i only regret that i bought the 1.7 rather than 3 oz size. it reminds me of a walk in a green, mossy woods on a spring day with dew still hanging in the air. calm, fresh, green. just made for me!
ritta9974 – :
When I first sprayed it, I couldn’t tell it apart from Tam Dao. Now I see, its similar but a lot greener. Its smells exactly like being outside after it rains, smelling moist ivy leaves. Beautiful for someone that likes plant fragrances.
Sergij1990 – :
Testing this for the first time tonight. It’s very light. So light that I can’t smell it unless I put my wrist to my nose. It’s pleasant and unoffensive but I find it rather boring. There isn’t anything that interests my nose and makes me want to sniff further. It’s just “nice”. If you like low profile pleasant perfumes this is something to try but it’s not for me.
irishkarubleva – :
Fresh, light and totally insipid.
I don’t even get the ivy notes (which is probably a blessing as crushed ivy leaves have one of the most unpleasant odours out there). The cyclamen is there, though, which is nice.
But it’s transient – this is one of the few perfumes I have trialled (out of hundreds) and totally forgotten about within minutes.
It’s still there when I check for it… but somehow I just don’t care.
So if you are looking for a mild and (extremely) unobtrusive fragrance, this may be the one for you.
kucher183 – :
When they say this has an ivy note they really mean it!
I love this ivy scent – cool,crushed green leaves, deep dark foresty ivy. I know the scent of it so well, from all my walks and from collecting bundles of it for Christmas decorations.
This is, as others have said here, exactly like a crumbling stone wall festooned with ivy, sunlight dappling the leaves with a little warmth.
Eau de Lierre is totally unisex, if anything I’d say the dry down leans towards masculine. Not that I’m gendering it as such, I just mean the dry down notes are those you might associate with men’s perfumes rather than your average female sweet floral perfume.
This has zero sweetness, its cool dark green scent is ideal for hot days, exactly the feel of stepping into the cool shade of a forest at noon in mid summer.
And it’s an interesting alternative to the classic eau de cologne styles with citrus/neroli
Sillage light to moderate, longevity a few hours
scud-xx – :
Eau de Lierre is a very fine option for warmer seasons and is quite versatile, but you have to love the genre to appreciate it. It opens with a smell of crushed, damped ivy leaves. It’s fairly strong and bitter, certainly unusual and, I’d even say, pleasant. Later it’s joined by a geranium note of aromatic quality and a touch of unidentified woods. That combination stays for a solid amount of time, and then it dies in a rather classic musky-woody drydown.
All that said, I’m still a bit puzzled by ‘for women’ label, as I don’t see why men shouldn’t wear this. However, I was unable to spot even a trace of anything floral on my skin, aside from geranium(whose floral side wasn’t emphasized at all, so it doesn’t count), so it’s maybe a matter of my skin more than the perfume itself.
Eau de Lierre stays on my skin for a very solid amount of time, but most of that time I was in the drydown, which is quite underwhelming. The top and heart parts accounted for two or maybe three hours of that time and that disappointed me a bit. Its projection is fair in the early stages, and later it stays glued to the skin.
All in all, this is a solid green scent, with a decent uniqueness to it, but it really leaves a feel of an unfinished product, after a nice two or three hours period. That being said, I still feel it’s worth trying.
7.75/10
Mefnx984Diobtetty – :
This is a delightful fragrance. I am operating from a sample from LuckyScent. Normally I would steer away from anything described as “green” as I don’t tend to enjoy those fragrances, but this is just lovely and light and would be a great spring / summer scent. Possibly not full bottle worthy for me, but I’ll certainly keep enjoying this sample.
alexpopov78 – :
This is a very unique green scent. It’s starts as fresh green vegetables: chopped romaine lettuce, celery, English cucumber, all damp with water.
Then as it “settles” it goes into freshly cut up leaves and grass, again, soaked in cold water. It’s very vegetal and astringent. It’s a very watery scent. I don’t want to say aquatic or marine, because that seems to imply a certain seawater type freshness in my mind. The water in this is literally like the cold lawn water on a bed of green grass. I know lawn water does not sound romantic, so let me take a moment to be idyllic and liken it to the smell of a fresh knoll of grass, dotted with stray wild flowers. At the bottom is a creek or stream filled with cold, clear, clean water.
This is one of my favorite green scents. So realistic, and simplistic.
The staying power, which is it’s downfall, is not great. Lasts typically only 2 hours on me.
zgd438Unlogrere – :
Icy green marine scent with a hint of tomato vine. Very masculine. A fruity hint in the drydown but nondescript.
aydinsa – :
Eau De Lierre opens with bitter green galore. Crushed leaves and other non-sweet aromatic notes such as leafy geranium. Fresh and quite realistic, inoffensive but very likable. Unfortunately it quickly turns into a generic clean modern musky thing with woody undertones to then, even more quickly, turn into nothing at all. Despite the relatively short lasting power, the fragrance is overall not bad but I can’t help it from finding it a bit unnecessary…especially when compared to other incredibly solid offerings from the same house.
I believe if they would have marketed it as part of their *Eaus*, it would have played in the fragrance’s favor.
Rating: 6/10
iigksyvd – :
Smelled like salad on me. Like iceberg lettuce with light dressing. Weak sillage and longevity
maloy) – :
Great interpretation of freshly cut greenery. terrible longevity. 5 sprays lasted me 2 hours in doors. Will be gifting it to someone else.
Also what gives with the terribly cheap bottle design? I’m glad to see Diptyque is finally changing it.
Shok_54 – :
What else can I add really? This fragrance is dry, green and smells like Ivy growing on the walls of your home. I like it alot! Reminds me of a stroll thru a very nice, manicured cemetery, without any flowers. Creepy, but somehow comforting!
jemo111 – :
Eau de Lierre captures that fresh green scent that escapes as I trim my hedges. Very natural and real. I don’t really smell the amber, musk or pepper. To me it feels a very simple, linear green note of ivy. Starched white cotton shirt on a sunny day playing croquet with a pair of secateurs close by.
oldnomad – :
I was way too excited to try this…and after paying $4 for a sample from the Perfumed Court, I’m experiencing instant regret.
It was a vial of almost nothing. It was like Guerlain’s Aqua Allergoria Herba Fresca, just without the mint. Straight up greenness, like crushed up leaves. It didn’t have that cool, tart smell of ivy, that I love so much. I picked up a hint of cyclamen which I also adore, but there wasn’t enough of this to ever consider spending such a pretty penny on a bland fragrance like this.
It lasted about three hours on me, but I couldn’t wait for it to die so I could put something else on.
Molly_fromAD – :
Fresh, almost aquatic green floral. Unisex, even a bit more on the boys’ side. Very true to the characteristic Diptyque style: vegetal, slightly herbal, very tasteful; it smells as if it was done of natural ingredients only.
Lasts quite long and has a considerable sillage. That would be a good choice for a guy or a girl who are looking for an unusual fresh/ozonic summer scent.
valeriosigiz – :
Cyclamen through and through. Reminds me of walking through a meadow bordering the forest during a Spring rain. Love it! I want more.
man88 – :
This is a nice perfume, very strong green, ivy scent. I like to wear it mixed with Philosykos as it tends to tone down the strong ivy scent. Great for summer as it is refreshing and like most of the other Diptyque perfumes, does not give me a headache no matter how much I spray on. Very easy to wear if you like green perfumes.
Update: the more I wear this perfume, the more I love it. It is so clean, watery and fresh that it makes me feel like I have just stepped out of the shower. Very pretty for every day of the year, I will have to buy the 100 ml bottle as I only have the 50 ml and I can see myself wearing this a lot.
Sergunyaa – :
Oh dear. Could someone buy this for me, like a bathtub-worth of it, and emerge me in it?!
WONDERFUL. It’s so wonderful, it’s hard to express for me. I get the green, woodsy notes, but I also get the creamy musk and slightly sweet floral notes balanced with green pepper. This scent quenches your thirst, it’s so airy and juicy, like the most refreshing water you could ever drink.
It also strangely reminds me of fresh laundry that dried in the sunlight, that wonderful smell of the cotton that absorbed sunshine and summer wind, that’s in the drydown. And that’s on a warm day – this has the most beautiful scent leftover on your clothes I’ve ever experienced!
SPRAY IT ON YOUR CLOTHES. You will see what I’m talking about when you smell your scarf/blouse/top the next day. Heaven!
This is my signature scent, mixed with Prada Infusion d’Iris creates the most amazing fragrance to me. Now you know my secret recipe!
It’s such a divine blend, a wonderful scent for a 25+ year old, who wants to stay away from all of the sweet traps of vanilla-like mainstream smells or is looking for something else than ‘fresh citrus’.
It’s sparkling, elegant, fresh and VERY memorable. I absolutely love it. (7)
krr07 – :
A few reviewers here complain about Eau de Lierre’s lasting power. I sprayed this on my wrist six hours ago and it’s still there. That said, it stays close to the skin. This is a dark vegetal, tart scent that reminds me childhood days out of doors, crushing plants under a stone to find out what they smell like, the bitter greenness rising up, intriguing and slightly dangerous: what might it taste like?
Update: Eau de Lierre works in a temperate climate, but I wonder if those dark, bitter/sour ivy notes would be bearable otherwise. After wearing it for a whole day, I haven’t felt tempted to apply it since.
kazakvadim1970 – :
now this smells like sexy cut grass. tying bond no. 9’s bleecker st for the freshest lawn in the biz lol. i LOVE this one. the pepper is not overdone (ahem marc jacobs “bang”) and is actually sleek and sexy…you wont be choking people out. and as stated in the other reviews….the dry down is DELICIOUS.
blackjeck999 – :
So I just sprayed some of this on my arm and have my nose buried in it while typing – I have a very long nose.
Let me start by stating that this is NOT a feminine scent. This is also NOT a masculine scent. It is an experiential scent. So gentlemen I know it is listed as a Feminine scent but do not hesitate in sampling this one. I’m sure many of you will be surprised and love it.
The top starts off really wet and peppery. I’m not talking water accord wet, but instead a real wetness. My arm – the one I sprayed a few minutes ago (I type slow) is absolutely dry but I get this fragrance of wetness lofting off ever so gently.
Then there is the pepper, but more about after the star of the show – the Ivy. And what an Ivy it is! It’s not a generic Ivy scent but more the experience of Ivy. You can see the wetness of the green leaves. It’s fresh Ivy and it’s young Ivy. It’s early May Ivy in the morning while the sun has just begun to rise – Ivy that’s still on the vine. It is slightly cool but that’s where the pepper comes in – the warm pepper neutralizes some of the cool sharpness. Warms it a bit. Like standing in the exterior doorway of a warm house while a cool breeze rushes over half your face – a beautiful play of cool and warm. But just as the first breath of freshness when opening that back garden door begins to fade an immediate drizzle of wet mortar behind the Ivy begins to radiate into the air. It doesn’t smell like mortar but instead evokes the wetness of stone.
This is no typical green scent – it has ‘space’ to it. It is not a ‘closed intimate room’ but an atrium garden with potted plants and a little meandering stone walkway. It has openness but is enclosed like a garden with half-height brick walls. Too small for a large tree but open to a sunless sky.
I agree totally with Sofiii on the drydown. It is a soft skin scent – the scent you might have on your skin after lifting raked maple leaves which have absorbed some soil scent into a paper bag.
Now that I think of it – it is more the experience of the garden and how nice the garden makes you feel after working in it.
Also, one of those very rare fragrances that has a noticeable ambergris note.
mechanics2 – :
If you enjoy freshly cut crass scent, light musc and fresh air – this is right for you. It slightly reminds me of Angeliques sous la Pluie: same idea of fresh and natural light scent. One problem: Eau de Lierre is extremely subtle and may appear very watered down to some noses. I guess, it’s perfect for people who do not like strong and overly “perfumey” fragrances, but still want to be lightly scented.
blinkblink – :
The most graceful and slender woman (Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly type)eating a green salad just picked from the garden with very little condiments should smell like this. Elven folk can still dwell among us in the concrete jungle protected by this amulet (I suspect both A.H and G.K were).
Green comes first in this and floral and musky nuances are there to bind it on skin. Any woman that can pull this off is worth loving (this is a hint to my ex who hated it).
nervy – :
Diptyque EAU DE LIERRE is a crunchy floral green with true unisex appeal. Among the dominant notes appear to be both hyacinth and lily of the valley. There’s a significant amount of brownish grassiness here—as in the grass is becoming dry without quite being dead yet. EAU DE LIERRE is definitely greenish, but there’s not much overlap here with übergreens such as MA GRIFFE or FUTUR. The overall effect is clean but in a back-to-nature not a fresh-from-the-shower way. I like it.
Although some floral greens (read Gucci ENVY) grate on my nerves as their all-too-synthetic renditions of lily of the valley expand to the point of near suffocation, here the notes all seem very natural and do not grow like the blob over time. EAU DE LIERRE is a gentler, calmer floral green. Perfect for warm weather!
btigrynnxeb – :
Eau de Lierre has similarity with Les Colognes Hermes Eau de Gentiane Blanche. But the Gentiane Blanche is smelled bitter and stronger than Eau de Lierre.
Кукер – :
This fragrance turns out to be a wonderful alternative to CK’s “Truth” for men, appearing more natural but as equally fresh.
This observation, however, raises the question whether Diptyque have problems with the sexes: Most of their fragrences are declared as uni-sex, but really I wouldn’t recommend “Tam Dao” for women, or “Duelle” for men. This one is declared as women’s perfume, but in fact happens to be uni-sex.
Conclusion: Lierre is recommended for both sexes, but for men it’s a true winner.
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videochat – :
Incredibly natural vegetation by a river type scent, a day out in fresh air in the country bottled.. sadly (and especially so given the £68 price tag) it barely lasted an hour! Money never evaporated so nicely or so quick.
HixOrbini – :
EAU DE LIERRE smells so incredibly green and fresh but without smelling too much like a vegetable garden or sharp citrus notes. It is just like a green goodness, the smell of grass, trees, and leaves on a hot summer afternoon. The cyclamen gives it a nice floral tone in the heart notes but it is not a floral perfume. The floral note is peaking shyly through the green grass to remind us that there are beautiful flowers among the endless fields of green. Gorgeous summer scent! This is the third scent I try from Diptyque and all of them seem to share very natural, lovely and gentle qualities.
The scent opens with lovely ivy, green pepper and woods combo. It is so green, gentle and pleasant to wear. It blends beautiful with the nature too and great on a hot summer day. In the heart notes the cyclamen provides very gentle floral accent. The composition remains very tender and romantic. The dry down brings very gentle woody green notes and soft musk.
Beautiful green and fresh perfume for summer! I love it and definitely recommend. The longevity and sillage are medium but I still love it. (Overall score – 9/10)
vanish20012 – :
The other reviewers have described this fragrance so well….It’s hard to add anything else! Suffice to say that I really like it! mainly due to the natural charm of it. The first in the Diptyque line to be tried by me and on to the next! so far so good!
UPDATE: half an hour later and I have to admit, it is smelling a little like the water that flowers have sat in for a few days
NityBiort34 – :
Summer in bottle. Freshly cut grass together with the way earth smells when it’s heated up in hot summer day. Very special, very green, earthy and natural. Very comforting and “happy” perfume. Makes me think of lazy summer afternoons in countryside, sleeping on grass, sunbathing, the sun is shining, the grass and earth smells lovely, the air is fresh and warm. You sleep with your eyes shut and inhale and somehow feel the part of it – summer, lazyness, no worries, pure pleasure.
Eau de lierre have captured it, it’s very special.
I don’t even want to talk about notes, because they do not matter, only what feeling have they made is what matters.
The_filins – :
Juicy green leave just been cut in halves, newly moaned lawn, sunny lazy afternoon along the river are just some of the scenes that instantly jumped into my head upon first application of Eau de Lierre. In the beginning, I can’t really smell any significant floral scent, everything is green as in lush, fresh green vegetation in natural kinda green smell. It is my first time finding a floral green scent smell nice, unpretentious, not that intimidating (as appose to Chanel No.19 etc).
Later on, the floral part of the perfume blooms. It’s nice and shy, a little bit powdery, and really discreet. Somehow it reminds me of Daisy by Marc Jacobs, not in the actual scent way( I actually nearly hate Daisy due to some weird cold headache-inducing factor in it, while I like Eau de Lierre a lot), but similar in the theme, the essence- imagining a sunny, girly innocent, meadowy, scented scentless way.
The dry down is to die for, it becomes a skin scent at this stage. Despite what’s listed here in the notes, what I can smell is like a mixture of little bit honey sweetness infused with wood and a tiny tiny bit musk creaminess. Unless you press you nose near your wrist, you won’t really notice much of the scent.
The reviewer below me mentioned Eau de Lierre is similar to L’eau D’Issey, but to my nose, they are totally different, yes they might smell clean, fresh, but as someone who can’t tolarent floral aquatic, and had headaches from L’eau D’Issey’s aquatic milky echo-y smell; I would strongly suggest anyone, who doesn’t have the chemistry exactly right with L’eau D’Issey, to give Eau de Lierre a try.
Eau de Lierre is definitely a wonderful quite scent to try on, recommended.
cyclone68 – :
What an elegant fresh woody summer perfume! The closest to my old favourite L’eau D’Issey than I ve ever smelled in the drydown!!!Absolutely love it! If you like white florals with green, citruslike top notes and a woody, velvety, creamy drydown then it could be something for u. The difference to Issey maybe is the rosewood and geranium which is a stunning alternative. That should be my summer hit from now on! Anyway if you hate L’eau D’issey you ll sure not love this one either…