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perevaryha_dima – :
So… I ordered 100ml Gres Lumiere d’Orient from a seller on eBay, based in France.
This arrived instead. I can’t return it, because Royal Mail won’t ship perfumes out of the country, so I either keep it, sell it or bin it.
I read a few of the reviews below before opening and testing it (I was giving serious consideration to selling it in its sealed packaging) but curiosity got the better of me, as usual. Fortunately, I like it, so I’ve added yet another perfume to my wardrobe (which is already bursting at the seams).
I really don’t think this is the overwhelmingly syrupy-sweet-peach-sugar-bomb that has been remarked on by a couple of people (predominantly in 2009-2011). It is possible that my nose has been desensitised to sugar because of its overuse in many more modern perfumes, given the trend to make them sweeter and sweeter in recent years. I don’t think this is the case though, as I regularly wear fragrances such as Timbuktu, which can’t be described as “sweet”; comparing FdF with Timbuktu is ludicrous of course, but my point is that FdF doesn’t make my teeth ache when compared to Timbuktu, which it would if it was THAT sweet.
Of course, Fath de Fath may have been reformulated – and for the better, for once.
It is “naturally” sweet from the flowers and fruit, notably tuberose and orange blossom, peach and plum, with a contribution from tonka and vanilla, but the green notes and cassia are enough, in my opinion, to stop the perfume becoming saccharin.
There is one review below which particularly resonates with me; Bandit describes FdF as being “the well behaved and pretty vanilla sister of the original Dior Poison formula”. I think this description is perfect! Fath de Fath 1993 reminds me of Dior’s Poison, with MUCH reduced potency, sillage and longevity. Where Poison bursts flouncing into a room, demanding attention and pouting, Fath de Fath enters quietly and stands discreetly to one side, waiting to be noticed.
I don’t understand why Fragrantica has designated this an “Oriental” perfume – there’s no heat or spice or hint of mystery (and amber? What amber?). FdF is a grown up fruity floral perfume and is actually a very good one.
This is a very pretty perfume; the longer I wear it, the more I like it. I still want my Lumiere d’Orient, though. And now I’m pouting.
svat600 – :
The vintage fragrance from 1953 has now been added to our database and has its own page. The 1993 relaunch is a completely different formula, an oriental, whereas the original was a floral-leather chypre. Any additional info on the original would be much appreciated, posted to its respective Fragrantica page as a comment. Thanks!!!
aityugan79 – :
Originally a floral aldehyde/chypre, this perfume was completely reformulated in 1993 as a honeyed, fruity oriental. The original Fath de Fath (1953) is a lady in a sharply tailored tweed suit. The perfumer for the original is identified as Roubert. I have the EDT of this version, which is a delicately rigorous chypre with bergamot, galbanum, aldehydes, lily of the valley, herbal notes and a beautiful musky-woody-leathery drydown. Imagine a lighter, more herbal vintage Miss Dior (and yes I do compare everything to vintage Miss Dior).
I have to say the 1993 oriental is quite lovely too. (I have the EDT splash, short ingredient list, no “e” sign). The 1993 EDT bottle is beautifully made, but the perfume within is about as different from the 1953 Fath de Fath as two perfumes could be. Interestingly, at least for vintage perfume geeks, the 1993 bottle resembles a different vintage Fath bottle, the one used for Canasta (1950). I have not been able to identify the perfumer for the 1993 version. The 1993 version is balsamic and somewhat syrupy, with a distinct pineapple note, but the juicy hesperidic notes keep it from feeling heavy. 1993 Fath de Fath reminds me of Molyneux Fete (1963) and Montana Just Me (1998).
Since the perfume is still listed as a 1953 launch with a photo of the 1993 bottle, the reviews are unsurprisingly quite muddled. The 1993 version is discussed as though it were the original, leading some to wonder how such a fruity oriental could have appeared in 1953. It didn’t.
Revvus – :
This was made in 1953? I’m astonished. It’s like a modern day juicy fruity BUT with a soupçon of smokiness. I want to bathe in it.
Simferop – :
Sitting in the back yard eating some nice sweet fruits, mid-summer while there is white laundry hanging and drying under the warm sun at noon.
This is what i would imagine Estee’s white linen would smell like. Lovely really…
iux107intitytek – :
I have vintage EDT. From the bottle it smells like overwhelmingly sweet fruity syrup. However, when you put it on your skin… this is where the magic happens. Oohhh… I believe, although never had a chance to visit one, this is how smells notoriously private, exclusive, just for VIP clients, opium parlour in 20’s of last century somewhere in London. Its opulence and luxury is beyond your imagination. Geishas in silk kimonos silently appearing and disappearing through sweet smoke of opium. Sensuality is in the air. It’s never rowdy loud, it’s close to your skin. Warm and sensual cocoon of sweetness is intoxicating. A night fragrance for me. Together with my the most beloved orientals Or des Scythes by Novaya Zarya and original Venezia by Laura Biagiotti Fath De Fath is 100% a masterpiece among of many sweet Oriental perfumes out there.
Mewbs488Unlogrere – :
I’ll admit it , I’m a Perfume Junkie . I have had a love of scents since I got my first whiff of Tabu on my Mom ~ I love strong scents that have a wonderful dry down , like Venenzia by Laura Biagiotti & Fath de Fath . Both are among my top 20 scents that will remain in my Perfume Wardrobe . I adore Oriental / Musky / Patchouli , sometimes without a fruity or floral hint . I must say those which are my flavorites are in their original formulation . This smells delicious , from one to two spritzes . It holds it own . When I wear , I get asked Who are you wearing , and I am always happy to tell . I’m proud so far of my collection of 60 plus , but honestly some I can no longer wear . I’ll stick with my tried and trues , Poison ~ Obsession ~ Anne Pliska ~ White Shoulders ~ Gucci Guilty ~ Bvlgari Rose Essentielle , Ooo , yeah , the list is long . I miss those that I can no longer name , which is why I’m here , to try and reconnect with those Scents ~ I appreciate those posting in detail , it has helped me find 3 so far ~ /=^ } ~
pandorka – :
Has a very sweet opening smell but by the end it’s just a warm honey aroma. I really like it, I just wish it lasted a little longer!
nat636JeomiWogkig – :
This is one of those forgotten gems that doesn’t get enough love. It is stunningly beautiful, and yet it’s rarely suggested or mentioned.
Rich, floral, honeyed, fruit. It’s got it all without being overwhelming or stuffy. There are the big white flowers, rich ripe plumbs, and nearly liquid amber. It smells rich and very expensive. Super smooth and well blended and it lasts really, really well.
The price? Well the price is stupid cheap for what you get, I paid $30 for my bottle.
Triellarbidly – :
So beautiful! Herbal heliotrope violet vanilla with touches of white flower and pear. It is unlike anything I’ve smelled. Based on my sample on pale pearly pink card so I must have the new version.
StaKap – :
If gold would had a smell, it would be Fath de Fath. I didn’t remember the fragrance and it was a blind buy of a 0.2 ml. The first drop made me so excited that I used the vial at one go and immediately ordered a full size EDP.
That’s what I call a Masterpiece! It’s sweet and spicy and flowery but it’s blended and balanced so wonderfully that none of notes overpowering.
Longevity and sillage are incredible! One spritz lasts for 24 hours on me.
Love! Love! Love! Glorious Jaques Fath!
ferrary – :
I ordered this one direct from France – just because. I got it today, and just like that-instant connection!Mine is EDP.
This truly is a master piece, nothing vintage about it. Just different, more refined and stand out-ish, when compared to today’s main stream perfumes that make me sick.
If you dare to be different, this is the one for you. If you dare to be a woman with a true passion for a real perfumery-this is for you.
Could be easily one of my favorites 🙂
Edit – The cap on this is unbelievably hard to open. i actually have to fold the towel in half in order to pop it off. Just the shape of it, and the gusto in which it pops on top of sprayer, make it hard to grasp and pull. Due to this, i find myself avoiding it, even though it’s a great perfume.
миша34 – :
This is one of the scents that I like more and more, the more I try it. I never disliked it, but at the beginning it was just pleasant for me, now it is definitely love. I like oriental frags, and also sweet scents, and this one is almost like a hybrid: Not really oriental enough to be one, and not sweet enough for the other, and I just start to realized now, this is where its perfection lies. It is a wonderful delicate balance, very refined, almost shy and introverted, as if she herself is not sure about her own beauty. She is truly lovely. Some find her to be similar to Jil Sander No 4. I really don’t get that. I adore No 4, and she is definitely a flamboyant lady, out there, striking and vivacious. At least on me Fath de Fath acts more like a well mannered sweet gal that is a pleasure to have around. Isn’t it weird how fragrances evoke images in our minds?
Dewastatorrus – :
The opening is vintage, and I thought I would love it but that quickly leaves behind ripe fruits (plums and peach and currant). This is a much better fruity fragrance than many of the cheap girlie crap nowadays. This is darker, richer, very ripe and fermented with a little underlying musk to deepen it. I don’t want a full bottle but am glad I bought a mini to try it. In the dry down, the fruits take a backseat to the floral that rise in an aldehydic sharp manner.
maks251 – :
I also agree with those below about the opening. I thought the decant that was “paid forward” had turned. To me at “least” the first 15 minutes have a cloying/plasticy concoction that is SO not me. However, after 20 minutes or so….that starts to change and become more tolerable to my nose. I am SO hoping that I get to the marvelous fragrance that almost everyone describes this to be :o) I’ll update if it keeps going and going to get to the perfect elixir described. *fingers crossed!*
xasthur – :
Love love love this perfum ….l bought this perfume blind buy and l fall in love with it …Wonderful warm fragrance
undertaker87 – :
I still have a bottle of Fath de Fath that I bought in 1996 while visiting Paris. It was maybe one of the first perfumes that I bought for myself, without any guiding influences, and today for some reason I decided to remind myself why I chose this little bottle over all the others. The dark amber gold colour made me fear the perfume might have turned, but no! One spray and I knew it was still as glorious as the day I chose it in that Parisian perfumery 🙂
This is one of very few fruity perfumes in my collection, and yes it is syrupy but I find the opulent layers of golden peach, candied pineapple – I always get pineapple with this even if it’s not listed, benzoin vanilla, honey, heliotrope and even tuberose (normally too cloying for me!) very well balanced. The orange blossom lifts the deep, rich, fruity notes while the light jasmine provides a touch of white floral elegance, all anchored by warming, sweet & spicy but not overpowering patchouli.
I do also get a few hints of almost savoury, spiced notes in the dry down from time to time, maybe from the cedar..nothing as strong as cumin but something earthy and a little acrid – strangely this is not a negative however, I think it keeps the sweeter notes in check.
I find this perfume almost intoxicating, it’s exuberant, heady and deliciously more-ish. Whenever I wear it I find myself sniffing my wrists every few minutes to almost drink in the scent. I did wonder if my 1996 choice had been a naïve one, that I had just fallen for the lovely little glass bottle or an overly sweet fruit bomb of a scent, but having re-visited it I don’t regret my choice at all!
The twinkly star shaped bottle will happily remain in my collection as both a treasured perfume memory and a perfume that I can still wear and enjoy today.
N.B. I haven’t tried any recent or current releases of Fath de Fath so I can only hope they don’t differ too much..
ordersstevedy – :
Fath de fath edt .5oz bottle
My mom walked in after the first test spray and declared what a beautiful smell! Well after that I shared a spritz with her and her eyes lit up and a smile on her face overtook her. I think I just lost my first bottle of FdF. Its that good.
The opening is beautiful with the slightly bitter cassis, plums, mandarin, then the menthol creamy tuberose, rose, floral heart mixes with the Tonka! Tonka shows its presence early as a guiding hand thru this fragrance.
After about 10~15 min after the light fruity start it still mixes with the florals. Its lightly peach like tresor note but better. The vanilla and the base mix as support with the rest of the fragrance. It’s a well done complicated in the best way, that reminds me of vintage scents.
Its not cloying at all to me, as I can handle Rumba with ease, or Charlie gold is more syrupy than this to give you a guide. Its dryer to me in its fruit presentation because the tuberose cuts thru the fruityness which I love when that happens. It keeps the tuberose from taking over and drying out the syrupy fruits that could veer into cloying. But it does not.
Looks like I’m buying another bottle. I don’t think I’m getting this one back from mom. Lol!
Update: ordered 2nd bottle..3.4oz and that was confiscated by mum because she ran out of her .5 bottle..now I just recieved my 3rd 1.7 bottle for me.
uozkgotugff – :
Fath de Fath, vintage extrait… drops of nirvana, shared with me by a wonderful fellow Fragrantican.
FdF in this version is what I imagine the still life paintings of flowers and fruit by old great masters must smell like. Yes, there is vanilla, but it is such a fine, and not candied note. The Tonka and Benzoin serve to ground the scent. But the fruits! The flowers! So beautifully preserved in this small bit of parfum. To inhale vintage Fath de Fath is to take a dream memory trip into a simpler, more gracious and slow-moving time. This is what fragrance is all about. Making one feel hungry to smell the wrist or neck again and again. Complexly gorgeous.
KilaFeeniatut – :
Hi Chrisndema, I had a very similar experience with Fath de Fath, and you describe my sentiments perfectly. I hate saying negative things, so I’ll only say that if this fragrance works for you, I’m so jealous! I really am, I mean, look at the notes! How scrumptious! I also experienced a note in the drydown that reminded me of a candle, a spice-scented candle that had been left out too long and there’s hardly any scent left. It’s a waxy candle note (I read somewhere that this waxy note might be benzoin…my apologies to whoever mentioned that, now I can’t find that comment to give credit to, arrgh) and I just can’t get past it. I also bought mine on ebay (glad I paid very little for it), maybe I should have bought a new one? Oh well. I wish this worked for me, the bottle is beautiful and the notes listed in this are so lovely! I’ll ask my sister if she wants it, she loves fruity florals and she might be compatible with it. Wah….
angels1989 – :
I’m really disappointed with this one coz i bought it based on the reviews here. Its a meh fragrance of i can’t even tell which notes, some watered down fruity concoction of tresor. I mean really weak, projection. It lasted 30 mins or less on my skin and the dry down was a plasticky artificial mess. Is this real french perfumery or maybe coz i bought it on ebay i got a dupe!!!:(
wgw – :
I can not add much to my review which has not already been said and written about this beautiful perfume. When I first sprayed it on my wrist I though, its OK nothing special. After about 10 minuets the most amazing smell was coming from my wrist. It is a truly unique and special perfume. It is sweet but not overly sweet in my opinion. I am not a lover of sweet perfumes at all although I do love vanilla. I also have Jil Sanders 4 and I do not find they have the same smell even if others do. I love them both and find them dissimilar enough to justify having both in my wardrobe. I have a 100ml bottle of Fath de Fath and it will be my perfume for the coming colder months. Sillage and longevity are excellent. It last a good 8 hours on my skin. This is one of those perfumes that you are happy that not everyone knows about it. Perfect.
Adilzhan – :
Everything I could say about this perfume has been said most exquisitely by Yohji.
What can I add except this is the most heavenly perfume I have smelled in a long time. I have many olfactory experiences but Fath de Fath is such wonderful one for me.
Tuberose predominates this fragrance along with a boozy note, but the booze is a smooth and silky one, nothing harsh in here. It is most certainly a comforting and uplifting fragrance and I will wear it to death in the winter, when I feel that the notes will sing and dance and make themselves heard more loudly than in the warm summer months. In fact, as people who know me well, know that I dislike winter intensely , I can reassure myself that it will be more tolerable when I wear this beautiful perfume.
Longevity is excellent on my thin dry skin, 8 hours+ and it has great silage too.
ckg154Bessinepome – :
In life there are not so very many experiences when you fall in love with person, dress, shoes or perfume at first sight and forever. And if you do, it surprises you every day by how easy it was, like it was meant to be your person, your dress or your perfume
So I guess same story is between me and Fath de Fath. We just meant to meet and stay forever.
Its a perfume I understood from first second, all notes – separately and as a whole where somewhat engraved into my skin and chemistry a long time before the actual meeting took place.
Its a part of me. – always is the right time for him, its stunning, perfect, refined, silky, beautiful, smooth oriental. Its my glass of cognac in front of fireplace and feet massage, its my sleeping pill, its my morning smile, in all times and situations – the best.
Its never just fruity or just floral or just oriental, its..creamy rich long-lasting smell of comfortable life – Fath de Fath…
All things in one, all beautiful things as a whole.
*give me a medal, I invented a new slogan* lol
rastichka – :
I have had this perfume on my want list for a long time and finally broke down and bought it. If I had bought this last year I would have saved time and money searching for the right vintage scent.
Fath de Fath smells like what I wanted all the Guerlain’s and Caron’s to smell like, classy, sultry, and timeless. All those bottles of perfume I bought that didn’t quite fit the idea of what this one delivered will huddle whimpering behind this beautiful faceted Ambrosia.
The perfect combination of fruity top notes, followed by floral middle notes, and the resinous bottom notes culminate into a perfect blend of harmony.
This perfume will definatly deserve a backup bottle or two, or three. I will never want to run out of this.
andreystailer – :
I have this perfume and I absolutely love it. I completely disagree with the comparisons. It’s different from n. 4 Jil Sander ( same family and similar notes but different smell). And please It can’t be related with the new Cavalli, That I hate and I can’t stand. Fath de fath is sweet, warm, fruity but not cloying or overwhelming. It’s subtle, elegant and precious.
stas2981 – :
I have the parfum extrait, and I love, love, love, this stuff. I can’t distinguish the individual notes, but the fragrance is sweet and boozy in the best possible way. It has great staying power, but because you dab it on the sillage is controlled at about arm’s length.
Bravo!
koly222 – :
the scent has been reformulated and the whole juice smells not the same! too bad it was my mom”s favorite scent!!!!!!
guehoondene – :
Fath de Fath Jacques Fath for women is one of the finest fruit-topped fragrances I’ve ever owned.
I’m not sure why others are comparing it to something as simple as canned peaches. It’s much too sophisticated and multi-faceted for that.
Fath de Fath is a luscious, velvety, cognac-colored elixir that sparkles with currants, plums, and citrus. Its heart blossoms with tender tuberose, heliotrope, rose, and orange blossom. I was very surprised that I could love a fragrance that contains orange blossom, because it’s a note I normally cannot tolerate.
I think Fath de Fath must be expertly crafted with high quality ingredients. It’s just so beautifully balanced.
The sweetness is countered by the floral bouquet and the base of amber, tonka bean, patchouli, musk, vanilla, cedar and benzoin. Although, the musk is very subtle.
Fath de Fath is a real gem in an elegant bottle. It strikes me as a modern and unique scent. I find it hard to believe it was launched in the 1950s.
raMZes73.08 – :
I don’t like sweet/sugar or surypsweet notes in my scents. In Fath de Fath I find great, darkfruity notes and some great flowernotes. A wonderful fragrance. I don’t find it that sweet that many rewiews writes about.
Jag gillar inte sockriga/söta eller sirapsöta noter i mina dofter. I Fath de Fath så hittar jag härliga mörka fruktiga doftnoter och några riktigt fina blomnoter. En superfin doft. Jag tycker inte att den är så söt som några omdömen säger.
nickolya – :
My best blind buy. Love, love love. In the manner of Lou Lou, a bit reminder of Alchimie not the same at all. Delicious, elegant, warm, lovely. Thanks to fragranticans: I bought only by all your positive reviews.
dbi421speagoessenda – :
OMG I love this one! It just keeps changing and developing on the skin and that is truly the sign of a GREAT perfume. Layers and layers WOW!!!! I may have just found my fall signature scent. This is too beautiful for words!!! I have the EDP and it is just amazing! There is a creamy smoothness to this that is really top notch along with the Tonka and tuberose, amber and peach it just keeps drifting into something new and LASTING!!! It is not like the synthetic planned obsolescence sprays that are gone in two hours so you use up the bottle in a blink, this one is a masterpiece!!!!! GORGEOUS!!!!
BamImmequemof – :
If you’re looking for an Alchimie replacement/dupe, please DON’T buy Fath de Fath or you will be very disappointed, as I have just been. It smells very vaguely like it for about ten minutes and then changes into something completely different – a powdery 80s number a la Giorgio Yellow or Vanderbildt. 🙁
Nice bottle though!
Deroxcddib – :
Want to smell good? Get this!
Sooooo smoooooth. Deep, dark, mysterious, and so well-blended. I don’t get the syrupy peachy notes, but do get the orange blossom, tuberose, lily of the valley. But on me it’s not sweet or cloying, but a deeply rich balanced ambery floriental– very 50s but without the burst of aldehydes that were fairly common.
I grant that there’s a metallic note, but it’s not unpleasant, comes and goes, and may be a reminder that under all this warm inviting luciousness, there’s a bit of steeliness, resiliancy– “a don’t mess with me” quality that I find appealing.
This fragrance does have an old style base of musk and cedar, but it’s not old-fashioned because the powdery-ness to me, is absent. As is bergamot, which could have lent an imbalance.
Overall, a great, great fragrance!
Pashok-naumov1993 – :
It took me some time to fall in love with Fath de Fath, but it’s now grown on me. At the first sniff I was shocked and thought OMG it’s waaaayyyyyy too fruity and sugary for me 0_o!!! I like sweet scents e.g Angel and Candy but I swear I’ve never smelt any perfume this sweet in my whole life! It’s not sharp so no headache but it’s extremely strong. My nose went kinda numb, all I could detect was syrupy PEACH PEACH PEACH and hint of orange, probably tuberose as well. However my patience was rewarded after 20 minutes, when the peachy waves began to ebb away. I started to get clear sweet and cool tuberose butter melt down in vanilla cream, so feminine and ‘dangerous’ that it’d work out great on a femme fatale smoking a slim cigar. Given another 30 minutes, it became more musky and earthy. Still seriously sweet but no longer overwhelmingly fruity, rather oriental or even gourmand as the tonka bean smelt more than good enough to eat. It reminded me of Accenti by Gucci and these two had the best tonka bean note ever.
It was a mini modern EDT I tried and I could imagine a vintage parfum to be much deeper and richer, a truly divine scent. I only wish there’d be tobacco or leather note to perfect it but so far it’s good enough for me to order a 100ml bottle 😉
eropov – :
It is in the same family as the new Cavalli! Have them both and love them both!
vovan3246 – :
I love this in extrait form. Sweet and smooth… nothing sharp here, at all. Very well blended plummy-peachy white florals, honeyed amber, gentle musk, and just a smidgen of woody spices make it interesting. Slightly powdery upon dry-down, but otherwise linear. Stays close to the skin, but gives off nice wafts with movement for many hours. Extremely comforting. I wear it in any season, as the white florals and fruit are reminiscent of spring and summer, and the honeyed amber, musk and woody spices make it warm and cozy enough for cooler seasons. Most pleasant.
catsay – :
A golden peach liquor perfume! GORGEOUS!!
Binom – :
To my nose the well behaved and pretty vanilla sister of the original Dior Poison formula. It’s bearable, but too close to wear it.
I guess, the current Fath de Fath is not the 1950s formula, but a 80s reformulation. This simply doesn’t smell 50s; no way, that it was worn like this in the 50s. That’s the smell of big hair with perm, shoulder pads and Aerobics. Not that I would think, that that’s a bad thing… the 80s were an important decade for perfumes. But if you expect a 50s vintage feeling, you might be disappointed.
Wrerfurrimi – :
Joan Holloway would have worn this. Underneath the sweetness you will experience something “dirty” going on here, in a ladylike retro 1950’s naughty way. Not modern, but sexy in a skin colored pointy bra and garter belt with stockings under a mink coat kind of way.
I have the pure perfume and the higher concentration has a powerful vintage 50’s feel. Can’t speak for the lower concentrations.
arctic-yg – :
Review for a pure extrait: It is something different from all the parfums on the market. A positive surprise, because it was a blind buy. This is similar to Van Cleef Van Cleef, but million times stronger than that one. It opens with sweet and boozy blast of mandarin/peach/plum. After 30 min. I get the fine, creamy, sweet tuberose. If Cacharels LouLou is a cold fragrance, this one is a warm one in the same genre. Smooth, rich, with moderate sillage, on me it has poor staying power – maybe 2 hours but then I can still notice it close on the skin for the whole evening. On the end I detect some generic whiff with some vanilla, but I does not disturb me. I have the feeling to be very familiar with this scent. Happy to discover this! It is the mother of all parfums. Gorgeous. Test it first, it is specific.
eyn095speagoessenda – :
I’m not sure what’s going on with this one…
It started out with a root beer like smell that reminded me very much of Gucci (brown bottle) but after half an hour or so, I can think of nothing except garlic!
It’s not that it really smells like garlic but there’s just something about it that’s a little off and out of sync. I don’t get peach or syrup like everyone else, just a soft sweetness with a bitter/garlic-like sharpness to it.
Maybe it’s the changing weather or maybe my nose is just on the fritz but I don’t think this is something that I will be wearing anytime soon.
It’s a pass for me.
Peacetatka – :
This fragrance was never on my wish list, it was a totally impulsive blind buy.
OMG, this is so gorgeous, it really awakened my olfactory senses with its beauty. It is really hard to believe it was launched so long ago in 1953 because it smells so modern.
Just like the previous reviewer said, it is not too sweet, not too loud. Very rich and elegant with a prominent metallic note.
But I would never call it generic, this beauty is definitely fit for special occasions.
flyer00 – :
The first impression is of a soft, light floral-oriental-chypre hybrid, with a vanilla base and some greenish notes. The green quickly fades away leaving tuberose and undifferentiated fruity notes, not too strong and not too sweet, all fairly conservative and generic, but nice. After a couple of hours it dries down to a powdery scent. It lasts all day, with moderate sillage.
F de F is a good, basic, floral-type fragrance that can be worn even by people like me who hate many florals. However, it’s not compelling enough to make me want more than the small sample that I have.
claftt – :
I have tested FdF time and again with vials, and it is definitely growing on me.
It starts out with a delicious top note, then settles warmly for a long while, with a very discreet sillage, you barely know it is there – and yet, it is.
I studied the description of notes, of which there are many, too complex for me to decipher. The heart keeps on lingering in a fruity way … (A unusual comparison with my little kitten’s fur comes to mind, when I burried my nose into it…). The dry-down is ongoing soft and lingering.
Thumbs up.
docformat – :
I’m honestly surprised at the cloying peach syrup analogy, because I don’t get anything like that, and my chemistry is frequently uncooperative with fruity sweet notes. I think the key with this fragrance is to go for greater concentrations – I’ve got the EDP and the pure parfum, and the EDP is a sparkling cocktail, while the pure parfum is sooo smooth, dark, and mysterious! (I had the same experience with Magical Moon by Hanae Mori – it only works in greater concentrations.)
I actually bought Fath de Fath as a day-to-day replacement for Alchimie, no less! (I got tipped off by fotolux – thanks a lot!) They’re not the same, of course, but they share a creamy smoothness that I really like. It’s not a flowery fragrance, but the combination of the top and bottom notes – in equal amounts, w/o the emphasis on the peach – is a good representation of what it smells like on me… Maybe I got lucky just this once 😉
Pointedshoes – :
Oh my god. My teeth hurt just from sniffing this. I’ve been around many sweet fragrances, but this is something new. This is the most sweet, cloying scent I’ve tried. Really. At the first seconds of the opening I get fruits, I get peach and plum dipped in syrup. The next thing I’m having is the tuberose, which is extremely sweet and extremely creamy and makes this all more gourmand, because it does actually taste edible. Little bit too edible I must say.
Ok, so hear this – if you are ok with sweet scents, but not Pink Sugar kind of sweet scents, if you’re ok walking around smelling like peach syrup, then it’s for you. But watch out. One spray too much and everyone around you will run a way screaming and gassping for air.
ven9346 – :
peach that melds with black currant and plum into a cedar + vanilla musk as others have mentioned. Yes, not much of an oriental. A bit dated feeling, almost too much of a pretty followed by pretty followed by, you guessed it, pretty…
Except in my case, I get this plastic kind of quality at the end that I don’t enjoy.
muhuma89 – :
This is review for EdT:
It smells just like peach with syrup in a tin can. Not very heavy, not very oriental but very sweet with that sticky feeling.
Very rich looking pyramid, but I detect only peach and some light vanilla-musk base.
shashkin – :
A heavily fruity floral in an oriental way, but over an old-style base, like a Jean Patou. It lacks the overpowering weight of many orientals while somehow remaining an oriental. A clear cedar/musk base on dry down