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igorunchik – :
Smells like overapplied cheap deodorant. There’s something pungent and sour to it that is only present in bad quality perfumes and toilet fresheners. Absolutely awful.
You might also be into it if you wanna smell like marshmallows and hairspray.
max83 – :
Fragrance Review For Fleur De Bambu
Il Profumo
Top Notes
Tea
Middle Notes
Bamboo Rice Lotus Water Lily
Base Notes
Ivy
Asian Rice & Bamboo
This is a lovely and very simple fragrance.
I’m a hardcore Oriental afficionado but this is rather too tame and even sweet for an Oriental, perhaps it isn’t even appropriate as an intro to Orientals for novices. Instead, it’s a calm, soothing soft green floral and bamboo scent to smell for the sheer pleasure of it. It doesn’t throw up a big projection and it doesn’t last as long as I would like. It’s a spring and summer scent to lift your mood and temporarily whisk you away to rice patties and bamboo gardens in South East Asia. It smells like Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Cambodia. The effect is a charming little escapism via the notes which evoke these Oriental Asian themes of rice and bamboo, which are 2 of the biggest icons of Asian landscapes.
Though I hate to compare fragrances, this one, with it’s sweet and soft touch, can be likened to Japanese Cherry Blossom. This is a very sweet sweet perfume. The opening lacks fruit which is interesting and grabbed my attention. Very few frags (unless they’re indies) open without fruit notes. Fleur de Bambu opens with a tea note. It’s a green tea, aromatic, herbal, and indeed like a Japanese teahouse scent. It smells like putting your nose to the tea cup itself. It also smells like the tea bag. Enough green tea to satisfy you and quite strong at the first spritz.
The florals are softer and more delicate, aquatic, like water lilies and lotus flowers floating serenely in their own scent on little pads on ponds. It produces the image of a Chinese garden complete with the bridge over the pond. This perfume can match up with Monet’s Nymphea or Water Lilies series of paintings. The lotus is one of my favorite floral notes in fragrances and always a pleasure to find them. This is a very well-crafted lotus scent; sweet, heady, and like a bath product. It’s like floral bath water, aquatic, and very relaxing and pretty. A sweet rice milk is also there. It’s very engaging since I don’t have too many scents with rice notes in them. The rice is somehow blending with the first note of tea, it’s almost a gourmand like rice cakes or rice crispy.
The dominant accord is of course, true to it’s moniker, the bamboo. This is a graphic but not overpowering bamboo. The bamboo wood can be detected as much as the bamboo leaves. This is a pleasant bamboo which oddly enough can smell like banana. It, too, is sweet like the floral notes of lotus and water lilies. The bamboo features every vestige and element of the tree: the sprouts, the flowers, the leaves, the trunk. The scent is also a bit reminiscent of a sugar cane. It’s such a natural and heavenly aroma.
Finally the dry down is a faint ivy, green and herbal, and again the tea note appears. Two notes of ivy are featured and they are the Hedera Helix and Hedera Cnariensis. If you have ever experienced ivy and not poison ivy, then you’ll love the ivy in this fragrance.
It’s herbal, and a bit like a sweet fig. This is still a floral note but it has more in common with the green tea because of its greenery.
Beautiful.
This fragrance goes full circle from tea into florals-bamboo and then back to tea. On me the tea note is as big a player as the bamboo and the ivy. The floral notes only provide a sweetness to it as does the rice.
Very easy to wear in spring and summer and can pass for a Bath & Body Works scent. It’s a bath scent, fresh after the shower and casual day time or morning scent. I love how this smells and hopefully you will too even if you by this blindly after reading my review.
Enjoy!
iztverivantal – :
I took a chance on this when House of Fraser put it on sale, and I am glad that I did. Not only is it very beautiful and calming, but it is surprisingly long-lasting.
Given the relatively few scent notes, the fragrance is more complex than you might expect – but the main scent is bamboo (less sharp than you’d find in Issey Miyake or Kenzo scents that include a bamboo note).
I summarise it as a sweet aquatic bamboo with a creamy floral heart (jazzed up a bit by the tea). Warmth improves it, so that it smells a bit different and much nicer after about 15 minutes, and that scent lasts about 4 hours, seems to fade linearly.
I can’t really name another perfume that it reminds me of, but if it’s any help to readers, I now have a huge scent library and this one is a keeper.
irpcuzpjjix – :
I always chasing after fruit fresh happy scents .and it’s one if the best.
It’s not coming at pink pretty bottle ,it’s not look like girly thing -but smell is everything about sparkles:).
Clean fresh perfume with tender sweetness and cold notes.
Longevity suprisingly very good.
evgen_13 – :
I received a sample from this last summer but never bothered to try it because I didn’t really have an idea of what bambou smelled like. I visited the botanical gardens near Accra Ghana years ago and stood in a giant tropical bambou bush which smelled like absolutely nothing!
I had been wearing heavy winter scents all month ( Poison Hypnotique, Heure Bleue, …) so I really wanted to try something really light and fresh, something like Fleur de bambu.
My first impression was that this reminded me a lot of the discontinued Truth Lush by Calvin Klein. Both share bambou and woodsy notes, Fleur de bambu is a greener scent while in Truth Lush the bambou and wood were complemented with a soft floral note. It is a nice scent but I do miss a more floral touch.
zyr549speagoessenda – :
FLEUR DE BAMBU is my first foray into the offerings of the house of Il Profvmo, which I have often wondered about but somehow never encountered. Guusjes was kind enough to send me a generous sample of this perfume, which I have now tested a couple of different times.
Initially I thought that I did not like FLEUR DE BAMBU, because it seems somewhat aquatic and therefore not really my kind of thing. However, after a couple tries, I have decided that this composition really is quite nice for what it is. Believe it or not, this creation evokes memories in my mind of rural Japan. The wet, glistening grass of rice paddies is the precise image before my mind’s eye. The scent is both green and wet, so it’s more like grass after a rain. Or rice paddies in rural Japan!
I’m not sure what bamboo is supposed to smell like, although I’ve certainly smelled bamboo sprouts while preparing or eating various kinds of cuisine. The watery, greenish quality of this perfume seems to match the pale yellowish-green of bamboo sprouts. There is also a watery floral facet to this perfume–probably the water lily and lotus listed among the notes.
Overall, this is still more aquatic than green to my nose, but it smells calm and serene rather than aggressive and angst-ridden, which is my typical reaction to calone-heavy aquatic fragrances. Probably if I overapplied FLEUR DE BAMBU, I’d experience those feelings again, but sparingly applied this is an appealing atmospheric scent.
skill489 – :
This is one of the most beautiful fresh compositions I’ve ever smell. So fresh and delicate bamboo flowers and after time warms up and became little creamy(may be it’s the rise milk). It is very longlasting (on my skin).
I love it 🙂