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sasha2002 – :
Wonderful ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Changes completely with my body chemistry turning into a fantastic clean luxurious smell. I love it ! If the fragrance doesn’t work for you it doesn’t mean it’s a bad fragrance! Body chemistry is everything! Try it on
ufx545Bessinepome – :
Starts No. 5. aldehyde-floral (think the softness of the body oil), ends Ombre Rose powdery, good stuff, the kind of perfume that gets the “you smell nice” compliment after a hug from a friend.
unisaev – :
It’s interesting how differently we relate to scent. I’m a huge iris and aldehydes fan and hate being negative but this is a purposeless perfume to me. It’s average at best, there are countless iris fragrances that are better. It smells very synthetic, it’s just extremely mediocre to me. Sometimes I think we fall in love with a brand and like anything they put out or we are convinced we do. I have many, many iris fragrances as it is one of my favorite notes but this fragrance is just desperately average and uninspiring. I am getting so bored with release after release from brands that seem to be on auto-pilot. I realize fragrance is subjective and no two noses and brains smell exactly the same thing but I am missing the fabulousness of this perfume. If you’re looking for something not too this or this, literally not this or that and nothing you or anyone else would ever recall, this is a very safe bet.
Illipsmislemy – :
Initial spray is beautiful! Expensive powder… this disappears in 5 minutes and remains strange aquatic musk close to skin…. it stay on clothes day like every musc
Thats all
Girlowek – :
Iris, powder, musk. I don’t like this. It smells 1970s to me.
homaaaaa – :
Fleur de Peau by Diptyque. Created in 2018 as one of last Diptyque launched. Fleur de Peau meaning is Flowery skin and yes! Its smooth and soft smell such a silky skin. But there is a lot of powdery floral aldehyde perfumes. So what is it priority to others? I am fan of powdery fragrances & have experience several of them. Fleur de Peau contain ambergris & leather notes for adding some rich, deep & waxy animalic character to it. Such a normal skin chemical situation. This accord is soft but effective. Fleur de Peau by Diptyque is powdery, ambery and sensual scent for all seasons & more suitable for women in my opinion. Moderate long-lasting but its longevity is moderate to weak.
ycv066intitytek – :
A masterpiece. Lasts for days on clothes and on skin for two days .. It projects like crazy! I really love it.
niko800 – :
This fragrance is interesting. I’ll give it that. It’s a very, very dark floral with zero sweetness and LOTS of powder.
ivkuv – :
Dyptique’s Fleur de Pear was released about a year after Le Cri de la Lumière and is also based on an ambrette accord. If I had to characterize the difference between the two, Le Cri stems from the overlapping of its notes and accords and Fleur de Pear is build from a sequence of consecutive musk accords that appear one after the other. Convergence. Divergence. Two different approaches to ostensibly similar accords.
Fleur de Peau moves very differently than Le Cri. Wearing it is like strolling from room to room in a large house. Each musk is joined to the next in a chain. The top note is a papery iris. Then a starchy musk à la Mugler Cologne. Then a grainy pear, then shoe polish, then waxy skin. No accord goes away entirely, but they don’t merge. They just reappear periodically. This olfactory junket is captivating in that it’s so meticulous and methodical. It’s not just the aromas that oscillate, it’s the tones. The iris is cry and crinkly, the rose is sheer, the pear is grainy, the skin note is fatty and waxy. The accords maintain their edges and don’t bleed into each other. They simply rotate.
Diptyque’s ambrette is more animalic than Perfume d’Empire’s and it’s very human. The Diptyque ventures much further into the sweaty-skin facet of ambrette, which can make the perfume seem a bit odd as it moves from sweat to laundry soap to floral bouquet. If you tune in closely to the perfumes fluctuations, though, it’s compelling.
The specificity of the composition creates an interesting opportunity for perfume critics. The fluctuation of the perfume, its progression through distinct olfactory territories creates the opportunity to consider composition without referring to formula per se. It can be described in terms of its qualities and can be analyzed based on its dynamics. Any perfume can be viewed this way, but Fleur de Peau lends itself particularly well to this approach.
from scenthurdle.com
alextanov – :
Musky iris and some aldehydes in the background. It’s a gentle scent (very office friendly), and the aldehydes fade within an hour or two so by the end of the day it’s just a musk. It’s definitely more on the dry and dusty side of things. I think it could be unisex as well, especially as it dries down. Somewhat forgettable in the grand scheme of things, but pleasant nonetheless.
YSteqhanY – :
This perfume literally smells like a baby. It’s a powdery and light floarls day scent that you would wear after a shower. Please don’t overspay or you’ll end up smelling like Pampers lol.
ZOMBIONE – :
I had great hopes for this as I love soapy clean perfumes, but I must agree with walking44 that this has a BO smell that is very off-putting. It reminds me of Amaranthine by Penhaligons, which I can’t wear either because it smells dirty and makes me want to wash it off. Fleur de Peau is another scrubber for me.
JATUSYSULMOSY – :
In recent months I have started taking the time to explore the Diptyque brand. Not only are they easily accessible, but they also have a knack for creating simplistic, minimalist fragrances that compliment almost any and every skin type.
Fleur de Peau, simply translated as ‘skin flower’, is one of the latest releases from the house of Diptyque. A ‘skin scent’ this most certainly is; a luxurious blend of ambrette seed, earthy iris, white musk and ambergris.
Fleur de Peau could be worn in a few different ways, you could use it as a layering fragrance to amplify the musky or powdery aspects of other perfumes, or you could wear it as a daytime or work appropriate fragrance when a lighter, inoffensive scent is required. I would happily wear Fleur de Peau whilst visiting a newborn, the dentist or my hairdresser. It’s a fragrance you wear for yourself, not so much for the people around you.
As far as musky iris scents go, Fleur de Peau is a beautiful representation of this common blend. I personally prefer heavier scents like Jo Malone’s Cologne Intense Iris and White Musk, but for those that enjoy lighter, more delicate fragrances Fleur de Peau is worth checking out when next perusing the Diptyque counter of your local department store.
serg20090 – :
Fleur de Peau is a beautiful, soft and clean cloud of finesse, that breathes its notes clearly off the skin. I continue to feel soft and clean, but now cozy in the warmth of a foggy marshmallow musk cloud.
memento – :
Smells like flowers and BO. I guess that’s why it’s called Flower de Skin.
Gffrikl – :
This is lovely and right up my alley, but my feelings for it are kind of dampened because I bought Empire d’Parfum`s Le Cri a couple of weeks ago, also an iris/rose/ambrette/musk affair. I probably would have bought Fleur de Peau had I never tried Le Cri, so don’t get me wrong, its good. Its warmer and softer without the cold green backbone of Le Cri. The iris is lovely and very starchy and vegetal in this, more waxy in Le Cri. My advice, if you are not like me and obsessed with the No. 18 style rose/iris/ambrette new category of perfume and just like the way Fleur smells, get it, if not, try and compare before buying.
maric15 – :
I agree with @hatanbeard on this one, you’ll want to try this on skin. On paper it is iris and has the Dior Homme “lipstick” vibe that is so popular. But that goes away really quickly. If you’re a fan of DH and it’s flankers, you might feel like it transitions too quickly, but oh man, what it transitions into is so good. It’s a musky, floral scent that is so nice.
The biggest drawback to this one is longevity. It is one you’ll need to reapply, so keep that in mind. It’s so good I don’t mind it, but if you’re looking for beast mode, look somewhere else. If you’re looking for a musky fragrance that will be great for Spring and Summer, this one is for you.
snoopjke – :
Fleur de Peau is a fragrance you’re going to want try on the skin. It is not a strong musk in the least, but rather one that definitely has a soapy, “just-got-out-of-the-shower” vibe to it. It opens with a very dry iris and most certainly has a lot of the aroma chemical Costausol in it. Costausol has a very papery, dry, almost suede-like quality to it that actually works well with the iris and the muskiness that’s barely lingering in the background. The white musk smells like it has the slightest touch of cumin in it and the fragrance has a very light, open, and airy feel that I’d assume can be attributed to the aldehydes. As it begins to dry down the rose starts to show up a bit more, but only ever so slightly and a subtle metallic note begins to appear. It stays here for a while before drying down into something that reminds me of a very light Egyptian musk that is very white musk heavy. Projection and longevity aren’t bad and overall it is a decent fragrance if you are looking for something a bit lighter than some of the other heavy, floral/musk hitters out there.
подорожник – :
Just a quick first impression.
I got a free sample with my Tempo sample.
My first impression was that it smells like a very good soap, a floral musky soap.
It’s also somehow earthy, maybe the Iris is the carroty kind. Nice aldehyes here, not too much., but clearly noticable.
This is like a nice casual cologne for woman.
You want to smell out of the shower clean and fresh, smell like this great soap you just used. But it’s kind of earthy and unusual smelling, so that makes it appealing.
It slightly leans feminine without being girly. It’s very good quality and unique.
It’s not quite for me, I ordered their new fragrance Tempo, an exquisite patchouli fragrance.
If your a woman who likes Diptyque, I recommend trying this. It’s like a very luxurious floral and musk soap.
I think it’s the aldehydes that make it smell soapy.
PS: After trying this for another day, I grew to be very bored of it. After an hour it became a faint skin scent. It made me think of putting my nose in a box of laundry powder.
This is pleasant enough to work as a short term refresher, like Mugler cologne. But this is not worth the price for what you get.
Rating: 6.5/10
God bless. John 3:16
ekuprienko – :
This to me was reminiscent of aldehydic musks in the vein of Jovan Musk and Alyssa Ashley Musk, but a little more clean-smelling. If I were to draw some current parallels, I would say this is somewhere between Alyssa Ashley Musk and Pierre Guillaume’s Le Musc and La Peau, however I found Diptyque’s Fleur de Peau smoother than both, and prefer it for that reason.
While not ground-breaking, it was very pleasant and I found myself re-sniffing my wrist with pleasure for as long as it lasted (about 6-7 hours).
Update: I’m re-testing this during cool weather, and this time the iris is a bit more prominent and the musk less so, giving the scent a cooler feel. I think this is actually quite an elegant soapy musk.
vovchikmachete – :
This my first review. I bought Fleur de Peau today after using a tester. I am a Diptyque fanatic.
It’s a lighter progression of both 34s I think. The opening is dramatic, like you’ve just stepped into a cozy library of classic leatherbound books.
Floral and powdery notes soon come through. Musk is barely there, but it is; nice for warmer days ahead. It’s considered unisex but on the feminine side of that spectrum.
As a man I’ll wear this as a “gallery” fragrance, one to wear while dressed well, admiring art and sipping champagne.
sashok77 – :
Fleur de Peau opens with a lovely iris on my skin: slightly carroty and mostly woody. There is nothing overly metallic or rooty, nor is it excessively starchy thanks to a discreet buttery sensation of orris.
What soon follows is a soft, vaporous white musk light as a feather. Tiny sparkles of fruity spiciness and fruity liqueur nuances stemming respectively from pink pepper and ambrette pop out here and there, but are rather short-lived. The musk feels mostly clean without evoking laundry products, partly owing to the vegetal sensation of ambrette.
Iris and musk then start this long, graceful waltz. There is at first a very faint animalic nuance about 30 minutes after initial spray. Combined with the soft creaminess of iris, it creates a fleeting illusion of a plush yet lightweight suede. Later on, as this humming warmth dissipates, the airy musk is infused with this cool, almost minty sensation of geranium and the fluffy, delicate sweetness of heliotrope. The resulting chiffony skin scent is at times clean and vegetal, and sensual with a delicate musky sweetness.
I suppose the name comes from “à fleur de peau” in French, and it indeed stays extremely close to skin. I actually got a 9-hour longevity, but as the scent itself is very diaphanous, I frequently thought it disappeared, only to find it still lurking around when sticking my nose on my wrist. And the last 3 hours mostly smells like the kind fo clean white musk in the late dry down of Penhaligon’s The Revenge of Lady Blanche and Byredo Blanche.
While I’m not bowled over by Fleur de Peau, as a fragrance inspired by clean skin scent, it’s solidly made in the effortless elegant style of Diptyque, easygoing without being banal. I’d definitely recommend it to those who are looking for a gauzy musky skin scent with a beautiful iris touch.
Plan x – :
According to the SA, it’s more unisex than Tempo, it’s only available in edp, it’s predominantly musk, it was made to celebrate Diptyque’s 50th anniversary, and it will be available on March 1 in the U.S.