Description
A light and ethereal scent of imaginary flowers chiseled from earthy ice, inspired by flower-like ice formations that magically appeared on the ground one winter day when a cold front had moved through after a rain. This is the only Olympic Orchids scent that is mostly synthetic, and intentionally so, since synthetics just seemed the appropriate medium for representing flowers made of frozen water, growing straight out of the ground. The flowers start off sharp and icy, with points like shards of glass or the filigreed arms of snowflakes, but gradually melt into a soft frothy vanilla ice confection. The nose behind the fragrance is Ellen Covey. Fleurs de Glace is available as a parfum extrait or EdP and features notes of galbanum, black pepper, cyclamen, ozonic accord, transparent vanilla, and white musk. Fleurs de Glace was launched in 2011.
woulpDupamoli – :
A scent for those who love strange and beautiful things. Ice covered flowers (or even flowers made of ice), frost crunching beneath your feet, cold breath billowing outwards, freezing, clean air being sucked inwards. It starts all frozen and iced. A little spiced and a lot spiky. Close up it smells unremarkable and maybe even a little off-putting to some. Resist the urge to sniff close up. This one needs space and air to breathe and come alive. It dries down to a beautiful floral vanilla. Olympic Orchids never disappoints! They truly transport one to interesting places…
AlexeyEfimov – :
I see what the other reviewers mean by freezer scent. I am not a fan of this. It smells dirty and musty. I can see why it’s being discontinued. If you do like this scent head over to the website now because it’s on sale.
UPDATE 2 hours later: omg… This scent is really terrible. And it won’t die! I tried to wash it off but it was too late, it had already soaked in. Dirty freezer scent keeps popping out at me every time I move. Yuck.
adam65 – :
Opening is chilly just like you’d expect from ice flowers (fleurs de glace). Not actual flowers but the ones that ice crystals form on glass windows when these are frozen solid in winter. At least when you are living in an unheated house with single pane windows.
The smell itself really does remind you of being inside a giant freezer. Like many fragrances from Olympic Orchids this is NOT something you’d want to wear on a social get together. But it is a good scent for taking you to another place.. I was just transplanted to my youth when indeed I was living in a house with just one source of heating (downstairs in the kitchen and sometimes, when having visitors in the ‘best room’).
As Sumukorento noticed, drydown gets much better: it still has that weird icy impression but it is something one can live with.
BTW, as so often it is very hard to choose between like & dislike. As something for wearing a def dislike. As a thought provoking scent, def a like!
zmx998speagoessenda – :
I tried this one and asked other people what they smelled.
It was cucumber and green beans , and non of these notes are mentioned so that was funny.
I think it has the waft of a freezer that needs cleaning.
I would not recommend this to a friend
oleg_u – :
On me it opened with a strange aversive plastic scent, and over 30 minutes it got a little quieter but remained just as unpleasant. The drydown was no better. I have smelled things from this perfumer that I liked a lot, but found this one so unattractive that I wondered if somehow it had gone bad. The sample came directly from the perfumer, so it seems unlikely that I got the wrong thing. Not a happy olfactory journey.
konsi1 – :
A lovely fragrance, its opening is fleeting – green and a bit spicy. But overwhelmingly this is a vanilla fragrance. The galbanum is noticeable, as is the musk and the soft, watery cyclamen that reminds me of the numerous pots of these flowers I gifted to my mother over the years. The drydown is straight up vanilla, galbanum, and cyclamen. Its not a complex fragrance, and its also quite linear. The fact that this is synthetic should not detract from the overall quality of the fragrance, its been a real pleasure to wear and Ive enjoyed this one quite a bit. The contrast between the ozonic, watery note, and the lushness of the soft creamy vanilla is something to be appreciated in such a little fragrance. Sillage is low, longevity average. Its a beautiful soft, watery, vanillic fragrance that I imagine would be highly giftable. Vanilla lovers will enjoy it.
dj_martin93 – :
Opening and drydown are totally different scent on my skin. I don’t like first notes, its too cold and sharp, but drydown is lovely with galbanum, vanilla and musk.