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Арайлым – :
This smells exactly like Grossmith’s Floral Veil but is a lot cheaper.
Jalifaneromogado – :
Most people here must be wearing the modern because these are not the notes in the vintage. This is all dry, floral aldehyde with oakmoss. A complete floral aldehyde/chypre.
a250792 – :
Wearing Floris Florissa is like taking an early morning walk in a powdered, powdery Edwardian garden where the morning fog has set a fresh layer of moist, dewy drops over the grass, lily of the valley, jasmine, rose and oakmoss. This perfume is inviting, tranquil and comforting.
And there’s lots of powder so if you don’t like the aldehydes in Arpege, Calandre or Clea then you won’t like this.
Канат – :
A friend just sent me a bottle of Florissa, along with the body lotion and shampoo–I was very excited to try it and I have to agree with the person above who compared it to Paco Rabanne’s Calandre–that is EXACTLY what it made me think of–one of the more beautiful floral aldehydes of the mid 1970’s! I know that this scent is not fruity or gourmand-y enough to appeal to most young people today, but it takes me back to my own youth in NYC, when scents like this were the height of fashion. I don’t find it at all over powering and plan to wear it frequently this spring. I have a number of other Floris scents–their magnificent Jasmine, fresh Lily of the Valley, soft Violette and nostalgic Edwardian Bouquet –but this scent is much more modern than the single note florals and floral bouquets! This was a great gift from my friend Cheryl!
chelsi – :
I think ‘Pong’ (love the name!) has given the best review. After five years of looking at the Fragrantica site, I finally decided to join, so I could give a few submissions of my own. I wanted to join to say that (living in London) I pass by the Jermyn street store which is the Home of Floris regularly on the way to work. I have bought my mother Edwardian Bouquet and then, two years I was bought Florissa by my husband. He had gone into the shop and loved it and bought me it. I like it very much(do not love it), and as the other reviewer said it is not for every day, but IS a lovely scent. Secret – it’s great sprayed in a room! We were told it was being discontinued then (2010) which it has – and unbeknown to me, he went back and bought me a lifetime supply – buying about six of the remaining bottles (not many left in store!). I am over forty (not giving any more away), so I figure a bottle every half decade, God willing! I have been complimented – and the secret is – ONE delicate spray on the wrist and ONE more spray in the air and walk into it, no more. Then it does not overpower. Funny that it does being quite delicate. I learnt by using it as I do with other perfumes, but use this half as much. Long story – I’ll keep the rest shorter I hope! Quite passionate about this though because of all.
nazarslava – :
You either hate or love Florissa. It’s a heavy, strange scent, very early 70’s, and very London, and I’ve always thought its vulgarity sits rather oddly in the Floris canon!
It’s not a perfume that is an everyday scent. Not at all. It sort of sits well with the colour purple and textures such as velvet or suede…
When I was last in the Floris shop (November 2009) I was told they were discontinuing Florissa… I duly bought a couple of bottles, and have been storing one in the fridge ever since.
But I would be so so unhappy if it were to be discontinued, and oddly unsurprised…
PollogmaDoozy – :
No, no. no! I never get beyond the blinding headache & synthetic twist, but I will struggle onwards & try to describe this scent.
It is indeed a floral bouquet – that, I can cope with, the soft rose & heady jasmine are easy to detect & very pleasant. But then I am hit with aldehyde top notes that are painful – not fresh air, not cut grass, just chemically unpleasant ‘dust’. You know when you catch a whiff of someone’s nasty fabric detergent on their newly washed clothes on a lovely cut-grass day & you wish your nose had not been assaulted by such man-made cleanliness & had, instead, been left to nature’s bouquet? It is that impression I get here. Somewhere in there I detect a whiff of bad breath – coffee breath? – & car interior. It is very strange. The elements do not meld well to my nose – which is very unlike Floris.
However, I may be alone in my repulsion – my mother wore it & loved it’s ‘warm bouquet’….I used to walk behind her & crack open the paracetamol.