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nikolaev0081 – :
~LIKE~
Blind buy. The first spray was terrible. I couldn’t understand all the nice things people were saying about Giselle, but I tried it again a few more times and began to really enjoy it.
Then I tested it side by side with Michael Kors (MK) since they have similar notes, but I like MK better than Giselle, which is still pretty good smelling to my nose.
Giselle smells dated to me (not a bad thing). I get no cinnamon, coconut, honey, or caramel – all of which I was looking forward to experiencing with the tuberose. Giselle is all ylang ylang, tuberose, and freesia for me.
Original Juicy Couture is my overall my favourite tuberose scent. So far, I haven’t met a tuberose I didn’t like.
DamonReves – :
Very, very pretty, creamy, warm, yellow floral and Smooth. Nothing harsh, Sharp or Loud. Rich, Smooth Opulent like honey. Though the honey in this isn’t strong. Enough to give the ylamg & Tubereuse some rich sweetness.
Soft Silage. Longevity is five hours. Very feminine. But, sexy, womanly type of feminine. Pretty is the best word to describe this. Though, I paid about fifty dollars for my bottle. Wasn’t lucky enough to find it at a discount store. But, still worth every penny.
kara3337 – :
To me, Giselle smells like 2 parts Vanilla Fields, 1 part Madonna T or D with a dash of Monoi eau des Vahines. The silage isn’t huge, but if it were I probably could not tolerate this one. I am not the hugest Vanilla Fields fan but the ylang and tuberose take this in a prettier (better) direction. Giselle is a very lovely gourmand floral for fans of sweet scents. I could really grow to like this one but I think that VF vibe will keep me from reaching it for it very often. Will update on longevity.
nano – :
Giselle* reminds me of a light and more wearable version of two powerhouses fragrances, Chopard Casmir and Givenchy Organza.
The first sprays remind me of Cashmir’s warm, sweet peach, but Giselle isn’t as overwhelming as Casmir. Then Giselle becomes a lightly sweet floral which reminds me of lighter, smoother version Givenchy Organza.
I’m surprised at how much I like this cheapie. Giselle is a very nice and very well balanced fragrance. Other than Giselle’s over-the-top sweetness, there’s some real restraint in this composition, which makes it very wearable.
*Yellow Box formulation
gnefomaner – :
Not a proper review, but this reminds me of Nokomis. Rich, sweet, honey drenched white florals. Found today for less than $10 at TJ Maxx. The one in the yellow box. If you’re craving that old drugstore favorite, you should definitely get this.
sav170192 – :
Sweet light vanilla ylang ylang floral, surprisingly very lasting. Easy to wear. Smells like a quality product. Good pick for 15$ set in Marshalls, going to get it. Made in style of Cashmir and Hana Mori.
deewlyagreeby – :
Gorgeous scent, and though the notes are different, on my skin Giselle bears a resemblance to Roberto Cavalli ORO. Both are divinely feminine, not old fashioned enough to be considered terribly mature, but balanced enough to be grown up and womanly, if that makes sense.
A beautiful bottle and presentation make Giselle a joy for gift giving, though if once you get your hands on her, I dare you to give her up!
To me Giselle is powdery, sweet, floral, creamy, and slightly fruity. A winner. No one note (outside of those lovely white florals) plays drama queen at the expense of the others. She is richly golden in aura and definitely WARM.
Five stars.
Note – I tested the YELLOW packaging, probably vintage. <3
siesta – :
Guerlain’s Aqua Allegoria Ylang et Vanille minus the carnation for $9 instead of $177.. Anyone who is disappointed that the Guerlain has become a unicorn should resort to Giselle (yellow box, not pink). Ylang stands loud and proud with a warm and welcoming vanilla. This works as an uplifting year rounder. Solid budget buy with none of the hairspray notes of other comparably priced beachy florals. You must love ylang and sweetness. A sunlight-flooded kitchen where pancakes drizzled with honey are being served. I’m into it.
Just wanted to add that there is something in this composition that smells ever so slightly dated. It’s not a bad thing but people may want to consider this especially when searching for a modern caramel gourmand floral. This may not fit the bill for you as it is indeed an elegant and proper perfume- not something to be eaten.
Update- like savageinastrangeland below, I seem to be choosing this regularly out of my large collection. It’s perfect for the end of summer/beginning of autumn. Comforting, cheery and not demanding at all.
Liategantlied – :
Warning–Giselle in the pink/white box is COMPLETELY different than Giselle in the yellow box! I hesitate to even call it a reformulation as there is literally no similarity between them. Reviews for both versions:
Pink/white box (newer formula): The perfume itself is clear and colorless. Opening is a light undistinguished floral, somewhat reminiscent of EA’s True Love (but nowhere near as good). The floral notes die down quickly leaving a slightly sweet, musky scent very similar to a dryer sheet. Projection is close to the skin throughout and the perfume is almost undetectable on my skin after 90 minutes.
Scent: 1/10
Projection: 1.5/10
Longevity: 1/10
Yellow box (older formula): The liquid is a dark golden yellow color. The opening is warm creamy ylang-ylang, honey, a touch of coconut, and something (tuberose? jasmine?) that grounds it and lends a vintage, slightly animalic vibe. As it dries down the gourmand notes become more prominent until you’re left with a sweet vanilla skin scent. This is such a classic floral perfume and I feel so womanly wearing it. Projection is average but longevity is fantastic–I could still smell wafts of delicious vanilla after 10 hours! I absolutely adore this perfume and have already bought a back up bottle.
Scent: 8.5/10
Projection: 5/10
Longevity: 9/10
beznika – :
I won this in my very first giveaway from a generous fragrantican (Addict2perfume I’m looking at you lol) I owe huge thanks because I probably never would have found this gem otherwise! Anyway, this was the first fragrance of my winnings that I tried on my skin and I really, truly LOVE it!
The first spray was intimidating, I wasn’t sure what to think. However, I’m experienced enough with fragrance to know the first half hour doesn’t necessarily mean squat in relation to how you will feel about a fragrance. But I didn’t even need that long! Within 10 minutes of wear I knew this was going to get a lot of use! Within 10 days, it was a favorite! To me, this is a delicate balance of a almost tropical, floral, sweetness. It has a extremely slight, subtle hint of old school sunscreen (which I adore in fragrances) but it doesn’t shout “beachy” or tanning lotion at all, like, it’s barely there. Nor does it demand to only be worn in warm weather. This would fly in any season. It’s mature without being dated. Overall, it’s just balanced really, really well! I find this to be a bit like MM Ylang In Gold. It’s really quite impressive for its price.
Anyway, I highly recommend it to yellow floral lovers, and people who like a classy floral vanilla with a low key mellow tropical vibe without being overtly or Obnoxiously beach/tropical/sunscreeny. I find it comforting somehow and extremely versatile. I mean, you could wear this in any season from Hot summers to Ice storms. The performance is really decent. 8 hours, moderate-heavy silage. That is not typical of cheap fragrances on my skin! This lasts though. Others seem to really like it too, I’ve had a couple compliments mostly from men around my age. The other compliment was just my mom. lol
Edit 7/12/2017: The more I wear this, the more I love it. It’s now my summertime signature. I’m stocking up on bottles like crazy since the absolutely horrendous reformulation… of you can even call it that! It should have just been a different fragrance altogether rather than trying to pass it off as Giselle. Anyway, it’s fantastic, YELLOW BOX WITH YELLOW JUICE ONLY, YA’LL!
valeradjuice – :
Giselle by Carla Fracci smells of sweet ylang-ylang flowers drizzled with golden honey and a beautiful bouquet of fresh tuberose. I pick up on more of the sugary vanilla/caramel blended with jasmine in the dry down that all mellows out to a cozy musk base. I am a huge white floral fan and love tuberose, but ylang-ylang actually compliments white florals very well in my opinion and I love it in this fragrance. I have steered away from sugar, candy, vanilla, cupcake bombs as I have gotten older – but I think this fragrance has a good balance between floral notes and sweet notes that still makes it enjoyable for me to wear!
Membg249InsuffBooni – :
Giselle – I purchased the parfum concentration which was super hard to open and I spilled about 10% in the process
:(. What I found is that in large amounts this fragrance is extremely strong and long lasting. Even after cleaning the spill the following day when I was walking towards the kitchen I picked up the sweet cinnamon fragrance. In the kitchen where the accident occurred, the fragrance was present as if I had just spilled it.
After sampling Giselle on my skin I get a very fresh sort of green ylang-ylang accompanied by a soft powdery cinnamon. The tuberose and coconut have a sort of creamy affect which is perfectly drizzled with honey. I can’t really say that caramel is dominant but maybe in the right weather this note might develop better.
Overall wonderfully floral, yes, sweet gourmand foodie…not at all. Long lasting, yes, sillage from the stopper small application skin scent.
inet1039 – :
non ricordo più chi mi ha spedito un campioncino di questo profumo, che ho del tutto ignorato per qualche annetto, con la classica “puzzetta sotto il naso” (è proprio il caso di dirlo!!) di chi si avvicina alle fragranze delle celebrità con un certo snobismo. Giselle, anche se non è il mio stile, è molto carino: somiglia pesantemente ad Organza, oltre a ricodarmi Jungle Le Tigre di Kenzo, ed è un floreale. benchè sulla carta la piramide sia ricca di quelle note bianche che io mal sopporto specie se tutte insieme (fresia, tuberosa, gelsomino etc etc), la percezione reale è invece incentrata su sentori di miele e di caramello che supportano ylang ylang burroso. quindi l’assestamento: su cannella, cocco e muschio. non un gourmand in senso stretto (non cioè proprio da mangiare) ma piuttosto un gourmand evoluto.
Vitalikkkkk – :
My namesake fragrance. Supposedly Carla Fracci who created this perfume was trying to evoke the Romantic tragic 19th century ballet Giselle by Adolphe Adam. I don’t see the connection. For it to have smelled anything like the romantic tragedy set in the woods of Germany by the Rhine river, it would have had more woodsy notes! It should have been a white floral chypre. The white flowers of gardenia, tuberose, jasmine, lily, lily of the valley or white roses would wear like soft white tulle like white wedding veils, white ballet tutus, or the white Wili ghosts of the dead brides abandoned at the altar in the ballet’s final act. But that’s if this fragrance had truly attempted to recreate the ballet. It didn’t even try. But that’s ok. This stuff smells great, even if it smells like a beach resort in Atlantic City New Jersey. This is a gourmand perfume. Big on honey, lots of honey. Caramel, cinnamon, vanilla and coconut. My nose can pick up mainly on the honey-caramel-vanilla pairing. The cinnamon seems to be coated on the ylangylang flower and the coconut on the tuberose which is very creamy. Freesia and jasmine are not really big players. This is not a floral fragrance. This is mostly honeyed gourmand scents of caramel honeysuckle. It’s definitely a summer scent. I have only worn this one in August around my birthday and on my birthday as I associate this fragrance with celebrating and partying in summer time. I thought it was beautiful and my skin can handle honey. I know some women who would love this and who would hate this. I hope that you can give it a try. It’s definitely a niche frag so if you have a love for honey plus the other sweet notes of coconut, caramel and vanilla, this perfume will be a pleasure for your nose.
barsik2301 – :
Gentle, honeyed floral. No freesia present on my skin, which is good! If the caramel is at all noticable, I can’t tell… This soft sweetness could be peach or pineapple equally. The sum total is beautifully blended and cozy.
Not a gourmand, but a YELLOW floral. A slight resemblance to Organza makes Giselle an updated version of the floriental bombs popular in the 90’s, with lower sillage and softer focus. I especially love the perfect blending of musk, honey, and florals. Somehow the honey + tuberose + ylang ylang come across to me as HONEYSUCKLE. No bad thing! 😀
NashorN – :
If you like scents like Casmir, then Giselle is all the way up your alley. Of the tropical oriental gourmands I have tried to enjoy, this is definitely one of the best.
I have the parfum, I love the bottle. The drydown really mellows this one out into a really nice skin scent. I have plenty of more interesting perfumes, sure, but I reach for this one often enough. For what it is, Giselle is among the best that I’ve tried. But it’s not terribly unique as a gourmand, so I understand how it didn’t rise to popularity. Also, I love my bottle, but on the whole, CF packaging isn’t very attractive, let’s be honest. But it seems like the fragrances themselves are really quite nice.
Rubo – :
This is a very beautiful honeyed white floral, I am surprised it is not as popular in the “white floral” field. Don’t be turned away from the tuberose, it is a buttery tuberose. It has slight similarities to L’instant Guerlain edp and Givenchy Organza only mixed with Hanae Mori Butterfly or Chopard Casmir. I really enjoy the buttery sweetness of Giselle refreshed by white florals with a touch of golden sunshine. This is a very sunny, elegant casual fragrance. It gives me a similar feeling as my beloved L’instant, only a more casual version. Lots of ylang and tuberose, buttery sweetness. You have to try it to understand, it is really unique. Lovers of Organza and L’instant will enjoy this.
since1972 – :
This fragrance kept popping up in many of the gourmand collections at TPC, so I thought I’d try it.
A sweet, salty, lush, warm, yellowish floral. An amped up suntan lotion that’s quite yummy. It smells like laying out on a hot beach near a tropical flower garden while eating a melty salted caramel!
The beginning is strong & sweet, but it calms down pretty quickly to a honeyed, warm, almost ambery floral. I like the ylang in it and it could be a cousin of Avon Rare Gold. Or a flanker, “Rare Gold Extreme Summer”!
I would call it more floral than gourmand, but it definitely has that “yum” factor.
alex_260287 – :
I am surprised this is not more popular with the sweeter scents crowd.
I like gourmand florals but find most of them too sugary or too department store to wear in NYC as an adult without embarrassment. This is much more subtle and adult than a lot of flowery gourmands. Soft sweet scent you might like if you like Lempicka fragrances.
s_cnst – :
Have only recently discovered this one and purchased blindly. I am besotted with this totally similar to my beloved Givenchy organza however a tad more wearable for the hot months in the office slightly more fresh and silky as organza can be a wee bit cloying and (do me now) in the warm months. I adore both and Organza would be my first choice (along with her sexy sister Indecence) however this is superbly blended fragrance with the same honeysuckle, nutmeg type notes but has a bit of Ysatis going on in the top notes with lots of delicious ylang ylang and honey. Do get a bit of the caramel too maybe some praline in there and some powderiness (think Charlie Gold)- definitely a modern but sensual fragrance but with some oldworld charm which keeps me interested. Sadly I have begun finding this rather too sweet for my tastes (could be that I am on a sugar free diet perhaps) and this has been gifted to a new loving home
gangsta777 – :
..I tried this again last night and it is showing more of it’s creamy side. I’m picking up more of a vanillic base that blends well with the florals, still no honey but I’m liking it more.
Utisseexace – :
..I got this for a song online and though the notes sounded just right for me Giselle failed to deliver. I wonder as another person mentioned if they have changed or reformulated this? I tried spraying more on my second try and all I really smell is the tuberose, it’s very linear and I don’t note the carmel or any other interesting base notes. It sounded lovely and the bottle is nice but a real let down on my skin. Maybe you’ll have better luck.
vasindzhon – :
White flowers and honey. Nice everyday fragrance. Sweet, decent notes and lasts many hours. Ideal for autumn mornings.
GunTommy – :
The bottle I received (1oz EDP) is beautiful with it’s fitted glass stopper and long applicator.
The jus inside? A golden powdery tuberose bomb with honey as the fuse. That said, it’s not overly sweet to me, nothing like Queen or Mariah’s scents. And there’s that weird “wet blanket” smell from Casmir floating around in the background as well.
It takes 15-30 minutes to find the coconut and ylang ylang, another good hour or 2 for the semi-sweet caramel to show. By that time the projection is down to nil and you are left with more of a skin close glaze than a radiating base. I wouldn’t classify it as gourmand at all though and I could not detect any cinnamon.
While I like the smell itself, as with Scaasi, Caroline Herrera and Ellen Tracy, I find the powderiness to be on the verge of suffocating.
I’m very glad I didn’t pay much for it ($18) as I don’t see it being or becoming a favorite of mine.
lv291084tva – :
Too strong, sweet floral scent. Overpowering. Majority of notes look promising, what happened?
Well the start off is a blast off and that lasts eternity….after that soft creamy sweet caramel, tuberose and ylang ylang slowly take over. However it still remains too sweet and cloying. This could have been done better, unless the intention was to constrict some airways. Top three (caramel, tuberose and ylang ylang) are invaded here by overly sugary sweet ingredients. I feel a cavity coming on just talking about this perfume. It Royally Sucks!
dsd2dsd – :
Initially I found this to be very sweet and strikingly strong. Nevertheless within moments it settled into a smooth and very distinct yet warm caramel scent with superb sillage.
andrey1810 – :
Sweet (and for me it is far too much) ylang-ylang and honey at the opening. I was hoping for a cinnamon and caramel notes to show up somewhere in the middle, but it didn’t happen. It may be called nice, but this fragrance is not for me.
BuyNojk – :
I just received this perfume today and although I found it to be a nice, sweet fragrance, it’s just not me.
Kiril_fr – :
EDP:
Not as lovely as pure parfum, no getting around it-but has more sillage, and has the same soul! My boyfriend and my younger brother both asked me “Which perfume are you wearing now?”-and followed with approval.
Instant classic-I like it just as much as sultrier Must and Coco, but it’s never too heavy or sweet-perhaps I like you more, Giselle!
liza_artyr – :
Giselle by Carla Fracci:
You have everything I love about Organza, with more smoothness and softness (as well as desirable reserve)–in parfum!
I was worried that this would be too sweet, as I find Organza to be these days-and Giselle is sweet-but I don’t know what keeps this perfectly sweet and copper-colored velvet rather than just another sweet but pleasant Big White Floriental-it’s classifed as Floral here, I don’t think that’s correct…Either way, it has a lightness about it, and doesn’t smell too caramelly at all-this note can kill a possibly beautiful fragrance. I think I found the most beautiful–eh, maybe the only celebrity fragrance I want to wear! As refined as the lovely dancer Carla Fracci-with a plush sexiness breezing through! I want to try the EDP, as I like a little bit more sillage-this stays fairly close to the skin-but the lasting power is great, as a parfum should have. I hope to be able to review the EDP soon-if it retains most of what I love about the parfum, Giselle would be worthy of regular wear-maybe another signature even!
Timtim97 – :
Nice, sweet floral – caramel scent. Reminds me Kenzo le Tigre, but this one is not so deep and heavy.
Must to try who love simple sweet floral scent.