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pletcherjsh – :
Wow, this is nothing short of my dream come true. Affordable powder bomb. Do I HAVE to love every single powdery perfume out there? I guess yes. Love it to bits. It’s powdery & clean & sweet & lovely. The scent of a kind young mother from the 90s who is a bit obsessed with neatness and cleanliness.
Longevity is pretty good, 5 hours later it’s still kicking.
Edit: Got it for myself and I am, well, obsessed. This is what I want to smell 24/7 for now. I also feel that it represents me so well. Made it signature.
andriy025 – :
On first sniff it is a sweet aldehydic baby powder scent which remains the same throughout. Its not in your face and really pretty. But a note in this makes me feel slightly nauseous and something in this (aldehydes?) which cause dryness and soreness to my nostrils. It is that very note that i pick up from industrial cleaners and hand washes.
One of the most closest to the J&J baby powder scent ever but sweeter. Amazing longevity and very good sillage.
Am gutted that it doesn’t agree with me.
Also i really thought that this would have an uncanny resemblance to Teint de Neige, even though they appear to have some similarity, the powder varies between the two. TdN is more quality smelling, almondy creamy with vanilla whilst Iris lacks the vanilla note. Unless you are very particular, don’t expect an exact copy though on my skin they were different as well as on clothing.
OnendraxexMix – :
Pouffy fouffy powder bomb
Baby powder / make up powder
Enchanting little number
If you want to sit on clouds and dream .. wear this scent .
A very comforting , cozy scent – great for just out the bath .. one spray / maybe two spray only !
Very worthy of a place in the perfume palace
9/10
Alex M. – :
My Grandma used to grow irises in her garden.I remember their delicate pale periwinkle petals & their sweet, heavenly scent. This does not smell like those irises, but it’s a soft, sweet powdery scent. I don’t get any floral at all beyond the powder, perhaps a bit of vanilla.Pleasant, but it doesn’t evolve into anything intruiging.
Леонид – :
Incredible.
As a beloved fan of TdN, I’ve tried all 3 leading dupes of it, which are Iris, Sweet Dreams by Joseph Jivago and Icon Pearl by Ga-De.
Noneless, Iris is the absolute winner, with no hesitations what so ever.
The initial scent is a major blast of sweetness which I believe comes from the Bergamot mixed with some vanilla.
it lasts for 15-20 min, and then… then… my goodness..
THE MAGIC OF IT ALL HAPPENS
Teint De Neige is in the house!
Sugary Iris topped with some Aldehydes, I can NOT, and this is truly my truth, I can NOT tell any difference between TdN and Iris!
My God! This is an excellent dupe!
Scent gets a sweeping clean 10/10, longevity gets 7/10, and Sillage gets 8/10, it can easly fill a room if sprayed right!
I will be consuming this fragrance for many many years!
DO NOT HESITATE, IF YOU WANT TdN FOR A LOWER COST, THIS IS THE BEST FRAGRANCE YOU’LL EVER FIND!
lehahab – :
Smells EXACTLY like Lorenzo Villoresi Teint De Neige!!! Much less expensive though. I have both, and put one on each wrist–no difference other than the TDN lasts for literally days. A little goes a very long way.
boareeporgo – :
L’Erbolario Iris is a sweet powdery fragrance from the very first spray. I was unable to identify the source of the sweetness, but it is possibly more from ylang than vanilla. It is very powdery…more so than I expected, and very similar to Teint de Neige in that respect. I found it less powdery than Jivago’s Sweet Dreams, the ultimate powder explosion on my skin. An hour later it was still fluffy and sweet, a pleasant cloud just not becoming a choking gas.
After another hour and a half the effect of the powder was less strong but the sweetness was unchanged, and I did not see any development at all of the actual fragrance, the only change being in the level of powder. After four hours the powder remained only on my clothes. It no longer swirled in a cloud around me, and the fragrance on my skin was a pale, sweet vanilla scent with a hint of musk. I found no hint at all of the other components, for example the eponymous iris…
In conclusion, projection is good for the first three hours, with the powder being noticeable well beyond arm’s length. Longevity is less than average, with a maximum of about five hours on my skin. This is a comfortable fragrance for a chilly evening after a shower, but I should find it too powdery to wear for long in daytime and certainly too powdery to wear to bed. It is a very linear scent and lacks interest for more general wear, in my opinion.
LedcidgighMuh – :
this was a blind buy. After all the reviews, I decided to go for it. The notes in Teint de Neige seemed so appealing but the price NOT 🙂 so instead I got Erbolario- Iris (i never smelled any of them) but always liked powder and iris. I guess I am a dreamer, I was in such anticipation for iris to arrive, oh well….disappointment, its on a cheaper side and to my nose smells very basic 🙁 i do get a bit of an old lady vibe, maybe its my chemistry with this fragrance, i got samples of frescaessenza also from erbolario, and even though i am not a big fan of flowery citrusy frags, i actually liked it, very fresh but with an interesting note/twist that is unusual (at least to me) I will give iris a chance maybe it will grow on me but for now its a pass…since i have this reaction to iris erbolario, do u guys think i should also give up on teint de neige?
gnus – :
I don’t have Teint de Neige, so I can’t compare the two. However, I DO have Joseph Jivago Sweet Dreams, and that’s supposed to be similar to TdN, so I’ll do a side by side of SD and Iris instead.
Iris is what I thought (and wanted) L.T. Piver’s Heliotrope Blanc would smell like! I actually get an almost dry almond vibe, MINUS the typical cherry/marzipan/play-doh note I seem to find in most almond/heliotrope fragrances. There’s also a very SLIGHT coconut crust I’m getting from this. Like warm, flakey, crust from a coconut pie (MINUS all the extra sweetness and extra coconut you get from an actual pie.) I don’t know what’s causing it to smell like that on me right now, so I’ll test it again later. Compared to Sweet Dreams, it’s much softer, less finely-milled floral soap, and a tiny bit sweeter. But NOT the same sweetness, nor as much sweetness as you get from Osez Moi or Private Room. To me, this is closer to the talc powdery-ness I get from Sweet Dreams, just not as potent or sharp. I LOVE Sweet Dreams, so it doesn’t bother me one bit. If Sweet Dreams was too powerful or too baby powdery for you, try L’Erbolario Iris. It’s much softer, less powdery, but still has good longevity, and fairly good sillage for the first few hours at least. (Will update on longevity later as well.) I love powdery fragrances, and this is a perfect one to add to my collection.
sviktor8 – :
Beautiful fragrance,monster longevity and sillage.
zigi – :
Oh, my! This is Heaven to me 😉 That sweet powder…mmm…it’s like walking barefoot on fluffy clouds, surrounded by serenity… 🙂
Don’t know why, but I like this one better on summer than winter…It performs better on my skin.
bonoonellc313761 – :
Talking about twin perfumes…for those who are fans of Teint de Neige and are on a budget, L’Herbolario Iris is a great option, it’s pretty similar. I like them both but I’m more prone to buy Iris rather than TdN, because when I spend so much money on a perfume I want it to be unique, and I’m getting fond of these non-expensive copycats, that allow you to smell great without ruining your bank account.
Dim4ik93 – :
I have been long visiting Italy and still searching for a perfume that I smell on almost every Italian woman 45+.
Iris is I think one of them – and also a scent you can smell not only on women, but also in their houses, toilets… Not sure if they use the other Erbolario iris products like reed diffusers and scented sachets, anyway – this smell is just the smell of Italy for me. Maybe it’s because iris is so popular in Italian fragrance industry, they probably imitate the scemt in household cleaning products :))
Most people won’t like it I am afraid, it’s extremely strong and long lasting and the sillage is very intense.. But as someone here has written already – the very brisk and powdery head fades after some time and what remains is the very soft, warm, flowery powdery base which lasts forever and is extremely pleasant!
I have the scented sachets in my wardrobe and sometimes spray the perfume on old teddy bears and cushions – ant they smell months and months with it.
Not 100% sure that half of Italian women wear it, as I am still searching for the right one (quite similar to Narciso Rodriguez BTW, but much older – any tips anyone?), still one of the Top 5 perfumes for me.
And yes, it’s very very cheap and it lasts long. What more do you want 😉
kuriran – :
An important perfume for me.
It is my mother’s perfume, dusty talc and vanilla..
Also remember me my old job and a colleague it befriends from which am me due to separate. It is the perfume of house..I live very distant and it miss me. The perfume of the embraces
kristima-ti – :
I was so looking forward to finding a cold iris scent that does not smell dated, i.e. that doesn’t evoke an elderly lady’s powder. I though L’erbolario Iris was it – but no. On my skin, it is very warm, and the vanilla is almost stronger than the iris. It is sweet and warm, not elegant, chilly, and young as I had hoped. On the paper strip I also sprayed, the vanilla and sugar isn’t quite as strong, and there is more actual iris. Since I’m not made of paper, I won’t purchase this though.
LesNik78 – :
A sign of times. People like fabric softener.
This smells like an incredibly concentrated fabric softener with “iris petals”.
The first stage of this one is quite unbearable and synthetical. Iris… where?
The notes are interesting, but the outcome is not.
After one hour of brain hammering it becomes much softer and comfortable, nothing spectacular or very high quality, but it’s a delicate feminine powdery scent. The pipe smell is very faint.
Longlasting and not expensive, you get a lot of bang for you money. I just cannot go through the first hour and the drydown is not very interesting.
avozeroff – :
profumo pazzesco, di una potenza incredibile ,mia moglie lascia una scia di dieci metri è come una stella cometa. chi metterà questo profumo non passerà di certo inosservato,i profumi tom ford dal grande sillage e prezzi incredibili può fare solo il solletico a iris dell erbolario.
bredshar – :
This is the best perfume i have ever bought!! It is such a fluffy smell, (soft powder in a sweet elegant way) is the first thing that you smell.. with mixed with melted sugar and a tiny bit white chocolate with a litte smoke smell. Blend this all together and l’erbolario iris is the smell.
This perfume you can smell as soon you enter the buidling hahah. Kidding but if you walk pas people they will definitly smell this gorgeous perfume. I finished 5 bottles and i will buy another 5 because this smell is the BOM!!!. My other perfumes i dont use anymore.. because this perfume kills them all!!
and by the way how can people compare this i mean —-THIS PERFUME— with baby powder???? This is the most original flower power powder scent ever. Go and check your nose at you doctor because this does not even come 0,01% near baby scents.
prefekt23 – :
Super Soapy!! L’Erbolario’s Iris is NOT a safe blind buy (I totally just blind bought it). It actually reminds me of the “iris version” of LT Piver’s Heliotrope, because both are extremely traditional interpretations of super-powdery purple soliflores with a noticeable tinge of non-gourmand sweetness. Other reviewers have commented that Iris is a love or hate type of scent- I think I might love AND hate it… haha!
Let me reiterate: this fragrance does not smell modern in any way. In fact, Iris actually smells exactly like my great grandmother’s linen closet in Brooklyn, when I was a little kid…a scent of nostalgia for me, and a definite step UP from the (porto-potty) images evoked by Piver’s Heliotrope.
The powder with the sweet and the floral is extremely heady and a little bit stuffy. Kind of like bitter almond extract layered with clean, albeit dusty sheets, and baby powder.
I hope it grows on me, but I’m glad my boyfriend isn’t home right now because I don’t see this being attractive to him.
It is comforting though. I’ll give it that. Definitely would not have blind bought it if I had known, but hey! You win some…
zurg2 – :
Very (baby)powdery. So lovely!
Gvardeyskoe – :
Iris from Erbolario was my first love and signature frag. It’s a lovely, intense, clean but sensual scent, with enormous sillage so it is neede just one spray, if you don’t want to intoxicate everybody everywhere you go… 🙂
It lasts long, the days after you can still sniff it on clothings.
It’s a non changing scent but in the drydown it become a intense skin scent, powdery and still flowery. Many people said it’s like the baby powder but I don’t agree. This scent make you feel sexy and confident with yourself and the others. Not exactly the same feeling of a baby powder… xD
_ARTUR_ – :
Smels like leftovers of Lorenzo Teint de Neige.
It’s like the differnces between Coca Cola and RC Coke.
Dauren_kz – :
L’Erbolario Iris wears just perfectly on my skin. It’s definitely dense powder, with a strong smell of fresh iris. On my skin, it’s soft, deep, cooling, rich powder with an underlying sweetness that keeps it very feminine. There is a light touch of green, like green stems, that create a fresh crispness balancing the heavy powder.
Yes, it’s definitely an “old school” blend, and it’s just as, if not more powdery than Teint De Neige. You have to love thick powder to love L’Erbolario Iris.
For those who notice a bitterness, I would think that the hawthorne note is to blame. Bitter notes in perfumes are sometimes amplified with different skin chemistry. On my skin, however, hawthorne is barely noticeable, and is just enough to keep the fragrance from becoming too sweet. Though powdery soft, this perfume is also uplifting, cooling, crisp, very feminine, somehow managing to be both strong and gentle at the same time.
On my skin, silage remains moderate, and it lasts forever until I wash it off. I LOVE L’Erbolario Iris !
2pacd – :
I am normally the quintessential iris lover but this fragrance is not for me. I sprayed this liberally on my skin thinking it was going to be wonderful. Not so. I got a huge dose of face powder, a bit of nice iris, that was very soon overwhelmed by the bitter smell of cut stems of flowers that have been in water too long and need to be re-cut. The final development of the scent was rather bitter on me, not sweet, and powdery like a very old school talcum powder, old face powder from the 1930’s and crumbling paper from an old musty book. There is an overall impression of musty, dusty and well past its sell-by date.
This one is very unpleasant on my skin. Too bad because it has good longevity and a good price point. Lizwykys says it better than I, but it seems that we had similar reactions to this scent. I agree that this scent smells like I would expect Miss Havisham from Great Expectations to smell.
pjharvey – :
Wow, I was so glad to get a sample of this with another order as I’ve been wanting to compare it to my current favorite, Korres Iris Lily of the Valley Cotton — but whoah, it’s pretty much exactly the opposite of everything I love about the Korres Iris. I find this horribly cloying, overbearing, and unpleasantly saccharine. It evokes in me the exact same profoundly queasy feeling as Youth Dew and similar heavy scents of a certain era, despite being entirely different in composition. Annoyingly, it also seems to have much greater staying power than other L’Erbolario scents that I like much more.
This is possibly a love-it-or-hate-it scent? My impression is of heavy drapes closing out the air and light, a dim, untidy bedroom with a heavy four-poster bed piled with too many pillows, an antique dressing table chaotic with cosmetics, medicines, and spilled powder, a mottled mirror, dust motes dancing in an errant sliver of sunlight, dying flowers in vases of soured water. Dust, powder, and sweet decay.
If I were to rename it, I’d call it “Havisham!”
So now I’m very curious about “Iris” scents, having found one I love and one I hate; I didn’t expect such a gulf of difference.
mikhei89 – :
I’ve bought the deodorant cream, and it smells great! Soft, powdery, and sweet.
tusstyday – :
powdery – same smell like teint de neige!!! but not the same long lasting!!!! But very very good for their price.
masmaked – :
Love it from the first sniff…
I was looking for a powdery fragrance, and I tried so many of them (kenzo flower, dahlia noir, dior homme… all of them the same way, mainstream fragrances)
An just this morning I saw this beautiful perfume in a store, I tested on my whrist and I fell in love whit it!
Creamy, powdery, old-fashioned powder or dusty make up, I don’t know, but I really really felt the Iris smell, a truly and pure Iris, with a bit of sugar (in a good way, not like that sugary overpowering bubblegum scents)
Totally it’s gonna be my next purchase!
DESMERT – :
I have the tenue (light) version, but it’s still strong, sweet, innocent powder that is almost similar to Teint de Neige. For the price it’s very affordable. Sometimes I love it, but sometimes it brings me some strange melancholy, like brooding lonely in a room and watching never ending snowfall as a russian heroine is a novel.
I prefer to wear it in winter, its powdery softness envelopes me in a white haze.
Melanie_fromAF – :
It is very similar to Teint de Neige indeed, however, there is a slight difference – while Teint de Neige smells like luxurious vintage powder, L’Erbolario Iris smells a bit sweeter, like someone added baby powder to Teint de Neige. Very good lasting power and sillage.
Teambeerlake – :
This stuff really does smell identical to Teint de Neige…which leads me even more to believe the flower note listed in TdN has got to be iris and violets. Very very lovely. Wearing Iris makes me feel as if I am wrapped in the softest royal purple velvet, powdered in face talc.
This is a most lovely iris dipped in vanilla, then frosted with sugar and rolled in powder…alot of powder. Right up my alley. I don’t get very much tobacco maybe just a bit. It would have been nice to have more, but I still love it very much
Beautiful. Frosted iris.
juri0310 – :
Wow! This has got to be the most powdery perfume ever….it’s so powdery and ‘dry’ it’s almost like it’s a delicate fine posh talcum powder. It reminds me of a cross between Johnsons baby powder and an expensive talc.
Yes it is very very similar to Teinte De Neige but I personally prefer this one. The longevity and projection are pretty amazing and the scent lingered on my clothes for the next 2 days.
As for the scent of Iris…eerrrmmmm….no Iris I smelled has scent like this. Having said that, I would love a bottle of the delightful classy ‘talc’.
arhiivan – :
Powdery?
As odd as this may sound, last time I smelled it I felt like I was standing in weird desolated landscape, like some sort of desert of face powder in a twilight zone. The most depressing thing my nose had to put up with.
Максим-1996 – :
the aldahydes and bergamont create a herbal note that is similar to a chinese leaf sprinkled with powdered sugar…it reminds me of a sweet chinese oil, but after an hour this herbal effect diminsh creating a very soft powdery base with woody smoke…very comforting in cold weather….the dry down is similar to the beloved Tova
Matias – :
I have been using this fragrance for a couple of years now and I still love it. I adore the clean, powdery feeling of it. It makes me feel fresh and in place, like after a long warm bath.
I think it spell simplicity and neatness.
Силя – :
When I read the main notes on Fragrantica I really wanted to try “Iris”, and I expected to find a charming, multifaceted perfume in which sweet and bitter notes were blended in an unusual, sensual fragrance.
I tried it last week, and I was very disappointed: I couldn’t find any tobacco (that is the main reason I tried this perfume), nor bergamot.
Vanilla is too much sweet, but not the spicy or the gourmand vanilla I use to love.
I’ve got a marvelous hawthorn tree in my garden, and its flowers have the gentle smell of the purest white honey… but there is no trace of it in “Iris”.
I found only a powdery, sweetish, overwhelming perfume without any evolution.
The only notes I smell are iris and sugar… I’m sorry, it’s too boring and depressing for my taste.
rufdj – :
Thanks to OlfractalinFemme I now have the Iris by L’Erbolario – in Extrait Version called “Irissimo”.
Beautifully melancholic. ‘Saudade’ was what first came to my mind, some feeling like sitting in the twilight train alongside the protagonist in “Notturno Indiano” by Tabucchi. Or the woman of “Il Gioco del Rovescio” : the Iris is not green and vibrant, but somewhat powdry and green, enhanced by Aldehydes. Soon the sweetness emerges to envelop the Iris, but it’s a dry sweetness like some mediterranean dolce.
Something that borders on gluey but is doughy more. And then comes vanilla-pipe-tobacco. And I imagine my grandpa stuffing his pipe and his late wife wearing a very sophisticated Iris perfume (like the one from Hermes).
I see woman loving to smell this scent on other woman, and men hating it 😉
It’s intense and the Extrait holds for nearly 14hrs! Highly recommended!
virus902901 – :
a lot of people said that Iris L’erbolario is a clone of Teint de Neige. well, it’s true! I own both. Teint de NEige is my favourite perfume and last summer I forgot to bring it with me on holiday. so I bought iris because of the lower price. they are similar, but not the same, of course. I find that Iris is stronger at the beginning, and more sweet, but Teint de neige is more elegant, and it last longer.
anyway, I have the iris body cream too and the liquid talc as well, and they are great products too!
in Italy is very common.
hayko788 – :
I founf it delicious the very firt times when I used to wear it, but then goin’ on usin’ it I couldn’t smell anymore the persistant that brings during days and days, especially upon dresses.
I think also this parfume is not for everyone because seems to have itself a particular personality.
denis1000ua – :
A very very strong and a little bit too powdery scent.. I am not able to describe it as good as I wanted because English is not my native language, but when I tried this on the paper sheet it seemed very nice, when I tried it on my skin… Oh my. It is so annoying. It even made me womit in the middle of the day… It was a pitty I didn’t have any other fragrance I could spray and kill this powdery scent.
Vanes – :
Wow I never looked at the reviews of this perfume but when I tried the bodycreme I thought, what is this familiar smell… and yes, teint de neige it is! (starting to get boring how often it is said here isn’t it) I never knew iris could be so powdery though…
gluplepleTota – :
Two years ago my mom followed a woman to ask the name of her perfume and it was Iris from L’Erbolario. That Christmas she got it and I swear that every time she sprays it what follows is: “Whooaaaaaa!”, because she likes it so much that she fills her lungs with it as much as she can. I like it, too, but I use the cream istead, which is as fragrant as the perfume. The only word of notice is to be careful with the quantity, as it is really strong.
One more thing: two years ago I also gifted the body cream to a friend of mine. Last summer we got in the car together and inquired about her perfume, which to my nose seemed to be Chanel 5. Cross my heart!!! She said that in hot weather she uses just a drop of the Iris body cream and that’s where the smell came from. Needless to say that I tried it the next day but with no similar results. Skin chemistry again!
aleksandrrazin – :
translation of Merilu59’s review
“è il teint de neige dei poveri”:
It’s the poor man’s Teint de Neige.
roini2011 – :
it is so sweet and powdery.. I love it. It lasts a lot, i use to wear it with the body cream
Tatsy90146 – :
This fragrance is among my favourites. It is incredibly long lasting and sweet and soft and creamy. I am about to finish the big 100ml bottle. It brings so many many happy memories. And it was so cheap for its quality. Just simply amazing!
enlamiGlajeve – :
Not so deep, not so refined, not so classy, but a well done perfume, it deserves money. Lasting power ( as Imgcas said) is amazing! Try it!
sard66 – :
I get a lot of compliments when I wear Iris. I guess Dallas TX people like it.
dashacom – :
Do you know Lorenzo Villoresi’s Teint de Neige? This is quite similar but not so well blended and soft. Instead, Iris is sweeter.
This isn’t expensive but it still is a good fragrance, very powdery (Teint de Neige is the most powdery scent I’ve ever smelt). I get lots of compliments when I wear Iris.
Lasting power is awesome! I think it lasts longer than Teint de Neige.
One of my favourite fragrances.