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nai09 – :
Heeley Paris – L’Amandière Extrait de Parfum
Almond trees heavy with blossoms and a few of its unripe fruits.
Very far from most almond based perfumes I’ve encountered, no sweet marzipan notes here. Linden and grassy notes round up this tender floral bouquet.
A beautiful spring day bottled.
fuz554InsuffBooni – :
Almond surprise! Didn’t go the way I expected AT ALL. Was exploring for a natural, greenish, non-marzipan take on almond, which this is, but only after a wild ride full of hairpin bends. Really difficult, almost hostile opening – a great burst of something almost plasticky-playdoh-aldehydey to my nose which was weird and not that welcome. (Linden blossom collision maybe? it’s a note I always struggle with.) For the first few minutes I thought “yuck, well, fine, I can just rule it out.” Yet 10 minutes later it had mellowed out completely and softened into a really subtle, almost botanical, creamy-woody light-green scent with just the hint of almondy, blossomy sweetness floating over the top. Yeah, hyacinth is in there, but don’t be too afraid of it, to me it seems to be mostly echoing and stretching the almond accord, rather than shouting its own name out loud. Definitely the smell of real, outdoor almond trees, not of a sickly almond dessert.
Sorry for the pun but: in my experience the perfect almond scent is a tough nut for perfumers to crack. Even pure natural almond (or bitter almond, or almond blossom) essences can hover on the edge of being unpleasant, or too-strong, or cloying, or reminding you too much of body creams – and most almond scents on me end up failing. This one doesn’t fail – it’s really really good – but it’s still not all the way to ‘true love, must have now’. But if you are looking for The One Almond Scent for you, and you’re nuts for this nut, you must try it.
Could be truly unisex and is definitely niche enough to banish any associations with gourmand-sugary almond scents of the past. Performance isn’t great on me, though, it really shrinks within a couple of hours, and it’s expensive stuff.
klassik – :
I don’t know the reason why I’ve been sent a sample, but here I go:
This is ultrafeminine.
It really smells like spring.
A bit of green, rose, pale rose, a hint of light blue.
This is how I’d like a girl to smell like and it looks like James Heeley shares the same opinion.
Beautiful, fresh, a happy girl on a blossoming spring sunny day.
I get the almond notes only at the beginning.
Bluebells rock!
mason15061987 – :
Amandiere is a linear scent – an innocent, green linden. The linden is supported by hyacinth, which smells a bit like baby powder here, just without the powdery “texture”. The almond is not the main focus. Instead, the almond presents as a natural aspect of the floral scent, like how datura flowers naturally have a slight almond note. I agree that this definitely isn’t a sugared marzipan scent. This scent would be a bit childish but would still have a place in my spring rotation, but unfortunately there’s a note that makes me sneeze every time I wear it! It’s a sharp aspect to the linden that reminds me of the scented trash bags that I hate. Overall, mild dislike.
IVV007 – :
شاهکاری بی بدیل
باغ گل من
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Scent & Qualiy: 10/10
Longevity: 9/10
Sillage: 10/10
Creativity & Uniqueness: 10/10
Affordability: 3/10
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Overall: 8.4/10 +1= 9.4/10
xxrobinxx – :
I don’t know exactly how almond trees smell like, but my intuition says that the opening of this perfume is reminiscent of their natural lush smell. As it dries down, I sense a strong fig scent which reminds me of Philosykos by Diptyque. Also the dry down (after the dominant fig accord), reminds me of Bvlgari Omnia Amethyst that I like.
* I had very high hopes for this fragrance. I expected to feel a very beautiful spring, but it does not smell like my imaginary spring at all.
dimondallas92 – :
I have sample i like it, it is green soft sweet and interesting
Thinking about whole bottle
Cat_girl88 – :
Woman and parasol by Albert Edelfelt 1886
AlisaSexieat – :
During a heatwave, I went to the store to try Menthe Fraîche, and walked out with a sample of L’Amandière instead. It’s advertised as a portrait of spring—but let me propose it as a summer chiller.
Wearing it is as refreshing and luxurious as eating peeled green grapes and slathering on cool, almond lotion. Like a green almond, it’s watery, jellied, with a hint of bitterness, and a tender fuzz. Very spa.
The only drawback is it doesn’t perform like an extrait. I’m in love, but…
enedybilaKeed – :
ALMOND SPRING DELIRIUM
I LOVE IT. It caught me in surprise, I feared something in the direction of the almond fragrance of Aqua die Parma. Fortunately it is not. It is very well balanced, with a very definite almond note. On paper I can smell the other notes, an my skin it becomes a lovely mixture I can’t distinguish anymore. Sweet in a very floral way. Reminds me of a Almondtree Field in Italy I have been to.
It is extremely powerful, though. That’s what makes me think of a delirium, it is the nicest possible suffocation. (And it already safed me in a situation where I had to sit some time next to someone not using deodorant. Some Amandiere and I couldn’t smell anything else anymore).
I like it a lot, but could easily be too much for many others.
mad4ik – :
This is a lovely linden blossom and almond fragrance. The almond was intense on the opening and for a minute made me think of cyanide but it quickly settled!! Yes, it is a true bright almond essence note and not a sugared almond. So fresh and uplifting. I think James achieved what he was after. It’s Spring in a bottle. Someone has broken off a branch of a blooming almond tree. You get the branches, new leaves and sweet fragrance of the blossom. Fresh but not harsh and with just enough sweetness from the rose.
I was wondering what to expect when I saw hyacinth listed. You can make it out but it is used with light hand.
Moderate silage and longevity.
JeyMo – :
In my search for the perfect almond fragrance, I ordered a sample of Heeley’s L’Amandiere. The reviews of this sounded very promising and I was looking forward to testing it.
The first spray is sharp, green and bitter, like chewed and spat out unripe nuts. Not so promising, and this sourness and bitterness lasted an hour. After that there was a very…VERY…brief hint of something floral, and then nothing at all.
I have not been lucky with Heeley’s beautiful perfumes. Iris de Nuit is horrible on me too. My skin clearly reacts badly to something in the fragrances. This is sadly another failure.
rlv077speagoessenda – :
7/10
jo-n-son – :
Burgeen、petal、spring breeze in a bottle.Perfect for spring use，especially chilly spring weather.
miku.61 – :
Writing this on Bonfire Night in England – having spent weeks sampling spiced woody, leathery-oudy, whisky-rozy, vanilla laced Winter perfumes!
I have a Spring childhood memory – in a Kentish garden, bordering orchards, jumping up to grab cobnuts, and peeling back the curly paper shell to nibble (grimacing) the tart nutty innards.
So, this is…… sappy, green milky, soapy, white violets and hyacinths.
Needs lively bright, blackbird morning Spring warmth to bring it into its own, I think. Not Fireworks Night!!
chegevara_76 – :
Back in stock at Heeley. This stuff is going to ruin me. While they were restocking, I looked around for other almondy scents and nothing came close – they all lacked the fresh, bright wow factor of the Heeley. I’ll wear it in any season. I don’t really know or care whether it’s original. It’s lovely and it’s in my bag forever.
hyligan777 – :
I love this, even though I’m not a fan of almondy marzipan tastes. I like to layer it with Cuir Pleine Fleur, but my killer maths skills tell me this will end badly, given the relative quantities and ruinous price. I’m also beginning to wonder if L’Amondiere is at risk? The 50ml bottle has been unavailable from Heeley’s own site for months and the description says he created it for his girlfriend. Not a bad omen, but a scary one. I really didn’t want to follow another fragrance over the edge of the cliff.
Cream – :
L’Amandiere is a cool, powdery, slightly stony blend of almond, heliotrope, lilac, hyacinth, and musk. Perhaps its closest cousin is Opardu, but at times it reminded me of En Passant, L’Eau d’Hiver, and even Bas de Soie.
This fragrance should be everything I love, but… it isn’t. There is something empty; hollow in the center of this scent, as though it needed either some unique edge to grab my attention, or the core of the scent needed more body and warmth.
Beautiful, but soulless, and rather outclassed.
Uolkoff – :
Let me note first: I have a thing for almonds. L’Instant Magic is one of my most precious possessions, I have a nice one of L’Erbolario and I keep on loving the sweet woody vanilla combination of Fiore di Dragone, Hypnotic Poison and Confetto.
Now – l’Amandière has walked a different path than the previous mentioned. L’Amandière has almonds complementing the florals and the florals complementing each other, making it into this rather specific “smell”. The smell I’d link to almond-soaps your aunt used to bring for you from the Provence. At first I wasn’t particularly moved, even if the receiving almond soaps makes me very happy… But L’Amandière has very much grown on me. I like the “wateriness”, the innocence, the lightness.
It even considered as another type of almond to add to my collection.
amarkpam – :
این عطر رو تست کردم . بعد از 4 روز با اینکه هر روز دستامو میشستم باز هم رایحه بسیار با طراوت این عطر میومد .
ماندگاری این عطر در مقابل همه عطرایی که تا حالا داشتم و تست کردم بیشتر بوده از جمله
pegasus – herod- spice bomb – tuscan leather و….
رایحه : 10:10
ماندگاری : 10:10
پخش بو : 10:10
Vier – :
L’Amandiere is my favourite among the Heeley Extraits. It opens with fresh flowers and green leaves, very green and clean. The scent is very natural and sheer; smells like spring and youth, simply beautiful. The powdery almond gets more apparent at the later stage. Projection is moderate, good longevity.
ginvin – :
Oh my god. This is the first perfume I have ever worn that I instantly wanted a full bottle. This is spring. Pure and simple. Gorgeous green sunny flowers with the nutty undercurrent of almond. Glorious. An absolute masterpiece. I see newborn lambs playing in a field. I see flowers blooming. Trees blossoming. I am in love. Thank you Mr Heeley for this masterpiece.
op07 – :
Second James Heeley perfume I try, second time I am transported to Cyprus, second time I fall head over heels in love. Oh you know now I am going to have to try more of this mans perfumes because the 2 I have tried (iris de nuit and this) are just beautiful.
L’Amandiere transports me once again to the mountains of Cyprus, the lower Troodos/upper Lemesos area. Standing in the garden behind the house where an almond tree spills its bounty onto the dry grass, rich, fresh, creamy almonds, heady green and floral notes, oh, you know I don’t even want to try and analyse it too much! I simply find this beautiful. So smooth, heady, lush, intoxicating…
These are green almonds, not roasted or ground or sugared or baked or cooked or dried..no these are fresh from the tree, creamy and milky and good.
The fragrance itself is very powerful I found, huge room filling stuff, but not in a bad way at all, but it moves and swirls around and slowly fills the space with this luscious aroma. It lasts well, which it should, as an extrait.
I wonder if this would layer with iris de nuit to give me the ultimate Cyprus experience? Hell, I guess even buying both bottles is cheaper than the flights alone, right?!
I love it.
ajf630speagoessenda – :
on first sniff it felt like there was fig leaf in this, but it seems i’m wrong. it’s quite green…complex, but not for me…
ctpatoctat – :
I smell spring sheets. That Lily-of-the-valley type of spring (only it’s not in the notes, so it’s likely the hyacinth). L’Amandiere smells of bed linens that have been sprayed to smell of spring, when everyone is sick of winter and wishes spring would arrive already. It clears your nasal passages.
This is a polite lady who wears flats and twin sweater sets.
emanuel – :
Nice for those days you want to smell like an almond. Like around now: Christmas and snow. It is a perfect time to smell like marzipan. Lasts all day. I don’t smell lilacs or any flowers, just almonds all the way.
dikason83 – :
When first I used the tester of Heeley L’Amandiere, I was convinced I had picked up a vial of one of my favourites, Frederick Malle Editions, En Passant.
Despite the notes being entirely different, on first application the initial blast is very, very similar. Not sure why that should be, as L’Amandiere hits the top notes of almond and linden right over the heads of the audience and out of the arena. Yet …. it still hangs around whispering “en passant, en passant”.
As it mellows, it begins to shed it’s coats little by little, displaying beautiful diaphanous, windblown skirts of sheer hyacinth (bluebell woods), with plenty of crisp, watery green linden and a “barely there until you look for it” shy wild violet.
Throughout it all, I am still looking around for the ghostly scent of lilac which keeps drifting across the air in front of me. Perhaps I am hallucinating on the tremulous mirage of spring warmth which this perfume conjures. It is a garden after a shower of rain perfume, a white muslin dress trailing in pollen…. A drift of wishful thinking?
This frag smells exactly like a narrow lane I walked along in Latour Bas Elne in May, where it rained for a week, solid sheets of rain which filled the storm drains day after day. The scent which was raised from the hedgerows and fields was intense and intoxicating, and L’Amandiere is that lane in a bottle. I am in love.
Whatever it is, a bottle of this has gone straight to the top of my wish list.
Postscript: November 2013. I only have to sniff the cap of this bottle and I am immediately transported back to a beautiful warm day in May. The pollen is flying, the green buds have broken out of their sticky coccoons and new Horse Chestnut leaves hang limp and green like newly emerged butterflies drying their wings in the sun. I can hear the engine of the local bus taking me to the antiques market, I can see the smiles and feel the relief as passengers let the tension out of their shoulders which has accumulated throughout the cold winter. Men, young and old, are casting surreptitious admiring glances at young women bearing white shoulders for the first time in months. Sunshine, warmth, hope. Oh James Heeley, you are an artist!
velvel – :
This is absolute LOVE!!!!!!
Plenty of lindens, violets and almonds- one of the best scents outthere!
Beautiful scent for sunny days:) Blooming spring flowers and summer in heart.
I heard once that we choose fragrances that remind us of our childhood.
Well, this is the scent of my childhood back in Europe where linden trees and violets were and still are plentiful. Very likely why I find it appealing.
Now gotta go get it asap! 🙂
neneteIcesy – :
Trying this again today from sample! It’s really fresh, like spring day sunshine, sweet & very fresh! notes that stand out are the Linden, Almond & Hyacinth, almost aquatic feel to it due to the hyacinth. Initially it reminded me of “L’Occitane Amande” which I quite like. There is a sultry feel to this, works beautifully as a skin scent too, I could see this being stunning in summer. I really do like this!
grigorich63nsk – :
I was hoping this third extrait would be the saving grace of the trio. … Unfortunately that was not to be. :o( … As “alfarom” below has already so perfectly stated – just so unfortunately derivative. And therefore so totally unnecessary.
Yes all three are certainly well enough constructed, but just so uninspired and such a missed opportunity for some exciting extraits. – What a pity !
ddemiann – :
Part Cuir Pleine Fleur (without the leather), part The Unicorn Spell, part Domenico Caraceni 1913. A violet / rose / almond concoction with green undertones. Another one??? My problem with the new Heeley’s Extrait De Parfums is that they’re definitely well crafted but boringly derivative. They really add nothing on the table.
Rating: 6/10