Description
Le Chevrefeuille is a floral fragrance with fresh green opening, based on the honey-like honeysuckle aroma. This fragrance was created by Annick Goutal‘s daughter Camille, together with the master perfumer of the house, Isabelle Doyen. The sunny and jovial fragrance reminds Camille of the happy days of her childhood and the brightness of early spring time in the south of France, where she used to spend the time with her family. She and her cousins were playing, imagining being the princesses crowned with fragrant honeysuckle wreaths. Tied to beautiful memories, Le Chevrefeuille turned to be so happy and carefree, just like a smile on a child’s face.
The honeysuckle scent is so balmy, sleek and honeyed, joined by the green grassy note of its leaves. The first spring-time flower of the mountains, narcissus, gives the composition a luscious floral aroma with a slightly green nuance, just like the jasmine and petit-grain. It was created in 2002.
Le Chevrefeuille was created by Isabelle Doyen and Camille Goutal.
ocl301Diobtetty – :
Nice light scent, exactly in the style of Annick Goutal. First it smells like freshly cut grass, then I start to sense the honeysuckle. It smells very, very natural, not even a hint of synthetic. It is a very simple scent, but also very pleasant, like a barefoot walk in the grass. The only downside is the longevity, 1-2 hours at its best
kondratyk – :
Warm, floral, sweet, lemon, bitter. Green in this reminds realistic slightly dry, warn and soft grass. Lemon reminds natural, refreshing lemon drink. It’s like warm, cozy summer meadow. When I close my eyes and smell this perfume it’s like sleeping next to real flowers. It is sweet but not overwhelming, it’s rather grass bitterness that some can find not for their liking. I think this perfume will fit best in late spring and summer, because it would be weird to smell so summery meadow in any other time. Especially it would be comforting and cheerful in gray rainy spring or summer day. Lovely and feminine. I think this could perfectly fit any age. This perfume “color” is yellow. It little bit reminds me mimosa. After about hour it reminds me drinking soft, sweet tea with lemon in garden with cut grass.
юляша1982 – :
I’d forgotten how much I love honeysuckle until I was in a garden that had an abundance of it—vines climbing thickly up an arched wall and clambering over a trellis tunnel, nearly every inch covered in fragrant white and yellow blossoms. The scent was intoxicating, and I fell in love with honeysuckle all over again. I was determined to capture that crisp, fresh, summery wildness in a bottle.
For me, Annick Goutal’s Le Chevrefeuille did just that. To my nose, this opens with the perfect blend of dew-kissed honeysuckle and green vine; in drydown, the lemon becomes more prominent but still not overpowering. There isn’t much evolution in the scent on my skin, but IMO it’s quite lovely in its simple profusion of honeysuckle blossoms and green vine.
This is a delightful fragrance for a summer day (but I know my OCD will freak out if I try to wear this “out of season”).
Tryceraton – :
the really beautiful honeysuckle is just fleeting, green note or tea-like smell lasts and mellows into untouched virgin like ladyish smell.
случайный – :
This is a scent that invokes good memories, the romantic, the childhood, the relaxing time in a summer sun shower…
andrei1902 – :
Honeysuckle before its nectar is ready to sip, when the flowers are still veined green. Before they unwrap themselves and let their tongues loll. Nascent.
As a child (and still), I liked to pluck blossoms off the vine, gently pinch the bottom, draw out the central pistil, and suck on the single drop of sweet ambrosia hanging from it. I knew the honeysuckle was “ready” when it had more of a heavy, flagrant scent, similar in quality to jasmine or orange blossom. Finding ripe honeysuckle felt like finding buried treasure.
That flush moment is what I was hoping this perfume would evoke, and it doesn’t. But I do like this more restrained scent. I too pick up on lemon, tomato leaf, maybe boxwood or ivy? After half an hour the lemon and leaves are coming to the fore.
In Le Chèvrefeuille I perceive the tender hand of the gardener. Cultivated, not a wild profusion of vine.
grohman – :
Vibrant, green, fresh like a spring breeze. Tinged with cool tones but with promise of sun and warmth. This has a sharpness from the lemon and petitgrain that smells almost like a green tea accord. It also has a slight soapy feel. One of my favourites for spring, refreshing, fresh and light. Not too sweet or too heavy, just right.
rustam1973 – :
How bizarre. I must have crazy chemistry, because on me this smells exactly like freshly-snapped string beans and green apple slices. Oddly I think I might like it, because it smells exactly like summer where I grew up.
We grew a lot of our food, and I spent many hours of my childhood sitting cross-legged in the shade of our big apple tree snapping the green beans we had just picked from the garden. The entire back fence was covered in honeysuckle, and we used to sneak and pick a few blossoms to slurp on. (Honeysuckle was forbidden because my mother had a phobia of bees and was terrified that we would suck down a wasp with the nectar.)
The honeysuckle is in the background for me, just like it was in our garden. I know there are no green beans or apples in the notes, but they are here on my skin, transporting me back to the days of bare feet on cool clover. When I breathe in I can feel the grass and the breeze, and hear the plink-plink of beans falling into the tin pan as I furiously snap away, racing to finish first. I can taste the occasional bite of not-quite-ripe green apples pulled from low-hanging branches overhead, and drops of forbidden nectar sipped from honeysuckle blooms.
This is so odd for a perfume, but so relevant to my personal experience, that I might be adding it to my full bottle niche wishlist.
pranik92 – :
Honeysuckle? Honeysuckle?
I kept waiting for this to be more than greenery and lemons, but it never came. TBH, I’d say the dry-down of Lush’s Lust, a predominantly Jasmine scent, has more honeysuckle than this does. A bit of Narcissus, yes, but the closest to honeysuckle is a soapiness in the final drydown.
BALY5 – :
Green fresh fine and clean honeysuckle. Really nice for summer but not only. I wear it just as well in autumn and spring
Mecwy815elipseskism – :
A fresh green honeysuckle composition, which Goutal has chosen to accent with citrus. I know there’s no honeysuckle absolute, and I like my honeysuckle indolic and heavy (the flowers are really intoxicating), but I understand it would be less wearable that way, like certain jasmines. So this is feminine, refined, and good quality as with all Goutal scents. Very refreshing, to wear with a pretty dress for a summer lunch, kind of thing 🙂
efimka – :
I just love it, love love loce it… it’s so fresh, feminine, innocent & romantic… It is a white floral soap-clean scent that i find great for summer days… The only problem is that it doesn’t last long at all. Half an hour max… Too bad because i really love it but I use it as a body spray
msusa – :
One of my very first perfumes.
On my skin it’s a green white floral scent, a little bit sour but very clean, no sweet, no musky, no woody, just as simple as I expected.
It doesn’t last long on my skin, but the longevity is pretty if I sprayed it on my cloth.
trubcobre – :
Tania Sanchez said this smells like tom yum soup without the fish, and in all honesty that sounds pretty good to me, but I don’t know where she got that idea! This is a straightforward, sweet, delicate honeysuckle. It’s very realistic. In typical Goutal-feminine style, unfortunately, longevity is abysmal. You’ll be wondering where it went within minutes. It’s lovely, but too short-lived.
seviagraua – :
I received the perfume today and I really really love it! I’ve been spraying it on my skin all day long, I just can’t get enough of it!
I first received a sample from a friend some years ago and I was and I am still surprised to identify all the honeysuckle plant in this perfume: the flowers, the leaves, the freshness of the morning dew on the flowers. I believe it is indeed a masterpiece and I believe that a masterpiece doesn’t need to be a “strong scent”.
A particular thing I like about this perfume is that reminds me of the linden trees I walk by at the end of spring, that dreamy smell always fascinates me. Le Chevrefeuille has this nectary feel about it that I also find comforting, like a hug.
I think the word “dreamy” would well describe this fragrance. The only downside, I think, would be the lasting power (natural scents don’t last very long?), still the scent is too beautiful for such a thing to become a reason not to buy it.
Miha260686 – :
The best honeysuckle I’ve ever “met”
NikolayFlaT – :
When i was a teenager I loved trolling the fragrance counter of Saks, where I first discovered Le Chevrefeuille. I instantly fell hard for its delicate honeysuckle character. Because it would have been a considerable expense for me, I never owned it until just this year, nearly two decades on, and I’m so happy I finally bought it. I wear this when I want to feel like I’m walking through a garden on a summer evening.
bu_gai – :
Smells just like honeysuckle to me. Very sweet and light.
dima163-77 – :
One of the best summer scents ever. This is a very realistic honeysuckle supported with citrus and green leaf notes. This one conjures up images of walking barefoot across a dew soaked lawn on an early summer morning when the air is still cool. But like a summer morning it disappears all too soon. If you want a fragrance to help you relive childhood this would be perfect. I credit Le Chevrefeuille for making me research honeysuckle and subsequently learning how to pull out the stems and eat that drop of sweet nectar contained within the blossom. Annick Goutal might be a pricey niche line of perfume but there is nothing pretentious about the scent of Le Chevrefeuille. If sunrise had a scent it would be this one.
Don666999 – :
Very pretty summertime fragrance. Honeysuckle and a little citrus. Gentle like a soft summer breeze. With honeysuckle, I have to be patient to pick up its scent. At certain times of the day, I can’t smell anything. The blossom needs to be just at the right stage and there need to be multiple flowers open, before I get anything. Le Chevrefeuille is rather like that as well. Very, very subtle.
chervonec – :
So a month after my last review on this fragrance and I received it as a gift! Wearing it now. As I wrote in my previous review, pretty fragrance, but just no honeysuckle yet. Giving it another go.
andrej2994 – :
After doing a search on the best honeysuckle fragrance, and reading several posts and reviews saying this was THE honeysuckle fragrance, I decided to give it a try. Been wearing it a few hours now and I am still anticipating honeysuckles big reveal. I was so looking forward to the honeysuckle fragrance of my youth, yet I experienced an initial overpowering scent of lemon sherbert, then it became bitter, and the dry down was sweet/fruity/powdery. While this is a pleasant, pretty scent, I get no honeysuckle on my skin. Disappointing, but glad I only sprung for a sample vial, and did not she’ll out big bucks for a bottle.
9055987 – :
I have a sample of this – it is a lovely fragrance but it is very much like the vintage Yves Rocher Chevrefeuille that I have. The AG is a little greener, but like many of their fragrances it has almost no longevity. Will need to make up my mind soon, before it gets any harder to find!
vovin – :
Annick Goutal Le Chevrefeuille is such a delicate rendition of honeysuckle. Its nectarous sweetness is veiled by crisp and green leaves, while lemon adds sparkles. The greenness and tartness are enough to give out a refreshing feeling, but the fragrance never becomes overly sharp. Interestingly, the drydown on me is more like jasmine tea,
The sillage is soft and the longevity is around 5 to 6 hours. Although I’m not particularly enamoured of honeysuckle, the natural and fragile beauty of Le Chevrefeuille makes the wearing experience an utter delight. A simplistic green floral and citrus, very wearable, yet far from being boring. I think it’d make a lovely everyday fragrance during warmer seasons.
toxi – :
This smells chilled honeyed lemon iced tea mixed with dewy honeysuckle on my skin. I spent THE LONGEST time, literally have sampled this on my skin over a dozen times, trying to identify what the fruity component smelled like with my chemistry, and just today it occurred to me what it reminded me of: honeyed lemon iced tea. (this was helped along by the fact that I finished off a Bath and Body Works Lemon Iced Tea candle [London Calling] quite recently.
So a very pretty scent, like sitting in a field of flowers drinking some a tall glass of chilled tea. Even though it is pretty, I personally am not going to purchase a bottle since I smelling like lemon tea isn’t really my thing. But I do appreciate how pretty it is.
The staying power is abysmal. 2 hours maximum on my skin, no matter how much I apply.
silver77 – :
I see a lot of good reviews here, but this perfume on my skin is a dead ringer for Lemon Pledge.
FDService – :
Green grass & honeysuckle aroma. It associates with a meadow covered in sweet intoxicating wild flowers. There is also some fruitiness to it – a little lemon and perhaps a pear? Lovely for spring or summer. It’s pure, happy, sunny, sweet & innocent.
cm punk – :
Love the scent but lasts only 30 minutes. One hour later there is absolutely no scent. At least byredo palermo and byredo inflorescense have SOME hint of base note left over after 8 hours, but this lasts 30 minutes and nothing left
a-Line – :
I don’t like citrus-based perfumes in general, because they turn sour and sharp on my skin. But Le Chevrefeuille is the exception. In this bright, cheerful fragrance the citrusy notes balance out nicely the sweetness of honeysuckle. Perfect scent for summer heat – fresh, feminine, and carefree.
dleposter – :
Fresh, crisp, natural, and linear.
This is not a complicated scent. It does not have multiple layers to surprise your senses. What it has is an authentic experience in a garden of fragrant honeysuckles. Close your eyes. You are in a morning garden with dewy honeysuckles. You can feel the cool morning breeze, the delicate honeysuckle petals, and the damp green leaves. You walk with bare feet. Your white morning gown gently rubs the flowers and brings back the beautiful scent to your room…
A master piece of simplicity.
qtb961Unlogrere – :
annick goutal fragrances are, on the whole, storybook charming. lace-trimmed dresses stained by grass, running barefoot through the fields, that kind of thing, and i mean it in the best way possible. le chevrefeuille is possibly the best of the line. the opening notes of le chevrefeuille are green and hesperidic, and then the fragrance moves on to an armful of honeysuckle. it’s a simple, light fragrance, but it never fails to lift my mood.
the staying power is frankly abominable, although this may be due to the use of a high proportion of naturals. annick goutal is known for spending a large quantity on raw materials.
DAROK – :
Bliss in a bottle! Wearing this, I feel butterfly wings flap against my skin and dewy flowers warmed by the sun. Beautiful, Feminine and natural, nothing sharp or chemical. I just want to smell my wrists for hours!
sueplelastee – :
Sweet and green, with a little honeyed touch, very fresh and feminine. Reminds me of spring, like if i was in a garden, surrounded by flowers and trees. Always makes me feel beautiful and happy when i wear it 🙂
bombara – :
This is so so lovely on my skin
I was afraid it would be to green or to Sharp, but this is not the case at all With this one .
It is a warm ,sunny ,charming scent. The Narcissus i warm and Natural With a slight slight touch of pepperynes just a tiny bit. the Chevrefeuille is so jummy here not Sharp not to green ,just warm and sunny like the wiff you get in the garden when you walk by this bushes just the right time in the day.
There is a light touch of lemon refreshing and jummy, but its all so well blended that i would say this is a true Chevrefeuille scent.. at least the kinds we have up North in Scandinavia
I just love this . The Pictures this awakes in my mind is a fairy flying around in a garden just after the rain. the sun is warming up the garden and makes it all smells so refreshing and Charming. A real Gem
gij665speagoessenda – :
I am so taken with Annick Goutal fragrances at the moment. Why I am just now getting around to testing them when they are so up my alley, I can’t begin to explain. It’s a shame. It’s also a shame that the large bottles are quite pricey because I am pining for quite a few of them. BTW-I can’t help picturing A. Goutal as this otherworldly fairy or something, smiling, as she brews up blends with nothing less than…magic. The ones I have tried so far are so ethereal, light, glowing, and perfect compared to all other fragrances to my nose. She had some secret–fairy dust or something…
Le Chevrefuille is the bees KNEES. For my own tastes, I don’t think it gets better than this. I actually get butterflies in my stomach when catch the first whiff of this. I am immediately transported from wherever I am, to the late 80’s, As a little girl standing right next to the monster honeysuckle bush growing along the fence in my backyard, with a big, yellow blossom in my fingers, freshly pinched and pulled apart, with a large, glistening drop of sweet nectar balancing where I pinched, waiting to land on my tongue. I would spend hours of my childhood out there, elbowing the bees away, in competition, taking in countless drops of that delicious nectar, this exact fragrance filling the air.
Le Chevrefuille is THAT time and place for me, nothing more, nothing less. Just beautiful, and I want to smell like this every day.
ETA: Lasting power if sprayed onto the back of my neck/into my hair is hours! Also- thought this had long disappeared on my arms… went out into the TX humidity one evening, and suddenly this magical smell was radiating off of me as if I had just sprayed! My friends noticed as well, and all three vowed that this would be their next fragrant purchase.:) this creation makes me swoon….
Никита Рослов – :
Absolutely LOVE this fragrance, and agree with most of the positive reviews. Excellent honeysuckly, natural, fresh, wonderful!
Then… it’s gone. After an hour or so, I bury my nose into my skin trying to catch a bit of this marvelous fragrance but nothing is there.
I’m so sad that the fragrance evaporates so completely within such a short time, I end up frustrated and wanting.
hds028Unlogrere – :
To invest on a fragrance, despite of its brand, many of us would consider to own a scent with a great silage, and superb lasting power. Yet, many fail to mull on the scent itself, therefore making them lamenting on its short living.
Le Chevrefeuille is indeed a good fragrance, (despite its poor longevity) it is dewy green, fresh and screams ‘spring’. The honeysuckle is bright, the smell is so real, and I love the vibrant green scent so much! The citrus adds to its vibrancy and doesn’t smell artificial at all. I am more than grateful to own this fragrance.
vladtimkov – :
Disappointing. Honeysuckle is one of my favorite scents in nature and this does not resemble it much at all.
Like nearly all Annick Goutal florals, it follows the usual Goutal formula of a lovely natural flower being drowned by way too much citrus. The citrus notes detract from the delicate, airy sweetness of the honeysuckle. A shame.
Pedoalmoniedo – :
I have sampled Chevrefeuille a few times on my skin and found it surprisingly enchanting. I have had problems in the past with AG perfumes starting off with a discordant sharp note of anise or lemon that ruins the entire scent for me. BUT I did not have that problem with Chevrefeuille. Its topnotes are green, sweet and soft. This is the most realistic honeysuckle I have ever smelled. It is a lovely beautiful scent.
It is interesting that many others found it too sour or too green. I found this scent to be very sweet in the toponotes and was glad when the green and lemon came in to balance. My only disappointment was that the lemon and petitgrain seemed to dominate in the drydown, but not in an unpleasant way. They are still balanced by the jasmine and narcissus that have been steadily wafting their scent during the middle notes and drydown. I would wear this scent again and after trying my sample again a couple more times I broke down and bought a bottle. It’s worth every penny. It brought me such beautiful memories of childhood and is such a soft, lovely scent.
As others have said, there is no sillage at all to speak of with this and the longevity is weak, maybe 3 hours and that is pushing it. But I will happily re-apply this during a warm summer’s day. This is a joyful beautiful scent.
82mitka – :
This one is spring in a bottle. It’s feel like going to the park in a fresh spring morning, feeling the gentle wind that brings the wonderful smell of the tree in flower and some freshness of citrus. It is really very pleasant fragrance!
takud – :
Annick Goutal nearly always produces perfumes which I’d be happy to wear again and again. The compositions are sometimes simple, but the quality is dependable, and the soliflores usually offer a slight twist on the named flower. LE CHEVREFEUILLE is a perfect example.
This perfume smells initially to me like a distant cousin to PETITE CHERIE–I catch just the tiniest waft of fruitiness, which could be pear, right at the beginning. Then it disappears forever, and the honeysuckle emerges, but it is rather green, and I find jasmine competing effectively for the center stage. At one point during my first wearing, I started to feel as though LE CHEVREFEUILLE was more of a juvenile perfume–something that Barbie would wear. From there, I thought naturally of Rochas POUPEE and how sad that the plastic of that perfume ruins it for me.
But there is no plastic in Annick Goutal–anywhere, as far as I have sniffed–and LE CHEVREFEUILLE ends up retreating a bit from Barbie territory just enough to make me realize that this greenish honeysuckle-jasmine is a solid soliflore.
I do believe that GRAND AMOUR is a better floral green from this house, but LE CHEVREFEUILLE would be nice to have around to wear now and then, and I do find it to be a better jasmine perfume than LE JASMIN, because it has very different, much less woody and far more likeable base.
LEXUSNARX8 – :
It smells like fresh grass, lemon and honey suckle. It feels like ” a fresh new start “. Perfect fit for spring when everything is fresh. It’s a perfect fragrance for spring but I don’t think that it would fit for me in summer. So for me, it’s a one-season fragrance. It smells very good and very fresh. But, if I’m only going to wear it one season per year.. it’s not worth it.
OpittigHirm – :
green and linear, probably one of the best Annick Goutals i’ve come across
sanek.krg – :
This is an extremely green, zesty interpretation of honeysuckle. For that reason I am disappointed, as I was hoping for a sweeter honeysuckle. Either way I think it’s a beautiful perfume, perhaps the only sour perfume I would actually wear, as I am hyper-sensitive to sour scents. This mostly smells like crushed green leaves from a lemon tree combined with lip-puckering lemon juice and a bit of honeysuckle. It is lovely for spring or summer. I am wearing it on a very hot summer day, and I am enjoying it despite the fact that it is not what I hoped for. Like most Annick Goutal citrus perfumes, this one doesnt’t last long or project well, but it is so delightful that if you love the scent, I say buy a bottle!
Егор1351 – :
If you could bottle a spring day, this would be it. Honeysuckle and lemons shine in the opening. Tangy and sparkly. As it dries down, the tanginess fades and everything becomes softer. If I were a spring bride, this is what I’d wear while walking down the aisle. A lovely and unique scent that lacks longevity but not beauty.
Дориан Блэк – :
I tested this along with E D Camille and Charlotte in the hopes of finding a good late spring/summer scent. Of the 3 this is my favorite. It is citrusy and sour in a way that I have trouble describing, an aromatic dry green fragrance. It strikes me as a happy scent and put a spring in my step while I was wearing it. I wish it lasted a bit longer on me and I feel like I can do better in regards to a daytime hot weather scent so I will keep searching but may end up coming back to this one.
guriouttoky – :
I received a sample of this perfume in the mail today. It really is an odd perfume!
I only smell a few white flowers and some green notes. I can’t smell the citrus at all. This perfume is way too boring for me.
It’s very, very simple. And if you like simple white floral perfumes, this would probably be perfect for you! It’s a scent I wouldn’t mind smelling on others, but for me I like perfumes that are a tad more complex.
EDIT: Oh, there’s something I’d like to add. This perfume to me smells a lot like soap bubbles! I was really struck with nostalgia when I sniffed this for the first time.
FarrellLuciano – :
A green meadow of honeysuckle, with a few jasmine bunches scattered throughout, and somehow it never becomes cloying… walking through this meadow barefoot, while you feel your light dress flutter lightly against you as the breeze passes by… the happiest sunshine you have ever felt on your skin as you pluck off a leaf to enjoy its greenness… right here in this meadow…
And then it’s gone after 2 hours.
I do not mind at all—its beauty completely compensates for its lack of longevity.
Naley-naley – :
Finally, an AG scent that really resonates with me!
Like scentedrat, I pick up lots of citrus and green notes, no honeysuckle- but the scent is enchanting- the closest thing to the original green Clairol Herbalessence shampoo of the 70s!
This soft, refreshing scent would be just fantastic for hot, sultry summer days- but I like it now, too-
One thing that I’ve learned with AG- if I want to smell their scents for more than an hour, I have to shoot the wad and just use the entire 1 ml decant- otherwise, there’s no point…
natasay – :
Hmmm, all I get from this is citrus and some green. Definitely bright and sparkling, and too sharp for me. Oddly enough, I don’t smell honeysuckle at all. The honeysuckle in my garden is soft and very sweet. This is nothing like that at all. I get the furniture polish note, too. Based on all the lovely reviews, I was hoping to finally find a honeysuckle scent to love, but this one isn’t going to give it to me.
energetikas – :
Le Chevrefuille is such an optimistic country-y green scent makes me think of sunny spring. It starts with a bit freshly-cut grass nuance (I’ve never smelt real honeysuckle, so I guess it must be the honeysuckle accord). Then a discreet floral hint comes, somewhat really quite powdery-ish, like then one I find in Chanel No.19, but much less edgy or typical Chanel-y.
Later on, it stays quite linear, just a bit tamed and less sharp. To me, I can’t really smell much floral scent beside a faint narcissus hint, and it more smells of tomato leaves plus some fresh-cut stems.
The dry down is like really tamed narcissus in the air. It makes me think of the countryside and sunny afternoons when there’s a lot of green lush vegetation and people are chilled.
КайлHJVF – :
I do like this one and very glad to have it on my table.
At the start, Honeysuckle leads out for a short while ahead of Petit Grain with Lemon in third place. Narcissus and Jasmine? Just not there for me. After a stretch, Petit Grain and Lemon catch up to and take over Honeysuckle for the lead! And at the finish, it is a very dominant Petit Grain with Lemon close behind. Honeysuckle is a faint third. I.e.,sillage mostly of Petit Grain. On me, a dry, clean scent; astringent with flowers. Expensive and the bottle is very pretty.
There are some perfumes to wear for home and family. For me, this is one of those 🙂
An awesome summer fragrance!
ilchuk97 – :
It’s early June in Pennsylvania and the air is filled with the into*icating sweetness of honeysuckle. This has inspired me to run home and sweep out my bottle of Le Chevrefeuille.
Having the natural scent in recent memory, it’s easy to determine how this fragrance measures up to the real deal. Le Chevrefeuille is lovely and fresh, but not into*icating such as the woods are today. There is a strong tea-like note that accompanies and tempers the floral notes. After a while the tea recedes and the honeysuckle and jasmine join in a swirling pas de deu* for a few breathless moments until they e*it stage left, leaving only a faint remnant of tea behind.
This is the parfumer’s fantasy of honeysuckle, not an appro*imation of the real flower. Lovely though it is, a stroll in the park it is not.
(*sorry about the key not working…)
vova.marusov – :
Mmmmm!!
On me? Goes on GREEN at first: like crushed leaves or grass. This is the predominate note for a few minutes, until LEMON appears. Wait just a few more minutes and…
…there it is! The HONEYSUCKLE! Very delicate; not too sweet. I don’t notice the jasmine or narcissus, but it could be because I haven’t trained my nose to see past the honeysuckle.
I wish the green would linger a while longer. Still, it’s a lovely scent; one I could see myself owning.
enu283speagoessenda – :
ahhhh, I found a perfume I can say that I really LOVE!!
It is oh-so fresh and sparkling, reminds me of childhood innocence, fields of wildflowers, and cosy warm hugs from mums and Aunties in the early 1970’s….yep it takes me back. Purity at it’s best. If you don’t mind a short lived pleasure (lasts about 1 hour on my skin) then….DO Try it!
s4kwart – :
This is IMHO the best feminine summer scent. It is more fresh than green to me. Where a lot of flowers can be sweet and cloying,this is just that faint whiff of honeysuckle after a rain, A joy to wear and never too much.
деллл – :
Very simple and very lovely. Fantastic green flowers. The petit grain and honeysuckle combo, which dominates here, is just simply adorable. It’s very feminine, crisp and refreshing. The honeysuckle by itself is very sweet, but the petit graind holds it back a little bit. The jasmin makes the fragrance very warm, so I think it should be suited for those spring days where there’s sun, but the air is still a little bit cold.
Wonderful and romantic.
pavl100 – :
Just stunning!I want to bathe in it!
hyh145elipseskism – :
This is such an honest fragrance. It is all about the entire honeysuckle experience, including the vines upon which it grows.
Like a lot of AG fragrances, the ‘green’ here is leafy, brusque and realistic courtesy of the petit grain. Unlike Eau de Camille though, the honeysuckle and narcissus bring a moderate floral sweetness to the greenery. Upon drydown, the petit grain shines its citrus light though the foliage.
Also similarly to a lot of other Goutals this has a soft, warm aura which floats up to greet your nose as you wander here and there.
I don’t really have an appetite for the scent of leaves so Le Chevrefeuille won’t be blazing a path to my permanent perfume collection but I do admire its whole-of-plant philosophy.
481536 – :
It is feminine, fresh, airy, but toooooo green. Does not work on me at all. Pitty.
alex_new_2030 – :
This is Annick Goutal doing what it does best- a sweet, airy, feminine floral with fresh green undertones which manage to smell natural. If you like AG perfumes you should like this..simple as that
FDSservi – :
I can not get enough of the narcissus in this one. I feel like Laura Ingels running down the hillside with wild flowers in my hair. It smells natural and clean, just the way you’d want to smell from time to time. It’s a must in a perfumista’s collection because there is nothing that can really compare.
mihanoidos – :
Le Chevrefeuille is an extremely green scent, almost bitter but lovely all the same.
For those who aren’t usually wearers of green fragrances, this may take a while to get acquainted with. Le Chevrefeuille is actually quite delicate and fresh. The honeysuckle, jasmine and narcissus gives this scent an unusual femininity while the petit grain creates an interesting grassy and herbaceous finish.
The lemon is quite dominant alongside the honeysuckle, however this isn’t sour citruses, it’s more fresh and energizing, with a definite ‘zing’.
Oddly enough this fragrance is not sweet. It’s rich and quite brash. I disagree with those reviewers that call this a simplistic scent, I think there’s a lot going on which makes it very complex for me.
All in all this is a very luscious and happy fragrance which would wear wonderfully in Spring and Summer. The lasting strength is so-so in my opinion, not terrible but certainly not as lasting as other Annick Goutal’s that I’ve tried. If it’s possible to get Le Chevrefeuille in eau de parfum concentration then disregard the price tag because that would be your best option.
Nacfasa – :
One of my mostloved scents. Hope it will never be discontinued as it has been released as a limited edition in 2002.
I especially love the tender honeysuc