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autocruizer – :
L’Effleur starts big and opulent. The opening had me excited because big florals are my thing, but then the dry down turned sour on my skin. Maybe it’s me, most Coty frags – except for vintage Emeraude – become thin and sour.
It’s a pity really. If L’Effleur had stayed a big floral it would be a new favorite. Now it’s just another Coty I can’t wear.
androidmark – :
I had to revisit this—one I remember from my childhood. I remember the pretty little flowery bottles that rode on the coattails of the early nineties romantic revival. Puffy shirt couture. I dug it back in the day.
First spray smelled off. I panicked a bit. But then—Heliotrope!—in its full “cherry pie plant” glory. Also, lily of the valley, lilac, rose and lavender. Prim, pretty youthful florals. Is there cinnamon? Or is that the heliotrope or a product of this bottle’s age?
It has more strength and persistence than I expected, as well. I’m going to agree with my fellow reviewers and say that Coty should bring this back. I would adore a fresh bottle of L’effleur, scented lotion, and pretty flower shaped soaps.
FusAppets – :
My first love! I was 10 or so, early 90s. So fancy…
axvel666 – :
Lily and oakmoss; this is a sweet floral but with a sharpness that is not typical of white florals and not a headache inducer; deep and intriguing
11087272 – :
This is one of my favorites. A lovely soft floral. That has its’ origins from Victorian times.
Femme and frilly. Love this. Lasts on me as well.
A little difficult to find. I think they should resell
this one again. Would probably do very well and gain many new fans.
da.st – :
Guys, this is one of those rare Fragrantican moments: I just found the very first perfume I received as a present and the first I ever wore! I remember being quite small, 5 or 6, and having the feeling that I had just received the most luxurious item ever…It came in a heart shape box with a flower pattern all over it and the perfume was sitting in a dark red velvet interior…It’s amazing that I still remember its smell…At the time it seemed to me the smell of everything one should aspire to in terms of feminine beauty…Now, as a woman, I know this wouldn’t be my choice of perfume, but I have to give it credit: the experience of this perfume might have led to my enduring passion for fragrance. Such small joys, you guys…
komok – :
To me this perfume opens with a 4711 Classic olde cologne style, fresh, spicy, familiar. Then 4711 goes to her wardrobe and selects a dusty fusia raw silk gown. Deepest pink rubies and diamonds later, the ivory silk long gloves go on. This was the pefume Karin Blixen wore in Out of Africa as she accepted the drink at the men´s only club.
vsv1980 – :
Ha, I also thought this was relatively new when I wore it in junior high and my mom bought it at an outlet. The floral label was very Edwardian. It’s so interesting that women wore this back then and up until it was discontinued in the late 90’s or earlier 00’s. I just cannot picture an Edwardian lady wearing this!
alex1209 – :
l’Effleur by Coty is absolutely glorious. I love it so much. I have a bottle that was bequeathed to me by my grandmother! It’s so gorgeous. I sniff the bottle, and put some on every now and then, and it’s the most divine, sweet floral there ever was. Beautiful, fresh, youthful, elegant elegant elegant! It’s a fresh spring day, in the meadow, with the most glorious sweet and natural green smells wafting all around, with a soft gentle sun giving that beautiful powdery feel that the perfume has; and it makes me feel like dancing for joy. It’s sophisticated, elegant and young. Young in spirit. It’s just wonderful. Fresh delicate flowers, clean, clear, crisp white flowers, with a smooth creamy heliotrope, and gloriously powdery, with a lovely sweet woodsy dry down. Sweet and innocent and very alluring. I adore it.
And the best thing is, it reminds me of my beloved Granny.
ivann – :
I haven’t smelled this in years, but it was my goto scent during my goth days spent hanging out in cemeteries making rubbing of old gravestones, contemplating Victorian life.
Green and floral, it was timeless and transcendent, innocent and clean.
I wore this on occasion through high school, but lost it in a move. Shame to see it discontinued, though, every little girl should be able to wear a perfume her grandmother’s mother wore as a girl, I think.
dzutsu – :
L’Effleur!
What a charming, touchingly beautiful floral fragrance that casts a spell over anyone who wears her. I agree with other reviewers who’ve compared her to Nina Ricci’s L’Air du Temps but closer (in time) to Houbigant’s Quelques Fleurs. The old orignal bottle is long gone and one has to make the best of it by wearing the 1980’s reissues. They come in a very attractive packaging & bottle, with an air of Victorian refinement & middle-class domesticity. This is a fragrance for Eliza Doolittle from My Fair Lady. She smells of a young, very young lady; some have even said that it’s appropriate for children. A sweet white floral & lilac scent wafts out of this adorable bottle.
L’Effleur opens with bergamot orange neroli & orange blossom. The citrus or citrusy floral scent with that orange blossom is invigorating and refreshing as a toilet water to put on after a shower or bath. Once again – as with Royal Bain by Caron, L’air du Temps Arpege and Chanel No. 22 – I sense this fragrance was a bath product. The floral notes consist of lavender, rose, jasmine, iris, heliotrope, violet, orchid, carnation, lily of the valley & hyacinth. Long before aquatic florals, the staple of floral fragrances was powder. The powder is here in the form of orris root. I love powdery florals. This is a very sweet scented floral perfume that brings me a lot of pleasure. I wish it could last longer but it’s fine as it is.
At the base the notes are made up of minimal oak moss, cedar and sandalwood amber and vanilla. The dry down is powdery as the florals eventually turn into one big vanilla flower smell. L’Effleur is delicate & child-like but not quite baby powder because it is so floral. It leans toward toilet water with floral notes in the style of Quelques Fleurs. The latter, however is more green and shampoo like whereas this is powder.
Pretty and lovely like a little girl wearing a floral print dress and a sash or bow. It smells like a porcelain doll from the era, with blue eyes and blonde hair, and a pink dress and little shoes.
Still, because of it’s age and the floral notes, this fragrance can now be seen as a mature scent. It’s not overpowering and so one can wear it freely anywhere as a casual day wear scent. Quite nice.
chpoker – :
This was my first ever tween perfume. The packaging brings back so many memories of Buster Brown shoes, a curling iron and gold hoop earrings. I can’t remember what it smells like, but looking over the notes and reading that it’s from 1907, really makes me happy that my love of vintage, flowers, musk and complexity started early.
angeldust74 – :
First Perfume
First Love
This is it. This was my very first fragrance. It was easy to wear at the age of 11 and 12, 13. It was selling in a reformulation in the 1980’s with a Victorian style theme and obviously a floral fragrance but it was soft and powdery in the style of LOVE BABY SOFT by Dana. As a powdery white floral scent, and with very little projection, it was casual and simple enough for a child to wear. I was forbidden to touch perfumes until I was 11. By then I wanted to smell like my favorite flowers: roses and gardenias but my mother said that I had to start “small”. She presented me with this gift when I turned 11.
Effleur is a mysterious fragrance because the notes are rather hard to make out. It’s clearly a floral with white flowers in it’s heart: gardenia, jasmine, lily of the valley, lilies. I didn’t get a tuberose out of it. Other floral notes appear to include heliotrope, lavender and violet. The scent is flowery but not as full bodied as Quelques Fleurs by Houbigant. In fact it has a lighter texture and softer projection like it was a floral toilet water. This is more of an Eau de Toilette than a perfume. The sweetness is never cloying or headache inducing.
This is dreamy and soft, powdery and pretty. When I first wore it I thought it was a bit too much like a fragrance of a porcelain doll, it had a white floral goodness and angelic aura that was what my mother liked to smell on me, so I always thought it was more a perfume that fit my mother’s idea of me at the time. I was well-behaved but already curious about the world and wanted to experience more of it. Perfumes like this one or L’air Du Temps which is also easily worn by a child, were not fitting my personality which was developing at that age. But now I understand what my mother liked. I can understand now, after she’s dead, how beautiful this perfume truly is.
It’s heartbreaking! This smells as touching and emotional as L’Heure Bleue by Guerlain, and it has that same flower garden scent as Quelques Fleurs. It lasts a shorter time than either of those fragrances and it’s really more a feel-good-pick-me-up skin freshner. I wore it as a bath product and after shower scent. It was on me on my way to school and for at least 2-3 hours. My teachers always complimented me on this perfume but didn’t ask me what it was. This perfume can feel outdated and grown-up/mature by today’s standards but can be appreciated by those of you who wear Curious by Britney Spears.
The dry down appears to be light woods and vanilla. The vanilla is delicious and powdery. There is no fruit note I can detect, except perhaps a little citrus or orange blossom. The rest of the time the fragrance develops into flowers and flowers and flowers.
Highly recommended for novices and those of us who are into vintage old time florals and powdery scents.
I still wear this from time to time for the heck of it and for the nostalgia. It’s my first love and the perfume that got me into perfume.
ringo44 – :
I remember this very young barley remember…. A woman who I used to look up to wore this&I remember she got this as a birthday gift from her mother&she was so happy it was a boxed gift set,angels&florals&she had the bath salts and the box displayed in our bathroom….back then it smelled like bubbles from a bubble bath&florals&watered green soft flower stems almost a light bubbled champagne feel also. So I bought a bottle for her&later me online….It almost smells the same,not as magical as when I was young girl though,I got for nostalgic reasons…I wish coty could make this again&make it last,I guess what made it so special was the memory & packaging! Let’s all vote lol come back L’effleur!!!!!
Aleksandro28 – :
This was my very first perfume. It was a Christmas gift that I will remember for the rest of my life. It was the late 1980’s probably 1987 and I was still under the age of 12. So I was blown away because to me at that time perfume was for grown ups. I didn’t know that children ever wore perfumes. I didn’t realize that girls under the age of 13 could wear fragrances until I was already over 18 and noticed that moms were buying their girls Disney Princess perfumes. But I digress. This makes a great gift. The bottle and the packaging is vintage and Victorian. It’s innocent and sweet. It’s a good introduction to perfume for beginners. It can’t be compared to any fragrance being worn today. If I had to make a comparison I would say it kind of sorta wears like CURIOUS BY BRITNEY SPEARS. It’s a subtle and soft white floral fragrance. This has subdued gardenia, lovely white lily of the valley and lily, hyacinth, pink roses, jasmine, lilacs and heliotrope. It’s mainly white floral but these are not screaming white florals. They’re little babies. It’s powdery and sweet and has a pretty decent life. It was on me for over 5 hours which I thought was ok. Hard to wear sometimes because it’s very old fashioned and outdated and no one recognizes this fragrance on me anymore- except my mother who gave it to me as a gift in 1987. She was surprised I was wearing it and asked me where the hell could I have gotten a hold of such an old perfume and she could not believe I’d kept the one she gave me. I told her I bought it on ebay which is where all good old things go to make a comeback.
djfast – :
L’EFFLEUR
COTY
GROUP: FLORAL
NOTES: Neroli Bergamot Orange Blossom Lavender Rose
Jasmine, Lilac Iris Heliotrope, Violet, Orchid, Carnation, Lily of the Valley Lily Hyacinth Lavender Sandalwood Oak Moss Woodsy Notes
SILLAGE: SOFT Sits close to the skin without a trail
LONGEVITY: MODERATE 6 hours
REMINDS ME OF: QUELQUES FLEURS BY HOUBIGANT L’Air Du Temps NINA RICCI
I love this perfume. It’s an innocent floral fragrance reminiscent of Quelques Fleurs, if Quelques Fleurs was designed for children. The only downside to this beautiful fragrance is it’s short life. True to the life of real flowers this has a weak longevity. It also has no sillage and no trail of scent. It sits on your skin. The floral notes are actually those found in Quelques Fleurs but they are not as green. In fact this is bigger on the white flowers of jasmine, carnation and lilies. But there are plenty of purple flowers in it as well: heliotrope, iris, violet, lilac and lavender. It’s not always easy to make out each scent especially when the performance of this floral ballet is so short. But they are there. It’s like a little bouquet of flowers that a little girl holds during a bridal procession in front of the bride. This is sweet and perfumy, old fashioned, romantic and dreamy. The dry down is mossy and woodsy but it’s not a chypre by any means. It’s purely a floral frag and it’s definitely better suited to women. It’s like floral shampoo and rose water as well. In fact there are roses here that also make themselves known. This frag is also a bit like L’air du Temps by Nina Ricci, but of the two I would prefer to wear L’Air du Temps because it lasts longer. If you like florals and sweet innocent perfumes this is a jewel.
antonslps – :
Many years ago I contacted a lady from Coty to ask her if my beloved perfume had been discontinued. She had told me it was and I asked what were the perfume notes so that maybe I could find something similar. I have lost that email but, I remember she told me that the main flower found in the perfume was Amazon Lily. I remember because I went online and bought an Amazon Lily. It only blooms once in a while and has a very light clean smell, very green. If I ever find that email I will post with the rest. I think I also remember either oakmoss or vetiver, perhaps Ylang,Ylang also.
ТРАКТОРИСТ – :
The word that immediately came to mind when I first smelled l’Effleur (After the initial bad notes, that must have gone sour due to this being a vintage) was the word “kind”. As others have mentioned, this scent evokes the Victorian era. I must agree with this; it is soft, sweet, rosy. It makes me think of my mom in a warm kitchen baking a chiffon cake, with the gramophone playing Chopin.
It is lovely, and contains so much more class within its soft floral notes than any modern perfume ever could. Perfume makers seem to have forgotten how to make a floral smell something other than sickeningly sweet, apart from a few good ones. It is very innocent, and has a hint of fresh laundry smell that allows l’Effleur to be both sweet and clean.
Something about it makes me sad, as all vintage perfumes tend to do to me. l’Effleur lets you grasp those bittersweet memories of childhood innocence, first love, flowers in your hair. And for those that do not have those memories… l’Effleur will allow you to truly feel the joy of them.
ромакккк – :
After searching high and low for a place to buy this scent without paying an arm and a leg for it, I was able to get a .75 ml brand new bottle off of ebay for $17.50. It has turned a bit because of it’s age and initially I noted a licorice note that was not present when this was purchased fresh while in production (1990s). After it dried down, that aspect went away and it is exactly as I remembered it. A very sharp, very green floral that isn’t sweet like a lot of today’s floral scents. It smells just like the bottle looks. It’s very feminine and reminds me of what I think a Victorian era housewife would smell like. I wouldn’t classify this as soft. It packs a straight up flower punch! You can smell it on you for hours. Coty needs to bring this one back.
v-pleshkov – :
If you love Quelques Fleurs by Houbigant you’ll love Coty’s L’Effleur. This is a romantic, soft floral fragrance by my favorite perfumer Francois Coty and was first released in France in 1907. Coty had already made his fortune through the sales of his first perfume La Rose Jacqueminot. He went on to create hit after hit: Chypre, L’aimant L’oregan and Emeraude (whose formula gave us Shalimar). This is a beautiful floral fragrance. The notes are not listed here on Fragrantica and most likely weren’t even known to the public in 1907. In 1907 these accords were available from Grasse and as you can see it’s mostly a floral woodsy fragrance also called a chypre.
Top: Lemon Neroli Bergamot Orange Blossom Lavender Rose
Middle: Rose, Jasmine, Lilac, Carnation, Lily of the Valley Lily Hyacinth Lavender
Base Notes: Sandalwood Oak Vetiver Oak Moss
As you can see it was mostly floral but not a chypre in the truest sense. Coty’s Chypre from 1917 would change all that. L’Effleur opens with citrus: bergamot and orange blossom. There are no aldehydes as this was made before aldehydes were used in perfume. The dominant note in its heart is the rose but it’s not an in your face green wet garden rosebush. It’s soft, sweet, heady but not too powerful. Because of the synthesis of other flowers the rose appears to disappear quickly. To my nose the white flowers are the strongest accords: jasmine, lily and lily of the valley. The lack of tuberose makes this much softer and less creamy. It’s more of a green-floral. The lavender is obviously there and it sweetens the fragrance as if it were vanilla. An old fashioned and lovely hyacinth is here too. I was enchanted by the flowers in this garden. It’s not as heavy as Quelques Fleurs and its scent is like a little cloud of scent that waft out of the bottle. And what a beautiful little bottle. It’s straight out of the Edwardian period. It adorned the dressers of English and French ladies who would splash this stuff on after their bath. It’s a fresh after shower fragrance that you can wear regularly, casually in the day time in the spring and summer months. I find this fragrance to be in the same family as Quelques Fleurs. The woodsy notes appear at the end as the fragrance dries down, but they’re also very soft woods. This whole thing is soft, never powdery but soft. It wears like something a child or teenage girl would have worn as well so I’m thinking perhaps mothers AND their daughters both wore this fragrance in 1907 through 1912, but it really comes off as more of a fragrance for a very young girl who is just starting to wear perfume. This could have been worn by a young lady of about 14 through 16 and it could have been the scent of young girls aboard the RMS Titanic. This perfume used to be a drugstore cheapie and sold by Coty through the 1980’s as a reissue that honored the original 1907 formula. As such a lot of girls and teens wore this in the 80’s in much the same way that Tea Rose by Perfumer Workshop was worn by teens in the 70’s. This is highly recommended for lovers of floral fragrances of all ages. Also for lovers of vintage old timey perfumes. I adore this fragrance. Thank you Lucia my flower power girl friend in London for this lovely gift.
torbeevo – :
This is “Cashmere Bouquet” in fragrance form; tart, bitter cold cream rose, potpourri rose and dried grasses, powder fresh jasmine, carnation, lilies and moss. It is smooth and fresh like the finest milled soap and it has a nostalgic, sepia-toned antiquated quality that I find charming.
It smells Edwardian or Victorian, like caustic castille soaps and bouquets of roses in marble hall foyers, halls covered in dusty, dried fiber rugs and with bowls of homemade rose, anise, lavender, eucalyptus and cinnamon potpourri. Old libraries full of books — dried paper and treated leather. Freshly scrubbed and dried lace, pressed and starched, maybe with a hint of sugar water.
It’s fresh but a little melodramatic, like Mary Pickford in “Poor Little Rich Girl” or “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” reading her Victorian romance novels on a train to a country house surrounded by grassy hills and flower gardens.
I love it! I had this as a child, a magical Christmas gift and I wish I could still find it! sadly, I think they may have discontinued it.
dimon442 – :
Love this fragrance. I bought several bottles on ebay and keep them in my fridge. I get so many compliments when I wear it. Smells so incredibly clean, soapy and shower fresh with just one spray on the back of my neck.
warwaralabez – :
I feel exactly like pisces3774!!!! I was so into ‘Victoriana’ back then. I loved the box, the scent. Recently got some one eBay which leads me to a question.
It smelled like smoke to me. Plain old bonfire smoke when I first put it on. Is that normal? Has it ‘turned’ in some way? Or is my chemistry putting it off? It’s been about 10 minutes and I’m still getting smoke but not as strong. I am now getting flowers. I’m really curious about that smoke smell!
victor73 – :
I had no idea that this was from 1907 but it does have a very antiquey feel to it. It has a very bittersweet memory to it for me- I was 19 and in the throes of a very intense but ill fated romance and one of his gifts to me was a bottle of l’effleur in an oval box printed with roses. He was an older graduate student who had a wife in another city as I was to find out later and the romance didn’t survive the summer apart. When my grandparents passed away I found the box, now faded from age with his picture still inside, tucked at the back of my old closet. I bought two bottles recently and they take me back to that time.
mkemkem – :
Many years ago,I bought a gift set (with body lotion and spray parfum) for my Mom for Mother’s Day. She loved the sweet but light floral scent, and I even borrowed it a few times because it did not make me sneeze, which is an issue I have with floral scents.
It smelled almost exactly like a bubble bath which was popular at the time, called “Victorian Blossoms”–old-fashioned but in a pleasant way.
Longevity was on the high end of moderate, with good sillage too.
It did not have that aldehyde note which I usually dislike in the traditional floral perfumes.
I am not surprised that it was a Coty original from 1907, as there was something “classic” about it.
Viktorovih – :
This brings back memories! This was my perfume when I was in high school. I really don’t remember what it smelled like, I just remember loving it back then! I’m not sure those around me shared this love, however…in fact, I remember walking into Sunday School one morning in a cloud of this and causing my teacher to sneeze repeatedly. I wish I could smell it again!
kirojack – :
Wow! I had this as a child. I used to love the floral scent and the lightness of it on my skin. Not so sure my family felt the same way as they would tell me to take it easy on the perfume, but definitely an oldie but goodie for me. I’d love to pick up a small vial somewhere just to see if I feel the same 20 years later. hmm.. I doubt it, but it would sure bring back a lot of childhood memories.
Boron – :
Oh I am so happy seeing this familiar bottle…Either my sister or I had this when we were kids. She’s six years older than me so everything she had was mine too as far as I was concerned. Would love to get a bottle and remember what it smells like as that was so long ago.
Stezis – :
This was my signature sent back in my grunge days. I remember that I purchases it because I loved the girlie, Victorian packaging and cute little bottle. When I tried it on, I fell in love with the sharp floral scent. If I remember correctly (it has been 20 years) it had a note in it like gardenia and something crisp, maybe green.I would love to smell this again.
I purchased the Kate Moss perfume because someone said it reminded her of L’Effleur. In comparrison it is too musky and flat.
Stilian – :
I wish Coty would bring this one back. It has such a beautiful clean floral smell. It has a nice soapy smell like old fashioned bar soap. I used to receive so many positive comments when I wore this back in the day esp. from men.
swet – :
Beautiful light floral with an adorable, super-femme bottle. Very dainty scent that reminds me of the talking flowers in Alice and Wonderland. This is a very friendly floral, not a headache-inducing one. The fragrance smells like how the bottle looks.
L’effleur brings back memories of when I used to go up into my aunt’s bedroom and sneak sprays of this from off of her dresser when I was a little girl. She had Heaven Sent, Coco, No. 5, and many others, but this was always the one I “borrowed”. I used to drown myself in this and she would just laugh and play some Beatles records. Thankfully it wasn’t expensive. Noticing that I was a budding perfumista at age 5, she ended up buying me a sparkly little bottle of Petite Nate to get me to stop taking her stuff, ha ha.
It’s been discontinued but you can find bottles of L’effleur on ebay. I have a bottle that is expired and it is a bit wretched in the beginning, but after about an hour it smells just like it used to.
feita – :
I had this when I was a teenager…I remember liking it pretty well then, not so much now 😉
Elizabeth_fromAD – :
A CHILD IN MY CLASS CAME IN SMELLING LIKE THIS AND I ASKED HER MOTHER WHAT SHE WAS WEARING AND SHE SAID ETERNITY!!!
kondrat – :
This is what made me afraid of trying floral scents.
jkv607Negeltzex – :
My great aunt gave this to me when I was twenty and I jelously hold on to it because of this. I had no idea this is an original Francois Coty creation of 1907! I like this fragrance because it’s so pure, clean, soapy and flowery that it fits perfectly a spring day and because it’s not so “aunty” as I supposed it to be when I received it. Nonetheless this is too clean and soapy for me, I undoubtely prefer more provocative scents.
mini1593 – :
Hideous, radioactive shower cleaner floral from hell. Avoid this like the plague.
exup – :
Is my all-time favorite. L’effleur was my signature fragrance through the 80s and 90s. How I wish they would bring it back again!
bmldivahn9 – :
I used to wear l’Effleur back in middle school. I was attracted to the advertisements featuring Victorian style decoupage. I thought it was very romantic and lovely.
Recently I found a small bottle at a perfume sale. It’s pleasant, but certainly nothing my adult self really wants to smell like. I can’t pick out any individual notes, it is a mixture of soap and wildflowers. Very clean and innocent. This would never in a million years be accused of being sexy.
I smell like soap. A very finely milled French soap.
martun8489 – :
i love this soft feminine floral scent. (ty to melbritt for this lovely gift) sprays on a little strong but dries down to a lovely soft mixed bouquet. what lovely memories attatched to this scent. i’ve used it just about every night before going to bed since i received it, and alas it’s just about gone. what pleasent dreams i’ve had.
Taja – :
I owned a bottle as a teenager(late 80s-early 90s) smelled amazing.im not great on description of notes but it was classic.girly.young.my sister scored a bottle on eBay.i use it for special summer/spring occasions or when I want to remember those times.still very classic,flowery,fem.smell.
Maximus-Shumilino – :
This is my favorite!!!! I have a couple bottles that I use for special occasions or more in the winter time. It’s very very hard to find. Such a soft and almost powdery smell. I had no idea it was launched in 1907
vavrish – :
This was one of my favorites and I so wish that they still made this! I received so many compliments when I wore this fragrance, its clean, soft, soapy, and powdery – just lovely.
tomas2011 – :
Guess I am going against the grain here but I love L’Effleur – or should I say loved. I wore this as a teenager then a few yrs back, found a bottle online but I suspect it had gone off as it was not how I remembered it to be – sweet, powdery, pretty and kind of innocently sexy. I miss this fragrance and would snap up a bottle again if I could find it!
Edit – I found and bought a bottle of Lilabelle by Kate Moss today – it is the closest fragrance to L’Effleur that I have come across in all these years! Tho my nose may deceive me…
Tpvisn2005 – :
Not sour flowers – bitter flowers, if that makes any sense at all.
Egor-1 – :
Like Vanilla77, this turned bad on me. But not rotten grapefruit – strong, sour flowers. I think this was a problem with my body chemistry. I’m sure it’s nice on others.
managuan – :
I got this fragrance as a birthday gift about 10 years ago, and never again have I found a perfume so flowery in smell that lasts so long.
xxdrmarioxx – :
When I picked up this fragrance in the 80’s, I didn’t realize what a gem I had in my possession. What a shame I didn’t give it the value it merits-a Francois Coty creation.
I honestly thought it smelled, well, elderly: lace, ruffles, scarves covering shoulders, waved hair or ringlets, antique jewelry-cameos, etc. I dashed it on hurriedly and literally didn’t smell the antique floral garden. Alas, my loss.
Meanwhile I treasure my other Coty creations, Emeraude, Le Chypre, Le Muse, and Truly Lace.
rustamcrm – :
I bought this as a teenager– because the bottle was pretty. Sadly, it just smelled of rotten grapefruit on me. Not good with my chemistry.
Foepulttola – :
Was it really launched in 1907?? I wore it in high school, late 80s – early 90s. I thought it was new back then.
QJefweyV – :
A Coty classic! My grandmother wore this for years. I remember as a child, spraying this on myself while visiting her. She passed away when I was 16 🙁 I want to buy a bottle of this to commemorate her.
binkAppenisiZ – :
NO KIDDING! it is all about the flowers. OMG I can’t beleive i wore this as a teenager. AUUUUUGGGGGG!
dima123dima123 – :
it should be l’Effleur. right.