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SvetlanSehjy – :
I received this blind buy by the mail yesterday. With Leonara, the Leonard’s director wanted a perfume about orchid his fetish flower. I never smell a fragrant orchid flower. So I can tell if Leonara really smell orchid. But something I am sure is that Leonara smell divine. I was really intrigue to try a perfume about orchid because this flower is not often use in parfumery.The nose (Bertrand Duchaufour) and the very cheap price of Leonara conveiced me to give it a try. Leonara smell different from other ”white flower” perfume. It’s dry and pepery. And the bottle is really different and beautiful. I can’t believe that I paid only $52 (100ml) for this beauty.
armanincognita – :
I just ordered a bottle of Leanara on line. I can’t wait to smell it. In his first guide written in 1992, Luca Turin said that Leonard perfumes were very good but underrated. Back then, he was right. I have a vintage bottle of Balahé, a great one. I can’t say if the more recent are still good but a perfume compose by Bertrand Duchaufour can’t be bad.
Слепой Пью – :
This is soft and lovely. What they’ve done with the notes makes me swear there is iris in here: hint of vanilla and fruit in the top then all powdery iris like lipstick or makeup; black currant and vanilla with freesia, tiare, orchid, sandalwood and light drop of benzoin
SmeabeTumma – :
Leonara is special. We don’t see soft, plush superior blending anymore unless it’s up at a rediculous price point. Leonara opens with sweet florals and black currant comes off fruity -covered in bourbon vanilla.
It’s enchanting, the white florals are tamed to do their job and spotlight is on the Orchid. Orchid is such a luxe note…not many attempt to work with it giving this a exotic tropical tone.
Bertrand’s signature is here and wonderful. It’s like a sweet kiss of a floral angel. The note list could veer this heavy, but it does not . It never cloys, and it’s plush nature at this price point is astounding. If you like rich vanilic, velvety soft florals- this is for you. A underrated, forgotten beauty.
Vladivakin – :
Such a deliciously lovely sweet perfume. Gorgeous. So rich and intense, and such beautiful sweet, syrupy flowers. I love it. It’s gorgeous.
robirp – :
I buying Bertrand blind I am NEVER disappointed..he is my man..i don’t understand this chemistry I have with his fragrances…for me he can only exist and I would be happy..
CON0062 – :
Once again I couldn’t resist a blind buy. This wasn’t really a shot in the dark, as I am a sucker for orchid and vanilla combinations.
Leonara opens with a rich, dense orchid, tiare and tuberose. Even though it’s not a gourmand, it’s definitely yummy. Black currant is usually a risky note for me as it often turns to cat pee on my skin. Here it just adds some sweetness to the floral mix. This is a fragrance for a floral junkie. The benzoin is strong on the drydown, but the florals carry through from top to bottom, with subtle changes. I get more rose in the middle with the vanilla.
Freesia is such a delicate scent that it might seem to be lost in the mix, but I think it blends in well and if I concentrate I can pick out most of the flowers. In the middle the vanilla is not cloying at all, but to my nose is just perfect. I love the duo of orchid and vanilla, I think those notes are heavenly together.
I’ll have to try this again and again to see if it changes dramatically; though I think it would fare better in the summer than in the colder months.
Like most fragrances, it is fairly soft on me; but then only the 80’s powerhouse type scents last on my fragrance devouring skin. It’s not expensive, so I don’t mind reapplying. If you like the notes in the Leonara perfume pyramid, I doubt you’ll be disappointed.
alexmaya – :
IBlind swap, I was looking to try another perfume by a famous designer Bertrand Duchaufour. Leonard has very dominant benzoin, that is what I can only smell, it is deep and lasting, not loud. Can be used as unisex. I also can mix it with Hani Mori (vanilla based), Leonard added so much deep meaning to the linear sweet vanilla side, now all together is a beautiful and sophisticated and lasting combo. I will try Leonard with other frags I have.
alex2011 – :
Oh gosh, this is one of the most refined floriental I encountered. I am very careful with flowers as tuberose but somehow I took the risk to do a “blind buy” via swap and I feel very lucky I took this risk because it is really better than I could ever have imagined. You smell an incredible sweet opening by the black currant but violet leaf and freesia flower prohibit this opening becomes a fruity jam accord. The transition to the body of perfume is wonderful, all the flowers are so mixed together that you get an abstract orchestration of multi-layered flowers of primarily orchid, tiare bulgarian rose (is quite dominant even)and jasmine and tuberose remain a bit more in the background. That inclusion of tiare/tuberose in this mix is quite creative, you would not expect it. And the dry down is extremely beautiful : the vanilla, benzoin and sandalwood give this floral the right structure, so that silage remains quite long untouched and dry down stays for many many hours on your skin, soft as a velvet robe..
I feel really blessed to have discovered such a gem which is unfortunately discontinued and hard to find.
I don’t know any other perfume who has the same character as Leonara. The creator of this perfume is Bertrand Duchaufour and I am not surprised to see many other master pieces under his name : The Vagabond Prince family is his creation, a lot of the more recent L’Artisan Parfumeur, in which I love the Nuit de Tubereuse. He created quite a lot of Ann Gerard’s which I definitively need to test, now that I know BD created so many of this line.
Angel_911 – :
This is indeed a complicated scent. I get a big heavy blast of sweet floral and woody perfume, the the vanilla emerges with orchid. Benzoin and sandalwood ow mixing with loud tuberose that overpowers the rest of the notes. I am also getting something salty in the end, definitely something intriguing.
olgaq123 – :
Leonara:Candied orchid,sweet blackberry and soft vanilla.Three notes that are very prominent:orchid,blackberry and vanilla.
It’s not so hard to describe the scent but the notes are so nicely combined together .It is not intensive but stays good on skin and feels unique.I am really lucky to have it in my collection.
MacLYS – :
This is quite an odd fragrance. I have spent nearly two hours trying to find a way in which to describe this fragrance, to put my thoughts down in words.
All the ingredients seem to come together to create one big scent, rather than hints of particular notes here and there. I quite like Leonara, as it’s something that jumps out at me. Something very strange and unique.
My description of the way it smells may in fact be weird, but the black currant note is not jam-like like the way I would expect it to be. It seems to have been infused with sweet tuberose and jasmine, presented in both a resinous and powdery way.
The vanilla accord is quite musky and oriental, complimenting the juicy black currant and white floral blend. I find it hard to get my head around what I seem to be smelling. Leonara is quite complex.
There’s a slight bitter greeness towards the drydown which gives Leonara a whole new dimension. It’s just such a weird fragrance. It makes me think of soaps and scented powders, but really there’s nothing overly clean and pretty about this scent at all.
The lasting strength is not bad, and neither is the sillage. I think this fragrance will always intrigue me and at the same time, allude me. Despite its complexity, it’s wearable of course. For those that can fathom this fragrance better than I, I urge you to go right ahead and scoop this fragrance up before it’s gone forever.
krazy1998 – :
Despite my diligent efforts to re-train myself and modify my formerly imprudent perfume spending patterns–thanks to which I managed to acquire dozens of perfumes which I will never use–I have yet to fully kick the bad habit of russian roulette buying. One recent temptation in online visits to my favorite emporia led me ever so close to purchasing Leonard LEONARA scent unsniffed. But, no, in a rare moment of restraint, I held back and instead requested a sample from wonderful Fragrantican kastehelmi.
Now I find myself experiencing non-buyer’s remorse! What a nice perfume this is! (And unfortunately no longer available in that particular bargain bin…) This composition features some of my favorite notes, including benzoin and violet leaf along with a bunch of beautiful flowers all of which individually can be knock-outs but which here are perfectly blended: tuberose, rose, tiare, orchid…
LEONARA is a smooth and appealing floriental with good longevity and medium sillage. Not too sweet, not too floral, and not too dark to wear during the day. I like it a lot!
ValdemarFirst – :
soooo yummy loveable fragrance !!!!! very creamy, warm, sensual. opening is very pleasant with the black currant and violet, then the lovely tiareflower comes out with a coconuty hint same as the sweet jasmine whispering through the heart note. bulgarian rose is dominant on the heart but not owerpowering, very well balanced with lovely orchid smell. the tuberose gives it a slight powdery, luxury elegance. base is soft vanilla with earthy undertones… good sillage, longlasting too!
hmmmmm just perfect scent for my nose! so bad this masterpiece is hard to find actually.
ps: the genious nose behind this frag, Bertrand Duchaufour, is designing for haute couture parfumeurs in Paris like L Artisan Parfumeur and Dior. this fume is a real lucky punch on this low price range for every woman who likes well done oriental florals! a real treasure, get it as long as you can, this is discontinued unfortunately.
Messk810InsuffBooni – :
Lovely and sugary. It’s so amazing. It opens with an amazing sweet notes of black currant, there is very lovely tuberose and orchid, I do love the slighty green feeling from the violet leaves. All in all, it’s so wonderful, sweet, feminine and sexy that it’s hard not to love it. Really, it’s beautiful. The price is amazing and it’s worth giving this a try if you love sweet florals.
And I do not feel it’s an “oriental”, it’s more a full, lovely floral. Amazing.
burovik – :
What a FANTASTIC perfume this is!! Leonard really is a masterpiece supplier!!
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Steelhammer – :
Oh! I thought I was getting a little bit of coconut in the greenish, slightly tart top notes, but now I see it’s tuberose. It has a refreshing opening that makes me think of summer. For a while, as it was drying down, it stayed very soft. Through the heart, it sweetened up a bit from the rose, jasmine, and vanilla, but the orchid kept the tone very soft. After some time had passed, I suddenly noticed a strengthening waft of fresh musk rising from my wrist. I must exclaim: this fragrance has a very impressive base! When the benzoin and sandalwood made their entrance after the musk had already arrived, it made me realize…I think my other perfumes are going to be very jealous!