8 reviews for Magnolia Grandiflora Sandrine Grandiflora

1. 

   monster c.s.1.6=) – 2022-06-27:

   4 out of 5

   Finding solace in a zesty situation…Not the lemonade stand as one would expect. In fact, this is a hand dishwashing lemon; not a drinkable lemon. This scent is very aquatic and lightly peppered throughout. The musk gives it that perfumed edge. An interesting scent indeed. I had to physically restrain my nose from my arm on several occasions.
   The Value: A $180 fragrance for 2 months wear and poor sillage. 10 months out of the year, you can’t wear this. Why??? Because you won’t be able to detect it and neither will anyone else. Sandrine is only good for March and April; that’s it and that’s all. Hot weather will smother it and cold weather will compromise what makes this great which is its freshness.
   Words that come to mind: Irish Spring Soap, Springtime and Clean
2. 

   dzolla – 2022-06-27:

   3 out of 5

   I adore this scent. I don’t think I have ever loved a scent this much before.
   I has wanted to try this for a while. I admire the floral work done at Grandiflora and when this was released I kept meaning to drop in and sample the two frags they had released.
   Three weeks ago my mother passers away suddenly. My sister and I were beyong shattered. For the first time I couldn’t bear the thought of any perfume.
   Grandiflora was my mother’s favorite florist so we went there to arrange the flowers for her service. You can imagine that this was one of the worst days of my life.
   The lovely girl helping us, Grace, gave us samples of the two scents, Michel and and Sandrine. Michel was very, very pretty but I could leave it. Sandrine, well it lifted my heart and soul. My sister and I both bought one.
   My mother’s signiture scent was the beautiful Diorella. This has the same green and fresh hertiage. This however overlays it with the smell if the most glorious garden you could only imagine in utopia.
   Remarkable
3. 

   xsandel – 2022-06-27:

   4 out of 5

   I just wanted to add a second review, which belongs more to my fiance than to myself. 🙂 We had arrived home from a Karen Gomyo concert and “open doors” tour of a folk art gallery, tired but in really great moods. I changed out of my dress (I had also applied Hiris perfume about 5 hours earlier), washed off my makeup, then putting on my favourite baby doll pajamas I saw Sandrine on the dresser. So I put on a dab, and it smelled sooooo good that I applied 4 more! I was just in a cloud of Sandrine, and I went to my music room to play piano for a bit. After that, I joined my fiance on the sofa in the living room. Within 30 seconds he started looking around, surprised. “It smells like…. fruit?” “Oh,” I said, “does it?” He actually got up! Paced around a bit. “Yes, fruit,” then he started walking towards me, smiling. I confessed it was my perfume that is mainly grapefruit. Well… he *loved* it. It “smells soooooo good!” he said, and even later he stuck his nose to my wrist again. A rave review. Definitely full bottle worthy, considering how much I love it, too.
4. 

   sanja-ilin – 2022-06-27:

   3 out of 5

   I am happy to be able to try the Grandiflora fragrances, thanks to the generous giveaway on Fragrantica. This perfume is green, green, green on my skin. It’s citrusy, but also two specific kinds of green to me: the first is pine, but not a strong pine, like Estee Lauder Sensuous Noir, but a slight hint of green pine, like pine cones when they FIRST bud on the trees. The other kind of green is more unusual, one I love but haven’t smelled in perfumery before — green walnut, as though you picked a green walnut off the tree and scraped the skin with your fingernail. I’ve always loved that scent. Last time I was at my mom’s house, I picked the large walnuts and gave them to my son, then a toddler, to practice his throwing (and hopefully spread the walnut seeds to grow new trees!). Sandrine captures the smell of my hands after handling those walnuts. It’s only one part of the composition, never screechy.
   Sandrine is, according to this page, for women. That’s a shame! It should be marketed as unisex, not because it’s “masculine,” but because I can imagine it smelling wonderful on a man as well as a woman.
5. 

   prankpavel – 2022-06-27:

   4 out of 5

   Thank you to Fragrantica and Magnolia Grandiflora for sending me 2 beautifully packaged and generous samples of perfumes.
   I had a very different reaction to Sandrine than the reviewers below. I thought it was gorgeous! I was surprised by varied opinion, so I read their profiles and now I’m not surprised! Q80 is an exclusive fan of masculine Aromatic Fougeres, leathers, and heavy orientals. Janella13 and I have completely different tastes, she doesn’t own any perfumes that I have considered buying after testing. Lastly, I have never tested any of the perfumes in HeidiLynn’s collection, at all!
   So, it is safe to say, that Sandrine will engender different responses from different sorts of perfumistas!
   My first reaction was, “what *is* that pretty flower?!”
   Sandrine gives me the feeling of a soliflore. I love grapefruit. One of my favourite scents in the natural world, and Vanille Pamplemousse by Laurence Dumont is one of my best-loved perfumes. It was my signature for a while. In Sandrine, the grapefruit sometimes shows itself alone, rising above the creamy wood, but really this perfume is very blended.
   On the lighter end of the floral fruity spectrum, where the more discreet “eau fraiche” lives, Sandrine is the creamiest and richest citrus scent I’ve tried. It is not too sweet or foody, though, and it is not bitter like most masculine or unisex citrus. I really get nothing herbal, don’t smell lemon “zest”, either. It is not a deep scent, but very bright and floralgreen, and it makes me smile.
   There is an aquatic accord, but, unlike mainstream aquatic frags, it doesn’t seem like an added chemical element put there to save a perfume from general unwearability. The aquatic aspect to this perfume just feels like it occurs naturally. It is only clean in the way that fresh citrus is clean.
   Sandrine is a grapefruit tree: floral grapefruit blossom, creamy grapefruit tree bark, green grapefruit leaves. It is also a fresh clean rain, with more creamy woods and a musk that keeps the texture rich but light.
   A note about white pepper. It is a fruit, sweeter and less spicy than black pepper.
   I want to buy a full bottle of this, and that means a lot, because I have few citrus scents.
6. 

   Zegeslins – 2022-06-27:

   3 out of 5

   Pickles and lilies and lemon, oh my!
   The first whiff of this was very lemony, and then it quickly moved into what I can only describe as dill pickles. The way pickle juice will smell if you spill it, or get some on your skin—kind of sharp. This was not vinegary, but more dill-centric. Very odd for a perfume. Then I got rained on as I walked into work, and either that or the extra time helped transition this into more of a lily fragrance; rather fresh and clean. The dill note is still there, but it is fading with time
   All in all, this is a strange one. I reiterate—pickles and lilies and lemon. Clean and herbal, I suppose. Not really my style of fragrance, but not all bad.
7. 

   ivanivan – 2022-06-27:

   4 out of 5

   First dab is LEMON and within a 5 min dry-down i am getting a much sweeter scent – woody? comes thru. I am smelling sandalwood/cedar very lightly.
   Bet this will be great in hot weather. Of which I am not seeing yet in the Chicago area.
   Gentle. Will add more when I have full day to test it.
8. 

   www.rulfile.ru – 2022-06-27:

   5 out of 5

   too sharp lemon & grapefruit mashed up together harshly in a blender, not a tiny green lemon, but a very ZESTY lemon. even when it dries down it keeps the same smell, SHARP grapefruit chunks…
   not my type but it’s good for a change, sometimes i feel thirsty & fresh when i smell it.