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EstapVetstame – :
I’ve been longing to find a fragrance like this for many years. It smells very similar to Ciel by Ulric de Varens but with less musk, which is appreciated in summer with the heat, also because Ciel gives makes you sleepy because its musk is so nice and tender. This one, however, can be used in day time, and not only to be used on the pillow. I do not notice anything old in this fragrance, as others have pointed out, it does not look at all like Blanc Violette from Histories de parfums, which smells kind of old-fashioned. It smells like baby powder, it is very tender.It also has much sillage; three hours after spraying it, I rubbed my neck with my fingers and they got perfumed, which is something logical, asa it is far more expensive than Ciel; there should be some noticeable diference. If you are a fan of babypowder, you must try this sweet perfume.
Thourlmum – :
I wanted to blind buy this since I love powdery scents. I got only a carded sample in the end. After applying on my skin, it smelled beautifully and I was in love. But then, in about 10 – 15 minutes, powdery and floral notes were gone and a quite unpleasant chemical play dough smell was all there was. And it had a decent longevity which unfortunately didn’t make me very happy. I really wanted this to be a real floral powder bomb, but I was disappointed. Glad that I only got a sample.
dreg12 – :
I had a sample of this sitting in my drawer for months, I didn’t like it that much at the beginning. It seemed weirdly old fashioned, with an antique vibe to it. Made me think of a dusty attic with sunlight going in sideways where there are stored many valuable but very old belongings.
I’ve been asking for powdery recommendations and this one came up. I tried it again and it turned into a love for me. I smell old Hollywood and black and white pictures of beautiful actresses. I still think it has this antique vibe, but now I find it glamorous. I will be getting it.
Still hate Montale bottles though. Perfume bottles should have personality, not look like different aromas bathroom sprays…but I’m giving it a pass. Yes, I know, it’s niche, it’s the juice that matters etc, but no, I’m paying hard cash, I want eye candy bottles too. But after I get enough mainstream scents, I plan on mostly testing and buying Montale. The quality is exceptional.
Mm, I wore the whole sample and now I kept getting gorgeous vibes from the empty sample by my bed, had to order it. Weird how Montale works on me. The two that I’ve bought until now I disliked at first.
lehalexey – :
Totally agree with the other reviewers who have defined this fragrance as a powder bomb. It surely is, slightly baby powder with much more powder than flowers to start with. Once the powder starts to fade, then it settles into a soft powdery jasmine floral. I don’t get the screeching chemicals, the monster sillage or the overwhelming suffocating effects that others have experienced.
This is a very feminine, pretty fragrance with about 4-6 hours longevity, one you can wear during the day or before retiring in the evening. Nothing jarring or aggressive here.
logicdpstyle – :
this one is really powderbomb! One spritz enough to fill the room, clean baby-like ambient which like soft blanket covered your body. Floral note is subtle but detectable like the watercolor painting. Projection is good, about 1-2 feet for 4 hours, then close to the skin for next hours. Very recommended to all the powder lovers.
Vurhis – :
Smells clean and delicate, almost neutral, good for office, non-intrusive and non-threatening.
After a while smells only like baby powder, no more flowers. Not in itself a bad smell, but still, would have been nice the flowers to stay till the end of the party.
Lasting 3-4 hours on skin, longer on clothes.
Nikolay761969 – :
I don’t know if I got a bad sample…I don’t know what everyone is smelling. Sprayed this on a paper and on skin,chemical mess! People say Montale is a hit or miss…this is a big miss.
rusikff – :
Do all the men (and women) favor and avoid this suffocating monster. Everyone in the room had to step out for a fresh air as soon as a person wearing this left the room.
tars06 – :
If you like powdery floral scents with a hint of spice, then this is for you. It’s one of my favourites, the silage is really strong and it has amazing staying power. I agree with the guest reviewer in that it too reminds me of a pomander.
Rose is a funny note for me as well, I normally get a headache from rose perfumes. However, this was really powdery and soft, not a big rose bomb. I think the Tonka beans, Osmanthus and Jasmine make it less overpowering and more of a comforting and powdery floral.
I do get the Cedar in the dry down, it alternates between this and the Tonka beans with soft powdery flowers. Truly a lovely fragrance
Seepttahded – :
If you love strong powder fragrances, this is one of two you HAVE to have in your collection. Men, who say they do not like women to wear perfume, give me multiple compliments through the night. Delicious!!
msmirocka – :
Powder Flowers is a funny one. In the opening of Powder Flowers, the combination of rose, tonka, and osmanthus impart this sweetness that I attribute to lychee or the saccharine sensation of turkish delights. It’s my favourite part of Powder Flowers’ development which at this stage, allows potential in the heart notes. PF is full-bodied and womanly – it’s entirely addictive for powder and floral lovers like myself. Powder Flowers being a Montale creation, I can detect a very sharp alcohol-like, chemical nuance in the beginning but this quickly fades by the 20 minute mark. The powder accord becomes more pronounced as it dries down. PF smells different on paper, on tissue, and on skin; like many good quality fragrances. My skin tends to bring out the sweet, fruity powdery aspect which I liken to the osmanthus and tonka bean. The heart notes reveal a waxy texture of sweet florals and the dryness of thick powder and tonka bean – all of which mix to smell semi-edible. The dry down of PF is mainly a musky, powdery skin scent that smells just like a fresh application of body lotion. PF lasts an extremely long time! 12 hours + if I must. I sprayed once on a piece of tissue and let it sit there for two weeks and I can detect the talcum-powder scent even after that fortnight!
I have sometimes visited this Fragrantica page and found the descriptions quite inaccurate, or incomplete. I am perplexed as to where are the heliotrope? The iris? The lychee? Am I dreaming this all up or what?! Along with its chemical outburst in the beginning, Powder Flowers can be overwhelming and suffocating if sprayed too close to the nose. It really is intense and this may just be a warning for a first-time owner of a Montale full bottle like myself, so I suggest spraying with an extremely light hand somewhere you are not able to constantly smell PF – one spray can go far!
Powder Flowers is a bit of a shape-shifter. It can veer towards saccharine turkish delight factory then do a 180 and come back home with its soft baby powder whisper. It is one for the ‘acquired nose’ to judge in its best merits. I recommend this to anyone who are into simple, sweet powdery florals, but are often disappointed by their lacking performance. Beware though, you will need to be game enough for its beastly sillage and longevity despite its charmingly feminine scent!!
Юля Смирнова – :
I sprayed this on my right hand and Teint de Neige on the left hand. Teint de Neige is great, powerfull. I think it’s better than Powder Flowers. TdN smells like delicious marzipan and is fresher, greener than PF. PF smells sweeter, like cheap Amaretto.
Rosg545 – :
Very odd I didn’t find this soft powder scent to have a huge silage though it lasted long and remained close to the skin. Not worth the price tag for such a simple scent.
I would rather splurge on VWs Naughty Alice for the soft powdery scent.
RedDead342 – :
I am not sure what others see in this perfume .. To me Powdery flowers smells like an updated version of Calvin Klein’s Eternity for women . Extremely powdery , chalky like talcum powder and slightly soapy. Flowers with musk in a cloud of powder .. Intensive and kind of out of the shower smell. Not really my kind of perfume.. I really dislike the bottle , cheap aluminum bottle , reminds me of hairspray .. Good lasting power and close to skin silage.
Antyporn – :
The nose designed the right name for this fragrance. It’s really all about powder here. In a tender, cozy, comforting and feminine way. If you are a powder flower yourself, than this should be on your shelf. If you are looking for more flowers than powder, you better pass this one. I like it, but won’t purchase it.
tolik196110 – :
I absolutely love powdery fragrances, but sometimes they are too cloying, as talcum powder accidentaly puffed into your nose!!! I’m thinking about Teint de neige: I adore it, but just sprayed it make me sneeze! Tdn reminds me the skin of a baby, while Powder Flowers is the smell of a mother for me: tender yet refined, on my skin it’s not baby powder, but a gently powdered rose, with a touch of osmanthus and jasmin and a vanillic drydown of tonka. The sillage and the staying power are terrific! And I’m very glad about it, because it make me feel well during all day… maybe because I’m pregnant, I think is the perfect scent for me right now 🙂
zhur.mih – :
Baby powder and jasmine. Powder Flowers is all aldehydes at first, which encourages me. I’m a big fan of aldehydes. Unfortunately, and this may just be me, it never develops much personality. I get hours of powder and a little bit of jasmine. It does (like many powdery scents) have insane sillage and lasting power. Really, it’s almost too much -I don’t want to be smelled from across the room.
I’d recommend Chanel no.22 instead – it has many of the same notes, but the addition of incense gives the scent more depth.
werwik888 – :
What a wonderful fragrance! I can’t go on and on about how it smells like this or that, all I can say is that I am really enjoying this!
I am a complete sucker for powdery classics and this fits right in. It’s kinda hard to describe, powdery but not baby powder, sweet but not candy sweet.
There may be some cheaper alternatives to this, but as for me, I’ll stick to what works!
Moderate sillage, and lasts and lasts on me.
mitches – :
Powder Flowers is the little sister of Teint de Neige, but it’s not as overwhelming and cloying as that one. Opens with floral notes – mainly rose, then warms up on the skin, and becomes softer and powdery. There’s a slight underlying bitterness, maybe because of the smokey cedar, that prevents it being a banal, sweet baby powder scent. The drydown is a warm, powdery vanilla, cuddly, classy, comforting. It’s a perfect enveloping, soft cozy fragrance for cold weather.
zenit2344 – :
How could such beautiful flowers go so wrong? Rose, jasmine, osmanthus… Technically, NO ONE should be able to mess up these notes. And why tonka???? Utter ruination of what could’ve been delightful. Initial burst is rather pleasing delivering the promised powder. The rest spirals towards headache, nausea and a mad rush towards the wash basin. Massive sillage, but lasting power mediocre, thank God! The house of Montale is consistently disappointing me these days with its lack of inspiration. No more Montales for me, especially blind buys. And I’m still nursing that headache.
Rose, jasmine and Oudh seekers, knock at the door of MANCERA. You won’t be sorry.
sten023 – :
Well you know if its powdery I am going to just love it! When I first sprayed it and came down the stairs my husband said did you just put baby powder on? Yes I agree at first that is what I get but it transitions from a baby rather quickly to an adolescent with its sweetness which I attributle to the tonka. Now as it dries down its reaches adulthood with the balmyness of rose and jasmine. Its rather rich and creamy at this stage!!!! I was lucky to receive this beauty through a swap from a wonderful person here on Fragrantica. If I hadn’t I most definitely would have purchased it on my own.
Rompul – :
This is excellent. It’s not baby powder like Teint de Neige or Talco Delicato, but a grown up powder done in grand belle epoque style. Similar to Profumum Soavissima but less powdery and easier to wear. Soavissima is almost a caricature of a powdery scent. Montale’s is P~E~R~F~E~C~T.
damaamd – :
Unsweetened loukhoum may sound like a contradiction in terms, I am well aware, but it dawned on me this evening that that is precisely what Montale POWDER FLOWERS smells like to me. Not artificially sweetened loukhoum, with sucralose or nutrasweet or saccharine or cyclamates–no, that would be repulsive. Nor even lightly sweetened, “low sugar” loukhoum. No, to my nose, POWDER FLOWERS is the result which one would achieve if sugar were omitted altogether from the recipe.
Powdery, lightly flowery, with rose petals dusted with something pulverized and white but no sugar added whatsoever. I love this scent. It used to remind me of Charles Brosseau L’OMBRE ROSE, and I suppose that it still does vaguely during part of its life. The powdery aspect is very calming, and the composition is rich and airy at the same time. The alkaloid quality which makes loukhoum perfumes addictive to me is present here, but the super-sweetness is utterly absent. Tonka bean is listed among the notes of POWDER FLOWERS, but this is not sweet at all to my nose.
I generally drink beverages such as coffee and tea without sugar. I may add cream to coffee or a stout Assam tea, but I would not add sugar. I may add lemon to certain varieties of tea, and especially when it is iced, but I do not add sugar. In this case, too, I find the powdery flowers (and, yes, this perfume is well named!) to be even more appealing without than with the sugar added. I have to be in a very particular mood to be able to wear a sweet loukhoum perfume, but POWDER FLOWERS is an all-occasion scent and one of the more feminine offerings from the house of Montale. There is no oud within three thousand miles of this perfume!
Inna555 – :
This is terrible on me, all I get from the start is a huge cloying mess of tonka bean, cedar and osmanthus. It is extremely sweet, powdery and unfortunately terrible for me as it induces headache.
It has a monster silage and it lasts all day (unfortunately for me).
Give this a try if you love tonka bean as it clearly dominates “the parade” and overpowers every other note. As for me – totally not working.
Alexander_k – :
The name is a bit of a misnomer. Lots of powder and no flowers at all. I don’t even feel like I’m wearing a perfume, more like I’m covered in powder head to toes.
Weird, but somewhat pleasant.
zipper – :
I havent come across osmanthus before but from what I read, it could be that peachy note mixed with the rose that I detect when I first spray this. After an hour or so, this starts to become powdery retaining the floral notes and stays that way for another 8 hours or until I had washed it off. This is a lovely perfume and very longlasting but medium sillage at first and then becomes more of a skin scent.
smilodon88 – :
improved chanel nr5 on me, veery soapy..regret i bought it 🙁
jollyoga – :
I have a very nice body oil from Dauget. On me Powder Flowers has almost the same ‘dry flower bouquet’ scent with same (low-medium) sillage and lasting power. I like this scent but I don’t think I will ever buy a full bottle, because I can buy this oil for less money.
alina.otenko – :
this one smells like flower-marzipan on my skin 🙂
other times it smells like play-dough or fragranced children’s eraser 🙂
slot77777 – :
Finally found a shop here in the Netherlands where they sell Montale. Got me a sample of Powder Flowers…
To me it smells like L’Heure Bleue’s ‘leftovers’…it’s what you’ll smell in the morning after wearing L’Heure Bleue the day before, when it’s beautyful top- and middle notes has fainted.
Not bad, but after smelling L’Heure Bleue, not worth the money in my opinion