Description
The story behind the fragrance, from The Perfume Lover book by Denyse Beaulieu:
“I am in Seville, standing under a bitter orange tree in full bloom in the arms of Román, the black-clad Spanish boy who is not yet my lover. Since sundown, we’ve been watching the religious brotherhoods in their pointed caps and habits thread their way across the old Moorish town in the wake of gilded wood floats bearing statues of Christ and the Virgin Mary. This is the Madrugada, the longest night of Holy Week, and the whole city has poured into the streets: the processions will go on until the dawn sky is streaked with hunting swallows. In the tiny white-washed plaza in front of the church, wafts of lavender cologne rise from the tightly pressed bodies. As altar boys swing their censers, throat-stinging clouds of sizzling resins – humanity’s millennia-old message to the gods – cut through the fatty honeyed smell of the penitents’ beeswax candles.
Under the silver-embroidered velvet of her dais, the Madonna, crystal tears on her cheek, tilts her head towards the spicy white lilies and carnations tumbling from her float. She is being carried into the golden whorls of a baroque chapel, smoothly manoeuvred in and out, in and out, in and out – they say the bearers get erections as they do this – while Román’s hand runs down my black lace shift and up my thigh to tangle with my garter-belt straps. His breath on my neck smells of blond tobacco and the manzanilla wine we’ve been drinking all night – here in Seville, Holy Week is a pagan celebration: resurrection is a foregone conclusion and there is no need to mourn or repent. As the crowd shifts to catch a last sight of the float before the chapel doors shut behind it, the church exhales a cold old-stone gust. I am in the pulsing, molten-gold heart of Seville, thrust into her fragrant flesh, and there is no need for Román to take me to bed at dawn: he’s already given me the night.” Seville a l’Aube was launched in 2012. The nose behind this fragrance is Bertrand Duchaufour.
naata – :
I’ve smelt around 200 fragrances and this is the only one that make me feel nauseous. Try it first, don’t blind buy it.
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Enor – :
I’ve been wearing this for the past couple of months and I’m still not entirely sure how I feel about it. When I bought it, my “I must own every L’Artisan perfume ever created” (especially those by Bertrand Duchafour) obsession had reached its fever pitch, and at just $45 for a 100 ml bottle, a blind buy felt justified.
This is certainly a beautiful, seductive fragrance, just as the story behind it implies. Lush, fragrant orange blossom, lavender, and jasmine swirl through billowing whiffs of tobacco, while sticky benzoin and beeswax yield something much less ephemeral than traditional citrus scents. It’s a very sturdy, juicy-smelling perfume, one that I think would be particularly well suited to someone with a naturally musky scent, to help soften its sugary bite.
In spite of this perfume’s sweetness, I can’t help feeling that it would work better as a men’s fragrance. In fact, I had my husband wear it today, and its syrupy quality immediately took a backseat. Séville became much more spicy, deep, and green. I think my own chemistry is what’s holding me back from truly loving this scent.
Carlito – :
God, this is gorgeous. It just smells orange, yet never sharp like a lot of citruses do. Beautifully smooth, sweet and harmonious with a smoky edge that elevates it.
For some reason I am taken back to holidays in France when I was a teenager.
I wish I’d had it earlier in the year for the heatwave, I bet this beauty really shines on a hot day.
The husband told me off for sniffing myself repeatedly!
simka78mailru – :
Ever-changing and deceptive, this one – a medieval city full of twists and turns, forever surprising you with the unexpected. Also provides utterly different experiences on different days, different skins or different weather. Its orange blossom is classic and beautiful; I went into it expecting much zingier, juicier orange, with loads of peel and zest, and at first was disappointed not to find them – it’s all blossom and even drier, bark-like petitgrain. But this is on its own sort of journey – to dry, almost dusty, almost ambery sweetness for hours and hours and HOURS. So it’s absolutely not another vanishing citrus-cologne or limp L’Artisan on the longevity front.
The biggest surprise of all on me is the HUGE presence of beeswax – on my skin this melds with the incense to become almost overwhelming in some moments, very definitely the smell of a church processional with great flaming old-fashioned braziers and candles all ablaze. Great pulses of sweetness, too, oddly not honey (despite all the honeycomb all around) but a little drier and lighter than that, so it must be the benzoin, I guess. While the beginning reminds me a little of a much-less-spicy and patchouli-less Monegal Entre Naranjos, the great long stretch of dry powdery amberesque stuff later reminded me oddly of that great dry down of Guerlain Neroli Outrenoir. But that unapologetic waxiness makes it smell, most of all, to me like a giant organic candle shop – so it just depends if that’s somewhere you will feel comfortable.
It all gets incredibly heady and very sweet – almost too much so – but it’s never less than charming and lasts aaaaages. Gets compliments. Not shy, but extraordinary value for money if you get a good deal on it… and for those who can keep up the pace, this is a long parade that’s really worth joining. Ole, Sevilla!
vaagupov – :
~LOVE~
On first application I thought this smelled a little too mature for me, but after testing it 3 times i’m falling in love. It’s citrusy, waxy, and creamy. It smells fresh and floral but also has a herbal “dirty” edge from the tobacco. It’s warm, calming and soothing.
haikoo777 – :
This is the most beautiful sweet fragrance with long wear and it never changes or dries down to something different. From the moment it leaves the bottle until you wash it off it is exactly the same scent.
I just got 2 large bottles on EBay within a week of each other for $40 each. One was 75% full and the other 99% full free shipping I was happy like I won the lottery. I was stunned! Like I found a diamond ring.
This is my most favorite summer fragrance. You must like sweet orange and the very fragrance of fresh cut stems. It is absolutely ethereal.
Ilyushka13 – :
First: this is really, really powerful.
I tested it yesterday and after working my horse for an hour in 90 degree heat I could still smell it strongly over our own sweaty scent. Very few perfumes can manage that.
However, it doesn’t work for me. I’m not sure what it is because the main notes are things I love and work great in other perfumes. But this is just too darn SOMETHING. It almost smells like “pollen” to me, a huge blast of pollen. It makes the back of my throat tickle and just feels out of place. I’ll try it again because I really want to like this.
artem7711 – :
My experience with this fragrance seems to be a little different to the reviews I’ve read. I do get the neroli, the tobacco/incense and olive blossom (fades quickly) but I don’t get ANY honeycomb note which is surprising. I can detect the Benzoin in the dry down which is like a vanilla-orange kind of happy scent. I really love this fragrance, it’s surprisingly long lasting for L’artisan which I’ve read doesn’t have the best longevity. It’s a sweet, warm weather scent that might be able to be worn in the fall as well because of that smoky incense note.
My boyfriend said “you smell like those multivitamin gummies, it’s not a bad smell I like them”… oh well, I still love it!
ynb093Bessinepome – :
Opens with whoosh of orange blossom laced with petigrain, later the beeswax comes to the fore giving it an almost creamy texture. This is a heady, disarmingly sweet scent but not in a cloyingly sugary way. Lavender is hard to detect but sometimes I sense it there, giving a herbal shadow that holds the orange blossom’s sweetness in check. First few times, although I loved it from first sniff, I could not understand how others had gotten incense/smoke/tobacco. Today, about the fifth wear over a month, for the first time I sense a very faint smokiness. It’s almost imperceptible and more a texture at the back of the throat rather than an obvious note but I think it’s there. Perhaps it’s the tobacco. It gives just a little earthy depth, a little darkness. I love it even more for it. Best performance by far out of around 10 L’artisans that I’ve tried. Out of around 100 fragrances I’ve sniffed over the last 6 months, this is now in my top 3 (the other two are Coromandel and Penhaligon’s Paithani). Swoonworthy. No question that I must have a bottle.
Edit: Just to add that I didn’t come to this scent with expectations or hoping to love it. I had ordered ‘The Perfume Lover’ out of general interest in fragrance, and the opportunity came up to sample it (thank you SailorV) so I thought it would be nice, more as a reference point for the book. I do really like orange blossom but for some reason I’ve always thought of it more as a room spray/body cream note rather than one that immediately attracts me to a perfume. But this fragrance obviously took me from sideways. It’s gorgeous but I don’t think it’s a good blind buy though, simply because it’s not really a perfume that compromises.
EXelent – :
A succulent elixir of magical proportions!
braileall – :
Still Life with Basket and Six Oranges by Vincent van Gogh 1888
qweasttgxwheyar – :
This is SO sweet on me. I’ve tested it 3 times now, each time hoping to get some of the floral and incense notes. I love both orange blossom and lavender, so theoretically this should be perfect. However, with my skin chemistry, I get a light orange blossom for all of 10 minutes before the honey takes over…. for the next 8 hours. Very dense, chewy honeycomb. Crazy sillage, tremendous longevity, and an absolute sugar bomb. I can’t do it, but I’ll hold onto my sample and try again later because I really do want to like it.
adga – :
Séville à l’Aube is such a beautiful name for a perfume that I think I would have been heartbroken if I turned out not to like it – I love titles that mention specific places or times, and everything just sounds more poetic in French, so idiotic as it may sound I was pretty near sold on this one before even trying it.
Luckily, the scent itself matches the beauty of the name. It’s a wonderful orange blossom fragrance – natural and creamy and little soapy at first, which is very nice, and even better later on as the honeyed beeswax note becomes more prominent and the sweetness of the blossoms more pronounced. It’s on the feminine side of unisex, with perfect sillage for an hour or two before it retreats more closely to the skin.
So I wasn’t disappointed: if Sevilla really smells like this, at dawn or at any other time, I think I’ll have to revise my travel plans for this year! And if I can’t, I’ll certainly go there often in my imagination with this teleportation device of a perfume as my guide…
Dyrokolic – :
First spray:
HUGE soapy orange blossom, lavender, and strong beeswax.
(I don’t get along with beeswax, so I was happy that this note faded to light honey pretty quickly.)
Somewhere in the middle, this reminds me of MAC’s long discontinued MV2 (lavender and ice cream yumminess)
Drydown:
Soft orange blossom and very light vanilla, with whispers of incense.
Beautiful.
atf891Unlogrere – :
This is orange (blossom) that does not suit me.
The scent itself is very interesting, but on me, it has a few not flattering phases. It is so bitter, it smells like it’s rotten already. Also, the fact I am sad about the most is that this smells like an orange peel. But not real, juicy orange, it’s the commercial one, the big one, without taste, sprayed with toxic boosters, which you can taste if you lick the peel. I guess the beeswax adds something synthetic and too sharp.
When it settles down, it is okay. It really gets kind of mediterranean, with olive blossom and lavender. It is citrusy and green, I was expecting it would be more white.
Otherwise, it is a high quality fragrance with good performance.
21033218 – :
Seville a l’Aube is really wonderful, a happy spring/summer scent. The initial phase reminds me of an orange creamsicle. After that burns off, I’m left with a beautiful, creamy but complex orange blossom with an underlying smokey incense vibe.
Big love from me. I wear it often, a warm sensual perfume that really has a unique and multifaceted quality that I can never seem to fully understand. Seville a l’Aube embodies all the reasons why I love niche perfume.
I can not imagine ever letting this one go. I get about 4 hours before it turns to a skin scent, that’s very good performance from my experience with l’Artisan. This is a masterpiece.
bardahaev – :
We are having a 75′ day in February, so I put on Seville A’Laub.
I put it back in my “have” collection. I display my top 60, but I have 100 fragrances. The other 40 I display as “likes”.
Man, this is great. I can’t feel comfortable wearing a lot of unisex floral frags. But I like floral smell, gardenia, and some white flowers, like the great orange blosom here.
This is a very floral fragrance, most guys could feel comfortable with. It’s green, fresh, yet has some great warm notes, a distinct beeswax note.
This has a similar structure to Tom Ford Private Blend Velvet Gardenia, that has Gardenia and beeswax as the main accord.
SeoDor – :
I bought Seville a l’ Aube (Seville) when it launched. It was around the time I discovered Grain de Musc and Denyse was commenting on her upcoming release of the Perfume Lover and the scent. The storytelling got me hooked; if anyone has visited Seville in Easter/early spring, there’s an unmistakable orange blossom (azahar) smell that permeates the entire city, becoming intoxicating at night when the heat surfaces from the streets.
And make no mistake, Seville captures not only that smell, but also the smoke from the cathedrals and the sweat of bodies as they touch. This is a highly charged orange blossom, that retains a certain cologne freshness, so loved in the hot Spanish summer with the use of petit grain and lavender. What starts as a morning stroll around the city, ends in a random encounter with a beautiful stranger and a hot one night stand.
The beeswax, the jasmine, the resins, all add up to the carnal and slightly animalic base that ends up smelling narcotic and highly sensual.
Orange blossom has many facets; fresh, clean, honeyed, dirty; Seville slowly showcases all of them, ending at an orange grove at night, where the blossoms are in full bloom, accompanied by the smell of incense burning, all the while retaining an amazing sparkling freshness till the end.
Sillage and longevity are amazing, and the juice as it ages becomes a deep amber color, gaining more sensuality. Stains light colored clothes so take that into account.
Denyse has captured the feel of the city and the passion of the book in the fragrance, making one feel like the Perfume Lover. Excellent, especially on men as it gains an even darker quality!
dulitl4 – :
When I smelled this perfume first from the bottle, honestly I thought that the main note is orange, and I thought that it’s a lovely Christmas scent. But after I checked the notes, and I saw, that there is not orange in it. The orange blossom and the beeswax smelled together like orange. But on the skin, it smells just like orange blossom and the beeswax. And it smells wonderfully. I very like this perfume.
FriendSavannah – :
This is one of the strongest and heaviest perfumes i have.
Sometimes i wear it happily, others it is too much. Very longlasting, over 12 hours constant distinct smell, but no one has complained so far!
I believe it is the beeswax that is extremely dominant here, and the orange blossom fills my head and my nostrils. Then there are some sweet notes in the background, but the first ones speak volumes.
Today i layered it with Chocolate Greedy by Montale, so it became foodier and sweeter. I actually prefered it like this. However, after 12 hours, i nearly smell only the Seville on my skin.
It silences all the surrounding smells. Isn’t that too much???
riordan – :
STUNNING! One of the best perfumes I’ve ever smelled – I was so bummed when the 2 ml sample I ordered was finished (and I found out how much the full thing costs).
An amazing orange blossom with honey, beeswax and herbal/hay/sweet tobacco undertones. I know hay isn’t mentioned but it seemed to exist somewhere in the background.
I’m from the Mediterranean and it smells like afternoons in quaint rural churches, with the Mediterranean flora in full blossom all around. Absolutely beautiful, 10/10 just for the scent, even though projection and longevity were only average to above average.
bar675Unlogrere – :
These notes read like a dream to me,and it opens a sweet honeyed orange blossom. The drydown, though, goes off. The waxiness and the lilies take this from a moonlit orange grove to a dark sepulcher, no longer sweet and beguiling, but cloying and a bit unnerving, like necking in a mausoleum. I wanted this to be taboo and hot, but rather than a hot night in the arms of a local, this is a strange necrophilia, cold and clammy and wrong.
matvej – :
Wow! I love to wear this languid, sensual scent in the hot summer months. It makes me feel happy and carefree, elegant yet approachable.
Nobody paints an olfactory story quite like Monsieur Duchaufour;I will never forget smelling Sienne l’Hiver for the first time – talk about atmospheric!
The herbal quality of the lavender used with the orange blossom top notes is truly stunning. Incense also makes an appearance (Duchaufour’s signature note)and the beeswax adds an animalic, slightly naughty aspect.
I would happily wear this every day. I need this perfume in my life.
soykino – :
Seville a L’Aube is a fascinating perfume, very much in the classical tradition, but not totally classical. It is multi-faceted for sure, but has a linear feel that makes it a modern composition. I absolutely love the dry floral neroli aspect of the opening, which I find very novel indeed. The sweetness is intense, but the dry opening and balsamic base tame the sweetness of the white florals quite well. People seem to believe this is an intellectual or academic perfume and I have to agree. For me I don’t reach for it often for this reason. It’s aesthetics are hobbled by the story we all know about. It would have been better if the perfumer were given more artistic license. I base that assessment on the book that describes this perfume’s creation. Nevertheless this is a great perfume and should be assessed on its own merits.
murkatepa – :
So contradictory, this is a an oily sweet orange blossom, albeit one that’s unapologetically melded with the waxed candles that were left to burn down into the resinous tar on the hot dish they were sitting in three hours ago. What’s left is a juxtaposition of creamy, near pastry shop sweetness competing with the fizzing undercurrant of tobacco and ambroxin. This perfume is cloying on me, alternating between too sweet and too tartly sour and that’s coming from a jasmine lover.
Not to say I don’t like it but I can’t imagine how I would possibly wear it. I tried to like it, the write up is super sexy, I appreciate the challenging nuances of its composition but this is not remotely seductive on me nor (regrettably) is it an easy wear on my skin.
Wongobgow – :
Seville a L’Aube is a rich orange blossom fragrance by L’Artisan that shuns the usual subtlety of other L’Artisan fragrances, and opts for a more direct and robust constitution. It begins with a piercing, rich and bittersweet neroli and petitgrain accord, laced with lavender. This is soon joined by a honeyed beeswax note that provides a sweet counterbalance to the initial bitterness. This neroli-beeswax accord forms the centrepiece of the composition, which is joined by incensy-balsamic notes in the base where one gets hints of benzoin. I experience a persistent but close to skin sillage, and an average duration of six to seven hours. This also feels much more bodacious compared to other L’Artisan fragrances.
Seville a L’Aube is an interesting fragrance among orange blossom compositions. It’s definitely not a fresh take, and is thus different from Nicolai’s Cologne Sologne or Neroli by Czech & Speake. It’s closer in structure to compositions like Fleurs d’Oranger (Lutens) or Neroli Outrenoir. It employs sufficient complexity, and is quite enjoyable – especially after the initial phase. I prefer the Lutens due to its contrasting and interesting dose of cumin with neroli, and the only reason I do not find Seville a L’Aube more compelling is because of personal taste – and also the fact that orange blossom is not among my favourite notes.
A definite recommendation for anyone looking for a substantial orange blossom fragrance.
3/5 (neutral)
ytaps – :
Oh, my. I really am enjoying this. I’d never smelled a beeswax accord and I am over the moon with this. Really meaty. I get this feeling as if I’m chewing on a piece of honeycomb. The neroli is really strong. Nothing light about it. Someone commented on this being ” syrupy” and I totally agree. It is languid. Gorgeous! I think I could work with a full bottle! 😮
TemuninownCom – :
Séville à l’Aube is one of Bertrand Duchaufour’s more mercurial compositions. I’ve worn it on numerous occasions, but I still don’t feel like I’m any closer to understanding its true nature. Sweet and delicate, but paradoxically rich and sour, Séville à l’Aube somehow straddles the divide between floral intensity and deep oriental abstraction. In other words, it’s undoubtedly a Duchaufour creation.
Séville à l’Aube opens with a beautifully sweet floral accord that evokes the blossoms of the bitter orange tree, otherwise known as the Seville orange. It is bolstered almost immediately by the warmth of rich, waxy, ever-so-slightly dusty beeswax. There’s also a peculiar creaming soda/cola accord, likely created by the mix of sweet, fizzy opoponax with orange blossom, the latter of which evokes the neroli said to be among Coca-Cola’s secret ingredients. There’s a real tension between sweet and sour from the top to the bottom; fortunately, the whole composition is grounded by a resinous incense base that prevents it from floating off too far into bittersweet abstraction.
Do I like Séville à l’Aube? Well, yes and no. It’s definitely one of the most unique scents I’ve encountered, yet it still manages to be incredibly wearable. On the other hand, it feels a little too much like an intellectual exercise – a fragrance that wows the mind, rather than stirs the heart, despite the sensual narrative spun by L’Artisan’s marketing department. It’s too warm to leave me cold, but too aloof to clutch close to my chest. Ultimately, for me, Séville à l’Aube is a beautiful contradiction – easy to like, but harder to love.
DAISY20Glass – :
It’s like someone took the orange blossom and honey from Elie Saab Le Parfum Intense, the corn tortilla from Tom Ford Orchid Soleil and the vanilla and a touch of the green from Guerlain Angelique Noire and made them into one fragrance. Also, extremely recognizable as a Bertrand Duchaufour creation. You can easily smell elements of Havana Vanille and Traversee du Bosphore
karina777 – :
This might sound strange, but I always think Seville a l’Aube is the niche version of Armani Code. While they officially only share two notes, orange blossom and jasmine, I find they are still similar, especially in the drydown. Both sweet honeyed orange blossom. They aren’t twins though.
Especially the first impression is different. Seville a l’Aube is a bit herbal at first, with lavender and some other fresh-spicy note mixing with the orange blossom. The beeswax/honey sweetness comes later. I’m surprised there is no vanilla in the notes, on my skin it smells a bit like vanilla. Maybe even a little like a floral orange creamsicle – but still not immaturely sweet.
Overall it’s less fruity-floral than Code, and a tad more masculine, even though still a very feminine fragrance and not really unisex for my taste.
I bought Seville a l’Aube for 40 € at tkmaxx and haven’t used it much, though I like it a lot. I think it’s because it reads as summer scent for me, but is quite strong and the silage can be overwhelming in hot weather. So it might be best for summer evenings.
glebomama0506 – :
Perhaps the most frustrating thing about Seville a l’Aube is just how damn good it could have been. The seemingly perfect list of notes alone is enough to warrant a blind buy. What’s presented is a highly conceptual, artistic perfume accompanied by a somewhat racy book, but to the average nose it’s nothing more than a cloying orange creamsicle. Shame because unlike other offerings in the L’Artisan house, the longevity is outstanding. So what exactly went wrong with Seville a l’Aube? Well I for one could care less whether it hits the nail on the head in terms of the story and imagery that inspired it, so that’s not an issue. For me there’s just a balance problem severely hindering this perfume from doing what it could potentially do so well. First and foremost, it’s aggressively floral. Orange blossom and jasmine are center stage here, and I’m not sure if it’s them or the beeswax to blame for the sweetness being cranked up way too high. The use of incense is very much Duchaufour’s signature light, ghostly style, perhaps in line with Comme des Garcons Incense Kyoto which I absolutely love, but Seville a l’Aube begs for something much, much earthier. The tobacco and incense simply aren’t doing much and keep things really powdery rather than providing some much needed deep, narcotic smoke. This may just be a real chameleon of a scent because opinions are so varied, but on me the real deal breaker is just how unnecessarily sweet it is. Even through the dry down it remains very Pez candy like, almost sickly. There’s just some real weight missing, like a band without any low end. There’s something simultaneously synthetic and airy about it that makes me shudder the same way a sip of Diet Coke does.
Timo Laine – :
Sadly, with my body chemistry this smells overwhelmingly like a corn tortilla on me. I’m glad this works for other people though because what I could smell underneath the corn tortilla was quite nice!
npo_100 – :
This I love, not least because there’s something ever so slightly unsettling about its sensuality; I guess I should say it challenges me a little. Quite sexy. For something inspired by Holy Week there’s not much holy about it. Fleshy. Fecund. Seemingly feminine yet… something masculine lingers beneath? Delicious. I always get compliments from strangers, friends, males, & females alike. Rich. Satisfyingly strong yet elegant enough. Dare I say vintage-esque? Smells more early summer evening than spring to me despite, again, the dawn during Semana Santa storyline. But then, if this indeed is what Seville smells like during that week, I’m delighted to have such a potent postcard in the form of this appetitive piquing potion!
Beautiful!
Personally, I prefer the old packaging, labels, and golden caps but at least the lovely, heavy L’AP bottles remain.
★★★★☆
Assassin_0136 – :
I make it a habit to check out fragrances that claim to have honey or beeswax notes, so I naturally sought out l’Artisan’s Seville a l’Aube. It is the chewiest version of beeswax I’ve ever found. So earthy and grounding. I love it. I find myself craving it. Even just a sniff from the bottle is satisfying some days, especially in the winter. There are plenty of feminine honey scents to be found, and this unisex option is such a nice balance for days when you want something completely different. The tobacco note becomes increasingly apparent over time. It smells good, but you have to enjoy tobacco scents to think so. While there are other notes worth mentioning, I think the beeswax and tobacco are the standouts. They’re what differentiate it from within my embarrassingly large fragrance collection. A standout in the l’Artisan line.
Eli4-vredinka – :
It’s about chemistry. Literally. Don’t waste your time spraying over blotter. Your skin is a part of this fragrance. Important one. I’ve never experienced such behavior of a frag before.
Beeswax, orange flowers, tabacco
Luv
savelich73 – :
To my nose, the short story is orange blossom + beeswax + something smokey, incense-like. The lavender doesn’t register as such, but it gives the composition its overall herbal vibe.
Despite its creation myth, I don’t find it particularly sexy (Serge Lutens’ Fleurs d’Oranger is super sexy to me), that is to say, it’s office and elevator appropriate and on the right person it could even be austere.
Incredibly long-lasting on me.
It’s very original, can’t think of anything like it, and very beautiful too. You must like beeswax though, because it’s very prominent here.
WasyRoory – :
The most important thing I can say about Seville at Dawn, is to men looking for a great orange blosom fragrance, that this is truly universal or leaning masculine, this is one worth checking out !
OK, this is not leaning masculine because it’s not a Neroli, but a floral orange blosom. It is truly gender-neutral.
I just put it in my top 5 and #1 L’Artisan fragrance.
I was looking for a great Neroli fragrance that was more floral, and I can’t wear girly unisex frags, but this is beautiful!
Over the past two years, this is becoming my most appreciated L Artisan fragrance (of 7) I have.
It may be to masculine for many woman because of the beeswax and balsamic resins. It may be to feminine for most guys, because it is predominantly a white floral fragrance.
For me it’s just right.
My mother was a florist, and I enjoy flower smells, but don’t like most unisex florals that tend to be feminine.
So, this is a unique orange blosom and beeswax frag, that is also very green, like watery tulip stems. So it is very natural and transporting to a country side in Spain perhaps.
The balsamic notes are not to heavy, but give the frag substance and versatility. This can be refreshing yet warming in the Winter time. It is an edp, and performance and value are great! This can be found on eBay for under $100/100 ml.
Update: Enjoying it on a rainy Summer day. The beeswax is strong and true note as some have said. The florals are fresh and not girly. The fragrance is fresh enough for Summer, maybe the orange leaves, and yes you could say it’s herbal. One of L’Artisan’s best fragrances.
Rating: 9.5/10
Merry Christmas. John 3:16
superGENs – :
interesting, spiced powdery scent. dark. sexy. we start off green, but then there are flowers and oranges, licorice root, beeswax and sweetness.
I will pass my sample on to my husband and hope he wears it to the last drop.
pozdeyyy – :
Artisan is one of houses I’ve always had good feeling about it and always wanted to try it’s fragrances
I thought I’d love this one since orange blossom, honey,lavender and benzoin are among my favorite notes
When I dabbed it’s sample on my skin I was shocked.I could detect mentioned notes but unfortunately they’re buried under a sharp,green,herbal scent.I don’t know it’s petit green,olive blossom, olibanum or a mixture of them but I can smell something vegetative.as if I cut a bunch of vegetables and my hand smells grassy and green
I can’t stand green scents so no wonder I dislike Seville L’aube.after more than 2 hours this green smell calms down a bit so a little sweetness shows up.but it’s too late and that vegetative thing hasn’t faded completely
I think my skin chemistry has problem with olibanum because when I tried Amouage opus VIII I could smell lots of greenery too
Longevity is very good,sillage is also good especially during first hours
It’s a warm weather scent and if you like your orange blossom with an aromatic,fresh,herbal undertone give it a try
❤
dimonbizon – :
bitter orange blossom
neither sweet nor floral
beewax makes this fragrance dusty
lavender makes this weird
drydown is good but not my cup of tea
anton1985 – :
The beeswax (which I normally hate on my skin) is a dirty honey, on me.
This perfume is amazing, and smells like a skankier, dirtier l’Instant ~ with orange blossom instead of lemon.
sbsem – :
2/10
timofei_84_45 – :
Honey-sweet orange blossom which reminds me of lychee. Tiny bit of a turned fruit smell that intoxicates the bee and renders it not quite clean, definitely not crisp and neither overtly sexy nor dirty.
I love to layer it with the more crisp, bitter green of Profumum Roma Neroli which for me provides the perfect balance of bitter and sweet. While I also enjoy each on its own, the blending steps it up a notch to create an individual orange blossom/neroli fragrance like no other.
I wasn’t so sure about Seville at first because of its sour quality, but it dries down nicely to a sweet, not quite gourmand orange blossom. One single spritz is enough for summer; any more than that cloys because it is not a cooling, fresh scent. It will carry well into autumn and even winter. Very cozy somehow and aromatic; a unique take on orange blossom which I love.
kegor2004 – :
I love this – my husband wears it a lot. The lavender and incense add a masculine twist to the oriental, honey sweetness of the florals. It is chewy without feeling dense, sexy without being too floral. The sillage is excellent. I did not like it on me but I love it on him.
Husapauck – :
An orange blossom perfume that is all at once sweet and creamy, leafy and green, waxy and smoky. This is so perfectly blended as every note melds into the other with no rough edges. Projection begins quite loud, but very quickly settles into a perfectly well behaved but superbly long lasting fragrance that works beautifully on me as a man.
dtb256Bessinepome – :
Sweet beewax full of orange blossom and a bit jasmine pollen. I think the addition of lavender, tobacco and olive blossom notes is what it gives it a complex creamy development connected with the sweetness of benzoin in the drydown. I don’t find this one fresh at all, it is almost syrupy. Somehow it is more of a spring