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sheepishWasp3
I have the vintage one with the cap shaped like a flower. I can smell the fresh greens and aldehydes at first. Then florals (mostly powdery iris, but also a little hyacinth and lily of the valley) along with an Avon “Vanilla Musk”, and a honeyed leather (which is the civet). Reminds me standing in a department store in the 1980’s inhaling the scent of new leather goods next to the perfume counter.
If you like fresh, high pitched aldehydes, smooth sweet powdery florals, and civet/leather then you may love it. I like all these things in other scents but there is a bitter dusty undertone to the powder I don’t like. It makes me sneeze and clings to synthetic fabrics through repeated washings. It reminds me of old dusty cardboard / a barely used room that hasn’t seen a vacuum for several months, combined with the acrid scent of non-deodorized armpits that haven’t seen a shower for a few days.
Type – powdery floral green
Top notes – aldehydes, green notes, bergamot, lemon
Heart Notes – cyclamen, rosemary, magnolia, iris, lilac, jasmine, hyacinth, ylang-ylang, lily of the valley
Base Notes – sandalwood, musk, civet
gleefulDove9
Meritorious, but not really my genre. However I think it’s better than many fragrances that are similar.
I shudder to think what is in the pink girly canister above. This is NOT a review of whatever juice in the pink canister, but rather of a new dead stock, somewhat vintage, squat miniature glass bottle with a molded whitish, semi transuscent flower stopper, filled with medium toned warm golden liquid. If Caron vintage Narcisse Blanc extrait was in miniature form, the bottle would look like that.
This is NOT my type of fragrance at all. FdF opens as a softly but distinctly animalic civet (not urinous) aldehydic blended floral of jasmine and LOTV that nevertheless dries down gently with a very subtle green whisper of bitter. (IMO, this dry down lessens the woman in pearls connotation of Chanel 5 or Joy). FdF is amazingly well done; high quality; available on line for reasonable prices; and, easily wearable for those who like vintage fragrances as well as those who shun traditional, classic as overly cloying. If you do like what are generally considered upscale and expensive blended floral scents like Amouage Gold or Vintage EL Beautiful extrait (not my type) or vintage Chant d’ Aromes, but who wish both of those had an animalic facet or the tiniest bite, this should be considered.
Not as powdery, indolic or cloying as similar floral blended fragrances.
IMO, FdF is closer to the softer treatment of aldehydes in Guerlain rather than the sharper treatment of aldehydes in vintage Chanel. To some noses, the softer aldehydes plus civet might come across downy soft (It’s not throat parchingly dry powder). FdF is also less cloying to my mind than Joy extrait (I have only a small sample); or, vintage Piguet Baghari (different flower, but more honeyed and more powdery vintage dry down).
I would have to try Amouage Gold again to refresh my memory, and also check the fragrance accords, but IMO FdF doesn’t have the obvious lift of Frankincense/labdanum in Amouage Gold or EL vintage Beautiful. Perhaps it’s just that the civet and some green hay aspect modifies the Frankincense. I am excited mainly because the civet and the jasmine in FdF do NOT translate as indolic or urinous the way, sadly, vintage Caron Narcisse Noire, vIntage Schiaperelli Shocking, and to a lesser extent, vintage EL Knowing extrait can do.
Gentle green note, no overt LOTV:
For those who might not try this because some reviewers describe it as a green floral, please don’t be dissuaded. i do get the sense of hay and grass in FdF, but gently dried in the sun, therefore not particularly green or sharp. (I think of sharp green as Galbanum, like Vintage square bottle Balmain Vent vert extrait; Guerlain chamade extrait or Chanel 19 vintage EdT – all very different sharp green openings). My Niki de Saint Phalle vintage EdT is less green to my nose than the Balmain/guerlain/chanel trio, and possibly more green than FdF.
Avon Charisma is a civet green floral with citrus that I like very much. Charisma reads as sharper than FdF to my nose. I have an issue with some citrus in warm weather (tends to turn candied on me). I don’t detect any here. Not like a LOTV fragrance. I have read a lot of reviews that compare FdF to diorissimo, I am assuming because of the LOTV accord. FdF is primarily an animalic, secondarily a floral blend. Diorissimo (I am only familiar with vintage diorissimo EdC and EdT, not modern) is a floral sweet LOTV composition, with almost no animalic IMO.
By the time of the Dry down of FdF, the soft animalics have melted into the skin and there is a gentle green hay note with a slight tinge of floral sweetness rather than an overt femme floral.
madPolenta3
Top notes: aldehydes, green notes, bergamot and lemon
Middle notes: cyclamen, rosemary, magnolia, iris, lilac, jasmine, hiacynth, ylang ylang and lily-of-the-valley
Base notes: sandalwood, musk and civet
To me this is a classic Nina Ricci floral on a slightly richer base, that sets it apart in maturity from the other young lovelies in the Ricci line-up. While Fleur de Fleurs is still very feminine and soft, it also has a slighly bolder, womanly aspect, that is the teensiest bit sexy.
FdF opens with a lavish cloud of sweet flowers, from which I was able to discern something purplish like violette, iris or lilac as well as the famous Ricci flowers. Immediately, I noticed that Fleur de Fleurs has more staying power than some of her sisters, which I definitely appreciate. For some reason, although they do not smell similar, FdF reminds me of Guerlain’s Insolence as they are both classic French florals, with a sweet strong thickness that gives it some presence and strength.
As is true with all NR, these must be experienced in the vintage to be properly appreciated.
wornoutBoa0
I have the vintage one with the cap shaped like a flower. I can smell the fresh greens and aldehydes at first. Then florals (mostly powdery iris, but also a little hyacinth and lily of the valley) along with an Avon “Vanilla Musk”, and a honeyed leather (which is the civet). Reminds me standing in a department store in the 1980’s inhaling the scent of new leather goods next to the perfume counter.
If you like fresh, high pitched aldehydes, smooth sweet powdery florals, and civet/leather then you may love it. I like all these things in other scents but there is a bitter dusty undertone to the powder I don’t like. It makes me sneeze and clings to synthetic fabrics through repeated washings. It reminds me of old dusty cardboard / a barely used room that hasn’t seen a vacuum for several months, combined with the acrid scent of non-deodorized armpits that haven’t seen a shower for a few days.
Type – powdery floral green
Top notes – aldehydes, green notes, bergamot, lemon
Heart Notes – cyclamen, rosemary, magnolia, iris, lilac, jasmine, hyacinth, ylang-ylang, lily of the valley
Base Notes – sandalwood, musk, civet
relievedOrange7
Meritorious, but not really my genre. However I think it’s better than many fragrances that are similar.
I shudder to think what is in the pink girly canister above. This is NOT a review of whatever juice in the pink canister, but rather of a new dead stock, somewhat vintage, squat miniature glass bottle with a molded whitish, semi transuscent flower stopper, filled with medium toned warm golden liquid. If Caron vintage Narcisse Blanc extrait was in miniature form, the bottle would look like that.
This is NOT my type of fragrance at all. FdF opens as a softly but distinctly animalic civet (not urinous) aldehydic blended floral of jasmine and LOTV that nevertheless dries down gently with a very subtle green whisper of bitter. (IMO, this dry down lessens the woman in pearls connotation of Chanel 5 or Joy). FdF is amazingly well done; high quality; available on line for reasonable prices; and, easily wearable for those who like vintage fragrances as well as those who shun traditional, classic as overly cloying. If you do like what are generally considered upscale and expensive blended floral scents like Amouage Gold or Vintage EL Beautiful extrait (not my type) or vintage Chant d’ Aromes, but who wish both of those had an animalic facet or the tiniest bite, this should be considered.
Not as powdery, indolic or cloying as similar floral blended fragrances.
IMO, FdF is closer to the softer treatment of aldehydes in Guerlain rather than the sharper treatment of aldehydes in vintage Chanel. To some noses, the softer aldehydes plus civet might come across downy soft (It’s not throat parchingly dry powder). FdF is also less cloying to my mind than Joy extrait (I have only a small sample); or, vintage Piguet Baghari (different flower, but more honeyed and more powdery vintage dry down).
I would have to try Amouage Gold again to refresh my memory, and also check the fragrance accords, but IMO FdF doesn’t have the obvious lift of Frankincense/labdanum in Amouage Gold or EL vintage Beautiful. Perhaps it’s just that the civet and some green hay aspect modifies the Frankincense. I am excited mainly because the civet and the jasmine in FdF do NOT translate as indolic or urinous the way, sadly, vintage Caron Narcisse Noire, vIntage Schiaperelli Shocking, and to a lesser extent, vintage EL Knowing extrait can do.
Gentle green note, no overt LOTV:
For those who might not try this because some reviewers describe it as a green floral, please don’t be dissuaded. i do get the sense of hay and grass in FdF, but gently dried in the sun, therefore not particularly green or sharp. (I think of sharp green as Galbanum, like Vintage square bottle Balmain Vent vert extrait; Guerlain chamade extrait or Chanel 19 vintage EdT – all very different sharp green openings). My Niki de Saint Phalle vintage EdT is less green to my nose than the Balmain/guerlain/chanel trio, and possibly more green than FdF.
Avon Charisma is a civet green floral with citrus that I like very much. Charisma reads as sharper than FdF to my nose. I have an issue with some citrus in warm weather (tends to turn candied on me). I don’t detect any here. Not like a LOTV fragrance. I have read a lot of reviews that compare FdF to diorissimo, I am assuming because of the LOTV accord. FdF is primarily an animalic, secondarily a floral blend. Diorissimo (I am only familiar with vintage diorissimo EdC and EdT, not modern) is a floral sweet LOTV composition, with almost no animalic IMO.
By the time of the Dry down of FdF, the soft animalics have melted into the skin and there is a gentle green hay note with a slight tinge of floral sweetness rather than an overt femme floral.
shyPaella4
Top notes: aldehydes, green notes, bergamot and lemon
Middle notes: cyclamen, rosemary, magnolia, iris, lilac, jasmine, hiacynth, ylang ylang and lily-of-the-valley
Base notes: sandalwood, musk and civet
To me this is a classic Nina Ricci floral on a slightly richer base, that sets it apart in maturity from the other young lovelies in the Ricci line-up. While Fleur de Fleurs is still very feminine and soft, it also has a slighly bolder, womanly aspect, that is the teensiest bit sexy.
FdF opens with a lavish cloud of sweet flowers, from which I was able to discern something purplish like violette, iris or lilac as well as the famous Ricci flowers. Immediately, I noticed that Fleur de Fleurs has more staying power than some of her sisters, which I definitely appreciate. For some reason, although they do not smell similar, FdF reminds me of Guerlain’s Insolence as they are both classic French florals, with a sweet strong thickness that gives it some presence and strength.
As is true with all NR, these must be experienced in the vintage to be properly appreciated.
lyingSalt3
Indeed Fleur de Fleurs has relatively poor lasting power on some people, fortunately I can still smell it on me after two three hours, which is OK for me. Fleur de Fleurs is a very soft, feminine floral scent, top note is short-lived, but the heart note, which is a blend of Lily of the valley, Jasmine, Rose, Magnolia (according to ozmoz.com) with a soft musky dry down really impressed me a lot. DH loves it too. Only wish it can last a little bit longer!
similarSyrup8
It’s too bad that Nina’s scents are so light. This one has the potential to be a 4 lippie rating. It has some really nice floral powder notes to it, if you can smell it after 2 minutes! I won’t repurchase because I don’t want to pay this much for something that I can’t smell for more than a minute on my skin. The only exception with Ricci’s scents is L’Air du Temps & even then I have to put 4-5 spritzes on to last all day.
dopeyBasmati8
This is a very typical Nina Ricci scent, very floral, soft and delicate. However, it takes time to like it because there is something unusual in it. So hang in there before you decide whether you like it or not.
dopeyPolenta8
I’m having a love-hate relationship with Fleur de Fleur. For those of you who find note lists helpful, Parfumsraffy.com lists its notes as: bergamot, greens, lemon, aldehydes, may rose, Grasse jasmine, iris, hyacinth, ylang-ylang, lily of the valley, lilac, cyclamen, magnolia, sandalwood, civet, and musk. When I first spray it on, I don’t know exactly what I’m smelling, but I don’t care for it—I know that this isn’t one of the note choices, but it smells more like narcissus, or dandelion. As with so many Nina Ricci EDTs, it moves within a couple of minutes to its next, much nicer stage—it’s a very lovely, much softer, more traditional rosy/lilac/jasmine scent, with a bit of ylang-ylang thrown in. Very pretty, and nicer than a number of unremarkable florals. The florals linger with the nice sandalwood-musk end. The middle and the end are very nice, but the beginning’s not my cuppa, and this is yet another Nina Ricci EDT that moves through its stages very quickly for its price, even for an EDT. Start to finish takes about an hour, and although it lasts several hours afterward, it is so very faint that you have to push skin to nose to tell it’s there. (I don’t like my fragrances extra-strong, but it would be nice if someone standing, say, a foot from me could detect a whiff now and then.) There are *plenty* of EDTs out there with better staying power and strength control.