Les Senteurs Gourmandes
Les Senteurs Gourmandes
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A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The bergamot and peach burst through first, almost citric in their urgency, with hyacinth adding a cool, slightly soapy green backdrop. It feels fresh-faced and morning-bright, the sweet notes still muted beneath the fruit's natural tartness.
The orange blossom emerges as the citrus settles, and the almond begins its slow unfurling—warm, creamy, distinctly marzipan-adjacent. The powdery accord becomes noticeable here, lending a soft, dusty quality that sits somewhere between talc and cake flour, deepening the gourmand character without artifice.
What remains is predominantly almond and vanilla over sandalwood's barely-there warmth—a skin scent that smells vaguely edible, creamy rather than sharp. The florality has retreated entirely, leaving only the ghost of something sweet and intimate clinging close to the body.
Amande Fleurie arrives as a calculated indulgence—the olfactory equivalent of almond frangipane tart dusted with hyacinth petals. The fragrance wears its confectionery heart openly, yet resists the cloying trap many gourmand fragrances tumble into. Instead, there's a delicate tension at work: the bergamot and peach top notes introduce a honeyed brightness that prevents the sweetness from becoming saccharine, whilst the orange blossom in the heart provides a subtle herbal counterpoint, keeping everything tethered to earthy florality.
This is a fragrance for those who appreciate restraint in their indulgence. It's unisex not through androgynous blending, but through its refusal to perform femininity or masculinity—it simply smells like almond cream and flowers, neither precious nor austere. The sandalwood base is barely detectable as a separate entity; instead, it functions as a creamy substrate, softening the vanilla and amplifying the almond's warm, slightly buttery character. You wear this on languid afternoons, perhaps whilst reading in a sunlit room, or during autumn's liminal hours when the air turns honeyed and still. It's for those moments when you want to smell gourmand without announcing it, when you seek comfort wrapped in the faintest whisper of florality.
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