Eau de Charlotte (1982)
by Annick Goutal

It's delicious, from first sniff to drydown. Like L'eau Hadrien, it works in every season, but opens up wonderfully on bare skin in the sunlight. Hard to be blue when you smell this.

I LOVE this fragrance. I have wanted for so long to find a sophisticated, light, wearable, complex fragrance and this is it. The berry is not overly sweet and combines beautifully with the mimosa and lily of the valley into a soft, powdery scent. It is much like Chanel#15 but with berries and chocolate. Very springy yet oriental. I must have a bottle for Spring and Summer...and whenever I want to be reminded of being a berry faced child running though my grandmother's backyard in my white nightgown.

I am road testing this one today, after picking up a sample from Les Senteurs.
First off, whilst I could smell it on the testing strip, I had to put a hefty amount on before I could smell it on my own skin. With notes like lily of the valley, vanilla and almond, I was expecting Diorissimo meets Hypnotic Poison, and what I got was (as other people have commented) very faint Johnson's baby lotion.
I don't think I have the right chemistry for this - it dies on me. Since I can wear really strident perfumes like Poison or Angel without knocking over everyone in the vicinity,I guess this is too delicate for me. Calchic is right - this is for someone who wears cream lace and Laura Ashley, not someone who stomps around in black leather or combats.

I wear this scent when I want to feel especially femme. It's one that I wear in the cool to warm climate of spring. It reminds of flowers all around! I feel all grown up when I wear this one. However, it's not one to wear every day! I can take it for more than a couple of days, then it gets to be a bit much.

Still a fav nonetheless!

Weird baby lotion. Pleasant but not fabulous. I have hairspray that smells better.

I never used to wear or even try perfume because most-synthetic essences (aldehydes in particula it would seem), heady or powdery scents give me a nasty migraine. I started hunting for something I could wear when I became involved with a man whose response to perfume was rather different ;)
Thats when I discovered the Annick Goutal line. She keeps the formulae fairly simple , not too many ingredients to confuse my sensitive nose and excitable vascular system.
This was the one we both settled on. I was surprised that there was such a feminine fragrance that I could like this much. I formerly tended towards citrusy mens scents and and occasional bit of spice or freesia since it never gave me headaches.

I'm not sure what other reviewers are picking up on but, on me at least. it definitely doesn't remind me in any way of baby powder or any other baby product. Baby oil ranks as the most loathesome scent known to humankind in my book so I feel like I'd notice if it did.
What comes up prominently on me is blackcurrant (which I lurrrrve) and lily-of-the-valley. Very warm, definitely feminine and sweet with some headyness, which would ordinarily bother me, but somehow the balance is right, the tart fruit and slight woodsy sombreness of the flowers balances it.
Unabashedly romantic but not in a soppy hearts and cherubs way, all sophistication and timeless allure.