Chèvrefeuille (1976)
by Yves Rocher

I was given a bottle of this as a gift when I was in high school back in the 80s, and as I never dared give it away to anyone else, I still have it. It is every bit as awful as I remembered it: sickly sweet, cloying, heavy, fake-smelling, and with a harsh alcohol bite that never goes away, even after it's dried down. Seriously, this stuff will make you smell like a lush. It took me years to realize that it was supposed to smell like honeysuckles. It smells nothing like honeysuckle. It smells like nothing natural at all. It smells, in fact, like an encapsulation of every single one of the things that people who say they "don't like fragrance" are really talking about: the harsh alcohol smell, the cheap synthetic buzz that gets up into your nose and stays there, the cloying sweetness of fake floral, the sillage from hell. It's just dreadful.

And on top of all that, it makes me sneeze.

27th March, 2011.

This is a light, refreshing floral scent, good for those hot summer days. It's floral, but is not cloying or heavy. It's a pleasant scent for daily warm-weather use.

14th July, 2009.

Watered down floral splash. I never got to like actually like it. I think it's been discontinued. Nothing special.

11th March, 2009.