Fleur de Peau (2002)
by Keiko Mecheri

There’s an off-putting chemical edge to Fleur de Peau’s sweet, animalic leather opening that persists too long for my comfort. This discordant element is all the more distracting because Fleur de Peau is an extremely loud scent. Loud as in one spray fills the room. Without the off note Fleur de Peau might have been a bold, compelling fruity-animalic leather, roughly in the mold of Knize Ten. As it is, it smells like a compounding error. Avoid this if you know what’s good for you.

13rd December, 2009.

You gotta let this dry. The top notes are really bad. It's not harsh, it's just repugnant. A synthetic fruity, flower. It's very strong. After it does dry down (which is a long time) it becomes a nice powdery floral but it's not worth the wait.

7th October, 2008.

It's not the worst scent I've ever tried, but it's pretty awful on my skin. In general I like Keiko Mecheri, so it pains me a bit that I find this fragrance rather putrid. As mentioned by others, the sillage is intense. This juice reminds me of chemistry lab, when we worked with the aromatic ring compounds. It smells of artificial flowers mixed with an aromatic non-alcohol based solvent, and then it becomes cloying in the dry down. One of my kids said it smells like a funeral parlor. They've never been to a funeral parlor, but imagined that this is what it would smell like. I can't say they're that far off!. A moderate disappointment!

8th June, 2008.

Interesting, dry, and powdery. Smells something like if Knize Ten cut down on the leather and added some florals. It's almost TOO dry, but it still is worth a try.

1st February, 2007.

I tried this a year ago, courtesty of my good friends at Colonial Drug in Cambridge Mass. My first response was, "YUCK! I like complex florientals and vetivers, and you told me I needed to try *this*?!?" However, about half an hour in (give it more time, FragranceFan255), the civet and powder and leathery scents all melded and softened, and a delicious, slightly rose-scented overtone came through, grounded in leather. I went back a week later and bought a bottle. It's a tough scent to wear easily, but I view it (along with McQueen's "Kingdom") as one of my "connoisseur" scents.

5th November, 2006.

Ewwwwwwwwww....That pretty much sums it up for me. I don't believe I've smelled an actual perfume this off putting. Even the handful of eccentric niche scents I have smelled otherwise haven't came close to this abomination.

I 'think' I smell the leather in there, maybe jasmine. But they're lost in an extremely heavy incense-like cloud. I can't judge on longevity because I washed it off in about 20 minutes after applying. I attempted to give it fair chance to settle in and become something at least tolerable. No such luck. The sillage, however, is unbelievable. My swore that after 2 thorough scrubbings with Palmolive detergent that she could still smell it hanging in the air and I could easily detect it on the application area. Of all the frags to have this kind of sillage. It breaks the heart.

Avoid this at all costs. If not for yourself, for those around you. For I must believe that for every person that would enjoy this must be met by a hundred that would not.

4th August, 2006.