Eau du Val (2004)
by L'Occitane

I agree with the review by calchic! This fragrance is awesome! A very soft, subtle but lingering floral scent that screams femininity! Truly a pretty scent!I love many fragrances from L'Occitane including Eau de Val (Magnolia); Eau d'Azur (Mimosa); Fleur de Lotus (Lotus Flower); Eau de Vanilliers (Vanilla) & Almond Blossom Dew & regular Magnolia. I receive many compliments wearing all these lovely scents!

Eau de Val is L'Occitane's new-ish magnolia fragrance, a blend of notes that features the magnolia flower. Not to be confused with the company's straight magnolia EDT, which is just - you guessed it - magnolia. Eau de Val takes the coolly sweet, almost lotion-y scent of the magnolia flower and blends it out with tuberose, freesia and watermelon, strong notes all though the magnolia is plenty sturdy enough to take them on and shine through. Eau de Val is, in a word, splendid; it has the feel of pastoral France, graceful in its freshness and legere. It's the type of fragrance I imagine sitting on the vanity of someone's country home in Provence, worn by a woman who uses very heady, pronounced scents for her life in the city but enjoys turning to something much more lighthearted for her time away from Paris. For so light a scent, the lasting power is impressive; the scent goes on quite surprisingly strong and then fades to half-strength in about a half hour and lingers there all day. And like all L'Occitane fragrances, this is so well priced for the quality you get. I like this and all the new-ish "Eau" line (Eau d'Azur, the mimosa scent; Eau de Vanilliers, the vanilla scent; and Eau des 4 Reines, the rose scent) not just for myself but also for gift-giving as these scents are just so light and universally pretty as to be appealing to pretty much everyone.