Carnal Flower (2005)
by Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle

Thick, creamy, green, natural, vegetal, and completely enveloping. And it lasts forever!
Pricey though...

26th January, 2012.

It is official, I simply love tuberose. Such a yummy and softly note which express such a delicate idea.
Right after the first spray I gotta a very evident jasmine note combined with a smooth and almost velvety
tuberose note, but here in the opening this note is more like a vegetable(?) one if I may say, different from the creamy coconut vibe present since the begnning in By Kilian Beyond Love (which I adore, by the way).

Through time the coconut note appears decreasing a little of that vegetable aspect of the tuberose in here and giving to this fragrance the creamy aspect that I love in Beyond love altough there are some differences between these two fragrances (but just a few ones).

Anyway, a solid well crafted fragrance that deserves praise! But will I consider a bottle of it? Maybe not since for me Beyond Love does a better job.

30th December, 2011.

This fragrance should not be judged quickly by anyone since it reveals itself with time! ! ,Definitely UNISEX & Definitely the most green rich and well crafted fragrance I have ever smelled.

26th December, 2011. (Last Edited: 5th January, 2012.)

This one hits!
If roses can shoot, then you find some in this bottle.
fits a multilayered personality, or when you're a bit unstable it will suit different moods.
Soft enough for a sofa flirt with someone you barely know,
complex enough for a difficult night out with a bunch of odd people
straight enough for professional encounters
spicy enough to party,
hard enough to hit.

the editions FM provoke...
in this case my appetite for seduction.

25th December, 2011. (Last Edited: 5th January, 2012.)

I have a tendency to write more often about fragrances I find fault with than ones I really like. Why? There's just more to say. To get off my mind. But at the risk of ending up with all my reviews being either neutral or thumbs down and looking like a curmudgeon or a crank I'm reviewing Carnal Flower a fragrance about which I can't say enough good things and so probably won't. What praise has not already been heaped upon this wonderful perfume after all? I got my first taste of CF at Barneys from an attractive SA who shot some on my bare arm. Incredible. Enchanting. Deep. Dreamy. Enveloping. A perfume that makes you close your eyes when you breath it in. Is there anything bad that can be said about this fragrance? A guy at work told me he smelled suntan lotion throwing a little shade on my perfumed reverie. When I went back to Barneys to mooch another spritz from the attractive Frederic Malle SA I told her the suntan story. "Uh...it's a little more sophisticated than suntan lotion," she said dryly. She did smile when she said it. The unisex question. I've had guys tell me only a woman could pull off wearing it. I've also had women tell me it smells to them like a guy's scent. Makes me wonder if it's the suntan vibe. I just won't wear it around my mother.

5th December, 2011.

I think tuberose is not for me and will always be "women's scent" for my taste, can't really understand the unisex vibe. For the fragrance's performance, it is really an atomic bomb, has great staying power and sillage. Must try before buy.

1st December, 2011.