Does Gris Clair smell weird on anyone else?

[Reminiscent]

Where did people get that lavender would smell like ash? Anyway an eye-opener for me. Could that explain the distasteful topnote that I get in the highly aromatic Guerlain Héritage? But then again where is the ash in Mouchoir de Monsieur, another lavender bomb?

[mikeperez23]

I'm out of Gris Clair sample so I can't do the comparison, but can anyone verify if this 'ash note' similar to the one in Serge Noire?

No not alike. The one is Gris Clair is more of a hissy, metallic/steam note. The one in Serge Noire smells more like flint, sort of like the John Galliano room spray by Diptyque.

[Pasionaria]

very very wintery fragrance, unwearable in warm climate. I like it, albeit perhaps it is a bit too strong, lasting and boozy for a female skin...

[Ozjon701]

Yes I get a bit of a burning metal smell initially, like a cheap frypan left on a camp fire for too long, once it settles down I like it though.

[Dog127]

I would not say wierd, but not my favorite lavender scent

[JDBIII]

On me it smelled thin, sour and cheap.

[hednic]

Smells delightful to me.

[laroche]

Smells delightful to me.

To me too.

[Marais]

This one is easy to ruin by over-application I have found. One or two sprays are enough.

[Puig]

I hated GC when I first got a sample of it, it was so different from any other lavender fragrances. It's very smokey and has a good bit of iris, it was just so different. I did grow to love it though, and picked up a bottle this Summer. I remember wearing it out to dinner one night and it was just so sensual on a warm night. In the Winter the lavender seems muted to me. I get a nice smokey vanillic incense drydown. It's an acquired taste, but I'm glad I have it.

[Aquil]

Another one from SL that intrigues me. Def an aquired taste, as with others from this house

[arestarlike]

At first, Gris Clair smelled like an electrical fire, so much so that I didn't even identify it as a lavender scent-- but I loved it nonetheless. After my third or fourth time wearing it, it became much smoother with only occasional overpowering ashiness. In terms of lavenders I much prefer it to Jicky or Mouchoir de Monsieur, which are both a bit too oily for my taste. It's quite similar to By Kilian's A Taste of Heaven, but ATOH is far more restrained (a bad thing, IMO).

[forfreddie]

I like the opening of Gris Clair, but I understand 100% of what you mean. I get a fatty oily sort of smell that smells like foody cooking oil residue, don't like it

[laph]

I still struggle with Lavender fragrances. I just can't shake the old woman associations it seems to conjure for me. Great frag though GC.