Saint-Germain-des-Prés Eau de Parfum

So lovely that it made me realize I DO love powdery fragrances. The very subtle citrus in the opening prevents it from smelling too mature. The heliotrope is more floral and less nutty than it can be in other fragrances. My only criticism is that the dry down is a bit flat. Overall it's inoffensive but still smells expensive.

really like this one. fits right in with the rest of the celine line, almost as a love child between cologne francois and rimbaud. it’s prickly green, powdery and floral with a vanilla dry down. very wearable. leans slightly feminine.

This is a new fragrance for me. So far, in my limited wearing of it, I get a really green blast at the start. It then sort of comes down into more of a powdery note, and over time you can really sense the amber. But I was surprised, at first, at how green it is in the opening. I'm not really seeing anybody else sharing the same experience, so maybe it's just me, but I thought it was worth noting :-)

Saint - Germain Des Pres is a wonderfully light, fresh linen scent.

Imagine pressed cotton gently spritzed with a dash of zest next to a bunch of blue stemy florals in antique porcelain.

Where Lazy Sunday Morning by MMM is an arcade bubblegum version, SGDP is the real chateaux.

Vanilla works softly to raise this perfume from vestige to Verdun!

Oddly, while seemingly refined, the florals develop in such an enchanting and playful manner that it is well suited for young and coiffed alike.

I didn't like it on first sniff at the store. Little did i know that days later, i would be constantly whipping the card out from my purse and sniffing it like a deranged bozo. My husband was concerned with this unusual behaviour. I assured him that i was feeling fine and just needed to shell out $300 for this luxury juice to stop embarrassing him in public. Now my new bottle of Saint Germain Des Pres sits together with La Peau Neu (also from CELINE), as my two new favourites after discovering that Hedi Slimane can do more than ZARA-inspired clothing.

It starts green, sharp and slightly upturned. There is no lavender in here, but I somehow smell it. Seconds later it turns powdery and soapy, almost an antiseptic quality to it. But an expensive antiseptic, if you will. Slowly it rounds off to a fuller and more weighted creamy scent, though the combination of another note shape-shifts it into something I can't put my finger on - it's definitely not a basic b*tch vanilla. It is aristocratic, clean and noble. It smells like luxury shower soaps. This is not a dark and voluminous vanilla. Neither is it a cupcake, girly vanilla. I think about a freshly pressed and finely tailored linen blouse with a ruffle collar, straight from the laundromat of a 14th century mansion. It is a going-out daytime scent, to smell clean, put-together, expensive.