Robert Piguet Fracas Eau de Parfum for Women 100 ml

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Floral fragrances celebrate the delicious scent of flowers, being the richest source of inspiration for perfumers. While I admire the composition and I love white florals, I would be hesitant to wear this perfume nowadays in public. I literally feel like I’m being smothered to death by a powder puff of screeching geriatric florals. Fracas is a thunderous tumult that catapults the viewer into an immense flower garden dominated by: tuberose, gardenia, lily of the valley, jasmine, osmanthus, narcissus, carnation, white iris, rose with an enchanting and reassuring base: amber, woody and musky.I prefer it perhaps to Serge Lutens’ modern take on Tuberose (Tubereuse Criminelle, I did a review of it) but I’m not crazy about either one, truth be told. She certainly had a penchant for bold strokes and shock value, both of which are defining characteristics of Fracas—a perfume that could only have been made after World War II, and in my opinion, only by a woman. At first blast, Fracas is sweet—but not cheap or candy-sweet like the mass perfumes of the last two decades. It was the 1970s, we lived in Cannes in a villa on the side of the mountain, overlooking the whole city below.

A) the creamy aspect, much more relevant in the old version; B) the sharpness of single notes, more relevant in the new version. Add natural violet leaf to give the sweet, heavy scent a refreshingly harsh, wet green aspect, iris for a woody depth, synthetic civet (the smell of unwashed construction worker) for power, the synthetics C18 for an unctuous, milky, soft tropical quality and methyl anthranilate for fizz. Another perfume blogger recently bought 24 Faubourg which came out in 1995 and represents a very diff.

Yes, we do seem to have extremely similar tastes, which is one of the reasons (besides your beautiful writing) that I started reading your blog so closely… I don’t seem to have very conventional tastes and it’s difficult to find fragrance assessments with which I have an affinity. I have some other perfumes up for testing by Ormonde Jayne, Tom Ford or Chanel that could fit your tastes but I won’t get around to testing them for a while, so for now, read up on the ones I mentioned up above (and which I’ve reviewed here) and see if they intrigue you. Note: The pros and cons listed on this page have been generated using the artificial intelligence system, which analyzes product reviews submitted by our members. However, I do not believe that list to be complete at all, particularly as it leaves out vetiver which is well known to be in Fracas, along with jonquil (otherwise known as narcissus).