Cologne of Love

Thanks, Fragrantica, for adding this one!!! if you are a cheerful and a happy loving person you will love this fragrance ;-)) Perfect quality and smell!! Reminds me of our fabulous vacation in beautiful Provence!!! love it!! ;-) And this name!!! Cologne of LOVE!!

I've been curious about this perfume for awhile and kept it in the back of my mind to maybe purchase a bottle blind online if I saw it being sold for a good price. That happened the other day when I managed to snag a 250ml bottle for only £9 from a UK website because its box was apparently slightly battered! So, imagine my anticipation of the arrival of this big bottle of perfume I'd been wondering about for awhile ... Sadly, I'm deflated! It arrived today and, of course, I tore into the packaging excitedly, pulled the bottle out and sniffed ... hmm, slightly musty, sweet, sticky, honey'ish, slightly face powder'ish / incense'ish / Parma Violet'ish ... not what I was hoping for at all! I was expecting it to be much fresher, with a Mediterranean vibe, maybe a little sweet, but not like this at all. I put some on my wrists and gave it half an hour or so to settle and 'meld' with my skin and chemistry but, alas, it still smelled exactly the same half an hour + later. So, I decided to put a splash of Bien Etre on my wrists too, hoping that that may make it more appealing to my senses but that's quite herbal and seems to evaporate quickly (that was another blind buy .. oh dear, I'm on a roll with these perfume blind buys again!!) so the Le Couvent des Minimes won out and overpowered it! I am kind of getting used to the smell though and I don't find it awful, just not necessarily my cup of tea, sadly. It may grow on me though (I certainly hope it does now that I've got a very large, heavy bottle of it taking up space!). Oh, also. I disagree with the people who have compared this to 4711. I grew up with 4711 in our family so am very familiar with that cologne and, to my nose, Le Couvent des Minimes smells nothing like that at all! 4711 is MUCH fresher and clearer smelling and is, like many colognes, refreshing to wear, especially in hot, sticky summertime. I do though agree with one reviewer who said her boyfriend (who apparently hates this!) said it smells like an artificial orange drink, like Tang. It really kind of does! It's definitely NOT a sexy perfume and I doubt many men would love the smell of this on a woman so any woman looking for a man magnet type of perfume should definitely look elsewhere! P.S. I'm confused about what brand this perfume actually is! On Amazon it says it's by L'Occitane but I don't see that name anywhere on the box my bottle came in! On the box it says it's manufactured for AHP (whoever they are!).

I didn't know it was marketed as "Cologne of Love" in English-speaking countries :-D This is not a true translation from French "Eau Amaible", but there it goes. It's very pleasant, carefree, happy cologne with orange blossom, not probably the truest thing around, but nice and wearable and I prefer this one to LCDM Fleurs d'oranger as that one really smell like sticky Naples' pastiera (yummy!) and I'm not a fan of foody fragrances. Cologne of Love is more floral and feminine without smelling like a cake.

You can certainly get this in "Boots" stores in the UK there is also a website/online store for the US

Like spraying yourself with a peaceful summer day. I spent last spring in southern Spain and, walking past orange groves, the air was filled with a scent like this. Beautiful, very feminine,I suppose, but that ain't gonna stop me!