Le Parfum Essentiel

Beautiful fragrance! A wonderful mix between warm, creamy white flowers and a very fresh mandarine ( i can smell a very natural mandarine peel) with a touch of patchouli. One of the best from Elie Saab! Really pleasant, elegant and uplifting. Final note: 9/10 I recommend it to a classy and adventurous woman!

I’m struggling to finish my 30 ml bottle. I get compliments so it must be crowd pleasing, but something doesn’t work for my nose.

When I first smelled this perfume I was instantly in love, a very white floral perfume and slight hint of citrus. I can never seem to pick up on that slight citrus note anymore however. The performance itself is not that great, it's a very intimate scent and hardly long lasting. That being said I don't believe that makes for a bad fragrance, there's always occasions that call for more intimate scents that aren't extremely loud and this definitely makes you feel 'clean' when you wear it, I would say to simply not have high hopes on the performance is all.

I have been wanting to get this gem since it was released! Today I smelt it and it was everything I was hoping for! It is the best orange blossom and gardenia combination I have ever smelled. It doesn’t have lots of notes but the beauty is in it’s simplicity. The opening is Orange blossom and zesty mandarin orange and then immediately the Gardenia and the notes fused together in such a stunningly beautiful intoxicating scent. I don’t get lots of patchouli or cedar, I think it’s just to have a slight woody base but it’s not a patchouli bomb at all. This is a very classy, elegant beauty. Perfect for a wedding or spring/summer but I will wear it in all seasons. 10/10 if you love white floral fragrances get this one!!❤️

Really nice STRONG, dense fragrance.. an orange flower mixed with cream and some slightly soapy pinching gardenia in the background to give it piquancy. There's some nice understated Chanel-esque patchouli in the base as well. The gardenia note has often been a problem for me, in Le Parfum I found it too sharp, here the creamy notes really temper that. I am reminded of orange sweet tarts candy plus orange blossom, and though there's something a bit artificial here, it doesn't really bother me. I don't know what this might be but there's also a musky element that is distinctly NOT sweet. It's hard to isolate though through the waves of orange blossom with my amateur nose though. Maybe it's the colone bourcet mentions below? If you mixed Terracotta and Coco Mad. with the first Le Parfum, you'd get something similar to this I think. It's very classically perfumey. I have zero problem detecting this on myself and one spray is more than enough for me for all day wear. There's a nice versatility here, I could wear this for day or a night out. The projection could be strong for the office, but not like I’m worrying much about that at the moment. :) Nothing revolutionary here, just pretty femininity, and a really great value. This compares favorably to perfumes at 3x the price. I got a small bottle of this at TJ Maxx for under 30$. Well worth it!