L'Interdit Givenchy 2018 Eau de Parfum

Version from 2018

L'Interdit (2018) (Eau de Parfum) by Givenchy

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Ranked 88 in Women's Perfume

7.7 / 10 855 Ratings

A popular perfume by Givenchy for women, released in 2018. The scent is floral-sweet. The longevity is above-average. It is being marketed by LVMH.
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Main accords

Floral

Sweet

Fruity

Powdery

Creamy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Calabrian bergamot

Madagascan ginger

Heart Notes

Indian jasmine sambac absolute

Indian tuberose absolute

Tunisian orange blossom absolute

Base Notes

Haitian vetiver

Indonesian patchouli

Perfumers

Dominique Ropion, Anne Flipo, Fanny Bal

Ratings

Scent

7.7855 Ratings

Longevity

8.2755 Ratings

Sillage

7.9747 Ratings

Bottle

7.7742 Ratings

Value for money

7.7517 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 08/18/2025.

Interesting Facts

The face of the advertising campaign is American actress Rooney Mara.

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What the fragrance is similar to

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Metaphor

Hédonisme Intense

L'Interdit Tubéreuse Noire

Reviews

39 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/06/2022

Mlleghoul
449 Reviews

Mlleghoul

6

I'm too old for this sh*t

Givenchy L’Interdit is…oof. It makes my hips ache and my knees creak. It makes me feel like a f*cking fossil. This is a candied fruity floral, like crushed shards of every flavor Jolly Rancher forming the vague shape of a flower but I think anyone who smells it will agree it is no flower found in nature. Do you know who smelled it and loved it, and thought it was "bomb" and "fire" and "literally everything," though? A quartet of college girls who robbed a fast-food restaurant and stole a car to fund their spring break plans and who then got bailed out of jail by a skeezy clown of drug dealer/rapper/arms dealer named Alien who looks just like James Franco. I’m pretty sure they are all about this bikini bacchanalia neon candy Harmony Korine girls gone wild hedonist hell of a scent and man, they can have it. I’m too old for this sh*t.

10/02/2023

6
Pricing 9
Bottle 3
Sillage 3
Longevity 6
Scent

Florblanca
39 Reviews

Florblanca

Helpful Review 2

Audrey would protest sharply!

And I do as well. L'Interdit - Audrey Hepburns fragrance, of which I own all, the perfume the EdP and the EdT as Vintage - is my signature fragrance. So after reading various comments here, I absolutely had to test the new versions - I chose the EdP and the EdP-Intense (luckily only the 30ml versions of both). So after they arrived I tested them immediately.

On the left the Intense and on the right the EdP on the respective wrist. I will comment on the Intense separately, starting with the EdP.

One thing in advance: the bottle is at most reminiscent of Audrey's legendary L'Interdit. The pink content smells like that too - pink. A fresh, slightly floral spring note that is neither particularly strong nor particularly persistent.

Am I disappointed? Yes and no. Yes, because the great L'Interdit from back then no longer exists and no, because I didn't expect anything different from a reformulated and relaunched fragrance.

The perfume manufacturers' motto seems to be "mainly mainstream". There is no need to stand out from what should essentially be the driving force behind perfumery. But that's exactly what makes a good scent for me. And also the difference between good perfumery and the perfume industry.

Too bad. Nothing good has been done here for either the name Givenchy or the name L'Interdit.

04/02/2022

BrianBuchanan
351 Reviews

BrianBuchanan

3

Waste of Talent

Getting the author of Carnal Flower and Vétiver Extraordinaire to write a fruchouli is like telling Michelangelo to leave the Sistine chapel and do a manga cartoon.
I wish he would stop wasting his time and concentrate on Going for The One...

*Not to mention My Queen, Safari, Dune, Jungle Tiger, Peau de Soie, etc

09/29/2018

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 8
Scent

Jazzy76
320 Reviews

Jazzy76

2

Letter to Audrey (Hepburn)

Dear Audrey,wherever you are,
Have you heard that the maison Givenchy here on the earth relaunched a new version of your legendary perfume created by Monsieur Hubert de Givenchy?
I know, you remember very well the pyramid of the vintage version: Aldehyde accord, Bergamot, Mandarin, Peach, Strawberry at the top, a heart made of Rose, Jasmine, Lily-of-the-valley, Ylang-ylang, Iris, Narcissus and finally the warm and deep base notes: Tonka bean, Sandalwood, Vetiver, Benzoin, Amber, Cistus, Musk .
Well, dear Audrey, times have changed and tastes too.
Well, nowadays you will smell first a smooth and feminin cloud of Jasmine, but immediately a warm and vibrant tuberose note will hit your nose. But you'll remember mainly the base: a very warm and cocooning patchouli, not too earthy, and the ambroxan, a sort of synthetic amber very pleasant: oriental , sweet, round and not at all medicinal.
Are you surprised? this is is the new bouquet for the woman in little black dress of the third millennium.
The sillage is good and the result is pleasant and quite longlasting.
The bottle too is very different : you' ll find a minimal but anyway classy round bottle .
Do you agree? would you like to try this 3.0 version of your scented second skin? I'm sure that nothing will replace your vintage perfume, but give a chance to this new one.
Greetings from 2018, Jazzy
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09/29/2018

5
Bottle 8
Sillage 10
Longevity 5.5
Scent

StellaDiverF
213 Reviews

StellaDiverF

2

Forbidden...to cross the line

Givenchy L’Interdit opens with a strong, sweet cherry rendered more sparkling and pulpy by juicy pear. Not too medicinal so as to evoke cough syrup, nor too tart or dark, but a cheerful, radiant and girly.

Then the tuberose emerges from the heart with its chalky texture. As expected from a fragrance aimed at the mass market, the tuberose here is forbidden to show any camphor-green, mushroom or animalic nuances. It’s polished, clean, well-mannered, so as to not cross any line. While it’s not my favourite interpretation of this flower, as a modern tuberose of recent years, I like this new version of L’Interdit better than Hermès Twilly, thanks to the subtle vegetal, almost celery-like accent and a transparency in texture brought out by ambroxan in L’Interdit, instead of the artificial sandalwood in rendering it muddy and weighing it down in Twilly.

The dry down of L’Interdit comes back to the more familiar territory of fruitchouli, where the clean yet medicinal patchouli darkens the initially fresh cherry and turns it into cherry jam along with caramel and vanilla. The sillage is heavy, while it can last more than 12 hours on my skin.

It’s probably no surprise to anyone that this 2018 version of Givenchy L’Interdit smells nothing like the original one. The fragrance also doesn’t sit well with the new spin on the “forbidden” theme as it’s firmly within current clean tuberose and sweet fruitchouli trend. However, I still quite like the middle phase with that unexpected vegetal twist on clean tuberose, albeit in a pretty discreet way. I think it might worth considering for those who are looking for a slightly more grown-up, less gourmand fruitchouli fragrance.

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