Anaïs Anaïs L'Original Cacharel 2014 Eau de Toilette

Anaïs Anaïs L'Original (Eau de Toilette) by Cacharel

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A perfume by Cacharel for women, released in 2014. The scent is floral-powdery. It is being marketed by L'Oréal.
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Main accords

Floral

Powdery

Green

Fresh

Chypre

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Hyacinth

Honeysuckle

Heart Notes

Lily

Lily of the valley

Ylang-ylang Jasmine

Jasmine

Rose

Base Notes

Moss

Musk

Vetiver

Sandalwood

Blackcurrant absolute

Ratings

Scent

7.199 Ratings

Longevity

7.382 Ratings

Sillage

6.785 Ratings

Bottle

7.193 Ratings

Value for money

8.041 Ratings

Submitted by Michael, last update on 08/19/2025.

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Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/03/2015

4
Scent

ScentFan
334 Reviews

ScentFan

Helpful Review 6

Lily of the Bog

Even though the box says L'Original, I must have the new formulation and either my particular bottle or this particular batch contains that unfortunate hyacinth that to me has the vegetal smell of flowers decaying in a swamp. Halston's Catalyst similarly revolted my nose. Add Lily-of-Valley, the other note that can make me gag, and Anaïs Anaïs for me goes so wrong that if all other perfumes vanished from the face of the earth, I'd just have to go without scent, rather than smell like this. At least now I know for sure that whenever I see hyacinth, narcissus and/or Lily of the Valley among a perfume's notes, I need to proceed with extreme caution because chances are I will find it putrid beyond belief as in this case--and, for instance, Liz Claiborne--or it will be a skillfully rendered masterpiece, as in Van Cleef & Arpels' First, Chanel No. 19, or my new love, Rodin by Olio Lusso. It's as if these three are near-magical ingredients that must be respected. Too much and you get a smelly frog. Let some wizard of a designer mix them and, oh my, there's the prince.

08/16/2025

6
Bottle 6
Sillage 5
Longevity 1.5
Scent

kittea
63 Reviews

kittea

Helpful Review 3

A learning experience, but one I wish I hadn't had

There are some notes in perfumery that, due to sharing molecules with others, are prone to unflattering associations. Lilies and jasmines, for example, draw fecal comparisons, while oud reminds many people of manure. Blackcurrant absolute has an unfortunate tendency to smell like 'cat pee', and I don't think I ever fully understood that comparison until I sprayed Anais Anais.

If I try very hard to think of lily of the valley and 90s-style white floral soap, I can just about wrench my mind away from the thought. And indeed, as the scent dries down, it feels less astringent, more floral— and then I catch an edge of greenery and my mind goes back to it. I think I even understand now why people dislike my beloved jasmine, because in this context it's wholly unappealing. The whole design and marketing campaign of this fragrance is, I believe, meant to put one in mind of a porcelain bathtub filled with attractive young ladies. Unfortunately, it reminds me of a significantly less enticing bathroom fixture.

Perhaps the original version (the real original, not 'L'Original' orignal) of this was better, perhaps this was a victim of reformulation. I don't know, but I don't like it.

08/14/2023

8
Pricing 9
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Ringtale
129 Reviews

Ringtale

2

It's oh so quiet...shhh, shhh...it's oh so still...shhh, shhh.....

March 2024:
Well, it was on sale so I finally bought a cute (very cute!!) little bottle containing 30 ml. I just wanted to explore this better and for a longer period of time.
It actually is quite pleasant in a strange way. This is what I would call: an abstract kind of scent. I think this is very appropriate for work without it being too dull or unremarkable. The top notes are mesmerizing/confusing/unique (in a good way), then something darker starts which disapears again, reveiling a faint, but still lively, memory of those lovely topnotes. And then it stays that way. I do get that powder everyone is talking about, but it's not the powder as in the 'usual' powdery scents: less sweet and less 'baby-whipe-like' in my opinion. Unless you're someone that prefers the fruity, gourmand or dark, vanilla kind of perfumes, you may like this.

Remember the song from the add long ago?
Well I think that song does justice to the fragrance. I find it a very quiet, polite and modest fragrance. I can't remember the original from the seventies, because I never liked it enough from first spray then to give it a proper try (the adds then were even more beautyful though: very romantic, vintage styled actresses in beautyfully designed old bathrooms and, because of that, I so much wanted to love the fragrance, but I didn't). I tried it today in a shop after al that time and I don't dislike it now. Ofcourse my olfactory preferences have changed or maybe the scent has changed for the better, I'm not able to tell.
In the opening, I smell the LOTV performing like soft and gentle aldehydes and a touch of jasmine and rose and hyacinth, but very faintly so. The drydown is more chypre, but not as 'chypre' as most chypres. It stays quiet all the way.
Nothing is 'bossy' or making a statement here.
I'd say this would be a great 'beginners chypre' actually.
I always loved that bottle and I still do :-)
Here in the Netherlands it can be bought for a song in drugstore chains sometimes,
I won't buy it though, because it doesn't really thrill me.

04/11/2019

8
Bottle 6
Sillage 8
Longevity 6
Scent

Edda32
15 Reviews

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Edda32

Top Review 18

Deluxe Baby Powder

First of all, I want to promise you that I won't be blaspheming again. Just a little...
Today, determined to get to know a legend, I spent twenty euros for the 30ml legend. My sip of luck.
I had already taken a test sprayer home last week, admittedly on a white paper strip and Anaïs really stood better than me.
I was very enthusiastic and somehow still am, of top note and heart note. I was not able to get to know the base note because of the lack of body heat on the strip.
Let's get back to the beginning: I liked the beautiful white bottle with the veiling pink flowers. Something like this would look good on a dainty white dressing table, with a vase of white lilies and golden pink brocade wallpaper behind...Dame Blanche, wrapped in silky flowing robes, enters the light-flooded room to the morning toilet, strokes her hair with a goat hair brush, powders her nose and dabs Anaïs on her wrists...
My mood picture confirms me, Edda32, jeans, sneakers, parka in the local Karstadt...when I release the first sprayer of Anaïs...
Very delicate, bright, flowery, but also a little peppery freshness, as if someone were holding a bouquet of hyacinths that have just blossomed in the fresh morning air under his nose 'Smell this!......aaaaaah!'
Top note pleases!
Soon, however, this person approaches with further samples from the early blossoming offer. More and more and more and more and more and more flowers...
Hyacinths! Take this!
Lily of the valley! Take this!
Roses! Take this!
Suddenly I notice that the Anaïsfee with the dressing table has a Mirelle-Matthieu hairstyle. The dew on the flowers dries off, a little dull jasmine comes through and some trendy plants of the 70s...Ylang-ylang and is that Patchouli?..almost groovy....
On the way home I sniff again and again at my paper strip....aaaah interesting...a wonderful soap. This floweriness, nevertheless without heaviness...I also perceive some sharpness...

Only today, after my purchase and the real test wearing on the body, do I get to know the true Anaïs. She has a dark, musty secret, a corpse in the cellar....moss, musk and ylangylang prepare the cornucopia of spring for the end.
On the skin every freshness disappears, it smells a bit like the generous baby powder donation of my grandmother to the birth of my first child. A lush bouquet of roses and lilies thickly powdered white....

If I could wish for something from the Anaïsfee, it would be a little more vetiver in the base and less dark notes.
I still think that this is a coherent scent. I don't know the much praised original, but for me this version also transports a touch of the seventies. Fine, but my type lacks clarity and freshness. It just doesn't look good on me. Oh, too bad...

02/15/2021

8
Pricing 8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

pudelbonzo
721 Reviews

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pudelbonzo

Top Review 19

tamed explosive anais

The Ur Anais in the 70s I received as a gift from my Ma - and I loved this fragrance - although it was actually still a size too big for me - because Anais is not a teen fragrance.

Sensuality and eroticism inherent in this multi-faceted fragrance - attributes that I could not yet fill with my young years .

But this mysterious fragrance drew me under its spell.

And the spell is not yet broken, as I noted today at renewed tasting, pleased.

The femme fatale attitude is still present - although no longer as offensive as then - but more subtle - more mysterious.

The hyacinth is not a quiet-step and has a beguilingly seductive effect.
Rose and ylang also emphasize the feminine of the wearer - freely according to the motto : And ewig lockt das Weib.

The fingerprint of Anais Nin is recognizable - which caused a sensation with erotic literature.

But through the lovely lily of the valley and the sweet honeysuckle the fragrance gets a touch of romance.
Vetiver and moss provide softness, and sandal nestles - closeness mixed with a dash of sex appeal.

The new l original is still an explosive mixture that I like to wear.

A fragrance that does not reveal itself immediately - but reverberates for a long time.

Music : Love is a stranger by The Eurythmics

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