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Fantasia de Fleurs Creed 1862

7.1 / 10 63 Ratings

A perfume by Creed for women, released in 1862. The scent is floral-sweet. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Sweet

Fresh

Animal

Powdery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Bulgarian rose Iris

Iris

Base Notes

Ambergris

Iris

Ratings

Scent

7.163 Ratings

Longevity

7.854 Ratings

Sillage

7.248 Ratings

Bottle

7.753 Ratings

Value for money

6.512 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 11/24/2023.

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Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/18/2016

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

ScentFan
336 Reviews

ScentFan

Helpful Review 5

Lovely Ghost

I'm wearing this perfume and I like it very much. Nothing loud or offensive here in the least, just uncomplicated beauty. After all, such simple notes can't very well shout -- not if they're natural, and Creeds are largely so, often entirely so. They still make their perfumes by hand in batches in the old way. No remotely plastic-smelling or synthetic anything here. If you love quality bergamot, like I do, if you love natural Iris and Bulgarian rose, if Ambergris is your favorite animalic, like it is for me, you'll enjoy Fantasia de Fleurs. Very likely, the beauty I'm smelling is quite close to the original 1862 version made for Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, aka Sisi. In a very odd way, I may have met her. Here's how. In my former work, I traveled to Geneva a lot and my favorite place to stay was the Hotel de la Paix on the lake. On my first visit, I learned about a royal woman murdered under the linden trees along the lake. They brought her into the Beau Rivage (which is next to the de la Paix) and she died there. Her ghost was rumored to haunt the hotels. Now I discover that woman was probably Sisi, stabbed by an anarchist as she walked under the linden trees toward her steamer. Sure enough, half the night I couldn't sleep, aware of a "presence" in my room. Logic told me nothing was there, but finally I had to do something so I sat up in bed and talked to the ghost, saying, "I'm so sorry you were murdered on vacation and died here, but I'm not on vacation. I have to work in the morning. Please let me get some sleep." The room changed completely and I didn't feel a presence after that. Just my imagination, surely, but I'm so happy to wear Sisi's perfume, if only because she was nice enough to let me sleep. Not half bad to smell like an empress, either.

11/16/2012

LiliumLibido
51 Reviews

LiliumLibido

2

Tuberose Indiana's younger, more personable sister

.. Even if the fragrance was actually created earlier in time, lol.

Much like T.I, this one also explodes with many more notes that are not listed, but unlike Sherapop, I do not find much of a connection with Cabotine, which is a good thing because for me Cabotine is like Cryptonite, lol. (but I am reviewing the original, not the reformulation. I actually have no idea what the reformulation smells like)

A huge, effusive, dramatic floral, FdF has added musk and loads of it. In tandem with the ambregris, it creates "naked" feel, as in nude skin, upclose and personal. The fragrance will take you through a myriad of visuals from a sumptuous flower garden to the beautiful naked lady walking through the garden, to the rush on her skin upon noticing her lover walking through the gate of the garden. This perfume is a fantastic mix of Victorian restraint and hormonal unleashing, lol.

I prefer Fantasia to Indiana because I find it more intimately sensual, though that may be purely a question of personal chemistry. This one also transfers easily and sticks to everything like crazy glue: I have this one jacket that has been cleaned several times over the years yet still bears traces of Fantasia.

With all its "proper" and "ladylike" floral opening, Fantasia really is, in my opinion, quite the player: her drydown is just short of raunchy, thanks in part to the indolic flowers that keep mingling with the musk and the ambregris. It's a slightly powdery veil that touches everything and lingers for ages, raising enough questions and leaving enough memories to torment the staunchest cold fish in the room.

06/21/2012

4Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

Cabotine's Kissing Cousin

Creed FANTASIA DE FLEURS is not a three- or four-note perfume, for starters. The überfloral opening features, among others, neroli and jasmine. Would that this were an amber/rose/iris perfume! Instead, what I find in this reformulation is a close cousin to CABOTINE and related venus flytrap florals: Very sharp, very loud, sure to induce headaches in some, impossible to deny the presence of even a small dab.

For those who like CABOTINE, FLEUR DE ROCAILLE (1993), FIORI DI CAPRI, et al., I can recommend, in principle, FANTASIA DE FLEURS. However, in practice, you'll save a bundle by heading to TJMaxx and snapping up a gallon of CABOTINE for the price of a small bottle of this Creed perfume. I do not mean to suggest that the two are identical, but everything is similar to everything else to some degree, and FANTASIA DE FLEURS comes closer to CABOTINE than does any other fragrance that I have ever encountered. In fact, while wearing FdF, I kept thinking about CABOTINE: how I managed to acquire so much of it, why despite my desire to like it, I really do not...

03/10/2010

10Scent 10Longevity

Elchen50
30 Reviews

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Elchen50

Very helpful Review 10

Memories

For a year, I sniffed the Fantasia de Fleurs sample. Sometimes I liked it, sometimes not so much. From my loving and generous husband (he really is!), I received some euros for my birthday among other things. He gave me the money with the words: "I want to leave the pleasure of buying to you." And I seized the opportunity without mercy ;) After some back and forth, I decided on Fantasia de Fleurs. The scent is extraordinary and not too harsh or too sweet. I don't have the ability to pick out individual notes, but the overall impression is right! On the third day of wearing it, it was like scales fell from my eyes. It has a resemblance to Priscilla Presley Moments. That was still very affordable back then; it was a lovely time when I wore that fragrance. An extraordinary scent for special people :-D

05/18/2022

10Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Manu79
13 Reviews

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Manu79

6

Star Empress and Flower Queen

Radiantly she stands there, the most beautiful woman of her time, having prepared for hours, her long hair brushed, pinned up, and perfected with the famous diamond stars in her "profile hairstyle"....
Her already narrow waist was cinched to an incredible 50 cm, the star dress was pulled over her, which will go down in history along with the stole and the fan, with a small smile, and she rarely smiled, always speaking without showing too much of her teeth, which were the only visual flaw of this beautiful woman...
Satisfied, she turns away from the mirror, the maid sprays Fantasia de Fleurs on her, a scent worthy of an empress who preferred no artificial cosmetics other than this fragrance, smelling of a flower meadow, yet sparkling with bergamot....
Even though it has been around for several years, it seems to be eternally young, eternally beautiful like Empress Elisabeth......

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