Carnal Flower (Eau de Parfum) by Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle

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Carnal Flower Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle 2005 Eau de Parfum

7.9 / 10 737 Ratings

A popular perfume by Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle for women and men, released in 2005. The scent is floral-green. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is being marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
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Main accords

Floral

Green

Sweet

Creamy

Fresh

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Eucalyptus

Bergamot

Melon

Heart Notes

Jasmine absolute

Ylang-ylang

Salicylate

Base Notes

Tuberose absolute Coconut

Coconut

Orange blossom absolute

White musk

Perfumer

Dominique Ropion

Ratings

Scent

7.9737 Ratings

Longevity

8.5604 Ratings

Sillage

8.1591 Ratings

Bottle

7.6543 Ratings

Value for money

6.4302 Ratings

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Reviews

56 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/17/2025

9.5Scent 9Longevity 9Sillage

Moshikoko
85 Reviews

Moshikoko

Top Review 7

The Stigmabreaker Tuberose

This perfume is indeed a real stigma breaker.

This is the most unfeminine tuberose perfume there is, but on the other hand it is completely unisex.

The eucalyptus note balances this perfume and makes it greener and more masculine than other tuberose scents we know.
In addition, this perfume is a performance monster with excellent longevity and amazing SILLAGE.

Frederic Malle managed to bring a different perfume from the landscape here.
Yes, the tuberose is dominant throughout and the eucalyptus accompanies the perfume in its opening and in the middle along with jasmine and ylang ylang.

I really like this wonderful creation.

9.5/10.

04/18/2018

5Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Polyanthes
49 Reviews

Polyanthes

Very helpful Review 6

A lab grown tuberose. ...

I know I'm in the minority here and I'm not expecting positive ratings ;-) but this is my honest review after two thorough testings in different temperatures allowing the perfume to run its full course. I thought (I hope) a contrasting experience might be useful.

Frederic Malle Carnal flower opens with an amazing blast of flower shop, as in, I've suddenly shrunk, I'm very small and standing amongst a giant bunch of eucalyptus stems. It's wow, but it lasts less than five minutes.
Judging from the notes I should love CF, but this perfume quickly gets very harsh on me and doesn't stop. It's going for the whole plant with green bits included, I get that, but it's just so fresh and clean and metallic and it's screeching synthetics at me and catching in my mouth. How can this be when the sales pitch is that it "contains the highest amount of natural tuberose in the perfume industry" ? Are they really talking about the 'whole' perfume industry? Perhaps it's the salicylates that are bothering me, although I usually quite enjoy them.

I'm beginning to think that this cool, clean treatment of tuberose does not work with my skin chemistry as I have a similar problem with Narcotic Venus and Do Son. I'm a tuberose lover and have owned pure tuberose enfleurage and several different tuberose absolutes. I've never before had chemistry clashes like this with any perfumes with a high content of quality natural materials.
I'm not saying this doesn't smell like tuberose, it definitely does, an ultra-mod, sharp, melony tuberose with all the warm, voluptuous plumpness sucked out of it in a vampiric way, and it's strong, almost headache inducing. It's photorealistic, but it's an image of isolated tuberose in a lab under artificial light. This is just so cold and, well, unfriendly. This perfume refuses to get real or intimate with me, it wont merge with my skin at any point in the dry down. It remains sitting like a slice of cool just above my skin, pretending to look the other way while it pokes me annoyingly trying to get attention, faking aloofness for the duration. There is something that seems unkind and bitter here and it's getting in my mouth so much that I feel it is trying to force-feed me. But I'm not swallowing it, no sireee... No way.
Even the soft musky remnants left at the end of its life are detached, cool and clinically clean.
All the notes listed are detectable but seem to have a harsh edge. Sadly for me it's not edgy in the good way.
The sillage is pretty hefty and it is uncomfortably tenacious on my skin.
This one really doesn't like me, and the feeling's mutual.

03/30/2021

10Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

FilipMurray
18 Reviews

FilipMurray

Helpful Review 9

Carnal Flower!

A flower oasis!
Tuberose, jasmine, eucalyptus, coconut and melon. There is also a bit of musk after a couple of hours.
The melon smells beautiful for the first hour. Very realistic.
The perfume is "sticky", thick and green.

Although it is for warmer weather, it works beautifully during cold winter days. It lasts about 10h+ and the sillage is huge.
It will remain on the clothes for a couple of weeks, amazing longevity on clothes.

Dominique Ropion... I believe that if we give him tuna oil, dust, mustard, banana and ketchup - he would be able to make a masterpiece. Man is simply a master of his craft.

10+ from me!

02/09/2012

10Scent 10Longevity 7.5Sillage

Rebella
16 Reviews

Rebella

Helpful Review 7

Queen of florals or I´ve been eaten alive and I like it. ;)

Carnal Flower is my No 1 tuberose and not only that, but also one of my all time favorite scents. It was love at first sniff and we´re still having a passionate love affair after several years. Usually my go to scents are more in the soft gourmand, refined orientals and woody spectrum, which to me makes them cozy, familiar and kind of friendly. Carnal Flower isn´t at all like this, it´s like an giant flesh eating flower luring me closer and closer and I fall for that same ol' trick all over again, and keep coming back for more.

Yeah, it´s pretty much wears me, but being worn by something as classy, beautiful, frightening, elegant, carnal and splendid is a privilage, especially common days when I´m out with the dog wearing old jeans and a casual sweater...

Also good for weddings! Your own or someone elses. Men can wear it too, if they feel confident enough to pull grand florals off. Not for girls though... IMO.

Carnal Flower has dualistic character, a soft, creamy, lush, exotic smell of the most beautiful flower you can imagine, mixed with a close to cold, greenish, almost minty (eucalyptus) under currant, and that melon (!) keeping it kind of fresh, and the musk make the flower come alive and very, very hungry. Beware! It don´t evolve so much, eventually become a little softer, but never even close to well behaved.

Great lasting power and huge sillage in the early part of it. Must try for all that enjoys some adventure in life.

02/10/2012

7Scent 7.5Longevity

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

Helpful Review 4

I'm still here, fully in tact, pretty much the same as I was before...

So many people have written about their throes of ecstasy in encountering Frédéric Malle CARNAL FLOWER that I was actually a bit hesitant to dip into my sample vial, which sat in my queue waiting patiently for quite some time. "What if perchance a single sniff might destroy the entire epic erotic myth swirling about this mysterious elixir?" I thought to myself.

CARNAL FLOWER smells luscious indeed to this tuberose lover, and lies somewhere in my memory bank of perfumes between FRACAS and BLONDE, the latter of which strikes me as quite a bit more carnal than this creation. BLONDE is darker and sweeter and features civet where CF appears to contain...plant pheromones? (Hmmm... not sure who/what that's supposed to turn on...) But I do know that the undulating loveliness of CF is a pleasure to behold.

FRACAS remains the big bodacious diva tuberose for me. I like CARNAL FLOWER a lot, but no one who loves tuberose can fail to, since this, the manufacturer's card boasts: "is undoubtedly the single fragrance featuring the largest amount of natural Tuberose absolute". Of course, that's a huge red flag to some: only tuberose lovers need apply!(and perhaps also venus flytraps?)

Was this the definitive, transformative olfactory event of my life? Have I been forever changed? No. I'm still here, fully in tact, pretty much the same as I was before, and though I do not own a bottle of CF, I still feel whole. My tuberose needs will continue to be amply filled by FRACAS and BLONDE. But I'll cherish the rest of my CF sample spray vial as well, and who knows, by the time the last drop is gone, perhaps I will be a new woman. On verra bien...

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