La Dame aux Camélias by Jardins d'Écrivains

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La Dame aux Camélias Jardins d'Écrivains 2012

7.3 / 10 60 Ratings

A perfume by Jardins d'Écrivains for women, released in 2012. The scent is floral-powdery. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Floral

Powdery

Sweet

Fresh

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Vervain

Cardamom

Orange blossom

Heart Notes

Camellia

Rose

Violet

Base Notes

Musk

Canary Islands juniper

Tonka bean

Ratings

Scent

7.360 Ratings

Longevity

7.145 Ratings

Sillage

5.545 Ratings

Bottle

7.647 Ratings

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Interesting Facts

This fragrance is named after the novel "La Dame aux Camélias" by the French author Alexandre Dumas, fils.

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Reviews

11 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/13/2016

BrianBuchanan
363 Reviews

BrianBuchanan

Very helpful Review 4

Desiccated floral V syrup bomb

Designing a fragrance which is half monster youth scent and half 80’s relic is somehow both inspired, and wilfully bizarre.
It's the typical Jardins d'Ecrivains shtick: a core of dusty orange flower - backed up by demerara cake and joss sticks, all going head to head with a weird disinfectant syrup. The messed up froot and antique orange flower make a Frankenstein hotchpotch of crudely fitting pieces...

You may applaud the oddness of it all, pour scorn on such pretentious twaddle, or simply come to wonder who spilt his Red Bull on granny's potpourri.

In the end however, La Dame aux Camélias is one of a minority of perfumes that improve over time. As the details fade, the profile pulls together into a nice confectionary floral but, as with all craft disciplines, it's a matter of swings and roundabouts; the nicer it gets, the less good it becomes.

06/15/2013

10Scent 7.5Longevity 2.5Sillage

Endorphin
19 Reviews

Endorphin

Helpful Review

I feel transferred to another time...

... in which a woman wears opulent dresses with lots of lace, ruffles and puffy sleeves... with her aristocratic alabaster white skin, her eyebrows plucked thin and highlighted dark... her hair turned into sassy corkscrew curls that are elegantly plugged together... surrounded by an aura of girlish charm, arrogance, pure femininity, extravagance, amused ease and driven by the search for unconditional love.

La Dame aux Camélias unites a very special, intimate, mysterious and seductive mood with its cheeky fruity sweetness, the confident camellia, the virtuous rose, the slightly creamy and powdery notes and the indigenous wood.

Originally I wanted to decant the fragrance into a more manageable bottle, also because I had no great expectations for the longevity. But the bottle is so beautiful in the flesh and perfectly underlines my fragrance experience that this icing on the cake can't be missed. La Dame aux Camélias stays with me for a good 6 hours.

12/03/2015

Adelina
16 Reviews

Adelina

3

Poetic

I was extremely eager to try La Dame aux Camelias. First, because the homonym book is one of my favourites and second because I really liked the concept that stays at the bottom of this house's creations.

But then, how could I describe the mixed up feelings that La Dame aux Camelias awakened in me? Oh, I know! I must ask you if you ever been in love? Well, not just a transient love, but the one that makes your heart beat so fast, that for a moment the world around you dissipates in thousands and thousands of colors, and your heart runs towards them and back again inside you to beat even faster. Have you ever been so in love that you have lost yourself in the arms of your loved one, absorbing his perfume by every pore, sharing in those moments, just the two of you, all the secrets of the Universe? And the way you feel when your loved one is drawing sketches of his thoughts on your forehead and you gave them life so they can fly away...

That's how La Dame aux Camelias is. Like an intimate moment shared by you two. It is a sensual perfume, erotic, in wich the musk note is the queen, dominating with dignity the flowers which stay open, almost indecent, challenging you to embrace them, absorbe their perfume, feel their soft petals. The verbena note gives a fresh, sour touch to the composition, perhaps for reminding you of the tiny bit of lucidity and rationality contained in the game of love, but shortly the bouquet consiting of iris, orange flowers and roses surrounds the composition like a heavy velvet drape and La Dame aux Camelias is now dense, powdery and slightly dry. The perfume remains the same from now, until the end, adorning my skin with memories.

06/10/2015

9Scent 10Longevity 5Sillage

Palonera
467 Reviews

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Palonera

Top Review 36

the Knight's Touch

Early June in the Ruhr area, the thermometer above thirty degrees.
Brilliant blue sky, the sun is blazing, every thread of fabric feels too much on my skin.
Crowded trams, of course unairconditioned, the damp skin of the person next to me sticks to my arm.
We had been waiting for a day like this, "La Dame aux Camélias" and I.

There isn't much I like to wear in the heat.
I'm not always in the mood for Cologne and not all day for that "freshly showered" feeling.
For some of my children, the scent is part of the therapy, a wrong choice can be counterproductive.
On this day, I was going to a boy with ADHD, who reacts extremely aggressively to citrus notes.
He loves powdery-soft sweetness, however - yet hardly any fragrance with these attributes is a summer candidate.
So the Camellia lady was my hope bearer.

Bright, young, and very, very clean, "La Dame aux Camélias" greets me in the first moments - ultra-fine talcum powder dusts on my skin, in the background a faint hint of hairspray.
A blink later, a sea of light violet violets blooms, very delicate, very fine, touchingly old-fashioned and yet not at all demure.
She is twenty, at most - sparkling eyes, the long lashes modestly lowered, but only for show.
Dimples in her smooth cheeks, a firm line already around her delicate mouth.
She can scratch, that’s for sure - sugary-dry, she tickles me deep in the throat.
But she quickly matures, the powder becomes soft and smooth, slightly warmed by my skin yet also a bit cool.
Thirty degrees don’t bother her, don’t drive her away, don’t weigh on her mood.
Powdery-soft sweetness - not too little, not too much.
I arrive.

"There you are!" he greets me. "Come swim!"
He already jumps into the pool.
I envy him and wish I were a child again.
Five minutes later, he’s sitting next to me, talking non-stop about the week that’s coming to an end.
In between, a wet head on my neck, a little nose sniffs: "You smell good!"
The knight's touch.
In all these years, he has only said that two or three times.
And then he jumps away - it’s a good day.

Hours later, we sit in the garden, the rock in my surf and I.
The sun has gone, the grill is slowly cooling down.
He moves closer: "If it weren't so hot..."
The Camellia lady smiles.
She knows: He loves smooth powder too.
I know: It’s cool upstairs in the house.

"La Dame aux Camélias" has been with me since that day.
I wanted to know: Does she only love it hot?
How does she behave when the sky carries clouds?
Does she retreat before the cool wind, does she leave me alone when it rains?
What seems certain is: She loves the sun and is not so unlike me in that.
Only on sun-warmed skin does her full radiance unfold, she remains tender and present for hours.
Coolness on the skin also elicits coolness from her, she stays scratchy longer, even appears a bit snippy.
On such days, my beloved's nose wrinkles, he can’t believe that she is the same as the one who just recently lay with him.
But sometimes he doesn’t even believe that about me...

PS: Franfan - thank you!

04/11/2017

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

pudelbonzo
2405 Reviews

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Very helpful Review 11

Beauty in Half-Light

At the moment, I am delighted by my camellias, which bloom particularly lush in pink and red in hidden spots of the garden.

Despite their beauty, they do not push themselves forward in a showy manner, but rather exude a charming modesty in the background.
Their scent is subtle yet perceptible - pleasantly unobtrusive.

La Dame aux Camelias presents herself in a similarly attractive, well-mannered, and noble way.
Despite her naturalness, she is a lady from head to toe - yet her elegance is in no way aloof, but rather interested and approachable.
Pretentiousness is foreign to her.
Warm orange blossom dusted with violet creates intimacy - in a stylish manner.
She has tastefully decorated her salon with exclusive camellias, and her antiques breathe a woody essence.

We leaf through photo albums that tell of her distant travels.
A reflective lady who has preserved her openness.
Her company is both calming and stimulating.
She quotes the words of Beuys:

Let yourself fall
Invite someone dangerous for tea
Become a friend of freedom and uncertainty
Cry at movies
Swing as high as you can
Imagine you are enchanted

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