Le Sourire du Diable 2013

Le Sourire du Diable by L'Antichambre
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7.5 / 10 18 Ratings
A popular perfume by L'Antichambre for women and men, released in 2013. The scent is woody-resinous. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody
Resinous
Spicy
Smoky
Oriental

Fragrance Notes

OudOud BergamotBergamot AmberAmber CuminCumin GingerGinger LabdanumLabdanum CedarCedar
Ratings
Scent
7.518 Ratings
Longevity
7.515 Ratings
Sillage
6.915 Ratings
Bottle
7.016 Ratings
Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 30.07.2022.

Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions
7
Bottle
9
Sillage
9
Longevity
10
Scent
Pollita

224 Reviews
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Pollita
Very helpful Review 13  
Sinful scent that is fun to use
Yeah, he's really worth a sin! After I got Le Speculoos from L'Antichambre from the states of Luckyscent (and stupidly had to pick it up at customs after waiting forever :(), the package also contained samples of other fragrances. There was also this one who immediately fascinated me. For me, however, it was something of a men's fragrance that I gave the sample to my better half. When I smelled the grinning Teulfelchen then for the first time at him, it had happened around me. Wow, just wow! A fragrance that invites you to sniff, snuggle and more. Someone who really knocked me out. Okay, I thought to myself. I'll get it for us in the O-bottle. Since Luckyscent no longer sent to Germany, I contacted the perfumer directly and soon received a very nice mail from Brussels. He'd like to send it to me at a much cheaper price than from the States. There I torched not long and ordered immediately.

I can't smell the individual notes in Le Sourire de Diable. However, it reminds me of one or two very good scents from the eighties / nineties. Unfortunately, I can't tell which they are. Some boys, who smelled damn good, smelled so similar back then.

Durability and Sillage are violent, not too strongly eindieseln dear boys. The scent will give you joy for a whole day or more. In my opinion, this is one for a cosy togetherness or for going out. I'd rather not recommend it for the office now. A violent stuffing in any case, which makes fun and desire on sin
9 Comments
7.5
Bottle
7.5
Sillage
10
Longevity
6
Scent
Drseid

819 Reviews
Drseid
Drseid
2  
A Crazy Roller-coaster Ride Of A Scent That Is Quite The Puzzle To Crack...
Le Sourire du Diable opens with a very complex and conflicted spicy mixture that features cumin and maybe even a black peppery accord. The spice driven fragrance settles down a bit in the early heart as the cumin and peppery mixture join natural ginger and what appears to be waxy iris with just a slight hint of underlying Oud that is barely detectable. During the late dry-down, the cumin is still present but now well in the background as a complex amber-laced accord emulating slightly sweet camphorous myrrh and sparkling vetiver takes the fore (though neither are listed as official notes). Projection is excellent and longevity exceptional at well over 12 hours on skin.

Le Sourire du Diable is a roller-coaster ride for sure. Its rather haphazard spicy open just seems to have all the early notes fighting one other and things don't look too promising. As the scent enters the heart phase the cumin and peppery opening accord (maybe unlisted angelica?) meld with balancing ginger as a very (also unlisted) waxy iris-like supporting note joins them. At this point I am thinking the overall effect smells very much like a cross between Cartier's cumin and waxy iris driven Declaration and its ginger driven Declaration Cologne flanker. The hybrid result is actually not too bad as the ginger takes a bit of the sting off the cumin here unlike in the original Declaration where its just too much. During the late dry-down things evolve yet again with this time the fragrance going in a completely different direction as I get an accord resembling the dry-down of the horrible Eau Sauvage Parfum but unlike that abomination, this is a much more pleasant implementation that does not gnaw at you over time. All in all Le Sourire du Diable starts off a mess and evolves into something almost pleasant though not completely successful, earning a relatively tenuous "good" 3 stars out of 5 rating. Declaration fans will most likely enjoy this more than I but the cumin still was too much for me.
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