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Gold Label

Sensual & Decadent LM Parfums 2015

7.7 / 10 57 Ratings

A popular perfume by LM Parfums for women and men, released in 2015. The scent is sweet-gourmand. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Sweet

Gourmand

Oriental

Fruity

Floral

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Ylang-ylang Rhubarb

Rhubarb

Heart Notes

Heliotrope

Labdanum

Base Notes

Benzoin

Vanilla

Oud

Ratings

Scent

7.757 Ratings

Longevity

8.448 Ratings

Sillage

7.848 Ratings

Bottle

7.758 Ratings

Value for money

5.115 Ratings

Submitted by Michael · last update on 12/17/2025.

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Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Gold Label collection.

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Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/08/2023

9.5Scent 10Longevity 7Sillage

Lucrezia1
3 Reviews

Lucrezia1

2

Wonderful

If you like vanilla but you hate gourmands, if you want your perfumes to have some different twist, if you like sweet feminine side not being girly, or foody, well, here you are. One of my most complimented perfumes.
Very longlasting, projection luckly is not nuclear, so that you can spray and go to work without offending anyone but simply smelling good...so good.

02/15/2016

5Scent 10Longevity 8Sillage

Cravache
64 Reviews

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Cravache

Top Review

Too Tight Thongs - today: Aphrodite

Actually, I never wanted to write a negative review. Until yesterday, I hadn't tested a fragrance that truly deserved it, as I am an olfactory optimist like Voltaire's Candide.

User Ergreifend recently started an excellent series of negative reviews: "Too Tight Thongs." Today, I caught a wearer of a too tight thong: it is Aphrodite - the graceful goddess of love among the Greeks, the erotic fantasy of every sculptor!

However, in Laurent Mazzone's interpretation, Aphrodite is not wearing a charming garment with a dangerously deep neckline, but just one thing: a too tight thong. The once graceful goddess of love and delightful niche perfumes… Overstuffed with caramel. Aphrodite paid 400 euros for 100ml of caramel from Laurent Mazzone.

I do not want to withhold Laurent Mazzone's marketing text from the interested reader: Sensual & Decadent is said to be the scent of sacred love. Somewhere in a dark forest, there is supposed to be a bed of moss and shiny leaves. Surrounded by aromatic resin. A secret love nest where Aphrodite secretly indulges her pleasures with her lovers. But she must be careful of her jealous husband, the somewhat slow-witted and clumsy god Hephaestus, god of anvil and hammer.

Anyone expecting a sensually seductive, possibly even frivolous love scent from Roja Dove will be shocked. Just like during Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's visit to Rome, they covered the naked Aphrodite. Here with a sticky layer of caramel.

Sensual & Decadent primarily smells of caramel, prepared in a student flat. A men's shared apartment, single men's shared apartment, to be precise. Well, I do not smell the delicate, erotic Aphrodite in Sensual & Decadent. I smell the Gorgons. Gorgons are terrifying figures in Greek-Roman mythology with wings and snake hair, who caused anyone who looked at them to die of fright. Laurent Mazzone has excellently translated this olfactorily. Everything is frozen under a shell of caramel.

Sensual & Decadent starts with caramel. And a pinch of hors-sol rhubarb. However, it could also be hors-sol cooking apple or unripe hors-sol tomato. And at the same time, a rather penetrating caramel note breaks over the wearer and their environment.

Not really grandma's caramel, prepared with overflowing love, but rather an unspecified caramel concoction made from supermarket ingredients. Prepared by students from a science faculty. Probably specializing in "very theoretical physics."

After a few minutes, some flowers join the caramel concoction. Why are the flowers there? Because they were told to be. They are doing their duty as instructed. At least without complaint. They are white. As required of them. So more white like how men wash white laundry "white." Hm.

This causes discontent in the caramel concoction. It decides to punish the rather unmotivated flowers with some persistence. The caramel concoction prepared by physics students does not quite succeed in this. Nevertheless, this tension, whether the caramel concoction will become really penetrating or not, creates a certain suspense.

The scent progression is not really distinguishable into top, heart, and base notes. The caramel note smells more or less equally penetrating all the time. At least a perfect harmony - albeit of olfactory Tartarus. With the progression of the scent, the caramel note may become just a tiny bit weaker and shifts towards a dry-powdery vanilla and resin.

A pale wood note from old discarded garden furniture joins in. Occasionally, a bitter-sour note stands out. Does the rhubarb still have some flow? One does not know.

Over time, the caramel concoction burns a bit for the physics students. A slightly smoky note makes itself known. Did the pale wood stick some smoky feathers up its backside to pass as oud? Again, one can only speculate.

I consider Sensual & Decadent to be absolutely unisex: I can equally advise both genders against the scent. The scent is as interesting in its progression and complexity as women's soccer in the USA.

Hm. I have been wondering for about 12 hours whom Aphrodite intends to seduce with Sensual & Decadent. Because the caramel note rolls through the scent like the crazed Cretan bull. I fear that if Aphrodite's bed smells like this (as her press spokesperson claims), she first stuffs an entire pot of caramel (at 400 euros per 100ml) into herself - and then takes matters into her own hands. In any case, her thong will pinch in the near future.

If I were to enter the hell described by Jean-Paul Sartre in Huis clos, Laurent Mazzone would incessantly spray Sensual & Decadent on me. And I would scream Aphrodite out of my little black book.

02/13/2016

10Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

FloraBervoix
26 Reviews

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FloraBervoix

Top Review 18

Des Esseintes' Rescue

Perfume reviews should ideally contain a somewhat reflective opinion on a fragrance. But to be honest - there’s not much more to say than "Oh my God, this smells so incredibly good!" Because that’s all you want to say when you’ve sprayed on Sensual&Decadent; you just want to keep smelling it. If I hadn’t hurriedly left the perfume store after testing it, I would have been much poorer within the next three minutes. But thanks to my escape, I was able to postpone this event (for how long, that’s another question).

Additionally, I should mention the following. I usually pay attention to good expression. To a nuanced expression. But Sensual&Decadent makes all my rational abilities disappear and reduces me to expressions like "awesome."

Nevertheless, I want to make an effort (to avoid receiving a "not very helpful" rating) and attempt a slightly more nuanced approach to the perfume, preferably through its name.

"Sensual" - oh yes, it is sensual. Vanilla is simply a perfect aphrodisiac. The fruit from the top notes can only be smelled if you know it’s there. Ylang Ylang perhaps, but more in the form of a sensual aura than from the flowers.

The joke about the perfume is that it is so simple. It’s actually just a beautiful vanilla, perfectly complemented by resins and very slightly smoky aspects. But this is so brilliantly balanced, like I’ve never smelled before. A vanilla that you simply must have. Where no rational thought is possible anymore. Thus, the lack of a scent progression fits perfectly - nothing distracts, it is simply consistently pure sensuality.

Decadent? Yes, in its abundance. And in its beauty. Perhaps also in the effort to view vanilla, which is already a natural aphrodisiac, as something coming from nature and thus inferior, that needs to be improved through human influence. So, by adding other substances, a kind of idealized vanilla is created that enhances its effect.

When I think of decadence, I always think of "Against the Grain," THE work of decadence literature par excellence. Des Esseintes, a French nobleman and aesthete, retreats to his country house and shapes his life there in complete solitude according to his ideals, over which he develops neuroses and gradually withers away. Eventually, he is advised to return to society.

There could have been another, simpler (and more beautiful) way - one only needed to imagine Des Esseintes being sprayed with this perfume by a woman. The rest would have followed immediately, including the disappearance of all neuroses. I am quite sure of that.

Statements

15 short views on the fragrance

JoaoMartins

5 years ago

8.5Scent 7Longevity 5Sillage

2

Clearly a benzoin bomb. Very linear and well balanced... Doesn't smell cheap but it's not outstandingly unique to deserve the price tag

Bastian

5 years ago

8Scent

13

7

Oud gently nestled in vanilla with a subtle hint of ylang-ylang. The scent creates a sense of security and a cozy atmosphere.
Very nice. Thanks, Lucy.

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