Vivacité(s) de Bach by Les Fleurs de Bach

See Prices

More

We may earn a commission when you buy from links on our site, including the eBay Partner Network and Amazon.

Vivacité(s) de Bach Les Fleurs de Bach

7.6 / 10 31 Ratings

A popular perfume by Les Fleurs de Bach for women and men. The release year is unknown. The scent is green-spicy. It is still in production.
Compare

More

We may earn a commission when you buy from links on our site, including the eBay Partner Network and Amazon.

Main accords

Green

Spicy

Fresh

Woody

Floral

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Broom

Centaury

Heart Notes

Horse-chestnut Olive

Olive

Hornbeam

Base Notes

Mustard

Larch

Ratings

Scent

7.631 Ratings

Longevity

6.721 Ratings

Sillage

6.117 Ratings

Bottle

6.324 Ratings

Submitted by Antoine · last update on 12/19/2025.

Source-backed & verified

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/25/2013

9Scent

MemoryOScent
37 Reviews

MemoryOScent

Helpful Review 5

Heal thyself with perfume!

I came across Vivacité(s) de Bach a few years ago when my fellow perfumista and friend Nikos gave me his sample, more as a test to my weird taste in perfume as I later realised, than an introduction to a new marvel. To his nose it is an olfactive oddity, strange and unwearable. From the first whiff I was astonished by how different this one smells. If you have ever had an italian after-dinner amaro, then you already have a very good idea of what this smells like. A cloistral amaro served in a wooden cup. Freshly cut wood, and a conifer for that matter, is the first impression. Intense and masculine with terpenic nuances. Then come the bitter herbs. And when I say bitter, gin is sweet liqueur compared to this. I am no botanist nor monk so I cannot pin down different notes. If however bitter makes you think of something sombre and difficult, you are mistaken. Vivacité(s) remains bright and sparkling. The woody inclination remains very prominent and it is the kind of polished wood or very freshly cut. Pungent and more suited for topnotes rather than base. I often associate this bright woody quality with a certain fruitiness. The fruitiness of green apples or mango skin. I know that this is a very personal association but it can give you a measure of the woody qualities of Vivacité(s). The rest of the ingredients weave a herbal, bitter carpet. And like an amaro makes your teeth clench but your stomach light as the morning munchies, the same way Vivacité(s) manages to deliver what its name promises: liveliness and alertness.

10/28/2020

10Scent

FrauHolle
556 Reviews

Translated · Show original

FrauHolle

Top Review 33

The Bautzen Crime Novel

Film idea for the Bautzen crime novel (Part 1):

The corpse has mustard all over its face, the marking around the body is made of mustard, investigators are spooning mustard during the investigation, they go for breakfast at the Aral sausage stand, the prosecutor is pondering over mustard eggs whether the gardener grows mustard seeds.

The autopsy revealed that the victim has several bruises on the knees, elbows, and tailbone, which suggest a fall at the crime scene, on a trail of oil, egg yolk, vinegar, salt, and a hint of MUSTARD. Is the perpetrator trying to cleverly divert attention from themselves here?

(Prof. Dr. Luke Mostrich from Maastricht disrupts the investigation.)

The KSK*, from the big city, is to actively support the case after the TSK* and LSK* have run out of ideas.
*) Kühne Special Command, *) Thomy Special Command, *) Lion Special Command

Latest findings in the case: The female victim was in a relationship with a certain Heinz. Rumor has it behind shaky curtains that the relationship was complicated. The mismatched couple was only seen together happily and carefree at the ikea hot dog pumps.

Mysterious twist: Mustard is being pulled from all supermarkets in Bautzen; allegedly due to excessive, tear-inducing doses of isothiocyanates.
The criminal police cannot differentiate well enough through the process of elimination, WHICH is why the population is crying.

An ex-lover of the victim, Alain Dijon, speaks up: She claims she mistakenly sent him over the white sausage equator, to where the pepper grows.

Under acute suspicion is the local baker, Dietmar (Diddi) Doppelkorn, who always allows himself a little, but sneaky fun during "Buy 3, pay for 2 promotions" by filling the egg liqueur Berliner with mustard. The situation is getting messy!

A friend of the deceased, a beekeeper, felt shamelessly used and overlooked when she stood one day at his door, questionlessly filled his extractor with Bautzen mustard, and then proceeded to brush her salmon with the sauce.

Dramatic music plays from the speakers: Mustard Sally (O.S.T.)
You Take My Mustard, You Take My Mustard-Control
I Promise My Mustard, I Promise I Wait For You
It Mustard Been Love

All by my Mustard
Don't wanna be
All by my Mustard
Anymore

07/12/2015

7Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

Meggi
1018 Reviews

Translated · Show original

Meggi

Top Review 23

The Vivace is nice too!

This fragrance was included as a bonus in an envelope with samples that I received from Gerdi - thank you very much! Spontaneously and while reading quickly, I thought that Vivacité(s) de Bach thematically referred to music by or at least after Johann Sebastian Bach. Vivace means "lively" or "brisk" and is a musical tempo and expression designation. Occasionally, such a term is used as the name of an entire piece, simply called a "Vivace." Well-known examples include Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" [adagio = slow, calm] or especially Handel's "Largo" [largo = broad, slow], actually an aria called Ombra mai fu from the opera Serse/Xerxes. A typical "Ah, that" piece, because almost everyone has heard it somewhere (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inl7-Fl77lA).

In this context, our choir director once reported that he had to musically accompany a church wedding as an organist. When the bride thought to ask him if he could play "the(!) Largo by Handel," it was too late; he had already prepared the discussed organ chorale. He was not upset about it, as these classical hits, which are often picked out as background music, can easily get on the nerves of full-blooded musicians. After the wedding, the lady said to him: "Well, the Largo was nice too."

In fact, the name of the fragrance refers to the so-called Bach flowers, an alternative treatment method devised by the English doctor Edward Bach using flower tinctures, whose production resembles the approach used in homeopathic medicines. The Bach flowers are thus a variant of those numerous products that are often accused of primarily benefiting the manufacturer. I am pragmatic about it. We have had some success with homeopathic globules for our children, and I don't care at all whether that might just be based on the placebo effect or not.

Well, at the latest when sniffing, I would have had quiet doubts about the musical background of the fragrance anyway. Bach has the "Coffee Cantata," but I know nothing of a garden-and-kitchen cantata. I olfactorily march directly from the garden into the kitchen. And the garden is not full of sweet-smelling flowers, but rather there is a - if you will - broom stinking away. In the northeast corner stands a larch. I can remember the smell well because there was a heavily climbed specimen next to my parents' house. I can't say anything about the other bizarre tree and herb ingredients due to lack of knowledge.

Now, off to the kitchen: The mustard note is incredibly well done - although I'm not sure I would have come up with it on my own. It is undoubtedly herb mustard. I suspect, for example, tarragon. It is mild. It lacks that sharp sourness of cheap everyday mustard. This one comes from a delicatessen, is certainly goooons exclusivly imported from France, and focuses on the herb, not the mustard. The olive note is rather sour, which I have to somewhat imagine. The question remains whether I want to smell like this? The surprisingly positive answer for me is: It's more than bearable!

As it develops (after about three hours), it becomes a bit more coniferous. Otherwise, there is no significant scent progression. At least none with twists or anything. The fragrance lasts a total of about six hours.

For fans of extravagant, kitchen-related scents, this stuff is a real test tip; for others, it is suitable as an unpretentious everyday fragrance. Fortunately, I do not share Turandot's unfortunate association with spirit of wine, or at most from a pleasant distance. And Vivacité(s) de Bach certainly deserves an originality award. To stay in the metaphor: So, the Vivace is nice too!

P.S.: Interestingly, I recently had Vivacité(s) de Bach on my secondary scent wrist while primarily testing Tom Ford's Noir Extreme. And since Noir Extreme is actually not extremely black but extremely sweet, a occasionally interjected spicy nose snack from the other side was a delightful balance - like the secret slice of salami in the kitchen while the Frankfurt crown battle rages at the coffee table in the next room. Thus, Vivacité(s) de Bach is an excellent second for a duel, for example, with a vanilla pamps opponent.

06/07/2012

10Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

TimK
7 Reviews

Translated · Show original

TimK

Top Review 8

Fahrenheit by Bingen

In our region in the northwest of Baden-Württemberg, called Kraichgau, there are - unfortunately fewer and fewer - characteristic floodplain forests: light young trees, poplars, ashes, beeches; shrubs like juniper, occasionally deadly nightshade, and a typical ground vegetation with wood anemones, sweet woodruff, meadow foam, primroses, wild violets, and oneberry. Often, dead wood remains lying and rots. In early spring, we march there and search for morels, that is, mushrooms. Strolling through the shady forest, especially in the rain and when it is foggy, at dawn or dusk, with suddenly jumping deer and fluttering snipe, creates a special, slightly gloomy, exciting atmosphere in minor tones, quiet yet powerful. And it smells wonderful.
“Vivacité(s) de Bach” feels like an abstraction of such a walk, like the romantic idea of qualities such as herbal and mossy, ferny and watery, woody and earthy, foggy and rainy, diffuse and white, spring-like yet rather gloomy. Nothing and yet everything of it smells of all this; with a quite powerful sillage that makes it more museum-like than wearable. For all its gloom, VdB is a heavily floral, sweet perfume.
Recently, I came across “Breath of God” - a huge thing because of its uniqueness. “Vivacité(s) de Bach” is also such a huge thing - its uniqueness, however, is on a completely different track. There is a kinship - in my perception - nonetheless: Because of that. So “Breath of Pan,” “Breath of Artemis,” or “Breath of Something-Else-Natural-Mystical”?
When I had the not exactly cheap, amusingly natural-history-cabinet-looking bottle sitting around for a while, I came up with the most fitting (albeit somewhat terse-sounding) description yesterday:
Hildegard of Bingen tries her hand at the old “Fahrenheit.”
I like it.

09/03/2014

9Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

Gerdi
29 Reviews

Translated · Show original

Gerdi

Helpful Review 6

Tuscany on the wrist…

A wonderful scent! Sharp, spicy, herbal, ethereal. I have long wished for this fragrance, discovered it by chance, and finally got something that I can ideally wear while preparing food. Because every sweetness, everything tempting, sensual would disturb…
Here we are dealing with reality! Nothing wants to play! This perfume consists of real, pure, discernible components. Nothing is suggested here! Something is present!
This perfume has, despite the natural ingredients, an astonishing longevity of almost 6 hours.
Suitable for both men and women, and truly ideal for those working in medical professions, where it is probably difficult to find a nice, unobtrusive perfume.
A scent, as described here, with a slightly “medicinal” touch. Fine coniferous nuances define the theme, allowing for a fresh, clean, and delicate (very delicate) floral fragrance to be experienced.
A memory was awakened with the first spray! South of Siena, in the Crete, in gentle hilly landscapes, dry, barren, the valleys with lush green, moist islands of small macchia-like woods lie in the grain-cultivated heights…
Yes, and it smells just like that! Refreshing, delicately green, warm, and infinitely beautiful!

More reviews