Fleur de Canne à Sucre Ligne St Barth 2007

So, today I'm reviewing a fragrance from Ligne St Barth, a brand I've often seen in a niche perfumery but have only tried one fragrance from so far. And as luck would have it, I'm testing this scent "only" because I happened to have a sample of it.

The name of the fragrance means sugarcane flower, which sounds quite nice, as it suggests sweet floral scents. The question is, of course, whether the fragrance is light and breezy and thus suitable for summer, or if it has a heavier sweet scent that would only be appropriate for autumn or winter.

And as I mentioned recently with another fragrance, I am NOT responsible if the scent somehow sounds "delicious" and you then hold me accountable for your "increased candy intake".... :D

Yes, the fragrance starts off sugary, it really smells like sugar, but also a bit like cotton candy (which is almost similar in scent). I also detect powdery fruits that remind me a little of currants, but whether these are actually acai berries, I can't say, as I don't know how acai smells... to be honest, I even hoped it was some kind of tea variety, since acai sounds like chai... *sigh* :D
Well, floral notes appear shortly thereafter. These are jasmine, whose sweetness sometimes smells stronger than that of the sugar. The violets also contribute a sweetness, and since violets always seem a bit powdery to me, the earlier mentioned powderiness could also come from the violets.
Anyway, it continues quite sweetly, the fragrance takes on a warm note, likely from the sandalwood. A little later, the floral notes start to smell a bit more sultry and thus heavier, reminiscent of floral notes like ylang-ylang. Otherwise, you can still smell the vanilla in the base, which then becomes the main scent note.

The sillage is quite good at the beginning, the fragrance radiates well for a while and is thus easily detectable. However, it becomes weaker in the base despite the vanilla, but you still don't have to get too close to smell it.
The longevity is okay, as the fragrance lasted a little over six hours on me.

The bottle is rectangular, slim, and tall. It is filled with a pink fragrance liquid and displays the name and fragrance name in gold lettering on the front. Additionally, there is a small, quite simple, but nice drawing that is different on each bottle (... and surely has some meaning...!). It's a bit simple overall, but quite nice!

Hmm, the fragrance may start off light and breezy despite the sweet notes, but it becomes increasingly heavier as it develops, so this is not a summer scent. Spring might still work, as long as it’s not too warm; otherwise, for me, it belongs more in the autumn.

The fragrance is quite nice in itself, as it reminds me of scents like Candy (by Prada) with its sugary notes and is suitable for going out (so that a woman appears delicious :DD), but I find the slightly sultry floral notes towards the end a bit bothersome, even though they are not very pronounced. You ladies might enjoy it, as long as you don't mind sugary scents, although this one is less girly!

So... does this make you crave sweets again? I mean, I'm not talking about melt-in-your-mouth, delicious chocolate that cracks beautifully when you bite into it and gives you a lovely feeling of happiness, but about sugar or cotton candy, and a bit of vanilla, which seems to be almost ubiquitous in most fragrances! :DD

Well, you can certainly try this fragrance, but it doesn't smell much different from other similar fragrances!

I was made aware of the scent when I was actually looking for another one in the perfume shop.
My first contact was sprayed on a cosmetic tissue, from which a cloud of sweet pineapple arose. Initially good. On the skin, alongside the pineapple, a sugary undertone developed, which then took over and drifted into the aldehydic, and stayed there. This gave the fragrance a sharp note for me.
What a pity. We could have become friends.