L'Air de Rien 2006

L'Air de Rien by Miller Harris
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7.5 / 10 251 Ratings
L'Air de Rien is a popular perfume by Miller Harris for women and was released in 2006. The scent is powdery-earthy. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production. Pronunciation
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Main accords

Powdery
Earthy
Spicy
Animal
Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
NeroliNeroli
Heart Notes Heart Notes
OakmossOakmoss PatchouliPatchouli
Base Notes Base Notes
AmberAmber MuskMusk VanillaVanilla

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.5251 Ratings
Longevity
8.0190 Ratings
Sillage
6.7188 Ratings
Bottle
7.5162 Ratings
Value for money
7.218 Ratings
Submitted by Seglein, last update on 15.04.2024.

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Sillage
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Longevity
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Scent
Amylovesyou

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Amylovesyou
Amylovesyou
Top Review 41  
Security
Nothing allows us to experience more humanity on both sides than to feel not only a helping hand in a moment of complete helplessness, existential neediness and highest need, but also to experience security.
These are the lines that come to mind when I spray "L'Air de Rien" on my skin, when it connects to something that gives me an indescribable feeling of security, that makes me feel something like basic confidence while at the same time being completely "naked". It may sound crazy, but it is. I have never before experienced anything like this in such an intense, already really intimate way with any other fragrance. There are too many scents in your head, pictures, memories unwind in your inner eye, but here it's just a feeling that I can't relate to conscious experiences. For a long time I puzzled what I was feeling, I only knew that it was beautiful and to put it into words was incredibly difficult for me.
L'Air de Rien is an unbelievably "skinny" fragrance. After the short nerolistart, which gives the fragrance a beautiful shine, an unbelievable emotional triumvirate is set on my skin. Patchouli + musk + oakmoss. All very loose, whipped like a mousse au chocolat. Slightly vanilla sweetish, dark, a little earthy, warm and soft like skin warmed by a fireplace. So the fragrance is already after a few minutes and it stays that way for hours until it is gently ambered - patchoulig finishes.
It is a rather moderate fragrance from the Sillage, which doesn't bother me here, because I only wear it for myself so far. Without distraction. Very intimate The bottle is kept entirely in the Miller Harris style, simple and of high quality. He is adorned with a sunflower and a naked woman with wings as well as the hand-written lettering "L'Air de Rien by Jane Birkin" which co-created this fragrance.
A fragrance that has touched me like no other, whose beauty is not revealed to everyone and probably never in the same way and should I keep only one fragrance of my collection so it would be with absolute certainty this one.
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Sillage
8
Longevity
8.5
Scent
Midnights

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Midnights
Midnights
Top Review 29  
All that remained
When you went away
Kiss-scarred skin
Ashy body parts, soiled by touch
Soundlessly formed letters on the lips
All that remained

A scenario of longing in three chapters. Waking up, still in the intermediate world between dream and reality, cautiously hopeful. Realizing that none of it was a dream. Perceiving the scent between rumpled sheets that is not your own and being pushed to the floor by the harsh realization that you have been left behind. Peeling yourself out of bed in a daze, stumbling over your own feet, searching for balance, only to find the last life raft a few steps further on the kitchen chair. Gaining time, procrastinating, smoking two cigarettes and letting the coffee get cold. Forming syllables with your lips, giving up letters of a name that can no longer be pronounced. Go to the bathroom, examine what is left of the self in the mirror. Mend the kiss scars in a makeshift way, look at the still glowing ashes on the skin, dissociated, where glowing touches have crumbled to dust. Go back to bed, press your face into the familiar pillow, wait. When a nothing left behind becomes an everything. At some point it will pass.
Oh yes, the fragrance: a small pinch of neroli, lots of oakmoss and patchouli, a sweet, humanizing base. Secondary matter. Fragrance-turned-fragile urgency, fueled by intimacy, longing, despair and the memory of the one spot on another neck where one's own face has always found refuge.

With longing thanks to the heart shooter @Jeob for this melancholy world in D minor. It should have been a statement, but didn't want to be limited to 1000 characters.
22 Comments
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7
Sillage
9
Longevity
9
Scent
Tanninaz

11 Reviews
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Tanninaz
Tanninaz
Top Review 15  
No breath of nothingness
After reading some comments and blog reviews, I definitely felt that this could be a fragrance for me - I like to have something animal in the base note as well, but it shouldn't be too overwhelming. After all, I want to be able to wear the perfume to work without bothering my patients.
L´Air de Rien actually begins extremely musty, which is probably due to the oak moss. The Nerolinote also doesn't look fresh at all, but dusty, as if you had forgotten the whole thing in an old handbag or box and pulled it out again years later.
The first hour of the session, it looks like a stale oriental perfume and actually has a certain charisma. At this stage, my boyfriend's pretty up his nose.
After the initial phase, however, the fragrance becomes clearly more cuddly, still slightly musty and slightly powdery. Somehow has something of the smell of the old favourite aunt, who used to be a hot sweeper. In addition, there is a slightly unwashed musk note, as if one smells on the scalp of one's dearest, who has taken a shower in the morning but has just completed a working day. Not really sweaty, but also not fresh...
All in all a really unconventional fragrance, which I personally think is really great. Has quite stuff to the signature smell
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Cafeliberte

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Cafeliberte
Cafeliberte
Very helpful Review 9  
Janes scented bag
This is the first fragrance I've tested that leaves me completely confused.
And I almost bet I liked it...

It's the third Miller Harris I've been allowed to test. I found both Cassis en Feuille and Figue Amère very interesting and idiosyncratic, but I don't want to wear both.
I have the first positive impression because of the wonderful name, I think L'Air de Rien sounds dreamlike beautiful, and also the relation to Jane Birkin I find promising.
The scent is allowed on the wrist, and I expect something so fragile, transparent that I press my nose much too close to the skin. My first fragrance impression is that I can't smell anything out of it, let alone assign anything to it, except that it feels very skiny very quickly.
I don't have the scent pyramid in my head at first and look only later - I wonder about my so dear and familiar Neroli, no molecule of it makes it into my scent sensation, I search in vain.
I have an urgent impulse to wash dishes quickly. But I have a job to do and use the time until I get home to explore this scent, I want to know why it confuses me so much and I absolutely can't classify it.

As has already been mentioned here several times, the mouldyness comes to light very quickly with me too. No, it's not sweaty, and neither is powder or talcum. It is sweetish, but not synthetic or flowery-sweet, but a mature sweetness. It smells very physical. That's the only word I can think of.
Slowly, the scent reminds me of the little scented bags that older ladies often hang for decades in their wardrobes between pastel-coloured ensembles, flowery blouses with small golden buttons and fine cardigans. Lavender or rose. Only that the scented bags have not smelled of it for a long time, but with the fine silk ribbon they hang so nicely decoratively between the well-kept and well-kept clothes. Even a few mothballs, which haven't done their job for a long time, are behind the sweaters.
And yet L'Air de Rien by no means smells like grandma or old lady.

But I feel immature with the scent, as if I had not gained enough life experience to be able to do justice to this very adult perfume as a wearer. Through this physical in it, I must also think of a certain sexual maturity, of a self-confident handling of one's own body.
But the smell on my wrist also makes me feel somehow unshowered in my skin. I don't get a person in my mind who can imagine this scent. Then I remember Jane Birkin again, with her concise tooth gap, the casual erotic charisma, as she stands at Serge Gainsbourg's side self-confidently in crocheted mini dress and straw hat. No, it is the mature Jane who has suffered strokes of fate, the mother, the singer, who has lost nothing of her charisma.
I am satisfied with this association, and perhaps I understand the fragrance a little better now.
But now I really need to wash it off because I long for freshness.
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Floramalia

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Floramalia
Floramalia
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I can't handle it...
Now I still had the courage to test the fragrance a second time. I wanted to like him so much. Actually, I am always very impressed when fragrances show an exciting course.

Here: a second long idea of Neroli and freshness, then the laaaong way, which is so greislig, that I simply don't get it. Does not have to be described any more, this has already happened many times. And I always thought they were all exaggerating. Towards the end it becomes more fragrant, warm again, with a powdery melt.

I wanted to like the smell so much. Neroli, Patchouli: Baggage scheme. But everything comes completely differently, than thought... jammer, jammer, please excuse me for whining, maybe he will develop much better with others and just doesn't suit me
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GavarrusGavarrus 4 months ago
I remember this as smelling like sweet saliva. No dusty old books. Just saliva
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ManonlescautManonlescaut 2 years ago
10
Bottle
6
Sillage
7
Longevity
10
Scent
So uniquely beautiful!The sense that this "nothing"(rien)is everything...
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OmardoOmardo 4 years ago
to me, tested only on paper, umbearable, but one of the most astonishing experience in perfumery. smells like my grandma sofa. time machine.
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