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La Pluie Miller Harris 2011

6.7 / 10 95 Ratings

A perfume by Miller Harris for women and men, released in 2011. The scent is floral-fresh. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Floral

Fresh

Green

Sweet

Powdery

Fragrance Notes

Mimosa

Jasmine

Orange blossom

Ylang-ylang

Lavender

Vetiver

Vanilla

Bergamot

Mandarin orange

Perfumer

Lyn Harris

Ratings

Scent

6.795 Ratings

Longevity

6.164 Ratings

Sillage

5.361 Ratings

Bottle

7.780 Ratings

Submitted by Chipsy, last update on 08/05/2024.

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Reviews

10 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/07/2012

8Scent 5Longevity 2.5Sillage

Apicius
1328 Reviews

Apicius

1

The discreetness of rainy air

How can one describe the rain with a fragrance? I was expecting something aquatic and harsh, a synthetic blend of musks, calone, hedione and all that ingredients that seem to be inevitable when something has to do with water. But I was wrong. La Pluie got me with a kind of reminiscence to the dusty-powdery smell of Dior Homme – only softer! I am possibly wrong since no orris is listed, but yet, this was my first impression.

I only had a few spritzes at a perfume shop, and with such a discreet perfume it is hardly possible to discover all its secrets with such a short test. La Pluie seems to have a story behind it – it is a walk in the rain. Not a thunderstorm, no severe weather is being imposed on the wearer – it is a calm rain – that kind that nature gratefully welcomes as life's necessity by revealing all those tender scents that are hidden away during dry periods.

Top and middle notes are full of flowery and soft green notes – but only hints, so it is not easy guessing. La Pluie is an extremely discreet fragrance, too discreet by far for most perfume lovers. It is only for those who just want to have a very light aura of something magic around them, but nothing really noticeable or even describable to third persons.

In the base note, La Pluie seems to turn into a musky direction. Is has only a very slight, creamy soapiness, but also a little bit of animalic depth. I like that – so many soft and tender notes can get on your nerves when they are presented too offensive. This is definitely not the case here. La Pluie will appeal to a small minority of very sensitive perfume lovers.

05/14/2012

5Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Sherapop
1240 Reviews

Sherapop

Lots of Ylang and Vanilla, Not so much Rain

I suspect that the name of Miller Harris LA PLUIE has engendered plenty of dashed expectations. This perfume opens very briefly with a watery quality vaguely reminiscent of damp wood. From there, however, the composition proceeds with dispatch to a fairly strong ylang-vanilla drydown, so much so that I am reminded of Guerlain AQUA ALLEGORIA YLANG VANILLA.

All stages considered, I would have to say that this is much more of a floriental than an aquatic perfume. As a simple, not-too-sweet floriental, LA PLUIE is nice, provided that one likes ylang-ylang. A lot.

03/30/2012

Sophi
50 Reviews

Sophi

Fresh and Wet Feeling

Fresh floral with aquatic elements...
A fresh, citrus floral opening with a fruity touch...
It is very nice for spring and summer because you get a fresh and wet feeling out of this!The opening reminds me very much the GUY LARoche Fidji but the dry down becomes more flowery and grassy when the vetiver stands out of the base notes.
It has good lasting power and i give it 3.5/5.

06/25/2015

6.5Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

loewenherz
917 Reviews

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loewenherz

Top Review 24

Ashley Wilkes

One of the most discussed and often misunderstood phenomena in film and literary history is the passion of the lively, beautiful, and capricious Scarlett O'Hara (who could have had anyone) for the pale, somewhat awkward Ashley Wilkes, the heir of Twelve Oaks, the neighboring plantation of the legendary Tara. He promptly married not her, but his cousin, the almost painfully kind-hearted Melanie - and Scarlett cannot escape him for the rest of her life.

Ashley Wilkes is the antithesis of the daring and exciting Rhett Butler, who is a gambler, womanizer, and war profiteer. Ashley is slight and quiet and somewhat shy, a bit boring and sometimes a weakling, yet not cowardly and never a traitor. In fact, Ashley - wonderfully fragile and hesitant as portrayed by Leslie Howard, with a constantly red-blonde curl on his forehead - is not someone who wins women over in a storm. He is much more a poet than a merchant or even a warrior - and is aware of his own lack of stature and charisma at every moment.

Miller's or Lyn Harris' La Pluie - the rain - is a fragrance that resembles Ashley in its essence: delicate and fleeting, strangely fragile and androgynous, yet not weak, although feeble - and full of quiet beauty and poetry. Nothing about it conquers in a stormy manner, nothing here is full of wildness or passion. La Pluie is a subtle fragrance, built on a foundation of strangely 'non-blooming' flowers - gray-green and somewhat murky - like a warm June rain falling silently for an entire afternoon. In this silence, it has something gentle, something almost musical - like a soldier who prefers to write poetry rather than wage war - or like Ashley Wilkes, who sometimes struggles because he is not a man of the world like Rhett Butler and not a merchant like Frank Kennedy - and yet honorable and upright.

Conclusion: a fragrance of silence and a certain shyness. One might wonder whether on days that feel quiet and shy, one would choose such a perfume - or would rather go without.

02/24/2017

7.5Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

Taurus
1167 Reviews

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Taurus

Top Review 6

Gentle Summer Rain

Yesterday, the so-called "Altweiberkarneval" was not only stormy in the truest sense of the word but unfortunately also rainy. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to finally test Le Pluie by Miller Harris.

Of course, there are different types of rain, such as drizzle, sleet, snow rain, heavy rain, cloudbursts, monsoons, etc.
But Le Pluie embodies one of the most pleasant forms of falling droplets, namely the gentle short summer rain, which, although not conforming to yesterday's weather, was more than okay.

After all, the blend of orange blossom, which shines here intensely but still subtly, slightly bitter-fresh bergamot, as well as classic jasmine and ylang-ylang, gives the comforting illusion of enjoying a little moist refreshment on a sunny summer morning in the garden, just like when the dust is cleaned from the flowers and plants, inviting the sweet air for a breath of fresh air.

Even if things might be different in one's own garden, on the balcony, or in the park around the corner, Le Pluie at least conveys a positive feeling and makes even gray, dreary hours look a bit friendlier.

And while mimosa (I don't even know how it smells) reminds me a bit of lily of the valley (that's how it felt to me), it is also present. In contrast, lavender, mandarin, as well as vanilla and vetiver seem somewhat water-shy here.

Overall, the fragrance indeed comes across as floral, green, fresh with delicate tendencies towards powdery and restrained sweetness, including a fine bittersweet counterpoint. However, this rain doesn't last long. It is meant to cool the surface rather than flood the streets.

Although I sometimes struggle with floral perfumes, here the balanced harmony works, so it could essentially be worn by anyone. After all, the rain makes no difference when it comes to getting wet.

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