Héliotrope (2014) / Héliotrope Blanc by Oriza L. Legrand

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Héliotrope
Héliotrope Blanc
Oriza L. Legrand 2014

Version from 2014

7.5 / 10 139 Ratings

A perfume by Oriza L. Legrand for women, released in 2014. The scent is powdery-floral. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Powdery

Floral

Sweet

Creamy

Gourmand

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Heliotrope

Orange blossom

Violet leaf

Heart Notes

Heliotrope Almond

Almond

Iris

Mimosa

Base Notes

Heliotrope Musk

Musk

Rice powder Benzoin

Benzoin

Tonka bean

Ratings

Scent

7.5139 Ratings

Longevity

7.5109 Ratings

Sillage

6.9116 Ratings

Bottle

8.2116 Ratings

Value for money

6.933 Ratings

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Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/15/2024

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

CarinaNL
6 Reviews

CarinaNL

Helpful Review 2

Once, twice, three times a Heliotrope..

..and I love you!

Heliotrope Blanc by Oriza Legrand opens with a blast of powdery Violet that feels fluffy and fresh at the same time. As the fragrance develops, the heliotrope remains the star of the show, accompanied by some other delicious notes.

In the mid, the heliotrope is beautifully blended with almond, creating a delightful combination. Just when you can almost taste the almond, the mimosa and iris reveal their floral side, adding depth to the scent.

In the drydown, you'll experience a warm and clean version of heliotrope. I could easily mistaken it for a Guerlain perfume, as it has a shadow of L'heure de Nuit.

07/13/2024

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

parfumpixie
358 Reviews

parfumpixie

3

Angelic & Powdery

This opens with the combination of extremely powdery violets and heliotrope that reminds me of baby powder and conversational hearts. It smells like sweet violet scented baby powder dusted over a garden of heliotropes which I personally enjoy. As this dries down you get a lot of sweet almond, a warm tonka bean, and some dusty benzoin that adds some depth to the scent. It still maintains that pastel purple aura all throughout, powdery, dusty, light, and coquette adjacent. The final result is a powdery scent with sweet facets and warm undertones. This scent feels really simple but in an undeniably enjoyable way.

09/13/2025

Sanzusair
12 Reviews

Sanzusair

1

Sample, sample, sample

Oh, how I wish I could smell what everyone else seems to smell in this review section. For me Héliotrope is no delightful musk, orange blossom or almond, but a sickly blast of baby wipe odor that doesn't change, doesn't lessen, and goes straight to my head. I had the same reaction to Angel's Dust by Francesca Bianchi so I can only conclude it's some genetic factor at play here that morphs an innocuous ingredient into liquid migraine.

So for you reading this, I can only advise you to sample it to be sure you don't fall into the same disappointment.

09/21/2015

8Scent 10Longevity 7.5Sillage

Seerose
775 Reviews

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Seerose

Top Review

Intense and Alluring

There it was, immediately sorted to the back of the drawer, the original sample "Héliotrope Blanc". If I were in the mood to try another heliotrope scent or had nothing else to test, I wanted to give it a try. I hadn't noticed it was a fragrance by Oriza L. Legrand. 'Heliotrope' was enough to place the little sprayer in the back row.
I love heliotrope in fragrances. But as a monofloral note in perfumes, it often comes across as too gourmand for me and indistinguishable from tonka and vanilla; at best, I can still perceive the star anise note that heliotrope can also have. For example, I find the scent of Etro "Heliotrope" beautiful, but also somewhat one-dimensional, and I wouldn't want to smell like that in the company of others, like during a choir rehearsal.
But yesterday I did test "Héliotrope Blanc", found it unexpectedly foreign at first, somehow old-fashioned, strange. But I cannot resist the allure of this strong scent; I find it captivatingly beautiful and sensual.
I still hadn't realized it was an Oriza L. Legrand fragrance. But when I called up "Héliotrope Blanc" to enter my review, I understood. Too late I saw that no comment had been written yet, so I sprayed it on again today, and?
I find "Héliotrope Blanc" completely different from what I expected, intense and perhaps precisely because of that alluring.
So what do I perceive:
"Héliotrope Blanc" is a scent that starts off intensely floral, neither citrusy, nor bitter, nor green. "Héliotrope Blanc" is immediately creamy after the alcohol evaporates and for a while has a slightly synthetic quality. I smell violets, lily of the valley, lilac, and a bit of rose first. This mixture is not at all animalistic, but rather has an old-fashioned grace - at first.
Then a strong almondy heliotrope develops above it, now slightly green and alluringly bitter for me. "Héliotrope Blanc" remains relatively long like this. I search in my notes because I tested seven fragrances from Oriza L. Legrand at the beginning of 2014. Fascinating scents, but none managed to win me over.
After a few hours, "Héliotrope Blanc" becomes drier, loses some of its floral scent, and now I also smell the mimosa in the base with its specific slightly needle-like resinous roughness. I cannot detect rice powder and benzoin. Tonka is already woven into the almond-like note and remains present.
After the creamy floral mixture has receded, although it never completely disappears, the bitterness with heliotrope becomes even stronger. Now "Héliotrope Blanc" is also bitter and resinous.
It is perceptible to me as a whole that "Héliotrope Blanc" must contain many more fragrance notes than are mentioned here in the pyramid. As I wrote in the comments back then, the Oriza L. Legrand fragrances have a base fragrance blend called "Base 4092", which is said to smell powdery, like roses, vanilla, tonka, and cloves. It is supposed to give all Oriza L. Legrand fragrances a base scent and a typical fragrance note unique to these scents. Furthermore, the Oriza L. Legrand fragrances are supposed to be, in a way, remakes of very old fragrances. It is suggested that old recipes have been adapted to the present day. I write "suggested" because I cannot recognize this, just as I have no means of comparison. The bottles are also designed in the Art Nouveau style, which is supposed to hint at fragrance recipes from that time.
"Héliotrope Blanc" is not at all gourmand for me. When I think about it, it is a scent that I expected to be somewhat like Hypnotic Poison according to the pyramid. However, I cannot stand HP at all. "Héliotrope Blanc", on the other hand, is a rather intense and very alluring scent for me with good longevity and a sillage that intensifies over time. I agree with the classification as a feminine scent; I cannot imagine "Héliotrope Blanc" on a man. This scent I will certainly not forget.

02/04/2019

Hirondelle
26 Reviews

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Hirondelle

Top Review 9

The White Dress...

I love to be seduced by bottles, even though I passed by scents that would shape me for years. This bottle made my heart race, as a big fan of Art Nouveau. Wonderful, this opulence...
At first, I tested HB on a paper strip and found this scent stunning. White, musk, creamy-powdery. A sweetness without being too sweet. The first reaction on my skin surprised me quite a bit. You have to like heliotrope (the good news: you can learn to appreciate it). Initially, I perceive it as almost piercing, almost medicinal, but gradually a wonderful creaminess sets in, the piercing quality remains through quite robust marzipan shards (in dark chocolate, mind you), and I struggle for a long time to decide whether this is pleasant or not.
After an endless symphony (Mahler sends his regards) of olfactory back and forth, as the water lily described unsurpassed, the scent calms down, becoming soft and close to the skin. It now strongly reminds me of Kenzo Amour; both scents share some notes (heliotrope, musk, rice powder/steam), although KA comes across as more one-dimensional and a bit sweeter, but it lasts significantly longer. HB reminds me of my wedding dress, which clung with delicate lace, flowing tulle without too much fuss, but which I only wore for one day. Such a wedding day (in fast forward) is also HB, and unfortunately, it fades faster than the hem of the wedding dress gets dirty. Nevertheless, it has crept into my life, and I gladly pull out the sample from time to time, just like my dress.

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Gorgia

6 years ago

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

3

Sweet,comforting,powdery beautiful scent.I dont understand why this is marketed as an men scent?This is as feminine scent as it gets.

Metaphysical

1 year ago

9.5Scent 8Sillage

2

Gorgeous sweet and powdery heliotrope. This has lots of depth to it.

Ninamariah

1 year ago

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2

Almost like a soliflore, clean pretty hazy floral, I don't get any Almond or Vanilla aroma which Heliotrope normally creates. Not gourmand.

Hugolay

8 months ago

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1

Heliotrope, bitter almond and sweet rice, reduced to fine powder. Fragile and vulnerable, an essence of innocence.

ForestWitch

11 months ago

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1

Soft powdery floral with a slight almond touch. Conjures up images of an Edwardian lady in her white lawn dress on a warm Spring day.

Loulou31

3 years ago

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1

Une dragée d antan, ce parfum est un cocon de nuageux au dessus d un mariage d antan,il y a des dragées c est doux, propre ,nuageux

EvangMM

18 days ago

5.5Scent

Dunno, maybe too much heliotrope? Oh, wait....

Marieposa

2 years ago

7Scent 9Longevity 7Sillage

43

Vanilla almond creamed
higher daughter by day
Boudoir powder lounging
Bohemian by night
Heliotrope pleasures of the
Belle Époque
in Paris

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Licorice

3 years ago

7.5Scent

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38

The accompanying notes accentuate the facets of the namesake flower: powdery, floral, almondy, vanillic, creamy.
Surprisingly not too sweet.*

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Pluto

1 year ago

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Floral gourmand, heliotrope, almond pastry, iris, powder, tonka. You have to like powder. Light-footed despite the ingredients. I like it. Oriza knows how to do it.

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