Bottle Design:
Francesco Passaniti, Waltersperger

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Madeleine Parfumerie Particulière

7.7 / 10 91 Ratings

A popular perfume by Parfumerie Particulière for women and men. The release year is unknown. The scent is sweet-gourmand. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Sweet

Gourmand

Floral

Creamy

Powdery

Fragrance Notes

Bitter almond

White musk

Heliotrope

Bergamot

Benzoin

Myrrh absolute

Perfumers

Amélie Bourgeois, Anne-Sophie Behaghel

Ratings

Scent

7.791 Ratings

Longevity

7.980 Ratings

Sillage

7.282 Ratings

Bottle

7.871 Ratings

Value for money

6.532 Ratings

Submitted by Calista, last update on 10/14/2025.

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/24/2021

10Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

Emorandeira
395 Reviews

Emorandeira

Is It the BEST almond based scent?

Madeleine is probably the BEST almond based fragrances that I have ever tried. It is very dense and is one between this kind of fragrances the more long lasting is. The opening is a bit fresh, with the bergamot and the almond, It has even for me some minth vibe. Then in the dry down It becomes powdery, sweet and flowery with the presence of the heliotrope, one of the bes heliotrope perfumes that I have also ever tried. In the dry down the musk give some power yo the fragance, which lasts easily 7-8 hours with a medium sillage.
I have discovered a great perfume, one of the BEST I have tried during the last months. This perfume goes following the líne of perfumes like object celeste by Volnay or Pegasus by parfums de Marly but... For me much better!

Scent: 10
Longevity: 8
Sillage: 6
Versatility: 9
Originality: 8
Vale for money: 8
Overall: 9

08/11/2023

5Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

Amaretto
9 Reviews

Amaretto

It is not what it seems

This is another fresh fragrance on the theme of cleanliness. It has the texture of dry laundry detergent granules and flying soap bubbles that smell like citrus soap and almond milk.
In this fragrance, you can always feel: fresh tart bergamot, delicate powdery heliotrope and soft, like wool, musk.
The scent is not gourmand at all.

06/20/2020

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Can777
257 Reviews

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Can777

Top Review 69

Toxic Love

She had finally done it! She had been planning it for a long time. Always indecisive about doing it. He would never have let her go, that was clear. He would have found her wherever she had hidden. How had she once loved him? This handsome and fantastically good-looking man. Intelligent, cultured, and so seductive. The dream of every woman. But only on the outside! He changed quickly after the wedding. It started with his need for control. Followed by jealousy and mistrust. Ultimately, there came humiliations, emotional cruelty, and finally physical violence. That was enough. More than enough! She looked out the window and lit a cigarette. Then she glanced over her shoulder at the dining table. He was still sitting there. Where else would he be? After all, he was dead! The tea in front of him was still steaming, and the cake laced with cyanide hadn’t even been half eaten. Cyanide works very quickly, she had read. True!

With elegant steps, she approached his lifeless body. His head was thrown back, hanging with his mouth and eyes wide open over the backrest of the chair. She closed his eyes and looked at him. His full, sensual lips had turned bluish-purple. Even in death, they looked as seductive as ever. In a trance, she leaned down to him and wanted to give him one last kiss goodbye. He still had power over her. Even now,... frightening! But the smell emanating from his half-open mouth quickly brought her back to reality in a disturbingly pleasant way. She could almost see the imaginary, toxic vapors of cyanide escaping from his mouth. Orange, yellow, and slightly iridescent-shimmering. What a beautiful scent of prussic acid. A bit like marzipan, bitter almond, or the flowers of heliotrope on a warm summer night. Lightly underscored by soft chemical and synthetic wafts. Caressing, gently clean, and also a bit piercing. Attractive yet so repelling. Seductive, soft, creamy, and yet so deadly. She tenderly stroked his face once more with the words... You smell delicious, mon chéri! And dreamily left the room!

Conclusion
Who says poisons smell bad? One of the most distinctive and easily recognizable is probably cyanide. If one can even smell it! Not everyone can smell it. For many noses, it is imperceptible like a molecular scent, and for others, it is more than obvious. Madeleine from Parfumerie Particuliére comes very close to this poison in terms of scent and impression. Madeleine obviously smells of bitter almond. Delicate notes of crushed, almost creamy fresh almonds blend with the marzipan-sweet scent of heliotrope. A metallic-cool musk runs through Madeleine and gives the fragrance a seductive and chemically-synthetic note. This is by no means unpleasant. Madeleine smells very attractive but also, on the other hand, very irritating. It is emotionally difficult to categorize and plays with coolness and warmth. Madeleine is very treacherous in its sillage and longevity. At times, one thinks they can no longer smell or perceive the fragrance, but in the next second, they are caught again by a creeping cloud of gourmand, sweet-metallic scent notes. The fragrance follows delayed like a shadow. The longevity of Madeleine is enormous for an apparently light semi-gourmand. The perfume lasts easily eight hours on the skin. On clothing, even several days. What do I think of it? Dubious, alluring, and incredibly delightful!

Madeleine,... to die for beautiful!

12/04/2022

7.5Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Axiomatic
149 Reviews

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Axiomatic

Top Review 43

The Memory

Madeleine, Magdalena, here the spirits diverge on which of the names of the pastry is the original one.
Sometimes these little cakes are said to come from Lorraine, sometimes from Northern Spain along the Camino de Santiago. Sometimes they appear in the shape of a shell, sometimes more round.
But what is important here is the citrus note, whether as zest or as juice from the flesh of the fruit.
And just as Marcel Proust brought his narrator's childhood back to life by dipping one of these delicacies in tea, this fragrance creates a little magic "in search of lost time".

Madeleine opens bitterly citrusy with bergamot, surprisingly natural.
And a distinctive bitter almond joins it. The kind that can be deadly if consumed recklessly.
It is a tension between bright citrus on one side and creamy almond on the other. Life and death face each other.

The narrator learns what transience means.

Now, however, heliotrope takes the bitter almond by the hand and both naively dance a ring dance. The mood becomes creamier, very cuddly, like a balm for the skin. The threat of cyanide is dispelled.

However, the fragrance progression remains idiosyncratic, shifting from a cozy, warm embrace to a beautiful tea setting.
It should be noted that there is no tea note present, the focus is on a madeleine.

With closed eyes and an open heart, the narrator now remembers his childhood.

His madeleine is very delicately covered with a lemon glaze, experiencing a powdery cold. The beautiful dining table of his parents is covered with a very clean tablecloth, musky-fresh and ironed, showcasing its damask weave, the delicate patterns glowing in the backlight. He can smell the metal iron through the synthetic fabric.
It will also be this molecule that will maintain the citrus impression until the end of the fragrance progression. It tickles a bit in the nose if you smell too closely. At a greater distance, the scent remains more lovely.

And as with remembering, the scent impression changes once again. The narrator opens his eyes again and finds himself as an adult. Just as the fragrance now shifts to a dark green, slightly herbal and bitter.
Yet sparks of his childhood flicker here and there, citrusy bright and sweet. And a delicate veil, very shadowy, envelops him with the bitter almond.

Towards the end of this fragrance story, this gourmand will bid farewell in a greenish hue.

The color of hope?

10/03/2020

10Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Serres74
30 Reviews

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Serres74

Top Review 25

She was still...

…a beautiful woman. Even though her alabaster skin had lost some of its youthful freshness, one could not get enough of her aristocratic features. Next to her perfectly curved lips and sweet little upturned nose, it was especially her eyes that captivated you. There were days when they appeared more blue…on other days rather gray…and then there were days when he could have sworn they were purple…as purple as the heliotrope blooming in the garden.
While she poured Earl Grey into his cup, she looked at him with those purple eyes, framed by long, black eyelashes. God, how much he loved this woman. She drove him crazy. He knew that she no longer loved him…and that it was his fault that this love had faded over the years. But he couldn't help but constantly check on her…and yes…it was also difficult for him to keep his jealousy in check. Why did she always have to provoke him…“is that an almond cake?” he asked her as she served him a piece on a dessert plate. “No, what makes you think that?”…“it smells like almonds and lemons here”…“oh no. That must be my new fragrance, do you like it?” She sat down opposite him and poured herself some tea as well. “Aha, that’s already your third new fragrance in a very short time. I’m just wondering if collecting fragrances has become your new hobby or if your interest lies more with the young man who recently started working at Madame Julie’s perfumery.” She paused briefly in her movement and set the teapot down on the table…“You mean Raoul? A really interesting young man. He studies pharmacy and makes some money on the side at Madame Julie’s”…“Oh really, you’re already on a first-name basis” he felt anger boiling up inside him and clenched his fists…“I beg you, why do you always have to overreact like this? Have I ever given you a reason to be jealous? I have always been faithful to you!!!”. She grabbed her cigarette case and went to the window. With trembling fingers, she lit one. “Madeleine! Please forgive me, you know I don’t mean it that way and no, you have always been faithful to me. How foolish of me to think that such a young man could be interested in you. After all, you’re not exactly the youngest anymore. Come my darling, don’t be angry with me, the tea will get cold and I can hardly wait to try that delicious cake.” She turned back to him and while she took a drag from her cigarette, she watched her husband eat the cake. Soon she would finally be free. Free from him and his pathological jealousy, his need for control, and the constant humiliations. Free for Raoul, who did everything for her, even getting the cyanide for her…

I can understand why Madeleine is referred to as toxic, as there are two components that are toxic…bitter almond and heliotrope. On me, the almond is noticeable from the beginning to the end, and the heliotrope makes it wonderfully vanilla-like, soft. I find the bergamot interesting in it, which, although not dominant at all, is still present and gives the whole thing a slightly fresher feel. I don’t know if it’s due to the musk or if I’m imagining it…but I have the feeling that after a while the fragrance actually settles on my taste buds, as unusual as that may sound…and I perceive a bitter taste in my mouth. Nevertheless, it’s a fantastic fragrance that makes the wearer appear both attractive and distant…

By the way, I was inspired to write this little story by Can's comment, who kindly sent me a sample of this perfume, many thanks for that ;-)

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