Chloë Sevigny - Little Flower Régime des Fleurs 2019

this is how they would smell. Juicy, effervescent, and sparkling. It is not a traditional rose fragrance. It's far lighter and dewier. I had been wanting to try this because of the beautiful bottle, and a year later I finally decided to order a tester. This one is a keeper, and makes for a beautiful daytime fragrance, especially in spring and summer. Longevity is good, and I get about 6 hours of wear before I can no longer smell it on my wrist. On clothes, it will last into the next day. Sillage is fair: it projects about 1-2 feet upon initial spray, but after an hour or so becomes a skin scent. I am a packaging enthusiast, so for me, it is full-bottle-worthy! I'm also a fan of watery florals, so I've smelled others like it. However, the juiciness of the scent, combined with the whimsical bottle, makes this one a favorite of mine.

Edit: I wore this out in 70+ degree weather and perhaps it was the heat, but the sillage was excellent! Skin scent no more! I got wafts of this fragrance all day and even got a compliment from a woman no fewer than 4 ft away:)

I didn't want to like this as much as I did because 1) Everyone is talking about it and 2) It's out of my price range, but it is truly spectacular. A true rose with a whiff of tea and ripe fruits, bleeding heart (!!!) and inviting honeysuckle, a little touch of something woody at the end. I really appreciate how careful and delicate this composition is. I'm gonna have shell out the $$$ for a full bottle.

When I first started getting into fragrances, I desperately wanted to love floral scents but they NEVER appealed to me. They always were way too green, or too powdery, or too sweet. Now that I'm more experienced and have smelled way more florals, I've found what works best for me. However, Little Flower smells the way I always wanted floral fragrances to smell! It's so balanced and classic but not boring. Huge fan. It's also a perk that I can smell like Chloe Sevigny whenever I want.

This is a fun one. A vegetal, stemmy rose; blood red, slightly thorny. And then a picnic spread wafting of sweet black tea and forest berry preserves. I’m not a big rose fan, but this is – dare I say – my favourite rose to date. Tart, jammy, bright green. It’s the sort of scent I’d wear to a garden party or a bachelorette. Or that masquerade ball at Versailles people spend years handcrafting their costumes for.

Of the Regime des Fleurs litter, I think Little Flower is probably the safest blind buy. If it were a food it’d be a strawberry-rhubarb tart. There’s something very “Bonne Maman” about the red berry accord, which dances along with the rose.

Mental Snapshot: A haute couture costume party in a hedgerow labyrinth, emerald walls studded with tender red blooms. Lace, crinolines, Gibson Girl bouffants. Everyone seems to have leaned either Alice in Wonderland or Mary Poppins. Laughter and secrets are shared between Jammie Dodgers and tea.

tl;dr: rose garden tea party

This scent opens strong with the rose note, which remains fairly linear as the fragrance dries down. The projection is quite impressive at the beginning of its evolution. I proceeded to sleep in this fragrance, and by the time I woke up from my nap, it had mostly faded away. While the longevity is quite average, the juiciness of the opening, and the slight tartness that comes from the pomelo and blackcurrant notes, makes this a fun fragrance for me! The rose, while less photorealistic than some other rose fragrances, is recognizable and pleasant without being obviously artificial.