Fleur d'Osmanthus Roger & Gallet 2011

The combination of fruit and blossom aromas, so incredibly inflationary and vehemently praised as supposedly archetypal and feminine, has not only established itself as a genre in the perfume world in the "ladies mainstream", has not only become a blueprint, but it almost seems as if the creative directors of the big houses considered it absolutely indispensable in a perfume.
An abstract olfactory idea has been consolidated for fruits and flowers alike, which has cut out all bitter, bitter, sultry, acidic aspects from nature and leaves behind a smooth, unresisting complacency Combined with an arbitrary degree of sweetness, there are a few adjusting screws that are turned, very carefully though, to produce small variations of the same idea over and over again, which thus becomes flatter and more faceless overall.

Fleur d'Osmanthus now lives in the same genre and doesn't even boldly turn one of the screws to free himself and still succeeds much better.
There is a tangy, almost effervescent prelude, which does not cry and does not use violence.
There are fruits and flowers, only little sweetness, but a slight acidity. Stimulated rippling.
Afterwards one withdraws quickly again and remains on a pleasantly dimmed level with rather green vegetable speckles until the imperceptible fade out. No big fuss, no ambitions. So wonderful.

Then you have a look at what it should cost and maybe you should avoid asking yourself too many questions about this business.