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Mon Paradis Câline 2004

6.3 / 10 7 Ratings

A perfume by Câline for women and men, released in 2004. The scent is floral-powdery. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Powdery

Sweet

Spicy

Synthetic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Rose leaf

Mandarin orange

Desaturated Hangnail

Heart Notes

Iris

Violet

Heliotrope Rose

Rose

Plunzaktir

Base Notes

Sandalwood

Cedarwood

White musk

Ambergris

Ratings

Scent

6.37 Ratings

Longevity

6.67 Ratings

Sillage

5.97 Ratings

Bottle

6.68 Ratings

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03/27/2023

5.5Scent 6Longevity 7Sillage

Leimbacher
2873 Reviews

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Leimbacher

Helpful Review 7

Noble Migraine Pallor

I'm not 100% sure if my "Tendre Pallida" sample might be slightly off or is on the verge of going bad. Consider this a light warning and apology to all lovers of the fragrance. Nevertheless, I can still clearly smell enough of the scent character to throw in my two cents.

"Tendre Pallida" is a bone-dry iris E.T. that is very difficult to describe and put into words. It piques curiosity while simultaneously repelling. A very purple scent, if you can imagine something like that. Pollen and beehive in the backside. Attic meets Milky Way. Powder meets crude. Very synthetic, an experiment. The musk honestly comes across in its worst moments like cheap shampoos. A garden full of foreign plants. Or the holodeck, which at least tries to imitate that. Light, dull sharpness. There are far better alternatives on the market when it comes to iris and powder bombs.

Bottle: Average niche perfumery
Sillage: noticeable to the surroundings - not always with positive comments
Longevity: 7-9 hours is strong for an iris scent

Conclusion: a very androgynous, dry, almost alien-like iris killer with a very penetrating, headache-inducing aura. Interesting. But not good for me. Although I generally like powdery scents. This one, however, feels inhuman, unnatural to the point of being repulsive.

08/28/2016

5.5Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Meggi
1018 Reviews

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Meggi

Top Review 20

Strange Tenderness

Pallida refers to the iris as a prominent fragrance ingredient. Iris pallida is a common garden plant. The Latin adjective pallidus or pallida means pale or wan and appears, by the way, as part of the scientific names of various plants and animals. It is also used as part of cultivar names. Similar to the Florentine iris, the root of the iris pallida is said to have a scent reminiscent of violets.

Et sentilà (that is - DIY! - 'voilà' in smelling): A start of gasoline-biting violet-leather flies around my nose. The attack quickly subsides in favor of a merely prickly-sour-leathery violet note. After five minutes, vanilla-like heliotrope makes an appearance, which, of course, already transforms into a gently sweetening base within the first hour and, to preemptively mention, prevents a slide into the overly bitter, at least in projection.

For this iris is truly no nose-pleaser. There is already that rather unsour, more austere hesperidic note that I can't quite grasp. A gummy bergamot-neroli-something would be my guess. The aforementioned pairs (of course with gum) completely flower-sex-free with the bitter part of the iris. So much for 'Tendre'... I actually looked up this word, which I know despite my lack of French language skills, just to be sure. Yes indeed: Tender. Tender pallor? Well, there may be people who tenderly love freshly produced whitewall tires, but not like this!

Sour-bitter-gum. Phew. The fragrance needs distance from the skin. At least a few centimeters of separation are required for a more pleasant blend to form. Which incidentally demonstrates the ambivalence of the comparative: If the recovering person is 'better,' they may not feel 'good' at all. 'More pleasant' is to be understood in exactly this sense.

But no reason for reassurance (no, I haven't forgotten an "un") - there's more to come. Over the course of about three or four hours, it seems that even daffodil or something similar joins in. Not exactly an olfactory cuddle bunny either. Hey, folks! That's enough now.

Late in the morning, a timid rose peeks out. I only notice it directly on the skin. By early afternoon, it has disappeared again. The creamy companions from the base also fail to tame the bitter overall impression. At best, it is slightly softened, yet after six or seven hours, it resembles more than ever the stinky daffodil. Even blackcurrant leaf is conceivable.

In the remaining approximately two hours, on the one hand, the volume gradually dims, and on the other hand, the milder gentlemen finally get a foothold and round off the fragrance. A bitter sting lingers until the end. Even a note of unwashed-ness (I am reminded of Emir by Micaleff!) can be diagnosed right at the end in the evening residue. Oh dear.

Conclusion: Very demanding. Nothing against drastic ingredients, but I miss the antagonist here. And I really don't like the optional unwashed twist at the end. Undoubtedly an original test tip for iris lovers, but I will pass - especially at this price.

I thank Ergoproxy for the sample.

01/21/2015

7Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Seerose
775 Reviews

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Seerose

Very helpful Review

Delicate Iris? Delicate is certainly the bloom

Once again, an uncommented high-priced fragrance, already the second one for me today.
I will start this time with the unisex classification, which I agree with for "Tendre Pallida." I do not perceive "Tendre Pallida" as delicate or tender; it could easily be worn by men, especially since it seems to be a relatively skin-close scent.
In any case, I would like "Tendre Pallida" on men.
Overall, I find "Tendre Pallida" somewhat confusing, so I will let myself be guided by the individual developing scent phases.
"Tendre Pallida" starts disappointingly sharp, smelling slightly synthetic like violet. This seemingly synthetic note disappears after a few minutes.
After that, it develops into a dry woody and spicy floral scent. At first, it is difficult for me to distinguish iris from violet here. However, "Tendre Pallida" has a progression, and it requires a bit of patience, as fortunately, iris and violet alternate a few times, at least for me.
Rose is only perceptible to me towards the end.
"Tendre Pallida" is not a sweet fragrance with hardly any sweetness.
I do not perceive any citrus in the top note. Amber, sandalwood, and white musk make "Tendre Pallida" softer, dust-dry, powdery, and consistent. The slowly developing woody and somewhat sharp, almost biting-peppery iris note is interesting. This must be the Pallida iris mentioned in ALzD, which is also described there as a woody dry-spicy scented blue iris. This scent note remains present throughout the progression. In this respect, the fragrance delivers what is promised.
Unfortunately, a slight soapiness also arises. This could also be due to the oddly sharp iris scent combined with the sandalwood and cedar. This kind of sharp-dry spiciness with a hint of sharp sage? It is quite difficult for me to describe this scent note more precisely.
Considering the price of €150 for 100 ml, I can already give this fragrance 70% for that reason alone, as I would not buy it as a decant. I owe this valuable decant to Aggeliki. Compared to "Tendre Pallida," other iris fragrances excite me, such as "Iris Taizo" by PG.
So, "Tendre Pallida" does not truly convince me, even though it is an interesting, unusual, and well-made fragrance that anyone with a preference for iris scents should definitely test.