Top Notes 
Lemon leaf
Angelica
Watermelon
Heart Notes 
Linden blossom
Cyclamen
Base Notes 
Acacia wood
Beeswax
Hay
12/10/2012
Ysbrand
84 Reviews
Ysbrand
Very helpful Review
10
A dryad
Tilleul balances fresh and sweet floral notes in such a gracious way that the final result is extraordinarily unperfumey and natural smelling, like an olfactive postcard of the nature itself, unadorned. Of course, linden blossoms are the heart and soul of Tilleul, but also the leaves, the bark, the air around the tree.
At the opening, Tilleul combines the pollen powderiness and moist nectar sweetness of linden with refreshing citrus and vigorous green accents. This is a dim freshness, not too bright or cologne-like. The lemon tree leaves give a darker, bitter, cool, sap-like nuance that you would smell in linden honey or in the cut stems of the leaves.
As the fragance develops, linden flower unfolds its characteristic honeyed, bewitching fragance. I also smell something delicately rubbery, like daffodil (not listed). While the sap note persists, the chilly petit grain-like fresh note is substituted by an aquaeous watermelon rind that goes more towards the green than the fruity, emphasizing the botanical experience.
As the fragance matures in the skin, the linden finally meets the earth, and develops a sort of comforting, thicker animalic/earthy sweetness: Beeswax, fresh hay, and a candid clover-like sweet note join black woods.
Tilleul is narcotic and soothing, and dress you clean like an ethereal baby lotion; indeed, the border between the toiletrie and the personal fragance can be diffuse: too unique to be meant only to be “useful”, too soft and candid to portray the troubled, intense human spirit. Maybe nor one nor the other. I say Tilleul it is only meant to express a peaceful plant spirit.
At the opening, Tilleul combines the pollen powderiness and moist nectar sweetness of linden with refreshing citrus and vigorous green accents. This is a dim freshness, not too bright or cologne-like. The lemon tree leaves give a darker, bitter, cool, sap-like nuance that you would smell in linden honey or in the cut stems of the leaves.
As the fragance develops, linden flower unfolds its characteristic honeyed, bewitching fragance. I also smell something delicately rubbery, like daffodil (not listed). While the sap note persists, the chilly petit grain-like fresh note is substituted by an aquaeous watermelon rind that goes more towards the green than the fruity, emphasizing the botanical experience.
As the fragance matures in the skin, the linden finally meets the earth, and develops a sort of comforting, thicker animalic/earthy sweetness: Beeswax, fresh hay, and a candid clover-like sweet note join black woods.
Tilleul is narcotic and soothing, and dress you clean like an ethereal baby lotion; indeed, the border between the toiletrie and the personal fragance can be diffuse: too unique to be meant only to be “useful”, too soft and candid to portray the troubled, intense human spirit. Maybe nor one nor the other. I say Tilleul it is only meant to express a peaceful plant spirit.
Arcane
