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Vouloir être ailleurs. C.G. d'Orsay 2020

8.3 / 10 45 Ratings

A popular perfume by d'Orsay for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is floral-green. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Green

Fresh

Sweet

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lemon leaf

Heart Notes

Linden blossom

Base Notes

Beeswax absolute Hay

Hay

Acacia wood

Perfumer

Olivia Giacobetti

Ratings

Scent

8.345 Ratings

Longevity

7.332 Ratings

Sillage

6.533 Ratings

Bottle

7.428 Ratings

Value for money

7.222 Ratings

Submitted by Seymour, last update on 09/10/2025.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Tilleul (1995)

Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/09/2024

Orbatid
5 Reviews

Orbatid

2

Under the linden trees

Every year, two linden trees behind my house bloom, and for a few days my bedroom is filled with the smell of linden blossoms. This is unmistakably that smell, pure and simple. Since the trees bloom for such a short amount of time, as spring slides into summer's heat, this perfume feels like capturing a sliver of those days - the evening light making the trees shine golden, all the windows open, the sounds of the neighborhood spilling in, winter a distant memory.

06/13/2023

8
Pricing 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 9
Scent

FloatingTime
20 Reviews

FloatingTime

1

Amazingly soothing lime (linden blossom) and honey caress

"Vouloir être ailleurs" (which means: "Wanting to be elsewhere") used to be called "Tilleul" (which means linden blossom or linden tree).

It's a very dreamy and soothing fragrance.

It opens with photorealistic lemon leaf and lime (linden blossom) notes. If you've ever walked under a linden tree or even drank loose-leaf linden infusions, it's unmistakeable. The opening notes stay for a long time, but are joined by equally realistic flower honey (reinforcing the linden infusion association) and wheat. It's very reminiscent of roasted slices of bread.

It's a very subtle and calming scent, that stays very close to the skin for most of its duration. I really love it.

Despite the total absence of lilac notes, it is fairly reminiscent of Frederic Malle's En Passant. This could be explained by the similar wheat note and by the fact the perfumer is the same.

07/18/2025

9
Scent

Franciscosm
4 Reviews

Franciscosm

1

Elsewhere

Every year in June, the linden trees fill the city with their honeyed, polleny scent, evoking memories of distant times and a longing for innocence, leaving one wishing to be young again.
The fragrant blossoms have always delighted the noses of perfumers; however, they’re a so called mute flower, that is, a flower whose scent cannot be extracted. Therefore, an accord has to be composed. Many attempts have been made and, in my opinion, very few actually resemble the natural.
Tilleul was launched in 1915. The version currently available is the 1995 one though, aptly renamed Vouloir être ailleurs (meaning “to want to be elsewhere”). The nose behind the reformulation was the one and only Olivia Giacobetti, a master of transparency. Her style definitely shines through, diaphanous and subtle; a sweetish watercolor of watery cyclamens, petitgrain and pollen. A whisper of hay in the background reminds one that C.G. isn’t a mere product of a child’s imagination — it belongs to the plant kingdom.

09/10/2025

7
Pricing 10
Bottle 6
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Tealight10
18 Reviews

Tealight10

1

Effortless, easy yellow floral

I am falling for Vouloir être ailleurs. C.G.— a delicate linden soliflore by Olivia Giacobetti for d’Orsay. I’ve been sniffing around “yellow” florals for a few months and I cannot quit this one. Gently sweet, perfectly heady, a hint of dew, and a base of hay. It is characteristic of Giacobetti’s style if you know En Passant or Philosykos. It’s sophisticated and pretty—its sense of strength comes through quietly in the clarity and intention of the composition.

Linden has a golden pollen and honey sweetness to it. Giacobetti combines it with a leafy, slightly acidic lemon in the opening while hay and acacia wood shapes the floralcy sweetness into something mature, enduring, and expansive. There is contradiction between a sense of dew on the petals and a dry quality to the hay that is so seductive and sophisticated. A moment in time.

I would be curious to smell the historic (1925) Tilleul that this fragrance is based on. The current interpretation smells very urban and modern to my nose. (Linden smells of tree lined avenues on a warm city day to me. While the hay evokes a field in the distance carried in on the breeze. Another artful contradiction. Maybe this is the elsewhere suggested by the name?

Among my most office-friendly florals. Vouloir êre ailleur-C.G. sings softly and prettily. There are obvious associations to make with the Spring season but I think this would make an impact in all seasons and occasions. It has an effortless, quiet prettiness to it that is easy to wear and enjoy.

06/06/2024

7
Pricing 8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 9
Scent

Nele00
6 Reviews

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Nele00

Helpful Review 9

Green candle making in the Lindenallee

I bought the fragrance blind because I was so taken with the scents. I was not disappointed. I'm a huge fan of lime blossom anyway, I really like fragrances like 1A-33 (2012) or № 10 Linde Berlin.

What I particularly like about the lime blossom fragrances is their naturalness. This one from Orsay in particular delivers exactly what its fragrance notes promise and does so in an extremely natural way. It's as if you've rubbed some warm beeswax over your skin, as well as a fresh green lemon leaf (doesn't give you/me any toilet fragrance vibes!!) and are walking through an avenue of lime trees, with a little breeze of hay from the fields. When the sun shines through the leaves and tickles your nose, the moment is absolute springtime bliss.

After 10 minutes, the woody undertone comes to the fore and, together with the beeswax, gives the whole thing a pleasant warmth. For my nose, this is a welcome change from the warm, vanilla fragrances I usually like. I would say that the fragrance is not sweet per se, nor is the beeswax, it is rather warm, like warm, fresh spring air, but the lime blossom itself gives the fragrance a subtle honey note.

The fragrance does not shine with a complex development, it remains more or less linear, but in my opinion it does not need complexity either. For me, it is one of those "in this moment" fragrances that take you on a short journey, to a place that is characterized by an image, a feeling, to remember. For me, this is the feeling of security in the emerging green, fresh, blooming nature in the warm spring air.