Eau De Charlotte by Annick Goutal

MoietToi

After searching every where for this perfume. I finally came across it in NK's perfumery section. You can't believe how happy I was to finally find it. I sprayed it onto my wrist and a smell of blooming flowers emerged.
But all by the sudden the flowers became dryer and they started to smell like... wait for it... flowers dipped in chocolate and vanilla.
I have no idea where that association came from but it did end up in this review after all.
It didn't last that long. But appart from that it is indeed a very beautiful scent.

Brielle87

I just love the comfort quality of this scent. it never struck me as being too over the top, as one would think while reading the notes, but rather a warm hug of a scent. It gives me the impression of a sweet floral worn, while baking something delicious; you do not smell of what is being baked, but you are combining aromas with what is being baked. A very finely crafted composition and a true classic.

missk

I don't think I could ever refer to Eau de Charlotte as being a gourmand. To my nose, this fragrance is more of a rich fruity floral rather than being particularly 'foody'.

Nevertheless, Eau de Charlotte is a lovely fragrance. It's a surprising scent to say the least. In the opening it's very juicy and intense, however in the drydown it becomes soft and powdery.

Eau de Charlotte opens with sweet berries, which almost resemble the scent of home-made berry jam. Very delicious indeed. I began to predict that this fragrance would mellow slightly and end with a musky drydown, however, as I said before, Eau de Charlotte is surprising, you can't preempt how this fragrance will develop.

In the heart Eau de Charlotte became increasingly flowery and feminine. The combination of both mimose and lily-of-the-valley is quite crisp and refreshing, bringing me to conclude that this would make an excellent Spring/Summer scent.

The vanilla is pretty much all I can smell in the base notes, which certainly isn't a bad thing because vanilla settles on my skin beautifully and just happens to be one of my favourite notes.

Overall, Eau de Charlotte is unusual, classy, relatively long-lasting, wearable and very enjoyable.

Elumina

Well, Eau de Charlotte is a nice gourmand scent, you really smell its made in 1982, it has this old-fashioned touch, especially at the beginning. I get a mix of Lily and Lily of the valley at first, which seems to be pretty strong, but it fades away after few minutes. Then it turns to a light and a little bit powdery scent, where a buttery kind of cacao and a whiff of berries dominates. There is not really something 'sweet' although there is vanilla in the base note, i would describe the drydown as a fresh floral-cacao scent. The lasting power is one thing which makes me sad, because this scent is pretty weak, maybe the EDP version lasts better.
At the end, i guess, the really nice drydown wins and thats a reason for me to buy this perfume.

Aalia

This is a fanciful and delightful scent.
The opening notes are quite rich,full, and wonderful just as they are; as fresh blooms in nature- but they dissapate so quickly -they do not stay to provide the excellent contrasts wich makes this perfume so good. The lily of the valley mixes well with the mimose and provides nice contrast with the base-accentuating the gourmand notes-the black currant lingering very faintly too-but the composition quickly becomes powdery and the vanilla and cacao take over and mostly what you have to wear after a very short period of time is the dry down.The dry down is lovely, but, I would prefer the perfume to have better fixation. With a few applications-in the exact same spot-the whole perfume can be better appreciated for just a few minutes longer.

perfumeaddict

The berry and cocao notes in this combine to remind me of a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich! There isn't any peanut note, but the coconut and cocao stand in for that, and the berries and mimosa combined with the vanilla are sort of jelly-like! Its sweet in both meanings of the word.

margierose

I like Charlotte,it is a gourmand scent. I do love she dedicated this to her daughter Charlotte. I love the vanilla in it as I love fragrances containing vanilla in them.YUMMY

veruska

This is one of the goutal's i never falled for. it seems a bit anaemic to my nose and , i hate to say that, simplistic for such a talented lady as the late Annick.It starts with a light and sweet lilly note, then goes to a mild powdery phase, and it ends with a nice soft vanillic wisper.I kind of like it on the drydown. Still i know this one have a devoted fanclub, and please don't get me wrong.