Eau Trouble Brecourt for women

I find this to be the most masculine smelling scent of all the fumes I've tried from Brecourt and also the least interesting. It's the first one where I've also though..hmm this smells familiar. I simply can't put my finger on what it is.

It's huge orange floral with a huge musk also and I find it to be quite sharp and biting. Unfortunately it's not floating my boat, only because the other one's I've tried have just been stunning.

What a fabulous fragrance!!! Brecourt is not available where I live ... my bottle of Eau Trouble was gifted to me by a stunning friend from Monaco. It's absolutely delicious :o) ... tangy fruit on top quickly mellowing into a powdery woodsy melange. I definitely get incense and tea, but the cedar remains the most prominent note on me, making Eau Trouble curiously more masculine on my skin. I very seldom attach gender to fragrances, but in this case I feel it's warranted. I'm sure it would work very well on the gals too ... it's quite a little enigma, this one. I LOVE fragrances that shapeshift on people!! Another friend of ours ( who never compliments me on my fragrance choices unless I stick my wrist under his nose LOL) turned to me at dinner and said "you smell wonderful ... this should be your signature!". Trouble is a fragrance that lives in it's sillage, which is not huge but definitely present. Well done Brecourt :o) ... a new favorite!!

So good! I never knew carrot was used by perfumers. Yes, now I do. A bit floral, a bit fruity, & a bit soapy. The tangerine is so inviting and I'm now noting heliotrope appears in a few of my favourite scents. This is my kind of fruity-floral. I love it.

Brecourt offers a their range in vials direct from their website if you want to try them.

A new favourite! I just purchased this from Rome and I absolutely love it! It's been a while since I fell in love with a perfume, but this is absolutely stunning. I own more than 100 full bottles and countless decants and samples, and this one went right to the top 5 of my all time favourite perfumes.

I can't see any similarities with Infusion d'Iris. Eau Trouble is iris, but a lot softer and airier than Infusion d'Iris, which I find fairly sharp and unpleasant.

I get a lot of heliotrope and soft wood, and maybe even a hint of saffron, even though that's not listed in the notes. It has pleasant powdery sweetness but it's not a sweet scent in gourmand sense at all. I find it similar in feeling with Ormonde Jayne Ta'if which is another powdery, woody, airy floral, just change the rose in Ta'if to iris and heliotrope and you get Eau Trouble. Also, it might be a more feminine and sweet version of Dior Homme, another iris+wood+vanilla blend.

Eau Trouble lasts all day, but softens up and stays close to the skin. I wore this in hot weather while I was in Rome and it was perfect. I got back home to Finland, where the weather was chilly and rainy, and it was perfect in this weather too. My husband loves this scent too, which is fairly unusual. Just sniffing my wrists makes me happy, this is so utterly beautiful scent!

Here and elsewhere, people have been comparing Eau trouble to Prada Infusion d'Iris -- so I tried them side-by-side.

The tangerine top note is prominent in Eau trouble. This fruitiness sets ET apart from Infusion d'Iris in the beginning. But here is a moment a few minutes in when they both become iris-dominant, and I definitely get the connection.

The Eau trouble fruit notes remain tart throughout the drydown, but the blend softens to subtle and close to the skin. It makes Infusion d'Iris seem downright loud. And Infusion d'Iris suddenly goes masculine next to Eau Trouble. Far more cedar and vetiver come through in the Prada. In comparison, Eau trouble is much more of a skin scent.

The tea and heliotrope sweeten (not *too* much--and it isn't almondy) and soften Eau trouble quite nicely. I love the light-handed use of heliotrope here.

As I fell asleep with this scent on my arm last night I thought of Eau d'Hiver. Eau Trouble and Eau D'Hiver share a vibe. [Not an official perfumery term. Cough.] Eau d'Hiver's heliotrope is sweeter. The tangerine, carrot, incense in Eau Trouble keep that sweetness in check and even sour it a bit. The two reveal *some* similarity during the drydown, but Eau d'Hiver is stronger, less linear, longer lasting.

In the interest of procrastination (I mean, science) I also compared Iris poudre. Not much overlap to me. On my skin Eau trouble is all about the heliotrope an, tangerine, carrot blend.

What the various aforementioned perfumes have in common for me,is a friendly, welcoming chilliness: like a blanket of fresh snow, or breath crystals in the air.

All in all, Eau trouble is a good fragrance, at a good price, evocative of some more expensive, snow-capped unisex beauties. It won't replace these, but could do in a pinch.

(Based on sniff and speak notes from April 27, 2011, and a bit of retesting)

This is quite a masculine scent, especially in the drydown, and very soapy - like a warm, musky, unisex version of Bvlgari Blv.

A very well-balanced composition, and the carrrot and incense make it interesting. It's not my cup of tea, but I'd enjoy it on others.

Eau Trouble is a fragrance that reminds me a lot of Infusion d'Iris. Initilly the incense develops in a quite similar way. Maybe because the two share a few notes, they give a similar vibe. However, Eau Trouble is flatter and soapier. There are moments when it smells a bit like those cute little scented soaps they sell in boxes of 6 or 9.

Eau Trouble is a quiet, very subtle scent. Slightly powdery and floral, it's like a lazy Sunday afternoon. Quite charming, but if you look outside the windown, not much happens.

Not my favourite, but pleasant and delicate.