Fleur de Rocaille (1993) Caron for women

Mimosa-honeyed-roses EdT with a barely noticeable hint of jasmine and some nice fruits in the opening. This is the sweetest perfume, I have ever met. There is no sharpness at all, no alcohol edge in it, just only incredible floral mimosa-roses sweetness without any vanilla. This perfume does not change its character, it stays after 5 hours still the same, maybe less mimosa and more still sweet roses and has some calming effect to me. Lasting power - the whole day, silage - strong, so apply better only on your underwear and one spritz in the neck and you are done.
I slept with this whole bottle under my pillow, because I helpless felt in love with it.

Blindly bought it and glad I went for it. I'm a kid from the glorious 90's. And FDR reminds me of how modern, independent, and sophisticated young adults were during that time. Glad to have something like this in a world that has succumbed to fruity-floral-candy scents.

Caron makes the impossible possible: with Lady Caron I can wear tuberose and with FdR I could (almost) wear jasmine. It's a clean and relatively restrained (two sprays max!) jasmine scent. The mimosa tones it down I guess. The rose however is rather burried under all this jasmine, but maybe it's better this way. All in all, a very well crafted scent, for the lovers of white flowers.

This scent is powerful and won't be ignored. It's not a clean scent to my nose- idole features prominently. However, it is tame compared to Amarige by Givenchy. It has 80's-like bigness, lasting power, and sillage. It would be disturbing if worn to bed, like scent noise. That said, it has beautiful balance in its notes, like a band hitting a chord. There are greens and woody notes...almost smoked celery. These are overlaid with a slightly discordant tuberose-gardenia note and a lilac punch; it's all fused together with amber and soapy alehydes.

When I feel "the flowery perfume day" Fleur de Rocaille is the choice I really like a lot.
Large fresh bouquet of fully blossoming flowers with mimosa on the top. It has some water notes and honey as well.
Fantastique smell !! Timeless multi-flowers feminine perfume. Stays hours and hours on my skin and I looove it.

I agree with you grottola...

Honeyed roses.

I am going to go out on a limb here and blame the lilac/mimose mix for the disposable fragranced tumble-dryer sheet aroma Fleur de Rocaille successfully emulates on my skin.

Pristine unstained and unblemished pure notes give and give and give. Not one of them dares to step out of line to take a walk on the wild side unfortunately. Not even the woods!

Tediously clean smelling.

Pleasant enough as who does not love the smell of clean linens?

I "like" this Caron offering. I can see myself experimenting with layering under/over other dirtier florals composed with similar notes in the hope of making it more attractive.

On its own there is not enough personality present to keep me engaged.

I prefer to let the brilliance of my whites illustrate my competency in the laundry. I don't need to smell the part!

rose and jasmine

Sadly this one is not pleasant to my nose. The top notes of gardenia and violet are not my favorite actually. In general i think it is quite bland to my nose since i prefer stronger fragrances. Very neutral and i would say even bitter-green. In my opinion smells very much like 90´s fragrance, i can imagine that it could be also a unisex fragrance as well.
I bought it by mistake, because i thought it wass "Fleurs de rocaille", so i have purchased a pure parfum concentration and really dissapointed. To me it smells like a whiskey. Maybe it has gone bad, i don´t know, but to me and my friends it smells indeed like whisley.
I don´t understand why should they put a very similar name on to completly different fragrances? It is so misleading actually! My search continues for the "FleurS de rocaille"

Please do not remove this comment, since others might find it useful. Not every review should be positive, so people like me wanted to make a blind buy might find it very informative. Thanks.

Such an imperial bottle!
Bravo Caron. This company owns one of top 10 most expensive fragrances in the world. The fact I like about Caron perfumes, is that it's not on public taste so you can trust on it that you are one in a million!
Also all of them are grown up and luxurious, heavy and specific. There may be just a few perfumes that reminds you Caron stuff. Reaching to those smells may not be difficult, but not beneficial because companies cannot guarantee their sale so tend to produce more commonplace items.

I have the 1933 Fleurs version of this scent and it is at once vibrant and subtle and has aged well. Since I have never tried the newer version I can't make a comparison but I am motivated to try it from the positive reviews I've read here.

Very loves this parfume!:D

Purchased a bottle of this on the off chance untested as I like most of the earlier Caron's and appreciate the quality of raw materials & essences used by this perfume house, Thankfully my intuition paid off. The floral top and heart notes are so very complex, at first I detect violets (leaves & stems) and roses then after a brief sparkle of aldehydes the party heats up with the entrance of gardenia ? jasmine, mimosa and one of my favorite floral absolutes LILAC. The quality of the iris (orris) is exquisite giving the whole blend a slightly 'figgy' dry fruit accord finishing with just a hint of woods (santal&cedar) & golden amber. Superb staying power and incredible sillage, also this Caron doesn't assault the senses with strong synthetic musks, milky lactones & cloying vanilla esters. Certainly not everyone's cup of tea and totally different to her older sister with the 'S' *Fleurs de Rocaille* but that's OK. I "LUV" this unusual 1993 offering from one of perfumery's most exhalted houses.
*Fleur* & Fleur's de Rocaille in my opinion are two completely, totally & utterly different perfumes !

This scent is more intense than her mother.

Fleur(s) de Rocaille (1933) is pure heaven in a bottle. Subtle, Powdery, elegant and refined. One of the best ethereal and delicate floral fragrance.

On the other hand Fleur de Rocaille (1993) is more intense, with high presence of Gardenia and Mimosa. This is an obvious 90's version, far different from the original, but it's a lovely and good floral fragrance.

There's Nothing Wrong about this fragrance, only the responsibility for carrying that name.

Several reviewers have mentioned a honey-like note, and on me it's annoyingly ever-present and interferes with what could otherwise be a pleasant floral. I bet it's the gardenia on top, the jasmine in the middle, and the amber in the base - all very sticky-sweet to begin with and tend to amplify each other. Maybe... who knows! The more I force myself to analyze this scent, the less I can tolerate it.

Grrrrr! When my husband went on a business trip to Vancouver, I had him visit The Perfume Shoppe (specializing in niche).

I wrote down the list of samples I wanted him to pick up. So, IN WRITING, I said, "Fleurs with an S PLURAL; NOT Fleur singular."

Sigh.

It's actually a bit annoying to my nose. Oh...there's the culprit, listed in the notes: violets and roses.

Deep breath. Thank you, honey! I love you!

I have not worn Caron's 1993 FLEUR DE ROCAILLE since my felicitous purchase of FLEURS DE ROCAILLE. My memory was that I loved this fragrance--although I see now that my 1oz edt is still 80% full. For quite some time, until fairly recently, I erroneously believed FLEUR to be the referent of the perfume mentioned in SCENT OF A WOMAN.

Now that I try the singular, newer FLEUR again, I am finding it very, very loud. This is a seriously aggressive floral, as in venus flytrap bouquet! I feel a bit overwhelmed, to be honest. This seems sharp and mean and green, almost like CABOTINE, which I have not worn in a long time, but will have to try again soon just to see...

I can imagine parading this outburst of florals on a bright sunny day, clad in a crisp white shirt and sateen capris. But today, it seems too happy, too obtrusive, too insistent to me.

What a beautiful intense floral! It smells very modern yet not gourmand or nor vanillic. Just flowers in an old mannered way with a re-vamped twist on a soft bed of cedarwood and a little amber. It is very elegant in a deluxe '80s way, but I wouldn't relate it to a precise age. It smells like thick pink flowers in a garden on a lake during summer in a beautiful ancient tidy village. It is STRONG! A little bit goes for long time and big sillage.
This is a total feminine scent. Of course, anyone can wear whatever they love, but this one on a man would smell confusing!
Not to be confused with older Fleurs de Rocaille which smells completely different, more aldehydic fresh.

This is so rich, so excessive that I have a hard time identifying single notes. They all melt into something very floral, very feminine, very sweet and very BIG. Like the scent of an entirely new flower almost. But it certainly is recognizable.
Funny how all the previous reviewers had had mixed emotions about it but by the end of the review decided that they did like it after all:) And I'm no exception. I do like it after all. I enjoy its vintage, OTT glamour (think body-hugging, gold sequined dress), its wow-factor and its honey-ish quality. I hardly ever wear it, but it's good to know I could.

Fleur de Rocaille is a strong floral with bitter honey accents, perhaps it is mimosa. It feels like this honey has been collected from some intoxicating and perhaps poisonous flowers. Reminds me of Poeme Lancome, the character and sillage are similar, only Fleur feels more synthetic somehow. It is not bad at all, I do wear it, on a cool sunny spring day with the wind blowing it works quite well, but I think it will be headache inducing in the office. And I agree that it has that 80-s, 90-s feel.

oh dear, i've bought the wrong rock!! i found this by chance the other day and forgot about the "s" which makes so much difference. they didnt have a tester so i bought it without smelling, opened it and had a squirt when i got back to the car, expecting to be transported back to the twenties, and promptly got whacked over the head by something modern which was like a thump in the face with a boxing glove. well, i think i actually like it. but it seems more 80's than 90's to me. something about it makes me think also of an expensive hairdressers that my mother used to visit in the 60's. i think this one will be a one-off for me, reminds me a bit of ysatis which i never really liked. i'll use it some more and update when i've formed my opinion completely.

It's Fleurs de Rocaille that the movie Scent of women mentioned

Smells a little like Downy Fabric Softener. It's very clean, floral, and comforting. Like snuggling up with a warm cozy blanket right out of the dryer. I like it!

SCENT OF A WOMAN
Can't forget the final scene when Al Paccino lovingly notes
FLOWER OR THE ROCK
so, femininity that can be smelled