Fleurs de Rocaille Caron for women

Rich combination and well bleded, surprising.

I find Fleurs de Rocaille a cold, distant floral, if you get that. I agree it wears close to the skin, and it seems to disappear before it fully develops, so I never get to really experience it. I'll apply more next time and see if I can experience what so many other reviewers have described.

(Edit:Nov 15) I wonder if my vintage miniature is any good or not. The description and reviews just don't add up with my experience.

I'm wearing a vintage pure parfum and it reminds me very much of Krizia Moods EDP......just as rich and complex.

I have the 1933 Fleurs version of the PP and love it. My bottles of vintage Fleurs have aged well despite some evaporation. I agree with Birgit. This perfume still has magic in it despite its age. It proves to me that the old fashioned can be still be seductive.

This is a fragrance I've tried in 5 versions: Modern parfum and EDT; vintage parfum and EDT, and a very old bottle of parfum de toilette.

My favorite should come as no surprise: vintage parfum. But in all honesty, I like all versions. The vintage EDT has a 'lily-lilac' feel and the aldehydes are much more behaved then they are with the modern EDT.

But the parfum is pure 'oomph'. It takes awhile to heat up but hits its stride as the purest crystal. The parfum favors the heavier florals, but there is a surprising greenish high note that makes this a true springtime scent.

Fleurs de R., in all versions, is one of the more 'commercially friendly' Carons. It's pleasant from the get go and is lighter on its feet then the classics I'm used to from this house. Highly recommend.

(Pure Parfum Review)

Rose Perfeccion!

Hints of jasmine, carnation, rose, violet and lily of the valley are evident, but everything is so well blended, it's like being in a victorian garden.

This scent is a delicate, powdery floral, a great example of high quality French Fragrances.

On my skin this is more ylang-ylang and violet than carnation or jasmine.

My only regret is that this fragrance wears VERY close to the skin, but at least the scent doesn't disappear.


Fleurs de Rocaille is an absolute masterpiece.

This turned into hairspray on me, much like Creed Fleurissimo did. I'm trying to figure out what note produces this effect on my skin, with no luck so far. :(

Edit: Gave it a second try in warmer weather. The hairspray note is more pronounced on me in winter temperatures, I have discovered. My final analysis of the current parfum is that it is a very nice floral aldehyde. The base seemed to have a lot of vanilla in it to me (strange that it isn't listed?) and the one criticism I have is that this scent does not have the sillage that most Carons have. It was almost a skin scent after a couple hours.

I was lucky enough to acquire a sample of the vintage parfum, and I have to say that it truly does have a vintage feel. It’s an old-fashioned aldehydic floral that smells “perfumey” in the way that I remember older ladies’ perfumes smelling when I was a child. This is not to be taken as a criticism, simply an observation.

Aldehydic-floral is not a genre that I’m particularly fond of, but this version of Fleurs de Rocaille is subdued enough that I could wear it and not feel completely overwhelmed. It starts out sharp and green and bubbly with a big batch of aldehydes accompanied by a fairly true-to-life lily-of-the-valley and an occasional current of lilac in the sillage. As the scent develops, the lilac becomes prominent, also fairly true-to-life, along with a bit of ylang-ylang. What I assume is the carnation contributes just a hint of spiciness. As it dries down, the flowers gradually fade away, leaving only a hint of their presence on a subtle canvas of light, mossy amber.

This is a masterfully formulated specimen of its particular genre, but I’m afraid that traditional European-style aldehydic floral perfumes are just not my thing. Like a piece of delicate, frilly antique china that would never survive the microwave and dishwasher, FdR will go into the curio cabinet of fragrances that have aesthetic and historical value but don’t really fit into my world.

The first impression was - wow, it is a symphonic accord of Joy - but Joy that is 10 years younger, perkier and with a carnation on top!

Then, as if the scent was ashamed of it`s straightforwardness, it became clean "I just took a shower", in the spirit of White Linen, shyly feminine, almost timid. It sits very close to my skin very primly but at the same time radiates short warm waves of ylang ylang, as if an elegant lady would suddenly surprise you with an inappropriate innuendo and wink on top of that.

This is my favorite perfume of all time, but I would really love to know who was the marketing idiot who decided to come up with "the new and improved version" with the (almost) same name and the exact same pronunciation:
Original: Floor-dah-row-ki.
"New and Improved": Floor-dah-row-ki.

God bless the French language; where
FLOWERS (plural) are FLEURS, and FLOWER (singular) is FLEUR....yet both words are pronounced the same. Just go to Ebay, and notice the confusion there.
One little letter "S" causes all the trouble, and it doesn't help that these two scents are made up of different ingredients. Anybody ever hear the saying....."If it ain't broke, don't fix it?" Certainly not the House of Caron. They've made it impossible to buy the original version of ~ Rock Garden Flowers. ~


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I get carnation from the first aldehydic blast to the last whisper of this scent. First it mixes with jasmine, lilac and violet - in fact I can almost see the molcules mingling, as you'd mingle at a party full of strangers. A quick hello to the rose, a polite chat with the lily of the valley, always in motion, till it finds its place. It's often said that Carons take a long time to settle on the skin and it's particularly true of Fleurs. It might take several hours (not that I mind, as I enjoy it throughout), but when it finally happens, you'll experience a miracle. Esprit2fly is spot-on with the silk-on-naked-skin-in-spring simile. For a long time the scent is light and breezy, cool and shiny like silk, probably the colour of eggshell. A glass of bubbly would suit it well. Hours later, however, it suddenly morphs into an extremely long-lasting warm, velvety, flowery-woody creaminess that becomes one with the skin.
As for "grandma in a bottle" (in messy-mom's collapsed review), your grandma must've had excellent taste then!

Wow, talking about letting an aldehydic genie out of her bottle!
The top notes are impressive; they stop me in my tracks and make me grin at their beauty. I love the first blast of Fleurs de Rocaille, it's intense, bubbly, and I experience it as having a light yellow color with a slightly greenish tint, like a nice Savignon Blanc would and an airy quality to its texture.

I love all individual notes listed for the top notes -- and I'm not sure I see a connection, except for the aldehydes of course which are quite unmistakeably there. This first blast makes me think about champagne and lemonade at the same time.

I am a warm blooded animal and the initial coolness and crispness gets much warmer on my skin. I know it's a cliche, but it does make me feel as if I fell asleep in the warm sunny spot on a bed of garden flower petals (rose, yes; thorns, no). Francoise Sagan once wrote that a woman discovers how her own skin smells with her first lover, becoming first surprised then grateful. This perfume reminds me of how warm my skin is (everyone want to hold my hand coming back from a cold windy beach!). I am surprised and grateful.

What a journey from cool and crisp to warm and sensual!

All I smell is VIOLET! Lovely, soft and very old fashioned but nothing else comes through.

Eu realmente adoro este perfume..ele me faz sentir como naqueles tempos dos quais a gente só ouve falar: o tempo da inocencia, da simplicidade, da confiança. Um floral delicado e muito elegante, mas com um jeitinho meio adolescente...

I really love this scent .. it makes me feel like in those times of which we only hear about: the time of innocence, simplicity, trust. A delicate and very elegant floral, but with a knack kind of adolescent ...

I found this bottle in my grandmother's drawere. She saves everything. She is now 93, so I am pretty sure I have an original. Smells kinda old, but pretty at the same time. I think the alcohol is predominant here, but underneath that, I get a whiff of pretty floral, like Joy, very similar in fact. I like this a lot but still prefer 10000 in this category, which is my absolute FAVE!

I'm in love! And I finally know what Al Pacino was talking about in SCENT OF A WOMAN! For years, I ignorantly believed that my bottle of FLEUR DE ROCAILLE was the perfume alluded to in the film. (A case, yes, where knowing French actually hurt rather than helped since the two are pronounced identically!) I only recently learned the truth, that Caron put out the singular, highly floral FLEUR DE ROCAILLE after the film. Was it some sort of bizarre marketing scheme? I don't know. All I know is that FLEURS DE ROCAILLE is a beautiful floral aldehyde, and maybe the names of the two quite different formulas should be switched, so that the floral is plural, and the floral aldehyde is singular. (Just an idea...)

FLEURS DE ROCAILLE opens with much more of a floral burst than CALECHE, while being less dark and mysterious than ARPEGE. At the same time, FLEURS DE ROCAILLE is less floral than JOY, and the aldehydes shine through later on, becoming the centerpiece, and making this a complex, wonderful perfume that I'll wear again and again.

you girls have never understood perfume when i read those soap and bathroom comments...fleurs de rocaille has magic in it and it is the reactions one gets when wearing it, that count in the end. As a European lady you attract the nicest GENTLEMEN with it...naturally not the Jeans wearers and casual friday guys..but this is not the group that counts here anyway

This is the Perfume mentioned in Scent of a Woman - the one people are getting it mixed up with is Fleur de Rocaille, which came out a year after the movie came out.

Trying to figure out why this one's classified as floral aldehyde when no aldehyde note...??? I think it's a heavenly blend anyway; soft smoky flowers. When will people stop calling scents "old"? It's been around since the '30's girls, there's a reason.

Update: Aw, I see aldehyde has been added by the Fragrantica powers that be. I still don't think they're a primary player, just give this scent a slight lift. Excellent stuff!

A dark, almost saturnine floral blend. Countless reformulations have likely rendered this scent unrecognizable to Caron afficionados, but to my unpracticed nose it is discreetly sexy, the sort of scent one of those plain-looking lab assistants in a 1950s "B" movie would spritz on just before whipping off her glasses and letting her hair cascade down. "Why, Miss Rocaille, you're beautiful!"

Fleurs de Rocaille, another first class fragrance of the french house Caron, is a flowery, lively and seductive perfume, hinting at nature in spring(time), full of light and shadow, expressed as a landscape of flower fragances.

Typically for the floral bouquet, its fragrance blends lilac, lily of the valley, jasmine, bergamot, violet, iris and carnation, while base notes of sandalwood, musk and amber give it the necessary dynamic.
Fleurs de Rocaille remains a symbol of clarity of lines and harmony, while the inscription on the little box reflects the colours and the fragrances of the perfume. That was and rests one of the most feminine fragrance that was ever created. It feels like a the silk on the naked skin in a spring day on Capri.

A very special, old-fashioned and classic lady's perfume, difficult to wear.

On first smell I get strong aldehydes - can't say I am very fussed about it; a so-so soft flowery fragrance, a little old ladyish. Inoffensive though.