Kalimantan Chantecaille for women

LOVE! This is the perfume I've been longing for... Smoke, incense, wood, slightly sweet, and leather. Sophisticated, mysterious, a perfume for a grown up. This is one of those fragrances that I never want to be without.

I simply LOVE this perfume!!! I think it is feminine, but probably some guys can wear it too. It takes only one spray in the morning to smell heavenly all day. It totally worth 175 dollars. I agree with Soutty123 - it goes nicely only with particular look. If you wear some sweat pants and no make up this is not what you should spray on you. The scent itself very expensive.

I finally broke down and paid the $175 for this. I've been harping on it ever since I got samples months ago. Love,Love,Love! And it last hours. It's so complex and multi demensional that every time I smell it, I pick up a new layer. Not overly frilly or flowery, just lovely!

I have two Harrods samples of this one.

The smell is warm and mysterious, very grown up. I detect some leather in it, though it is not on the list. Unfortunatley it has this medicinal note that I don't want to smell on myslelf. The drydown is great and worth waiting for.

Sillage - good
Longevity - awesome

This is so unusual. It smells very expensive (and is very expensive at £150 per bottle!!).

I love warm perfumes but I'm not into anything too spicy (eg Opium/Cinnebar) nor anything too sweet (eg Pink Sugar/Fantasy/Shalimar). If this perfume were to remind me of any perfume at all, perhaps it would remind me of Coco (one of my favourites for evening) but without any sharp edges at all. It doesn't smell like Obsession (my absolute favourite) but it has some of the best qualities that Vintage Obsession had on the drydown eg muskiness, sweetness, amberiness.

This is an evening perfume for when you really want to wow. It says little black dress, it says black silk stockings, it says killer heels and curves but most of all it says Purrrrrrrrrrrrrr. This is not a perfume to wear to pop out to get milk when your hair is a mess and you haven't got your face on.

Some people have commented that it's a little masculine. I disagree. It certainly isn't a cotton candy,coconutty or flowery perfume. It isn't girly. What this perfume is is womanly.

Heady and exotic, opening with bergamot, fresh, earthy herbs and a hint of sweetness.

Labdanum really warms this up with its musky, amberlike sensuality. Patchouli is also prominent but then is overshadowed by incense.

Clean, woody, resinous and sweet with a little dryness in the background. I still get a lot of incense in the final phase, perhaps a little too much for my preferences

Kalimantan is almost like two layers of perfume simultaneously on the skin where you can smell some dry patchouli and woods wafting up from the ground floor and spiraling incense at the top. Interesting in its construction and tantalizing to wear.

Your mileage may vary, but this is the best and most unique new fragrance of 2010 that I've tried! It's not just a travel-themed fragrance for Westerners (not that there's anything wrong with that) or olfactory "impression" that evokes images of Borneo; it uses all-native ingredients. I do love the concept, and it's all the more exciting that Kalimantan's could have been close to the actual scents permeating the jungle air when explorers trekked through the "island of the clouds," visiting Dayak longhouses and sampling their exotic wood fragrances. It also has a hint of a very unique woody undertone, which fits the theme of exploring and "discovering" an island that holds wonders previously unknown to one's countrymen - possibly an unusual agarwood or an unusual combination of notes?

It's perfect on me; the incense and patchouli are balanced and it doesn't get too heavy and dark for everyday wear, or too sweet (which I can't stand).

I picked up a sample that I'm still eking drops from and want to buy it as well. But I don't want to get tired of it - every time I put on a drop, I can't stop sniffing it on myself.

This fragrance is unique in smell. The woody scent reminds me of high quality marijuana after it has been smoked and the sweet punginess lingers in the room. This is a more masculine scent. I liked it so much I bought it.

Gorgeous fragrance, a wonderful spicy hot, very good-orchestrated composition on the canvas of chypre notes.

We smelled a lot of scents that day, but it was Kalimantan my husband sprayed on his hand, and I couldn't help myself not smell him in the car. It's also good for women. My husband said it reminded him of Eau d'Italie Baume du Doge, but I think that Baume is much more intense, it burns.

I am very proud that one of beautiful island in my country inspired perfumer creation. However it is not the only Borneo which have unique collection of wild flora. Wish other island become the next inspiration for the perfumer. Can't hardly wait to explore my beautiful Indonesia :-)
Wish can smell this soon also..