Carnal Flower Frederic Malle for women and men

Fragranza particolare. Non è un profumo... è una seconda pelle.

This is just a beautiful floral with a hint of sweetness from the coconut which makes it wearable for a guy. Though unisex, I would say it is slightly bent on the feminine side, but still very wearable for a guy and absolutely sexy as heck on a women. Projection and sillage is an absolute beast on this, be careful with the trigger, 1 spray is enough, 2 sprays should be the max as 3 sprays would clear the room.

this perfume is my first perfume desire.

again I do not have anything to add, since all nopasho said.

Passover, but ... well ... you nopasho....

with his sexual comments and excellent taste for leading me into sin. ekhhhmmm primal sin ... if ... blush.if I could blush.... but never blush.

To Nopasho:

Long, intriguing and passionate review - as usual - but, here is what I'm quoting from your script:

"This is a one kind of a fragrance, that with the right marketing could have been as successful as ‘Alien’"

I'm not of your same opinion, if I can say, because costs make always (unfortunately) some differences. It's not only a question of marketing operations, wether to be done it 'discretely' or 'loudly' ..... but Carnal Flower and F. Mall's creations are sold only in few shops (may be the presence or not of a fridge in the shop can be relevant also) I'm not aware of the cost of a bottle of Alien (I'm sure that it's not a cheap frag anyway) whereas I know C.F. and some other Malle's frags prices. In the second case we have also an handcraft and therefore a minor production, so that the frags could not be available for everybody, not to say that C.F. is a complex fragrance and not one to be liked so soon. According to me, obviously!

Moreover I sadly recognize that was the Fiat industry to buy the Ferrari one, but not the contrary....

Take care!

D.3 ; )

Yep! It’s a long one. Again. And a positive one. Again. Celeb frags and linear fruity florals I can dissect in ten lines, don’t worry. But why? Everybody know how they smell. The same. But I like the more complex ones, girlies. The different ones. The special ones. Not scented water to impress your bf, but perfume masterpieces that can trigger memories, bring you in a certain mood and have the power to make your life more beautiful and inspire you to love, hope and cherish.

So, it is again an intricate masterpiece of fragrance. But less well known than the Coco’s and Cartier's. As good but more radical. A bit like the no compromises ‘Kenzo’s ‘L’Eléphant’. This is a scent that does not dilute itself to get mainstream or conquer a bigger segment of the maket. Not so with this 'Carnal Flower'. It is not niche, I think it is in the same category as 'Lolita Lempicka', but a bit more daring and pushing the boundaries. It is no freak scent à la 'Etat Libre', but it is also not mainstream. It is too willfull and unique for that. I would put it in the same category of wearability like Kenzo's 'L'Eléphant' or Lutens 'Tubereuse Criminelle'. And the fragrance heat is turned up here not to eleven, but to 12. This is some serious, dense juice, alright! After all, this is literally and figuratively speaking a 'Sex Bomb', this is ‘Carnal Flower’ aka ‘Sex Flower’. 'Carnal' means: ‘erotic, sensual, bodily, fleshly, genital, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lustful, salacious, sensual, voluptuous…’ So all the threads on Fragrantica about ‘Sex in a bottle’ and ‘What is the most sexy fragrance?’ Well, the answer is here.
‘Carnal Flower’… Hmmm let the name roll on your tongue… Isn’t that a great name for a fragrance? Sure, but if the fragrance would be a scrubber, what are you with a fantasy inducing name? I mean ‘Radiance’. Great, but what if it radiates a mediocre generic fume? ‘Reveal’? What if is reveals a vile stench? ‘Believe’ Sure I want to believe, but not in a concoction that combines guava, tangerine and praline. Yes, read again, you’re not hallucinating. And some people give money for it too! At least with ‘Lollipop Bling Bling ‘ you know it is a joke of a fragrance right away. But to each it’s own.

‘Carnal Flower’ by Frédéric Malle. ‘Erotic Lascivious, Libidinous Sensual Flower’. Wow! Typical’ libertine’ French name. Sensuality and flowers. If you know the erotic close up photo's of flowers by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, you know that sex and flowers have a lot in common. Not only visually but also 'fragrantically'. Flowers and sex: a marriage made in heaven. Of course if married the right way. It could also end in a quickie divorce. But that’s not the case here. This 'Sex Flower' is a truely intoxicating grand white flower composition in the opulent tradition of Robert Piguet’s ‘Fracas’, Andy Tauer’s elusive masterpieces, the more known Guerlain’s ‘Shalimar' and ‘Mitsouko’, Tom Fords ‘Black Orchid’ and yes, Michael Kors’ ‘Michael’ which is not a bad fragrance at all. I mean this is not a shy wallflower but a fragrance with presence and personality. But without being gaudy or white trashy. Smoldering, bewitching, femme fatale. 'C’est une discète’, like Shalimar. I mean apply with moderation. And then you reach indeed a flowery sensual nirvana.

The ‘Sensual Flower’ in question is the great tuberose. First of all the fantastic and yes, sensual, tuberose has been the inspiration for great fragrances from mainstream to niche and back. From Avon’s ‘Candid’ and Bath and Body Works ‘Velvet Tuberose’ over Tommy Hillfiger’s ‘Dreaming Pearl’ passing by Caron’s ‘Tubereuse’, Dior’s ‘J’Adore’ over Killian’s ‘By Love’ to Serge Lutens ‘Tubereuse Criminelle’. I deliberately omit Clive Christians obscenely expensive ‘C for women’. No fragrance, even if it is liquid gold sprinkled with diamonds and sapphires and rubies and emeralds can be worth as much IMHO. I mean tuberose is one powerful and loved fragrance note that produces powerful and opulent, rich, ‘Here I Am’ fragrances. No wonder tuberose is considered since many centuries as an aphrodisiac and has been used for ages by ladies to seduce men. With a 99% success rate, I might add. I am a man. And if I would smell a woman wearing Malle's 'Carnal Flower', my heartbeat would certainly start racing. The tuberose smell is at the time sweet, earthy, intoxicating, strong, creamy, a bit indolic (‘dirty’ meaning musky-flowery version ), heady… It has without a doubt the strongest white floral smell of all. Stronger than jasmine and all the rest. Tuberose is the Queen Bee of Flower Power. Of course, this also means that this Queen Bee has the inclination to dominate everything and to eat every other fragrance note in the near and far distance up and spit it out in a heartbeat. It has to be a strong combo that keeps the tuberose from devouring every other fragrance note and bring her unique character in moderation to the surface, when she smells best. Too much tuberose is overkill. So it is quite a challenge to build a fragrance around the mighty Queen Bee Tuberose.

Luckily we see that the nose behind the 'Libidinous Flower' is none other than Dominique Ropion. Together with Annick Menardo, the best nose for the moment IMHO. Ropion has already an impressive CV. Some of his work: Mugler’s‘ Alien’, Viktor and Rolf's ‘Flowerbomb’, Ralph Lauren's legendary ‘Safari’, Givenchy’s ‘Amarige’, Dior’s ‘Pure Poison’, Calvin Klein’s ‘Euphoria’, Vivienne Westwood’s ‘Anglomania’… I mean, the man is no nameless celebrity frag lab technician, but a full blown artist and maitre parfumeur. And no snob at that because he also made Jennifer Lopez’ ‘Live’, one of the few celeb frags with an own face, Cacharel's legenadary 'Amor Amor'... and some Escada’s. So the man is an all round flexible master perfumer. But what you see in all his creations is that Ropion is the undisputed master of high quality flowery fragrances: jasmine in ‘Alien’ and ‘Pure Poison’, all the flowers in yes… Flowerbomb, peony in J Lo’s 'Live', narcissus and hyacinth in Ralph Laurens Safari, rose in Westwood’s ‘Anglomania’, orchid in ‘Euphoria’… Where Menardo is the undisputed modern master of mixing original fragrance notes and spices, Ropion is the undisputed master of high quality flower-perfumes. And Frédéric Malle’s ‘Carnal Flower’ is one of his less known but finest works. I have long had the wish to write a review, but was too damn scared, because taking on the Mighty Tuberose in a review is daunting. Especially in a fragrance named after her: 'Libidinous Flower'. The Queen Bee has no mercy, but I hope you do with this review.

Top: Bergamot, melon, eucalyptus, (!)
Middle: Tuberose, ylang ylang, jasmine, salicylates(!!)
Base: Tuberose absolute, Orange Blossom absolute, coconut (!!!) Musk,

Very, very strange and intriguing!
First of all something about the three ‘strange’ notes. The tuberose and orange blossom ‘absolutes’ in the base, 'salicylates' in the middle and 'eucalyptus' in the top.
Flower ‘absolutes’ is another name for the essential oil of a flower, so the concentrated form of the flower smell with a much more concentrated, deep and strong fragrance intensity because it is more concentrated and there are much more flower fragrance molecules in it. They are concentrated, highly-aromatic, oily mixtures extracted from plants. Totally natural. Contrary to the floral artificial extracts 'Made in China' in the celeb fruity florals. So natural flower smell of the strongest smelling flowers on steroids. Super strong. And here we have the turbo version of the strongest flower fragrance in existence: tuberose, and the pungent orange blossom on dope. Wow! That is gonna be one hell of a flowerfest! When I write this, I can’t stop thinking: what were those caricature of perfumer-dutchies Viktor and Rolf thinking when they called their much too expensive frag ‘Flowerbomb’? I mean, look at this. Is this a real flowerbomb, or what? Anyway: salicylates in the middle.
Salicylates are one of the magic tricks of modern perfumers, much like ‘aldehydes’ were in the age that Chanel 5 was created (1921). They are molecules that give a natural present flowery smell an extra boost, a solar, warming, open, bright effect. It gives a certain ‘grandiose’, royal, blooming, rounded, very pleasing effect. Ropion probably used methyl salicylate here. It is found naturally in birch and rhododendrons. And in, you never guessed it… tuberose, jasmine, ylang ylang. And it is described as sometimes having an ‘eucalyptus’ peppermint-y smell, and it is used much in medicine to give certain foul reeking pills and concoctions a palatable fragrance and smell to swallow more easily. So you see already a pattern.
And that brings us to the last ‘strange ingredient’: eucalyptus. It is best known as the ‘cough syrup’ smell. It comes from the eucalyptus three in oil form. The smell is medicinal, menthol, fresh clean, minty, dry but also sexy, powerful and herbal. And it is strong! Ha! Would that be one of the secret weapons of nose Ropion to prevent tuberose overkill?

First of all the danger of ‘death by flowers’ in 'Carnal Flower' is very real here. In base and flowers in middle, Ropion means serious flower business. A big heavy dose of an already big heavy flower. In conenctrated and less conetrated form. See for yourself. In the base and in absolute (‘extra strong’) form: orange blossom and tuberose, already in itself the strongest smelling flower of them all. And then in the middle Ropion keeps heaping the flowers up: another dose of tuberose, the strong ylang ylang, the equally powerful jasmine. And if it is not ‘bad’ enough, he fortifies this already massive flower smell by giving it an extra polish and boost with the salicylates, which give a en extra gloss and opulence to the flowers. As if the needed it, you would think.

At this point you could rightfully say: I surrender and I flee. I like flowers but this is simply too much! It is ‘death by flowers’. You are suffocated in tuberose and ylang ylang and their sisters. You can be suffocated in a relationship by too much affection, you can be strangled by too much love. And then you divorce. So at this point for me it is: bye bye my sweet flowers, but your attentions, your love, your affections just suffocate me. I want to break free! Only Ropion manages to kick the flowers back hard and in their place. And prevent flower overkill. Admitted: it is not with some breezy faint fragrance note that he does it. It is with the heavy artillery. First in the base we get a dose of coconut. Coconut is almost as dominant as tuberose, has the ability to emasculate or absorb the strength of other smells, to make them less dominant while keeping their distinct fragrance. Only instead of volume 12, coconut brings the 'flower smell volume' down to an acceptable 8. Coconut pushes the too ardent affection of the Queen Bee tuberose and her cronies orange blossom, jasmine, ylang ylang back hard. Then comes the eucalyptus to give the donkey punch. Impossible to ignore. Strong as a codeïne-infused cough syrup. The combination coconut-eucalyptus nips the potential flower overkill stongly and mercilessly and thankfully in the bud. I mean think about it: coconut neutralizes a part of the flower dead knell and another part is simply beat into their place by the strong eucalyptus. To round things off, we get some melon in the top. Normally I run away like on fire from every fragrance that lists ‘melon’ and 'watermelon' in it. But for once, I agree with putting this in. It is absolutely necessary to water the flowers and the counter forces of coconut-eucalyptus, down. To prevent and extinguish a disharmonious, grating olfactory clash between the female flowers, the neutral coconut and the masculine eucalyptus. Again: the sign of a great maitre parfumeur: bringing yin (female flowers) in balance with the yang (male eucalyptus) side of a fragrance. And he does that with the soothing non descript melon. No need for another strong fragrance note. The bergamot brings a zesty freshness into the whole and the musk a spicy deepness. Done deal!

Ropion comes on strong. It seems to become an Alien at first sight with tuberose instead of the Alien-jasmine. I mean tuberose absolute in base and again tuberose in the middle. It threatens to be flower overkill and olfactory premature ejaculation because of the too massive flower sensations. Potentially unpalatable. But he balances these muscular flower side out with an even muscular other (male) side of eucalyptus and coconut. The coconut also has as effect that it takes out the sharp ‘medical’ edge of the eucalyptus. The result is again a truly original, very powerful fragrance. It is a more discreet ‘Alien’. And because of Malle’s less than gargantuan-ego like Thierry Mugler has, and more modest pr budget, ‘Carnal Flower’ is a hidden gem. Every inch as good as ‘Alien’, but less radical, more rounded, more creamy, more balanced. But, don’t be fooled, it is still a very strong fragrance with sillage that can knock passers-by off their socks, a longevity that means that you can scrub for 12 hours but you’ll still be a ‘Sensual Flowers’. So don’t use it for a blind date, unless you are sure it will be a success. The smell of ‘Carnal Flower’ and the memories of a good or bad date will stay with you for the rest of the night and part of the next day. Super sillage comparabel to Lutens and Ofocourse it is well balanced and mixed impeccably.

This is made for strong women to wear. It fits perfectly with a woman who knows what she wants, is sure about her sexual power ('The Carnal Flower') and seductive potential, is not threatened by the radiation of a perfume that will lure men like moths to a flame. She doesn’t really care what her boyfriend or husband thinks about her fragrance. She wears it for her own pleasure. Not his. As should be IMHO. If men like it, it is a plus, but it is not the most important thing, it is not necessary. 'Carnal Flower' women wear this spectacular deep fragrance for themselves. If you don't like it, too bad for you! A ‘Carnal Flower’-woman is like 50’s iconic and most-beautiful-actress-ever Gene Tierney in her great films noirs: smoldering, unbelievably beautiful, yet with a hint that there are deep, maybe even disturbing secrets in this woman’s mind, that this woman has something to hide. Mysterious but intoxicating. A woman who doesn’t wear cheap emotions on her sleeve, who isn’t prone to hysterical attacks or public ‘actes d’amour’, but who has an intricate, deep emotional life under the beautiful surface. The lucky man who succeeds in piercing through the cool outer layer of a 'Carnal Flower'-woman, has struck gold. This woman is endlessly fascinating intoxicating, enchanting. She has a highly developed sense of beauty, sensuality and all things beautiful in life. Like ‘Carnal Flower’ by Frédéric Malle.

This is a one kind of a fragrance, that with the right marketing could have been as successful as ‘Alien’. But I think that nose Ropion and the house of Malle prefer a bit more discretion instead of the loud (but don’t get me wrong) also great and exceptional ‘Alien’. It is a strong flowery-woody-velvety fragrance. It has the power to seduce, to elevate the women who wear it to powerful love goddesses and the men who smell it to longing, accommodating, silly putty in her hands. And isn’t that every woman’s dream? Don’t thank me. Thank Frédéric Malle. And especially nose Dominique Ropion. The man who succeeded in transforming an epic battle between diabolically strong female flowers on steroids and male cough syrup eucalytus and tropical cocount with the celeb fume note melon thrown in as reconciler and helped by the most modern perfume tehcniques (salicylates), into a mind bending fragrance.

So readers of all the Fragrantica ‘What is the most sexy scent for women?’ Here’s the answer: the one and only ‘Sensual, Libidinous, Lewd, Fleshy’ Flower, the ‘Carnal Flower’! Your bf, mate or husband and yourself, should be prepared for some serious action when you get this into your boudoir, ladies… Oh yes, the young girlies better stick with the Britney-esque fumes. This is simply too ‘carnal’ for virgins. Sorry!

I haven't loved a floral perfume since I used to douse myself in Amarige back in high school. I decided to try a sample of this on a whim.

As soon as i sprayed this i was transported to a field of fresh cut grass, tons of white flowers and tuberose, morning dew and bright sun. i can't remember the last time a fragrance took me away like that. it's truly beautiful.

This is not a "sexy" fragrance. This is what love smells like.

can't get tired of this smell. extremely beautiful. very clean tuberose.
i sprayed a little on my pillow and wrist and still can smell it when i wake up.
it is the most beautiful fragrance in the world!! The portrait of lady is also extremely beautiful as well

When I reached out for a groceries bag the other day, the guy at the counter caught a whiff of Carnal Flower, looked out at the door to see if it was a smell of vegetation from outside and said, "It smells like spring". In some way, wearing it is like carrying around a bouquet of flowers, but I'm not tired of it yet:)
Fortunately, loud florals here are balanced by coconut as the scent unfolds. Also, it has an interesting drydown (at least on my skin) - a bit like clothes that have just been ironed.

For months I have been collecting samples and hunting for my Holy Grail Perfume. The other morning I attended an event on the South Lawn of the White House along with 4000 other people and we were all crammed together trying to get a view of the festivities and this intern next to me says to her boyfriend, "Do you think that's someone's perfume or does it really just smell like flowers here?" The only flowers in evidence anywhere were daffodils on the balcony and tulip trees about 20 yards away, so I'm pretty darn sure she was smelling me. I was wearing the dregs of a 5 ml decant of Carnal Flower.

On me after a few minutes all I get is the much spoken of vegetal quality. Like carrots just yanked from the garden on a humid morning. In the course of my search, I ordered the tuberose sampler from Perfumed Court and compared to all 17 things they had in their pack which included well knows like Annick Goutals Passion, Creed Tuberose Indiana, Fracas, and Tubereuse Criminelle. Carnal Flower was the stand out.

I am hoping it is rare enough to keep as a signature scent. Anyone could do worse than smell like a young woman's idea of what the White House grounds in Spring even if they only smell that way when I'm there.

I'm not saying its my Holy Grail, but I did spring for a 50ml bottle.

Maybe is because i smell this on one of the sexiest women in the world, i cant imagine how can CF is a male one too...
Every time this amazing women ( my wife) wears this, i just cant control my self. My mind, my body, my senses, my passion becomes ready to love.
Maybe i'm a tuberose on my wife fan, but the same effect appers when she wear aqua fiorentina... Well this effect happens always no matter what...
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I hope she wears this today!!!

I hear the name Carnal Flower bandied around fragrance forums quite often, and there's always good things said about it. Up until this point I hadn't managed to explore Frederic Malle perfumes in great depth, so Carnal Flower was one of those mysterious fragrances on my 'to test' list.

I was expecting a beautiful, heady white floral, so you can imagine my initial shock when the scent I applied to the card was a blast of earthiness. For the first few seconds I was channelling a review along the lines of, 'dirt meets tuberose', when the composition settled into a somewhat green, natural and heavy interpretation of tuberose and jasmine.

Towards the heart, the tuberose becomes warmer and a touch creamier. The coconut in Carnal Flower is either a love it or hate it. It adds a strange milkiness to the composition, also introducing a somewhat beachy feel, not far removed from suntan lotion. It's at this point that Carnal Flower gets a little wild.

This fragrance is not your typical white floral, nor is it particularly carnal or arousing. Naughty perhaps, like a kid playing in mud knowing full well that their mother just gave them a bath.

I find the melon accord a little off-putting, but that's due to my own personal tastes. Thankfully the note isn't too strong. I have come to the conclusion that Carnal Flower is a heady white floral that I admire, and one where I can revel in its complexity, yet somehow I can't find the desire to wear it.

The sillage is strong in a way that if over applied, Carnal Flower could indeed be very cloying, so proceed with caution. It also has the tendency to feel rather sticky on the skin. Personally I find this fragrance much too heavy for the warmer weather, so I suggest that wearing Carnal Flower during Spring may be pushing a boundary.

Dominique Ropion did something that was supposed to be extravagant, vulgar, becoming especially rich, luxurious and elegant. Merged flowers like tuberose, jasmine, ylang ylang so exquisite, bringing together the coconut, making a work of art, because I expected something that would not match me or not please me, but I was charmed.

Carnal Flower is my favorite and I always get compliments on it. Too bad it's so expensive but I think it's worth the money.

This is one of my new favorites. This is a serious scent with which you will make a statement - regardless of whether you wish to!

FM calls it a unisex scent. I agree, but you boys out there should know a few things. When it calms down it's definitely more unisex than when you initially spray it. The tuberose et. al. positively beat you with a bat upon application. This is a heady, heady, flowery juice. You will smell like flowers, and you'll need to be comfy with that! I definitely would NOT buy this without testing it first. And probably testing it a few times, at that!

I think it's fantastic stuff. Powerful. Distinct. Pushy. Gorgeous.

wow, this blew me away. what a nice surprise. by looking at the notes it seemed promising, and yes it is. Lots of my fav ingredient tuberose, then jasmine, soft musk and creamy ylang-ylang. This perfume is more of a lady fume, then unisex. Suitable name, it most definitely is all about flowers. Simply another amazing fragrance! Everlasting too:)

Thank you for your input Tovah!

I don't want to make enemies, but I am quite certain that I won't try it again. I am of the "utterly disturbing" camp. This was the second time, with the first being 1 month ago. It seemed even worse this time! it makes me feel like I need to run away! Very hard to scrub off too.

Lasting power is PHENOMENAL. it is listed in Luca Turin's Top 10 Best Loud Fragrances for a reason....I thought it might smell similar to Poison, but better....Nope.

Incredible presence, outstanding longevity, wildly unusual..

Scarlette - just read your review - Carnal Flower is a strange, strange scent. It's extremely camphorous and (to me anyways) it's one of those fragrances that can be strikingly beautiful, or utterly disturbing. I've owned it, and even though I love it deeply, I won't repurchase, probably, because it's so unpredictable. This one will haunt you, and you'll try it again and think it's amazing. Then you'll wear it again, and it will creep you out...and that's Carnal Flower.

I think the sample I rec'd has gone bad. SO strong, so rubbery, Smells like blood and rubber and something else just nauseating. I see that nearly no one has disliked it, so maybe I should try another sample??

No coconut, jasmine or orange blossom. I was SO SURE I would LOVE this!

Very Cloying and Bitter & Coppery & Plasticy. SO Bitter.
Sorry all of you lovers, and I mean almost no one dislikes this one but me!

Obviously there is something wrong with me...

The best tuberose perfume I have ever smelled. Maybe the best floral as well. Green, pure floral heaven and powerful.
But too much power can kill you and I prefer to wear a perfume rather than being weared by it.

It is official, I simply love tuberose. Such a yummy and softly note which express such a delicate idea.
Right after the first spray I gotta a very evident jasmine note combined with a smooth and almost velvety
tuberose note, but here in the opening this note is more like a vegetable(?) one if I may say, different from the creamy coconut vibe present since the begnning in By Kilian Beyond Love (which I adore, by the way).

Through time the coconut note appears decreasing a little of that vegetable aspect of the tuberose in here and giving to this fragrance the creamy aspect that I love in Beyond love altough there are some differences between these two fragrances (but just a few ones).

Anyway, a solid well crafted fragrance that deserves praise! But will I consider a bottle of it? Maybe not since for me Beyond Love does a better job.

One spray on my arm...

my mind immediately drifted "flashback" to my grandfather's funeral when I was a kid. I hold two stems of tuberose, then I picked one by one the flowers from the stems ... then I scatter the flowers over my grandpa's tomb. At that moment I could smell the tuberose all over the funeral and it was a beautiful smell.

Oh My God! the tuberose note in Carnal flower smell exactly like the real tuberose in my grandpa's funeral. Well done Mr. Ropion, You have brought back my old memories of my "sacred" tuberose.

Amazing scent.. you can feel the layers of different components throughout the whole development...

Dry-down is excellent.

Only problem for me, as a man, is that it's more feminine than masculine. Too feminine in my opinion.

If I had to choose one tuberose scent it would be Carnal Flower.

Fracas may be the classical diva-tuberose and Beyond Love by Kilian the best soliflore tuberose scent on the market but Carnal Flower beats them all!

There is something magical in this perfume and I don't know what it is. The notes have already been discussed (tuberose of course, coconut, eucalyptus and melon for the exotic touch) but this creamy, green, floral beguiling scent is simply amazing!

It is one of the few Frederic Malles that I do not only admire from afar but have to own a bottle of.

Carnal Flower is totally enveloping and enticing into branches of vegetal ripe plants and tuberose. A magical scent! The first time I smelled it I went head over heels and kept sniffing myself like a wild cat for hours! Never bought it anyway. It seemed never to be the right moment for such a big purchase (around 130 euro here and I can only find it in a shop)
I kept going back to that only place for a few times, then I got bored of them or them of me.
But Carnal Flower hit my brains so strongly that I still feel excited only by thinking about it!
I generally love tuberose scents, unless they are too buttery. I loved Poison, Amarige (from Mr.Ropion, too!), old Chloe, Jardins de Bagatelle, epic strong intoxicating By Kilian Beyond Love (another crazy priced one) and even the scaring Nasomatto Narcotic Venus. Amarige was my ready to buy-and-wear before a suspected re-formulation, but Carnal Flower takes tuberose to the highest realms of perfume and deep pleasure from it!
It's not buttery at all. Indeed it's a very green tuberose with a strong initial vegetal edge that fades gradually. It stays quite the same along all evolution and while wearing it I was constantly reminded of its presence with small lovely green-powdery whiffs. It's very longlasting, but never invading, especially if worn with sense.
Great scent!

I have tried a lot of tuberose classics including Fracas then I got a sample of Carnal Flower. Vegetal/animal magical sumptuous juice. Tuberose to die for. Sublime, astonishing, the Holy Grail. AHHHH! (Sigh of near utter content). I only wish that it was not almost impossible to get in the UK.

Added note
Thanks so much Migotka for posting me about Les Senteurs. Eurika. They only have in stock 100ml size and it costs an arm and a leg, but its so damn good that I have to have it.

Have you ever had a perfume that you thought was just ridiculously good. Well this is that perfume.

Went to Barney's yesterday and got a sample of this. Love the SAs there as they're quite accommodating. I will certainly be back to buy this one.

Ok so back to the review;

Its so amazingly fresh! Not like fresh as in shower fresh but in realistic floral fresh. In all the perfumes I've ever owned this is the ONLY one that smells identical to a real bouquet of flowers.

When I first sprayed I smelled this kind of cold smell, and then salt. I don't know where the salt came from but I got salt. Then as it warmed to my body I got wispy florals. I could smell and identify the jasmine right away

Then you get the most amazing tuberose. I personally adore tuberose in all its facets. This is yet another that is so enjoyable and though fleshy, not heady...at least not right away!

About 4 hours in I get this really fun fruit thing going on. Its really lovely! The scent isn't linear but all the changes are subtle enough that you kind of have to pay attention to whats going on.
I got some eucalyptus but it was very much in the background. It didn't overpower ever.

In the gym the sillage was really out there but, it wasn't offputting nor was it loud. I did have a lot of women ask what I was wearing (I had 2 guys ask the same lol) and they all said that it was amazing to smell.

Its been now 8 hours. Even after a hard workout this scent hasn't faded at all though it intensified when I was working out, it never got screechy or just died. I still get the most amazing smells from this which I'm just vibing with.

This is a perfume for someone who really enjoys florals and say its a must try even if you're not sure you like them!

But I also say err on the side of caution when applying this as it can go wrong really quickly if you apply too much. The 2 half sprays I used were perfect on me. I sprayed low on the body and covered that up with a hell of a lot of fabric!!

I really can't see a man wearing this tbh, but I can see why he would give it a shot.

Fantastico profumo che costa un botto. Per chi ama i profumi sono soldi spesi ottimamente.

Non sono un amante delle note di testa e qui ne ho la conferma. E' un attacco esagerato! Tuberosa prima di tutto, eucalipto e molto di esotico, il tutto quasi in eccesso. Per fortuna dopo pochi minuti il vortice si assesta e rimane una tuberosa pulita, dolce, vibrante, direi pure balsamica; queste note te le porti dietro sino al fondo. Fantastiche la persistenza e la coerenza del prodotto. Incapace peraltro di annoiare. Mi dichiaro dipendente da questo profumo a tal punto che scambierei buona parte di quelli precedentemente acquistati: facciamo 3 profumi per un 100 ml di carnal flower.

Socialmente è vincente, più persone mi hanno chiesto "ma sei tu che hai questo profumo? E' buonissimo". Una ragazza recentemente mi ha detto "ma io lo voglio..". Eggià, è molto buono, intimo e ispira.. voluttà, che al momento mi sembra il termine più centrato.

Ottimo per donna con le palle e per uomo, magari in quantità più misurata: ok, è un floreale ma non è dolce allo svenimento, è più un'aurea carnale che ottunde l'olfatto, ti fa desiderare di averlo.

Da avere più che da provare.

I guess I'm much more of an oriental lover than floral. Carnal flower left me non-plussed as Fracas did - they're almost identical. Huge projection. OK lasting power. I'm obviously in the minority and sorry, but it's not one that I'd fork out the huge bucks for. To those of you who love it - enjoy!

Edit: Because I wasn't enjoying this one particularly, I blended my samples of Carnal Flower, Un Lys and Lys Carmin and what a powerhouse floral I concocted! Carnal Flower is toned down by the addition of the other two, and I must say I'm enjoying this very much. Sometimes the sum of the parts is greater than the individual. Splendid!

How typical of me?!?!?!?!?!? I have fallen madly in love with this fragrance, given to me as a birthday gift by a dear friend who knows I am a Tuberose addict! Far from it being available on the continent I live on, the price is pretty hefty too ... but OH!!! ... the smell! I have found my new signature fragance after searching for at least the last 20 years. Any words I have to say about it would be superflous ... this is paradise in a bottle!!!

This one is the very sexiest perfum ever. Every time my love use it... Wow. One of my best presents.
Tu piel es aun mas deliciosa con ese increible aroma a tuberose.
The real aphrodisiac one.
Use it

Very well done a fresh tuberose with a strong vegetal note or green aromatic note.
Salty and exotic smell.
Aggressive but not annoying ..
Very wearable like all malle's scents
sensual almost unisex but a little bit more feminine.

I don't know what's wrong with me but I really disliked this scent. It made me feel nauseous actually.

I'm so totally impressed by Carnal Flower.

But at first I wasn't. What landed on my wrist was something herbal, almost dry. I was looking for something similar to Fracas or Blonde, but instead the topnotes smelt of something like a dash of citrus with dried herbs or hay? Having sampled Kiehls musk oil on my other arm I mainly focused on that one and thought that I would keep Blonde as my alltime tuberose.

Half an hour later I found myself surrounded by the most seductive aura I ever smelt. Carnal Flower was now warmed up by my skin, and the impact was equally rousing and enchanting.

The tuberose is really blooming like in an indian night. It's sultry, seductive and very dangerous. It has a dash of fruityness that makes it a little moist and even more desirable. The herbal note has now altered to a sprinkle of fresh eucalyptus that brightens the almost too overpowering notes. Silky sweetness from the coconut softens possible acridness.

This is a real quality fragrance: The projection and duration are more than you could wish for, and the drydown is lovley. You will not need to replenish and If you wear it be prepared for compliments from both men and women ;)

Got a sample of Carnal Flower today (thanks Leonardo once again) and I must say that it smells heavenly. Very hard for me to describe the smell and I consider that masterpieces do not need reviews or emphatic words. To feel their beauty you have to see them, touch them, spray them, admire them, let them untouched by the words which can only destroy their beauty; this is the only way their magic will reveal to you.
For Carnal Flower words are meaningless and forgettable. I do not see the necessity of words here.. perhaps because there isnt any ?

Strange, the first time I smell it on my wrist I hate it, perhaps due to the coconut and because of the strong tuberouse. bUT Today I dare and I put it directly to my chest and I find it gorgeous as it develops. It needs space , don' t to smell too near. Then, I'm considering to buy it!!

Carnal Flower.....
I dont know....lol..I honestly dont know how to describe it. It smells....really intense, like really intense almost to the point where the tip of my nose feels like it kinda burning but its a nice sensation.
The tuberose bursts onto my skin and the coconut is a nice layer of sweetness and freshness. This scent makes me want to go for a surf or play volleyball with my mates til sunset. Its not sporty and its not masculine, its very feminnine but it has these animalistic moments where it seems quite dominant and alluring, very sexual i think but not in the sense of Agent Provocateur...this is classy and very expensive. I feel stuck with this fragrance...I sit here and smell myself and all I do is smile...Im happy my nose is happy...what more can i ask for?

I was very curious about this scent because of reading a lot of good reviews and of the high price of this fragrance.
When I first sniffed on it, it reminded me on Fracas and Blonde. I discovered, how artificially and crotchy Fracas and Blonde smells in comparison with CF. CF smells like truly tuberoses, very natural. It smells fresh, but not aldehydic soapy, but flowery. I can smell only tuberose in it. When I smell this fragrance, I see a young, blonde girl in a warm climate. The lasting power is O.K., longer than Blonde (Versace) and shorter than Fracas.
I was so sad, that I did not fall in love with it immediately, maybe my nose forgot the nice smell of truly flower, because of a ocean of aldehydic shit we have everywhere.

I just got a huge bottle today from my husband that arive from San francisco and I'm over the moon.
This is dreamy I also have PCtuberose Gardenia by Estee Lauder but I believe I'm a coconut lover because I can smell a lot o coconut in Carnal Flower and I love better than PCTG. I gave PCTG to my mommy in Brazil and they don't stock Estee Lauder there, but everywhere she goes people ask what is this gourgeous perfume she is wearing. Ilove PCTG but it's second to Carnal Flower for me.

There was one word that repeatedly sprang to mind when I tried Carnal Flower - "Wow!". I avoided sampling this for a long time, thinking that I was somehow being disloyal to Le Labo's Jasmin 17, a floral fragrance that I love to death. Now that I have sampled Carnal Flower I can safely say that there is room in my wardrobe for two knock-out floral scents! Carnal Flower is bright, rich and unique. Tuberose scents can sometimes be a little strong on me, but this is perfectly balanced and seems to develop over time into a heady sexy fume. There is real substance to this, it doesn't fade into nothingness but almost matures like a fine wine. Good sillage and long lasting, I can't stop sniffing my wrist and smiling to myself. Perfection!

Carnal Flower is indeed a very sexual fragrance but unlike others in its "sexual group" such as Agent Provocateur and Black Orchid- Carnal Flower is Beautiful in its composition and its drydown which lead me to believe that unlike the images of cheap sex which i get from Agent and Black Orchid. I get images of High Class and Expensive Escorts when I smell Carnal Flower. Carnal Flower costs AU$490.00 here in Australia and its probably one of the best fragrance investments i've made in a long time because this is everything you could want from a fragrance, if you can handle its very aggressive opening where it literally sinks its nails into your skin and covers every inch of your body then you'll enjoy what this fragrance has to offer you. I love Tuberose and Ylang Ylang and they work perfectly together creating something very earthy and refined. Lasting power is fantastic. A billion stars for Carnal Flower!

I think NJDEB review is everything I would like to say about Carnal Flower, but I would like to add that I have a bottle of Fracas for about 10 years and I never manage to like it. It sufocate me can't understand how so many people can like fracas. Carnal Flower is a classic. I adore it.

I recently put it out in the universe to fellow perfume lovers that I was in search of a new scent that was as alluring and dangerously sexy as it was classy and welcoming. Thats a hard one...three out of four women told me of this scent and i ordered a sample....
Hands down this is it! After months of searching perfume stores department stores, and head shops, I feel like I am back in my own skin!
Its pricey...and worth it! It is a delicious intermingling of innocence and appetition!

Definetly I don't like it. It makes me sick. And I adore a lot of Frederic Malle parfums.

Oh yes this works! To quote a woman at a restaurant: "you smell divine, what do you have on?" she wrote it down. In the beginning I would say yes, a woman should wear it, but I really like the scent. My wife thinks it smells like a flower in the garden with melon and coconut mixed in. I said you have picked up some of the notes that are in the formula, very good. It is a strong formula, but it is very special. The tuberose is the shining star in the fragrance, it is so well done, that you think that you picked off a flower and put it on your lapel. It is unique and yes, a man can wear it and pull it off. So men, if you like it buy it, but try before you buy.

Someone says "money don't make the difference", but sometimes they really make it and Carnal Flower is here to confirm it. This is the most evident result of how expensive raw materials can do in perfumery: really good. A luxurious, rich and straight in the face tuberose / floral compisition for people who like to show off and know how to do it with class. This is a very dangerous territory that can easly cross the border of vulgarity, but Mr. Ropion has magistrally balanced Carnal Flower to become a sublime blast of opulence. Solid and beautiful.

Rating: 8.5/10

I wonder whether my quiet voice will get through the masses of praise and oh!'s and ah!'s and what have you not.

And hard as it might seem to believe it, Carnal Flower actually did not work miracles for me. It did not throw me on my knees, it did not make me want to glue my nose to my wrist, it did not actually do a lot of things it did to other people, or so it seems.

What it did however was to incapacitate my nose for good 10 minutes with a huge and powerful punch of tuberose and ylang-ylang. It is a big scent, big in white florals and eucaliptus. There is something unpleasant to it, something sharp and powdery. The closest image from real life it gave to me was getting my finger cut by a page of a very old book from the library. It does not make me think of anything particularly pleasant.

Maybe because I am not particularly fond of any of the ingredients, but out of all FM perfumes, this is one of the ones I like the least.

I don't have much to add to what other reviewers brilliantly said... it's a wonderful exercise in style, exactly in the middle of perfection, so to speak.
I've tried it on and it's gorgeous, but too feminine for me. I can hardly imagine a man wearing this.
That's why I'm posting this review: to remind me in the future that I like this perfume, but I shouldn't buy it for myself :)

EDIT: I've slowly come to understand that there is no such thing as a "male" or "female" fragrance. So now I can imagine a man wearing this :)
Still, I think it's a little bit too heavy. I love wearing florals, provided that they're not too sweet or orientalists or heavy, so I won't buy Carnal Flower anyway. But I recommend it to everyone: try it, or you'll miss something great.

Carnal Flower is just such a beautifully crafted perfume. If the notes appeal to you, you must try it!!! For me, the orange blossom, jasmine and eucalyptus take me back to southern California, where I grew up. I find the perfume a little too coy for my tastes, but it is only a matter of taste, not the quality of the scent itself. 5 stars, without doubt.

So many people have written about their throes of ecstasy in encountering Frederic Malle CARNAL FLOWER that I have actually been a bit hesitant to dip into my sample vial, which has been in my queue for quite some time now. What if perchance a single sniff might destroy the entire epic erotic myth swirling about this mysterious elixir?

CARNAL FLOWER smells luscious indeed to this tuberose lover, and lies somewhere in my memory bank of perfumes between FRACAS and BLONDE, the latter of which strikes me as quite a bit more carnal than this creation. BLONDE is darker and sweeter and features civet where CF appears to contain...plant pheromones? (Hmmm... not sure who/what that's supposed to turn on...) But I do know that the undulating loveliness of CF is a pleasure to behold.

FRACAS remains the big bodacious diva tuberose for me. I like CARNAL FLOWER a lot, but no one who loves tuberose can fail to, since this, the manufacturer's card boasts: "is undoubtedly the single fragrance featuring the largest amount of natural Tuberose absolute". Of course, that's a huge red flag to some: only tuberose lovers need apply!(and perhaps also venus flytraps?)

Was this the definitive, transformative olfactory event of my life? Have I been forever changed? No. I'm still here, fully in tact, pretty much the same as I was before, and though I do not own a bottle of CF, I still feel whole. My tuberose needs will continue to be amply filled by FRACAS and BLONDE. But I'll cherish the rest of my CF sample spray vial as well, and who knows, by the time the last drop is gone, perhaps I will be a new woman. On verra bien...

I was able to obtain a 10 ml sample from a very reliable e-bay source so did not have to break the bank. On to the perfume-tuberose, thy name is carnal flower! I have tested this for 3 weeks on my skin and on a cotton pad and it is so sophisticated that it has taken me this long to explore its depth. First the tuberose then the tuberose with notes of crushed orange blossom, melon and jasmine, all surrounded with the caress of tuberose. It lasts several hours on my skin and on the cotton, over 2 days. Now I will have to sample Fracas just for the experience. Fracas is much more affordable, that being said Carnal Flower is divine!

Well after a year of wanting to try it I finally ordered a sample of this. Actually I nearly blind bought it though I am glad I didnt. So yes it is nice but not at all what I expected. It is very similar to Fracas however has more of grassy green note. I dont personally think its worth the cost. If you wore fracas and a floral green you would probably get a very similar experience.

I just got a sample of this again and unfortunately it doesn't work with my skin. I had the same problem with Fracas and now I think tuberose doesn't work with my skin chemistry. I will have to appreciate this on someone else.....

Oh...I have to be so careful when smelling a perfume like this! I always love the opening of flower-scents in which Tuberose is the prominent one, but I know myself: Once I buy it and spray it on me, I'm experiencing an overdose..even when used sparingly.
So I really love this scent, but not on my skin unfortunately...

Love at first sniff. This is the best tuberose ever - rich yet fresh, creamy and so seductive. This may be the perfect special night-out scent for me – much more wearable than Fracas, which I find too heavy and almost suffocating.

Interesting addition of Eucalypus (who would ever think to add that!), which I really can't identify, but must be what adds the special green radiance that I love. Carnal Flower's list of notes is literally like a list of my very favorite notes. Of course this doesn't always translate into a good perfume, but in this case it translates into heaven for me.

So seamlessly well-blended - this could be the first niche full bottle I will buy.

Floral nirvana.

this is a very unique perfume. if you are a floral fan, you def need to have it!

What can I say; I'm a sucker for tuberose! Carnal Flower is amazing if not quite up there with Fracas. A bit less "in your face" than Fracas, but still a total star! More blended, more sophisticated.

How i anticipated this one after reading all the rapturous praise..to be honest it didn't blow my mind at first. Reminded me of an inexpensive soap or bath product from my childhood(80s), and my bf said it reminded him of something too! That said it snuck up on me later when my sister asked me what glorious perfume was I wearing? The sillage is really the best part of Carnal Flower, the coconut notes really elevate it. Fracas, for instance, can have a soapy edge and be too heady if overapplied..this will never occur with CF. A tuberose you could bathe in without offending others -yay!

on me its a bit similair to SL Fleur d Oranger, only a bit sweeter bc of the other notes..love it and how could i not love this, its made by the fabolous nose dominic ropion! thumbs up!
awesome strenght too

i was so blown away by my sample of this exquisite, lush, bouquet of a fragrance, I had to order a 10 ml bottle. :)

MMMMMM this smells soooo gooooood!!! I love the green & tuberose!!! It is potent but in a very sexy way. I must have a full bottle of this!!

Omg, this stuff is addictive!! Nowhere have I smelled anything this good. And I HATE big white florals like Fracas and Estee Lauder Tuberose Gardenia. I get a bit of coppertone scent but it smells goooo-ooood. The coconut and melon keep it tame. The jasmine is not in your face. Everything about it is just right. Unfortunately the price is another thing but I've mananged to get some awesome deals on ebay.

I do not like tuberose-based scents , but this one is really good.The coconut, melon and ylang ylang make it soft and smooth.
Wonderful!

When I wear this, I imagine myself in a flower and fruit market in open air in the Mediterranean during the summer, bumping into a freshly showered beautiful voluptuous woman by accident, while trying to pick out the right flowers for an anticipated gathering....

And in my imaginings, I am a man.

But I open my eyes, and I am the fresh shapely demigoddess! Or that's how Carnal Flower makes me feel....
I concur that this is more mysterious and bewildering than most any oriental or spicy or woody fragrance I've ever smelled-and I usually prefer oriental woody and spicy.

You have to be daring to wear this-this is not for anyone with even a trace of the shrinking violet or wallflower to the personality...

Ah, I must have this!!!

It would be my pleasure to make a fragrant faux pas by wearing Carnal Flower everywhere, feeling like a dainty pixie and a feisty demoness all at once!

PS I smell coconut more on the drydown of Carnal Flower-the drydown is even better, considering this is heady and wild...soft, sweet, warm, sinuous like waves of cream-coloured silk.....What an unparelleled masterpiece- may it always be produced!

My top wish list item! It is fresh and beautiful and like nothing I have ever smelt before! The price is another story, but worthy!

I loved the first rich impression and enjoyed the dry down. But it's too strong of tuberose and after a half hour of wear, I had a headache. And I usually enjoy more heady fragrances. I appreciate the coconut element and really do like the general feel of this perfume and how it involks somewhere tropical and sexy. I can see it being a great night perfume but I barely applied any so I don't really see how I can go lighter in application so to wear more often.

Carnal Flower was an impulse purchase. I was at a trade show where a vender was selling product at a discount. It was one fragrance I had never smelled before I purchased it. At first I was not thrilled with the top note, but the dry down is great! The fragrance last all day and is a nice lift to your day when it is activated by your body heat.

Many people do not like the tuberose because of his robustness, but believes it about him rather if somebody smells this, that soft, cool, and mysterious. I did not feel the intoxicating fragrance of the tuberose in my life in tall concentration like this yet. I admit it this is more difficult for me already the at a lot. The components set off because of the complicated, continuously, longer time is needed for it in order for us to manage to reach away Malle dream so. The launch of the fragrance like that, as if the stem of a green plant his fibres would have smashed. The citrous decorating the edge of the green letters notes bergamot, and the handkerchief of the tartness waving eucalyptus comes into the foreground firstly, which camphoric entrance which can be felt hardly gives as a present to it using. The culmination of the fragrance it, when a white jasmine is rolling in on a coach the sweet cantaloupe, that ylang-ylang rushes. The ornate car the sexy orange blossoms receive who he detains with a cool cocktail offered in a coconut rejoicing, the famously good hospitable white musk.

The single most exquisite perfume I have ever tried....makes me want to kiss myself. Aaaahhhh.

They ships worldwide, you can purchase it from their site. If you click on the eBay link under the picture you may find two or three items of it, 30ml I suppose.

God... and Goddess! This is what I mean when I mean being completely drown to something, feeling that you would like to fall into that thing and die there, happy. That thing is Carnal Flower. Never scent has been so intense floral and so intensely erotical. None of my beloved oriental, sultry, sweet notes here to conjure up sensual imagery, still eroticism is there in the pure form of flowers. I know only one place in my city where I can spray it and I don't mean spraying liberally. I'm not allowed there to have feisty behaviours and drooling at a scent in olfactive orgasm. Moreover I cannot afford buying it and I'm not even sure that I would. I only want to smell Carnal Flower and drool like a dog in love. They can't understand my excitement in a place where people get in and buy 2 or 3 scents (Creed and the alikes), don't mind which ones as far as they are expensive and me poor little craving woman with my hands on the window...

The only thing wrong with this fragrance is the drydown,IMHO. If only it stayed as sensual and erotic as the beginning all the way through. That said, I do still love it . . .

Very strong, very realistic white flowers. Dense, tropic, lush. If white flowers are your thing, you must sample this. It is somehow ordinary and at the same time different, with just enough unidentifiable oomph behind the usual white florals to make it modern without making it weird. The word 'timeless' springs to mind, but you MUST like white flowers to like this.

A seamless perfectly blended floral carnival, smooth a bit tropical with soft green highlights.Sweet and cool, as heady as it should be , with a honeyed tempting drydown!Yum!

A killer tuberose! this fragrance is indeed carnal, and this tuberosal exposure is simply indecent! Warm, moist, carnivorous flower, and not some watercolor painted one! This one`s been painted with rich, dark colors, without sparing the brush and paint.The eucalyptis is a very unusual - it brightens all other notes and connects them in a perfect set of petals.I kept sniffing my wrist, enjoying the delicious coconut and ylang, and of course it all is veiled with tuberose...But I am afraid I won`t have guts to wear it nowhere else but at home.

It seems like I'm the only one here who's not in love with it..too sharp, dry and bitter for me..

Please, God, let me be able to afford this stuff one day. I stretched out my sample from Barney's for a month(f.malle's samples are nice and big and come in a sprayer, hoorah!), spraying it on my hand and huddling over the rising scent like some sort of depraved solvent abuser, waiting for that tuberose to smack me on one side of the head, the getting smacked on the other by the green, crushed stem and jasmine note, then the tuberose, and back and forth until I was dizzy. Fracas is great(and cheaper), but this stuff is amazing. Frighteningly sexy. If I can manage to afford some for my sweetie(I may have to have it first), she may have to carry a big stick to keep me from ripping off her clothes every time she wears it. Not normally a man's scent in any way shape or form, but it's so amazing, I can't resist. Go ahead boys, call me a fairy. I don't care; smelling this good renders me impervious to criticism, kind of like a few stiff drinks. Five million stars.

I have a sample of it and it is a gorgeous fragrance. A pure and greenish tuberose scent :) I would like to have a full bottle of this one day.

I am not usually the white flower type of girl (woman that is, but girl sounded better in a way!). But Carnal Flower med me to it. It is an addictive kind of floral... the opening start with some sharp and right up in your face (nose) kind of notes, as jeca writes. It is a michmach of bitter green, overly sweet flowers and something fruty as well, a flower that attacks you, beware! It makes me feel like a naugthy kid steeling the most beutiful flowers from the grumpy old neighbors garden, and is about to get a rush from them. Ooh, and I like it.

After that part I am finding my self in a hothouse or a flowershop. Surrounded by steaming, humid air and all sorts of different flowers. Heady, rich and creamy... i can smell something sweet almost honeylike and eucalyptus, something herbal, and everything is surrounded by the most beutiful flower fragrance.

It isn´t a simple fragrance, it got a lot of edge in it, but keep the balance all the way. The drydown is soft, caressing with a bit mild musk and vanilla. One can think this to be a headacheinducing fragrance, but I think it is not... it is very well blended and on me always on the right side of "to much"...

A most try, even if you aren´t in to flower fragrances, it is a good chanse it will catch you anyway.

Stayingpower is resonable, but not terrific... about 4-5 hours, even tough the smell says wonderfully on your clothes for much longer.

I will shurly miss it when my small samples is gone, maybe later on it will be a big bottle of this or at least more of it.

Carnal flower is the right name for the fragrance! The beginning is sharp and aggressive, with green aromatic notes.
The fragrance is flowery sweet and intensive.