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Carnal Flower (for women)

Designer: Frederic Malle Olfactive Group: Floral

Carnal Flower or forbidden flower is a fragrance with the scent of tuberose. Tuberose is a beautiful and dangerous flower. In some cultures, it is not allowed for young women to feel its intoxicating scent after sunset. Tuberose is a symbol of forbidden pleasure, hiding its passionate, sensual character behind its fresh, white, floral face. Its intoxicating scent seduces many perfumers; Frederic Malle and creator Dominique Ropion tried to repeat this scent in their particular way. Frederic Malle was inspired for Carnal Flower during his visits to California, where everything smells like gardenia and tuberose. Dominique Ropion worked on development of the formula for more than two years. The perfume contains a larger dose of tuberose absolute than any other perfume. The composition opens with heavy, green notes of citrus leaves and branches. As tuberose develops, the green nuance passes into a note of camphora, which softens the opulent flowers unintrusively. Fruity nuances of melon and coconut add light and slightly gourmet sound to the composition and do not attract attention. The muse for this perfume was Frederic Malle’s aunt, famous actress Candice Bergen, who acted in the movie Carnal Knowledge with Jack Nicholsonom. The top notes contain: bergamot, melon and eucalyptus. The middle notes include: ylang-ylang, jasmine, tuberose, Salicylates (natural, toxic product of herbal origin, a sort of a herbal feromone which is used by plants as a warning). The base encompasses: tuberose absolute, orange blossom absolute, coconut and musk. The perfume was created in 2005.

Fragrance Notes

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EucalyptusTuberoseOrange BlossomMelonCoconutJasmineYlang-YlangBergamotWhite Musk

Carnal Flower Fragrance Reviews:

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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...
05/07/09 09:19:08
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 . . .
04/21/09 18:21:14
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.
04/11/09 13:45:15
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!
01/05/09 00:25:50
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.
12/30/08 21:01:37
 
It seems like I'm the only one here who's not in love with it..too sharp, dry and bitter for me..
12/26/08 05:15:39
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.
12/12/08 10:57:55
Exactly, a gorgeous fragrance!
At the time, when I was "exploring" a tuberose scents, one day I compared Fracas by Robert Piguet, considered to be a "king of tuberose perfume", and a Carnal Flower.
Both aromas are incredibly beautiful. But Fracas is very loud, it overflows all space, leaving the aroma carrier unnoticed.

Carnal Flower is also very dominant tuberose perfume, but it is "refreshed" by eucalyptus in the opening, and softened by fruits and white musk in the base.
So, definitely, I would choose a Carnal Flower! It is still white flowers scent, but in a modern concept of perfume.
09/27/08 02:19:36
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.
09/27/08 00:52:54
 
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I would like to order Carnel Flower but can't bring up price, etc.
09/21/08 10:02:16
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.
08/05/08 03:13:38
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.
03/14/08 06:33:05

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