L`Eau De Monteil Germaine Monteil for women

I have wanted to try this for sometime. I finally found a mini on ebay. This is the scent of summer! The ocean in a bottle! On my skin I got all the marine notes and thankfully, none of the floral notes. So sad that this has been discontinued. It would be the perfect summer scent, or great when the tempurature drops and there's snow on the ground and you want a little instant beach vacation!

not just any boring old aquatic fragrance, this takes you from the deepest depths of the see, up to the plush greens the woods.. the flowered skies... gets your mind a drift.. until you're so far gone,, you dont know where it began
a++++ vintage and rare... a keeper!

Bottle is amazing, romantic, and lasts a very long time.. great value

This is a very nicely done early women's aquatic. Instead of relying on a heavy use of Calones, the "sea spray" effect is achieved primarily through a use of green notes, delicate aldehydes & orange blossom. L'eau de Monteil does not smell like the sea; rather it evokes it. This is creatively much more difficult to do.

I have to agree with Serafina that the spice seems to be from carnation. Here it is held in an aqueous substrate, from which the spice diffuses enveloped in a moist cloud. The light powdered drydown remains aqueous, and is very comforting and soft. Interesting, yet still sophisticated and modern.

I am surprised that cyclamen is not in the notes, I will research to find more detailed ingredients.

The strength and longevity even in the EDT is excellent.

Very curios scent. I feel lily when smelling from bottle, but when sprayed, I feel salty and sour honey near the skin and beautiful flowers around me.

This scent evokes memories of a very humid, very wet (but at the same time cool) tropical garden. The first time I encountered a similar scent was in a garden park in Florida as a child. I probably equate the scent of L'Eau De Monteil with the fragrance of that garden because of the obvious jasmine and water elements they have in common. There is also a undertone of overblown blooms, earth and tropical forest floor. I tried wearing this fragrance in the heat of summer to recapture the cool water element but it didn't work for me. I find that L'Eau DE Monteil is best used in Spring and Fall. I have enjoyed this scent since the mid 90's and have given it as a gift to my daughter, who likes it as much as I do.

this one makes me very curious...i need to try it soon...

This beautiful fresh fragrance lends a lightness to the floral notes that waft, tempered by the so-called sea notes that I find most intriguing about this scent. It is a pleasurable ocean breeze in a garden along the chalky white cliffs, and reminds me of Debussy's La mer, Sibleius' Oceanides, and Germaine Monteil's 1940 South Seas sheath gown (if anyone's seen the famous photo of the model spreading the elegant dress out on the beach sand). I love it in the morning, but also at night before dreaming sleep; the orange blossom always creates a feeling of happiness and wellbeing.

Arrrg! I hate to ask a question. But I have been searching for this and all the websites that sell it are out of it.
Does anyone know where I can purchase this on line or is it at department stores and I just don't know it?

Oh...!!
I was just searching this site and found this one listed...! It has been available for such a short time here in the Netherlands! How I miss this one! It was such a beautyful scent!
It smelled like holydays, beaches surrounded with beautyful flowers. It had a bit of Rem by Reminiscense in it, but was even more interesting!
I really don't understand why this has been discontinued!!!
Everyone asked me what I was wearing when I still had it....
No link to a website of Germaine Monteil, otherwise I would have been able to find out what happened to this beauty...
Too bad!!

good afternoon i'm interested on eau de monteil the bigger size can you please replay with offer and price ? thanks
ale9955@live.it alessandro romiti Italy

I got this in miniature as a gift - the bottle is cute and the watery blue-green color is just my thing.
The scent is floral, I smelled carnation and jasmine, with many interesting undertones - greenish, woody, earthy, spicy, powdery. Imagine the blue and green color with sunny white, streaks of dusty grey and earthy brown. Imagine nature in spring, giving birth to flowers, burbling clear brooks, cool stones, wet marshes and powdery fogs.
No fruit and almost nothing sweet, maybe a drop of tame vanilla in the drydown.