Aqua Allegoria Flora Nymphea Guerlain for women

This is a delightful little perfume. While I've had orange blossoms and I've had honey, I've never had the two quite like this. This is definitely an aqua--a light take on neroli with a splash of honey water. Perfumes with honey often smell rich, but this is simple, delicate, and even slightly refreshing. It's my favorite of the Aqua Allegoria collection thus far.

As someone who rarely gets excited over light floral scents, I actually think this one is very beautiful!

Flora Nymphea is a simple composition of orange blossom and honey. It's refreshingly simple and lovely. It's a field of delicate flowers on a warm, breezy spring day with bees lazily buzzing about, collecting pollen from the new blossoms. Honey is a central note, but it is not the sweet, creamy variety that you get in something like L'Instant de Guerlain or Elie Saab Le Parfum. In fact it's quite the opposite of that. It's not sweet at all, and I actually get the scent of beeswax more than honey. It adds a light, resiny warmth. I also get the scent of black tea in this, which adds to the overall comforting quality of Flora Nymphea.

This is a definite pick-me-up scent - it feels light, happy and relaxing. I find it along the lines of Jo Malone Orange Blossom. The only downside with this scent is the lasting power is not great. I think Mandarine Basilic still stands as my favourite of the Aqua Allegoria series, but Flora Nymphea ranks very high up there as well!

This is nice but it is extremely headache inducing. It is sweet, floral and lovely but it has a bit of a clean laundry feel to it. Nice, though.

Made for a bride. This fragrance reminds me of a traditional wedding ceremony, which takes place in southern Italy or in the Middle East. It suggests to me a young bride, whose face is young and fresh as the petal of a magnolia tree, all made up with kohl and wrapped in fluffy white and antique lace. The body of this young girl should smell exactly like Aqua Allegoria Flora Nymphea: orange blossom, orange blossom, orange blossom, with hints of honey and musk, a secret well hidden in his private parts. : D
If I married my young Catholic professor, more than three years younger than me, I would look like this girl, even if I'm 32. At least for one day.

Flora Nymphea starts flowery with honey, I felt almost as if I was near bees (but in a good meaning :)) and first impression was positive, very nature-like. What came next wasn't that great because the bright smell became masculine (I admit I didn't know syringa, maybe that's it but imo it was something patchouli-like that made the fragrance bleached). All in all, it was an interesting experience but I don't want more than samples. Bottle is pretty though and so classy, like in all Allegorias case.

Edit: I've used Flora Nymphea today, haven't been using it for a long time and it seems I've liked the "masculine" touch :O This fragrance is classy and it doesn't happen in all Allegorias case ;) The scent is a bit Saharienne-like to me and I love Saharienne.

There is a very fresh feeling to its opening. The honey remains in the background, supporting the floral notes. The orange blossom is slightly sweet and breezy. As it dries down to the heart, there is a green note that emerges, which feels out of place, and reminds me of stale flower-water. On my skin, this note seems to take over the entire composition and gone is the breezy orange blossom opening that I found so refreshing. If I wait a little while for the base notes to emerge, the fragrance becomes powdery and there is a "dryer sheet" effect that develops, but in the end, the fragrance isn't quite right for me.

I tried Flora Nymphea on a whim and it surprised me. I don’t think of the Aqua Allegorias as very complex in intent or execution. They’re the Post-It notes of French perfumery. So Nymphea took me by surprise. It’s linear, yes, but it’s complex, long lasting and isn’t a one-liner. Every time I catch a whiff of it, it takes me to the very top notes of Guerlain’s Insolence edt. I know the hairspray feeling of Insolence’s start is derided, but I actually quite like it. I find it striking and appealing.

Nymphea is a long-lasting play on that hairspray note. It’s poised and it’s full, and is a model for an instance where a linear fragrance shines.

What a beautiful, lovely fragrance! I seem to love it more and more each time I wear it.

The topnotes are fresh, citrusy, slightly green and a little bit sharp. Flowery and fruity undertones are detectable. The start appears to be as clean and fresh as a breath of fresh air on a dewy summer morning.
The heart of the fragrance is a beautiful combination of orangeblossom and lilac, dipped in soft, sweet, luscious honey. And that seems a combination made in heaven! The fragrance is warm, soft, cozy and comforting, rich and delicious, magical and enchanting! I think it is quite noticeable that I adore it! ;-)

I think this frangrance can be worn on different occasions, by woman of all ages. It is suitable for any season, but in my opinion it is perfect for autumn.

This Eau de Toilette is very longlasting on my skin, and has great sillage. The bottle and box are beautiful, classy and luxurious.

Love how feminine this smells - soft and warm and flowery...without veering into either the realm of little girl or old lady.

The honey smell is so rich and delicious...and something a little different.

This is an update to my earlier review. I orginally gifted this lovely bottle to my daughter after I thought I didn't like it. She has been wearing it all summer when I realized I really like it, now! I thought maybe it was just my daughter's body chemistry making it smell so enchanting, which was puzzling to me because I have been truly blessed with wonderful chemistry myself and have always been able to wear anything I like and it always smells wonderful. I can even wear perfumes that others can't. So, I spritzed FN on myself once again to give it another chance and VOILA! Magic happened this time! I can't stop smelling my wrist! It occurred to me maybe I didn't like it before because I had been on an antibiotic at the time. I was so excited by this that I went to my most annoying perfume ever, one that I can't even give away, Balmain Ivoire, hoping I would like that one now as well! Still a big NO for this one. My opinion remains and shall always remain the same for that one...still smells like Gran.

Since I had officially given up my gorgeous bottle of Flora Nymphea to my daughter, it is now at the top of my list to buy a huge bottle of this to grace my shelf once again with its intricacy both inside and out. (My daughter is laughing at her good luck all because of a little antibiotic!)

the first few moments were so delicious and fresh...if someone had asked me to create a 'real' floral scent this is what it would smell like. my first word was 'mmm...honeysuckle'. gorgeously sweet, yet fresh and fragrant. i was most surprised when i saw it was not listed. as time has gone on though, it has suffered the same fate as honeysuckle blossom in a summer garden, that is, a headiness and cloyingly sweet scent that can make your head swim. i'm guessing it's the honey that's doing this. i love sweet perfumes as my skin is naturally peppery and i need sweet to 'balance' out but this sweetness was too much even for me. i'm probably doing it a disservice if i think about it, i would still choose it a thousand times over compared with some of the green, peppery, patchouli, heavy or sharp scents in my 'dislike' section. it's just a shame the top notes can't last a bit longer.

This fragrance is really unique, I can't really compare it to anything I have smelled before and I surprisingly fell in love with it within the first day of my wearing it...! The honey and orange blossom notes are more prominent on my skin. The fragrance feels very feminine, soothing, sexy and motherly at the same time !It evokes the sense of a soft embrace, a nurturing heart, a confident smile of a loving woman... I love to try different scents but nothing usually shakes me from my signature fragrance. This one though looks like it's going to stay with me...I have to also mention that I live in a mediterranean country with warm weather most of the time and the fragrance works beautifully in the high temperatures as well. So I guess it is a matter of skin chemistry but also a matter of measure when it comes to the quantity and frequency of application. Wonderful fragrance by the "Roi des Parfums", the one and only Guerlain.

It is a delicious fragrance which i believe one of the better perfumes of the aqua allegoria collection. It is definitely more subtle however one cannot easily define it as it tries to captures different moods. The honey note renders it feminine and warming, however the contrasting citus notes refreshen it and along with the floral hints makes flora nymphea a spring as well as an autumn perfume. I don't think it can be worn on hot summer days as the heat destroys the elegance of the perfume and it can truly smell repulsive and i say this from experience. It' s perfect for a fresh spring morning or afternoon and you need to be in the mood for relaxation and actually let this scent take over and nurture you. Just like honey, it can be very indulgent but just be careful when to wear it and not to use it too often as it might turn to be smothering.

Quite lovable, the first seconds are a brease of fresh air, I believed I was in a beautifull forest full of flowers but then it developed to a strange playdoh note that is a little bit sickening. A little bit to sweet and harsh to me, although its definatly a brilliant perfume with a massive staying power and beautifull sillage, spring in a bottle, unfortunatly to loud for me.

this is a beautiful scent smells like your walking through a garden full of flowers goes on a bit strong at first then drys to a soft floral on me anyways everyones different

In the beginning, I didn't know what to think about Flora Nymphea...I wanted Jasminora but I got this instead...The first thing I smell is the flower, but then comes the sweetness of the honey and after a few hours, all you can smell is something indefinitely good, creamy and pure...I'm not disappointed!

I saw a review of Flora Nymphea on Fox News and was intrigued both by the bottle's design and by the fact that there is honey in this; I adore honey notes in perfume.

I was a little worried, though, seeing only 3 notes in FN's structure, thinking this might be too linear for the high price. I couldn't find this to sample in my area but read wonderful reviews elsewhere, as well as some very bad reviews in other places. Yet, the honey kept me intrigued as well as the Guerlain name. I kept envisioning this as my new summer fragrance; I couldn't get the little Guerlain bee out of my mind! I finally found a used bottle on ebay for a very reasonable price and snagged it.

My first impression of FN is that 'yes' it is just as linear as I had feared. I am disappointed as I get NO honey in this at all!! And that is the only reason I bought it blind. Being 1 of only 3 ingredients I thought the honey would have been very prominent, but it's non-existent. I've only been wearing it 90 minutes so maybe the honey will still make an appearance???

What I do get is lilac. That's what syringa is, lilac. But in this, it's rather artificial smelling; not like the heady lilac bush outside my window. Although jasmine isn't listed, that's also what I'm getting. No orange blossoms here, just jasmine and lilac. I also keep getting whiffs of something very familiar that I already own, but in an odd way. Then I realized what I'm reminded of is my beloved Alien, except the jasmine in FN is not nearly as rich, not as ethereal, not as captivating as in Alien. The lilac and jasmine in FN seem to be fighting with each other. First, I think I smell Alien, but then I am overpowered by the smell of lilac. It's an annoying combination that just doesn't work. Since I adore Alien, and already own almost every rendition ever made of that masterpiece, I would have not bought FN if I had been able to sample it first; Alien is just so much more satisfying; a perfect structure.

Overall, I'm still happy with my purchase if only for the striking bottle and because I only paid $25 for it. It looks exquisite amongst my vast collection of other bottles of perfume. (I don't deny I'm an addict.) Still, though, I wouldn't have bought FN at all, even for the bottle, had I tested first. I will give this one to my daughter who will be happy to add it to her growing collection, if only for the bottle.

I know a lot of reviewers said FN reminds them of what Fairies would smell like. Hmmm.....maybe Fairies disguised as little old ladies, drenched in lilac water, sipping jasmine tea whilst hoping to ensnare some poor geriatric human by using only a little unsophisticated, unskilled magic????!!! I think any magic here could only be compelling enough to attract small insects. Certainly not powerful enough to bring me under any spell, or make me feel in any way like a nymph. The only spell of which I fell victim to was the seduction of descriptive words by others, fueled by my own imagination, and the beauty of one gorgeous bottle. Alas. Sigh....

This was recommended to me as a honey scent but I could get no honey from this. It's quite a nice scent but I do not find it very special. Like all the Aqua Allegoria scents I tested so far it contains the main mentioned flower and somehow it smells a little watery. It's a light scent and actually I wouldn't want to spend so much money on a scent that is just nice, light and a bit flower with water.

PS: I re-tested it again on my skin. There a stronger and even harsh besswax note came out mixed with something unpleasantly sweet. It's still not a honey scent to me. It's more a besswax scent.

From the Guerlain website:

"FLORAL, FRUITY. Citrusy topnotes, heightened by green accents, burst while sweetened by touches of wild berries. In the very heart of Flora Nymphea, orange blossom and syringa have been paired by the Perfumer Thierry Wasser, and magnified by honey. Musks and woods languish on the skin with intensity."

I love this, and I'm hoping to get it for my birthday soon! My husband likes it on me too, which is a big plus!

In the drydown, I get this honey, woody musk as described on Guerlain's website.

The day I tried this on, it was afternoon and I went on to work a night shift. I could still smell that wonderful drydown after the end of my shift the following morning! It lasts well.

I also think it's warm enough but light enough to be worn year round.

I love the concept of “Aqua Allegoria” series -- Odes to Nature. All of the perfumes under this line smell natural and calm, almost pastoral.

As listed in the notes, Flora Nymphea is a simple combination of three main ingredients – syringa flower, orange blossom and beneficial honey, all extracted from the Nature, the original beauty of raw materials are maintained. It starts calmly with orange blossom, a little bitter, which is just like the flower itself, then minutes later followed by the soft blend of syringa and honey. At this phase, the sweet honey dew just balance against the bitterness of orange blossom, which contributes to a lovely harmonious paradox.

Maybe it’s not good to mention, finally it turns into a woody scent, a bit hasty. About 3 hours all the blossoms and honey just disappear. I expected they can live longer on me, but actually this is really a very light version of EDT.

Appreciate it, would be nice casual scent in hot summer for a relaxing day. But likely I won’t bug a FB.

if you wear white long lace dressess and pearls,this is for you,pure lilac and a little powder very elegance and ladyish,i prefer jeans but i like smell like this,very longlasting perfect for spring.

There's an 'old-school' element to this scent which I find pleasant, but its deep powdery honeyed floral notes are not for me.
I have great respect for this fragrance, it's non synthetic scent is a breath of fresh air from the usual commercial synthetic smelling perfumes.

Very authentic smelling, but doesnt suit me.

I can't seem to make up my mind with this one.
What's sure, is that I do certainly not love it, but yet, for some reason when I do wear it, I can't stop sniffing my wrists - but then again, I do this all the time .

I like the smell when you first put it on, but after that it becomes a bit suffocating, especially when you focus on that weird honeynote that comes out too artificial and smells like plastic.

I like it on my clothes though, I guess the ingredients just don't blend well with my skin.

Maybe I'll give it another chance, 'cause let's face it, it's a bit too pricey to use as an air refreshener..

This had a horrifying smell on me! I enjoyed the honey notes when I smelled it on paper but on my skin, it grew to an old man cheap aftershave. It made me nauseous.

This is the 1st sample or perfume I will throw away in the garbage...

Flora Nymphea starts in a nice, genuine, narcissus smell, which I find odd because it’s not listed in the notes at all. Soon the freshness goes away, left with a soap water + plastic container smell, I guess it’s the honey factor somewhat makes the weird association of the above. It is weird in a way I can’t stop smelling my wrist while clearly knowing this scent is just not my cup-of-tea. To me, the same feel of weirdness also exists in other Thierry Wasser’s creations like Idylle. I guess if you don’t like Thierry’s other perfumes, you wouldn’t be a fan of this one either.

Then it gets slightly powdery, as if you were inhaling a supermarket self-owned brand white soap which has been left in summer heat and dried to the unusable condition.

Towards the premature dry down (which is so common among the Aqua Allegoria line), the scent is warmer and sour at the same time, which is like slightly rotten sweet stuff plus weird glue stick scent I can’t put my finger through.

Wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. :S

Allegoric peace of rotten water indeed!

Flora Nymphea managed to satisfy its existence merely for first 20 minutes or so. It was gentle floral, at that time, pink girly delight. Then Nympha got fierce and acrid. My skin was covered in plastic screaming dump with cheesy fields of roses. Like a lalala land. Big dislike.

Disgrace to waste such a lovely bottle on this. And name.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE...........Just bring back Lilia Bella and make everyone happy, instead of constantly coming up with new marketing and scents. GREEDY, GREEDY CORPORATIONS OVERTAKE Classic Parfumiers!!

I tried it again. I knew that with Guerlain it works this way. Nevertheless only this strange feature of multiple tests needed survived the Guerlain's legend. Not a single Guerlain made from external nose has stand the legend or not entirely.
For Flora Nymphea it is the same story, but today I found it more attractive and less repulsive. Nothing glorious, but the smell is captivating enough as a sweet simple floral with notes that might remember honey. It's ok. I asked a male friend how it smells on me and he said: Quite nice.
It means: not offensive, I can stand it.
A victory with him.
I don't really like all the fuss around with faerie stories, nice but even too polished, but this is my problem with marketing. They kill my hormones about perfume.
I don't love Flora Nymphea but I like it somehow. Not a fresh one anyway. I think it could still cloy me in warm weather.

A very pleasant clean, warm and natural fragrance. Not superficial at all, very well balanced and blended. I love the honey in it, especially if is not too sweet. It can practically be worn in any situation: it suits well to cotton blouses but black dresses as well.
I find some similarities with AA Angelique-Lilas and Lovely by S. Jessica Parker.

My sister in law bought me this perfume on her way back from spain. The scent is incredible!!! I love it!!!

Another masterpiece from Guerlain.!I dont understand the negative reviews.Its ingredients r real and raw.Not synthetic in any way,Maybe thats it! WE used to have bee hives on the farm.This has an undercurrant of the honey and comb,when we robbed the bees.I detect an intense jasmine(BEAUTIFUL),and another floral,Im not sure what.It is a pure,dripping with honey,delicious floral fume.When it waifs from my wrist,I want to bury my nose in it like those bees after nectar.And,flower nectar is exactly what i sense.REAL flowers,not plastic or manmade.It is an expensive scented fume that transports u to a fairy tale flower garden in a magical land.Very sexy! almost edible!

I want to smell it over and over again, just not on a human person, let alone on myself. Does it make sense? A girl should be a thumbelina or a tinkerbell to pull this fragrance off.

Its neither artificial nor cheap. Just some natural nymphea flower that can make most of its wearers uncomfortable. A nymph with an ulterior motive.

This perfume is all about enchantment and nature. The orange blossom in this perfume is beautiful, it is so fresh, you can smell the morning dew. The honey adds a sweetness that is not cloying or over done but just perfect. This perfume conveys to me, nature that is magical, beautiful, and enchanting. Perfect for spring and summer.

I feel like a bee surronding by pollen fantastic

Few weeks ago I wrote a review of this one (when still being a guest).

A few days ago I tried Aqua Allegoria Flora Nymphea again...first a little on my wrist before I took a shower - just to be sure if I would decide for it that day....

After that spray on my wrist I found myself catching a hint of it every now and then as I moved around, sorting out my clothes and it gave me such a lovely feeling of well being!!!

So I sprayed it on me after my morning shower, went to work and kept catching that hint of this wonderful scent.

For an Aqua it is very long lasting and it melts beautyfully with the warmth of summer!
Recieved a lot of compliments too...

So today I'm wearing it again...
Spraying it on me this morning and wanting to be able to describe the scent, I couldn't help reciting:

'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate'
(Shakespeare)

I had such high hopes for this one, with the pretty bottle, nymphete transforming from a flower in it's commercial and last, but not least, it's great composition - all that for a blast of chemicals into my nose!
I tried it two times already, just to be sure I dislike it. it has a very synthetic smell, it reminds me of smelling artificial sugar-based honey, mixed with a flowery note (and you cannot detect which flower you smell either, it's that bad).
I guess I could say I didn't find what I was looking for here.

i'm not a fan of this perfume. uncomfortable feeling. when i smell it straight after spray it on my wrist i smell a strong chilli or pepper. after 30min it smells better but still not a good one. Maybe i shud try it again later.

One should be in the mood for wearing this fragrance...for me the want to wear it differs from day to day...
It's a hate-love relationship I have with this scent. Won't buy it again for I want scents that are good company, no matter what..;-)

I always feel so GUILTY when I go against the flow of opinion...

You see: I LIKE this one! It's a very simple, simple floral. The honey wasn't cloyingly strong, at all, to my nose.

Even though it's not one of the notes, I smell something similar to a very faint pipe tobacco, too (probably how the honey interacts with my skin?).

It reminds me of my high school friend's very chic European mother.

I'd love to get my hands on some of this in the future!

Sorry to say but this smells like bathroom air freshner... something you spray around the room after doing no.2...

I had great expectations about this one and have been so disappointed!
It smells acrid and repulsive on my skin.
No real flower, only a faint smell of rotten honey and smashed flowers. I expected a radiant floral with honey more or less in the line of La Chasse in a Guerlain style (eh!) but no, nothing similar even happened and I actually wonder how can this be so repulsive. Luckily enough it's not so strong and lasting power is quite poor.
I love Guerlain, but I know that not all Guerlains work for everyone.
This scent on another chemistry could work very well.

and the lasting power is very lang lasting on me

you can not smell the same as me this is very god clean flower is not rotten at all ..

I think this one smells very similar to Dior Addict 2. I will try it on my wrist, but on the paper I could not tell the difference. They have the same father, Thierry Wasser. Will come back to this review.

this is very good mmm spesial

I like Guerlain but it generally tends to be a bit "heavy" for my olfactory receptors.I am very sensitive to odours, so I often find myself liking a perfume but not being able to bear wearing it because it makes me nauseous. I tried this one on 5-6 hours ago and it still lingers on my skin. It is sweet, but not sugary.It really started with an intense honey scent and then came the flowers. A bit unusual.I like it.

I love this new release by Guerlain. A well blended and rare composition. The packaging is beautiful, too. Exquisite!

lovely at first - fresh and flowery and altogether delightful - but it's gone before you can start really indulging in it.. I need to reapply it every hour or two, or apply it onto still-not-absorbed body lotion or oil.. staying power is better in warmer weather and higher moisture levels..
if you can get it at the "right" price, a lovely floral scent worth having :)

Sweet scents are not really me, nor little fairies. I can hardly do recent years floral lighweighters, everytning turns crunchy white-sugary on me, or at least thats how I percive it. Here, much to my suprise, something else happens. Unlike the other reviewers I find that the honey lingers softly with what I recieve as a natural light sweetness on my skin, and the flowers are equally tender and dewy. Dewy honeydipped floral. But these findings better be seen in the light of very low expectations...A linear experience, stays close to the skin, good lastingpower (8hrs and counting).

I am in love with this perfume. It has the most beautiful smell of flowers and the honey just adds a sweetness that is just perfect on my skin. There is an uniqueness about this perfume and in my opinion a very special perfume.

No!
This is a disaster for me.
Big expectations and big disappointment ...
I thought it would be a natural white floral on solid honey base, proud, optimistic and seductive ...

I hardly ever use these words to describe a perfume, but for me Flora Nymphea is just awful. I didn't even spray it on paper, just directly onto my wrist. What a mistake! I smelled it and was repelled immediately.
The note of honey is strong and it's the only one I could actually smell. It has a nasty smell, like the honey was expired ... Honey made from flowers of trees growing in rows on a big farm, smelling artificial from the soil they grow on, smelling unhappy ...
Not my vision of a honey fragrance!

Definitely not the natural, free-spirited, positive fragrance I expected from Aqua Allegoria ...

Beautiful bottle, beautiful campaign, beautiful name, and totally useless juice inside ...
Pity.

I'm waiting this perfume to come to Malaysia. I wonder how the honey will smell. Waiting.

This perfume is beautiful. It is blended so well. It smells of such delicate and pure flowers. It makes me feel that I am in a garden of purity. I find it gentle, light and surprisingly long lasting. Love it.

I was just in Disney World and in Epcot, one of the parks, they have the world showcase where you can travel to all these different "countrys" in "France" they had a Guerlain perfume shop. I did not have enough money to buy flora nymphea but she gave me two sample bottles and i absolutley love the fragrance. I keep smelling my wrists all day:)

I don't know it yet,but i'm afraid that gorgeous times with aqua allegoria are the history:-(i wish be wrong but only 3 notes so sweet can only give mostly sweet than ever.Where are fruits?who had eat them?:-):-)