Ca Sent Beau Kenzo for women

Intriguing essence in a Japanese style without a 1989 feeling. Liked it at first sniff, maybe due to my favourite orange blossom, but separate notes here are “out of the coverage”, as well as its fragrant group: don’t count on something fruity floral. A stylishly intellectual abstract composition with mentally seductive personality. Like Eau Indigo's mother is playing chess, Oops!.. - Sudoku. I imagine that for casual style it could be a bit serious, also is not the one to veg out with, but for the right time and place it could be a hit. Rather unique successful blend on the modern market. Yes, Yamamoto tried to follow this path with Yohji Yamamoto pour Femme (2004) - similar coriander edge, in YY it seems rough and unfriendly - but Ca Sent Beau is more smoothly balanced and much more interesting as if meant for women who get better with age. :)
5 ***** from TS? Personally, I would give it 4 stars for sure.

Ce Sent Beau is like more tender, sweeter and a bit more soapy Eden by Cacharel. The drydown is almost identical. Very loveable.

PERFECT!!!!!

This is technically a fruity-floral. It is a plummy orange/tangerine draped with tuberose and orange blossom. But I suppose this is a floriental. I mean it’s white flowers resting on a comfortable amber. And I reckon it’s a fougère since it seems to have a dark, nutty coumarin base. Chypre? Yeah, there’s bergamot and oakmoss.

I’m not even joking. What the hell is this? Fruit? No question. Perhaps orange, more likely tangerine. It’s definitely floral. A bit of steamy orange blossom and a bucket of green, creamy tuberose. Amber for days (literally) spiked with patchouli. And the darkness---coumarin? oakmoss? Mix it up with a good measure of musk and you wind up with a languid slurry of a perfume. In tone, Ça Sent Beau is like a grand queen about 2 martinis into holding court with a gathering audience. A little tipsy, talking fast, one opinion to the next. An increasing flourish and emphasis that don’t quite cover up the slurred speech. Mesmerizing.

And while this is a cousin to Prescriptives Calyx---tasty fruity chypre--- Ça Sent Beau replaces the straight-forward oakmoss base with a narcotic cough syrup base made of what seems like oakmoss and coumarin.

CSB’s components are not so much potent as heavy, but the balance is perfect. Rather than calibrate the heavy with lighter elements, the cough syrup base adds some shadow to the density and makes it feel sultry.

I can think of four definitively syrupy perfumes that I like. Serge Lutens’s Cedre (mothball syrup.) Lutens's Arabie (spice cabinet syrup.) Badgley Mischka’s Badgley Mischka (simple syrup.) And Ça Sent Beau. I think cough syrup is my favorite.

At last I got a chance to test Ca Sent Beau (thanks Tankgirl!). What a delicious fragrance! It opens up juicy and slightly peppery with mandarin orange and orange flower with a hint of tubrose whispering in the background. Somehow it reminds me of ginger in this stage.

After a while it becomes more floral, and warmer and sweeter from amber and just a tiny touch of patchouli. The fragrance has a mote of saltiness that I find very appealng. I don't find it animalistic as some do, but it's not a crowdpleaser either. It's a complex fragrace that I would like to wear a warm summer day. Sillage and longevity medium.

I have a very different reaction to this fragrance: to me, it smells exactly like baked apples, fruity and sweet with cinnamon. The dry down becomes more subtle and a little less sweet, but it still makes me think of Thanksgiving dinner and crisp autumn days. For me, yes, "That smells good", but I don't wear it very often because it seems somewhat lacking in sophistication. Perhaps I should give it away to a teenage girl?

It's a kind of vintage fragrance, not too "old" to wear imho. I like it, but I don't wear it every day, it's the fragrance I wear when I'm in the mood.

Ca Sent Beau is a strong fragrance, and a very long-lasting one. I spray it only two times and that's enough, the fragrance lasts all day and I leave a trace of the scent all around :)

It's a green oriental, and I'm not a fan of patchouli, actually too many fragrances with patchouli note don't work well on me, but this one (Oriens too) is an exception. Ca Sent Beau is a fragrance you can compare to Elephant when it comes to power :)

It seems a lot with 'Beautiful" Estee Lauder and yes, it is retro but very nice.

mine went bad. I can't remember how it used to smell axactly, but it was never so fresh. kinda old fashioned perfume.

I would recognize this scent immediately!!!(and I often do when people are wearing it!)

I like it a lot!

I would describe this scent as very kind and friendly. It has a touch of innocence in its complexity. It's light and breezy, yet authentic.
So I'd wear it for a job application for instance, or when I want to feel 'at ease' (not when I'd wanna feel sexy...(-:..)

Ca sent beau by Kenzo is a great and unique scent. It's without a doubt a love/hate type of scent, because it is a tuberose/orange fragrance. The fragrance is fresh and warm at the same time. I like this "old" classic Kenzo fragrance very much. Very feminine and lovely.

It reminds me Elephant a lot too. It is easier to wear, far less agressive, but I prefer the first because of the taste of spicies mentioned by Turquoise. The spicy notes that make Elephant more agressive at the beginning make it far more beautiful, specially after some hours, when Ca Sent Beau has a true, undressed animal scent. At this stage, I could confuse it with a body odour.

Finally, Kenzo fragrance that I like! It is fresh and crisp, green and aromatic. I wouldn't call it fruity floral, as I get a lot of herbs from it, but that's only my perception.
It is not particularly feminine (like all Kenzo imho), but very delicate. I would imagine that's how Green Peace should smell:)

My own private scent equation:

sweet fruitiness (particularly in the form of orange) PLUS patchouli EQUALS a slightly nauseated feeling

Ça sent beau is the evil twin of Eau des merveilles--or vice versa, depending on how you like your orange notes. A shape-shifter, Ça sent beau is bound to disappoint and please, either in the opening or in the dry down, depending on your preferences.

For the first 10 minutes I have to fight the urge to wash off the the sweet fruity top notes. However, they disappear rather quickly, settling into a fresh, still slightly sweet, more unisex vetiver and patchouli drydown: now THAT smells pretty good!

However, if you like the sweet orange top notes, you may have exactly the opposite reaction: that smelled good ...and then what happened?

I like my orange bitter and understated, so I'll stick to Eau des merveilles.

My advice: sample this one with patience to judge for yourself. You will probably know within thirty minutes if it works for you.

The notes listed in the scent pyramid seem to me to be incomplete and arranged oddly. Elsewhere I found the following list of notes, which conform better to my impression of the scent:

Top: coriander, mandarin, tangerine
Heart: orange blossom, tuberose
Base: patchouli, amber, vetiver

I experience some uplifting citrus in the opening, followed by crisp herbs. Later, Ca Sent Beau ("That Smells Beautiful," in French) leans just a tad toward the masculine with orange blossom and vetiver, and the tuberose is very quiet. It stays cool and refreshing for about four hours on my skin, and never develops a deep warm base that one might expect with the patchouli and amber. They're there, but faintly, and the drydown is mostly vetiver.

Not as feminine as I usually prefer, but doesn't make me feel uncomfortably androgynous. A lovely, pleasant smell indeed. Incidentally, I would not classify this one as a floral fruity, as it seems primarily a vetiver fragrance in my opinion. I'd call it aromatic instead.

Still in two minds about it
sometimes it smells of cleannes and innocence to me, sometimes it feels a little too sweet

had it and will have it again, I think
a...personality splitter :-)

No es uno de mis favoritos, despues de comprarlo no me agradó más. Pero como buena chica lo usé hasta terminarlo

I bought this on a whim after reading about it in 'The Guide'; still deliberating about liking it; on first whiff didn't grab me - doubt that I am a fan of pachouli.

This is my best summer-fragrance! It's special, fruity scent! I love it!!! Must have!