Iris Pallida 2007 L Artisan Parfumeur for women

anyone who wants to sell her/his bottle?

Clear, cooling, ephemeral and rather linear. Overpriced or I'd keep it to use when the weather's really hot and I want a light scent that doesn't make me think too much.

For years, Iris perfumes have decidedly not pleased me. Everything I sampled had that infamous "carroty" iris tuber note and there was way too much indistinct and generic "floweriness".

Still, since I love irises and loved the "idea" of an iris perfume I kept sampling, and when I met Iris Pallida, the warm spring weather and the refinement of the fragrance combined into a perfect counterpoint to the furnace heat of summer in my part of the world.

Gone where the usual Iris perfume wafts of dirt covered carrots, gone was the generic "flower", replaced by sweet, ultra elegant iris/orris,roses and anise, cedar, vetiver and the tiniest trace of very well blended patchouli. I was afraid my sweet-gobbling skin would cancel out the sweeter notes (the orange blossom and amber, perhaps)but thankfully, Iris Pallida stays true to its initial loveliness.

I usually flunk perfumes that don't last, and I will admit Iris Pallida doesn't persist beyond two or three hours. However, it is so close to being the perfect Iris that I forgave its impermanence and deemed it ever, ever so elegant, full bottle worthy, and a real delight in this most torrid of seasons.

The first cloud of sillage when the sample vial is opened is simply magical. The combination of iris and anise dances and sparkles like a single firework that explodes and disappears, leaving behind a soft velvety cloud that’s sweeter, less powdery, and more moist than the typical iris scent. It’s subtle, but still has plenty of sillage. The floral notes all blend together smoothly into a whole that’s more than the sum of its parts, something like an iris flower, but not quite as substantial. For a few hours it’s a lovely, low-key, fairly linear scent that gradually wafts away into thin air. Like so many other L’artisan fragrances, Iris Pallida does not have much lasting power, but it is beautiful while it’s there.

L'Artisan Parfumeur IRIS PALLIDA is a beautiful woody iris composition with the emphasis on the iris rather than the wood. The iris showcased is the flower itself, not the roots, so this creation is not dark and earthy at all. Instead, it is light and limpid. Among the niche iris perfumes I've tried, IRIS PALLIDA may be closest to TDC BOIS D'IRIS, but the latter is far more woody. IRIS PALLIDA seems relatively simple and linear, but the notes are perfectly blended.

I would like to be able to say that I love IRIS PALLIDA, and perhaps I do for the short duration of its existence on my skin. After a couple of hours, however, not even the faintest trace remains, making this a no-go for me. I wish that L'Artisan would take seriously the ubiquitous criticisms of the ephemerality of their offerings. The quality here is beyond dispute, but I expect much better longevity than most of the L'artisan line-up delivers.

This is easily one of the most beautiful fragrances I ve ever smelled, so natural, so clear, such high class such eerieness..I cannot compare it to all my 14 other Iris perfumes it would do them no good at all.. The opening is at once a strange and fine and natural Iris accompanied by a peppery blueberry.. I want to bite my skin, it is soo delicious!! It goes on to meld with the Anise and Rose and gets more and more ladylike...then the violet and vetiver kicks in lightly and I melted away...dreamily ...this perfume has one thing:dignity..it s a class on his own and for sure the most wonderful Iris I ve ever smelled.. the iris never leaves,it'll come back in soft whispers when I blow it to life again with a soft hot breath to my wrist.. now I can go on and on...but if you are really a perfume lover, then you would have to at least once try this as a sample..and if you are an Iris lover, there's no way you can leave that one out. I do not want to hear (or less know) of anybody who would NOT like this Iris Pallida. I ve bought my 2nd bottle now and this should last a lifetime.. and you know, it was worth every penny but you already guessed that..now I m going to have to sell a lot of my other frags ..

Smokey,earthy and sexy three words that describe excellent this masterpiece.I wanted to eat my arm but I hold myself,someday it gonna be mine a bottle of iris pallida,after all don't forget the sample industry!

I just died and wen't to Iris heaven. Forget about the price, have you actually ever smelled an Iris like this one? This is an earthy peppery Iris, no powder, no sweetness. Just pure elegance and softness. If you like me are nuts about guiac wood you should really try it. I'm gonna start saving for a bottle, it's that amazing!

L’Artisan Iris Pallida
Big iris liking I carry this fragrance today, and I bow before it with my characterisation. Pallida gives somebody else direction, to which I got used till now, to the iris world entirely. Much deeper, and more complex this fragrance. I feel big obtrusion at the time of first blowing, as if everybody would want to change a ticket into the opera house's world premiere simultaneously. The star anise is sitting in the extreme box, that at what let him see the lecture in detail. Did not arrive with his pair, hides in the semidarkness silently because of this. The flowery notes are much louder but at him. The lily of the valley waves the shawl of white tulle got beyond the sea constantly about in order for the violet to burst with the envy, and let the breath of the girlfriend of a rose come to halt together with him. The orange blossom is sitting yet, who tries to hush them, because he does not like it the competing, and would give himself up to the elation already with pleasure. His intervention successful, because these the loud one notes they die away. The curtain goes to pieces, and the cedar with a heavy step appears, from which one the hall is imbued with a deadwood feeling. A compere plays a role in order to encourage the iris in his modest entrance. The vetiver brings it from the prompt-box the refreshment support. The patchouli orders it in the orchestra pit the throbbing time measure. The iris opens up next, and bewitches the mixed audience with his dance gripping everybody. The audience is sleeping with enthusiastic applause on the end of the lecture. In the dressing room, when everything is quiet already, only the gaiac tree from a censer hostel volatile swirls around in the air, the bases occur to the celebrated person. To who he may say thank you for his knowledge are the big masters. On who he may have relied always is the old moschus. The lively santal, who flung it far already as a beginner his imagination, and never caused it to be forgotten with him, that goes onto more with his kindness, than with the ostentation. He does not have to make his knowledge glitter it, that let it be acknowledged. He the unique and unmistakable iris is left over always.

I enjoyed the opening and heart very much - floral and elegant, fresh and lovely. I particularly enjoyed the pairing of iris and anise in the top notes. However, sometime in the drydown I was visited by the Ghost of Old Guy (I mean by a smell that seems particular to an elderly man who doesn't shower or change his clothes very frequently, but still carries the faint scent of shaving cream and hair tonic). Not good.

And as Veruska points out, ridiculously priced.

iris pallida is one of the limited editions harvest and is seriously overpriced. Even if i was big fan of iris,as a smell, i'd go every time for guerlain's apres l'ondee in half the price. Still this a very smooth scen that starts with a classy iris note that slowly gets the company of violet leaf and lily of the valley in a nice rich effect.In the drydown the intense musk, is never animalic( what a pity),it's the scent of well showered skin of a high-class lady. As i prefer other kind of irises and the price is out of my reach i can only like it.