Seville a l'aube L Artisan Parfumeur for women and men

It starts as Penhaligon's Orange Blossom and ends as l'Artisan Parfumeur's Havana Vanille.

What was that stuff that the TV pitchman sold that would de-grease and clean anything under the sun with the power of orange oil? Orange Glo! That's the stuff. And this was first sniff right from the bottle and first application. This reeked of orange cleaning fluid, very artificial, contrived, and bloody awful. It was very off-putting, and that's stating it mildly.

The experience beyond that did little to enamor me to the scent, as that horrible orange blossom continued to overwhelm any other note in range. My wife wasn't so repulsed by it at the beginning so she gave it a more thorough try and endured through testing. Two hours later, that orange cleaner smell hadn't dissipated and she was left to a hot shower and soap to remove the offending scent.

The story of its creation is a nice tale, but it's unfortunate that the fragrance emerging is so horridly rank. We'd looked so forward to trying this that the result was hardly worth the effort. Very disappointing release from a house that has become more well known for its disappointments than its successes.

I like the fragrance in the beginning of its opening - so bright orange blossom note! It smells truly delightful. Even reminds more crispy orange scent. But then I can't stand the lavender note. It makes this fragrance masculine.

In general I like this fragrance, just not my cup of tea because of the lavender note.

At the very beginning a fresh and sweet orange note is the prominent one. It also makes me think of fresh jasmine, not the sour one which often appears in fragrances. It remains floral for a while. After about an hour the beeswax note dominates this magnificent scent. I can detect in the background just a hint of vanilla, just enough to make this whole concoction romantic. It is sensual. I see it very well on a romantic woman. It is delicious. It is the first time that I smell such a lovely and intense beeswax note and I am falling in love with it. Absolutely gorgeous.

Whilst shopping in my favourite perfume boutique, after having tested Traversee du Bosphore, the sales assistant urged me to take a sniff of L'Artisan's newest, Seville a l'aube. I am incredibly grateful to her for having brought this fragrance to my attention.

Seville a l'aube contains one of my all-time favourite notes, orange blossom. This orange blossom accord is one of the sweetest I've ever encountered, laced with syrupy honey and vanillary benzoin.

Opening with bright, sparkling petit grain, you could be forgiven for thinking that Seville a l'aube is a citrus scent. As the fragrance dries on the skin, a medicinal smelling orange blossom and sticky honey blend makes a bold entrance, with a hint of powdery and aromatic lavender.

The drydown is surprisingly soft and incensey, with olibanum, benzoin and a heavier lavender accord. This blend kind of reminds me of the scent of those New Age stores in my area. I can't say that I was able to detect the tobacco note. It was non-existent to my nose whilst wearing this fragrance.

Seville a l'aube is both unique and familiar in lots of ways. I applaud the craftsmanship that has gone into creating this fragrance. Bertrand Duchaufour is a very clever perfumer. His creations under the house of L'Artisan are worth checking out.

I am pleased to say that Seville a l'aube's longevity is superb, and that the sillage has a nice throw. For such a beautiful fragrance, I am shocked to read so many negative reviews. Either way, I'm keeping this fragrance in mind for Spring and Summer at the end of this year.

a perfect sunset! Thanks BEDU (Bertrand Douchafour) for teaching us that pink is not only Hello Kitty or a mashmellow!

While I am sure this smells divine on other people, apparently my skin does not like florals other than jasmine. On my skin, it smells like a cheap air freshener. Soapy, fake and garish. I had so much hope for this fragrance too! Oh well.

I really think it has more to do with my skin than the perfume. So give it a try but I would get a sample before you buy blind.

Edit: I gave my sample to my mom, and it smells absolutely LOVELY on her. So it was definitely my skin!

Oh, and you can tell the difference between a Mexican/Key lime and a Persian lime just by rubbing the young leaves.

I love the description by Denyse Beaulieu but don't think I would like the perfume. I live in Florida and I hate it when the citrus is in bloom. I love the smell of citrus rind, especially Buddha's Hand citron and Key lime, but not that of the flowers. Incidentally, you get a wonderful smell when pruning a citron too.

Lots of orange blossom. Gives an impression of orange and green. It's somehow too much, has a weird gourmand quality, like a big too-sweet meringue covered in candied flowers and orange leaves. Also a tiny trace of celery. A little nauseating.

A huge disappointment. Weak, weak, weak. All those wonderful notes will be lost in time, like [coughs] tears in rain. Time to spare money. Time to die for Labdanum de Seville instead.

Being a sucker for orange blossom scents (was addicted to all kinds of colognes, but been trying to stop...!) I rushed to try this one as soon as I found it in a shop. On paper it held lots of promises, presenting this blossom in a nicely unusual way, smouldered by the beeswax, the benzoin as well as a sharp type of lavender. However, once I put it on my skin the story changed, and way too quickly. The initial seductive impression quickly waned to leave a nauseating and cloying ensemble of floral notes reminding me a lot of tuberose or some kind of withered flowers like jasmine (incidentally it made me think of Jardins de Bagatelle form Guerlain, which I once offered to my grandmother, ah well...the mysteries of skin chemistry). Needless to say that it ended up being most inappropriate for my man's skin, and the longevity is unfortunately never-ending (even on the sleeve of the wrist on which I sprayed it on), or fortunately for those who will appreciate these kinds of notes. Men, beware, do a skin-test before being enraptured by the head notes!

My grade school had a bunch of honeysuckle bushes and at recess my friends and I would pull the stamens out of the flowers and suck on them. This perfume smells just like those honeysuckle stamens to me. I LOVE this perfume. One of my new favorites!

Bertrand Duchaufour the nose behind CDG Avignon, which I have tried but was not too impressed after two wearings. I rate Avignon 7/10. But he astonished me when I sampled his Timbuktu, led me to buy a full bottle. It earned many compliments every time I wear it and Timbuktu has climbed up to my top 10 best perfumes rating it 9.5/10.
This is now a tie as per my evaluation oh Duchaufour's creations. I can't wait for my Dzongkha to arrive.

Today my sample on Seville arrived along with 6 more samples, freebies from an online store as gifts from being their avid customer.

This is my take on Seville to please my curiosity. A dab on my right arm and I felt already its beastly orange blossoms. It smells strong but good on top as I smell the orange blossoms, white florals with a sharp tone of beeswax, that added light sweetness. There is a faint lavender note coming in and out.

But after 20 minutes or so, reaching the heart, I felt it to be slightly cloying. I can stand this cloying note but I can't distinguish which one it is, maybe carnation, as I am not accustomed to its scent plus I don't remember having a carnation note on my perfumes.

The heart didn't stay long and an hour after, the scent was pleasant but not original, not even outstanding. I know I have smelled this dry down before. If there is leather here, I didn't get any out of it. I smell paper, a stationary but very light yet nice. But I have smelled this dry down better on one perfume that I admire.

Seville is a love/hate perfume. A loud & potent charming top, a less interesting mildly cloying heart and a lightly pleasant dry down, not unique but appealing.
It is suitable for spring and fall on an afternoon to evening occasion. This is best & would get more compliments on a windy outdoor walk, garden setting event plus would attract female noses. I don't think, as a man, that I will turn my head to a woman wearing Seville.
I would rather turn my head on a woman wearing a heavier, more refined and wonderful dry down, like Alien. This is Seville's resemblance, a heavyweight and way ahead more beautiful base scent. My rate would be 7/10. Admirers of Alien may like this greener & lightly floral fragrance with a citrusy top.

This is one of those pieces of work that make me want to cop out, declare that it smells awesome, full-stop, end-of-story. :)

To begin with this is not a raunchy fragrance, but it is beautiful. The very aromatic opening is provided by a clean lavender (no dry/ashy Gris Clair to be seen here), citrus, and the orange blossom.

The orange blossom is not indolic, which is a bit of a shame because I enjoy a homeopathic quantity of skank like that. :) On the flipside it never gets too "baby doll" as per Le Labo's neroli. This is because of the incense-beeswax that give it the much needed oomph in the heart and the base that serious fragrances possess. The benzoin becomes more detectable in the base, never too sweet.

Longevity and sillage are solid without being outstanding.

Possibly the sexiest perfume I've ever worn. I really love this and have just bought a second bottle as I fear ever being without it. With those petitgrain top notes, it's the perfect orange blossom for crisp spring days, but the beeswax drydown is the real clincher for me - it has bumped Fleurs d'Oranger by Serge Luten into second place as too syrupy and cuminy. Well done, Denyse. NB: I would never wear this fragrance to a doctor's appointment, or to see the bank manager, or to intimidate at work - it is way too sexy. This is a serious seduction fragrance.

Trully wonderful! I come from Mediterranean country and this reminds me of Spring in country sides and villages where lemon and bitter orange trees are all bloomed. In Athens where I live, bitter orange trees are everywhere!! Pavements here are full of these trees. So, it is all natural to love this fragrance. Beside the familiar smell, it is a gorgeous lady like white floral. I smelled honeysuckle too but it is not listed. Subtle, sweet sour, warm and aristocratic smoky. A luminous happy enjoyable perfume!

Hideous. Awful. Car deodorant + treacle + bug spray + grape jelly.

I was in a serious olfactory crisis until yesterday: was ready for a new fragrance to try and to love, but kept feeling disappointed no matter what new sents I smelled... The biggest blow came at the Chanel counter after I smelled Coco Noir... and then I had my epiphany: walked six more blocks along Fifth Avenue to Henri Bendel and up the staits to L'Artisan Parfumeur boutique. This time, I was not disappointed! The new Seville a l'Aube is amazing! I will not analyze or take apart its complex bouquet but rather tell you how it makes me feel. I put it on this morning, and it helped me wake up, despite the early hour; it enhanced the pleasure from my first cup of coffee, made me feel warm and protected despite the chill in the air; filled me with sunshine despite the cloudy skies. And I have not even read the book yet [The Perfume Lover] - but I am getting it from London. Bottomline: do yourself a favor, try it even if it doesn't sound like your preferred combination of ingreadients. This fragrance is a sublime work of contemporary perfumery! Bravo, M. Duchaufour!

This went straight from a blind buy to one of my favorite fragrances so I am afraid this is not going to be an objective review, but rather an explanation why I love this so much.

Seville a l'aube opens as a green orange blossom. It may seem fresh and clean at first but quickly you notice the wicked sensual grin of this seemingly innocent beauty. Honey lends some sweetness but on my skin, it is not very predominant and I don't get any urinal whiffs as with some other honeyed fragrances. Tobacco (another tricky note on me), benzoin, frankincense and lavender are not key players, they just add some complexicity to the beautiful orange blossom. On my skin this lasts for good 9 hours. Sillage is really good. This is the first l'Artisan that actually lasts on my skin and projects.

I have gotten many compliments when wearing this, regardless of the time of day/weather. Suits every possible occasion, you just need to be careful with the trigger if you are working in a small office or sitting in a hot car for a long drive. And if you want to seduce your lover...well, this is perfect! My Spanish friend said that somehow this made her think of home. This was before she knew what I was wearing so Duchaufour&Beaulieu have really nailed the moment they wanted to capture.

I cannot think of any other perfume that would smell the same or evoke the same feelings in me. This is love.

Dos anyone knows the release date for this work of art?

I wanted to love this, as I regard the author highly, and applaud the concept. Unfortunately, this is not for me. I live in an old citrus grove, so I am familiar with blossoms. I picked them up in the opening, but then the only thing I could smell was something akin to the milky sap that oozes when I trim my star jasmine. Milky, cloying, uber-sweet and ending with a sharp pungent green note. White flowers past their prime and the week old water they arrived in from the florist. Sigh.

Complex
Incense
Beeswax
Orange flower
Petit grain


Divine

I'm so eagerly awaiting the arrival of this one! Just looking at the notes, it sounds like everything I find dear in a fragrance. My partner is going to kill me if I buy any more 'smell good', but I just hafta have it. ;)

A really beautiful green, clean orange blossom fragrance for those who find Serge Lutens Fleurs d'Oranger too heavy. This perfume is very transparent to its ingredients: orange blossom, petitgrain, beeswax and incense. It goes on citrussy and those green notes make it easily wearable by men. For me, it's the orange blossom that dominates, but when I sprayed it on friends of mine (I was sent a bottle by the company for testing), some said 'spicy' and others 'ecclesiastical', which is bang-on - one of the inspirations is the smell of burned-out beeswax candles. There is also said to be lavender in it, but I don't detect any. It has great staying power - if you put it on in the morning, you're going to be smelling it all day, which some of my friends found just too much, though personally I like to get 8-9 hours out of a perfume. A really lovely orange blossom for lighter days when FdeO would seem like just too much.

It's "à l'aube". Not "à d'aube"

This is a beautiful fragrance, my favorite for now from Artisan's line, it's base on a powerful pair - orange blossom and incense, with nuances of tobacco, beeswax, lavender... a very rounded, yet charismatic. It's smooth like fragrances from the past, and sensual, explicit sexy ;o)