Neroli 36 Le Labo for women and men

There's something radiant yet powdery about this one. I loved it as a tester, but when my decant arrived, what happened? The cheapish marine note is very strong and now I just cannot ignore it any more. Sad.

I refill my bottle every year about this time, a few weeks before spring. Why go to the beach? , when you can smell like a day spent in the ocean. I love how this goes from citrus, to white florals, to a very subdued calone , tanning lotion smell, then back to citrus and white florals.......the boys at Le Labo,(and Daphne) created a day at the beach. Bravo.

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I have a really weird experience with this one. Upon first spray it opened lovely - a natural and full bloom neroli mixed with a warm and inviting vanilla, very sensual, happiness inducing and likable.
After less than 10 minutes it changes and I get this oceanic, salty note, which smells a bit metallic, almost like blood and basically all I get is a neroli oil rubbed on a ELDOS "Secretions Maqnetifiques".

Sorry, but this is utterly disgusting on me, so better try before you buy, might turn up weird with ones skin chemistry.

Though I must say - this for me is a milder version of well known "secretions", so if someone though that they kinda secretly enjoy the bloody/body fluid scent they can try this out, maybe this works rather well.

neroli 36, screams summertime: best sea breeze, sea shells, sand...and so on!
very clean, like a bath after a day at the beach. Understand? :)

This is not my favorite Le Labo, because I am not a fan of calone in fragrances. My least favorite types of fragrances are aquatics or marine notes (for some reason, my nose DOES NOT get along with the aqauatics, so must be the calone). The only one I have ever enjoyed was Bulgari Aqua which did a good job at recreating a realistic sea breeze, and made it more peppery (?) or something. For whatever reason I do like that one.

Neroli 36 is well crafted (as all the le Labos) and though I can't stand the calone (which to my nose must be one of the main ingredients in this) still appreciate it's aesthetic which is supposed to evoke a sea breeze or Mediterranean summer feel. At times it's "soapy", "gauzey", "cottony". Don't get the feeling at all of ANY neroli or orange essence but get the florals and the ocean vibe.

Sometimes this is enjoyable to me, but then other times it's awful, and it really does smell like a rotting sea town with dead fish / sealife rotting by the pier. LOL. Go figure? I rarely wear this one (actually might give away my travel spray).

I think Neroli 36 is very lovely and really beautifully crafted. I got no big citrus fruits and no pulpy smell. There is a bitterness in the topnotes, typical to neroli right after it goes on your skin. Then the fragrance develops and warms up with the musk, jasmine, tonka and the perfect soupcon of vanilla. These other notes create a soft frame for the neroli, accenting the neroli, but never overpowering it.

Stunning. This scent smells like a summer afternoon by the seaside in the Mediterranean when the neroli is blooming. The combination of elements suggests a soft, warm breeze wafting by, rustling the plants, arousing some children napping nearby. They sigh, roll over and go back to sleep, breathing in the beautiful neroli.

Like a pastoral poem, this is a pastoral scent.

smells just like Tom Ford: Neroli Portofino- I hated that stuff, but love Neroli 36; Yes, i'm very biased. But way before I smelled Neroli 36 I told myself I'd give Neroli Portofino another try: I like Neroli Portofino now, but would by Neroli 36 because it's cheaper. -_-

I think this fragrance is splendid. It's not a linear neroli scent by any means; it's multifaceted. I mostly detected a blend of neroli, jasmine, tonka, and musk. It's definitely on the sweet side, but remains lucid and maybe even sparkling. I really don't detect any sort of orange or mandarin fruit, only flowers of the fruit. I also can't understand the "metallic" description I've read by other reviewers. The scent kept drifting up to my nose, and there was nothing metallic about it on my skin.

Anyone expecting a neroli based composition or a revisitation of the classic EDC, be prepared for a big disappointment. Neroli 36 is a slightly weird, transparent and subtle floral/aldehydes concoction that shares more similarities with Secretions Magnifique than with an Eau De Cologne (the matallic/watery feel is quite similar indeed). Not as challenging or shocking as the ELDO, but way too far from matching my taste.

Rating: 5/10

I get the marine aspect of this perfume in abundance, but can't pick up the musk note at all. This is pleasant, but I'm not generally a fan of 'oceanic' fragrances (the exception being CB I Hate Pefume's At The Beach 1966 which far more multifacteted).

Neroli 36 struck me straight away as being more mandarin orange based than neroli. There was also an obvious sweetness, which was very pleasant but far from the bitterness that this fragrance is supposed to convey.

As far removed from being a soliflore as possible, I did much prefer this fragrance over Annick Goutal's Neroli, which I found too herbaceous and citrusy.

The more the scent developed, the more it began to resemble a juicy, pulpy orange mixed with talcum powder. Not the nicest description I know, but far nicer when smelt.

On the Now Smell This blog, both reviewers mention an aquatic quality which I don't seem to get. The scent is certainly Summery and refreshing, but there aren't any oceanic notes in this composition, as far as I can smell anyway.

I really enjoyed wearing this fragrance while it lasted, which was relatively impressive. Perhaps the only aspect I didn't like was the drydown, which up close smelt like a pet-shop but from a distance smelt like orange-scented cleaning products with a touch of musk.

Every now and then, Neroli 36 gives off a soapy vibe, however I wouldn't go so far to say that it's particularly clean-smelling, the sweetness certainly prevents it from going that way.

Neroli 36 is nothing ground-breaking, but it's certainly, in my opinion, something that lives up to its expensive price tag. Lovely, just lovely.