Femme Individuelle Mont Blanc for women

I remember that once upon a time I was nearly determined to buy it without sniffing, but then I found a tester in one of my local department stores and I wasn't really impressed, because it smelled very herby in an unpleasant way. I usually like herbs in my perfumes and I am often drawn to 'medicinal' notes, but this just didn't work.

Today, about a year after my first testing, I have revisited this fragrance and I still don't experience the 'wow' which I have always expected from a fragrance named 'Femme Individuelle'. My nose is better trained now, but it still just doesn't work for me, although now I at least know why. I normally like the smell of bay leaf, but it doesn't appeal to me when mixed with the juicy redcurrant and vanilla, which is exactly what I smell in the opening. This phase mellows out after about half an hour and I am left with a very pleasant, but also very common fruity-floral based on redcurrant, vanilla, a hint of sweet lotus, rose and a bit of musk.

The 'individuality' can be seen in the opening because that fruity-bay leaf combo is not very commonplace, but everything after that is just waaaay to familiar on my skin. On top of that, the bay leaf note smells a bit off to me, and maybe there is some other herby note in there, which is not listed on the website? Anyway, those herbs are an unexpected fragrance spoiler for me in here.

It lasts about 5-6 hours on me and projects well.

Femme Individuelle used to be on my 'dislike' list, but today it has stepped up to the level of a fragrance which I wouldn't mind having in my drawer, but probably wouldn't buy myself, because there are many perfumes which I want much more.

I love this one. Very smooth and a delicious dry down. Creamy vanilla that is totally delicious.
The lasting power is excellent.
This is very feminine IMO. Don't find it masculine at all, like some people have found.
Love it.

This fragrance reminds me of Cairo, which I have had many years ago. I'm happy to have found a similar flavor. I would like to purchase Cairo again, but this perfume is nowhere.

ITS LIGHT SPICY FRESIA!... EVERYONE CAN USE IT! VERY SEXY YET SUBTIL AND ELEGANT. IDEAL FOR WORK. I FOUND IT VERY WELL BALANCED AND KIND OF NEUTRAL WITHOUT BEING FORGETTABLE. IT MAKES ME FEEL HIGH CLASS YOUNG WOMAN WITHOUT THE SHOW OFF. CLASSY CLASSY CLASSY.

For me it is like TM's Angel with red currant version. So I like such version very much (bigsmile :D)

I like Individuelle. I wear it to work and I think that´s perfect.It was a long staying power!!

OK.. at first i wasn't so sure about this one... the pink bottle caught my eye but then i saw the price and said to myself: too cheap to be worth it! but man was i wrong!!! i gave it a try and bought a small bottle... what can i say...amazing things come in small bottles!it's amazing very long lasting and when i say very i mean at least 7-8 hours and draws lots of compliments everybody expecting to be a really expensive perfume!if you want a perfume which can be used either at work or on special occasions this is the one for you!

Looking at the bottle, the juice color and the bottle you may think, oh it's another light casual feminine fragrance. But Femme Individuelle is nothing of that kind. It's an amazing fragrance with a strong and a very unique personality. I think it's the bay leaf that gives it bit of masculinity and makes it so different from other fragrances. I can see a strong, confident woman wearing this beauty.
Spectacular sillage and longevity! Mont Blanc is a very understated house that offers high quality and unique fragrances. I just wish I had discovered it earlier.

Creamy, woody and full of peppery berries. I love this perfume! It is a scent I can picture wearing in the fall and winter. Great lasting power too!!!

I quite like it, another found of my father in a boot fair!
The top notes are very fresh and vibrant, somewhat fruty gourmand to my nose. Very feminine, young and happy. After a couple of minutes the scent settles to a more earthy but still sweet scent that I like less. This part is somewhat artificial and sickening with a strong anh headaching lotus flower mixed up with a fake barbie rose. The patchouli unfortunatly dont show up on my skin in this fragrance, without cheking the notes I would never find it. To me MBFI is all about the peper, lotus and rose.
It is a sophisticated, safe and feminine perfume. Good for office wear as for special occasions - very formal.

Personality: A perfect executive in a pearl necklace.
Sillage: Great in the first 5 minutes.
Longevity: 6 hours.

6.5/10

Lovely scent, starts woody but settles down a little sweet in a lovely non overbearing manner.
Lasts practically all day, perfect for meetings or a day of work and an evening out!

Blimey, I wonder if the bottle I smelled was off as this was a total scrubber on me, sour, headache inducing and like 'Angel' gone wrong with a note of hairspray I just couldn't tolerate. I imagine the budget may have affected the great Almairacs original composition?

I had a bottle of it as a gift.I didn't like it at the begining, it seems to me too strong and sweet for my taste. But I received many compliments from men and women of different ages. Now, I think I'll buy a bottle. It stays more than 12 hours on my skin.

I am in love! I have been waiting to buy this and I don't know why I waited 5 years! Just as I remembered......perfect for me!

It does smell a bit masculine minus the lil bit sweetness in it. it is loads of pepper. but over all its very good in the dry down. i like it. i wear it most to work.

I do not find it feminine at all! the pepper is so strong that I felt it gave the scent a definite masculine edge! then the drydown is better, warmer..still it is a peculiar scent, odd to my nose..wearing it I dont feel I smell particularly good!
I need to test it a bit more but so far those are my impressions!

I really like Individulle!!! It´s nothing exclusive, there are others scents that reminds me this one, but it still is a very well done one!!

I smell the pink pepper note on the top, but only about half hour. I can´t get the midle and base notes on separate, just a grown up vanillic cotton-candy, with a peppery touch, lovely!!

It was a long staying power!!

PS: I´ve just smell it on a tester paper.

This perfume is very musculine to me. Too much pepper, patchouli, wood, strawberry...? and something I can't even describe. As someone mentioned before there is a note of camphor which I hate. This mixture is unbearable.

I smell pink pepper and marshmallows, do you? Lovely drydown.

Famme Individuelle was my favorite fragrance in 2006-2007. I wore it night and day at that time. One friend of mine told me that I smelled like a firtree. But oriental freshness of Femme Individuelle bears no resemblance to the firtree. It´s a pleasant aroma of lotus and rose with spices, and in the end soft vanilla drydown. It´s really individual with its outstanding combination of sour-sweet-fresh-spicy! I got a lot of compliments from men about my perfume. I still remember it and I miss my bottle of Femme Individuelle.

I love the scent, it is clean and elegant, prefer to wear it at daytime. But one thing i did not like - it wore off so fast, after 1-2 hours it was completely gone for me

Although I'm not very fond of red berry fragrance, this is not at all a typical "red" perfume, sweet like a forest fruit tea. The red pepper and the bay leaf give currants and roses a spicy aromatic tone. The dry-down is a very pleasant warm vanilla. Definitely, a very distinct perfume, a modern classic and really "individual", suitable for office and for special occasions, as well.

I luv this perfume. Thanks to all the members of fragrantica.com and their comments because of which I did not hesitate to purchase this online and I just luv it. I luv the musky and vanilla smell and the sweet but not too sweet smell. It's great! I sprayed it on my sis without showing her the perfume and she says it smells great...

Has a oriental and woody essence strictly meant for an evening wear

Easy to love truth fragrance. Which one an acid mother said. Hello to you with a currant arriving with a red baccate touch with a peppery launch mildly. The surprise comes now. I was not able to imagine it for drawn bean known well from our kitchen, how can exist in what kind of harmony with the fragrances written down already.the green one strengthens it gently (grass) feeling, but the culinária does not take the effect away towards it.the flowers extinguish each other quasi, because the flashy of the rose quasi immediately strangles the wet quiet of the lotus. The creamy vanilla, which the three to which used was got already is, is felt quite strongly at the time of withering off onto a carriage /ambergris, patchouli, musk/ leaning follows away very long us. Who desires an easy-going, feminine fragrance which can be used advantageously with a spring, in summer brings a good decision if he selects this fragrance.

Sweet strawberry, cotton candy, rose and at the same time-something crispy cold! This perfume is sparkling, optimistic and has an incredible staying power!

A spicy, sweet & sour "rosy" fragrance with a watery feel. It is delicate, yet the redcurrent & pink peppercorns pack a punch & stop it from being twee. Over time it becomes sweeter (never sickly) & more rosey. Somewhere I get bayleaves & moss, although they are not mentioned.

To my nose there is something off-kilter in the mix of this fragrance. It is a little bit fruity, a little bit floral, a little bit aquatic, a little bit spiced, a little bit sweet, a little bit sour.....& yet it doesn't really gel well. To me, it creates an OK fragrance & not a "wow" scent.

If you like a peppery, sour rose you may enjoy this scent. (Also, those that like a hint of 'plastic dolls' would enjoy this!)

Sorry Mont Blanc this smelt very sickly sweet on me and smelt as if I was trying to cover up the smell of damp laundry (which I was not).. instead of smelling nicer I smelt worse.

I've been collecting perfumes three years now and this was one of my first. I love this one it's different and it smells nice on my skin.

First few sniffs I get sweet strawberries. Then camphor/sage drift (maybe the pink pepper? bay leaf? hawthorne?) which keeps it from being overly lollipop. The drydown doesn't change much. I can't pick up any of the basenotes at all. A little rich for warm weather but would be nice in fall or winter I think.

Lovely smell. Its hardy to describe.
Its sweet but no to much. Wonderful. My favorite!

This perfume is incredible. Sweet, but not to much. Wodsy. Last a long time on skin. And drive the guys crazy. It´s not for summer days. Maybe in fresh nights, and put just a little. It´s a really really sensual fragrance.

I have it and smells delicately good..very feminine.

very classic, but lovely... i have it..it is great! i think, i will buy it again :)

I ordered it out of curiosity and...because I was a bit bored:-)

Never regretted trying it out and wearing it is an occasion as special as can be:)
I can definitely feel the red currant and the lotus which does not disappear when the base notes of musk and vanilla leave a delicate trail!

Simply love it!

A must-try!

I love it!

LOoks On euphoriaa.. very normal for winter..