Cedre Serge Lutens for women and men

This was not what I had expected from a perfume named 'Cedre'. The opening notes were a clash of cloves and cedar and for a few minutes it seemed these two were playing out some sort of war of attrition. I wasn't sure who would win. This was a fleeting phase and shortly they both settled to allow the amber, cinnamon and tuberose rise from the battlefield. Oh wow. This is good stuff. It has the classic Lutens DNA but the tuberose gives this an ethereal quality that seems to give these rich notes a lighter touch. As I write this, the tuberose is developing a wonderful animalic note.

Other have noted that this is similar to Amouage Memoir Woman and I agree, however the point of difference with this one is the absence of leather which made Memoir Woman a little too heavy for me. I also see a similarity with Histoires Tubereuse 3 Animale.

This is FB worthy for me!

The name Cedre can be a little misleading. Surprisingly this is a soapy and elegant tuberose fragrance, with a spicy and woodsy drydown. The cedar note is barely evident in this fragrance's composition, so don't go expecting any masculine woodsiness while testing Cedre.

Surprises aside, I really love this fragrance. I would go so far to say that this is one of my favourites from the house of Serge Lutens.

The tuberose opening is clean, feminine and smooth, with a subtle hint of spicy cinnamon and clove. The more the fragrance develops, the stronger the spices in turn become. I find it to be a really pleasant balance between spicy and soapy.

During the heart and drydown, Serge Lutens' signature amber note reigns supreme. The overall blend, to my nose, smells heavenly. It is lush and warm at the same time. A rather unique and fascinating fragrance to say the least.

For the most part, Cedre strikes me as being quite feminine and polite on the skin, however I could picture a man wearing it too. It has a fairly strong presence without being too overbearing.

Like most fragrances from this house, Cedre lasts the entire day. It's a complex scent, but also an easy one to wear and enjoy. I'm surprised that I hadn't discovered Cedre earlier. You would think that it would be more popular than it is. Either way, it needs to be more recognised. I highly recommend.

Cedre is a rich amber fragrance opening with cinnamon and labdanum. It contains that signature Lutens rich amber "hum", though the intensely resinous cedar like the living tree, or freshly chopped firewood in the composition gives it clarity, preventing it from turning into a syrupy mess. It's more like a wood-burning stove baking up fresh cinamon buns.

Cedre has an effervescent quality like an artisan-crafted all-natural birch beer, and the labdanum makes the sweetness smooth, warm, and wearable. It is a basket of sweet and spicy offerings from the forest floor to the canopy. It is the sweetness found naturally in forest air, distilled.

The longer I wear it, the more I notice new and beautiful details. The tuberose is more of a stage hand than a lead role, virtually invisible, just there to keep everything together and running smoothly.

Cedre projects moderately, and its longevity is average. This fragrance takes some time to warm up to, but it sparkles on the skin. This may be my favorite gourmand to date.

This is an interesting alternative to those cooler cedars which are greener and lean on the drier woody side of the material. Serge Lutens Cedre is cedar that has been warmed and honeyed by the Summer Sun soaking into it all day, with a bee hive suspended from its branches, and the aroma of other spicy plants and earthy elements floating in the forest air.

It is nature magically transformed into an all-natural confection, sweet and spicy as candy, but without a trace of kawaii.

nice, warm spicy and soft. A little bit sweet but very comfortable. I dont like tuberose, but it works very well together with amber and cinnamon. Delicious!

To my nose the top notes of this fragrance are a classic even vintage masculine cedar spice scent, strong on the cedar. When it seems to be calming down and the spices have a chance to shine, Miss Tuberose appears in the drydown and does her best to steal the show. She dances on Cedar's treetrunk, throws his needles around, and even tries to put a floral lampshade on her head. But it is to no avail. She cannot erase cedar's heavy scent and cedar cannot evict tuberose.

As another reviewer said, during and after the drydown cedar and tuberose fight for hegemony of the scent for hours, to the exclusion of other notes. This results in a scent that I could never wear -- a classic masculine with sweet tuberose on top. These notes mix like oil and water. They don't. Maybe a man could pull this off but I certainly could not and do not want to try. Just because it says Serge Lutens on the bottle does not mean it will always be fabulous.

Tried around 15 serge lutens perfumes today and Cedre was one of the best of the bunch I expected ambre sultan to be the best , this one won, chergui was second, beautiful

you can eat this smell!

I've tested Cedre on myself and on the gentleman friend...in neither case was it a heavy perfume, or notably sweet, and in neither case was the tuberose dominant. On me, it develops readily into a very pleasant creamy-woody-slightly spicy scent, which lasts for several hours without significant change other than to become ever creamier. Very nice; not a candidate for my signature scent, but definitely enjoyable, and effortlessly unisex. The cedar in it doesn't shout at you, but is present as a deep wood note. On the boyfriend, it becomes a quite different thing; the cedar is dialed up, in a good way. Tuberose does not jump out, as mentioned, and I smell cloves---or at least something spicier than I got when wearing it myself. It seems like the musk component is more present on him as well. The creaminess is very present on him as well, rounding out a most enticing scent. I'm contemplating buying a full bottle for him to wear...Thumbs up---for the gentlemen who want something alluring and rounded yet masculine, and for the ladies who might crave a wood-anchored treat as well.
Edit, 9/17/12: This has grown on me significantly---I find myself wearing it day after day. It seems to last rather well, and I find that I like it more and more. Just bought a full bottle, and I'm really enjoying it.

Anybody want to buy this from me? I bought this in april 2012 in Paris. It is eau de parfum 50 ml.

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oggi provo cedre.
dal tappo penso alle bigbubble di prima generazione, quelle blu' e rosa.poi esplode tuberosa in abbondanza e a tratti cannella calda. cedre e' piu' donna.
la tuberosa non e' il mio fiore preferito.
purtroppo mi da' di chimico pungente e sul polso mi si attacca tipo colla di coniglio.:-((animalic)
probabilmente la sento solo io altrimenti me lo avrebbero fatto notare...
fortunatamente dopo un paio d'ore si calma un po'.non male, ma purtroppo non fa' per la mia pelle.
peccato.

A fragrance in which both cedar and tuberose fight to get the main role, but both win ( or loose). It is not as shocking as Tubereuse Criminelle. It still plays an ode to cedar, being woody and incensey. Actually, the cedar note is Mr. Lutens' favorite and has been explored throughout a lot of his other fragrances: Arabie, Feminite du Bois, Bois et Fruits, Bois de Violette, Chergui, Bois Oriental, Bois et Musc, Serge Noire, El Attarine. All of them have an important Cedarwood note. And still, Mr Lutens doesn't repeat himself, which is great...

Yes yes yes yes.
How well the combination of heavy tuberose with musk, amber and cinnamon works.
One of my fav Lutens for 2 months already.
Such a mysterious and dark fragrance.
Such inexpressible visions it represents.
Cèdre, to me, is like a soulmate.

Cedre hits me in the heart.
This is who I think I am, in mind and soul: ambiguous.

It opens heavy, and it stays that way:
the longevity is grandiose.

I bought this blind! I just had to, I found a really good deal on a tester bottle and have been searching for something sweet with tuberose that was also something I could wear as a man. From the reviews and Luckyscent's scale that shows this as being on the masculine side, I decided to go for it!

The first blast from this fragrance is heavy and rich, maybe a bit medicinal. (I don't mind that at all!) And I for one do smell cedar from the very beginning, but I almost have to think about cedar to smell it because this one is blended so well that no single note powers to the front. It is as if the cedar woodiness is tempered by the tuberose which itself is not at all cloying. I have smelled Tubereuse Criminelle and found it to be over the top with tuberose and smelled like soap to me, and was very feminine. Not Cédre.

This is a tuberose scent but so well blended that it is not a pure tuberose by any stretch of the imagination. (I grow tuberose and know the smell well in flower form.) I find both a lot of white flowers and a musky background with a lot of amber and just enough cedar to make it interesting and make it more wearable. There is a spiciness that has to be the cinnamon and cloves but those notes are so well incorporated that it is hard to detect for me. I get a syrupy dark honey feel. Some people have said it smells of spiced apples or cider, I don't get that feeling.

This one has an "old" vibe to it. Not in a bad way, but something that smells like a classic sweet scent, but unlike a lot of things that smell old, this one does not have even a hint of powder which is great because I hate powder.

Would I buy this again? Not sure...I love this one and I have a feeling it will grow on me. But I have Ambre Sultan and these two both share the amber feeling. Very glad I have this one though. At last a tuberose scent I can actually wear.

Reminds me of Ambre Narguile....has that warm rich apple pie smell

With the veritable flood of cedar-rich perfumes and colognes on the market--many of which appear to feature iso-E-super--it will likely surprise many to find that Serge Lutens CEDRE is nearly (if not completely...) devoid of that note! I'm sure that many gentlemen were probably expecting Serge's take on the cedar cologne. But no, nothing of the sort is found in CEDRE!

Instead, CEDRE appears to be a metaphorically named tribute or ode to cedar. It is sometimes suggested that the most important part of a text is the blank space--what is not said--and that's my best guess of the explanation for the near (or total...) absence of cedar from this composition. I seriously doubt that the perfumer somehow "forgot" to include cedar, so there has to be another explanation.

CEDRE is a fairly sweet floriental perfume which is very tame and almost mainstream relative to the typical offerings of this house. The tuberose is not loud enough to warrant calling this a tuberose perfume, it seems to me. There is a gentle florality along with a measured spiciness (nothing like most of Serge's orientals...) all of which is tinged with a likeable sweetness.

This perfume seems more feminine than masculine to me. To pay tribute to cedar, which figures in many, many masculine colognes, this creation offers a counterbalancing feminine collection of complementary notes.

This is a beautiful, old school type of musc and ambra perfume with warm woody elements which give it the secret aura of older type of mystery story. It develops gracefully and closely on skin with some
physiological sweetness and flowers. Interesting and not typical.

I don't know if on skin evolve much then paper ,but with my test it was musc and only musc.
Type of middle eastern little essence from musc.
Very mature ,very sweet,very powdery not unique at all and shoking fact that it doesn't give me a woody smell.
Maybe i should try it on my skin.
Longevity and projection seems extraordinary!

Looking over the reviews of Cèdre I realize I’m one of only a handful who actually like it. Yes, the name’s a bit odd, but only a bit. If you’re looking for the airy, crystalline cedar of the Lutens Bois perfumes you won’t find it here. What’s here is the oily, dusty cedar like straight-up cedar essential oil. The oily quality mixes with the syrup of the amber and the booze of the camphorous tuberose.

Floriental usually implies the hybrid friendliness of amber fragrances and prettiness of florals. Cèdre subverts the genre, being more melancholic than affable, alluring rather than pretty. Lutens is considered to have reinvented the oriental. Maybe this is his reinvented floriental.

For me it's not woody at all, more floral. It's quite chemical smell, but there is smth in it makes me like it) The first notes are really loud and medicine, and base is good - calm and sexy...

oh god help me words cant describe this soft spicey perfu what i smell is happey celebration of tuberose and anemalic musk and honey sweet honey

A sweet woody fragrance. The tuberose shines through over the cedar.

This a very unique scent. If I think of cedar I get a clear picture of what it smells like and the same with tuberose. This on the other hand smells like industrial products. Shoe polish and band aids are what come to mind. Yes, a very unique scent indeed.

I don't get any tuberose at all in this, though it's possible that it's a background note adding layers. Mostly, it's a rich, deep, slightly woody oriental with amber notes, a faint luminous edge of polite cedar and just a suggestion of cola, like Tabu blended for men. It is definitely an unisex scent, though, and I would consider it formal, as it is heavy and complex, smelling expensive and fancy without smelling vulgar. Not my thing, really, but splendid on someone else. A definite heavy oriental.

My signature fragrance, and I 've never been faithful to a perfume until now. Very " distingué", tremendously " chic", and at the same time very warm, like a second skin, very safe. It carries you from day to night in a surprising number of occasions. Fantastic sillage, enters the room before you do and turns heads. Sparkling, brilliant, extraordinary. Un parfum d' exception.

Sorry but this one smells like the disinfectant I clean the bathroom with ..only it's much more expensive.

Sweet tuberose changing with a wet woodie. One minutes i can feel toberose, and lates wood, after som time come back toberose.

This should be called Cider instead of Cedre - it smells like apple cider to me, but it's brilliant nonetheless.
First there's a boozy burst of spiced apples, strong, zesty, aromatic. The clove and cinnamon are evident from the start and stick with us all the way.
As the cider note calms down a bit (it never really disappears), the slightest whisper of cedar emerges. I never get more cedar than at this stage, which is fine with me as I enjoy it anyway. Then the tuberose steps forward, but it's not the lethal kind we know from Fracas, it's far more subdued and well-behaved.
The scent gets sweeter and sweeter as it evolves and turns into a very sweet, still spicy musk in the end with the apple cider note still detectable. I agree with the other reviewers, it's very cosy and warm.
I've heard people say it's masculine - now that I don't agree with at all. I have a hard time imagining a man wearing this.

One word of warning: there's no such thing as wearing Cedre for a day. It sticks to you like a second layer of skin and will still be there the next day. It won't just linger, it will be full on. Be prepared.

Cedar? There isn't *that* much of it in Lutens' Cèdre! Not to this nose, anyway! The opening is a very strong, flowery burst of tuberose. Spices then build rapidly into the picture. And so is the rather extreme sweetness. The top and middle parts of Cèdre feel a lot like a trickly sweet, syrupy concoction with some cinnamon and cloves thrown in in moderate quantities. It remains also quite flowery for a couple of hours. This certainly does not smell like what you instinctively expect from a cedar fragrance. You have to wait quite a long time to smell anything woody, buried inside a warm, very ambery (and still syrupy) drydown. When the base notes starts developing, Cèdre gets less intriguing, cosier and, to me, more comfortable. An interesting curiosity, but I would have no idea when to wear it...Sillage and longevity are very good.

A warm woody scent with peppery sweet notes.