Cedre Serge Lutens for women and men

I don't get much tuberose here. This is kind of sweet apple pie with an ambery touch on me.

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 this one. 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.

One of the interesting things about Cèdre is how it subverts the floriental category. Floriental usually implies the hybrid friendliness of amber fragrances and prettiness of florals. Cèdre is 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

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One Dear friend of mine told me Cedre to be for Blessings ;) ***<3<3<3***

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.