Louve by Serge Lutens

donniekaterina

Louve smells like you have put your hand in a stinky jar with honey!

MirabelleJee

It reminds me a cherry (or another berry) in cognac or Amaretto as it was mentioned. May be because of almond.

Azumi Yoshida

Cheerful and sparkly sour cherry from beginning to end. I am trying to detect the almonds but they appear to be shy.
Bold,lovely and sweet fragrance. A real treat in the snowy winter day.

PricklyAndHot

I adore the delicious almond note in this fragrance. In general this fragrance reminds me an almond liquor with flowers petals in it. And I like the name of this fragrance. Smelling this fragrance, I can really imagine a wolf standing at mountain top at night and earning on the moon. It is even a fragrance of the moonlight more than a wolf for me. Or a fragrance of the mood while watching the moonlight.
Sweet, tasty, natural and mysterious. I really like it. Actually, it's only too sweet. But I think that this fragrance is the best by Serge Lutens.

Mellyhelly

Mmmm... sooo good! This SL rocks! It smells almost just almond and nothing else but fortunately it is not the usual candy or marzipan over sweet typical scent. Not at all. It smells like fresh smashed almond, both sweet and bitter and in spite of sweetness is never cloying. There is a note I can't name that keeps everything fresh and floral. It is a gourmand scent in itself but a one I myself can wear while I can't stand gourmands in general.
That's because it smells more heliotropic in its evolution. It reminds me a lot of Piver Heliotrope Blanc taken to higher concentration and sophistication and it's also very similar to an aromatic water from L'Amande which is much cheaper and long lasting but not so refined of course. I would like to have a bottle or a decant of this.

doctormod

I didn't really have high hopes for Louve, though I now see that my doubts were without foundation. I had a sample and I was prepared to use it on a quiet Sunday afternoon when there was no one to bother besides myself.

Oh my my my my! My first thought was "wine?" But not exactly. No wine ever smelled this rich and sweet. It was more like some fabulous apertif or brandy--Berry? Cherry? Spicy too--too gorgeous, too luxurious to be written off as just another gourmand.

Then, just as I was fully appreciating its intoxicating headiness, it all seemed to vanish. (Well, I thought, maybe I need a bigger sample.) Or did it? Throughout the rest of the day and evening an occasional whiff of sensual sweetness would creep up on me, and even after a lengthy nap (and competing with the BenGay rubbed into an extremely stiff and painful knee), it was clinging to the bedclothes, even lovelier than before!

Louve has great longevity (stronger and vastly more complex now than it was twelve hours ago) and a sillage that, while not overpowering, is sufficiently strong.

It is not often that I simply want to sneak off and smell myself, gratified by the thought that I truly smell beautiful. I must acquire a full bottle soon!

Auguszta

The smell of cherry-flavoued marzipan. Almonds, cherries, hardly detectable roses and vanilla. It's extremely sweet and has a light medicinal quality. Sometimes it gets a tad soapy on my skin.
It reminds me of another Lutens scent, Rahaat Loukoum (which is not in the database), in fact I think of Louve as Rahaat Loukoum Light (which is funny, as there's nothing light about it on its own). Now that one is even sweeter, almost syrupy, but at the same time somehow darker and deeper (the magic of spices I guess) and even more potent. It has a lovely oriental feel to it that somehow justifies this exaggerated sweetness, and Louve lacks that. I clearly prefer RL.
No idea when to use either, though - perhaps during the festive winter season. Or would they be too much even then?

Amarilla

I love to wear this fragrance but only in winter. Far my favourite in the Lutens line (beside Five O'Clock au gingembre). Belive me I hate to smell edible but this is something different.
Powdery and sweet but not cloying.
One of the most potent fragrances I have ever had. 24+ hrs
Not for gourmand lovers only!

sam

I louve Louve.
I love its coctail-cherry smell. After spraying it is really almond and cherry but very soon i detect the rose. For me it is definely the most wearable Lutens so far...

F_A

This fragrance really smells like Amaretto liqueur - sweet and strong almond-marzipan-cherry pits scent with some lingering alcohol notes. Very edible, very rich, very strong and very long-lasting. I guess it can potentially cause headache for many people.

Sara D.

Finally, my perfect heliotrope scent! :) (contains heliotropine, lovely)
Begins with sharp sweet cherry (from his Rahat Loukhoum) but it very, very quickly develops into a soft, powdery (but not cloying) sweet comfort scent. The almonds are sophisticated and pale, not a cooking extract. Evolves into a delicious gourmand floral white musk that is never sharp but very cuddly. A gorgeous skin scent. On my friend's skin this is too sweet, and it is overwhelming on the very young ladies, but if you can tame it, oh my. I'd dab, not spray, as it *is* concentrated. The vanillin in this is blended very well with the almond and musk. The white jasmine and rose are both perfectly balanced and give a lovely powdery quality, adding to the skin-scent-comfort effect, which is not easily dismissed, and the sweetness never leaves, which remains a snowy fairy erotic perfume in a bottle. Love the Louve! And on the right woman, this is a siren's lure.

tessture

Edible almonds and vanilla with loads of sugar. Despite myself I like this one, but it's certainly not perfume and it's certainly not worth the price.
EDIT: I lie. It probably is worth the price at the right season. In summer it was way too sweet, but in winter it is a lovely comfort scent. My mistake.

pimentosugars

Half woman, half biscuit, Louve is a marzipan werewolf!

Those who like the smell of bakewell tarts will love this. For me it's Headache in a Bottle.

mihailo_vukoicic

'Haute Concentration' in deed. shocking, strong, in your face.
very almondy and sappy (not sappy as in 'sappy song', but really, literally sappy and ambery).
I swear I can smell it just by thinking about it. for me, it was unwearable. I couldn't cope with this strange animal. a 0.6 vial was enough for several testings. very potent (I don't mind), strong (don't mind), but also sticky in a way. sticky and sweet. no doubt it's a master-piece, but to admire from afar (just like a couple of other creations by SL).
kisses,
m

chance25

This smells like a cherry almond biscotti dipped in warm milk. It's a very polite, sweet, powdery baby-like scent. Like freshly washed baby blankets. Not for me, but I adore it's innocent quality.

Malegria

Cold, bitter almonds for a dangerous woman...A poisonous, cyanidic, magical scent on a hunt for it`s mistress.
Always reminds me the Rammstein video Du Reichst so gut :)

PerfumeEmpress

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I love almondy scents and this one did not disappoint. And it stays for hours! :) I always get so many compliments when I wear this. One of my favorites.

zoka

It's one of my favorite scents by Lutens. Remarkable, very strong and sharp almond at the beginning, with almost medicinal nuances and sweet animalistic at the end.

Aeternitas

Nothing but almonds; smells like a very sweet, heavy Amaretto, like Amaretto Di Saronno alcoholic drink. I didn't like this one because I don't like almonds nor do I like the smell of them. But if I did like almonds, I would say it's a very nicely done fragrance. Best for very cold days, too heavy and sweet for warm weather.