Pivoine Yves Rocher for women

I used to have a few small bottles of this and I thought it was nice but the scent felt like it would have been more suited towards a cream or a lotion instead of a perfume though.
This used to smell very soft and kinda soapy on my skin.:)

this perfume reminds me of my childhood. My mom used to wear this and I remember the fragrance lasting forever on her. In her memory, I bought a bottle off e-bay and I am pretty sure I am not going to use it. But yes, makes me very nostalgic.

I had a mini version of it and I remember I liked it. I didn't like fresh scents then (nowadays there are a few I like very much) but Pivoine was loved by me, used to the last drop and missed much afterwards. I guess nowadays I'd say it's a vintage perfume but I like orchid and a vintage touch sometimes so maybe I'd like it too...

I remember Pivoine was quite strong fragrance, very flowery one. Bottle brings Anais Anais to my mind a bit.

Sorry for people who love it and wear it because my comment will be negative, but a few years ago, I received a small kit with several small bottles of fragrance as a gift and Yves Rocher Pivoine was part of them. I really hated the smell plus it does not suit me at all. For me, it really feels too strong. Zero discretion. I just keep it because I collect perfume bottles but I have worn only once. Not my scent at all. :(

I had this years ago and liked it at first, but then the overwhelmingly linear peony note got to me. It is a strong fragrance with a definite vintage vibe.

Back then I thought this scent was quite nice. A strong peony scent with some added flowers. The lasting quality was not so good. Today I don't like peony much anymore.

I had this a while back, nice scent, but never lasted long on me. It is a fresh floral.

Hey, Moraine, be strong... I know that feeling ;-)

Sniff! I used the last of my old bottle this morning! :-( ... I've had it since college (where my roommate used up most of it, grrr) and I will really miss it. To me it smells just like a spring garden on a warm day. It's deceptively simple, soft and gentle but with presence and backbone. Goodbye Pivoine!

I love peonies so that ordered this one but was very dissapointed after all...It smells very vintage, in a negative way unfortunately. I can detect a very sharp and bitter note and no peonies at all. Since it is a vintage perfum(mine is a mini version) it may be off now and that's why it has that sharp note. I don't know but the old lady vibe in this perfume makes it impossible to wear. Such a shame. I think this is the risk u take with many vintage juices while purchasing them.

This was my first grown up perfume.lol. I was barely a teenager but this was considered elegant and sophisticated for someone my age. I still wear this scent during the spring. It's also good for a summer scent. It's hard to find as are all of the best perfumes by Yves Rocher, but it's well worth it. It's light, natural peony at it's best. This is what a flower in a bottle should smell like. It's just a shame that they discontinue the best things and opt for the synthetic crap that they put on the market and sell for ungodly prices.

You are right Gypsy, Pivoine is an amazingly complex perfume. It goes in the manner of the following masterpieces:

- Nina Ricci L'Air du Temps
- Ralph Lauren 'Lauren' vintage
- Nina Ricci 'Nina' vintage

They are all complex floral creations, with a strong earthy note. And that's how I like my florals the most!! This perfume belongs to my Yves Rocher favorites ever. It is a very strong perfume, with amazing sillage. It is not a screamer though, it is really like the perfumes stated here above..

This is the true spirit of the peony, to me, and (as usual) the vintage is much richer than the modern reformulation: Pur Desir de Pivoine...

On first applying a few drops from my vintage mini (Thanks, Mari!!), I was greeted with a strange bitter vegetal type scent...perhaps it had "turned", I thought. But wait...what is this?! I am greeted (after it dried a bit and the aldehydes faded) with a lovely airy floral scent, not really spicy and not really sweet. More fresh and dew-soaked, with subtle hints of fruity sweetness and some stems and a light juiciness. It is easy to pick out notes in a perfume when you have the list above your review...but here there is so much more going on than just peonies and white flowers! I swear I can almost detect something clean and vaguely soapy, but also very refined in this wonderous eau de toilette. The newer Pur Desir version DOES smell exactly like peonies, for sure; but this has something very elegant, yet simple happening in it. To quote the old cliche: "They don't make them like this anymore..." hits the nail on the head. If a modern fragrance is called "X", it generally smells like X and little, if anything, more. There are peonies in here, yes...but also other delicate petals, some lovely greens, a bit of yumminess and also something sublimely earthy as well. If you like floral scents that are well blended and swirl other notes around a core accord, this is something you will like...I, for one, am quite impressed-yet again, by this House's past more than its present!

Sillage: close but nice
Longevity: average
Overall: 3.5/5

Peonies are huge flowers with hundreds of petals that exude a wonderfully sweet spiciness that is at once soft and slightly sharp. This vintage EDT is like a peony, in that sense; but here, the juice is so much more. Whoever made this, and whatever is in it; it has stood the test of time. No year is listed for its release but I am guessing sometime in the mid- to late nineties, when perfumes began to get subtler and less "massive". Being from a natural company, I was amazed that this fragrance still smells as wonderful as it does, after all these years! The bottle is adorable with the white milk glass (clean and smooth)and the peony shaped cap (floral spiciness) and mirrors the scent well, too!!

I don't know what happened to this scent (or to me) It smelled so wonderfully when I was a teenager, it was a light warm floral with a citrusy twist that I loved. Now that I'm older and I've managed to get hold of a bottle via eBay I just can't stand it, it gives me headaches, and all I get is floral and strong aldehydic notes. So sad, this brought so many beautiful memories...

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Guest Lili!
YOU ARE SOOOO RIGHT!! I am still astonished about this beauty everyday. And exactly what you are saying, sooo well balanced!!! Why don't you sign up here and become a member?

To me this perfume is a masterpiece, it is full of memories but at the same time not out dated or oldish, so complicated but simple at the same time. it gives me hope. It is very well balanced. I wanna buy it again but here I cannot find it.

I had Pivoine ages ago.
I knew I was too young to wear it as this is a real lady's fragrance but I wore it anyway.
Nice, feminine, strong, flowery scent with great staying power.

And we love it indeed!!!
One of the many YR fragrances that are unknown in terms of their real notes (must be a lot of notes, smelling the complexity) and I would love to know who made this beauty. I really wish someone of the company could provide info on the beauties of the past.

Yuck. This is not my thing at all. At first it smells of overpowering flowers and then it settles down into a soapy smell. It smells outdated to me. But I'm glad other people like it.

Oh, how I loved this one... The bottle is very decorative, too. The scent was a true peony, not some wannabe mix of flowers with a tiny hint of peony. No, with this one you actually got peony (and I LOVE peonies, and can never get enough of them when they bloom).
Hard to find now but, sometimes, you can get lucky on eBay.

Glad to see this is finally in the database! I used to own this and loved it. First of all the bottle is so very charming, especially sitting on a vanity. I remember it to be a simple but lovely and clean interpretation of of the peony flower. Never headache inducing for me or sharp. Wish they would bring it back - bottle and all.

Gostaria de saber se ele ainda é vendido?? Extremamente gostosa fragrancia, dá saudades...

Earlier I posted a review of this one, thinking it was transformed into the more recent Pur desir de pivoine which is in fact a different fragrance.

Pivoine is a very romantic and fresh, feminine and youthful perfume. I remember it had a touch of dewy green plants along the center stage peony, lily of the valey and jasmine, evolving into a soapy clean base. I never found it outdated, it must have been my first perfume around the age of 12 and I wore it until it was discontinued. I still have a gorgeous little bottle somewhere but it's empty alas!

What a great perfume. The smaller bottles didn't have a spray so you just had to rub the flower cap against your skin...:)According to my memories this is very similar (identical almost) to Ralph Lauren Blue and vaguely similar to Idylle EDT.

This is an extremely well done greenish flower perfume!!