fabrice pellegrin
Editor’s note pending — every credited perfumer eventually gets a written profile here.
The compositions
Luna Blossom
Sign Your Power
Cotton & Green Sage
Azzaro Pour Elle Extreme
Strong Me
Moonlight Rose
Blue Sport
A Mochi Atelier in Tokyo
Volare Moments
Calimala
Testa di Moro
La Corte
Eau Mage
Momentum Unbreakable Eau de Parfum
Bois Dore
Bois Doré opens with a single note of black pepper — sharp, direct, a declaration rather than a suggestion — before the heart introduces almond and vanilla in a combination that is unexpectedly warm and slightly confectionery.
Bois Doré Van Cleef & Arpels
Bois Doré opens with a single note of black pepper — sharp, direct, a declaration rather than a suggestion — before the heart introduces almond and vanilla in a combination that is unexpectedly warm and slightly confectionery.
Eau Rose Eau De Parfum
The opening is almost medicinal in its clarity—a cool, dew-soaked rose paired with lychee that lends translucence rather than sweetness.
Arabian Nights Private Collection Woman
Eau Rihla Eau de Parfum
Black Xs l'Exces for Him
Leather Rose
Patchouli
Blue Ridge
Volutes Eau de Toilette
Volutes opens with a provocative combination that immediately signals its intentions: honey and tobacco as top notes rather than base elements, arriving warm, slightly animalic, and uncompromising.
Vendemmia (2013)
Caleche Eau Delicate
Caleche Eau Delicate Hermès
Neroli Facetie
Néroli Facètie Roger & Gallet
Sandy Papyrus
Armani Prive Vert Malachite
Vert Malachite opens with a sharp, slightly bitter petitgrain alongside sun-bright orange — the combination reads as natural, almost unpolished, as if citrus peel rather than extracted oil.
Vibrant Scent
Vibrant Scent M.INT
Do Son Limited Edition
L'Ambra
Safanad
Safanad opens with a soft pear sweetness tempered by fresh orange, establishing an approachable femininity without veering into candy territory.
Classique Pin Up
Cierge De Lune
Cierge de Lune — moonlit candle — announces its character in its name.
Nordic Waters for Him
Azzaro Pour Elle
Azzaro Pour Elle opens cleanly: orange provides a bright, solar citrus, and cardamom adds just enough warmth to keep the opening from reading as generic.
Arlésienne L'Occitane en Provence
Quasar Onix
Quasar Onix O Boticário
Convivio (2013)
Just Cavalli Gold for Her
# Just Cavalli Gold for Her
Vendemmia
Classique Cabaret Eau de Parfum
Santal Dan Sha
The Wedding Velvet Santal | 35
Giordani Gold Essenza Blossom
Arlesienne
Mercedes-Benz Sign Your Attitude Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes Benz Sign Your Attitude
Moonlight Rose Van Cleef & Arpels
Bel Absinthe
Bel Absinthe Roos & Roos
Rose Poire
Rose Poire L'Occitane en Provence
Mentha Religiosa
Mentha Religiosa Roos & Roos
Tonka
Nymphessence
Nymphessence Roos & Roos
Joking Aside M.INT
Cockpit
Joking Aside
La Fille de l'Air Courrèges
La Fille de l'Air
L'Insoumis
L'Insoumis opens with a jarring collision of herbal basil and dark rum, sweetened faintly by bergamot.
Fuel For Life Spirit
A burst of spiced citrus announces itself immediately—cinnamon dusted over grapefruit and bergamot—then quickly softens into something unexpectedly refined.
Byblos Fusion
Sign Your Power Mercedes-Benz
Sunshine Man
Sunshine Man opens with a sharp, almost medicinal lavender that refuses the usual aromatic ease.
Giordani Gold Essenza
A direct lineage from the original Giordani Gold, Essenza strips the composition to its core: bergamot and orange blossom in near-equal measure.
Essences Insensees
Sur l'Herbe
Liquid Crystal
Sur L'Herbe L'Artisan Parfumeur
Valentina Pink
The first spray is pure berry sweetness—strawberry macerated with blackberry, juicy and unapologetically fruity, softened by a halo of clean musk.
Crazy Rem
L'Incenso
Do Son Eau de Toilette
Do Son opens with a dewy clarity—tuberose after rain, petals cool and slightly green rather than overtly narcotic.
Vanilla Candy Rock Sugar | 42
The opening is a sticky-sweet collision: pear syrup doused in rum, with ylang-ylang lending a faintly tropical plasticity and vanilla already announcing itself before the drydown even begins.
Black XS Be a Legend Iggy Pop
Mineral Grey
Woods in Love Roos & Roos
Woods in Love
Tea Escape
Tea-Escape opens cool and subtly spiced, bergamot lifting the mint into something brighter than mere herbal freshness.
Botica 214 Fiji Paradise
L'Eau pour Homme Blue Tea
Neroli d'Ispahan
Néroli d'Ispahan
Rosa Greta
Rosa Greta Eau D'Italie
Fuel for Life l’Eau
Belgravia Chypre Penhaligon's
Belgravia Chypre
Toy 2
The opening is a juicy apple accord tempered by magnolia's waxy coolness, bright but not childish.
Paradise
Paradise opens with a bright, effervescent burst—pink pepper lending a gentle sparkle to dewy freesia and bergamot.
More by Demi
More by Demi opens with a soft heliotrope haze—powdery almond warmth that feels like stepping into a sunlit room where someone has left a vanity table scattered with lipsticks and face powder.
Swiss Army Forest
The opening is sharp and slightly medicinal—lemon oil cut with nutmeg's dry spice, bracing as alpine air.
Convivio
L’Eau Super Majeure d’Issey
L'Eau Super Majeure d'Issey opens with a jolt of herbal intensity—rosemary and clary sage strike with medicinal clarity, almost austere in their brightness.
Just Cavalli
Just Cavalli opens with a sharp, clean neroli that feels almost medicinal in its intensity—bright citrus peel crossed with white flowers, airy and unsweetened.
Happydisiac Man
Espionage
Wow! for Women Joop!
Wow for Women
Wanted Freeride
Oud Vibration Roos & Roos
Oud Vibration
Botica 214 Fiji Paradise O Boticário
Les Sorbets de Luna
Blackberry & Bay Cologne
Wanted
Azzaro Wanted opens with a brisk aromatic salvo—ginger heat mingles with mint and lavender, undercut by a flash of lemon.
Midsummer Woman
The opening is a bright citrus-melon surge, sharp with grapefruit and lemon but softened by the dewiness of crushed grass.
Robinson Bear
Patchouli Mania
Lucia Starlight
Flamboyant Prive
Playboy VIP Platinum Edition
Aura by Swarovski Collection Mariage
Aura by Swarovski Love Collection
Matin Blanc
Matin Blanc opens with the sharp, silvery brightness of bergamot and neroli together—a citrus clarity that feels more like cold water than juice.
Modern Chypre
Dalia
Dalia opens with a contradiction: pomegranate and raspberry offer a bright, slightly tart sweetness, while galbanum cuts through with a cold, green sharpness that refuses to let the opening turn into simple fruit punch.
Voyager Woman
White Song
White Song Roos & Roos
Silky Grass
Nordic Waters For Her
Volare Eau de Parfum
Volare opens with a crisp, green collision of pear juice and vegetal galbanum, the violet leaf adding a cucumber-like coolness that feels more bracing than sweet.
Excite Force
Éclat de Nuit
Éclat de Nuit starts with black currant and lemon working together: the currant is sharp and slightly leafy, the lemon crisp and citric, the combination bracingly tart before it settles.
Kisses Don T Lie
A haze of pink pepper and bergamot opens with deliberate softness, making space for the violet that follows almost immediately.
L'Insoumis Ma Force
La Fille de L'Air (2021) Courrèges
La Fille de l'Air 2021
Hamdani
Nashi Blossom
Tulipe Noire
Aura Swarovski Eau de Toilette
Turn 1 Eau de Toilette
Florabellio Eau de Toilette
Florabellio opens with a saline brightness cut through by the green anise snap of fennel—an unusual coastal-herbal introduction that feels bracing rather than overtly floral.
Volare
The opening is a generous orchard-and-florals blend — pear and apricot providing fruity sweetness, violet and iris introducing powder and floralcy, galbanum adding a sharp green note that prevents the fruit from dominating.
L'Eau Majeure d'Issey
L'Eau Majeure d'Issey opens with a sharp citrus blast—grapefruit and bergamot cut through with a cooling mint that feels almost medicinal in its clarity.