Fleur de Fleurs Nina Ricci 1982 Parfum de Toilette

Fleur de Fleurs (Parfum de Toilette) by Nina Ricci

Bottle Design Marie-Claude Lalique

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Fleur de Fleurs (Parfum de Toilette) (Nina Ricci)

8.1 / 10 8 Ratings

Fleur de Fleurs (Parfum de Toilette) is a perfume by Nina Ricci for women and was released in 1982. The scent is floral-animal. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Floral

Animal

Chypre

Green

Citrus

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Top Notes

Aldehydes

Bergamot

Green notes

Lemon

Heart Notes

Hyacinth

Cyclamen

Iris

Jasmine

Lilac

Lily of the valley

Magnolia

Rosemary

Ylang-ylang

Base Notes

Civet

Musk

Sandalwood

Perfumer

Betty Busse

Ratings

Scent

8.18 Ratings

Longevity

6.98 Ratings

Sillage

6.88 Ratings

Bottle

8.010 Ratings

Submitted by WiB, last update on 22.02.2024.

Variant of the fragrance concentration

This is a variant of the perfume Fleur de Fleurs (Eau de Toilette) by Nina Ricci, which differs in concentration.

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2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/24/2023

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Pricing 7
Bottle 6
Sillage 5
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Lauser93
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Lauser93

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A pretty good fragrance with a lousy shelf life

It's Sunday, so once again the perfect opportunity to unpack a vintage fragrance. It makes sense to compare the Parfum de Toilette and the Eau de Toilette version of Fleur de Fleurs. I like both fragrances very much. To my surprise, the Parfum de Toilette lasts less than 3 hours and then becomes very skin-deep. The sillage is at least quite solid at the beginning.

The top note starts quite green, citrusy but also somewhat aquatic. I recognize bergamot, lemons, peach and a certain soapiness. The heart note offers a mixture of herbs and flowers. I can smell rosemary, lilac, violet, iris, magnolia and jasmine blossom. The base has a sweet, leathery, animal, woody and balsamic scent of musk, civet and sandalwood.

I find the fragrance DNA to be quite unisex and more suitable for warmer days.

05/26/2023

BrianBuchanan
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BrianBuchanan

4

Platonic Flower

Fleur de Fleurs means Flower of Flowers; an abstract, Platonic Flower perhaps.
It's a floral, but not any one type of flower.
The reality is more prosaic than Platonic; Fleur de Fleurs is an old fashioned bouquet.

One point of reference is the naturalism of Patou's Vacances, a joyful invocation of French meadows in summer; lightness, green, flowers, it's one of the finest Nature Bouquets ever made.

Fleur de Fleurs has a similar flowery feel to Vacances, but there’s more to it than that.
It was launched in the early 1980’s. It’s a bit like Eau de Gucci, and has a soft Ambery feel like Vanderbilt.
However, it’s less like the Rose Chypres of Sinan and the original Armani which now typify the eighties.
FdF also has a powdery softness giving it a demure skin-like quality, which is sometimes dismissed as Old Lady.
And so, comparing it with it’s contemporaries, we can see how FdF is rather safe and backward looking.

FdF is an abstraction, but it's not rigorous like Ernest Beaux' No5; it has no manifesto and nothing to say about how women should - or shouldn’t - smell. Instead, rather than forging ahead into a brave new modernist world, FdF accepts the status quo ante.
In fact, with a grainy pollen and spice texture, Fleur de Fleurs is closer to the salicylates and carnation of l'Air du Temps than it is to the aldehyde fantasy of Chanel.

FdF draws on a combination of flowery meadow and classic feminine floral, and, in the face of more innovative trends, it sticks to the old fashioned, even pre-modern idea of Woman as Porteuse de Fleurs - or a sort of ambulant flower vase.

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It’s possible to interpret this on a deeper level though. Spray on Fleur de Fleurs, and put on a flowery dress, and instead of the ancient folk image of the Green Man – whose face is made of leaves – we have the woman covered in flowers – both in perfume and print.
An image not unlike Blodeuwedd in the Mabinogion, a mythical being made with flowers of broom, oak, and meadowsweet.

There is something of a twist in the tale however. In the drydown, Fleur de Fleurs develops a quite bitter and dusty side, which undermines any overly-romantic readings.

And so, I want to give Fleur de Fleurs a positive rating.
It may be less classic than l'Air du Temps, have less joie de vivre than Vacances and be less ambitious than Number 5, but it has great appeal none the less.

Fleur de Fleurs Nina Ricci 1982 Parfum de Toilette

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