Fleurs de citronnier Serge Lutens 2004

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A perfume by Serge Lutens for women and men, released in 2004. The scent is citrusy-floral. It is still in production.
Pronunciation

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Main accords

Citrus

Floral

Fresh

Sweet

Powdery

Fragrance Notes

Lemon blossom

Musk

Neroli

Tuberose

White honey

Iris

Nutmeg

Styrax

Perfumers

Christopher Sheldrake, Serge Lutens

Ratings

Scent

6.9193 Ratings

Longevity

7.0136 Ratings

Sillage

6.2126 Ratings

Bottle

7.9120 Ratings

Value for money

6.414 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 05.06.2023.

Interesting Facts

In 2005 a limited bottle collection of this scent was released with domino motifs.

Reviews

10 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/07/2020

8
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

Serenissima
608 Reviews

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Serenissima

Top Review 19

Tarte au citron

In the basement of the Galeries Lafayette is the gourmet department; the name is really appropriate.
Here you will find delicatessen and fine delicacies, including a large patisserie area, where you can also drink coffee at small tables and enjoy the small nutritious delicacies immediately.
There, the "Tarte au Citron" attracts me again and again: small tartlets made of short pastry with fresh lemon puree and a meringue cap that is caramel browned.
Each bite is a pleasant mixture of lemon freshness and sweet meringue.
I had to think about this after "Fleurs de Citronnier" had been floating around me for some time and was fully developed.

So far I have had some difficulties with lemon-based fragrances: either they were biting, scratchy, even aggressive, or lifeless and uninspiringly synthetic.
Even big brand names didn't help; we didn't get along with each other.
So I was more than pleasantly surprised here, at a sample from Serge Luten's "Duftwasser-Sixpack".

Lemon blossoms, fresh and at the same time delicate in fragrance, appear with a light nutmeg spice - that is really just a hint, but still perceptible and pleasantly beautiful.
The proud, powdery-scented iris and the soulfully flattering neroli blossom form a harmonious transition to the white, full-bodied and sensuous white flower of tuberose.
Here, flower aromas and spicy citrus freshness combine at their best.
Styrax, the warm, vanilla-scented resin, appears surprisingly balsamic, but without covering the summery lemon flair.
Thus white honey and musk have the most beautiful layer to complete this fragrant lightness.
Just like the meringue cap, the delicious citrus mass on the "Tarte au Citron" described above.

For such a fresh, light summer scent, the shelf life of a few hours is quite surprising; also the scent remains beautifully clear without becoming cloudy or forming unpleasant corners and edges.
I have already noticed this with various citrus scents; here, however, the purity exists down to the last breath.
This fragrance is like staying under the blossoming canopy of leaves of a lime tree, on whose ground the sun draws fine lace motifs and bright lights shimmer through dark foliage.

"Fleurs de Citronniers" is a graceful preview of warm summer days, warming and caressing the skin. At which the desire for "Tarte au Citron" can then be lived out in style under a parasol.

I hope that this fragrant air spirit will bring just as much joy to Gelis, to which he will one day travel. I always find our different perceptions and experiences very interesting.
Sometimes it seems as if we are not testing one and the same bottling.
Let's have a look!

02/07/2019

6
Bottle 5
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

DonJuanDeCat
657 Reviews

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DonJuanDeCat

Very helpful Review 11

Freezing your butt with weak flowers

I'm coming to a Serge Luten's scent today. Today it's Fleurs de citronnier's turn, which sounds nice and citric. And summery. So I'm actually trying the scent at the wrong time, aren't I? I'm not in Germany at the moment, but I know that the weather there is supposed to be under all sows as far as the cold is concerned! Anyway, my brother sent me pictures of snow-covered villages (in Bavaria) with meter-high snow (and cat fans, like all of us in the family, also a video of his cat, who romps around in this meter-high snow!).

With me here, it's milder, even if I have a cold, but that's because I've probably caught it from others, because I'm surrounded by coughing and sneezing people, and that's been *sighing* for days, and it's still so boring when you have a cold, ... I already look on the Internet full of desperation to pass the time, after stupid things like whether you could dehydrate, for example, when your nose is running... :DD
On the other hand one should take a lot of liquid anyway with colds, therefore the question is probably superfluous...! D

Well, before I digress any further, I'd rather hope that the scent is good, especially where I still have my sense of smell...! After all, citrus fruits are supposed to strengthen the immune system, perhaps that works for citric scents as well! He he he

The fragrance:

The fragrance begins with a classic scent of lemons and a slightly floral background. Somehow the first moments remind me of Habit Rouge from Guerlain, which I like very much. But then the flowery notes unfortunately become a bit stronger, but not necessarily stuffier. You can still smell lemons or lemon blossoms, but with all other scents you still have difficulties to smell them out.
An incense-like aura is noticed a little later (probably because of the Styrax), in addition a light honey scent is added, which makes the scent sweeter, but otherwise the scent remains slightly loose and smells like flowers. And that was it, actually. A rather average scent, which one forgets actually quite fast again, because it becomes unfortunately more insignificant towards the end.

The Sillage and Durability:

The Sillage is rather average on the skin and leaves with it hardly a fragrance cloud. As always, weaker fragrances require you to stand slightly close to the fragrance carrier. The shelf life on the other hand is still okay, because the fragrance smells about six to seven hours.

The bottle:

The bottle is rectangular, narrow and high. On the front you can see a label with a dark frame and a name and logo on it (on newer bottles you can see a completely black label). The lid is either black and round (if you haven't screwed on the spray head) or high and cylindrical. A little simple, but still quite nice.

Hmm... the scent is quite loose and light. From Serge Lutens I have, as far as I can remember, had rather heavier or spicier scents under my nose so far. And some better ones, too. This scent here, on the other hand, is so light that it almost seems to be watery. Correspondingly low is also the radiation, as I had just described it, even if the radiation becomes a little bit better later. Nevertheless... should it be clearly smellable for others, then one would already have to bathe in the scent. Let's see... how many liters can fit in an average bathtub? Let's assume 150 liters. Now you can calculate what it will cost to order 150 litres of this fragrance... argh! :D
But you're freaks, like I always say. Even though this is probably unlikely with this fragrance, I can imagine that one or the other has already imagined to bathe in fragrances like Aventus (... what else?...), not true?

Whatever. This scent has good beginnings in the beginning, but then it drifts more and more to insignificance. It is too weak to go out and can only be used as an unobtrusive daily fragrance. Or in your free time for yourself. However, it is probably best to look for other fragrances (also from Serge Lutens), which means that I don't think you need to test this fragrance.

There you go. I hope you're not freezing your ass off in Germany and wish you a nice, nice evening. Then see you next time :)

06/28/2018

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Very helpful Review 3

fleur de citronnier

Fleur de Citronnier is transparent. Not radiant or sheer but straightforward. The arc of the perfume is an easy but entertaining wear. There are no curveballs—spend one minute in this perfume and you pretty much know where your day is headed. Boozy citrus and a raspy, juicy floral accord take you into the heart of the perfume. A honeyed waxy foundation outlasts all the other notes. It’s the framework of the entire perfume, lasting through the lightly animalic floral drydown. Fleur de Citronnier isn’t the most complex wear, but the ride is so smooth and the moments are so lush that I find myself reaching for the bottle the minute I lay eyes on it. Waxy lipstick and a mouthwatering floral-citrus note combine to make Fleur de Citronnier a big tongue-kiss of a perfume.

Fleur de Citronnier has a musk accord that’s shaped a bit like the one in Muscs Koublai Khan. The two have a waxy sweetness that runs on the boozy side and a big, sculptural floral accord. Muscs Koublai Khan’s sweaty rose makes it a more down-and-dirty wear than FdC’s upstanding petitgrain-inflected citrus flower but not by a lot. They’re both seductive–they just move differently. Muscs Koublai Khan is an irresistible force, albeit a slow one. Fight it and it will likely take you down. But give in? There’s some serious pleasure there. Fleur de Citronnier has a much more buoyant quality than Muscs Koublai Khan. It’s built for gentleman-drag, the Vienna Waltz and garden parties.

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03/04/2016

7
Sillage 7
Longevity 5.5
Scent

Karenin
39 Reviews

Karenin

Helpful Review 3

Fleurs de Citronnier

“Fleurs de Citronnier” is my second encounter with a Serge Lutens fragrance, the first one being the marvellous “Arabie”. The two perfumes are like chalk and cheese. While “Arabie” is a dense, spicy-syrupy olfactory reconstruction of an Arab market, “Fleurs de Citronnier” centres on white flowers (lemon blossom, to be more precise) soaked in honey and resting on a soft musky base. The presence of honey is key to the entire composition as it prevents it from falling into the banality of “yet another white flower perfume”. The interesting thing I've noticed is that, on my skin, the intensity of the honey note varies considerably. Sometimes it becomes rather pronounced and, as a result, the fragrance adopts a slightly heavier, if not oriental, air; at other times it settles for the role of a complementary note to the aroma of the lemon blossom. So far, so good. Unfortunately, “Fleurs de Citronnier” loses much of its oomph in the drydown due to the emergence of musk. I'd be quite contented with some proper animalic musk as I believe such a note could have taken the fragrance in a whole new direction. No such luck! The musk in this fragrance is of the obnoxious and currently omnipresent (super)clean, laundry kind.

I'd recommend “Fleurs de Citronnier” to anyone who's into relatively safe, soapy, white flower perfumes. Even though it's far from a dull scent, I'd have found it a lot more intriguing had the base provided at least a hint of a twist of some sort. Not bad, but not something to shout about either.

02/01/2012

10
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Muskwood
5 Reviews

Muskwood

Helpful Review 3

Signature Scent

I wore Fleurs de Citronniers all last year and for some reason I switched to some other perfumes for a few months, but I revisited it, and I can now say that I'm back to it for good.

The top notes are indeed very citrussy- but what is very interesting about this perfume is that is doesn't convey any bitter, cold aspect of the lemon blossom. It is, contrarily, a very warm fragrance that explores the usually very fresh scent of lemon in a much balmier way. The top notes are a little too heavy for my taste actually: they remind me of very warm yellow chandelier lights.

But, the fragrance soon develops into something comforting thanks to the white honey and to the neroli, that offers a soapy aspect to it. What is truly beautiful with this perfume is that the iris and the tuberose, and the white honey result in a white but warm floral scent. This perfume suggests delicateness, luxury and comfort.

What really made me addicted to Fleurs de Citronniers is the drydown/base notes. The musk and white honey provide the most delicious smell- the way it lingers on my skin is subtle and just divine.

I can't stop smelling my wrists. And- the perfume's longevity is great: of course after two hours, the perfume is just very light (which is nice because of the heavy top notes) but the smell is still present, and it will enchant anyone who sniffs you. You can still smell the base notes literally after 12 hours on my skin. I'm amazed.

Also, in my opinion, this perfume is "evergreen", in the sense that you could wear it all year. Personally, I'd still say that this perfume is a little more of a fall/winter/spring scent. But again, it is so versatile that you could wear it in the summer as well, since the base notes are soapy and light.

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