Pois de Senteur Parfum

Pois de Senteur Parfum is a soft, classic floral from Caron, created by Ernest Daltroff and released in 1927, offered here as a parfum and marketed for women. Floral is how everyone describes it, about half also find it woody, and a quarter notice sweetness or musk, which fits a delicate, old-style bouquet.

There is no fruit or citrus to speak of; it opens straight onto spring flowers. Hyacinth brings a green, dewy, slightly sharp freshness, cyclamen a cool, watery, faintly green petal note, and lily of the valley a clean, soapy brightness, so the start smells like a garden in April. Rose and jasmine deepen the heart with a warm, slightly honeyed rosiness and a creamy, heady depth, keeping the sweet pea idea of the name soft and powdery rather than sugary. The base is cedar, sandalwood, vanilla and musk, a dry and a creamy wood, a gentle sweetness and a soft, skin-like finish.

It is a daytime scent for spring, for women who like gentle, green, powdery florals in a classic French style.

Pois de Senteur Parfum — for women fragrance by Caron (released 1927). Notes: Cedar, Cyclamen, Hyacinth, Jasmine, Lily-of-the-Valley, Musk, Rose, Sandalwood, Vanilla. — Parfica open fragrance database