Nothing beats a great cologne for the sweltering days of summer. The Scented Hound and the rest of the CaFleureBon gang review their favorite summer colognes. Plus, there’s also a fantastic draw that you can enter for some great perfumed prizes. For the complete list of favorite summer colognes, click here.
WHAT I SMELL: Graine de Joie opens with a combination of juicy pomegranate and red berries; it’s fresh, clean and sparkling sweet. Soon enough, a bit of wood enters, but the sweet fruits on top are the main focus. There’s also an underlying current of a kind of light hairspray feel to the fragrance. After around 10 minutes, that hairspray component disappears and the fragrance begins to bloom slightly as it becomes bigger and rounder and more juicy. After around 30 minutes the musk starts to appear along with the freesia which then make the fragrance more “bathtastic”. In other words, it feels like it is more suited to being used as bath oil than as a perfume. Graine de Joie is pretty linear as it’s all about the juice. Unfortunately there’s also something very artificial about this that drives me away.
From the Eau D’Italie website:
Graine de Joie is a tribute to Love, a vibrant and luminous Eau de Parfum that evokes the irresistible feeling of light-headedness of when you fall in love. A bright and joyful fragrance with notes of red berries, pomegranate, pralines, and musk.
Top notes – pomegranate, red fruit; middle notes – freesia, praline; base notes – cedarwood, musk
WHAT IT SMELLS LIKE TO ME: Pomegranate red.
THREE ADJECTIVES THAT DESCRIBE GRAINE DE JOIE: fruity, bathtastic, artificial
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT GRAINE DE JOIE: Chemist in a Bottle, CaFleureBon, Bergamotto e Benzoino
BOTTOM LINE: Graine de Joie is clearly not for me. If you like light, clean and fruity perfumes it might work for you. Actually, I wouldn’t mind this as a fragrance diffuser for my bathroom.
77 years ago, Amelia Earhart disappeared while trying to fly solo around the world. Caron’s En Avion was created in celebration of the original adventuresome pilots from the 1920s and 1930s. Check out my new CaFleureBon post about these women and enter into the draw for a 7.5ml Caron fountain bottle of En Avion Parfum Extrait! Sorry, the draw is only open to readers in the U.S. Read the full article by clicking here!
En Avion became a summer staple for me this year. I originally gave it a four bone rating…but it’s creeping up to a 4.5 these day! You can find my original Scented Hound review by clicking here.
The Scented Hound 