Frédéric Malle · 2005 · Dominique Ropion

Carnal Flower

VersionEau de Parfum

Frédéric Malle says

You’ll smell watermelon, tuberose and musk.

More from Frédéric Malle’s description

It also mentions Water fruits (melon), Vegetal notes, Tuberose (fresh aspect), Tuberose (milky aspect), Melon, White musk, Milky notes, Tuberose absolute, Camphor, Spices, Milky notes and White musk.

The house’s page

The drawn Carnal Flower bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Carnal Flower’s scent picture, a draft: watermelon, tuberose, musk, melon, white musk drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Carnal Flower, top notes: Watermelon

Heartas it settles

Carnal Flower, heart: Tuberose, Melon, White musk

Dry-downwhat stays

Carnal Flower, dry-down: Musk

What’s inside it

What the label names

9 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender3 florals2 spices1 powder

5 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell5

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoateBenzyl alcoholPentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.