Régime des Fleurs · Mathieu Nardin, with Alia Raza

Tears

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5
Régime des Fleurs asks $275 for 75 ml
75 ml$275

VersionEau de Parfum

Pink pepper, mandarin and green cognac over lilac and powdery orris, settling on salty ambergris, frankincense and skin musk.

Régime des Fleurs says

You’ll smell Green Cognac, Pink Pepper, Mandarin Orange Flower, lilac, iris (orris), frankincense (olibanum), ambergris and musk.

More from Régime des Fleurs’s description

It also mentions Lilacs, Frankincense, Orange blossom (fleur d'oranger), Green cognac oil, Rosewater, Mandarin oil, Soft spices, Orange flower, Tender lilac, Iris (powdery orris), Woody resin, Salty ambergris and Skin-warmed musk.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Tears’s scent picture, a draft: green cognac, pink pepper, bitter orange, lilac, iris, frankincense drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Tears, top notes: Green cognac, Pink pepper, Bitter orange, Mandarin

Heartas it settles

Tears, heart: Lilac, Iris, Frankincense, Rose

Dry-downwhat stays

Tears, dry-down: Ambergris, Musk

What’s inside it

What Régime des Fleurs names

Green CognacPink PepperMandarin Orange FlowerLilacIris (orris)Frankincense (olibanum)AmbergrisMuskLilacsFrankincenseOrange blossom (fleur d'oranger)RosewaterMandarin oilOrange flower

What the label names

12 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 & lavender8 florals1 spices

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals8

Amyl cinnamal (aldehydes)Amylcinnamyl alcoholBenzyl salicylateCitronellolFarnesolGeraniol (rose)Hexyl cinnamal (aldehydes)Hydroxycitronellal

Spices1

Isoeugenol
7 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell7

AlcoholWaterAvobenzone (a UV filter)Denatonium benzoateOctisalate (a UV filter)Benzyl alcoholBenzyl benzoate

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

EmpressaPenhaligon's · shares pink pepper, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), frankincense, cashmere knit and 2 more$290 for 100 ml
Fleur de PeauDiptyque · shares pink pepper, orris, ambergris, cashmere knit and 1 more$260 for 75 ml · about the same as Tears’s $275
312 Saint-HonoréBDK Parfums · shares pink pepper, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), orris, ambergris and 1 moreabout $252 for 100 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.