Le Chevrefeuille Goutal for women

A pretty light lemon spring green floral. It smells like honeysuckle and daffodils after the lemon and green top notes wear off. Spring happiness in a bottle.

Very lovely. Super summery! I am usually a white floral only girl, and I smell more citrus to this but still looove it!

This is nice. I don't think it smells like honeysuckle, per se, but it's a nice light floral. Fits in well with the Goutal line, but not very exciting.

This smells like, when you cut flowers in your garden and stick your nose in the cut stems and inhale.

Green, crisp and fresh perfume, perfect for spring. Realistic, very good quality of ingredients. A charming green French garden in a bottle... Unisex to my opinion

This perfume may very well haunt me forever. I first got a sample at Sephora back in my freshman year of college in fall 2008. I was obsessed with it and couldn’t stop sniffing my wrist. I even made some bad choices at an attempt to acquire a bottle as a broke 18 year old.

I know that scents evoke memories, and that year of my life was especially difficult and traumatic. Still, I would like to own a bottle, for a little sniff of warm sunshine. It feels like golden nectar spilling down your throat when you inhale it. I don’t know how to describe it without it sounding borderline pornographic, but it’s a scent that sticks with you.

Should I bite the bullet and try to overcome the association my brain has with this scent? Or leave it in the past?

A fence in my backyard is covered in honeysuckle, and when it's in bloom, the air is absolutely enchanting. This is a scent I grew up, and I love maintaining it as I grow older.

I first bought La Chevrefeuille for my mother back in 2003 after stopping by a Goutal shop on my first trip to Paris. I had no idea what I was doing buying a perfume for another person, but this lovely white floral that is so true to it's name that it felt like a safe purchase to gift. Sure enough, my mother loved it. Despite the fact that light, sweet and citrusy white florals aren't really my favorites, I loved it too and would steal a spray every time I visited her. I was bummed the day I saw that the bottle was mostly empty and could no longer have my fix.

Twenty years later, I revisited the same Goutal shop and bought this again for my mother. It is a timeless, vintage-style fragrance, and still something that I would never buy for myself, but makes for a great gift for someone who will allow me to visit it's lovely honeysuckle notes on occasion.

One of the most pleasant, elegantly understated, wearable citrus - specifically, lemon - I've found. It's almost like there's some element of tea in Le Chevrefeuille. Really, really lovely. I wonder if it's an ode to goats.

in the beginning i get intense lemon and green notes. it's very refreshing, green and a bit herbal, almost like tea leaves. the florals come through later but they are subtle and leaning green, not sweet at all. really pretty for warm days.

This is one of my all-time favorites. I know there’s a lot of talk about whether this is realistic honeysuckle or not but I never smelled anything like this before (and I never smelled honeysuckle before). To be honest, it smells so good that I almost kind of feel like drinking it… it comes off as a “brighter” version of l’Ile au thé to me, like iced tea that’s slowly melting in the summer, where you’re borderline stuffy from the humidity but relaxing on the grassy lawn under a shade.

I'm already a Goutal fan so it's no surprise that I love Le Chevrefeuille.

I'm a serious gardener and live in a sunny climate with a very active honeysuckle plant sprawling up a trellis and wall. In the spring, when it's first blooming, the scent is intoxicating.

Le Chevrefuille is a photorealistic honeysuckle scent. It's and EDT and a botanical so it's never going to have great sillage or lasting power.

The other honeysuckle I like is Aerin Mediterranean Honeysuckle. It's good too, but the Goutal smells more natural.

Le Chèvrefeuille (EDT)
(Tester, 1111A - April 2021, USD 70)

Le Chèvrefeuille as usual creation from Goutal Paris.
That Honey Suckle note in that opening is to die for.

This smell so realistically pleasing.
The mild flower aspect combination of freshness of Citrus.
Such a fine creation.

But it fade within 30 mins and becoming something unexplainable.
Green, with tint of freshness. tint of citrus. at that all.

But this performance is barely last 2 hours.
I know, I should be aware as the EDP is last only 3-4 hours.
This might be a profile of the house that anything is so beautiful but barely last at all.

I finds, Eau d'hadrian (EDP) is slightly better performer.
Both dry down and longevity.
But that Honey Suckle is to die for.

Score: 7.5/10 (for a scent, the honeysuckle god - so good (9/10), consider performance and dry down, it's 7/10)
Longevity : 1-2 hours
Projection : Soft becomes closer to the skin after 30 minutes.
Classification : Unisex, femme leaning (it is floral scent)

This is a mild dislike for me, since I really wanted to find a true-to-life honeysuckle soliflore but this perfume doesn't really fit the bill for that for me.

Le Chevrefuille by Annick Goutal or Goutal opens up very lemony on my skin and then dissipates to a lighter lemon and petigrain scent with a hint of honeysuckle thrown in. It's a very green and citrusy perfume that only has hints of white floralcy in it and I find it very unisex smelling. I really wanted it to smell feminine though.

The sillage and longevity of this perfume on my skin were moderate, with it lasting about 4 hours on my skin. It smells very clean and like you're fresh out of the shower with this scent, thus making it very appropriate to wear during the day in the office or doing casual daytime activities.

If I had to compare this scent to Mediterranean Honeysuckle and Mediterranean Honeysuckle Clemintina by Aerin Lauder, I'd say that this perfume is even more citrusy than those two even. Not that I think that those two perfumes smell anything like honeysuckle flowers, either.

In summary I would give this perfume a 4/10. It's not awful, but it's a bit sharp to my nose and not how I would like to smell. It makes me cough too.

Stunning. Delicate. Ethereal. Not too sweet, just right. If you love fresh, spring-inspired scents, I can promise you'll love this. Of course, like most delicate freshies, it unfortunately doesn't last. I'm still tempted to splurge though.

تداعی بوی بهشت با پیچ امین الدوله در بستری سبز
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Scent & Quality: 10/10
Longevity: 6/10
Sillage: 6/10
Creativity & Uniqueness: 8/10
Affordability: 4/10
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Overall: 6.8 +0.5= 7.3/10

a simple, soapy green floral with the preciousness of honeysuckle's curving, willowy stamen. it brings to mind a song titled jean walks in fresh fields. as if you're stepping lightly barefooted through a sunny meadow, just before sunset, when the world has shed its daytime finery and slipped into more delicate, precious things that send whispers over the skin and nose. blades of uncut grass sway in the breeze, a capricious little wind carries the scent of pale lemon from the grove an acre over, and as you hear the call to come inside for supper, you hurriedly pluck a few blooms and tuck them away in the front of your apron to adorn your nightstand at bedtime.

6/10

This is a 100% golden ticket for me! Starts with a strong hit of honeysuckle as the green softly lands under. Immediately transported to a childhood memory of skipping through a lush green and wildflower field on a delightful summer day. I accidentally spilled my sample on my dress sooooo consequently the longevity was ....ever as was the sillage. :) I am not dry cleaning until it is absolutely necessary I just love this soo much. Researched the FB price and as a frag under $200 totally worth it!

在我身上檸檬並不明顯，
忍冬+些微茉莉花香
夾帶著苦橙葉的綠感
整體呈現出花茶風味
可惜擴散不夠，
但是持香幽長貼膚，
屬於辦公室使用也不打擾人的香氣，
春夏舒服的好香

Another disappointment from the house of Goutal .
I have now tried two bottles and five samples and I haven’t liked one .

This is borderline masculine with the intense lemon and pettigrain notes .

Can’t smell anything else - literally hand wash scent .

I’m out! Not trying anymore from this perfume house , way too vintage formulations

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This really shines in warm humid weather as does the real honeysuckle. It’s fleeting too just like the flowers.

It is a greener version of the creamy lemony Hall’s(Japanese) honeysuckle variety.

Caprifoglio L'Erbolario is the best, most realistic honeysuckle IMO that I’ve tried, the closest to the fine scent details of the flowers. This is much harder to get your hands on. Not expensive, better strength, if you can find it and wait weeks to get it from Italy.

Annick G is easy to find and while I overpaid for mine(wish I waited-kick), you can get it at a great price now.

8/10-Almost like the real thing, but fleeting…

This is lovely and realistic, without so much as a hint of anything synthetic or off. The scent is feminine white fresh floral perfection. Unfortunately, my skin eats every trace of this in a matter of minutes, which means that what this smells like barely matters (it lasts a little longer on fabric).

If your skin chemistry knows how to hold onto this, it's beautiful and smells exactly how it ought to. Definitely recommend sampling.

You're 13 again, wearing a white sundress and running through a wide green field on a sunny spring day.
You lay down in a bed of honeysuckle.
It's young, green and a bit sweet.
Life is good, free of worry.
Too bad this fragrance doesn't last. Just like that fleeting blissful stage in life.
But I'll happily repurchase again and again just to experience that young and carefree feeling.

It is Feb 28th. The temperatures are starting to warm up outside and I'm yearning for spring. I look through my perfume wardrobe to find the perfect perfume to help me make the transition. Voilà Le Chevrefeuille! Perfect! I spray it on. Suddenly I'm lying in a freshly cut green field. The warm yellow sun and blue sky are vibrant in color. On the breeze I smell damp hay and blooming honeysuckle. Ah! Thank you Le Chevrefeuille for reminding me that spring and summer are just around the corner. I can hardly wait. LC is one of the most unique fragrances in my collection. I think it is the petitgrain that gives the damp hay note and there is a lot of it but I don't mind. I love the overall picture that this Goutal brush paints. It is an impressionistic honeysuckle that splashes onto the canvas. I spray it liberally. 4/5

If I could wear only one perfume for the rest of my life, this would be it. This is spring in a bottle: when I first smelled it I could see rolling green meadows of honeysuckle in my mind`s eye. Do you know how some flowers have these pure scents that can never be replicated? I`ve always wanted to find a perfume that could capture the scents of one flower, in my case, freesia, but this is nearly impossible: all the freesia perfumes/EDTs smell strange and artificial. Well, Le Chevrefeuille is the only fragrance I`ve ever come across that captures the scent of honeysuckle in a beautiful and delicate way that does credit to mother nature. As some of the other reviewers have said, this doesn`t last long, but I`ve found a way to make it work. I don`t spray directly on skin; I spray a few mists in the air and walk into the droplets, letting them fall on my clothes and hair (if you mist finely you won`t stain your clothes). Also, as my bottle sat in my closet for a few months, the fragrance became a lot more concentrated and that has helped the scent to linger as well. I will always repurchase this perfume and I hope the skillful and talented Annick Goutal will try her hand at making a single note freesia perfume. Please!!!!

I will forever be searching for a realistic, soliflore-ish honeysuckle fragrance and unfortunately, this didn't work for me. Le Chevrefeuille pushes the greener aspects to the forefront and I prefer a more intoxicating, floral-nectar approach, but the main dealbreaker was the detectable indole. I totally get that indoles have their place in many white florals, but I prefer it to be undetectable or at least vague and indiscernible. If you're sensitive to those mothball-fecal notes, you may want to search elsewhere for a honeysuckle scent. Glad this seems to work for so many others, though!

Honeysuckles I'm very into:
Aerin Mediterranean Honeysuckle
Tokyo Milk Destiny No 79

I usually don't like citrus in fragrances but I love it here. The citrus here smells green rather than sharp. I have the feeling I'm walking barefoot on dewy morning grass in early spring. Magical !

I can't afford it but I don't care, whatever it takes, I have to be with my love. It never stays for long on me, but I don't care, I take as much as I can get of this sweetness. I am in love and I don't care, I just want this scent all over myself... anytime and anywhere.

Pure, natural, easy, unpretentious, perfection. Worth every penny. I keep it in my nightstand in case I need to clear my mind before sleep... in case I need a reason to get out of bed... and for whenever I want to feel joyful.

This is honestly my favorite scent--perfect combination of fresh, light floral, green and a touch of citrus. However I had to stop buying it because it's $$$ and the projection and longevity are so poor (you need to spray it on your clothes for the scent to last at all).

-Opens with the stereotypical Goutal citrus DNA which I'm not a major fan of. (Ninfeo Mio has this opening too)
-Dries down to an amazingly fresh, light scent.
-Overall, I'd say this is a very pretty scent.
-Still, not full bottle worthy for the fleeting lasting power. (-)

*Update*
-Obtained a decant of this scent for further testing.
-Opens with the typical Goutal citrus rind scent.
-This citrus rind scent fades into the background, and starts to reminds me of tea. The realistic kind of tea- clean, airy, inoffensive.
-Projection: Low. Mainly a skin scent.
-Longevity: Medium. 6-8 hours as a skin scent. (6 sprays on clothing.)

Morning dew clings to freshly broken hollow stems. Turning your attention to the flower, you pull the calyx away from the honeysuckle and a bead of nectar rolls down the stamen towards your tongue.

Photorealisticly green and fresh, it is the entire experience of blooming honeysuckle excepting the bees and sweet stickiness on your lips. The wearing mimics the day, as it starts off tender and cool but as your skin warms it is less delicate and more robust. It ends in a cold glass of iced honeysuckle tea with condensation rolling down the glass, leaving you refreshed yet anticipating your next meeting.

Never overwhelming or heady, it is an uplifting, easy wear.

This fragrance started with a very pleasant yet extremely brief fresh green blast. One minute or two later, it started to become progressively soapier and soapier. Nice soap mind you. A huge bar of french honeysuckle milled soap. It has faint lemon undertones. Projection is at half an arm but could increase to an arm with lavish application.

I fell in love this scent right after I wore it. It was May in 2005, I felt as my life changing, getting busy but much better, vivid, positive.. Oh! I can easily remember how I felt myself these days. This must be the freshest perfume that I have so far. The scent of real honeysuckle as you breath at the depth of this small magical flower. And this is the one I got so many compliments ever as well! I still keep one non-opened 100ml bottle with the yellowish orange bow tie :)

This is the scent of fairies and unicorns playing in the morning dew. Pure innocence. It is a very good interpretation of honeysuckle. It is very pretty and airy. It does not last long at all but I don't mind as it is a pleasure to use on a hot day (not that many here in the UK).

Is it really smells like Dior Star? If you have both, please let us known.

Nice light scent, exactly in the style of Annick Goutal. First it smells like freshly cut grass, then I start to sense the honeysuckle. It smells very, very natural, not even a hint of synthetic. It is a very simple scent, but also very pleasant, like a barefoot walk in the grass. The only downside is the longevity, 1-2 hours at its best

Warm, floral, sweet, lemon, bitter. Green in this reminds realistic slightly dry, warn and soft grass. Lemon reminds natural, refreshing lemon drink. It's like warm, cozy summer meadow. When I close my eyes and smell this perfume it's like sleeping next to real flowers. It is sweet but not overwhelming, it's rather grass bitterness that some can find not for their liking. I think this perfume will fit best in late spring and summer, because it would be weird to smell so summery meadow in any other time. Especially it would be comforting and cheerful in gray rainy spring or summer day. Lovely and feminine. I think this could perfectly fit any age. This perfume "color" is yellow. It little bit reminds me mimosa. After about hour it reminds me drinking soft, sweet tea with lemon in garden with cut grass.

I'd forgotten how much I love honeysuckle until I was in a garden that had an abundance of it—vines climbing thickly up an arched wall and clambering over a trellis tunnel, nearly every inch covered in fragrant white and yellow blossoms. The scent was intoxicating, and I fell in love with honeysuckle all over again. I was determined to capture that crisp, fresh, summery wildness in a bottle.

For me, Annick Goutal's Le Chevrefeuille did just that. To my nose, this opens with the perfect blend of dew-kissed honeysuckle and green vine; in drydown, the lemon becomes more prominent but still not overpowering. There isn't much evolution in the scent on my skin, but IMO it's quite lovely in its simple profusion of honeysuckle blossoms and green vine.

This is a delightful fragrance for a summer day (but I know my OCD will freak out if I try to wear this "out of season").

the really beautiful honeysuckle is just fleeting, green note or tea-like smell lasts and mellows into untouched virgin like ladyish smell.

This is a scent that invokes good memories, the romantic, the childhood, the relaxing time in a summer sun shower...

Honeysuckle before its nectar is ready to sip, when the flowers are still veined green. Before they unwrap themselves and let their tongues loll. Nascent.

As a child (and still), I liked to pluck blossoms off the vine, gently pinch the bottom, draw out the central pistil, and suck on the single drop of sweet ambrosia hanging from it. I knew the honeysuckle was "ready" when it had more of a heavy, flagrant scent, similar in quality to jasmine or orange blossom. Finding ripe honeysuckle felt like finding buried treasure.

That flush moment is what I was hoping this perfume would evoke, and it doesn't. But I do like this more restrained scent. I too pick up on lemon, tomato leaf, maybe boxwood or ivy? After half an hour the lemon and leaves are coming to the fore.

In Le Chèvrefeuille I perceive the tender hand of the gardener. Cultivated, not a wild profusion of vine.

How bizarre. I must have crazy chemistry, because on me this smells exactly like freshly-snapped string beans and green apple slices. Oddly I think I might like it, because it smells exactly like summer where I grew up.

We grew a lot of our food, and I spent many hours of my childhood sitting cross-legged in the shade of our big apple tree snapping the green beans we had just picked from the garden. The entire back fence was covered in honeysuckle, and we used to sneak and pick a few blossoms to slurp on. (Honeysuckle was forbidden because my mother had a phobia of bees and was terrified that we would suck down a wasp with the nectar.)

The honeysuckle is in the background for me, just like it was in our garden. I know there are no green beans or apples in the notes, but they are here on my skin, transporting me back to the days of bare feet on cool clover. When I breathe in I can feel the grass and the breeze, and hear the plink-plink of beans falling into the tin pan as I furiously snap away, racing to finish first. I can taste the occasional bite of not-quite-ripe green apples pulled from low-hanging branches overhead, and drops of forbidden nectar sipped from honeysuckle blooms.

This is so odd for a perfume, but so relevant to my personal experience, that I might be adding it to my full bottle niche wishlist.

Honeysuckle? Honeysuckle?
I kept waiting for this to be more than greenery and lemons, but it never came. TBH, I'd say the dry-down of Lush's Lust, a predominantly Jasmine scent, has more honeysuckle than this does. A bit of Narcissus, yes, but the closest to honeysuckle is a soapiness in the final drydown.

Green fresh fine and clean honeysuckle. Really nice for summer but not only. I wear it just as well in autumn and spring

A fresh green honeysuckle composition, which Goutal has chosen to accent with citrus. I know there's no honeysuckle absolute, and I like my honeysuckle indolic and heavy (the flowers are really intoxicating), but I understand it would be less wearable that way, like certain jasmines. So this is feminine, refined, and good quality as with all Goutal scents. Very refreshing, to wear with a pretty dress for a summer lunch, kind of thing :)

I just love it, love love loce it... it's so fresh, feminine, innocent & romantic... It is a white floral soap-clean scent that i find great for summer days... The only problem is that it doesn't last long at all. Half an hour max... Too bad because i really love it but I use it as a body spray

One of my very first perfumes.
On my skin it's a green white floral scent, a little bit sour but very clean, no sweet, no musky, no woody, just as simple as I expected.
It doesn't last long on my skin, but the longevity is pretty if I sprayed it on my cloth.

Tania Sanchez said this smells like tom yum soup without the fish, and in all honesty that sounds pretty good to me, but I don't know where she got that idea! This is a straightforward, sweet, delicate honeysuckle. It's very realistic. In typical Goutal-feminine style, unfortunately, longevity is abysmal. You'll be wondering where it went within minutes. It's lovely, but too short-lived.

I received the perfume today and I really really love it! I've been spraying it on my skin all day long, I just can't get enough of it!
I first received a sample from a friend some years ago and I was and I am still surprised to identify all the honeysuckle plant in this perfume: the flowers, the leaves, the freshness of the morning dew on the flowers. I believe it is indeed a masterpiece and I believe that a masterpiece doesn't need to be a "strong scent".
A particular thing I like about this perfume is that reminds me of the linden trees I walk by at the end of spring, that dreamy smell always fascinates me. Le Chevrefeuille has this nectary feel about it that I also find comforting, like a hug.
I think the word "dreamy" would well describe this fragrance. The only downside, I think, would be the lasting power (natural scents don't last very long?), still the scent is too beautiful for such a thing to become a reason not to buy it.

The best honeysuckle I've ever "met"

When i was a teenager I loved trolling the fragrance counter of Saks, where I first discovered Le Chevrefeuille. I instantly fell hard for its delicate honeysuckle character. Because it would have been a considerable expense for me, I never owned it until just this year, nearly two decades on, and I'm so happy I finally bought it. I wear this when I want to feel like I'm walking through a garden on a summer evening.

Smells just like honeysuckle to me. Very sweet and light.

One of the best summer scents ever. This is a very realistic honeysuckle supported with citrus and green leaf notes. This one conjures up images of walking barefoot across a dew soaked lawn on an early summer morning when the air is still cool. But like a summer morning it disappears all too soon. If you want a fragrance to help you relive childhood this would be perfect. I credit Le Chevrefeuille for making me research honeysuckle and subsequently learning how to pull out the stems and eat that drop of sweet nectar contained within the blossom. Annick Goutal might be a pricey niche line of perfume but there is nothing pretentious about the scent of Le Chevrefeuille. If sunrise had a scent it would be this one.

Very pretty summertime fragrance. Honeysuckle and a little citrus. Gentle like a soft summer breeze. With honeysuckle, I have to be patient to pick up its scent. At certain times of the day, I can't smell anything. The blossom needs to be just at the right stage and there need to be multiple flowers open, before I get anything. Le Chevrefeuille is rather like that as well. Very, very subtle.

So a month after my last review on this fragrance and I received it as a gift! Wearing it now. As I wrote in my previous review, pretty fragrance, but just no honeysuckle yet. Giving it another go.

After doing a search on the best honeysuckle fragrance, and reading several posts and reviews saying this was THE honeysuckle fragrance, I decided to give it a try. Been wearing it a few hours now and I am still anticipating honeysuckles big reveal. I was so looking forward to the honeysuckle fragrance of my youth, yet I experienced an initial overpowering scent of lemon sherbert, then it became bitter, and the dry down was sweet/fruity/powdery. While this is a pleasant, pretty scent, I get no honeysuckle on my skin. Disappointing, but glad I only sprung for a sample vial, and did not she'll out big bucks for a bottle.

I have a sample of this - it is a lovely fragrance but it is very much like the vintage Yves Rocher Chevrefeuille that I have. The AG is a little greener, but like many of their fragrances it has almost no longevity. Will need to make up my mind soon, before it gets any harder to find!

Annick Goutal Le Chevrefeuille is such a delicate rendition of honeysuckle. Its nectarous sweetness is veiled by crisp and green leaves, while lemon adds sparkles. The greenness and tartness are enough to give out a refreshing feeling, but the fragrance never becomes overly sharp. Interestingly, the drydown on me is more like jasmine tea,

The sillage is soft and the longevity is around 5 to 6 hours. Although I'm not particularly enamoured of honeysuckle, the natural and fragile beauty of Le Chevrefeuille makes the wearing experience an utter delight. A simplistic green floral and citrus, very wearable, yet far from being boring. I think it'd make a lovely everyday fragrance during warmer seasons.

This smells chilled honeyed lemon iced tea mixed with dewy honeysuckle on my skin. I spent THE LONGEST time, literally have sampled this on my skin over a dozen times, trying to identify what the fruity component smelled like with my chemistry, and just today it occurred to me what it reminded me of: honeyed lemon iced tea. (this was helped along by the fact that I finished off a Bath and Body Works Lemon Iced Tea candle [London Calling] quite recently.

So a very pretty scent, like sitting in a field of flowers drinking some a tall glass of chilled tea. Even though it is pretty, I personally am not going to purchase a bottle since I smelling like lemon tea isn't really my thing. But I do appreciate how pretty it is.

The staying power is abysmal. 2 hours maximum on my skin, no matter how much I apply.

I see a lot of good reviews here, but this perfume on my skin is a dead ringer for Lemon Pledge.

Green grass & honeysuckle aroma. It associates with a meadow covered in sweet intoxicating wild flowers. There is also some fruitiness to it - a little lemon and perhaps a pear? Lovely for spring or summer. It's pure, happy, sunny, sweet & innocent.

Love the scent but lasts only 30 minutes. One hour later there is absolutely no scent. At least byredo palermo and byredo inflorescense have SOME hint of base note left over after 8 hours, but this lasts 30 minutes and nothing left

I don't like citrus-based perfumes in general, because they turn sour and sharp on my skin. But Le Chevrefeuille is the exception. In this bright, cheerful fragrance the citrusy notes balance out nicely the sweetness of honeysuckle. Perfect scent for summer heat - fresh, feminine, and carefree.

Fresh, crisp, natural, and linear.

This is not a complicated scent. It does not have multiple layers to surprise your senses. What it has is an authentic experience in a garden of fragrant honeysuckles. Close your eyes. You are in a morning garden with dewy honeysuckles. You can feel the cool morning breeze, the delicate honeysuckle petals, and the damp green leaves. You walk with bare feet. Your white morning gown gently rubs the flowers and brings back the beautiful scent to your room...

A master piece of simplicity.

annick goutal fragrances are, on the whole, storybook charming. lace-trimmed dresses stained by grass, running barefoot through the fields, that kind of thing, and i mean it in the best way possible. le chevrefeuille is possibly the best of the line. the opening notes of le chevrefeuille are green and hesperidic, and then the fragrance moves on to an armful of honeysuckle. it's a simple, light fragrance, but it never fails to lift my mood.

the staying power is frankly abominable, although this may be due to the use of a high proportion of naturals. annick goutal is known for spending a large quantity on raw materials.

Bliss in a bottle! Wearing this, I feel butterfly wings flap against my skin and dewy flowers warmed by the sun. Beautiful, Feminine and natural, nothing sharp or chemical. I just want to smell my wrists for hours!

Sweet and green, with a little honeyed touch, very fresh and feminine. Reminds me of spring, like if i was in a garden, surrounded by flowers and trees. Always makes me feel beautiful and happy when i wear it :-)

This is so so lovely on my skin
I was afraid it would be to green or to Sharp, but this is not the case at all With this one .
It is a warm ,sunny ,charming scent. The Narcissus i warm and Natural With a slight slight touch of pepperynes just a tiny bit. the Chevrefeuille is so jummy here not Sharp not to green ,just warm and sunny like the wiff you get in the garden when you walk by this bushes just the right time in the day.
There is a light touch of lemon refreshing and jummy, but its all so well blended that i would say this is a true Chevrefeuille scent.. at least the kinds we have up North in Scandinavia
I just love this . The Pictures this awakes in my mind is a fairy flying around in a garden just after the rain. the sun is warming up the garden and makes it all smells so refreshing and Charming. A real Gem

I am so taken with Annick Goutal fragrances at the moment. Why I am just now getting around to testing them when they are so up my alley, I can't begin to explain. It's a shame. It's also a shame that the large bottles are quite pricey because I am pining for quite a few of them. BTW-I can't help picturing A. Goutal as this otherworldly fairy or something, smiling, as she brews up blends with nothing less than...magic. The ones I have tried so far are so ethereal, light, glowing, and perfect compared to all other fragrances to my nose. She had some secret--fairy dust or something...

Le Chevrefuille is the bees KNEES. For my own tastes, I don't think it gets better than this. I actually get butterflies in my stomach when catch the first whiff of this. I am immediately transported from wherever I am, to the late 80's, As a little girl standing right next to the monster honeysuckle bush growing along the fence in my backyard, with a big, yellow blossom in my fingers, freshly pinched and pulled apart, with a large, glistening drop of sweet nectar balancing where I pinched, waiting to land on my tongue. I would spend hours of my childhood out there, elbowing the bees away, in competition, taking in countless drops of that delicious nectar, this exact fragrance filling the air.

Le Chevrefuille is THAT time and place for me, nothing more, nothing less. Just beautiful, and I want to smell like this every day.



ETA: Lasting power if sprayed onto the back of my neck/into my hair is hours! Also- thought this had long disappeared on my arms... went out into the TX humidity one evening, and suddenly this magical smell was radiating off of me as if I had just sprayed! My friends noticed as well, and all three vowed that this would be their next fragrant purchase.:) this creation makes me swoon....

Absolutely LOVE this fragrance, and agree with most of the positive reviews. Excellent honeysuckly, natural, fresh, wonderful!

Then... it's gone. After an hour or so, I bury my nose into my skin trying to catch a bit of this marvelous fragrance but nothing is there.

I'm so sad that the fragrance evaporates so completely within such a short time, I end up frustrated and wanting.

To invest on a fragrance, despite of its brand, many of us would consider to own a scent with a great silage, and superb lasting power. Yet, many fail to mull on the scent itself, therefore making them lamenting on its short living.

Le Chevrefeuille is indeed a good fragrance, (despite its poor longevity) it is dewy green, fresh and screams 'spring'. The honeysuckle is bright, the smell is so real, and I love the vibrant green scent so much! The citrus adds to its vibrancy and doesn't smell artificial at all. I am more than grateful to own this fragrance.

Disappointing. Honeysuckle is one of my favorite scents in nature and this does not resemble it much at all.

Like nearly all Annick Goutal florals, it follows the usual Goutal formula of a lovely natural flower being drowned by way too much citrus. The citrus notes detract from the delicate, airy sweetness of the honeysuckle. A shame.

I have sampled Chevrefeuille a few times on my skin and found it surprisingly enchanting. I have had problems in the past with AG perfumes starting off with a discordant sharp note of anise or lemon that ruins the entire scent for me. BUT I did not have that problem with Chevrefeuille. Its topnotes are green, sweet and soft. This is the most realistic honeysuckle I have ever smelled. It is a lovely beautiful scent.

It is interesting that many others found it too sour or too green. I found this scent to be very sweet in the toponotes and was glad when the green and lemon came in to balance. My only disappointment was that the lemon and petitgrain seemed to dominate in the drydown, but not in an unpleasant way. They are still balanced by the jasmine and narcissus that have been steadily wafting their scent during the middle notes and drydown. I would wear this scent again and after trying my sample again a couple more times I broke down and bought a bottle. It's worth every penny. It brought me such beautiful memories of childhood and is such a soft, lovely scent.

As others have said, there is no sillage at all to speak of with this and the longevity is weak, maybe 3 hours and that is pushing it. But I will happily re-apply this during a warm summer's day. This is a joyful beautiful scent.

This one is spring in a bottle. It's feel like going to the park in a fresh spring morning, feeling the gentle wind that brings the wonderful smell of the tree in flower and some freshness of citrus. It is really very pleasant fragrance!

Annick Goutal nearly always produces perfumes which I'd be happy to wear again and again. The compositions are sometimes simple, but the quality is dependable, and the soliflores usually offer a slight twist on the named flower. LE CHEVREFEUILLE is a perfect example.

This perfume smells initially to me like a distant cousin to PETITE CHERIE--I catch just the tiniest waft of fruitiness, which could be pear, right at the beginning. Then it disappears forever, and the honeysuckle emerges, but it is rather green, and I find jasmine competing effectively for the center stage. At one point during my first wearing, I started to feel as though LE CHEVREFEUILLE was more of a juvenile perfume--something that Barbie would wear. From there, I thought naturally of Rochas POUPEE and how sad that the plastic of that perfume ruins it for me.

But there is no plastic in Annick Goutal--anywhere, as far as I have sniffed--and LE CHEVREFEUILLE ends up retreating a bit from Barbie territory just enough to make me realize that this greenish honeysuckle-jasmine is a solid soliflore.

I do believe that GRAND AMOUR is a better floral green from this house, but LE CHEVREFEUILLE would be nice to have around to wear now and then, and I do find it to be a better jasmine perfume than LE JASMIN, because it has very different, much less woody and far more likeable base.

It smells like fresh grass, lemon and honey suckle. It feels like " a fresh new start ". Perfect fit for spring when everything is fresh. It's a perfect fragrance for spring but I don't think that it would fit for me in summer. So for me, it's a one-season fragrance. It smells very good and very fresh. But, if I'm only going to wear it one season per year.. it's not worth it.

green and linear, probably one of the best Annick Goutals i've come across

This is an extremely green, zesty interpretation of honeysuckle. For that reason I am disappointed, as I was hoping for a sweeter honeysuckle. Either way I think it's a beautiful perfume, perhaps the only sour perfume I would actually wear, as I am hyper-sensitive to sour scents. This mostly smells like crushed green leaves from a lemon tree combined with lip-puckering lemon juice and a bit of honeysuckle. It is lovely for spring or summer. I am wearing it on a very hot summer day, and I am enjoying it despite the fact that it is not what I hoped for. Like most Annick Goutal citrus perfumes, this one doesnt't last long or project well, but it is so delightful that if you love the scent, I say buy a bottle!

If you could bottle a spring day, this would be it. Honeysuckle and lemons shine in the opening. Tangy and sparkly. As it dries down, the tanginess fades and everything becomes softer. If I were a spring bride, this is what I'd wear while walking down the aisle. A lovely and unique scent that lacks longevity but not beauty.

I tested this along with E D Camille and Charlotte in the hopes of finding a good late spring/summer scent. Of the 3 this is my favorite. It is citrusy and sour in a way that I have trouble describing, an aromatic dry green fragrance. It strikes me as a happy scent and put a spring in my step while I was wearing it. I wish it lasted a bit longer on me and I feel like I can do better in regards to a daytime hot weather scent so I will keep searching but may end up coming back to this one.

I received a sample of this perfume in the mail today. It really is an odd perfume!

I only smell a few white flowers and some green notes. I can't smell the citrus at all. This perfume is way too boring for me.

It's very, very simple. And if you like simple white floral perfumes, this would probably be perfect for you! It's a scent I wouldn't mind smelling on others, but for me I like perfumes that are a tad more complex.

EDIT: Oh, there's something I'd like to add. This perfume to me smells a lot like soap bubbles! I was really struck with nostalgia when I sniffed this for the first time.

Finally, an AG scent that really resonates with me!

Like scentedrat, I pick up lots of citrus and green notes, no honeysuckle- but the scent is enchanting- the closest thing to the original green Clairol Herbalessence shampoo of the 70s!

This soft, refreshing scent would be just fantastic for hot, sultry summer days- but I like it now, too-

One thing that I've learned with AG- if I want to smell their scents for more than an hour, I have to shoot the wad and just use the entire 1 ml decant- otherwise, there's no point...

Hmmm, all I get from this is citrus and some green. Definitely bright and sparkling, and too sharp for me. Oddly enough, I don't smell honeysuckle at all. The honeysuckle in my garden is soft and very sweet. This is nothing like that at all. I get the furniture polish note, too. Based on all the lovely reviews, I was hoping to finally find a honeysuckle scent to love, but this one isn't going to give it to me.

Le Chevrefuille is such an optimistic country-y green scent makes me think of sunny spring. It starts with a bit freshly-cut grass nuance (I’ve never smelt real honeysuckle, so I guess it must be the honeysuckle accord). Then a discreet floral hint comes, somewhat really quite powdery-ish, like then one I find in Chanel No.19, but much less edgy or typical Chanel-y.

Later on, it stays quite linear, just a bit tamed and less sharp. To me, I can’t really smell much floral scent beside a faint narcissus hint, and it more smells of tomato leaves plus some fresh-cut stems.

The dry down is like really tamed narcissus in the air. It makes me think of the countryside and sunny afternoons when there’s a lot of green lush vegetation and people are chilled.

I do like this one and very glad to have it on my table.
At the start, Honeysuckle leads out for a short while ahead of Petit Grain with Lemon in third place. Narcissus and Jasmine? Just not there for me. After a stretch, Petit Grain and Lemon catch up to and take over Honeysuckle for the lead! And at the finish, it is a very dominant Petit Grain with Lemon close behind. Honeysuckle is a faint third. I.e.,sillage mostly of Petit Grain. On me, a dry, clean scent; astringent with flowers. Expensive and the bottle is very pretty.
There are some perfumes to wear for home and family. For me, this is one of those :)
An awesome summer fragrance!

It's early June in Pennsylvania and the air is filled with the into*icating sweetness of honeysuckle. This has inspired me to run home and sweep out my bottle of Le Chevrefeuille.

Having the natural scent in recent memory, it's easy to determine how this fragrance measures up to the real deal. Le Chevrefeuille is lovely and fresh, but not into*icating such as the woods are today. There is a strong tea-like note that accompanies and tempers the floral notes. After a while the tea recedes and the honeysuckle and jasmine join in a swirling pas de deu* for a few breathless moments until they e*it stage left, leaving only a faint remnant of tea behind.

This is the parfumer's fantasy of honeysuckle, not an appro*imation of the real flower. Lovely though it is, a stroll in the park it is not.

(*sorry about the key not working...)

Mmmmm!!

On me? Goes on GREEN at first: like crushed leaves or grass. This is the predominate note for a few minutes, until LEMON appears. Wait just a few more minutes and...

...there it is! The HONEYSUCKLE! Very delicate; not too sweet. I don't notice the jasmine or narcissus, but it could be because I haven't trained my nose to see past the honeysuckle.

I wish the green would linger a while longer. Still, it's a lovely scent; one I could see myself owning.

ahhhh, I found a perfume I can say that I really LOVE!!
It is oh-so fresh and sparkling, reminds me of childhood innocence, fields of wildflowers, and cosy warm hugs from mums and Aunties in the early 1970's....yep it takes me back. Purity at it's best. If you don't mind a short lived pleasure (lasts about 1 hour on my skin) then....DO Try it!

This is IMHO the best feminine summer scent. It is more fresh than green to me. Where a lot of flowers can be sweet and cloying,this is just that faint whiff of honeysuckle after a rain, A joy to wear and never too much.

Very simple and very lovely. Fantastic green flowers. The petit grain and honeysuckle combo, which dominates here, is just simply adorable. It's very feminine, crisp and refreshing. The honeysuckle by itself is very sweet, but the petit graind holds it back a little bit. The jasmin makes the fragrance very warm, so I think it should be suited for those spring days where there's sun, but the air is still a little bit cold.

Wonderful and romantic.

Just stunning!I want to bathe in it!

This is such an honest fragrance. It is all about the entire honeysuckle experience, including the vines upon which it grows.

Like a lot of AG fragrances, the 'green' here is leafy, brusque and realistic courtesy of the petit grain. Unlike Eau de Camille though, the honeysuckle and narcissus bring a moderate floral sweetness to the greenery. Upon drydown, the petit grain shines its citrus light though the foliage.

Also similarly to a lot of other Goutals this has a soft, warm aura which floats up to greet your nose as you wander here and there.

I don't really have an appetite for the scent of leaves so Le Chevrefeuille won't be blazing a path to my permanent perfume collection but I do admire its whole-of-plant philosophy.

It is feminine, fresh, airy, but toooooo green. Does not work on me at all. Pitty.

This is Annick Goutal doing what it does best- a sweet, airy, feminine floral with fresh green undertones which manage to smell natural. If you like AG perfumes you should like this..simple as that

I can not get enough of the narcissus in this one. I feel like Laura Ingels running down the hillside with wild flowers in my hair. It smells natural and clean, just the way you'd want to smell from time to time. It's a must in a perfumista's collection because there is nothing that can really compare.

Le Chevrefeuille is an extremely green scent, almost bitter but lovely all the same.

For those who aren't usually wearers of green fragrances, this may take a while to get acquainted with. Le Chevrefeuille is actually quite delicate and fresh. The honeysuckle, jasmine and narcissus gives this scent an unusual femininity while the petit grain creates an interesting grassy and herbaceous finish.

The lemon is quite dominant alongside the honeysuckle, however this isn't sour citruses, it's more fresh and energizing, with a definite 'zing'.

Oddly enough this fragrance is not sweet. It's rich and quite brash. I disagree with those reviewers that call this a simplistic scent, I think there's a lot going on which makes it very complex for me.

All in all this is a very luscious and happy fragrance which would wear wonderfully in Spring and Summer. The lasting strength is so-so in my opinion, not terrible but certainly not as lasting as other Annick Goutal's that I've tried. If it's possible to get Le Chevrefeuille in eau de parfum concentration then disregard the price tag because that would be your best option.

One of my mostloved scents. Hope it will never be discontinued as it has been released as a limited edition in 2002.

I especially love the tender honeysuckle note in this scent.

Highly recommended!

The honeysuckle is vivid and beautiful here...it reminds me how Annick Goutal always makes her scents close to nature. The honeysuckle is the strongest at first, and then shares the stage with the jasmine. The jasmine is faint in comparison, and I had to concentrate to find it..and I noticed I could find it separately and then at moments I could find it mixed with the honeysuckle. The lemon comes along shortly and is simultaneously tangy and sweet. The petit grain adds to the grassy green nuances, it also seems a bit dry. Once the lemon appears, it does not go away. It stays and overtakes the composition, the dissolving the honeysuckle and hiding the jasmine. The honeysuckle and jasmine last approximately one half hour, the shine and brightness of the scent wear away with it...a soft lemon, and a tender femininity last for perhaps another hour.

C'est magnifique! Not like a sickeningly sweet floral, just a lovely, fresh, feminine, delightful fragrance. When I want to sass it up, I layer it with a little Bandit (Robert Piguet) and they compliment one another well. By itself, Le Chevrefeuille has enough of a musky undertone, but not too overbearing for those who don't like anything too pungent.

Of the entire Annick Goutal line, I think this is my favorite! I love green notes and I think this is one of the best!

I agree with lovelylavender that it is sweet but not overly and it's a very simple scent and that makes it very special.

Unfortunately, the setback is it doesn't last very long!

I really like this one. It reminds me the smell of grass and flower after the rain. However, it does not long last on me.

For me Le Chevrefeuille is the best honeysuckle fragrance ever. One of those things which gives you gooseflesh after you have experienced something really exciting :)))

It's a simply, one line perfume. Great for summer days, or when you want to be total feminime. The honeysuckle is sweet but not overly sweet.

If you like honeysuckle, try it. but if you looking for more complex scent, with a twist in the middle and base, forget it. Le Chevrefeuille is not the one.

It remind me of a young girl, walking in a floral print dress.

It's a simply, one line perfume. Great for summer days, or when you want to be total feminime. The honeysuckle is sweet but not overly sweet.

If you like honeysuckle, try it. but if you looking for more complex scent, with a twist in the middle and base, forget it. Le Chevrefeuille is not the one.

It remind me of a young girl, walking in a floral print dress.