Less classy than Chanel Gabrielle, less fruity than Chanel Chance Tendre and less floral than Miss Dior. I also noticed after an hour or two it started smelling very synthetic and artificial, which is strange to me because I’ve never smelled something so…fake. I'm not a big fan of the green fruity grassy-ish opening but the dry down is beautiful on my skin, first it turns into raspberry with vanilla, even later it turns into a soft patchouli with musk and the lingering vanilla. It's not supposed to smell like a real bowl of fruit with a dusting of the most precious ancient patchouli essence. The scent is just too sweet for me, even to the point of smelling synthetic, especially when I first sprayed it.

There are supposed to be orange and tangerine notes but they never paired with the orange blossom and were completely cancelled out of the dry down which transitioned right to the patchouli note. Mon Paris is as much a flanker to YSL Paris as Black Opium is to any version of Opium - that is to say, they have nothing in common.I've noticed that many perfumes tend to pull "sweeter" on me than others report, so you may experience something else entirely. Not very complex and not suitable for the office to me as it doesn't exude elegance or sophistication.

When I spray this perfume my skin smells like burnt rubber or wet cigarettes and unfortunately, it lingers until the scent completely fades away.In addition, as we give you the option to choose what best suits your needs from several sellers, you have the power to decide so you can make your purchase as you wish. keep in mind that this is a more winter and spring scent as it may be too heavy for hot summers and its not very fallesque.

Top notes are Strawberry, Raspberry, Pear, Orange, Tangerine, Calabrian bergamot and Calone; middle notes are Peony, Jasmine Sambac, Chinese Jasmine, Datura and Orange Blossom; base notes are Indonesian Patchouli Leaf, Patchouli, White Musk, Vanila, Ambroxan, Moss and Cedar.The heart is dominated by datura flower accompanied by a bouquet of peony, Chinese and Sambac jasmine and orange blossom. Mon Paris has a sparkling and cute fruity-floral opening with a dominant aquatic strawberry note, but that bitter-green patchouli dry down is a mess, and it has completely put me off from trying the entire line of flankers. There is something about this fragrance…Berry notes are not realistic to me, not really getting recognizeble fruity notes. It even makes my tongue feel fleetingly like I've just licked my flavored lip balm-coated lips and there's a balmy residue.

An hour in, the indolic scent of the white florals have calmed down but it smells a little like urine to my nose. It lasts a good 6-7 hours on me with reasonable sillage (which is unusual for me, I don't normally catch my own scent trail when walking back into my office, but today I did! First you have raspberry and strawberry which alone can smell artificial but it gets worse as the pear note added even more sweetness without a distinct fruit DNA.It does not have the strong scent that this fragrance originally has and gives me a headache, but it stays for so long. Finally, its background adopts a warmer and more sensual tone, thanks to the presence of notes such as white musk and sparkles of sweet vanilla.