Rêverie au jardin (Daydream in the garden) (it’s a little hard to give the nuance in the name as he uses ‘au’ which means ‘with’ instead of ‘dans le jardin’ which would usually be ‘in the garden’, properly it would be Daydream with the garden or Daydream with garden, which to me has a difference nuance which is hard to convey in English, almost side by side equally, rather than ‘in’) is Tauer’s newest fragrance. Thanks to a friend at POL who shared her sample with me, I was able to experience it. This is certainly a lovely fragrance. It joins his others that are equally compelling.
Rêverie au jardin
a classical fragrance, twinkling like a star, caresses your journey, through green lands.
Tangy galbanum and gentle fir circle a green mountain lavender.
Bulgarian rose softens an airy and mystical frankincense.
Abelmoschua seed embrace a woody vetiver and balmy tonka bean. Tauer perfumes
If you could picture a polar opposite to his beautiful desert fragrance L’air du désert marocain, Rêverie au jardin is it. Whereas L’air du désert marocain is dry and spicy, Rêverie au jardin is green and floral.
I would seriously have considered not trying this fragrance, as I have yet to meet a lavender that I really like. Usually lavender is used in men’s fragrances, and even a spritz is unwearable by me.
But this lavender reminds me of the lush sweet flowers planted by my son’s mother-in-law. Her garden has three different lavenders, each of which gives up its fragrance when the flower is pressed in one’s fingers. Tauer’s vision of lavender is imminently wearable.
Rêverie au jardin
I love lavender, in all its facets ranging from herbaceous, spicy green notes to sweet, clean flowers and woody, vibrant chords. I wanted to create a fragrance that captures this complexity and transform it into a perfume. A perfume that melts into the skin, and makes me dream of green lands and twinkling stars. Tauer perfumes
He has captured his vision perfectly.
I confess when I looked at the notes, I didn’t know what to make of them.
I love greens. I’m not so convinced of fresh. Fresh as in real life freshness, yes. Fresh as in some modern ‘fresh fragrances’ that are too sharp and artificial for my tastes, no. This freshness falls into the former category.
Fir? I didn’t think so…but these are blended exquisitely. The fir is definitely not a strong pine scent. It lingers on the edges, completing the memory, it does not take over the fragrance.
Lavender? Rose? Maybe not.
It just goes to show in the hands of a master parfumeur anything can happen.
As for a garden, it joins others that I like, Hermès Un jardin sur le Nil and Hermès: Un jardin en Méditerranée…even Hermès Hiris, which is a lovely iris fragrance.
But how to describe the differences in just a few words? The Hermès all have a strong opening and the notes are almost jarring in comparison to Tauer’s garden fragrance which opens lushly and moves more subtlely. Each take you on a journey.
Rêverie au jardin
The notes
The head notes are very green and fresh- lavender (high altitude mountain lavender from France, galbanum and fir balm with bergamot and rose absolute from Bulgaria softening the herbaceous lavender.They lead over to a musky, fresh heart note (frankincense from India and ambrette seeds) with a woody and flowery orris line.
The body note is the most complex part of the scent, being a soft, and airy wood accord (vetiver, tonka beans, oakmoss). Hints of vanilla and ambergris, sandalwood and cedar wood play into a balsamic tone that seems to last for ever. Tauer Perfumes
All in all, on me, the fragrance comes down to a lovely floral, somewhat sweet but not like candy, somewhat vanilla-y, tempered by the green notes. I quite like it.
Have you tried it?
Karin
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4 comments ↓
Discovered your blog only recently and am enjoying reading it!..
I *have* tried Reverie and love it..infact, I am wearing a bit right now and cannot resist sniffing my arm at regular intervals..its fresh but warm, herbaceous but sweet-purrfect..:)
Thanks for your kind comments.
Isn’t it lovely! It certainly is not astringent in its freshness. If I say ’sweet floral,’ it conjures up a different sort of floral altogether than what this floral is. And if I said ‘lavender floral,’ if someone is like me and dislikes lavender, they would pass it up without a try. I think it must be the warmth that you mention. I like it too.
It is a lovely scent and a most elegant success. The fresh and green opening marrying to the warmth of the base and the whole is cuddly and very wearable without losing character. Very, very pleasant!
Yesterday I spritzed to my heart’s content. (I’m always VERY careful with the first few wearings. I never want to be taken by surprise by a scrubber.) It was never too heavy. It never went through a stage that I wished didn’t exist. Yes, I agree, it is elegant, and comfortable, but different enough that it is unique to anything else I own and like his other scents, never boring.
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