Tartine Et Chocolat Ptisenbon

I first purchased a bottle of this around 2003. I'm on my second bottle now. I think the first bottle I had must be the original formula because the quality seems different, and while I do prefer the original, I still love this scent. I wouldn't normally gravitate towards citrus, but it is so delicate and gentle in this blend. It's very clean but not in the lemon Pledge sense. It's the type of thing you'd want to put on before bed after a nice shower. It doesn't scream "perfume"; it's one of those fragrances that could just be the way someone naturally smells. I can see why this was marketed as a child's scent, but it doesn't read as juvenile on an adult.

This was one of my first perfumes during high school. I remember this as a light, airy, and fresh fragrance. It's like a clean and shower fresh type of scent. I had the one in the smoked glass bottle with the designed cap on. It's perfume, but it was inoffensive and could be worn daily. Heck, I even wore the hell out of this to school. It was just enough to make you smell clean. It sat close to my skin as it dried down. I also wore this no matter the weather, but it stood out a lot during summer and spring.

A friend gave me a full bottle of this the Christmas of 1998. It was so fresh and light, a gentle pick-me-up, an antidote for the stress of working in humid, traffic-filled Manila. Under those conditions I used it up in two months. I understand it is very popular in tropical-climate areas, where it is neither overwhelming, nor so subtle it disappears totally.

I wore this about ten years ago. I liked it at the time, but now that I've got myself another bottle, I love it! The only two bad points is that now I have to share it with my kids and it really doesn't stay that long... But still a fresh and nice fragrance that gets me to sniff my wrists from time to time.

This is a very gentle mist of orange blossom and soft citrus. Part of what makes it so soft is that my bottle is either alcohol free or has an extremely low alcohol content, and although the scent is fleeting, it leaves a very faint but beautiful orange glow upon drydown.