Fleur de Peau
Keiko Mecheri (2002)

I don’t know what the negative reviews smelled or what version of A Fleur de Peau they sampled. I have a first edition 2002 (tall 100ml serge lutens style bottle) gorgeous golden colored liquid and it’s heavenly! The opening was slightly sweet but not lipsticky Iris and ylang Ylang. I wish the sweetness stayed throughout but that’s just me.
After a few minutes, an ultra smooth but powdery high end leather starts to emerge. Nothing animalic or funky at least not to my nose.
It’s slightly dated but also modern - such a contradiction but the result is nostalgic. I find it to lean fem but a man can definitely pull this off.
It’s not loud like ombré leather and it’s not as quite as Cuir Noir. It’s creating a nice subtle aura around me.
I’m enjoying this quite a bit.

There's an off-putting chemical edge to Fleur de Peau's sweet, animalic leather opening that persists too long for my comfort. This element of discord is all the more distracting because Fleur de Peau is an extremely loud scent. Loud as in one spray fills the room. Without the off note Fleur de Peau might have been a bold, compelling fruity-animalic leather, roughly in the mold of Knize Ten. As it is, it smells like a compounding error. Avoid this if you know what's good for you.

Keiko Mecheri's fragrances tend to be very light and very feminine
she definitely knows her clientele..and caters to their tastes well...
she usually keeps her fragrances light and powdery..
This is a slightly different .....
its very pronounced civet note is mixed well with leather ...
making it sensual and masculine

A powdery Russian Leather scent.

reminds me of TABAC BLOND

You gotta let this dry. The top notes are really bad. It's not harsh, it's just repugnant. A synthetic fruity, flower. It's very strong. After it does dry down (which is a long time) it becomes a nice powdery floral but it's not worth the wait.

It's not the worst scent I've ever tried, but it's pretty awful on my skin. In general I like Keiko Mecheri, so it pains me a bit that I find this fragrance rather putrid. As mentioned by others, the sillage is intense. This juice reminds me of chemistry lab, when we worked with the aromatic ring compounds. It smells of artificial flowers mixed with an aromatic non-alcohol based solvent, and then it becomes cloying in the dry down. One of my kids said it smells like a funeral parlor. They've never been to a funeral parlor, but imagined that this is what it would smell like. I can't say they're that far off!. A moderate disappointment!

Interesting, dry, and powdery. Smells something like if Knize Ten cut down on the leather and added some florals. It's almost TOO dry, but it still is worth a try.