Le Coucher de la Mariée Hair Gloss

[ellocentipede]

Believed to be the first pornographic film, Le Coucher de la Mariée was first screened in Paris in 1896. Billowing white clouds of sugared vanilla chypre.

 

Vanilla wood smoke!  A cloud indeed!

[zankoku_zen]

Vanilla. Smoke. Sex. This smells like an old time vintage racy lingerie blend. It's seductive without being tawdry, sexy without being vulgar. But yes, sexy vanilla.

[PrinceofcatS]

The vanilla in this is SO GOOD.  This reminds me of a lace nightgown. While I get the smokiness impression at first, it quickly turns into a regular chypre underneath a huge vanilla veil.  Moss!!!!!! Hurray!!!!!  I think this could lean sexy or just beautiful without the sex connotations, depending on how you wore it, but if you love vanilla then just go buy it.  Just buy it.  

 

This reminds me a little bit of Lyonesse/Edith Cushing on a good day (her patchouli doesn't love me).  Edith Cushing and Fairytales and Lies smushed together.  A girl in a white dress in a gilded ballroom at the turn of the century.  I'm sincerely in love with this.

[roseus]

The vanilla is so billowy and gorgeous, reminds me a bit of the one in the recent Antique Lace. I don't get impressions of smoke but I do get a bit a freshness from moss, and I want to say I get a bit of soft sandalwood and bergamont? There is certainly something deep and sophisticated beneath the vanilla, which is like PrinceofcatS said - a veil overtop it all. Had a good, but gentle throw on me all day. 

Edited April 2, 2019 by roseus

[Usagi]

Wow.

 

Sniffing the bottle, I worried that this would be too powdery.

 

Initial application in hair, it was high-pitched, but not loud-- like the whisper of vanilla pipe smoke left hanging in a room.  It warmed more with wear, becoming an almost vanilla musk wood scent. The vanilla smoke became a sort of skin musk reminder of borrowing someone's sweater on a cool night-- someone with delicious taste in scent.

It reminded me, in turns, of The Girl, then Brom Bones. I think it was because of the warm vanilla skin musk feeling Le Coucher took on after a couple of hours.

 

This scent lasted a full two days between washes, and smelled wonderful throughout.

 

For reference: two spritzes of gloss on damp, 30+" straight, fine hair, of which there is fair amount. Combed through, blow dried, then worn as usual (up, down, all around, in the sun and wind).

[donkehpoo]

"Sexy smoked vanilla" is probably the best description I can give this. It smells like.. a smokey vanilla cloud.  While it's not a note listed, this does have kind of a tobacco vibe going on as well.

 

I think this is going to be a popular one. Big bottle splurge? Probably.  

[starbrow]

Goth club central! This is straight up vanilla, sex, and clove cigarette smoke. I'm kind of obsessed. The smoke note is so wearable and lets its fellow notes breathe. If tobacco is a stompy note for you like it is for me, I'm happy to report I detect no tobacco-of-doom here. The vanilla is sugary, sultry, and blatantly naughty. It's addicting.

 

This was a medium-wear length HG for me, compared with the monster wear of some. I can already tell I'll need another bottle.

[doomsday_disco]

Le Coucher de le Mariee Hair Gloss is exactly what it claims to be: a sugared vanilla chypre. I definitely get moss and bergamot in the chypre sweetened with a much lighter Boo-esque vanilla. I get more vanilla when I spray the hair gloss into my hand before applying it to my hair than I do when sniffing my actual hair, and this is from trying the hair gloss two days in a row, once on wet hair, once on dry. I shook up my decant really well before application, too, so maybe my decant is less vanilla-heavy? I don't find this to be particularly smoky, but that's fine by me, as I am not really fond of smoky scents.

 

In any case, I think this is lovely and will definitely be hanging on to my decant. I may consider upgrading to a bottle before it goes away, but I am really trying to restrain myself from adding more bottles to my hair gloss collection!

[theseagrows]

i was fairly sure i would love this one and i do. a beautiful, airy, slightly creamy non foody vanilla. yesss. i also want this in bath oil and perfume too. 😍

[milo]

Not sure what the fuss is about. It's nice, but an unremarkable vanilla on me.  I would say it falls between foody and non-foody, kind of airy and fades pretty fast. I'm glad to have the decant, but don't need any more.

[Minh Scent]

Hmmm. I keep trying this one, because it sounded like a win-win, but like Milo, not sure what the fuss is about. I would say it is "pretty" and the chypre plays nicely with the vanilla. Probably my lack of enthusiasm is because I already have a vanilla  HG I am ultra-gaga about- Antique Lace - and everything pales in comparison.

 

That being said, if you need a lovely, versitile vanilla, go for it! It is like Antique Lace Lite. Nothing to kick out of bed!

[artisjok]

I’m definitely getting a chypre with Le Coucher de la Mariee. Mossy, definitely, maybe bergamot.... almost a watery leather.. and coated with sugar and a touch of vanilla. Intriguing! I feel like it can pair well with a lot of green or citrus scents and scents that are vanilla heavy. Appropriate for any occasion (professional, relaxed, romantic), and I can see myself wanting to reach for it often in the hot summer season. 

It’s not the strongest scent, but I’m getting wafts of it occasionally, and feel like it might deepen some with time. 

Like it a lot, I do! 

[LizziesLuck]

I'm not using hair gloss on my hair anymore, and already have more than I can ever use up as body spray, but I somehow couldn't resist getting a wee decant of this.

 

On my skin, this is really light and faint, and not at all as awesome as I hoped. Smoky vanilla. I was hoping for something like Liz. There are some similarities, but this is very light. Gossamer, almost. It's nice! I will use up the decant as body moisturizer, but I won't cry when it's all gone.